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- 691: American Values of the Freedom of Speech and the Press
- ... Freedom of Speech and the Press American's have many different values they hold close to them. Some of these values are the amount of money they are making, their job status, their popularity in school and in other functions, and a good education. The biggest value Americans have is the Freedom of Speech and the Press. The value we get from the freedom of speech and the press is enormous. It allows us to understand what is happening in the world and to share our feeling's on certain subjects. This statement was tested in one court case about a student in a high school in Pine Forest, North Carolina in 1971. The students name was Charlie Quaterman, his crime was that he published an underground newspaper that he handed out in school. The school suspended him for ten days and had him on probation. He refused to let the school stop him from telling others what he and his classmates thoughts on things. In one of ...
- 692: Movie: The Paper Chase
- ... the movie, "The Paper Chase", would have to be when Kingsfield says, "You'll come in here with a scull full of mush and leave thinking like a lawyer." This movie should teach a high school student that going to college demands a lot more than the "easy street" they've been riding in high school. The movie teaches that you need to be able to put up with the arrogance of the rich and uppity people that attend an Ivy League school. They are very expensive and most students come from wealthy families. "The Paper Chase" teaches the viewer that law school is very stressful; it is a way of life not just going to school; ...
- 693: I Didn't Do It: How The Simpsons Affects Kids
- ... embarrass Marge at an opera together. ("Toreador, oh don't spit on the floor. Use the cuspidor. That's what it's for." Bart sings along with the opera Carmen.) Soon at Bart's old school, Springfield Elementary School, Bart's graffiti is roped off and tagged, "The Principal. By Bart Simpson. IQ 216." Bart's friend no longer like him, they refer to him as Poindexter. The kids at his new school trick him into giving up his lunch. In frank, Bart is miserable. Then, after turning himself green in an uneducated science experiment, Bart reveals to his new principal that he cheated on the test. ...
- 694: A Separate Peace: Comparison and Contrast Between Book and Movie
- ... that the movie was a novel before it was a movie, are similar and dissimilar at times. Both take place at Boys Schools, although the air surrounding both schools are not quite the same. One school is dedicated to preparing its students for college and the other was simply a school for boys, a place where mothers sent their sons to be educated without letting them be entangled by the outside world. The climates of the two schools were similar in the fact that they had ... Summer Session, while the members of the Dead Poets Society seemed to prefer the colder climate. Speaking of the SSSS, the time at which the story of Devons students begins is a sort of summer school, while the beginning of the story of the students of Wellton begins on the first day of school. Some of the events that happen between the two schools have similarities, but even in the ...
- 695: My Lost Love
- ... like 5 hours. We talked in the park for about an hour and a half. She told me her name was Kristeen Thorne and told me that she was a new student at Orangeville High School; the same school I attended. We found that we had six out of seven classes together, which was a very good thing. I asked her to go out with me that Friday night. We went to the movies ... she said yes. We started going out together almost every weekend and talked on the phone all night and walked with each other to class everyday, and I gave her a ride to and from school everyday. We had been going out for about 3 months. The student body voted us cutest couple of the year. We had to get our pictures taken for the year book. We went to ...
- 696: Animal Cruelty Leads To Human
- ... United States, states that Researchers, as well as the FBI and other law enforcement agencies nationwide, have linked animal cruelty to domestic violence, child abuse, serial killings, and to the recent rash of killings by school-age children.(2) I found yet another web page listing some reports from police case files. I was astonished! These are a few excerpts from that page. ***WARNING*** (graphic details) "Russell Weston Jr., tortured and ... as the cat/kitten struggles to free itself as the noose gets tighter with each attempt. Later killed 2 officers at our Nation's Capitol." "Jeffery Dahmer loved to dissect animals (he learned this in school). Later he dissected boys, and kept their body parts in the refrigerator. Murdered 17 men." "On May 21, 1998 in Springfield, Oregon; 15-year-old Kip Kinkel set a live cat on fire and dragged the innocent creature through the main street of town. He walked into his high school cafeteria and opened fire on his classmates. Two classmates were killed and 22 others injured, four critically. Later that day, police found his parents shot to death in their home." "Prior to committing multiple ...
- 697: Isaac Newton
- ... English town called Woolsthorpe. His father was a farmer, but died shortly after Isaac was born. Isaac's mother remarried 3 years later, but his stepfather died when Isaac was 14. Newton was sent to school at the age of 12, at the King's School, near Grantham. At first, Newton was a poor student. He was at the bottom of his class. He cared more about painting, making kites, and inventing toys. Amazingly, one day, a big bad bully gave him a hard kick. The little dreamy boy flew into a mad rage, and beat the other boy thoroughly. Yet that didn't satisfy him enough. He wanted to beat the other kid in school work, too. Soon he was at the top of his class. When Newton's stepfather died, Isaac had to be drug out of school to help with the farm. Farmwork was not for him ...
- 698: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it appeared in the Bible. Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he couldn't get outside, he escaped to his room and read ... loved to tell stories to his classmates, often insisting that a friend listen to one of his stories. In spite of his mother's desire, he played on the football team at Oak Park High School. As a student, Ernest was a perfectionist about his grammar and studied English with a fervor. He contributed articles to the weekly school newspaper. It seems that the principal did not approve of Ernest's writings and he complained, often, about the content of Ernest's articles. Ernest was clear about his writing; he wanted people to " ...
- 699: James Earl Jones: A Voice in the Crowd
- ... for all, my mama and my papa@ (18) . Less than three years later, the Connollys moved to Dublin Michigan where James Earl and his >brother= Randy grew up in a remodelled chicken barn. His early school life had a great impact on his style of speech and diction. AOn my first day at school, I could not believe my ears,@ recalls Jones, AThey called me James Earrrrl instead of James Uhl, as it had sounded in the South@(40). After the initial shock of hearing Northern dialect, Jones Aquickly ... I was on my guard from then on...I had no need for words@(54). The Aturning point@ in Jones= ability to cope with stuttering came in Professor Donald Crouch=s English classroom in high school. After falling in love with Longfellow=s AThe Song of Hiawatha,@James Earl was inspired to write a poem about his love for grapefruit. He patterned his work after Longfellow=s cadence and rhyme ...
- 700: How The Simpsons Affects Kids
- ... embarrass Marge at an opera together. ("Toreador, oh don't spit on the floor. Use the cuspidor. That's what it's for." Bart sings along with the opera Carmen.) Soon at Bart's old school, Springfield Elementary School, Bart's graffiti is roped off and tagged, "The Principal. By Bart Simpson. IQ 216." Bart's friend no longer like him, they refer to him as Poindexter. The kids at his new school trick him into giving up his lunch. In frank, Bart is miserable. Then, after turning himself green in an uneducated science experiment, Bart reveals to his new principal that he cheated on the test. ...
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