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Randoseru at a school A premium 84,000 yen (about $938 or €530) randoseru made of cordovan on sale at Mitsukoshi department store in January 2008. A randoseru (ランドセル) is a firm-sided backpack made of stitched firm leather or leather-like synthetic material, most commonly used in Japan by elementary schoolchildren. Traditionally it ...
Gillon is one of the nation's leading experts on modern American history and politics. He has written or edited nearly a dozen books including the New York Times bestsellers, The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation (Oxford, 2008) and America’s Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr. (2019)
Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films (and later, music videos) which aired during the Saturday morning children's programming block on the U.S. television network ABC. The themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics.
In medieval Europe young boys from about twelve years of age were used as military aides ("squires"), though in theory, their role in actual combat was limited. The so-called Children's Crusade in 1212 recruited thousands of children as untrained soldiers under the assumption that divine power would enable them to conquer the enemy, although ...
No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School is a 2010 direct-to-video family comedy film. It starred Bill Cobbs , Lee Meriwether , Blake Michael , Celeste Kellogg and Ashton Harrell. The screenplay was written by Joshua Moody and the film was directed by Dave Moody for Elevating Entertainment Motion Pictures , who also provided the musical ...
Students are allowed to have a small non-transparent pouch for personal hygiene items (like tampons and pads), thermal food containers inside clear lunch boxes, a "school-approved sport-specific ...
A History of US series page, from the Oxford University Press; Discussion with Hakim and middle school students on A History of Us, March 24, 1999; Booknotes interview with Hakim on Freedom: A History of US, February 23, 2003. Presentation by Hakim to the National Council for the Social Studies on Freedom: A History of US, November 22, 2002
Middletown: A Study in American Culture was primarily a look at changes in the white population of a typical American city between 1890 and 1925, a period of great economic change. The Lynds used the "approach of the cultural anthropologist " (see field research and social anthropology ), existing documents, statistics, old newspapers ...