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High School Essays and Term Papers
A Bus StoryWR115
4/13/99
During the entire three years in high school, the bus always was my main transportation. I needed to take it to school and take it home. If you wanted to count how many times I took the bus, it would definitely be plenty. Therefore, I had many different experiences on the bus. ...
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Marie Curie And Her Discovery Of Radium And PoloniumMarie Curie was born Manya Sklodowska on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland. Her mother was the director of a boarding school for girls. Her father was a professor of physics and math at a high school in Warsaw. Manya was the youngest of her brother and three sisters. Her brother’s name was ...
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Egypt 2Egypt is a Middle Eastern country located in the northeast corner of Africa. A small part of Egypt, called the Sinai Peninsula, is located in Asia. Deserts cover most of Egypt, so it gets little rain, but the longest river in the world, the Nile River, flows through the desert and is key to ...
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Stay Tuned: The Exploitation Of Children In Television AdvertisementsAcross America in the homes of the rich, the not-so-rich, and in
poverty-stricken homes and tenements, as well as in schools and businesses,
sits advertisers' mass marketing tool, the television, usurping freedoms from
children and their parents and changing American culture. Virtually an ...
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Learning CPRImagine yourself sitting with your family, enjoying a nice Sunday dinner. You notice that one of your family relatives starts to look pale. He begins to sweat and starts to breathe rapidly. Moments later he collapses on the dinner table. His heart has stopped and he has stopped breathing. He ...
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Michael Jordan: King Of The CourtWhen I began my report I didn’t know much about Michael Jordan, but I did know that he was “undoubtedly the greatest player in the history of the NBA” (“Michael Air Jordan” 1). It seemed like every time I heard the word basketball I also heard the name Michael ...
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Education HistoryWhat factors in society ended sectarianism in schools, and made them secular?
Probably no single movement so greatly affected colonial America as the Protestant Reformation. Most of the Europeans who came to America were Protestants, but there were many denominations. Lutherans from Germany and ...
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Appearance Is Everything. The saying could be the foundation for a religious cult among American teens. Movies, music, and tv commercials create an Orwellian world where everyone think, acts, and looks the same. The youth of American is presently being exploited by large corporations that use tactful methods to get teens ...
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Tinker Vs. Des Moines1. On a cold, brisk December morning in 1965 five students, and their
parents of Des Moines high school made an extremely poor decision by
wearing dark, filthy black, inappropriate material representing non-
existent peace in a thriving nation. Earlier that week the principal of the
high school ...
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Three Ways To End Racial DiscriminationArlington Texas' Sam Houston High School student body in 1998 was 67.1% minority and spoke 42 different languages (Smith). A 1991study shows 64% of people 18 to 29 approving of interracial marriages, compared to only 27% of people 50 or older (www.strang). This rise of diversity in the school ...
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Going To College As A FreshmenWhen selecting a college that is right for you, there are many decisions one must make. For many first time students, attending college can be severely mind boggling and frustrating, though at the same time can be an enjoyable experience. Going to college and making the right decisions are ...
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Censorship Of Books: Freedom Of What??
The denotative meaning of censorship is the examination of books,
letters, movies, etc. and the removal of anything thought not right for the
people to see or hear. In other words, censorship takes away the right of
the individual to decide what is appropriate for them to see or hear. ...
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The Glass Menagerie 2Amanda, Tom, and Laura lived in a small cramped apartment in St. Louis. Amanda harasses Tom about going out to the movies every night and reminds Laura to stay fresh and pretty for gentleman callers. When Amanda discovers that Laura has not been going to her business classes, she begins to panic ...
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Career As A Military OfficerDefinition: A military officer, a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, is responsible for the protection of
U.S. citizens. This is a broad responsibility however and each officer has a distinct role that (s) he plays in the maintenance of national defense. As a member of the military, an officer ...
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Graduation 1999Its almost time and I still can not get this tie to look right. Its the big night of my life and I am standing here messing with my tie. This is the night that you have looked forward to ever since pre-school. Back then you could not wait to throw on that cap and gown, but now your almost ...
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Almost A WomanIn the autobiography by Esmeralda Santiago, there are many cultural differences. She feels alienated from the rest of the people in New York or the United States, for that matter. When Esmeralda was thirteen she moved to New York with her family from Puerto Rico. She did not know a word of ...
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Let's Really Reform Our SchoolsIn her essay, "," Anita Garland suggests several controversial changes in the way high schools are run, such as banning troublemakers from class and requiring students to wear uniforms. I agree with Garland that troublemakers should be banned from the traditional high school. When I was in ...
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College CostsIntroduction
It's no secret that financing a college education is getting
tougher. have skyrocketed over the past decade or so, and there's
no relief in sight. Average tuition at four-year colleges will increase 7
percent this school year, double the rate of inflation. Student aid is ...
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Savage Inequalities: Conditions Of Poor SchoolsIn Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol documents the devastating inequalities in American schools, focusing on public education’s “savage inequalities” between affluent districts and poor districts. From 1988 till 1990, Kozol visited schools in over thirty neighborhoods, including East St. ...
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Demanding Greatness: Steroid UseThesis Statement: Over time, steroids have increased in popularity and have turned their
hosts into addicts leaving them pumped and with many diseases which could’ve been
prevented if they would’ve just trained more than doped up.
Sports have turned into a business for most athletes. “Today, ...
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