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- 901: The Has Been And The Never Was
- ... An awe-inspiring Hollywood star of the late 70 s and early 80 s, Travolta was the youngest of six children born to tire salesman and former semi-pro football player Salvatore Travolta and high school drama teacher Helen Travolta on February 18, 1954 in Englewood, NJ. Being the baby of the family, Travolta grew up pampered. The Travolta children were encouraged to be creative, and would stage shows in the ... tap lessons from Gene Kelly s brother Fred. Travolta admits he picked up a lot of moves from TV s Soul Train, and he ascribes his love for dance to the fact that his high school was fifty percent black. Travolta dropped out of high school at age sixteen to pursue acting full-time. He first gained famed as Vinny Barbarino on the ABC show Welcome Back, Kotter. Travolta s character was a boorish, mean tempered bully who eventually evolved ...
- 902: Orson Welles
- ... remaing to pursue her music ambitions in Chicago. Welles live most of his time with his mother and Dadda Bernstein, but regularly traveled with his father on holidays. His health effectively kept him out of school until he was eleven, so he had acquired a lot of cultural groundings at home with his mother and the doctor. Fears that he might prove ungovernable like his brother Richard, who had been expelled from school by the age of ten and subsequently banished from home, brought him in 1926 to enrollment in the Todd School for Boys at Woodstock, Illinois, a few months after his mothers death from a liver condition at the age of forty-three. The school was ideally equipped for the nurturing of a young wayward ...
- 903: Social Heirarchy
- ... given the idea that these problems of society are not needed to be worried about because of the way that they are treated as minor problems. The television show Popular takes place at Kennedy High School in Los Angeles, California. The plot centers around two cliques of teens, the "in" crowd and the "out" crowd, led by Brooke McQueen and Sam McPherson, respectively. Although the show consists of conflicts regarding members ... herself to see that the "in" crowd pays for the way that they treat anyone that is not of their status. Sam struggles to gain equality with those of the more popular crowd within the school. By showing both types of crowds, it expands the viewing audience because everyone can relate to either on of the two crowds. Walking down the hallway of Kennedy High School, one can easily spot out who the members of each of the two crowds are just by their appearance. Anyone who is blonde, beautiful, and looks as though she can be a model for ...
- 904: Albert Einstein 3
- Around 1886 Albert Einstein began his school career in Munich. As well as his violin lessons, which he had from age six to age thirteen, he also had religious education at home where he was taught Judaism. Two years later he entered the Luitpold Gymnasium and after this his religious education was given at school. He studied mathematics, in particular the calculus, beginning around 1891. In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan but Einstein remained in Munich. In 1895 Einstein failed an examination that would have allowed him to ... be stateless for a number of years. He did not even apply for Swiss citizenship until 1899, citizenship being granted in 1901. Following the failing of the entrance exam to the ETH, Einstein attended secondary school at Aarau planning to use this route to enter the ETH in Zurich. While at Aarau he wrote an essay (for which was only given a little above half marks!) in which he wrote ...
- 905: England: History and People
- ... for long the privilege of a small elite group, and education for everyone did not appear until the beginning of the 20th century. Everyone between the ages of 5 and 16 must now go to school. Children generally first attend primary schools, though many under-5-year- olds attend nursery schools or "playgrounds." They generally transfer to secondary school at the age of 11. Most attend comprehensive schools, which accept pupils without reference to ability and offer a variety of subjects. Others go to grammar and secondary modern schools, which they enter after taking ... system but are subject to government inspection. Some of these are known as "public" schools, which are generally attended by the children of the well-to-do, though some pupils receive government scholarships. Most public school pupils live in residential houses attached to the school. Considerable emphasis is placed on sports, especially cricket and rugby. Among the most famous public schools for boys are Eton (founded in 1440), Winchester (1380), ...
- 906: Answer America's Call
- ... now should be as equally concerned. Not that the government will not survive, but rather if it is going to prosper, as it has, with all of this new technology. No longer will a high school education prepare people for the workplace, as it did just ten to twenty years ago. Now people need not only a high school education, but a college degree, and more to prepare themselves. With the thousands of colleges and universities to be found, everyone should be able to receive this education required for the everyday changing society. But not everyone is seeking the education required. People have lost interest and the desire to stay in school. But with the society changing, people must have the training to produce and use new technology. This is where Americas call must be answered. People must begin to realize that instead of breezing through ...
- 907: James Joyce
- ... was a mild woman who had intelligent opinions but didn't express them. His father was a violent, quick tempered man who was a medical student and politician. He was educated in Dublin at Jesuit school's his whole life. In 1888, he went to Clongeswood College, but his father lost his job and James had to withdraw. He graduated in October of 1902, from Royal University. He was fascinated by the sounds of words and by the rhythms of speech since he first started school. He was trained by the Jesuits who at one time hoped he would join their order; but Joyce became estranged from the Jesuits and defected from the Catholic Church after graduating college. Joyce made a ... estranged himself from the church, he tried to get as far away from it as he possibly could. Joyce saw the church as a prison. He writes in Araby about young boys in a Catholic school. He says this, "North Richmond street, being blind was a quiet street except at the hour the Christians Brothers School set the boys free." Joyce himself spent much of his youth in a Catholic ...
- 908: Mars
- ... couple of days," said Cathy. Cathy didn't know it then but when the Earth died so did all the water supply to Mars. Cathy is in the 6th grade at the Earthling-Alien elementary school in the city of Worthac. Today was Saturday so she had to go to school every day except every other Sunday. It was 2:30 am Mars-standard time and Cathy was already late for school. The blazing green sun was right over head. When she stepped out the door, she almost fainted. The blue grass, yellow trees, and the silver flowers were all looking so nice today. Cathy was ...
- 909: The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
- ... fitted for a false limb. He was an excellent writer and a vivid satirist of his classmates, but his marks were not good; so, like so many Midwestern boys, he was shipped East to boarding school, where he would be taught discipline and hard work. In September of 1911, with the words and music of Irving Berlin's new song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" uppermost on his mind, he enrolled at the Newman School in Hackensack, New Jersey, a popular Roman Catholic school among Midwestern families. Here he was to have two years to ready himself for a good Ivy League College, preferably Princeton or Yale. Scott chose Princeton, but Princeton very nearly didn't choose him. ...
- 910: The Glass Menagerie 2
- ... inviting a nice young man from the warehouse over for dinner at the apartment. When nice Jim O'Connor comes to dinner, Laura recognizes him as the boy that she had a crush on high school. Laura becomes so sick that she has to be excused from dinner. After dinner, Amanda tells Jim to keep Laura company in the parlor. Initially Laura is petrified but she begins to feel more comfortable around him as they reminisce over high school days. Then Jim dances with Laura and kisses her, only to reveal that he is engaged to another woman and must leave. Amanda believes that Tom has purposely made them look like fools and Tom ... a result, he is unable to function in the present and wanders aimlessly thinking of his sister. Jim, though not as severely as the Wingfields, also reverts to his past as he looks through high school yearbooks with Laura and remembers the days when he was a hero. He is also not satisfied with the present--working at the same warehouse as Tom, despite Tom's prediction that he would " ...
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