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Baby Suggs Paul D
1,077 words
... ownership took place, her bond with her
children was complete. The escape from slavery did
nothing more than intensify this bond. For the
first time she felt she could love her children
unreservedly and had a vision of true freedom:
"Look like I loved em more after I got here. Or
maybe I couldn't love 'em in Kentucky because they
wasn't mine to love... A place where you could
love anything you choose -- not to need permission
for desire -- well now that was freedom" (Page
162). Gender issues...
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World Were Mine Leland For Not Telling Yolanda
943 words
In the hilarious "just keepin' it real" style
novel, If This World Were Mine, by E. Lynn Harris,
a group of friends decide to start a journal club,
like they did back in their college English class.
This story is told by each and all takes place in
the 90 's around the Thanksgiving and Christmas
holidays. Sometimes it is easier to put your
thoughts on paper rather than express them out
loud. A group of college friends decides to
restart their journal club called, If This World
Were Mine. The gro...
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God Had Chosen Good Care Of Ann Baby
725 words
Dan and Ann had been waiting for this time ever
since they fell in love two years ago. They were
going to have a baby. The pregnancy had been a
perfect one. Dan took very good care of Ann and
the baby for he was a devoted husband, and had
made Ann eat healthy and exercise very well.
Everything had been great. One day Dan was half
was through a meeting when he received a phone
call from Ann. She told him that her water had
just broken and her contractions were already
really strong. He knew that ...
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Hundred And Fifty Million Dollars
884 words
President Roosevelt wanted to give more to the
people when he was in office than Hoover did when
he was in office. He chose a man named Harry L.
Hopkins to help him in succeeding. The goal and
purpose of the FERA was to have all of the
unemployed be employed again or for the first
time. Hopkins was a forty-three-year-old social
worker whose colorful, outgoing personality made
him very known to the people and press. When
congress created the FERA, to help the people, the
Reconstruction Finance Co...
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African National Congress South African Government
1,810 words
Racial segregation and the supremacy of whites had
been traditionally accepted in South Africa prior
to 1948, but in the general election of that year,
Daniel F. Malan officially included the policy of
apartheid in the Afrikaner Nationalist party
platform, bringing his party to power for the
first time. Although most whites acquiesced in the
policy, there was bitter and sometimes bloody
strife over the degree and stringency of its
implementation. 2 The purpose of apartheid was
separation of the ...
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People Who Commit Family And Friends
1,711 words
Suicide is the third leading cause of deaths among
people 15 to 24 (16) Although lately the rate of
suicide is beginning to level off, it has tripled
since the 1950 s. The suicide rate varies with
gender, race, sexuality, and environment. Males
commit suicide four times more than females, yet
females attempt suicide four times more than
males. Concerning race, Statistics state that
white males and females make up almost half of the
suicides in the US, which is more than any other
race. (2) Homos...
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Horn As Loud Men Of The Village Boy
315 words
There once was a boy who tended his fathers sheep.
The father was very protective about his boy and
his sheep. He gave his son a horn and told him
that if the sheep or himself were ever in trouble
to blow the horn as loud as he could and the men
of the village would come right away to help in
the emergency. One day the boy was up on a
mountainside tending his fathers sheep and he was
getting tired of watching the sheep. He wondered
how long it would take the men of the village to
come to the res...
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Roll Call Four Months
828 words
Flores 1 A bill has to go through many different
stages before it can become a law. Each year,
Congress considers thousands of bills. Only a few
hundred of these will become laws. The rest are
destroyed by congressional committees, by negative
voters in one or both houses of Congress, or by
presidential vetoes. The process by which a bill
becomes a law is complicated and may require a lot
of effort. Every bill starts with an idea. Some
ideas come from members of congress, and citizens
who write ...
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Fan Belt Motor Oil One
662 words
I have a pretty healthy selection of screws,
bolts, nuts, washers and miscellaneous hardware.
One container handles the small sheet-metal and
machine screws and nuts. Another groups the - and
5 / 16 -inch sizes, while the big container
amasses more than large nuts and bolts. Mixed in
with the large assortment are emergency battery
post clamps (side and top post types), bumper
bolts, specialized shock bolts, large washers,
drum brake adjuster and U-joint snap rings.
Actually, the small screw cont...
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Rich And Poor Poor Countries
1,449 words
Every day hundreds of thousands of people are
starving. The issue of who should assist them is
brought up time and time again. Should we give of
our own? If so, how much should we give? Since
only one third of the nations in the world are
rich and the other two thirds are poor can and
should the rich countries be expected to provide
for the less fortunate? Garrett Hardin, author of
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Aid That Harms
states that each country has a carrying capacity
and by helping ou...
