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- 421: U.s. High Schools
- ... freshman in summer courses to polish them up and tie up the loose ends aside from providing a one credit class called Freshman Experience that teaches them such valuable skills as study skills, note-taking, teaching styles, critical thinking, listening and memory skills, test-taking strategies and most important of all, preparing for finals. The fact stands out that if this class were not absolutely necessary, many universities would not require ... were efficient and did look out for the student's best interests, people would not graduate without these basic skill that most people agree must me present for the college experience.Colleges should not be teaching basic, elementary skills such as reading and elementary writing. College is not meant to be a grueling and terrible time for a person, but over the years, U.S. high schools have lost their focus ...
- 422: Helen Keller
- ... with the same problem as her and tried to help them with their problems with communication. She was a great teacher as was her teacher Anne Sullivan. Helen had now adapted the same styles of teaching that Anne had used and was teaching all sorts of people with disabilities. Helen, throughout her life, has always been an overachiever. She beat the odds of being deaf, dumb, and blind and became one of the most, if not the most ...
- 423: 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 ...
- 424: Robert Andrew Millikan
- ... Germany to study with such professors Planck and others. When this period was on his resume Millikan was offered a position in the Physics department at the University of Chicago and Millikan took it. After teaching for a period Millikan decided that physics could only be taught properly through the practice of experimentation and getting your hands in it just as many other things are. Thus, he began writing better textbooks for the University of Chicago, "In fact he spent the morning of his wedding day reading proofs of his textbooks" ( http://physics.uwstout.edu/sotw/millikan.html ) During his 12 hours of teaching each day Millikan spent half of his time doing research. In 1909 he constructed his first oil drop apparatus to determine the charge of an electron. Millikan discovered that the charge depended on the frequency ...
- 425: The Green Revolution in Asia
- ... in some stage of desertification. Conclusion: The Green Revolution in Asia is helping the people grow enough food to sustain the massive amounts of people that occupy the area. The Green Revolution is not just teaching people how to grow crops efficiently, but the people are also teaching the scientists the methods, such as the Wolf spider as a hopper killer, that have worked for hundreds of years. The true question is: Can the environment take the pressure that we have placed it ...
- 426: Biography of Robert Frost
- ... but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire (purchased for him by his paternal grandfather), and supplemented his income by teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. His ... Will enabled Frost to buy a farm in Franconia, N.H.; to place new poems in literary periodicals and publish a third book, Mountain Interval (1916); and to embark on a long career of writing, teaching, and lecturing. In 1924 he received a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for New Hampshire (1923). He was lauded again for Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936), and A Witness Tree (1942). Over the years ...
- 427: Cultural Revolution Of The 1920s
- ... biology teacher was arrested. He was arrested because he taught the theory of evolution. The teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of having violated the Butler Act. This was a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools. The Tennessee legislature felt that teaching evolution was wrong because it contradicted the creation theory of the Bible. The Scopes trial received worldwide publicity. The press nicknamed it the Monkey Trial because, people believed that the theory of evolution meant that ...
- 428: Archetypes
- ... can result in ones demise or one colony’s demise but can change the future as well. The third archetype existing in “Clash of The Titans” is the God-Teacher archetype. This archetype consists of teaching others skills and knowledge as well as being caring to those being taught. For instance, Zeus tells the other gods that Calibos’s behaviour and actions are not acceptable and that he must be punnished ... care of his gift, the shield. Zeus knows Perseus will face danger in the future and he wants to warn Perseus of this danger as well as make sure he holds on to the shield. Teaching and pointing others in the right directions proves to be very important. Archetypes provide meaningful events, not just in the movie “Clash of The Titans”but as well as many other forms f literature. These ...
- 429: Philosophy in Practice
- ... it carries with it. Lines of dialogue can suddenly become funny or sad once given inflection. This is the prime reason role-playing is used. The prime time that this technique is employed is when teaching the works of Shakespeare. The usual set up for a role-playing exercise is as follows: first the teacher will have the students read the text by themselves, then he/she will define any strange ... out the section with some minimal movement. This added blocking creates the idea that the dialogue motivates the actions. When doing this type of activity it is best to employ a combination of two different teaching philosophies. One of them is Pragmatism and the other is Idealism. Idealists value the mind and concepts over all things. In this exercise, it is important to keep this sort of attitude. Students may not ...
- 430: Andrew Carnegie
- ... law, and relations between the United States and foreign countries. It publishes the quarterly journal, Foreign Policy, and has offices in New York City and Washington, D.C. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching promotes the dignity in the teaching profession and the cause of higher education. Chartered by Carnegie in 1905 with $15 million, the foundation established the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association in 1918, and currently provides retirement pensions for teachers of colleges ...
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