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World War Ii Back And Forth
5,910 wordsThe English Patient She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance. She has sensed a shift in the weather. There is another gust of wind, a buckle of noise in the air, and the tall cypresses sway. She turns and moves uphill toward the house, climbing over a low wall, feeling the first drops of rain on her bare arms. She crosses the loggia and quickly enters the house. In the kitchen she doesnt pause but goes through it and climbs the stairs which are in darkne...
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Board Of Education Radio Stations
1,414 wordsThe old 45 MHz FM broadcast band In 1945 the FCC decided that FM would have to move from the established 42 49 megahertz pre-war band to a new band at 88 108 megahertz, to make way for television. Both in frequency spectra and consumer dollars. Therefore, all radios with an FM band of 88 to 108 MHz are post-war. Rca's David Sarnoff in particular wanted FM to go away so the public wouldnt be distracted from buying his latest up and coming product: televisions. Maybe if Armstrong said to Sarnoff i...
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831 wordsThe Maritime Law Maritime Law The value of many shipments depends upon fluctuations in the currency rates, freight, handling charges, and other expenses. By means of insurance protection will be provided to goods from any uncontrollable variables. A contract of Marine Insurance is defined by section 7 of the Marine Insurance Act of 1909 as: A contract whereby the insurer undertakes to indemnify the assured, in manner and to the extent thereby agreed, against marine losses, that is to say, the lo...
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Los Angeles Times Men And Women
4,367 wordsIn the earliest years of life, long before questions about the choice of a partner for sexual activity can arise, small boys and girls manifest differences in attitudes, interests and behaviour, and develop a strong feeling of belonging to either the male or female sex. By the time they reach the age of romantic or erotic attachments, their own self-image, and everything they have learned to associate with masculinity and femininity, dictates that they should choose a partner of the opposite sex...
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Made Me Feel Rave Scene
4,550 wordsMethamphetamine: Built for Speed? Methamphetamine has reclaimed a place in the lexicon of party drugs. Hailed by nocturnal adventurers, condemned by raver idealists, is speed a sleepless dream or an addictive nightmare? by Brian Otto Here at the end of the millennium, the pace of modern life seems fleeting a whirl of minutes, hours and days. In dealing with the changes, humans have equipped themselves with the tools to move faster, more efficiently. At the same time a dependence for the marketin...
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Martin Luther King American Dream
2,581 wordsCONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SOCIETY The American Dream? : DEAD or ALIVE? INTRODUCTION Originally, the Dream was envisaged to be life in a new world where anything successful can happen and good things might (Hochschild, 1996). In 1963, Martin Luther King Jnr said that he too had a dream that on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood Video: The Legacy). Since then, many aspects of Martin Luther Kings Dream for the American pe...
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Gold Medal Los Angeles
836 wordsOlympic Olympic Legends Tristan Yapuncich Olympic Legends 9 / 21 / 00 Olympic Legends There are many important Olympic athletes. Three of the most amazing, however, are probably Jim Thorpe, Florence Griffith Joyner, and Mark Spitz. These legends were super athletes as well, as amazing people. Jim Thorpe was born on May 28, 1887 in a one-room cabin in Oklahoma. Although there is much confusion on Thorpe's date of birth, this is the date according to his estate. The career biography of Jim Thorpe ...
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Modern Olympics Olympic Games
436 wordsOriginally the Olympic games were known to be religious festivals from 776 B. C. until 393 A. D. This was so because the Roman emperor Theodosius I banned all pagan festivals. These festivals celebrated the Greek god Zeus. The ancient Olympic Games lasted nearly 1, 200 years until it ceased. Then in the late 1800 s a frenchman by the name of Baron Pierre de Couhbertin practically revived the Olympics into what we know today as the modern Olympics. In 1896 his hard work paid off, the first modern...
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Marthas Vineyard Racial Ethnic
1,724 wordsLAWRENCE OTIS GRAHAM: Our Kind of People I: Inside Americas Black Upper Class (5. 5 pp) Through six years of interviews with more than three hundred prominent families and individuals, journalist and commentator Lawrence Otis Graham weaves together the revealing stories and fascinating experiences of upper-class blacks who grew up with privilege and power. Previously known for his provocative New York magazine expos? of elite golf clubs, when he left his law firm and went undercover as a busboy ...
