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- 1441: Cultural Synopsis: The Philipp
- ... and ownership can be traced to the Spanish period. American colonial influence prevailed from about 1901 until the late 1940s. Major legacies of that period are an American-style educational system and, with it, the teaching of English, which today is spoken as a second language by about two fifths of the population. Along with Pilipino, a language derived from Tagalog, English is one of the two official languages. The Philippines ...
- 1442: Confucianism
- ... Tzu is this, Mencius believed that nature was good and nurture was important only to re-enforce what was already there. While Hsun Tzu believed that nature was bad and that the nurturing effects of teaching and work were the only way to overcome mans natural disadvantage. Their constantly disagreeing nature has forced many Confucian s to examine their faith more independently and made Confucianism a religion for the thinkers, not ...
- 1443: Child Abuse
- ... behavior might find parenting a difficult responsibility and might retort to physical punishment as a mean to control a child. A father might find hitting his child against the wall as a good form of teaching because his father taught him in the same manner. One wonders who would do such a thing to a child? It would be so simple if there was an abuser profile so we would know ...
- 1444: Education 2
- ... they venture outside the home to school or to other children's home or in other situations where they are injected to exert some control over their behavior. Stewart also stresses the importance of parents teaching their children how to socialize and behave in public. He says, "if there is a bond between the parents and child there will never be a problem when it comes to one parent getting the ...
- 1445: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... insane hyper-intellectual friend who he'd met in a mental hospital years before. In the poem, Ginsberg makes mention of Solomon's actions at a lecture where he threw potato salad at the professor teaching on Dadaism. It is Carl Solomon's insanity that drove Ginsberg to write this poem, especially because it reminded him of his mother's own unspeakable insanity (which he finally wrote about in 'Kaddish,' but ...
- 1446: John Grisham
- ... horse stables, a full-time house keeper and maintaince man, and a private jet. Grisham swears, "We still think of ourselves as normal people" and defines normal as coaching his kid's Little League teams, teaching Sunday School, going on mission trips with members of his Southaven Baptist Church, donating to good causes, and, of course, writing one novel each year (Ferranti 82). John Grisham was co-writing the screenplay for ...
- 1447: Abolishing Grades
- ... solely on letters or numbers. Individuality and creativity were pushed aside so colleges, universities, graduate schools and employers would be able to judge their candidates. In the text, Celebrating Diversity, a short segment called, " Add Teaching To High-Risk Jobs," writes, "You can have an 'A'." Students' minds are generally focused on getting an "A," so they usually don't think about learning, rather they constantly render on the "A." Many ...
- 1448: A Society Without Knowledge!
- ... him until he was reformed and civilized. The Widow Douglas and Miss Watson try to "sivilize" Huck by making stop all of his habits such as smoking, etc. They try to reverse all of his teaching from the first twelve years of his life and force him to become their stereotypical good boy. The rest of the town also refused to view him as good until they received visual proof of ...
- 1449: Manhattan Project
- ... University.4 Another main person in the research project was Enrico Fermi. Fermi was a graduate of the University of Pisa, where he received his Ph.D. Fermi then went to the University of Rome teaching chemistry and biology. Fermi played a major role in the development of the bomb by creating a sustained nuclear fission chain reaction, which was critical to making the atomic bomb.4 Richard Feyman was another ...
- 1450: Mandan Indians
- ... and his wife as interpreters and guides to help them cross the western mountains. Sacagawea turned out to be very useful to Lewis and Clarks expedition with her incredible sense of direction and by teaching the 33-member group how to find wild food such as artichokes, carrots and potatoes. She also mended their clothing with thread and a needle made out of bird bone. By the time the trip ...
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