|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 261 - 270 of 30573 matching essays
- 261: Student's Rights
- Student's Rights Are you in the mood for some good reading? The other day I was in the Guidance Office looking for guidance when I saw an unassuming three page packet. Having nothing else to do, I picked one up and began reading. I learned that the name of this little manual is the Student's Rights and Responsibilities Bill. I thought to myself, "my, what a great place is La Follette, that I can simply walk into my guidance office and learn my rights as a student. But wait, why must I pursue this information on my own? Why isn't this information in my handy handbook issued to me at the beginning of the school year? I ought to read this!" So I read. Soon I realized why our School Board may not want ...
- 262: Ben Franklin
- ... were books and fire wood. At the Latin School all the children were expected to learn fables by heart. The fables had lessons which the school master thought was an important part of learning. Ben's best friend's name was Nathan. Ben helped Nathan learn the fable "The Wolf and the Kid", while Ben learned "The Dog and his Shadow". At the time of the recital of the fables the school master said, "and Ben will recite "The Wolf and the Kid", which was Nathan's fable. Ben thought, "If I say that it is Nathan's fable, then the school master will get into trouble. If I recite the fable, then Nathan will get into trouble." Ben did nothing; ...
- 263: B.f. Skinners Walden Two
- ... intentional community of 1,000 started by one Frazier (no first name or title ever mentioned) who applies the tools of behavioral modification to make of Walden Two the best of all possible worlds. Skinner's technique as a propagandist is to show us Walden Two through the eyes of various outsiders who possess varying degrees of skepticism and enthusiasm for the community. The reader can identify with one or another ... is completed by two young men and their girlfriends. The guys and one of the girls are the enthusiasts of the group while the other girl resists by avoidance. She never engages any of Frazier's ideas and remains untouched by them throughout the visit. Why do we have such a strong tendency to resist the concept of behavioral engineering? Skinner devoted another book, this time in essay form, which grapples ... will? Do we even have a soul? Are we mere mechanistic beings of such finite dimensions that the entire workings can be completely understood and programmed by another human, if highly intelligent, being? Most people's tendency would be to revolt against such a notion. To intensify our revulsion, Frazier comes across with a smugness and egotism that must be calculated to activate our most atavistic possible response. For a ...
- 264: All My Sons: Summary
- All My Sons: Summary The play "All my Sons" takes place in America after WWII. The story is about Mr. Keller who killed 21 pilots flying P-40ties and the problems. In Mrs. Keller's dream she saw her son Larry in his plane. Suddenly the plan caused by it started to fall, she wakes up and sees that Larry's tree was crashed in the storm. Kate Keller is confused, nervous and crazy because of the dream and because Larry is missing in a action, but Kate doesn't want to realize that he is dead. Chris is a realistic person, he tells his mother to forget Larry and to go on with her life. Kate keeps Larry's room clean as if ...
- 265: Pete Rose
- ... to play football more because many people would attend the games, and not many showed up for baseball. "You could throw a bomb into the stands at our (high school) baseball games, and you wouldn't kill anyone". If it wasn't for Pete's uncle, who was a scout for the Cincinnati Reds, he would never nave played baseball. His uncle saw him play in high school and signed him to a contract with the Reds farm system. ...
- 266: Pete Rose
- ... to play football more because many people would attend the games, and not many showed up for baseball. "You could throw a bomb into the stands at our (high school) baseball games, and you wouldn't kill anyone". If it wasn't for Pete's uncle, who was a scout for the Cincinnati Reds, he would never nave played baseball. His uncle saw him play in high school and signed him to a contract with the Reds farm system. ...
- 267: Voices Of Women Writers Lesson
- ... women in search of spiritual, mental and individual knowledge. As explained by these authors, their mothers words and actions often influence women both negatively and positively. These writers also show the effects of a mother s lesson on a daughter, while following women s paths to discovery of their own voice or identity. In Kincaid s poem, Girl; Hong Kingston s novel, Woman Warrior; and Davenport s short story, The Lipstick Tree, various themes are presented in contrasting views and contexts, including the influence of mothers upon daughters. It is ...
- 268: The NAFTA Scam
- ... Scam It is now three years since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) became law. The results are in: NAFTA is a disaster for workers in the United States, Mexico and Canada. The U.S. and Canada have lost thousands of jobs because of NAFTA. Mexico is trapped in a severe economic crisis in which workers bear the largest burden as their working conditions worsen. The U.S.- Mexico border was a health and environmental disaster when the NAFTA agreement was signed in 1994. Today, the border area is worse because of additional health and environmental problems caused by the impact of NAFTA ... America. In this UNITE FIGHT size we investigate the problems with NAFTA and the ways we can take action to fight back against the business interests that are pursuing this anti-worker strategy. NAFTA isn't working for American, Canadian or Mexican workers NAFTA's impact on American workers American workers know what has happened to them because of NAFTA: loss of jobs and a decline in living standards. How ...
- 269: Women As News Anchors
- ... definitely part of the fight. The road to television news anchoring is a rocky one, where only a few women survive and many fail. Where progress was once thought to have been made, there aren't many females getting ahead in the world of television news. Today, there is a very slow, if any, gain in the numbers of women who succeed. There are many questions surrounding the subject of women ... in the business. I kept my questions in mind when gathering research material. While focusing on the key questions, I was able to find information that led me to form answers to them. Christine Craft's biography told of her individual experience of being fired on the basis of her looks and her age. I realized from reading her story that she had a "nose for news", a passion for telling it to the world, and a unique spark that made her a good journalist, yet those qualities weren't enough in her case. She took that passion and spark, filed a sexual discrimination case and won. Hard News: Women in Broadcast Journalism had a few chapters that were relevant to today, and I ...
- 270: U.S Foreign Policy Toward Jewish Refugees During 1933-1939
- U.S Foreign Policy Toward Jewish Refugees During 1933-1939 PART I HISTORICAL REVIEW AND ANALYSIS In reviewing the events which gave rise to the U.S.'s foreign policy toward Jewish refugees, we must identify the relevant factors upon which such decisions were made. Factors including the U.S. government's policy mechanisms, it's bureaucracy and public opinion, coupled with ...
Search results 261 - 270 of 30573 matching essays
|
