the note-taking HOW CHILDREN FAIL (by John Holt‚ Pitman‚ 1965) 1. Most children in school fail. - Close to 40% of pupil who dropout before they finish in high school. - Be push up through the grades and out of the schools without caring if they know anything or not. - ’Raise our standards’ much higher‚ classrooms will bulge with kids who can’t pass the test to get into the next class. - Excepting a good handful student‚ they fail to develop the tremend-ous capacity for
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in the history books. The king was impressed with what Peevalu had to say‚ and because of this‚ Peevalu was given the crown to the kingdom. Two days after peevalu became king‚ the former king died. Peevalu controlled an entire country‚ and what he did first truly showed what he was
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I strongly believe that Morris‚ Allen West‚ and Clarence and John Anglin did escape and survive Alcatraz also known as "The Rock". I can see what circumstances lead them to attempt an escape from The Rock. The story shows the environment they were in. Alcatraz was on a 22 acre island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. Many inmates had attempted an escape but none were successful. Due to the freezing temperatures of the ocean they had died of hypothermia‚ They had grown‚ or eaten by the sharks
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Germanic tribes or the barbarians. The Barbarians were a warrior people and “pressed on the Roman empire with accumulated weight”; however‚ it was not because they were at war but for sport. Since fighting in the barbarian culture was something they did for fun‚ they would get in a lot of battles with the Romans to keep them entertained. This contributed to the fall of Rome because all the extensive military pressure from the barbarian would
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this 8-year struggle of survival. The three main reasons are he survived by drinking out of a hollowed out horse leg‚ he befriended his captors‚ and he did a life-saving operation on a Native American. The first reason Cabeza was able to survive was that he survived by drinking out
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Have you ever wondered what the what the main causes for Rome’s collapse? Multiple Roman historians believe Rome’s declining empire was caused by military weakness‚ legal justice/lack of trust‚ followed by political instability. Rome began as a sparsely populated western town in 750 BCE that was rarely known by any large empire such as Greece. Then at it’s height; it expanded‚ covering most of the Mediterranean‚ a small part of Africa‚ Asia‚ and Europe. After defeating many threats; the Romans began
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could divide their loyalty between their country and their religion. 39% of the German population were catholic‚ mainly in the southern states of the country. These southern states were the most reluctant to unify as a nation as the catholic population did not want to unite with the 61% protestant north population. This was also the same with other smaller minorities which included the growing polish population and the French in the Ruhr and Alsace-Lorraine area. The KulturKampf was therefore introduced
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50 out of 102 pilgrims died. The Wampanoag tribe already lived there. What if the colonists did not arrive in Massachusetts? They shared knowledge of the local crops and helped the pilgrims survive. John Smith made up a rule “if you don’t work you don’t eat”. It wasn’t easy for the new travelers. At first they didn’t know how to cook‚ plant crops
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“The Olympics damage from HMS did not exceed 125‚000” (SuperDuperFacts) They didn’t want to collect the insurance money off the Olympic because it wasn’t a lot and they wanted the millions of dollars from the
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In the article Serve or Fail by David Eggers points out that colleges should make volunteering as a graduation requirement for their students. In his article he mentions that many high schools and very few colleges had volunteering as a requirement. He starts his article by pointing out all the wasted college days he had in his college days where he could have used to volunteer for an organization‚ but he mentions as well about the times he volunteered. Eggers also points out that "College students
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