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- 2001: Nelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom
- ... lost it because of a dispute with the magistrate. While, his mother was a hard-working woman full of daily choirs. His childhood was full of playing games with fellow children and having fun. In school, Mandela was given his English name of Nelson. After his father s death, he moved to love with a regent, who was a well-off individual and owed Nelson s father for a previous favor ... detailed accounts of the European influence seen in South Africa. Ever since Mandela was born, the European s power affected his people. European influence could be seen through every aspect of life. In Mandela s school, he was given an English name and this was because this was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. (14) Also, the education I ... culture, British institutions were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. (14) This shows that it was difficult to get away from the British influence even for children in school. The British and the Dutch governments passed several acts that were instituted to fight against the Africans freedom struggle. The Africans struggle for independence was slowly growing and this scared the government. A new ...
- 2002: The Chosen
- ... both brilliant, Jewish, closely tied to their fathers, and near-neighbors who live only five blocks apart. Still, they attend separate yeshivas and inhabit very different worlds. A baseball league is begun. When Danny Saunders’ school plays Reuven Malter’s, the Hasids are determined to show the apikorsim a thing or two and the competition is fierce. Danny’s murderous hitting is remarkable, but when Reuven comes to pitch he does ... father, with his own attempts to educate himself in his quest for identity. Reuven, too, is seen to spend many hours of his day in study. The novel begins with Danny and Reuven as high school boys and concludes with their graduation from college. Danny has decided to get out of the life that imprisons him; he will take off the clothing and shun the trappings of the Hasid, go on to graduate school, and become a psychologist. When he has resolved to do this, Mr. Malter tells him he must prepare what he will say to his father. An arranged marriage will have to be broken, the ...
- 2003: Charles Shultz
- ... nothing in common yet that is what makes their friendship so genuine. Marcie is the smartest of the PEANUTS clan, but also the most naive. She s always willing to help out her friend with school work and she s on the phone to remind her of homework. There is an innocence to Marcie and Peppermint Patty is her protector. Marcie is also completely clueless when it comes to sports yet ... Brown invited Franklin to visit him at this house across town for another play session. Later, Franklin showed up as center-fielder on Peppermint Patty s baseball team and sits in front of her at school. Franklin is thoughtful and can quote the Old Testament as effectively as Linus. In contrast with the other characters, Franklin has the fewest anxieties and obsessions. He and Charlie Brown spend quite a lot of ... so proud of his newborn baby sister, Sally, that he passed out chocolate cigars, but ever since then he s been trying to understand her. She always looks for the easy way out, particularly at school, where her view of life reflects much of the frustration and confusion kids experience. She has the schoolgirl crush on Linus, her Sweet Babboo. She may never win Linus heart, but she has her ...
- 2004: Lab Protocols
- ... trial and error my class and I have learned that screwing around and misbehaveing in lab not only results in multiple page papers, but can also be harmful, dangerous, and costly to our teacher and school. There are many rules or "protocols" that should be followed in a lab enviroment. In this situation there are ten basic rules that must be followed at all times while participating in lab experiments. These ... Because you don't need to. The seventh rule states that activities should only be done if they are specifically discussed in your lab. This is for safety purposes and for the liability of the school. The eighth rule is that you are not to contaminate chemicals by using equipment in more than one substance without washing it thoroughly. Doing this can cause explosion, fire, bodily harm, poisonous gasses, or possibly ... result in death, poisonous gasses, bodily harm , explosion , or fire. Last but not least the tenth rule is that before taking leave of the laboratory environment set forth by the laboratory director and our prestigous school. You should thoroughly clean to your best ability the above stated area. This is to prevent possible chemical burns, toxic gasses, highly flammable substances, and acids from forming on countertops. It also helps to ...
- 2005: Clara Barton
- ... filled with success. Barton had a long career of public service. At age seventeen Barton became a teacher in Massachusetts. She taught many years and then decided that it was time to establish her own school in North Oxford where she was born. Eventually teaching began to loose its zest and she wanted more from life. She decided to further her education and attend the Liberal Institute. The Liberal Institute was located in Clinton, New York; it was an advanced school for female teachers. Clara Barton yearned to teach once again and accepted a job in New Jersey. Following this she opened a free school in Bordentown. The schools attendance topped six hundred students. Retiring from teaching for good Barton headed for Washington DC. A new chapter in her life opened and she worked as a clerk in the ...
