Where Did JFK Go to School

John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, attended  several prestigious private schools throughout his childhood. Starting his education in Massachusetts, President Kennedy went on to attend some of the top educational institutions in the country.   Massachusetts Elementary School Years Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917, JFK attended the local public school, the Edward Devotion School, from his kindergarten year in 1922 until the beginning of third grade. Some historical records state he left earlier, though school records show that he studied there until third grade. He suffered from occasional poor health, partly as a result of having had scarlet fever, which was potentially fatal in those days. Even after recovering, he suffered from mysterious and poorly understood illnesses for a lot of his childhood and adult life. After apparently starting third grade at the Edward Devotion School, Jack and his older brother, Joe, Jr., were transferred to  Noble and Greenough School,  a private school in Dedham, Massachusetts, in part because his mother, Rose Kennedy, had given birth to several more children, including a daughter named Rosemary, who was later recognized to be developmentally disabled. Rose felt that Jack and his older brother, Joe, were running wild, and that they needed the discipline Noble and Greenough could provide. At the time, the Kennedys were one of the few Irish families to attend the school; most were Protestant, and there were no or few Jews. After the lower school at Noble and Greenough was bought by developers, Joe Kennedy, Jack’s father, helped start a new school,  the Dexter School,  a boys’ school in Brookline, Massachusetts, that now educates children from preschool through 12th grade. While at Dexter, Jack became the pet of legendary headmistress Miss Fiske, who took him on a tour of the historical sites in Lexington and Concord. After a polio epidemic broke out, Rose, ever fearful for her children’s health, decided they needed a change, and the family moved to the financial capital of the country, New York. JFK’s New York Education After moving to New York, the Kennedys set up their house in Riverdale, an upscale section of the Bronx, where Kennedy attended  Riverdale Country School  from 5th through 7th grade. In 8th grade, in 1930, he was sent to  Canterbury School,  a Catholic boarding school founded in 1915 in New Milford, Connecticut. There, JFK assembled a mixed academic record, earning good marks in mathematics, English, and history (which was always his main academic interest), while failing Latin with a dismal 55. During the spring of his 8th grade year, JFK had an appendectomy and had to withdraw from Canterbury to recover. JFK at Choate: A Member of the â€Å"Muckers Club† For his high school years, starting in 1931, JFK eventually enrolled at  Choate,  a boarding and day school in Wallingford, Connecticut. His older brother, Joe, Jr., was also at Choate for JFK’s freshman and sophomore years. JFK tried to get out of Joe’s shadow, sometimes by carrying out pranks. While at Choate, JFK blew up a toilet seat with a firecracker. After this incident, headmaster George St. John held aloft the damaged toilet seat in the chapel  and referred to the perpetrators of this antic as â€Å"muckers.† Kennedy, ever a  joker, founded the â€Å"Muckers Club,† a social group that included his friends and partners-in-crime. In addition to being a prankster, JFK played football, basketball, and baseball at Choate, and he was the business manager of his senior yearbook. In his senior year, he was also voted â€Å"most likely to succeed.† According to his yearbook, he was 5’11† and weighed 155 pounds upon graduation, and his nicknames were recorded as â€Å"Jack† and â€Å"Ken.† Despite his achievements and popularity, during his years at Choate, he also suffered from continual health problems, and he was hospitalized at Yale and at other institutions for colitis and other problems. A note about the school’s name: In JFK’s day, the school was known simply as Choate. It became Choate Rosemary Hall when Choate merged with Rosemary Hall, a girls’ school, in 1971. Kennedy graduated from Choate in 1935 and went on to eventually attend Harvard after spending some time in London and at Princeton.​ Choate’s Influence on JFK There is no doubt that Choate left a significant impression on Kennedy, and the release of recent archival documents shows that this impression may have been greater than previously understood. Kennedy’s famous speech that includes the line â€Å"Ask not what your country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country† may have reflected a Choate headmaster’s words. Headmaster George St. John, who gave sermons that JFK attended, included similar words in his speeches. An archivist at Choate found one of St. John’s notebooks in which he wrote about a quote from a Harvard dean who said, â€Å"The youth who loves his Alma Mater will always ask, not ‘What can she do for me?’ but ‘What can I do for her?’† St. John was often heard to say, it’s not what Choate does for you, but what you can do for Choate, and Kennedy may have used this phrasing, adapted from his headmaster, in his famous inaugural address, delivered in January of 1961. Some historians, however, are critical of the idea that Kennedy would have lifted the quote from his former headmaster. In addition to this recently unearthed notebook kept by headmaster George St. John, Choate holds voluminous records related to JFK’s years at the school. The Choate Archives include about 500 letters, including correspondence between the Kennedy family and the school, and books and photos of JFK’s years at the school. JFK’s Academic Record and Harvard Application Kennedy’s academic record at Choate was unimpressive and placed him in the third quarter of his class. Kennedy’s application to Harvard and his transcript from Choate were less than spectacular. His transcript, released by the Kennedy Library, shows that JFK struggled in certain classes. He earned a mark of 62 in physics, though Kennedy earned a respectable 85 in history. On his application to Harvard, Kennedy noted that his interests lay in economics and history and that he â€Å"would like to go to the same college as my father.† Jack Kennedy, JFK’s father, wrote that â€Å"Jack has a very brilliant mind for the things in which he is interested, but is careless and lacks application in those in which he is not interested.† Perhaps JFK would not have met Harvard’s stringent admissions criteria today, but there is no doubt that, although he wasn’t always a serious student at Choate, the school played an important part in his formation. At Choate, he showed, even at age 17, some of the characteristics that would make him a charismatic and important president in later years: a sense of humor, a way with words, an interest in politics and history, a connection to others, and a spirit of perseverance in the face of his own suffering. Resources and Further Reading Finnegan, Leah. â€Å"Would JFK Get Into Harvard Today?† HuffPost News, 15 Jan. 2011.â€Å"JFKs Iconic Speech Inspired by Ex-Headmaster?† CBS News, 3 Nov. 2011. Article  edited by  Stacy Jagodowski

