After a summer healing (translation: eating vast amounts of Cool Ranch Doritos and binging ballet videos on YouTube), she is forced to trade her pre-professional dance classes for normal high school, where she reluctantly joins the school musical. However, rehearsals offer more than she expecte...
【即景活用】 单句语法填空 Bob made good grades in high school, and that was in ___ (he) when he looked for a job. 答案:his favour ①The teacher is often referred to as the engineer of human soul. 教师常被称为人类灵魂的工程师。 ②He referred to his father as his bes...
CHAPTER ONE“He Received Every New Idea as Perfectly Beautiful ”I was an unctuous, repulsively good little boy.ROBERT OPPENHEIMERIN THE FIRST DECADE of the twentieth century, science initiated a second American revolution. A nation on horseback was soon transformed by the internal combustion engine...
Race riots in schools would be a national scandal—except that too much attention to them would invite an obvious solu- tion: segregation. I would predict a sig- nificant improvement in grades if blacks and Hispanics were kept apart from each other once they reached middle school, but the ...
Growing up in a low-income household I took pride in stretching a dollar. I grew used to thrifted clothes (before they were cool) and discount grocery stores. My parents put so much weight on my education as if my grades could save me from the systemic racism I would face. My awarenes...
don’t do that. I don’t think you will be able to make it.” The shame about it is, knowing my grades, I could understand why she would say something like that. I never saw my future where I would be talking to large audiences, writing scholarly research papers, and...
Baxter:We didn’t get permission to use the Golf Channel footage. We knew that if we asked them for it, they wouldn’t give it to us, because Donald Trump has editorial control over the programs. We consulted our lawyers and decided to use it under Fair Use. However, we just got a...
that race and sex preferences be eliminated; only that the schools correct their false advertising by including in their applications tables of race, grades, and test scores of people previously admitted. [William Honan, Preference in admission is attacked in fraud suit, NYT, 6/7/95, p. B8...
Psychology etc. It was quite a load. The classes were rigidly structured for the first 4 years. You couldn't choose individual classes like you could here in America. However the last two years you were allowed to elect "individual sudy" and finally choose what to take and when. It made...
I was worried to that degree my pipe had no comfort for me. But Billy came; and it was like a Catholic priest striking peace in an Irish shindy. Not that he preached to them or said or did anything in particular; but a virtue went out of him, sugaring the sour ones. They took ...