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10 000 Insurance Check 10 000 Insurance Dream
334 wordsDreams are vital to the life of every person. Without dreams, there is nothing to plan or look forward to. The Younger family in A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry has many dreams for their future that a $ 10, 000 insurance check guarantees them. I also have dreams and hopes for my future, college, a job, and a family are all things that I want to have, some day. Due to Walter Younger's death, his widow, Lena Younger, receives a $ 10, 000 insurance check. Lena's dream is to own her own tw...
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Habit To Break Types Of Alcoholism Alcohol
677 wordsAlcoholism refers to the drinking of alcoholic beverages to such a degree that important things of an individual's life - such as work, school, family relationships, or personal safety and health; are seriously and repeatedly interfered with. Alcoholism is considered a disease, meaning that it follows a characteristic course with known physical, and social symptoms. The alcoholic continues to consume alcohol even though the destructive consequences he / she may face. Alcoholism is serious, and a...
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Susan B Anthony Women The Right To Vote
1,820 wordsThe womens suffrage movement began in Seneca Falls, New York during a convention on the rights of women. Seneca Falls was a progressive town but even here, Elizabeth Cady Stanton's call for suffrage was controversial. Voting and politics were seen as completely male domains and it was shocking to think of women involved in either. The primary argument of suffragists was that they were being denied one of the most basic rights of Democracy. They were expected to live under laws which they could n...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Anti Slavery Movement
2,295 words... octet. They discussed three things at the convention: first to denounce of anti-slavery reformers and placate the southern temperance societies; second to sponsor legislation against the sale of liquor and lastly to adopt total abstinence from all that can intoxicate. The society got nothing accomplished at this convention however, and there was a loss of members. In Massachusetts the fifteenth gallon law was passed in 1838. It forbade the sale of less than fifteen gallons of liquor that was...
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Adolescent Drinking And Driving
829 wordsDrinking and driving is an illegal act of negligence; therefore, it is not a smart thing to do. Although driving while intoxicated is a problem of all age groups, it is especially severe for adolescents. This is not because they do not care, but that they often do not understand the serious effects of alcohol. It is a proven fact that driving under the influence of alcohol can affect people's reflexes. Therefore, no one should drink and drive because it can cause accidents, debilitating injuries...
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Men And Women Eating Habits
1,131 wordsMen and women half-naked in some magazine articles. Words in ads such as easy as one, two, three, and it is tradition is some technique of advertising. Advertisers use subliminal messages to sell the product and give the illusion that if you buy their product then this will happen to you. Keeping that in mind, advertising has negative effects on teens, it changes their perspective on what is or is not. While reading through Cosmo magazine, I found an advertisement promoting the liquor Bacardi. B...
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Raisin In The Sun Amount Of Money
737 wordsThe above passage taken from the play A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry between Mama and her son Walter shows how the author can address many themes of the play in one scene or even just a few lines; She addresses such themes as dreams, prejudice, and family. Mama is the head of the household where she lives with her son Walter and wife Ruth with their son Travis along with Walters sister Beneatha or Bennie as some like to call her. The passage tells the reader that Mama went out and did...
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Back To The Hotel Fell Asleep
1,200 wordsIt was the summer of 98, and my friends had just graduated high school, and we all decided to take a trip. Where to go we all thought? We were thinking where could we all have fun and not have any age requirements? So Cancun was the place to be, first thing I did when I got off the plane was transfer some money to some pesos. When I tried to get pesos the cashier tried to rip me off, but there was nothing I could do. So I got my pesos and picked up a curves. All I knew was how to say was Canvas ...
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Drugs And Alcohol Ben Pulled One
949 wordsDrugs and alcohol consume many lives; one life in particular was my very own. I started this perilous journey, as many teenagers do, experimenting with new illegal drugs and drinking my days away. It took one incident to shake me from the pollutants that were slowly smothering me, and although this incident was frightful it opened my eyes to the life I want to live. One breezy autumn day I was asked to help dry wall an apartment in a complex building near where I lived. The forty-year-old man wh...