Short Story - 1651 Words

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Evaluation of the Evidence of Heat for Geology-myassignmenthelp

Question: Discuss about theEvaluation of the Evidence of Heat for Geology. Answer: Heat inside the earth and its origin are the two prime questions that forced researchers to conduct several experiments that can answer their question. This heat played a major role in shaping the environment and geology of the present-day earth (Huang at al., 2013). 4.54 billion years ago the conditions of earth were not the same like it is now, it has undergone several changes which has finally led to sustain life. The stabilization of earths temperature was possible due to the forces of nature or otherwise the forces of heat that altered earths outer geomorphology (Summerfield, 2014). The heat energy stored inside the earth is evident on the surface through the eruption of volcanoes, the violent earthquakes that represent the movement of the tectonic plates over the molten magma, the tsunamis that occur due to the movement of the oceanic plates, and the hot springs. All these natural forces are a sign that in the interior of the earth, there is a strong presence of an energy that is capable enough to both stabilize and destabilize the earths crust. Although, the heat energy is deep seeded in the interior of the earth, it travels to the surface through the conduction, convection and radiation (Modest, 2013). Fig 1: cross-section of earths interior [Source: Duffy, 2011] Heat energy flows a hot region to a cold region through radiation. Radiation is a process of heat transfer in which heat gets transferred through energy waves like infrared radiation and electromagnetic radiation. Both the forms of radiation do not involve matter to transfer the heat energy. As far as the inner core of earth is concerned, heat energy does not travel by radiation because it lacks the radioactive elements. A majority of the radioactive elements are preset in the earths crust and the mantle. The heat energy that emanates from the decay of the radioactive materials is called the radiogenic heat (Sato, Fehler Maeda, 2012). Thorium, uranium, and potassium are responsible for the majority of the radiogenic heat that is generated inside the earth. It is a debated fact that radiogenic heat generated in the mantle results in the convectional movement of the liquid mantle. Thus, radiation does not a big role in the transfer of heat energy from the core to the earth surface. De pending on the fact that core being made up of only nickel and iron which together is called the siderophile, does not conduct heat energy through radiation. This knowledge helps in the mining of the radioactive substances which is available both in the crust and the mantle. Radioactive elements on the other hand gives an added advantage in the medical research, treatment of several diseases, generation of thermal power (Chamorro et al., 2012). The heat energy in the inner core of earth is around 9000-degree Fahrenheit. The pressure inside the earths inner core is so huge that the metals get squeezed and are even not able to move in the liquid form (fig 1). However, this particular layer vibrates like a solid due to the intense pressure. While the outer core is a like a mass of hot metals in liquid state which is made up of nickel and iron. Heat energy from inner core to the outer core gets transferred through conduction. The apparently, vibrating semi solid core conducts the heat energy to the upper outer core through conduction. This heat again after crossing the lower and upper mantle moves to the next layer, which is called crust. The heat energy again gets dissipated through conduction which contributes to heating the earths crust (Kontny Bogusz, 2012). These conductions of heat energy make the geothermally hot water rise out of the crust, which are termed as geothermal springs. These geothermal springs have high mine ral content and tapping this energy can help in the generation of electricity. The next layer after the inner core is the outer core which being in liquid state conducts the heat energy to the next layer through the process of convection. The convectional heat flows into the next layer called the mantle which is composed of dense molten rock. This is the layer upon which the tectonic plates move. There are different types of crust which moves upon the fluid mantle, such as the oceanic crust, continental crust. When two continental crust collides with each other, one crust moves upon the other which leads to the formation of mountains (Suarez et al., 2014). The opposite happens when the two crusts reside which leads to the formation of furrows. Also when an oceanic crust collides with the continental crust, the oceanic crust submerges into the continental crust. The submergence of oceanic crust leads to the meltdown of the rocks that are in connection with the fluid mantle. Due to the continuous meltdown of the rock materials, a phenomenon called churning occurs which leads to the movement of the hot molten rock to the upper layers and the cold rock particles to the lower layer (Fyfe, 2012). This geological phenomenon is termed as convectional movement of the molten magma. This convectional heat flow lead to the direct buildup of the oceanic crust and helped in the formation of mountains and other geological landforms. Therefore, from the above discussion it can be concluded that the heat inside the earth that gets transferred to the surface of the earth through the process of conduction, convection, and radiation plays a major role in generation of energy, formation of geological landforms, and even mining of the radioactive substances for medical treatment. The heat that is stored inside the core of the earth is not directly transferred through the various layers like the inner and outer core, the upper and the lower mantle and the crust. The different layers although transfer the heat energy, however are geologically not made of same contents. Hence, the conduction process differs from the other layers. However, each and every layer contributes to the buildup of heat and the different layers conduct the heat through different processes, which ultimately reaches to the surface of the earth and are both measurable and can be harnessed for energy generation. Reference Chamorro, C. R., Mondjar, M. E., Ramos, R., Segovia, J. J., Martn, M. C., Villaman, M. A. (2012). World geothermal power production status: Energy, environmental and economic study of high enthalpy technologies.Energy,42(1), 10-18. Duffy, T. (2011). Earth science: Probing the core's light elements.Nature,479(7374), 480-481. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/479480a Fyfe, W. S. 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Virtual Reality Essays - Virtual Reality, Head-mounted Display

