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- 991: Holocaust (devil IN Vienna)
- ... encouraged to try his best, he was punished when he did not do well. This may explain why he acted the way he did when he grew up. Hitler did not do much better at school than he did at home. He was a poor student, not because he wasn't intelligent but rather because he never applied himself. His teachers often complained that he was lazy and disrespectful. In 1905, two years after the death of his father, as his situation at home worsened, Hitler dropped out of school. After leaving school Hitler would spend his days roaming around the streets and drawing anything which sparked his interest. Eventually he met Kubizek, the man who would end up being his only true friend. Kubizek recalled Hitler ...
- 992: Peer Pressure Around Us
- ... hard to stay away from the pressure of peer pressure. I think we all go through a period of peer pressure which affects our life in a major way. By looking at friends, family, and school I will show that peer pressure is a major part of our everyday life. In life friends are a major part of our decision and thoughts. When you are growing up you always feel like ... than everyone else. When we see families which are better, we feel the pressure either from parents or from ourselves to try and improve. We dont want to compromise the integrity of our family. School is important to all of us and the pressures that come from the schools are high. We all have the pressures of achieving good grades, and doing well so that we can succeed in the future for us and our families. In school, you feel the pressure from your friends to do well because they might be doing better than you. Its hard to avoid your the pressure from your family when it comes to getting ...
- 993: The Atomic Bomb
- ... Many geniuses went to work to make great advancements in nuclear technology. It is a shame we could not have used these findings for a good cause. Brett Skyllingstad An Eyewitness Account by a Middle School Student The following is from an eyewitness account by a middle school student who was in a classroom during the bombing. The student managed to escape the collapsed school building but suffered injuries. "I'll never forget that day. After we finished our morning greetings in the schoolyard, we were waiting in the classroom for our building demolition work to begin. Suddenly a ...
- 994: Adolf Hitler
- ... which resembled the Swastika he later used as the symbol of the Nazi party. He was a pretty good student. He received good marks in most of his classes. However in his last year of school he failed German and Mathematics, and only succeeded in Gym and Drawing. He drooped out of school at the age of 16, spending a total of 10 years in school. From childhood one it was his dream to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show but he never showed any originality or creative ...
- 995: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... ways to catch a glimpse of their weird neighbor Boo Radley. Boo is mysterious to them because he always stays in the house and they have never seen him before. After the summer is over, school is about to start and Dill goes back home to Mississippi. This is Scouts first year of school and on her first day she gets into trouble with the teacher because she already knows how to read and write, and gets into a fight with Walter Cunningham. While walking home from school one day Scout finds a stick of gum in a hole in a tree by the Radleys yard. Later on Scout and Jem find more gifts in the tree, but then suddenly Mr. ...
- 996: The Relationship Between Rheto
- ... logical for us to conform to an idea or concept that best supports our own. Without competition and the need for conflict, we as a community would not exist. An article found in Newsweek Technology School Conflict describes a similar but distinct case of controversy in schools. This can be shown as an example of how rhetoric and conflict occurs almost illegitimately in our lives. One way to establish this, as a social issue is to break it down and examine what the conflict really involves. This article talks about whether gifted children have the right to attend a public school outside their district, and if so where should the money for their tuition go. The two parties involved are the parents of these children and the school board. The conflict in this case is whether something is right or wrong, otherwise known as the prize to be won. This situation deals with more than just the boundaries of each district; it ...
- 997: Things Fall Apart
- ... carved elephant tusk, which was a sign of great dignity and rank (pg.179) by Akunna. With this earned admiration he was able to open not only a town store, but a hospital and a school as well. He pleaded for the clan to send their children and all others who wanted to, to attend his school. At first everyone was reluctant to explore this new option for education. Those that chose to attend Mr. Browns school would not only learn how to read and write, but they would also learn how to fight back against those that would come in and try to conquer them. With this insight and the ...
- 998: Richard M. Nixon
- ... turn down a challenge or a dare. He also loved to be read to, and after age five he could read on his own. National Geographic was his favorite magazine. Education Nixon graduated form high school in 1930. He possessed extraordinary intelligence and ambition, but his ambitious nature received a serious setback that year. He graduated first in his class and won his high schools Harvard Club award as "best all-around student." The award was a scholarship to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition, he seemed likely to win a scholarship to Yale University in New Haven ... office, and he certainly helped turn Nixons thoughts in that direction. In 1934 Nixon graduated from Whittier College after four years on the honor roll. He applied for a scholarship to a new law school, at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and asked several of his professors to write to Duke, recommending him for a scholarship. Thanks to one convincing letter from the president of Whittier College saying ...
- 999: African Americans
- ... case of BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA, KANSAS, the Supreme Court held that separate facilities are, by their very nature, unequal. In spite of this decision, more than a decade passed before significant school integration took place in the South. In the North, where segregated schools resulted from segregated housing patterns and from manipulation of school attendance boundaries, separation of races in public schools increased after 1954. A second major breakthrough in the fight against segregation grew out of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955. The boycott began when Rosa ... college increased markedly, but in the 1980s blacks lost ground. Although desegregation of the public schools in the South proceeded slowly for the first decade after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, by 1969 school districts in every state were at least in token compliance with the 1954 ruling. By that time all forms of de jure segregation had been struck down by the courts. De facto school segregation ...
- 1000: The vast cyber-frontier is being threatend with censorship from the government
- ... researchers said they found more then 900,000 sexually explicit images and text files online, but neglected to point out that most came from privately owned adult bulletin boards with no connection to the Internet.[School Library Journal, October, 1995, EBSCO-CD] After hitting the newsstands, the magazine quickly found its way to the floor of the U.S. Senate. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) asked to have the entire article ... the Protection of Children from Computer Pornography Act of 1995. "There is a flood of vile pornography," Grassley told fellow senators, "and we must act to stem this growing tide, because . . . it incites perverted minds."[School Library Journal, October, 1995, EBSCO-CD] In a seven week period the Smithsonian Institution's web site gathered a total of 1.9 million visits, and in a seven day time during June, Playboy took ... space in which to explore the forbidden and taboo. It offers the possibility for genuine, unembarrassed conversations about accurate as well as fantasy images of sex," said Carlin Meyer, a professor at New York Law School.27 "It is clearly a violation of free speech and it's a violation of the rights of adults to communicate with each other," House speaker Newt Gingrich shared.28 In a Time/CNN ...
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