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- 5251: Guatemala
- ... of un-employment. Education in Guatemala is not at the best point; the adult literacy rate is only 56 percent. It is higher for males and for urban dwellers. Although, girls tend to stay in school longer then boys. From all this above, the average would possibly want to leave and try to get a better life, but don't have enough money because of the economy. This has also been ...
- 5252: Great Depression 8
- ... lendings because it was less dependent on this business than the chief pre-war tender, Great Britain." He granted huge short term loans to politically unstable nations. Lionel Robbins was a professor at the London School of Economics. He offered what was probably "the most influential contemporary explanation of the length of the downturn in the Great Depression(1934). The World War (World War I) had destroyed much property and stimulated ...
- 5253: Government In The Usa
- ... a state legislature and state courts is similar to the federal government. The two systems work side by side. If there is a conflict, the Supreme Court decides. The state governments can decide about the school leaving age, the driving age and the allowance of lotteries. But they cannot decide about the minimum wage and civil rights.
- 5254: Gladstonian Liberalism
- ... in any other way, the boards could also decide whether religious teaching was to be given in their schools. This mainly benefited the working class who before had been unable to send their children to school because it was too expensive so the children went to work instead. The two main organizations involved in this act were the National Education League and Union. The League was non-conformist and wanted gratuitous ...
- 5255: Adolf Hitler
- ... s father as a strict but comfortable man, and his mother was known to give Adolf much love and affection. As a child, Adolf was very skilled at artwork, and even went to a special school for awhile, but he didnt do well there. His father died in 1903 of a pleural hemorrhage, and his mother died in 1907 of breast cancer. Hitler spent six years in Vienna, Austria, the ...
- 5256: Greek Daily Living
- ... third birthday. At a spring festival the toddlers were given miniature wine jugs to symbolize the end of their babyhood (Schofield 24). Education was very important to each of the Greek city-states. Boys attended school from age seven to age fifteen, and the rich employed slaves as private tutors. The Greeks taught the Illiad and the Oddysey to the children along with reading, writing, music, and physical education (Poulton 58 ...
- 5257: Grant Hill
- ... interested in the sport of basketball. He played at the playground with his friends and soon was able to be on a team. 3. After playing on the AAU team, Grant entered South Lakes High School. He was looking forward to playing on the freshmen team with his boyhood friends. 4. Grant soon decided to try out for the varsity team. As a freshman he played power forward and was averaging ...
- 5258: Galileo
- ... they werenΉt rich. His father was a merchant and musician, as well as a champion of advanced musical theories of the day. His family moved from Pisa to Florence, Italy in 1574. He started school that year at the local monastery of Vallombrosa. Only seven years later, in 1581, Galileo moved back to Pisa to start studies at the University of Pisa. His original field of study was in medicine ...
- 5259: Fredric Remington
- ... 1875 he enrolls at Vermont Episcopal Institute, Burlington. He attends this institute for 3 years and this is where he discovered his talent and love for art. On September 1878 he enrolls in Yale's School of Art, he attends 3 semesters. On febuary1880 his father Seth dies. In the summer of 1881 he vacations in the Montana territory it is his first trip to the west he falls in love ...
- 5260: Franklin Roosevelt 3
- ... asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York--now a national historic site--he attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patrick's Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt. Following the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered public service through politics, but as a ...
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