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- 291: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... mother, Ruth, was left as a widow having to take care of five sons. However, Ralph's life seemed to carry on smoothly. He would end up attending Harvard College and persue a job of teaching full time. While teaching as a junior pastor of Boston's Second Church, his life gained more meaning when he married Ellen Louisa Tucker. Journal entries and love letters he wrote at that time expressed lots of feelings and ...
- 292: 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 ...
- 293: Autism 2
- ... may change or disappear over time. As of yet, there is no cure for autism. However, with the proper treatment, many of the behaviors can be positively changed. Some of the treatments include behavioral training, teaching of communication and social skills, auditory training, medications, and a change in diet. Behavioral training or modification, as it is also called, deals with changing or extinguishing inappropriate behaviors and increasing positive behaviors. A few ... This is when the teacher or therapist demonstrates what is being done so the child can “model” the steps. Behavioral training is effective in stopping self-inflicted pain by shaping and distributing positive reinforcement. The teaching of communication and social skills is an integral part of treating autism. Speech therapy may include gaining language skills or learning sign language. Some devices are used frequently such as picture communication boards. Another device ...
- 294: A River Runs Through It By Nor
- ... In the book and movie versions, Norman and Paul spend all their lives in Montana except for when Norman and Paul both attend Dartmouth. In reality, Paul had followed Norman to Chicago, where Norman was teaching at the University of Chicago. It was Norman who got a job for Paul in the university’s press relation’s department. Perhaps what happens next in the deviations from the story is one of ... drink particularly stiff drinks at parties and after his retirement spoke of his neglect as a parent. “Norman, like his father before him, was notorious for deflecting personal discussions, although after he had retired from teaching he was surprisingly open about his parental shortcomings. ‘It’s a real sorrow of mine. I feel that I never picked up my children at the age when I should have.’...(Eastman 100).” The illness ...
- 295: Evolution
- ... had on numerous scientists, including Lyell, Darwin and the developers of the Hardy-Weinberg theory cannot be denied. Jean Lamarck, a French biologist postulated the theory of an inherent faculty of self-improvement by his teaching that new organs arise form new needs, that they develop in proportion to how often they are used and that these acquisitions are handed down from one generation to the next (conversely disuse of existing ... was incurred - an educated guess to be proven through experimentation. Darwin developed his theory of natural selection with a viable hypothesis, but predicted his results merely by observing that which was available. Following Lyell's teaching, using modern observations to determine what occurred in the past, Darwin developed theories that "only made sense" - logical from the point of view of the human mind (meaning it was based on immediate human perception ...
- 296: Booker T. Washington
- ... studies he was completely out of money and got a job as a waiter. Soon after this period of time he got a job as a teacher in west Virginia during the reconstruction period. After teaching for two years at Malder. Washington went to Washington DC to study. And he got a chance to compare Hamilton college with other colleges, he noticed that students here had more money and where well ... charge of night school, so he did. He taught students who were also incourged as he was and when they graduated they held their certificates high above their heads too. After completing a year of teaching night school an opportunity opened up for him a position in Tuskegee, Alabama in June 1881. He was determined to have students build their own buildings. He wanted to show them how to make the ...
- 297: Comparing Buddhism and Christianity
- ... limitlessly our charity and compassion for others. It is very clearly apparent, from direct observation, that this is not the case in any form of Christianity I have seen. Nor does it form a basic teaching which is constantly reinforced from the centre. Christian teaching seems to be centred mainly upon following what someone else tells you to do, often for no clear reason. Following a moral code set entirely by others. Christian ideas are 'received dogmas' based upon the ...
- 298: Gifted People
- ... in hand with them to plan and carry out projects and trips. Though the pay is average, and there is not much room to be promoted if you wish to remain in the classroom, gifted teaching has its personal rewards. Jeff Simpleton, a gifted teacher as well as a former gifted student, states, "I really think that by being gifted, I am in touch with what they have to go through ... and determination and drive. Mr. Simpleton feels that this is "what makes them so great". He feels hat anyone with a sense of adventure and a need for something new day after day would find teaching a gifted class to be the perfect job for them. Gifted teachers are important to the development of their students minds. They are understanding individuals who must work hard to make the curriculum interesting and ...
- 299: Siddhartha
- ... had a lot of names like Gotama, the Illustrious one, the Sakyamuni, and he was rumored that he was perfect. Siddhartha agrees with Govinda so they started on a journey to hear the Buddha's teaching. After they heard the Buddha's teachings, Govinda becomes his follower, but Siddhartha doesn't. Siddhartha and Govinda said goodbye to each other. Siddhartha learned that even from the perfect one, the teachings wouldn't ... he couldn't recognize him till Siddhartha gave him a hint. Siddhartha says to him words is always one-sided, but the world itself is never one-sided. Because of that, nobody can learn from teaching. Things are never one-sided because there is no such thing as time. You can't divide the thing into past and future without time. He says that if you love everything, nothing can harm ...
- 300: Tactics of a Revolution: The Protestant Reformation
- ... gospel. All of these factors made the early sixteenth century a perfect time for a religious reformation, and Martin Luther’s means of spreading God’s word was remarkably successful. The spread of Luther’s teaching could easily be called the world’s first multimedia campaign (Wiesner, p. 303). Not only did Luther travel throughout Eastern Europe spreading the word of God, he also printed books and pamphlets, and for those ... that salvation was easy, and quickly turned against those who told them otherwise. Some were so ecstatic to hear the good news of Christ that they began to form new ideas based on Luther’s teaching and created their own factions of reform, turning Luther’s campaign into a multifaceted movement-something that could have never happened in the movements of Hus or Wyclif. Through the amazing influence of Luther, people ...
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