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- 241: Improving Education
- ... to facilitate the instruction and initiate the curriculum. "Further, at-risk students are best served when the teacher provides direct instruction in reading and math." ( ) During the regular school day, students receive a variety of teaching approaches when learning the curriculum. Extended day, however, takes a more "hands on" approach to learning those objectives which are identified as needing improvement during the selection process. A ten to one student/teacher ratio ... is evaluated and receives funds based on eligibility requirements. A total of $161,074 was awarded to Brazosport Independent School District for the 1997 - 1998 extended year program. Individual campus allotments are used to fund teaching stipends, supplies, snacks and transportation. The following table shows an overview of total expenditures for the extended day program at Freeport Intermediate. Total Extended Day Expenditures for FIS Teacher Stipends $10,000.00 Supplies $300 ...
- 242: Alexander Ghram Bell
- ... He moved to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor. With each passing year, Alexander Graham Bell's intellectual horizons broadened. By the time he was 16, he was teaching music and elocution at a boy's boarding school. He and his brothers, Melville and Edward, traveled throughout Scotland impressing audiences with demonstrations of their father's Visible Speech techniques. Visible Speech was invented by ... communication, which culminated in the invention of the photophone-transmission of sound on a beam of light- a precursor of today's optical fiber systems. He also worked in medical research and invented techniques for teaching speech to the deaf. The range of Bell's inventive genius is represented only in part by the 18 patents that granted in his name alone and the 12 he shared with his collaborators. These ...
- 243: Heart Of Darkness
- ... lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives---he called them enemies!---hidden out of sight somewhere (21). Conrad is teaching us something extremely important. Berthoud points out that the "intelligibility of what men do depends upon the context in which they do it." Marlow is watching this occurrence. He sees the Europeans firing "tiny projectiles ... 101). Kurtz takes everything in. He takes his life, and puts it all out on the table. "He had summed up--- he had judged...The horror!"(119). Kurtz's last words is his way of teaching Marlow the essence of a name. A name is not merely a label. It is one man's own judgment of an isolated event. However, unlike the Europeans who judge based on already existing principles ...
- 244: Definition Of American Democra
- ... not run for office. Unlike most societies roman slaves held high positions in the Roman society. Most times teachers and artists were in high demand, and so many Greeks were made slaves and given full teaching rights. Slave were allowed in certain cases of ownership to even serve as a representative of the Roman Empire to other countries, they were skilled employers and quite intelligent, very contrary to more modern thinking ... the presence of Africans on American soil was an occasion of gratitude on the slave's behalf before God - basically, the slaves should have been grateful for their bondage. Plantation owners even stressed religion by teaching the slaves the principles of Christianity and by brainwashing the slaves into thinking they were blessed by God to be given a master who cares for them and a Christian family to live with. In ...
- 245: Return Of The Native Summary
- ... sixth book of the novel, written at the demand of his public, has Thomasin, now a widow, marry her faithful lover, Diggory Venn. Clym Yeobright plunges on alone through life in his chosen professions of teaching and preaching. BOOK 1: Summary: Hardy, the architect, has a masterly way of building his characters almost stone by stone: 1. In the first chapter we meet the heath - and the heath alone. 2. In ... her marriage to Diggory Venn. After some pondering, he gives it. 4. Thomasin and Diggory Venn are married. They leave Clym Yeobright to live alone in his old home, and to solace his soul with teaching and preaching. Hardy completes the novel's cycle this time with the final Rainbarrow scene. Once more, as in the opening scene of the novel, Rainbarrow is aswarm with heath folk, gathered this time to ...
- 246: Frost
- ... would live on and operate a farm in Derry, New Hampshire that his grandfather had purchase for him with the condition he live there for a minimum of ten years. He would also take a teaching position at Derry s Pinkerton Academy to receive another form of income. Frost would not stay there long, as he felt the need to once again move. In 1912, when Frost was nearly forty he ... North of Boston . Sales from the books that Frost had published enabled him to buy a farm in Franconia, N.H. and send him on his way to a long and successful career in writing, teaching, and lecturing. Over the coming years he would receive a number of literary, academic, and public honors. He Received four prestige s Pulitzer Prizes in his lifetime. Frost lived his life doing what made him ...
- 247: Rich Comparison Essay
- ... What Does a Women Need to Know? she argues that women have been demoralized throughout time. Rich says when we think of what an independent women s college might be: a college dedicated both to teaching women what women need to know and, by the same token, to changing the landscape of knowledge itself. (Rich 45) This means that she believes that women should be taught the skills that they will ... and a favorable response from the teacher. (Thomas 339) To prove this fact there was an experiment done with seventy-two boys and sixty girls at kindergarten. They were taught to read on a self-teaching machine and then they were tested. The boys did better than the girls. Then they resumed normal classroom instruction by women teachers. The children were tested again and this time the boys scores were lower ...
- 248: Albert Einstein
- ... was admitted without examination on the basis of his diploma from Aarau. ETH had little appeal to Einstein, however. He rarely attended classes and hated studying for examinations, although he did graduate with a secondary teaching degree in 1900. He became a teacher of mathematics and physics in secondary school. (Albert Einstein's Early Life) As a teacher Einstein was unable to find a regular teaching job. Instead he was a tutor in a private school in Schaffhausen. With his extra time in 1901, Einstein published his first scientific paper, "Consequences of Capillary Phenomena.Ó In 1902 he was hired at ...
- 249: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... 1939 when she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Morgan State College (Hurston 204). This was the pinnacle and end of her academic achievements. Zora Hurston's career was one of storytelling and teaching. Zora used her talents to create "realistic black character's and speech in her books," as well as teaching students the art of African American drama (Lyons IX). Zora's career began at an early age of eight years old. Her wild imagination sprung to life with inspiration from her mother, Lucy. Her father ...
- 250: Eli Whitney
- ... this time, he seemed almost middle-aged to his classmates. After he graduated with his degree in 1792, he found that no jobs were available to a man with his talents. He eventually settled for teaching, and accepted a job as a tutor in South Carolina, his salary was promised to be one hundred guineas a year. He sailed on a small coasting packet with only a few passengers, among whom ... in Savannah after the war. When Whitney arrived in South Carolina, he found that the promised salary was going to be halved. He not only refused to take the position, but decided to give up teaching all together. Coming to his aid, Mrs. Greene invited him to her plantation where he could read law, and also help out the plantation manager, Phineas Miller. Miller, a few years older than Whitney, was ...
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