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South Central Male Female
1,437 words... n. But for now, it's just a big dream, 'cause I find myself in the place where I'm last seen. My thoughts must be relaxed. Be able to maintain, 'cause times 'is changed and life is strange. The glorious days 'is gone, and everybody's doin' bad. 'Yo, mad lives 'is up for grabs. Brothers, passin' away, I gotta' make wakes. Receiving' all types of calls from upstate. 'Yo, I can't cope with the pressure. Setting' for lesser. The god left lessons on my dresser (Wu-Tang Clan 1993). For many, the g...
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1,524 words... loans fried. No wonder, then, that at sick call, shortly after reveille, many men who claimed to be sick were marched by the first sergeant to the regimental hospital, usually a wall tent. There the assistant surgeon examined them, then assigned some to cots in the hospital tent, instructed others to be sick in quarters, and restored a few to light duty or to full duty. The less sick and slightly wounded would be expected to nurse, clean, and feed the patients and to see to the disposal of b...
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1,741 wordsComplete an Unabridged History of Flint: well, almost! The history of Flint is perhaps as long and complex as the federal bureaucracy. OK, maybe not. The first white man to visit Flint was the famous fur trader Jacob Smith. He was the first to settle in the area and established his lucrative trade here. His trading post was the cornerstone of the city, that is until it was torn down to make room for a parking ramp. The social life of this time was not great. In fact, the husky, rugged guy to gir...
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Pursuit Of Happiness Declaration Of Independence
1,575 wordsFor Better or Worse? America has been plagued with drug problems for years, and in recent years it isn t proving to get much better. Society has been left to deal with the pain, fear, terror, and crime that the drug world has brought upon us. Many believe that America s problems with drugs, crime, and the drug trade economy could be easily decreased if America turned to the legalization of illicit drugs. If someone chooses to kill themselves with drugs let them. In the 1920 s, alcohol was made i...
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Anti Saloon League Christian Temperance Union
728 wordsProhibition in the Prohibition Prohibition Prohibition in the United States was a measure designed to reduce drinking by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution took away license to do business from the brewers, distillers, vintners, and the wholesale and retail sellers of alcoholic beverages. The leaders of the prohibition movement were alarmed at the drinking behavior of Americans, and they were...
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Law Enforcement Officials U S Government
1,489 wordsProhibition in the 1920 s The year is 1923, and the production, consumption, and sale of alcohol in the U. S. has been illegal ever since the prohibition movement successfully persuaded Congress to ratify the eighteenth amendment, three years ago. Mr. John Krause, an anti prohibitionist, is presenting this speech to the U. S. House of Representatives in order to convince them to abolish prohibition. Prohibition Somewhere in the Bible it says, If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off. I used to ...
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Walter Lee Middle Class
765 wordsSociety in the 1959 was full of racial discrimination. White and blacks were still living in their own areas, the public as a whole was very slow to accept the concept of mixed neighborhoods blacks and white living together. This book, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Vivian Hansberry, tells the story of a lower-class black family s struggle to gain middle class acceptance in the Southside of Chicago. The Younger family of five, four adults and one child live in a cramped apartment in one of the...
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Rip Van Winkle Twenty Years
616 wordsEnglish 251 Rip Van Winkle Rip Van Winkle is about a man named Rip Van Winkle, who lived in a little Dutch town in the Hudson Valley. Everyone in the town was very fond of him because he would help anyone who needed help and he would play with the children. The thing he couldnt do was tend to his farm because it seemed that everything he did failed, so he would go out and fish or go to the town inn and listen to the gossip. His wife Dame Van Winkle would get angry at him for being lazy and not t...
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Legal Drinking Age Driving Under The Influence
759 wordsShould the Drinking Age be lowered? Many questions have been posed concerning the drinking age in all fifty states within the United States. Should it be lowered back to eighteen? What will the consequences be? Will there be more fatalities? What will insurance companies think? And, will it actually serve as a barrier to the underage consumers? All of these questions and many more are only the beginning of the controversy surrounding the legal drinking age. There are many valid reasons why the d...
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Minimum Drinking Age Years Of Age
651 wordsIn 1987, the power of the 21 st Amendment of the Constitution was in question by South Dakota and the State Secretary of Transportation (1983 - 87), 1 Elizabeth Dole. The 21 st Amendment declares that states have complete control over production, sale, and transportation of alcohol and that liquor importation and sale are no longer prohibited among states of the US (since the prohibition law of the 18 th Amendment). However, a federal law states that in order for a portion of federal highway fun...
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