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- 6391: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... This idea applies very well to Erich Maria Remarques novel All Quiet on the Western Front. In this novel, the author uses excellent imagery and descriptive writing to portray the lives of several German school mates who are eventually destroyed by World War I. Ramarque's purpose in writing this book was to display the hidden costs of war. The physical aspects of death and wounds did not begin to ...
- 6392: Biography of Robert Cormier
- ... a haven from the outer world. Cormier didn't fare well in the streets of his neighborhood, where ballplaying ability counted for more than his love of books. He attended St. Celia's Parochial Grammar School, where some of the nuns gave him a terrible time. When he was in eighth grade, he watched in horror from his classroom window as his own house caught fire and burned. His teacher refused ...
- 6393: Mother Teresa: The Living Saint
- ... her name of Teresa from Therese Martin, a French nun. Six years later she took her vows. Mother Teresa then decided to begin her teaching. She taught for twenty years in Saint Mary's High School in Calcutta, India. On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa said she received another call from God to serve the poor who live in the streets. Pope Pious XII soon granted Mother Teresa permission to leave ...
- 6394: Peter The Great 2
- ... 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 ...
- 6395: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... create so much disorder that local white officials would be forced to end segregation in order to restore normal business relations. King and his SCLC staff escalated antisegregation marches in Birmingham by encouraging teenagers and school children to join. Hundreds of singing children filled the downtown streets, angering police commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, who sent police officers with attack dogs and firefighters with high-pressure water hoses against the marchers. King ...
- 6396: J.P. Morgan
- ... bought a fellow collector's collection of Chinese porcelains to donate to the museum. Eventually, the Metropolitan received most of his art collection. In other affairs, Morgan also gave much money to the Harvard Medical School and hospitals (Boardman 131). J.P. Morgan was truly a captain of industry because he followed Carnegie's proposition that it was an obligation of the rich to share their wealth, but more importantly, he ...
- 6397: Helen Keller
- ... was deaf. They discovered later that she was blind when she did not blink when her mother clothed or bathed her. She was declared legally as an idiot. She soon started going to a special school called the Boston Institute for the Blind that her parents had heard of that helps children with disabilities. She did not really understand that words stood for things in the world. She did not know ...
- 6398: The Baseball Life of Babe Ruth
- ... most boys started their baseball career throwing rocks at street signs. Ruth was throwing eggs and potatoes at truck drivers. The first organized baseball team that Ruth was on ,was at St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys. Ruth was on one of the forty teams that St. Mary's had. His team and all the other teams played from 3 to 4 games a day. Ruth main position at St ...
- 6399: Robert Andrew Millikan
- ... dock, falling in the water, and almost drowning. Here he had his first account with physics - Newtons Third Law of Motion: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". Even in High School Physics courses Millikan was not so spirited, which may have had a little to do with his teachers habit of spending the summers using a divining rod to find water. After Millikan graduated from ...
- 6400: Peter The Great 5
- ... ruled over the Orthodox Church of Russia. Educational reforms were also necessary in a fully modern European country. Peter created schools in which all students, whether noble or aristocrat, all children were admitted. The old school was helpless in meeting all the new requirements of state and society. Russia needed new schools, and these schools, which made their appearance during the period of reform, were not so much as a green ...
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