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- 6601: Underage Drinking: A Problem For Society
- ... members of society in danger. Alcohol is involved in nearly one-half of all murders, accidental deaths, suicides, crimes, and fatal automobile accidents. (http://www.cpmcnet.columbia.edu). Alcohol causes problems in both ones school and work career. It has a tendency to lower productivity and the quality of work being done. Economic costs are also an issue when it comes to underage drinking. Drinking costs Americans over $117 billion ...
- 6602: Agatha Christie
- ... born the third child to her parents, Fred and Mary Miller. She grew up in Torquay, Devon, England. She was taught at home by her mother and several tutors and governesses, never attending a real school. As a child, Miller kept herself occupied by inventing games to play with her siblings. Not being around other children besides her siblings made Miller a shy child. She was not outspoken in her thoughts ...
- 6603: Alexander Hamilton
- ... Gazette with his description of the terrible hurricane of August 30th, 1772 that gutted Christiansted. Impressed by this, an opportunity to gain his education was provided by family friends. Seizing this, Hamilton arrived the grammar school in Elizabethtown, New Jersey in the autumn of 1772. One year later, in 1774, Hamilton graduated and entered King's College in New York City. There, Hamilton obtained a bachelor's of arts degree in ...
- 6604: Effects of Gambling
- ... break up a family. If teenager is addicted to gambling it might cause them to not do their schoolwork, which might lead to a drop in their grades. Also a student might drop out of school and go to work making minimum wage just so that they can go to the casino because they are addicted. Also if someone tries stealing things and selling them away for the money they might ...
- 6605: Problems With Racism
- ... going around telling everyone how open-minded they are. What is one of the main problems with racism? Its that many people live in racist conditions, without even seeing it. Oftentimes its in their school, workplace, community, or even in their own homes. Telling a joke with a racial slur seems commonplace and we dont think twice about laughing at one of these jokes when we here one. We ...
- 6606: Alexander Hamilton
- ... David Beckman and Nicholas Cruger at saint Croix where he exhibited a precocious ability to comprehend the complexities of commerce and accounting. As time went on, he was later able to enroll at a grammar school at Elizabeth, in New Jersey (1772-1774) and then entered King's College (Today Columbus University). 5. Who raised this person? Hamilton lived with his parents up to the age of twelve. He then moved ...
- 6607: Andy Worhal
- Andy Warhol, the American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and film maker was born in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928, shortly afterwards settling in New York. The only son of immigrant, Czech parents, Andy finished high school and went on to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, graduating in 1949 with hopes of becoming an art teacher in the public schools. While in Pittsburgh, he worked for a department store arranging ...
- 6608: Anne Frank
- ... a shadow on Annes happy childhood. The situation became worse with the restrictions placed on the Jews. One restriction was that Jewish children were only allowed at Jewish schools. Anne went to the Jewish school called The Jewish Lyceum. In July 1942, Annes family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building. Annes family called it the "Secret Annex". During these times people they knew like, Miep and Jan ...
- 6609: Impact of Television on Society
- ... forced to confront this and consider what is being watched it is very unlikely that we would classify it as education. It would be hard to compare TV viewing with listening to a class in school. Yet the two may not be far apart. In fact such "educational" material coming from television stories probably has more to do with the business of ordinary life/values and ideas involved in our everyday ...
- 6610: The Women of the Nineties
- ... of these things and usually the child ends up suffering for it. There is no reason why a woman can not put her career on hold to raise her children. When her children are in school then she can pursue a career. She is not losing anything by putting her career on hold. If anything she is gaining. Being a mother is a privilege and a woman should want to be ...
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