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Military Base Cold War
1,041 words
Alas, Babylon, which was written by Pat Frank and
published in 1959, takes place in Fort Repose,
Florida. It is during the cold war with lots of
tension between Russia and the United States.
Randolph Rowzee Bragg, the main character lives in
Fort Repose. This is where most of the story takes
place. Randolph, also known as Randy, has an older
brother named Mark. Mark is a high-ranking officer
in Omaha where there is a giant underground
military base. I believe that the U. S. has
several undergrou...
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Global Positioning System Gps Receivers
1,243 words
The Global Positioning System (GPS), a system of
24 satellites circling the Earth, is a fairly new
technology. As with a lot of new technologies
there are innumerable advantages and uses but
there is also a downside to our increasing
reliance on this system. These days GPS is finding
its way into cars, boats, planes, construction
equipment, movie making gear, farm machinery, even
laptop computers. It works by using satellites as
reference points to calculate a position somewhere
on the earth - a...
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Seattle Buildings City
454 words
THE ROLLING QUAKE hit about 10: 55 a. m. and sent
people pouring out of Seattle City Hall and from
skyscrapers throughout the city as it continued
for nearly 30 seconds before subsiding. Windows
shattered in some buildings and debris and bricks
loosened from buildings cascaded onto sidewalks
and some city streets. Frightened residents said
they could hear metal grinding as the citys famed
Space Needle rocked to-and-fro, though the
buildings owner later said it apparently came
through the quake u...
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Managed Care Organizations Managed Care Plans
1,405 words
... s insured through her employer which
administered United Healthcare as the utilization
reviewing agency. Mrs. Corcoran was deemed to have
a high-risk pregnancy because of her history with
pregnancy-related problems. Taking this into
careful consideration, her doctors recommended
hospitalization so that the fetus could be
monitored as the due date approached, and another
obstetrician (who was used for a second opinion)
concurred (Pollack). Despite her doctors request,
United Healthcare insist...
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Blood Supply Red Cross
834 words
There is a crisis. It is the shortage of blood. We
need more blood donors. There's no substitute for
human blood -- vital for delivering oxygen and
nutrients, removing waste, healing and fighting
infection. A person's blood can, however, be
shared with others. Every day, thousands of
Americans in need of lifesaving blood, including
trauma victims and surgery patients, rely on the
efforts of volunteer blood donors. We need a
steady flow of blood donors to keep our blood
supply stable. Many people...
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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Weapons Of Mass Destruction
1,620 words
All of these seem to happen in a threatening
silence: a gilded mushroom shaped cloud rises from
the far away horizon, almost simultaneously all
electronic devices malfunction, followed by an
omnipotent shockwave originating from the center
of the mushroom, destroying everything in its
path. The blast releasing too much heat melts
everything. The cloud swells rapidly and soon
covered the sky. What follows is dark and quiet,
what follows is the entire human civilization gone
with wind? . This trag...
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Financial Goals Credit Cards
771 words
In todays here today, gone tomorrow society there
are not many people that take the time to create a
personal budget. Many feel that they dont really
need it; while others just dont want to restrict
their spending. With this in mind, its no wonder
that personal bankruptcies are at such an all time
high. The advent of credit cards and the wide
spread availability of credit itself has allowed
people to purchase what they want, when they want,
with little to no regard of whether they can
really aff...
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Mentally Ill Drug Abusers
618 words
Homelessness is not something that was created
over night; it has existed for a long time; often
we choose not to see the homeless, or bother with
them, so we look the other way. Homelessness is
not prejudice toward race, creed, or religion --
it has no boundaries; all homeless people should
not be stereotyped as being drug abusers or the
mentally ill that have been released from mental
hospitals. Homelessness is not a disease that a
person can catch from bodily contact, but it
certainly has aff...
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Santa Cruz Orange Juice
1,137 words
I walked over to the refrigerator and helped
myself to the orange juice. Sarah was in the
laundry room adjacent to the kitchen. She was
talking to me about something, but I dont think I
was listening. I poured the orange juice and found
my usual seat in front of the television. On
weekend afternoons, if we were at Sarah's house,
we always watched MTV, no matter what else was
actually on. We had just returned from the beach.
Sarah recently bought a new couch and it was so
comfortable. It made wat...
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Past Few Years Hours Per Week
1,669 words
Over the past few weeks I have been researching my
interests, values, and goals. Throughout this
research a lot of things that were already evident
to me, were proven for a fact. My interests
included researching different aspects of science
and data analysis. Analysis has always been a big
part of my life because I analyze everything. My
values have been proven to be centered toward
helping people and being around people. These
interests and values are almost equivalent with
what my goals in li...
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