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- 131: John Muir: His Achievements/Journeys
- ... quickly became an expert on Yosemite. John believed that glaciers had helped in the formation of the valley. People began to pay attention to his ideas. Some agreed and some didn't. John spent years studying glaciers and tracking glaciers in the Sierra Nevada. In 1874, Jeanne Carr introduced John Muir to Louie Wanda because she wanted John to leave his lonely life. John first tramped the wilderness of California, Nevada ... believed that when he whipped his children, he was beating the devil out of their souls. While the children planted, hoed, raked, and harvested, Daniel spent less time on the farm work and more time studying his bible. When Daniel was away, John and the rest of the family would joke and sing. The girls could take out their embroidery, which their father considered frivolous, and John could recite a poem ...
- 132: Spelling Of Emigre Russians
- ... advanced American students of Russian for my experiment. Four of the Russians were heritage speakers, and two had emigrated to America at 14, having studied English in school for 4 years. The Americans had been studying Russian for just over three years and had lived in Russia for at least 5 months. All of the Russian subjects, save one young man, claimed that their English was better than their Russian, due ... were taught English using a form of the New Word method The Americans were less important to me as subjects, as Americans learn Russian through a much more phonetically-intense method, as they are not studying in the intense immersion situation that most Russians face when first emigrating to America. I wanted to compare their results to the Russians’ in order to compare the types of mistakes made as well as ...
- 133: Music and Stress
- ... aspects of stress. From monitoring this properly, I found that listening to music pleasing to me at the specifically different times I experienced stress did help reduce my internal feelings and physical changes. In carefully studying the various types of stress experienced I concluded that certain types of music more effectively reduced my stress and anxiety levels. The following paragraphs explain further the types of stress felt and the music that ... For the anger/edginess aspect I found that listening to fast-paced music such as Nine Inch Nails and Hole helped me to get the anger or other emotion out. I did get confused when studying cognitive, spiritual, and relational Œstress styles', however, I found that relaxing music such as classical, incorporated with stress reducing techniques such as meditation greatly lowered my levels of stress. Throughout the duration of my self ...
- 134: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- ... also indicates that Jackie attended Miss Porter’s School for Girls in Connecticut and Vassar College where she excelled in history, literature, art and French. Her junior year she spent at the Sorbonne in Paris, studying French and learning more about the French culture. She then returned to the United States and earned a degree in French literature from George Washington University and graduated in 1951. Jackie’s favorite interest as a child and young adult were reading, sketching, writing poems and short stories, riding horses, ballet and studying the French culture and language (23). Jackie’s first job was the “Inquiring Camera Girl” for the Washington Times-Herald. She would spend her working day walking around the city with her camera capturing citizens ...
- 135: Emilie du Chatelet
- ... the most intriguing and brilliant scholars of this time, at Cirey-sur-Blaise. For the two scholars this was a safe and quiet place distant from the turbulence of Paris and court life. She started studying the works of Leibniz but she then started to analyze the discoveries of Newton. She was extremely success in translating his whole book on the principals of mathematics into French. She also added to this ... able to convince her husband that it was his child she was carrying. During the course of her pregnancy in 1749 she finished her work with Clairaut, an old friend with whom she had been studying, but her book on Newton was not completed yet. She was determined to finish it and with that goal she took on a very regimented lifestyle of only work. In early September of 1749, she ...
- 136: Oliver Twist - Summary
- ... the book, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Reading this book will better prepare me for my upcoming course of global studies because it deals with many of the regions and time periods we will be studying in class. Although this book was a classic that I thought I had known so much about, reading it and paying attention to the setting and surroundings of the young boy’s life, I noticed ... an inheritance from his father and one of the people who got him caught knew this. After confessing, Oliver received his inheritance and lived a happy life from then on. After reading this book and studying the surroundings of the main characters as well as the other characters, I am lead to believe that this book takes place in two different sections of England in the late seventeen hundreds to the ...
- 137: Your Future: Take The ACT Test
- ... s cold. When you take the ACT test you should be prepared mentally and physically. In some cases you might want to get a tutor or check out a book from your local library on studying for an ACT test. There are also classes available that you can take to study for ACT. You can take a class called PLAN in 10th grade that will help you prepare for ACT. Some ... answer all the questions and use logic on the difficult questions. Review your work after finishing the test and remember to be precise in marking your answer document. An ACT test is a test worth studying for. It takes your whole life to really prepare for it, and your whole life depends on it as well.
- 138: High School Seniors Chooses Between Community College or A Job
- ... High School. Those who receive something like 2.0 or below grade point average. That means they don't have enough knowledge on Math, English, Science, History, or Physical Education to go on further in studying. Community Colleges previously mention except every High School graduate in their school because they wanted their money. They expect all incoming freshmen to know basic Algebra, English grammar, American History, and others subject already. The ... can't learn the subjects good enough to get themselves a passing grade for their classes. Community College classes is extremely difficult to pass even if the students spend hours on doing their homework and studying. Community College courses is noting new compare to a High School courses but the works are a tons more. It's free in High School right? Students get all the textbooks, pencils, tests, other services ...
- 139: Blackmur R.P., Form And Value
- ... or rhyme but rather offers an analysis of the themes and content. The language used is appropriate to this analysis. Evaluation of the critique Blackmur gives a feel for the emotions that he experiences in studying Yates’ poetry. That emotion is probably confusion or perhaps disbelief. While this is an interesting study, Blackmur points out that this is only one approach to understanding the poetry and it should be combined with ... or rhyme but rather offers an analysis of the themes and content. The language used is appropriate to this analysis. Evaluation of the critique Blackmur gives a feel for the emotions that he experiences in studying Yates’ poetry. That emotion is probably confusion or perhaps disbelief. While this is an interesting study, Blackmur points out that this is only one approach to understanding the poetry and it should be combined with ...
- 140: Talking About Love
- ... symbolism that Carver uses in the story. Carver also uses imagery when describing the characters in various stages of intoxication. He states, Mel poured himself another drink. He looked at the label closely as if studying a long row of numbers. Then he slowly put the bottle down on the table and slowly reached for the tonic water (442-443). He goes on to say that Laura was having a hard ... represents the way we pass around the term love in the modern world, without ever really stopping to examine what it means. The point where Mel stopped and looked at the label closely as if studying a long row of numbers (443), illustrates his effort to understand, but he has become so drunk with alcohol (false love), that he fails to really grasp what he is looking at. In What We ...
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