Virtual Reality Virtual Reality - What it is and How it Works Imagine being able to point into the sky and fly. Or perhaps walk through space and connect molecules together. These are some of the dreams that have come with the invention of virtual reality. With the introduction of computers, numerous applications have been enhanced or created. The newest technology that is being tapped is that of artificial reality, or virtual reality (VR). When Morton Heilig first got a patent for his Sensorama Simulator in 1962, he had no idea that 30 years later people would still be trying to simulate reality and that they would be doing it so effectively. Jaron Lanier first coined the phrase virtual reality around 1989, and it has stuck ever since. Unfortunately, this catchy name has caused people to dream up incredible uses for this technology including using it as a sort of drug. This became evident when, among other people, Timothy Leary became interested in VR. This has also worried some of the researchers who are trying to create very real application s for medical, space, physical, chemical, and entertainment uses among other things. In order to create this alternate reality, however, you need to find ways to create the illusion of reality with a piece of machinery known as the computer. This is done with several computer-user interfaces used to simulate the senses. Among these, are stereoscopic glasses to make the simulated world look real, a 3D auditory display to give depth to sound, sensor lined gloves to simulate tactile feedback, and head-trackers to follow the orientation of the head. Since the technology is fairly young, these interfaces have not been perfected, making for a somewhat cartoonish simulated reality. Stereoscopic vision is probably the most important feature of VR because in real life, people rely mainly on vision to get places and do things. The eyes are approximately 6.5 centimeters apart, and allow you to have a full-colour, three-dimensional view of the world. Stereoscopy, in itself, is not a very new id ea, but the new twist is trying to generate completely new images in real- time. In 1933, Sir Charles Wheatstone invented the first stereoscope with the same basic principle being used in today's head-mounted displays. Presenting different views to each eye gives the illusion of three dimensions. The glasses that are used today work by using what is called an electronic shutter. The lenses of the glasses interleave the left-eye and right-eye views every thirtieth of a second. The shutters selectively block and admit views of the screen in sync with the interleaving, allowing the proper views to go into each eye. The problem with this method though is that you have to wear special glasses. Most VR researchers use complicated headsets, but it is possible to create stereoscopic three-dimensional images without them. One such way is through the use of lenticular lenses. These lenses, known since Herman Ives experimented with them in 1930, allow one to take two images, cut them into thin vertical slices and interleave them in precise order (also called multiplexing) and put cylinder shaped lenses in front of them so that when you look into them directly, the images correspond with each eye. This illusion of depth is based on what is called binocular parallax. Another problem that is solved is that which occurs when one turns their head. Nearby objects appear to move more than distant objects. This is called motion parallax. Lenticular screens can show users the proper stereo images when moving their heads well when a head- motion sensor is used to adjust the effect. Sound is another important part of daily life, and thus must be simulated well in order to create artificial reality. Many scientists including Dr. Elizabeth Wenzel, a researcher at NASA, are convinced the 3D audio will be useful for scientific visualization and space applications in the ways the 3D video is somewhat limited. She has come up with an interesting use for virtual sound that would allow an astronaut to hear the state of their oxygen, or have an acoustical beacon that directs one to a trouble spot on a satellite. The Convolvotron is one such device that simulates the