Hundred Schools of Thought

A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, is a fictional novel about a boy named Gene Forrester and his life at the Devon Private School, during the early 1940’s. Gene faces many challenges and hardships throughout the book, one being the war. The war ends up taking over life at Devon, starting with the boys picking apples for the war effort, then Leper Lepellier enlisting, and eventually the troops moving in, and dominating life at Devon. The war slowly starts influencing life at Devon, starting with…

with hundreds of other philosophical schools, legalism emerged during the Warring States Period (453-422 BC), a time of intense political and intellectual turmoil. Unlike other schools of thought, legalism defined the strength of the state, through a system of punishments and rewards, propagated by common laws. Neither concerning itself with Confucian idealization of the past, or the morality of man, legalisms pragmatic system of governance, as best defined by Han Fei Zi, ended the hundreds of…

The Dark Age of Sign Language In the 1800’s many schools around the world were being built for deaf education. Many Deaf activists studied the deaf in many countries to establish schools. A few of the people are Thomas Gallaudet, and Charles Michel de l’Epee’. They were men who helped teach and create sign language to the deaf community. During these times there were deaf politicians, artists, lawyers, educators, and excetera who used sign language and became successful. Later on after 1880…

very afraid. The book says on page one hundred that, “Every time I thought of it…

Are you aware that only 63.9 percent of people who had graduated from high school the previous spring had enrolled in college? The choice to go to college should be left up to the teen if they would like to go or if they would like to doing something different with their life after high school. There are many different options for teens to pick what they want to do. There are three main reasons why teens should not be required to go to college. One of the three reasons why is that there are…

They both had jobs like most students now. They had plans for prom and stressed over the one night like most other students during their senior year in high school. These facts make the fact that they were killers more frightening than it should have been. During the days at school you sit in classrooms filled with students that fit the exact same categories these two fit in and really shows that you never truly know that person. In that same stance it also makes their…

Midwest. Places such as Nebraska, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota were covered with thick blankets of icy snow. Many were forced to suffer through frigid temperatures and grueling circumstances. The horrific blizzard killed more than four hundred people, kept thousands stranded with nowhere to go and left an entire nation in a state of distress. The death toll from the blizzard was much higher than what would have normally been expected. The high number of deaths was due to the lack of…

The number of illegal aliens in the United States is rising at an alarming rate. In 2012 the United States Department of Homeland Security estimated that 11.4 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the United States 1. In a recent interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe news program on July 24 2015 Donald Trump said, “I am now hearing it is 30 million, it could be 34 million, which is a much bigger problem. 2” If the numbers Donald Trump suggests are even close, the impact to the United…

that most students have about grades. “In fact, students would be a lot better off without either of these relics from a less enlightened age” (Kohn, 2011) Kohn writes. I agree with Kohn’s position in this article because there were many days in high school where I remember skipping due to the fact that I didn’t fully understand what was being taught to me. I, in turn, grew anxious about not being good enough and started failing. Growing up in a strict German household, I was taught to be…

and demonstrated a lack of respect towards the First Nations. At the time, the Prime Ministers plan was to assimilate the Indigenous people and their culture. This progressed on for nearly five hundred years where there was the concept of Imperialism, The implementation of the Indian Act, residential schools and…