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- 471: Computer Networking
- ... learning, public service, and business. The costs of setting up and maintaining Internet access are varied and changing. Lets take a look at some of the costs of setting up Internet service in a typical school. First comes the hardware. Hardware required is generally a standard Windows-based PC or Macintosh and a 14.4 Kbs or higher modem. This will cost about $1000 apiece. If the average school has 50 classrooms, already the cost has risen to $50,000 per school, for only one connection per classroom. Next you need actual Internet service. For 24-hour connections expect to pay $100 or more per month, per account. If a school plans to have more than ...
- 472: Education
- School the great Equalizer In his essay, I should have never quit school , D. DeMott rejects the myth that all social classes receive the same education. He supports his essay by denying that the stating line is the same for all students in the American educational system. DeMott begins his essay by giving us an example of the mythological belief that school is a fair institution where everyone begins at the same starting line. Next, DeMott gives general ideas about the American publics denials, and the educational system, provides for students. To support these denials DeMott ...
- 473: Life in Victorian England
- ... PM to finish up their stitching. Both boys and girls had to work at a young age because they had the necessity of getting every possible penny into the household. Children that did not attend school or work spent their time on the streets. Children worked many hours for very little pay and in some cases they would become severely ill and have instant deaths. One of the main problems in ... class did not have to work at a young age because their parents could afford to get their children a good education. In the middle class the public schools were a specialized kind of grammar school that provided for the small minority who were considered to need education above the elementary stage. The school education and exhibitions or sizarships to the university were paid for out of the founder’s endowments, so as long as a child’s parents could keep them and forgo their earnings, the child ...
- 474: The Town of El Dorado Springs
- ... little bit about what I hoped to search for. "El Dorado is a town that is what you could classify as "red neck," they are, in most cases, very conservative people. I went to high school there and then later on I was a teacher at the high school for nineteen years. I don't live in the town, I have a house about six miles out of town and I drive down and stay there weekends, but I know about most of the ... is still on the books, but I know of one time it was overlooked. There was a girl, the daughter of one of the town's wealthier families, that left El Dorado Springs after high school. I don't remember where she ended up, but she married a black football player and had a child. Well, things didn't work out for her; she ended up getting a divorce, so ...
- 475: Alcohol An Issue Within Colleg
- Alcohol: An Issue within College Society Do you remember graduating high school? Remember all the questions you had to ask yourself. What are you going to do now? Do you want to work? Do you want to go to school again for another four years? These questions are eventually answered and some choose to find a job, and others figure out that going to college is probably a good thing. Now you have realized that ... constant drinking. It obviously has serious physical and mental effects on a person. According to Louis Joylon West, M.D., a professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine, the attributes that define an addiction, in this case alcohol, include craving, tolerance and withdrawal phenomena (West, 28). This is a problem that exists among men and women of all ages. Alcohol ...
- 476: Ethical Values and The Classroom
- ... values are conspicuously missing, and the old read out of a dull textbook and memorize these facts and figures routine has failed to capture the interest of our Generation X students. The below average high school student is a direct result of poor educational procedures in the student's formative years. For example, every student leaving the third grade should know how to read. Throughout a student's career certain standards ... necessary skills needed for the next level. Assigning blame singly on the system, the teachers, the parents, or the student will not correct the matter. The issue must be evaluated holistically. All students leaving high school should be proficient at a college entry level; able to read, express themselves eloquently in written and oral form, think critically, compute mathematics, have some first hand appreciation of the arts and a strong sense ... from their family, their church, and their community. Schools were left to teach the three R's. There was discipline to be sure, but the discipline only reflected what values the children learned outside the school. Today families are broken and dysfunctional by divorce, drugs, abuse, and single parent syndrome. Fewer families are joining churches, and there is a reduced feeling of community as increased mobility and violence have transformed ...
- 477: George Bush
- ... at a possible future President of the United Sates of America it is not uncommon to start with their past and work forward to see their progress and failures. George W. Bush attended a preparatory school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Like many young men he was interested in sports and he selected to the men’s basketball team at Phillips Academy. Envied by his peers the young man was ... sat on the bench that year and only played one game. The next year he opted not to try out for football and instead became the head cheerleader. He made many friends at this elite school considered to be the toughest in the country at that time. He successfully finished and the following year attended Yale. During George’s time at Yale he barely seemed to notice his father had been ... University. George W. Bush seemed to be more concerned with social matters than political matters. He knew stories about most people that would pass him by on the campus and was a fan of his school’s sports teams. In the late 1960’s he joined a fraternity of Delta Kappa Epsilon, a fraternity for sportsmen and those who loved to watch them. They were called Dekes. This brings about ...
- 478: What Went Wrong: An Examination of Separation of Church and State
- ... the most from these “separation of church and state “ rulings are the children of America. We are headed into the third generation of people that do not know what it's like to pray in school in the morning. Luckily, Catholic and private schools aren't affected by this legislature, so some children can be free. School prayer and religious liberty became hot debates following the 1962 supreme court case Engel v. Vitale. Following this case, the Supreme Court began attacks on the traditional practice of praying at the start of a school day.(Barton, America: To… ,p.14) Since 1962, lessons which were commonplace in school texts have vanished, because of their religious nature. For example, history textbooks for 150 years contained a story about George ...
- 479: Settings In Jane Eyre
- ... not find love there. She was an unwanted child, and she was an outsider in her own home, the only home she ever knew. Jane was sent away from Gateshead Hall to a charity boarding school called Lowood. Mrs. Reed decides to send Jane there after the doctor, Mr. Lloyd, advised her that Jane should attend a boarding school to control her temper. However, despite the poor conditions, in Lowood, Jane began to feel accepted. Miss. Temple, who runs the school, and Helen Burns, a fellow classmate, helped her become a stronger person. Helen taught her to not worry much about what others think of her. Lowood was a school formed to educate orphaned children. ...
- 480: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... than John and took it upon himself to be John's coach and protector. John's childhood was full of sports, fun and activity. This all ended when John grew old enough to leave for school. At the age of thirteen, John left home to attend an away school for the first time. Canterbury School, a boarding school in New Milford, Connecticut and Choate Preparatory in Wallingford, Connecticut completed his elementary education("JFK" 98). John graduated in 1934 and was promised a trip to London as a graduation gift. ...
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