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Jewish Jewish calendar a complex ancient calendar in use among Jewish people. It is a lunar calendar adapted to the solar year, normally consisting of twelve months but having thirteen months in leap years, which occur seven times in every cycle of nineteen years. The years are reckoned from the... Read more
Salon des Refuses Salon des Refuses
Salon des Refusés. Exhibition held in Paris in 1863 to show work that had been refused by the selection committee of the official Salon. In that year there were especially strong protests from artists whose work had been rejected, so the Emperor Napoleon III, ‘wishing to let the... Read more
Young Mens Christian Association Young Mens Christian Association
Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), organization having as its objective the development of values and behaviors that are consistent with Christian principles. Despite the retention of the name, membership is not limited to Christians, and since World War II women and girls have been... Read more
Childhood Childhood
Childhood Childhood is usually defined in relation to adulthood: the condition of being an immature person, of having not yet become an adult. In some societies, physical or reproductive maturity marks the transition to adulthood, but in modern Western societies full adult status is not usually... Read more
Orphanages Orphanages
Orphans Researchers and social policy makers have long been interested in the developmental impact of institutionalization. Are young children who have experienced extreme deprivation in the first year or two of their lives ever able to overcome such poor developmental beginnings? Children in... Read more
Cornelia Funke Cornelia Funke
Funke, Cornelia 1958 • Dorsten, Westphalia, Germany Author, illustrator For years Cornelia Funke has been one of the best-known and bestselling children's authors in Germany. In fact, many people have called her the German J. K. Rowling. Americans, however, were... Read more
Constance Baker Motley Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley1921–2005 Federal court judge, lawyer, politician When, in May of 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case, the real struggle for school desegregation was just beginning. Over the next ten years, dozens of legal battles... Read more
Amos Oz Amos Oz
Amos Oz Gifted Israeli author, Amos Oz (born 1939), achieved international regard as a novelist and short story writer, as well as the author of political nonfiction. Born in 1939 to well-read parents who had emigrated from Europe several years earlier, Amos Oz grew up in a working-class... Read more
Employment Employment
EMPLOYMENT general impact on studentskatherine l. hughes employers' perceptions of employment readinessjohn maslynmark cannon reasons students workkatherine l. hughes GENERAL IMPACT ON STUDENTS Paid employment begins at a relatively young age in the United States. While exact figures vary,... Read more
apprenticeship apprenticeship
apprenticeship system of learning a craft or trade from one who is engaged in it and of paying for the instruction by a given number of years of work. The practice was known in ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as in modern Europe and to some extent in the United States. Typically,... Read more

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