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- 511: New Jersey Vs. T.L.O.
- New Jersey Vs. T.L.O. Decision : Reasonable standard held to be proper standard for determining legality of searches conducted by public school officials. On March 7, 1980, a teacher at Piscataway High School in Middlesex County, N.J., found two girls smoking in the school lavatory, which was a violation of school code. The teacher took them to the Principles office where they met the Assistant Vice-Principle Theodore Choplick. Under questioning the first girl admitted smoking in the ...
- 512: Bilingual Education...”Si” or No?
- ... common, “public” language, are these children really learning anything? Richard Rodriguez doesn’t think so. As a child of a Spanish-speaking Mexican American family, he experienced the struggles of attending an English-speaking public school. While there, he learned English not only to fit in with his classmates, but also with the rest of society. In doing so, he feels he lost all or most of his Mexican culture and closeness with his parents by giving up Spanish--his native language. Rodriguez feels that bilingual education is wrong because using a family language in school “...misunderstand(s) the public uses of schooling and...trivialize(s) the nature of intimate life” (225). In his essay, “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood”, Rodriguez applies many rhetorical features to build an effective essay with a strong point: children should learn a “public” language in school, not only to increase their educational prowess but also to gain acceptance in society. Rodriguez builds ethos by describing his childhood experiences. He talks of the trouble he had speaking English in front of ...
- 513: Amen: Does Prayer Play An Important Role In Our Lives Today?
- ... today? The minority would say no and that prayer shouldn't ever have played an important role in our society. But, the simple fact of the matter is that for hundreds of years, prayer in school has been encouraged by both society and government. In recent years, it has been established that prayer in schools has led to a steady moral decline. Morals must be taught, in school and at home, and they cannot be properly taught without religion as a much needed stepping stone. Our government was based upon religious beliefs from the very beginning. The Declaration of Independence says: “We hold ... are endowed by God with certain unalienable rights. . .” Certainly, it talks about God, creations, God-given moral rights, the providence of God, and the final Day of Judgment-all of which are religious teachings. And school prayer has been an important part of our religious experience from the very beginning. Our very First Amendment didn't separate God and government but actually encouraged religion. It reads: “Congress shall make no ...
- 514: 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 ...
- 515: Dazed And Confused
- ... is directed by Richard Linklater and stars a cast of complete unknowns. This 1993 sleeper leads us through a day in the life of a loosely-aligned group of seniors and freshmen at a high school in suburban Texas. What happens? It's 1976, school's out for the summer, and kids in pickup trucks and convertibles are cruising the neon-lit streets, swigging beer, philosophizing, looking for a place to party. They pull up at a roadhouse, pig out ... this place. That cliche “These are the best years of your life”, where exactly does that come from? We’ve all heard it. Our parents were forever telling us that when we were in high school. “Make the best of high school years, they are the best of your life.” I beg to differ. High school kids are so mean to each other. If you don’t fit a certain ...
- 516: A Seprate Peace
- Finny How Things Change In the novel "A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, a boy named Gene visits his high school 15 years after graduating in order to find an inner peace. While attending the private boys school during the second World War, Gene's best friend Phineas died and Gene knows he was partially responsible. Phineas, or Finny as he was sometimes called, was the most popular boy in school. He was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. Gene, on the other hand, was a lonely, self-sufficient intellectual. Somehow the two became good friends, or so Finny thought. Gene, unfortunately, was bitten by the ...
- 517: Stephon Marbury
- ... In CYO ball he woofed at opposing coaches: I'm just killing your guards. Get someone out here who can stop me(Wolff, 62). By the time that Mr. Marbury was a Sophomore in high school at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, he had changed his act. He learned to treat everybody with respect and to be a professional person. He had also tattooed a panther onto his right arm. He said: "A panther is ... the American Broadcasting Company, "Nightline", profiled him. Mr. Marbury says: It's real hard for people to understand if they don't come from New York, I was scrutinized for every little thing. In high school, I was like what Michael Jordan is to the NBA. I had to be on top of my game every day. Everybody was gunning for me(Ryan, 54). Mr. Marbury met another high school ...
- 518: Array
- ... 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. ...
- 519: Jim Morrison: The Lizard King
- ... family functions and began eagerly reading. He also experienced a snow sledding incident that could have caused the death of his brother and sister. In September of 1957, Jim began his first year of high school in Alameda, California. He only gained the friendship of one person, Fud Ford. Jim quickly began trying to gain the attention of his classmates by doing many crazy sorts of things and also added his ... Morrison was stuck wearing a uniform which included a suit and a tie. Once again Jim began quickly by trying to catch other students’ attention by whistling and belching loudly on the bus trips to school. During this time Jim began to enjoy poetry. He read a few of Kerouac’s novels and copied Dean Moriarty, who was,” the side burned hero of the snowy west’, whose energy gave Kerouac’s ... to get a feel for writing them. Another summer finally arrives and Jim returns home to his mother and makes them see the light about going to UCLA. By 1964, Jim was going to film school where he always wanted to be. He went to film school with the thought in his head that there were no limits on film and that he could project his thoughts onto the screen. ...
- 520: ... from since a child, she knew she wanted to be a writer. She submitted her first story to a magazine at the age of 10 and made her first sale at 13. Throughout her high-school years, she wrote as a regular author for young people's publications, particularly the well known Seventeen Magazine. Duncan is best known for her suspenseful novels. She was drawn to this type of writing because ...
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