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  • John Bates Clark John Bates Clark
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    John Bates Clark John Bates Clark was an American economist who lived from 1847-1938. He played an important role in the development of marginal productivity, and had a great influence on the development of economic thought in the United States. Clark was educated at Amherst College and at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He taught at Carlton College in Northfield, Minnesota from 1875 to 1881. He then moved on to teach at Smith College, Amherst, Johns Hopkins and Columbia from which he r...
  • Way With The Lewis And Clarke Expedition
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    Go west, young lady Edward S Curtis: Coming to Light Anne Makepeace 216 pp, National Geographic Sacagawea's Nickname Larry McMurtry 178 pp, NYR B I Dwell in Possibility Donna M Lucey 256 pp, National Geographic Phoebe Ann Mosey doesn't figure in I Dwell in Possibility, a history of women who built the United States: no mugshot, no mention, not even under her arena name of Annie Oakley. Likewise left out is Sacagawea, or however you spelled her Shoshone name; she bore a son and carried him on her...
  • Sacajawea The Shoshoni
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    Sacajawea (Bird Woman) The Shoshoni (also Shoshone) lived in Idaho, parts of Utah and parts of Northern Nevada, and it is believed that Sacajawea was born in Eastern Idaho in what is now Salmon, Idaho. Everything about Sacajawea is mysterious from the correct spelling and meaning of her name, to the circumstances surrounding her death. Some of what we do have recorded is relayed here. At about age 10, Sacajawea was captured by a raiding band of Hidatsa and carried to their camp near the border o...
  • Smallville And Clark Kent
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    Smallville vs. other Superman series Man, throughout the ages, has looked to the stars with great amusement and curiosity. Wondrous stories are born of these magical, glimmering specs in the sky. Stories of tragedy, magic and heroism. These stories entertain and more, they give us hope. A tale of the stars like no other is the one of Superman, protector of planet Earth. As said by the Superman stories, Clark Kent was discovered by Martha and Jonathan Kent shortly after a meteor shower hit the to...
  • Park In Memory Of George Rogers Clark
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    George Rogers Clark George Rogers Clark was a famous war hero who commanded important victories over the British troops in the Northwest territories during the American Revolution. In the year of 1752, a boy named George Rogers Clark was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. No one would have guessed that he would someday be a hero like his brother William Clark. William Clark received most of the attention from the "Lewis and Clark expedition". At an early age George Rogers had a dream of becoming...
  • John And Beverly Clark
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    You expect a 'comedy' to tickle your funny bone so you can walk out chuckling. Yes, Shall We Dance does raise laughs. But - it also raises some interesting questions. The DVD says it's 'A New Comedy About Following Your Own Lead' and a pun like that is bound to appeal to the individualistic age we are supposed to be living in. It does indeed - and yet, what is happiness and contentment? Is it a lovely, loving and loved spouse and all the trappings of a comfortable settled life? Can there be a se...
  • Aunt Jody And Uncle Clark
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    By: Skeet Peter D'Angelo English 12, Period 6 October 18, 1999 Dear Brother, Hello, how are you doing? How are things in Detroit? I hope that living with Aunt Maggie has been good for you. Aunt Jody and Uncle Clark treated me like a grownup. They gave me a hundred chores and were very hard on me. I did not like my situation in Greenwood with Aunt Jody and Uncle Clark. They made me sleep in a room where a boy once died. Words cannot describe the fear of an encounter with the boy's ghost. Every ni...
  • Clark's Decision
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    Lean on me is a good film especially for school administrators and people who are thinking of becoming an administrator some day. It gives us a lot of insight in handling different challenges faced by administrators. There were a couple of interesting points that struck me while watching the movie. I especially liked the line at the start of the movie - "Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm". This line is very true. It doesn't mean that when discipline is established in school, the students...
  • East Side High School
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    East Side High School was labeled a "cauldron of violence". After they were designated this harsh term, Joe Clark becomes the head principal and changes it all around - or does he? Lean on Me is a story of hope, development, love, hate, and dependence. As a father figure and friend, Clark's strict disciplining and harsh attitude helps heal, strengthen, and bring to life a struggling high school in New Jersey. But is this plot just a story for the movie screen? Did the true story really happen li...
  • Last Major Event In Clarke's Early Life
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    Arthur C. Clarke was born in 1917 in Minehead, Somerset. His mother was Nora Clarke and his father was Charles Wright Clarke. He had two brothers, Frederick and Michael and one sister, Mary. There were many events that helped to shape him and his writing style. The first major event in his early life was his first plane ride. He went on a Avro 504 biplane with his mother in 1927, this ride remained in his mind forever, and as he progressed as a writer it fueled his science fiction from jet-plane...
  • One Thing Mary Higgins Clark
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    You Belong to Me is Mary Higgins Clark's fifteenth novel. It is about a young clinical psychologist named Dr. Susan Chandler who hosts a radio talk show. One day the topic of the show is lonely women who disappear and who are later discovered dead. She brings up one specific case of a lady named Regina Clausen. Another lady calls in the show and says she might have some information that might be useful to the case, but she wants to remain anonymous. Dr. Chandler tries to arrange a meeting with h...
  • Ohio Theater
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    While we receive many nominations for the Columbus Senior Musicians Hall of Fame, most are for individuals well known to us, either as performers or educators (or both). Such is not the case for John Delaney Clark, though maybe it should be. Clark was born march 19, 1892, in Bolivar, New York, and graduated from New Lexington (Ohio) High School in 1909, having already gained recognition for his skills as a violinist and valve-trombonist (not to mention as semi-pro basketball player). He had been...
  • Story Of High School Principal Joe Clark
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    "Lean on Me" tells the story of Joe Clark, a tough disciplinarian hired to run the worst school in Paterson, New Jersey. To make sure his students would pass a basic proficiency exam, Clark resorted to what some felt were questionable methods, including wandering the halls threateningly with a baseball bat, to restore order to his school. The film chronicles these extreme tactics, but it also shows Clark's success, which resulted in the school remaining under the town's jurisdiction rather than ...
  • Mr Joe Louis Clark
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    Lean On Me is based on a true story of a principal at Eastside High, a multicultural school in New Jersey. In the beginning of the movie, Mr. Joe Louis Clark (portrayed by Morgan Freeman) is an assertive strong willed teacher who takes pride in his work and his school. Due to unexpected school board budget cuts, Mr. Clark is forced to make decisions about his future at Eastside High. He leaves and goes to an elementary school. Unfortunately, Eastside High takes an unexpected turn for the worst. ...
  • Westward Expansion The Lewis And Clark Expedition
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    The Westward Expansion The Lewis and Clark Expedition was one of the most exciting times in the history of the United States. In 1804-06, Louis and Clark carried the destiny of our young nation westward from the Mississippi across thousands of miles of rugged unknown land to the Pacific Ocean. This great accomplishment sparked the imagination of the American people and made them feel the need to explore more of the continent on which they lived. Lewis and Clark accepted the challenges, and paved...
  • Millennium Since Mr Clarke's Superior Civilization Lives
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    THE GARDEN OF RAMA (Bantam, $20) by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee is the third in a series of novels that began in 1973 with Mr. Clarke's "Rendezvous With Rama. ' The original Rama was a massive cylindrical spaceship that blundered into our solar system and allowed itself to be searched by human explorers before blasting off again into interstellar space. Although its level of technology was far superior to anything on Earth, Rama was otherwise an enigma; there was no sign on board of its crea...

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