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- 491: George W. 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 ...
- 492: Personal Writing: Life in Junior High
- Personal Writing: Life in Junior High Life in Junior High was easy. The day began with a sparkle, as the spot of meeting friends, and attending class with fun-filled activities, come to mind. School was not boring, it was fun because the teachers who cared made it fun. Knowledge learned from school kept students focused and made students strive to keep learning. In those days, Gang violence was unheard of. From sixth grade on to the eighth grade, I maintained a 4.0 grade point average. I honestly don't believe that I am naturally bright, but I believe that the excitement within school kept me motivated to get good grades. Thus, I was headed into the right direction, a direction filled with hopes and dreams, thoughts and action, belief and reality. However, the beginning of the ninth ...
- 493: Affirmative Action
- ... of achievement with a culture of entitlement. The feeling of the absence of enthusiasm for achievement is illustrated by John O'Sulllivan editor of the National Review hen he said, "Restoring high standards in high school will take time; but it will not even begin until the corrupting influence of racial preference is removed". By not admitting under qualified minority students to America's premier universities, for example Stanford, hey have ... can. Studies done at the department of education how that Hispanics will leave college early due to scholastic pressure at a 2:1 ratio compared to Asian American and whites. Admitting students with lower high school grades and SAT scores decreases the chance of acceptance by better qualified applicants. The admittance of laws qualified students produces anger and frustration among students who have worked hard to uphold demanding standards and except ... obsolete. After 4 years of college the students should have a chance to catch up. Although antiquated, affirmative action is still predominant in acceptance to medical and law schools. The competition for acceptance to medical school is fierce. Students who ere a product of affirmative action were admitted with college grades below a 3.0 and MCAT scores under the 16th percentile. Caucasian or Asian American students with the same ...
- 494: My Quality Education
- ... role in society. Also included, but often ignored element of education is our ability to interact with others. Every day of our lives we will be required to interact with another person or many people. School provides us with the perfect opportunity to learn how to get along with others with minimal conflict. This could perhaps be the single most element of education. Education also provides us with an education of our own culture. In a school setting the extent of the information often varies depending on which culture is being studied. Much of the time, if not all, the primary focus is on European and Western civilization. Asian, African, Indian, and South American civilization ten to be ignored in comparison to European cultures which we are required to learn from the time we enter school and many times beyond the time we leave school. Since these cultures are often ignored much of the cultural knowledge for "minorities" is provided by family and passed on from generation to generation through ...
- 495: 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. ...
- 496: Gateway To Heaven" - Tiananmen
- ... won't believe you; I'm older," snickered my sister, and with that she ran up the crowded walkway; which in the morning hour, looked much like a stampede of bulls. As I walked toward school, I listened to the distinctive chatter of my fellow civilians, smelled the exhaust fume filled air and listened to the bells and whistles of another pristine day. This was Beijing, China on another busy workday ... machine's, streetcars, bicycles, and automobiles, racing down the street carrying even more people to some important place. I see a void in the racetrack and take a chance to run across the street to school. I am in my last year at Mao Tse-Dung Middle School, it is full of long maintained rivalries between its top students, all of us are supposed to be the best, we are to make our families proud in any way possible and build a ...
- 497: Pursuing a Career in Psychiatry
- ... not even begin to cover the myriad of psychiatric disorders found in the world today. These startling rates bring in the increasing need for psychiatrists. Psychiatrists are medical specialists that are specially trained in medical school to diagnose and treat patients with severe mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. They also order and oversee diagnostic tests and procedures, formulate treatment plans and offer psychotherapeutic and medicinal treatment (Durgin 1). Psychiatry offers an ... chop down a tree, Id spend six sharpening my ax, are the famous words spoken by Abraham Lincoln which can be taken into effect when considering the groundwork which must be laid in high school and the training that follows in order to successfully become a psychiatrist (qtd. in Byck 23). Some high school subjects suggested to help lay the groundwork for a career in psychiatry include: biology, chemistry, college preparatory, English, health education, physics, physiology, psychology, social studies, and sociology (Durgin 3). Most who are pursuing a ...
- 498: Hate Crimes
- ... another occurrence where a hate crime took place against a man who was homosexual. The attack happened on July 7, 1984, when a man named Charlie Howard was chased down by a group of high school boys who were yelling at him, saying "Hey, fag!" As Charlie was being chased, he accidentally tripped over the curb and fell down onto the sidewalk. The high school boys caught up to him and started to kick and punch him. They then grabbed him and threw him over the side of a bridge into a stream. The next morning rescue divers discovered Charlie ... Prevention Act of 1998. This Act was put into legislation to "to prohibit intentional interference, by force or threat of force, with the enjoyment of a federal right or benefit (such as voting, going to school or employment) on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin." All of these Acts were put into legislation to prevent any type of hate crime. I believe that the tragedy that recently ...
- 499: Alcohol An Issue Within College Society
- 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 ...
- 500: The Simpsons - A Cartoon Portr
- ... commented in an interview that was published by People magazine (September, 1990) that the show was "the dumbest thing I've ever seen." In 1992, a group of parents in Greenwood, South Carolina, protested the school board's approval of the name "Springfield Elementary" for a new school being built there. ("Springfield" is the name of the Simpson's hometown.) The school board supervising Greenwood had sponsored a creative writing contest that would ultimately allow local students to choose the new school's name. The concerned parents group decried the choice saying that the character of ...
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