- 2006: The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow 2
- The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Ichabod Crane was a school master in a small town called Sleepy Hollow. He was greatly amazed by the tale of a ghost called The headless Horseman . It was a ghost that roamed the small valley of Sleepy Hollow. Then ... was tall and very skinny with narrow shoulders and very long arms and legs. His head was small and flattened on top. He had huge ears, large green eyes and a long snipe nose. His school house was a low building of one large room. It was made of logs. The sounds of children s low voices could be heard on drowsy summer days, like the sound of bees in their beehive. After school hours, he would be the companion of the older boys. He would spent long Winter evenings with the old Dutch wives. He used to listen to their stories. He was interested in the legend ...
- 2007: A Lesson Before Dying 2
- ... that he is truly a good person, and that he should die with his head up, knowing that he led a worthy and honest life. Mr. Wiggins changed greatly through the story, from a cold school teacher to an open hearted and caring man. This helped his relationship with others as well as Jefferson. Through his changing, he became the one man that Jefferson could trust. In a rural town in ... jury. His defense lawyer, in an attempt to ward off the death sentence, labels him a "hog"--and it is this label that Jefferson's godmother wants disproved. She enlists the help of a plantation school teacher, Grant Wiggins, who at first isn t too keen on the idea of helping a crook. Wiggins agrees to talk with Jefferson only out of a sense of duty--he is an unhappy, angry man who dreamt of escape from his deprived childhood yet returned to his hometown after a university education to teach in the same one-room parish school he attended. Despite humiliation at the hands of the white sheriff, Jefferson's lack of cooperation, and his own sense of futility and uncertain faith, Wiggins forges a bond with Jefferson that leads to ...
- 2008: Cinema Paradiso
- ... with Alfredo, that all children need parents to guide and support them to adulthood. The absence of parental guidance in Toto’s life has been a reoccurring theme throughout the film. While he goes to school all day, he spends his nights with Alfredo in the projection booth. Although Toto’s mother is still alive she is unable to provide him with the male role model that every small boy needs ... At the new opening of the Paradiso Alfredo shows up to celebrate Toto’s new job as the projectionist. Instead of talking about films or the stars that act in them, Alfredo asks Toto about school, which demonstrates his “father-like” role. He says to Toto, “I know now that I’ve lost my sight…I see better.” As Alfredo says this, he touches the face of Toto, as if he ... Its as is Alfredo watched Toto grow old into adulthood without even watching just as a father would. Toto begins to find interest in the opposite sex when he sees a new girl in his school. Toto and Alfredo’s talks take a turn towards women and love. Something that most fathers talk about with their sons. Alfredo tells Toto the story of a solider who falls in love with ...
- 2009: Character Change Brought On By
- ... M. as he eats the yam, "You right, but everything what looks good ain't necessarily good," he said. "But these is." (Ellison 264) For I.M. this is nothing but the absolute truth. The school and the founder and Bledsoe, who all seemed to be nothing but the good were all masks of deception. I.M.'s yam however is good. It reminds him of who he is and where he came from. It also makes him think of the people at the school collectively. Stating how he would like to smear the faces of his school mates with the peel of his yam, he also show how they would react to simply being confronted with a stereotype that was actually true. What a group of people we were, I though. ...
- 2010: Chinese Music
- ... earlier provincial forms. During the first half of the 20th century Chinese music was considerably influenced by the music of the West. Three major schools of thought arose in response to this influence. The first school aimed at reviving the old thousand-piece orchestras that once delighted ancient princes and sages and resisted the influence of Western music. The second school concerned itself almost exclusively with Western music. The last school of Chinese music took great pride in traditional Chinese musical culture but did not hesitate to apply it to Western techniques of composition and performance. During the 1950s Western influence penetrated Chinese music to ...
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