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- 4971: Peter The Great
- ... had begun. Early in his reign, Peter sent groups of young nobles abroad to England, Holland and elsewhere, to acquire skills such as languages, seamanship, or mechanics. This experiment met with various oppositions. The first school he created was the Academy of Mathematics, later renamed Navigation, in 1701 in Moscow. Peter the Great also established an Academy of Science as both a research institute and an institution of higher education, open ...
- 4972: FACTORS Of SECOND LANGUAGE
- ... the reality of the situation shows that increased multilingualism is evident all around the country. As of 1993, in New York City schools more than 185 different languages were spoken. In merely one Los Angeles school 60 different languages were spoken in the homes of students. And in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia a full 187 different tongues were spoken. Nationally, the number of limited English speakers grew from 70% from 1984 ...
- 4973: Fear
- ... but fear, real or imagined, is still fear. Change goes hand in hand with fear, for change is the cause of all fear. Even positive change can leave one in fear: the first day of school, a new job, moving day, a wedding, the birth of a child. Change, the process of all growth and life, is greeted generally with a feeling of fear. Fears seem to sneak up on us ...
- 4974: Friday The Movie
- ... ten million dollar industry, with the seven branch marijuana leaf showing up on caps, T-shirts, earrings and tattoos. Studies show that after a decade of declining drug use, marijuana use has increased sharply among school students and college students in the last two years (Duschbaun 8). In the movie Friday, rap star Ice Cube plays the character Craig. Craig has never smoked marijuana. However, his best friend "Smokey" smokes marijuana ...
- 4975: Paul L. Dunbar
- ... After his father left, his mother supported the family by working as a washerwoman. One of the families she worked for was the family of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Paul attended Dayton’s Central High School with the two. When Matilda was a slave she heard a lot of poems by the families she worked for. She loved poetry and encouraged her children to read poetry as well. Dunbar began writing ...
- 4976: Friendship
- ... a male (Adam) and a female (Cindy) and analyze their issue of trust. This couple (Adam and Cindy) has been dating for eleven months, and they both leave for separate colleges straight out of high school. The last eleven months of their relationship has been great so Adam and Cindy couldn’t be happier. Well, one night Cindy goes out to a party, has too much to drink and ends up ...
- 4977: Forgotten Kids
- ... leaving me with raging emotions of guilt, shame, loss and grief. By age nine, he had begun lying, stealing, destroying property, setting fires, and hurting himself (these are called rages.) He had no friends at school, though he would say that wasn’t true. He was filled with an anger I could not comprehend. Most people who knew us said it was my fault as a parent that if I would ...
- 4978: President Millard Fillmore
- ... that same year Fillmore’s father obtained a clerkship for him in the office of Judge Walter Wood in Montville, NY, where he began the study of law. During the next few years Fillmore taught school from time to time and also clerked in a Buffalo law firm. He was admitted to the bar in 1823. After setting up a law office in East Aurora near Buffalo, he married Miss Powers ...
- 4979: Do Trends Ever Really Die
- ... Colors will range from Tropicana orange to puke green. And will be worn as a sign of individual freedom. A lonesome teenager will enter a thrift store in search of clothes for “Nineties Day” at school. The teenager will stumble upon some baggy pants, just like the ones worn now, and buy them for his or her outfit. The pants will be a huge hit, forcing fashion designers to rush to ...
- 4980: Donkey
- ... Allerdale. Woodsmen of the West. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1996. Robert, VanNatta Logging History Museum of Northwest Oregon. [webpage online], accessed 14 November 1999; available from http://www.aone.com/~robert/histlog.html. Geneva Elementary School, Bellingham, Washington. [webpage online], accessed 14 November 1999; available from http://wwwgen.bham.wednet.edu/irondonk.htm.
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