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- 6551: Hitler's Germany & Stalin's Russia: A Comparison
- ... concentration camps were given different colored symbols for easy identification. At this point, no one dared speak against their country even in the privacy of one's home lest their children let something slip at school. If you control people's thoughts, you control them. Propaganda was an important tool used by both Germany and Russia. Hitler appointed a man by the name of Joseph Goebbles to head the Ministry of ...
- 6552: Sports in Canada in the 1920s
- ... age of sport for women. The world's greatest basketball team, the Edmonton Grads, were all women. The Edmonton Grads were a team made up of players who were students or graduated from McDougall High School in Edmonton. From 1915 to 1940, they played 522 games and lost 20. The Grads represented Canada at 4 Olympics, and won every single one, including 27 Olympic basketball games in a row. They were ...
- 6553: Japan: After World War II
- ... before a concerted effort was made to obtain one in America. Compulsory education was extened to nine years, efforts were made to make education more a traning in thinking than in rote memory, and the school system above the six elementary grades was revised to conform to the American pattern. This last mechanical change produced great confusion and dissatisfaction but became so entrenched that it could not be re vised even ...
- 6554: The French Revolution
- ... was equal in terms of its social, economic, and spiritual power. The First Estate owned nearly 10 per cent of all land in France. It paid no taxes but, to support church activities such as school running and caring for the poor, they collected a tithe, or a tax on income. About one-third of the entire clergy in France served as parish priests. Also included in this estate were the ...
- 6555: People and Events of World War II
- ... iron fists of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, respectively. Adolf Hitler was born in 1889, the son of a very low-ranking official, and a peasant. He wasn't very well educated, never completed high school, and was also rejected from institutes of higher learning because of his lack of talent. Although he was a poor student, he read non-stop, and it was from books that he developed his anti ...
- 6556: Literary Approach Paper on The Death of a Salesman
- ... home last week..."(50). As one can see, Willy is almost encouraging Biff to steal in order to make a new stoop. However, when Willy finds out Biff has been stealing other things, like the school's football, he seems shocked. "Willy: What is he stealing?...Why is he stealing? What did I tell him? I never in my life told him anything but decent things."(40). Because of the lack ...
- 6557: Curfews
- ... also an entire other battle going on over daytime curfews. Concerns that home-schooled children were being discriminated against by the institution of daytime curfews have been raised over the past few years. The Home School Legal Defense Association has produced a poster that reads, Do daytime curfews work? Ask the experts. Below the text are pictures of Hitler, Stalin, and Lenin (Do You Know Where Your Children Are? 2). There ...
- 6558: Affirmative Action in Florida
- ... is implementing a program that will ultimately create greater net increases in minority university enrollment. "The Talented 20' Program will guarantee state university admission to the top 20 percent of students in every Florida high school senior class. Even with the elimination of race and ethnicity . . . ," and "an increase in need-based financial aid by 43 percent, a $20 million increase." The initiative also suggests that funding be available in order ...
- 6559: Spousal Abuse
- ... friends would watch their parents argue and fight a lot. Many parents dont see that the abuse they are watching could harm a child. For instance the child may come withdraw from activities or school or they see that fighting is alright and it solves problems. Well, parents fighting especially spousal abuse is not alright. Many of this abuse makes a child trap. A child does not need to be ...
- 6560: Trapped Inside the TV
- ... though a TV based culture will lead to cultural destruction. TV is a form of enjoyment, this we need to remember. I agree with Postman that if chlidren are taught by their parents and in school the truths and realities, we will be able to continue to avoid destruction by the boob tube. The TV does introduce new ideas, not only irrelevance and incoherence in our ever-changing society as Postman ...
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