... hours to its causes and goals. List five of your significant high school and/or leadership experiences and briefly describe your contributions to one of them. Beta Club I served as the Vice-President for my high school's Beta Club and led a group of about seventy students that were highly motivated academically and directed several major projects that benefitted the Middle Georgia area. I was the ... events should bring a sense of diversity to students in letting them experience something they normally do not. At my high school, I was President of the Spanish club and I worked along sid...

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... support of my husband and his nearby family while I attended school. I started out on my quest with some success, making straight A's in my classes and received an invitation to the Beta Club. After the second semester, my ability to attend classes began to falter as my support system progressively weakened. My husband accepted a job offer that required him to work out of ... ...

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... -interaction, something that modern society conceives of as a throwback to unenlightened times. "Beneath them lay the buildings of the Golf Club-the huge Lower Caste barracks and, on the other side of a dividing wall, the smaller houses reserved for Alpha and Beta members." (73) Indeed our public education system is a tribute to a more enlightened view of society. Free education is the means ... ...

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... California State Senate. Kennedy attended a local Sacramento high school and Stanford University. He spent a year of his undergraduate studies at the London School of Economics and earned his A.B. and a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1958. Prof. Robert A. Horn, now emeritus, who taught Mr. Kennedy's constitutional law, remembers him as "extremely intelligent" and scholarly even as an undergraduate. "He was conservative but ... also a graduate of Stanford Law School. Off the bench, the judge is an avid reader of history and classic literature, such as Shakespeare, and occasionally plays golf at a...

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... graduate this college in recent years. She won the scholarship prize as freshman; she was elected Sigma Chi Sorority; was a Sophia Smith Scholar in 1939-40; was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her senior year and won the Alumni Fellowship. During her sophomore year of college, she was hospitalized because of a collapsed lung, but Friedan still finished the year with ... ask even of herself the silent question " Is this all?' The book received mixed reviews. Life magazine said the book was "as disruptive of cocktail party conversation and women's club discussions as a tear-gas bomb. Its aut...

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