As far back as the middle ages, women has been involved in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. ... In grade school, middle school and high school, boys and girls all take the same science and math classes in equal numbers and girls are just as prepared as boys to pursue a successful college career in mathematics, science and technology. ... According to some researchers it has been discovered that because of the mindset that society has imbedded in young girl's mind, most of them lost interest in math and science at a very young age. ...

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We were attacked on September 11th and also in the years beforehand from many Middle Eastern countries. ... Sharbat is said to be in her late twenties, even early thirties and already her skin is aged and worn. ... I considered it almost as high as Christianity from as much as we hear of it in the news. ... The cultural conflict in the Middle East involves warfare on an almost constant level and the ability that the people have to have freedom of thought or political reasoning is the lowest possible allowance. ...

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Boundaries of parts of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa had to be redrawn on maps. ... Half of the males between the ages of eighteen and thirty-two were killed in the fighting. ... High unemployment and soaring inflation caused terrible hardships. ...

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Joseph Heller was born on May 1, 1923 to Russian immigrant parents and from an early age aspired to be a writer. ... It was also challenged by Dallas, Texas, Independent School District high school libraries in 1974 and in Snoqualmie, Washington in 1979. ... The novel could be read be students, probably starting in middle school. ...

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Born on May 8, 1884, in Lamar, Missouri, truman had no middle name. When asked, his parents said they gave him the middle initial "S" to appease two family relatives. At age six, his family modeled thick glasses to correct his poor eyesight. In 1901, Truman graduated from high school, uncertain of his future. ... Deciding not to run again, he retired at age 88, and died December 26, 1972 after a stubborn fight for life. ...

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The soldiers who have just enlisted in the army together are all younger than twenty years of age, but to themselves and other recruits, they describe themselves as seasoned veterans. ... The mud flies high, fragments whizz past. ... The soldiers are even sometimes wakened in the middle of the night to unexpected attacks as in the one explained by Paul, We wake up in the middle of the night. ... The soldiers are often enlisted at very young ages and sent in to live amongst people they hardly know at the beginning. ... Soldiers are forced to put their future on hold when they are in the arm...

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The modern woman opposed, cutting the skirt's length and adding silk stockings and hats that cover the hair, also introducing high heels to accommodate the new fashion. ... Although these appliances were initially targeted at an upper class, they changed the life of the house working middle-class wife forever. ... Influenced by the wild American Jazz Age, many dance halls were made. ...

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However, the high amounts of production did not mean farmers would become wealthy. ... Money was distributed between the rich and the middle-class, between industry and agriculture within the United States, and between the U.S. and Europe. ... The excessive speculation in the late 1920's kept the stock market artificially high, but eventually lead to large market crashes. ... The large and growing disparity of wealth between the rich and the middle-income citizens made the U.S. economy unstable. ... Mussolini's political views as a young a young gentlemen were almost completely oppo...

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Raised in an upper middle class upbringing, his father was a physician and his mother had trained as a singer. ... When Ernest graduated High School, his uncle helped him land a job as a reporter on the Kansas City Star. ... Besides high blood pressure, he was treated for depression at the Mayo Clinic. ... The economy was in total collapse, unemployment hit 25%, and inflation was high. ... Known as court packing, FDR submitted a proposal to force mandatory retirement on any Justice over a certain age and to expand the size of the Supreme Court from 9 to 15. ...

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Woman's Struggle for Independence Women have had to fight for there independence. They have been look down on for a long period of history. Only recently have women started to gain respect as equals and individuals. Even today women are still looked down upon for there sex. From the...

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At age 19 he was kidnapped by the North Korean army and forced to fight for the greater good. ... I wish he was still alive, oh how I wish he could have seen me graduate middle school and see me graduate high school as well as all the achievements that I had conquered. ...

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The developments included lexical, phonetic, spelling, semantic and syntactic changes and they caused languages perceived as high-status to spread and stabilise at the expense of low-status languages. ... The impact of the overseas involvement of the military on the English language was already evident by 1914, which had remarkable differences with the English of the Elizabethan age. ... The influence was mainly from interactions by soldiers both on the Western Front as well as the in the Middle East campaign. ... Depending on factors such as their country, region, education level, occupation...

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Philip Caputo, born in Chicago in 1941, went into the Marine Corps straight out of high school. ... Caputo first landed in Da Nang in 1965 and was still as intrigued with war as he was at age 24. ... Caputo was not very thrilled about his switch, but he went with his head held high. ... A lot of the kids in the war came straight from high school and had not even begun to live their lives. ... The first was when Caputo was ordered to leave dead bodies in the middle of the road so everyone could get used to seeing them...

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The Act for a period excluded people between the age of 18 and 21 and people who went to college. As this largely applied to the middle and upper class white section of society, this was seen as a deliberate act to fill the army with the lower classes and black people. ... Their rights were not very good and segregation was still riding high in America. ...

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The United States and its allies may possible attack Iraq any minute from now, The prospect of peace in the Middle East is in its lowest ebb ever, India and Pakistan are threatening each other. ... The continued use of or threat of the use of force by nuclear states and the proliferation of wars among non-nuclear powers prevents us from concluding that major war is obsolete in the nuclear age. ... Parallels have been drawn between our own age and the periods preceding other great wars, particularly World War I. ...

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The Education Act of 1870 made elementary education compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 13. ... To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. ... His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him the explorer of the transition of lives and minds from the age of traditional values and religious certa...

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He lived in an old house, in the middle of the village, with one room and two windows, he also was able to attend a nearby school. At aged 10 young Georgi was sent to Moscow to find work with his uncle as an apprentice furrier and found the working conditions severely harsh under the Czarist autocracy. ... He arrived to find that the Kwantung Army had secured some vital high ground and quickly concluded his need for reinforcements. ...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...

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For instance, Aids harrows far into the middle-class and aggressive minorities are craving their conception of the world in educational system, where Japanese electronics and Japanese cars triumphs and the saving banks are going bankrupt, where the war of the Gulf discloses an evident cynicism. ... Democracy would appear to have grown critically dependent on the resources needed to keep the high rates of production, which are necessary for maintaining a high standard of living. ...

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After his birth in 1894, Cummings grew up as an intellectual and at age seventeen attended Harvard, where his father was a professor. At a young age, Cummings graduated with his masters and traveled the world, and began to observe the world in a way that would later profoundly impact his writing. ... Most importantly, the poem foreshadows his later poems, which put love on a pedestal, high above the power of conflict, or anything else on earth. ...

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