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- 23211: A Study of Public School Choice
- ... of Public School Choice Parents and students are very unhappy with the public education offered to them by the government of United States. 51 percent of respondents to the latest Gallup Poll rated their community's public schools with a grade of C or less, and 66 percent said that local schools had either stayed the same or gotten worse in the last five years. The result of these feelings is a demand for reform. Local, state and federal agencies create initiatives, recommendations and policies in hopes of meeting the public’s demand for a system that can effectively educate our students. Private and government-formed commissions continually present proposals ranging from additional school days to increased discipline. A current favorable prospect is the idea of public ... vouchers. Public education, a monopoly-like system, generally dictates the specific school that each child will attend within his or her district. Under new choice plans, parents would gain the power to choose their child's school, either within the district, or within the state, depending on the plan. Proponents of choice detail many positive results of the plan, which will be explained, analyzed and considered in the written result ...
- 23212: "A Rose for Emily": A Review
- ... to state is to always expect the unexpected, like when Miss Emily killed Homer. Faulkner chooses to use third person narration in this particular story for a couple of reasons. He tries to show Emily's world to us as seen through the eyes of a respectable resident, so we can understand the town life as if we lived there. This way we were able to understand how the people of ... would have been the narrator we would have understood the story in a hole different manner. Faulkner used third person narration and from that we were able to find out many things about Miss Emily's past. For instance the death of her father, the love she had for Homer, and how she felt the need for affection. Those ideas she would have kept to herself, if she were to have ... of the story, because we see that Miss Emily does not like the idea of change at all. Faulkner uses many symbols throughout the story, one of them being the crayon portrait of Miss Emily's father. The picture symbolizes many things' one of them being that it shows how she thinks of things in the distant past. Another symbol is the poison that she uses to kill Homer Barron. ...
- 23213: Molly Pitcher
- ... by becoming a war heroine, a loyal wife, and a hard worker. Molly Pitcher was born in Trenton, New Jersey. She was born with the name Mary Ludwig. Mary helped a lot on her family's dairy farm. In 1769 Mary became a servant to Dr. William Irvine. Later, Mary's employer became a colonel and a brigadier general in the colonial army. Mary left her career as a maid and married a man by the name of John Casper Hays, a soldier that enlisted in ... often called her this because she held her head high and fought for her country and freedom. Molly received compliments from President George Washington for her bravery, lack of fear, and effort. In 1783 Molly's husband, John, was discharged from the army and Mary went back to being a regular housewife. Molly's husband died in 1789 and Molly remarried to a man named George McCauley. This marriage was ...
- 23214: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany on March 21, 1685. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a talented violinist, and taught his son the basic skills for string playing. Another relative, the organist at Eisenach's most important church, instructed the young boy on the organ. In 1695 his parents died, he was only 10 years old. He went to go stay with his older brother, Johann Christoph, who was a professional organist at Ohrdruf. Johann Christoph being a professional organist, continued his younger brother's education on that instrument, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so he left his brother's tutoring. A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon after, ...
- 23215: Toni Morrison Interview
- Toni Morrison Interview Toni Morrison is one of America's most acclaimed and recognized writer of the twentieth century. The recent interview that I had the opportunity to view featured Toni Morrison and focused on her prize winning book, Beloved. At the beginning of her ... story of a slave named Margaret Garner. Garner tried to shield her children from the horrors of slavery by attempting to kill them. Garner hit her two boys with a shovel, cut her little girl's throat, and slammed another one against a wall. Just like Morrison's character, Sethe, she succeeded in killing one of her four children. Although the newspaper at the time depicted her as insane, Morrison described the photographs of her as serene, not mad. Abolitionists labeled her ...
- 23216: Infidelity In Anna Karenina
- ... very first encounter at the train station, it was clear that this relationship was destined for destruction. Their relationship takes on a very deceptive and superficial quality. Vronsky knew from the very beginning about Anna’s marital status, yet this did not dissuade his attraction to her, or his adulterous relationship with her later on. It is important to note that it is Vronsky’s frivolous nature that is responsible for his inability to fully love Anna with the passion that she so desperately needs from him. Vronsky initially believes that he loves Anna, but Tolstoy shows the reader that Vronsky’s love for her is not absolute. His love is not based upon firm emotional commitment, and it is easily questioned and redefined. Eventually, Anna’s love becomes burdensome to him because he remains steeped ...
- 23217: Stress
- ... has stress but most everyone does something to reduce his or her stress. For me, stress makes me feel less than what I am. I try to deal with my stress so that it doesn't bother me. There are many different things that cause me to have stress. One stress factor for me is being on the foul line during a basket ball game. I get nervous and my hands start sweating and I can't concentrate, then sometimes I miss the foul shot. Another example is when I am playing baseball and there is a man on first and third and the count is 2 and 3 in the 7th inning. The game is tied and the pressure is on, which causes stress. People who don't handle their stress situations sometimes turn to drugs, alcohol and tobacco. If stress isn't handled, it can really impact your health. It can cause heart trouble, headaches, ulcers and even death. Students who ...
- 23218: Gynephobia
- GYNEPHOBIA In the overall picture, today's men are supposed to be confident and assertive towards women and yet many men still suffer from what is known as gynephobia. Gynephobia, the fear of women, is most common in men who rarely interact ... affects men in such a way that the concluding outcome is the total inversion of what "supposed" attitudes by men towards women are expected to be. Although this phobia creates numerous problems in a victim's future life due to hurtful and often horrid past experiences with women, it can be treated with proper therapy and sufficient time. Irregular traits in the male character are becoming more and more common everyday ... related to gynephobia are all tied-in to past abuse by the female sex. The molding of masculine young breed is a crutial and sensitive era that will, in the long run, reflect a male's future personallity and train of thought. Problems associated with genephobia reflect mixed and underdeveloped feelings such as fear, shyness and a sence of inferiority towards women. Such symptoms are the results of past psychological ...
- 23219: Teaching Ethical And Moral Values
- ... challenges of cultural and religious diversity is among the hardest when teaching ethics, there is also a great deal of responsibility on the teachers’ part. Thus many teachers do not want to modify a student’s personal life because of accountability and liability. For instance, if a teacher proclaimed that it is important to pursue one’s own self-interest without affecting the human welfare, a student could take the literal meaning of this and cheat on a test because it bettered his/her own self-interest without effecting the human welfare ... he spoke out that there was little opportunity for conversation between students and teachers. The approach was one-sentence or two-sentence exchange. During my journey of high school I can directly relate to Sizer’s opinion. In my high school there was at least 25 students in each class and each student had at least 30 teachers during the four years. For this reason, there was little time for ...
- 23220: The Tribulations of Sharecrop Farmers
- ... housing in the seven southeastern states were the lowest in value. This put the southern farmer living in the worst homes in America(Jones 47). Many travelers passing through the southeast saw the tenant farmer's houses as mere huts on the verge of collapse. To add to the list of utility problems was the usual pools of water which surrounded the structure(Walker 17). Water troubles did not just stop on the outside with the moat, but many homes also had leaky roofs to add to the repair list (Walker pg. 46). Travelers were also able to notice that in the 1930's that doors and windows of farmers homes were rarely screened(Jones 55). The shoddy houses that they lived in could not be helped, but it did not improve there defenses against disease. Being so open ... hospital bed in the nine cotton states. Without proper care the farmers were unable to get well quicker, and this did not help the farmers to raise their standard of living. As seen, the sharecropper's living standards were low due to their ineffective fight against the elements. Better housing and adequate medical attention would have proved beneficial to the farmer's situation. Could they have remained healthy they could ...
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