Howard Zinn and Paul Johnson Howard Zinn‚ born August 24‚ 1922‚ grew up in the slums of New York City. He recalls moving around a lot as his father ran candy stores during the Depression. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School and became a pipe fitter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It was here that he met his wife‚ Roslyn Shechter. Zinn was a revolutionary and an activist. He spent his early life organizing labor rallies and participating in marches for civil rights. In 1943‚ Zinn joined
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The Outsiders slang vocabulary 1)corvair-A popular sports car in the 60’s. Ex: I about decided I didn’t like it so much though I spotted a red corvair trailing me. Page # 4 2)Hood- A person that is gong that gets in trouble in their own way. Ex-greasers are almost like hoods. Page # 3 3)Tuff-cool or sharp. Ex-Like a tuff looking mustang or a tuff record. Page #12 4)Rumble-To fight between groups of people. Ex-A rumble is sometimes born out of a grudge fight. Page # 11 5)Hacked off-
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Howard Gardner‚ Multiple Intelligences Who knew that a young boy born in 1943 in Scranton‚ PA‚ would become one of the main well known theorists in today’s society (Multiple Intelligences‚ 2002). Growing up‚ Howard‚ really enjoyed being studious and doing well in school‚ however‚ he enjoyed playing piano the most. He claims that music has always been a very important aspect in his life. Majoring as a developmental psychologist and neuropsychology‚ Gardner started his research towards what is today
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making this idea a success in my educational endeavors. The use of my Intrapersonal‚ emotional and personality type of intelligence will help me in determining different areas of intelligence that will more important to me. The theories of Jung and Howard Gardner have made a great impact in the life of many scholars and families. Jung’s theories indicate the 16 personality types of learning styles. These styles are generated from the combinations of 8 different psychological types. Jung theory
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Johnny Cade‚ “the little Dark puppy that was kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers‚” as Ponyboy‚ Johnny’s friend‚ states in page eleven. In the novel‚ The Outsiders‚ by Susan Eloise Hinton‚ Johnny Cade is a character who goes through resilient phases in his life. Some phases are on how he created his inflection points‚ his inflection points‚ and the ramifications. Johnny is doubtless the first one‚ and one to have the most‚ to have a tremendous crisis then the other characters
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Have you ever been an outcast? In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ there is a stereotypical fight between gangs called the Socs and the Greasers in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma. There is one person in the story that stands out named Dallas Winston. Dally Winston is round character that shows many sides of himself throughout the course of the story. One of the conflicts that Dally deals with is a man versus man conflict when the only person that he loves and cares about dies. Some ways that this character can be
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The plot in the movie and the novel had many differences. The exposition is one of the differences that made the movie confusing. Instead of Ponyboy leaving the movie house and getting jumped by the Socs‚ he starts to write The Outsiders. It was a huge mistake for Francis Coppola to leave this out because the exposition in the book involved a significant event‚ where the Socs showed the violent relationship they have between the Greasers. Another difference is When Cherry explains to Ponyboy that
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“Ponyboy‚ listen don’t get tough. You’re not like the rest of us and don’t try to be…”-Two-bit Matthews Page 171. The Outsiders is a novel written by S.E Hinton in the 1960’s‚ the novel is based on a true story. The story is about Ponyboy‚ a teenager that belongs in the gang called Greasers. There is another gang that opposes the Greasers called the Socs. The two gangs live in two sides of Oklahoma‚ the Greasers being in the east‚ and the Socs being in the west. The Socs and the Greasers often fight
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Have you ever been in an argument where both sides make sense and the conclusion to it all just depends on the evidence provided? Well‚ in the young-adult fiction novel‚ The Outsiders‚ by S.E. Hinton‚ there is the argument of whether a boy named Ponyboy should stay with his older brother Darry or go into the system. Ponyboy should stay with darry for multiple reasons. For example‚ Darry cares very deeply about Ponyboy‚ and he makes certain Ponyboy gets all his work done for school and succeeds.
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Howard Schultz Howard Schultz (born July 19‚ 1953) is an American business magnate. He is the best known as the chairman and CEO[2] of Starbucks and a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics. Schultz co-founded Maveron‚ an investment group‚ in 1998 with Dan Levitan. In 2006‚ Forbes magazine ranked Schultz as the 354th richest person in the United States‚ with a net worth of $1.1 billion Biography Howard Schultz was born to a German-Jewish family on July 19‚ 1953 in Brooklyn‚ New York‚ the son
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