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Trojan Horses Kevin Mitnick
3,444 wordsby Pc Perps PC Perps by David Stone PC Perps Near the end of the Vietnam War, two college students break into a bank computer using the college+s computer and transfer $ 25, 000 from the Grand Old Party National Committee+s account into the Black Panthers+. One of the students is caught, arrested and prosecuted the other gets away (Sneakers). In 1983, a high school student uses his home computer to try and steal some gaming software from a California vendor+s mainframe and ends up in the Pentago...
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News And World Report Legal And Illegal
1,434 wordsStudy of the Personal Responsibility Act In 1994 Governor Pete Wilson and the California Legislature passed a referendum that cut assistance to illegal aliens. When the House Republicans heard about this new law in California, they were encouraged to develop a federal law that would put tougher restrictions on both legal and illegal aliens. On January 4, 1996, the House Republicans formally introduced its Personal Responsibility Act, a welfare reform bill to put more restrictions on both legal a...
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Hours A Day One Of The Things
4,528 words[Note: The following is a transcript of an interview with Bly from the PBS program " No Safe Place: Violence Against Women" which aired March 27, 1998. Click here to visit Post companion web site for the program] Q: What are the roots of male violence? Is it just a part of mens nature? A desire to maintain control? The absence of the father role model? Is it rooted in the patriarchy? The roots of male violence. Ill give you three answers that almost any sensible person gives, and Ill g...
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Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe
1,452 wordsWest Hills Community College POP ART Art Appreciation 52 CONTENTS I. POP ART 4 II. ANDY WARHOL 5 III. DAVID HOCKNEY 7 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Illustration 1: Roy Lichtenstein, What! , Cover 2. Illustration 2: Andy Warhol, Campbell Soup Can 6 3. Illustration 3 David Hockney, A Bigger Splash 7 POP ART Art in which everyday objects and subjects are depicted with the flat naturalism of advertising or comic strips. 1. Pop Art, visual arts movement of the 1950 s and 1960 s, principally in the United ...
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Hard Core Pornography Soft Core Pornography
1,704 wordsPornography is very widely controversial no matter were you go. Only in the past couple of years has porn been more accepted. To understand what all the controversy is about you have to recognize the many landmark court cases over the difference between obscenity and pornography. But first I would like to define each. Obscenity, as defined in Websters dictionary, means the state or quality of being obscene; impurity; lewdness. Pornography means literature which prostitutes a figure; obscene writ...
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Goods And Services Hunting And Gathering
3,564 wordsWestern liberal scholars have divided human history into three phases: the premodern, the modern and the post modern. Each phase has no definite end, rather they layer on top of each. For example, a thoroughly post modern society has elements of premodern and modern in it. There is no one exact time when the premodern ended and the modern began: each society reached them differently. Western Europe entered the modern era in the sixteen hundreds while the rest of the world was still premodern. Ev...
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Prison Gangs Puerto Rican
3,022 wordsThe Prison Gangs Prison Gangs The fight for survival within the United State? s prison system has created a subculture the breeds racism, hate, and violence. About two and a half years ago, a young man named William King was sentenced to death by lethal injection for his participation in the murder of James Byrd Jr. James, a middle aged black man from Jasper County, Texas, was bound at the ankles and dragged behind a truck for three miles. His body was ripped to shreds as a gruesome display of t...
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D W Griffith Buster Keaton
6,372 wordsWhile films made during cinema&# 39; s early days may appear archaic, awkward, or even unintentionally funny to some modern viewers, they were part of a revolution in entertainment that was never before equaled and perhaps may never be equaled again. Later innovations such as television and the internet (so far more of an information medium than an entertaining one) owe their acceptance, if not their very existence, to the initial discovery that people are endlessly fascinated when a narrative s...
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Swing Era Sing Sing
1,270 wordsSING SING SING I used to always go over to my grandparents house and watch my grandfather go crazy over this Jazz music. He explained to me that it wasnt Jazz unless it swung like the greats. I listened to a song Sing Sing Sing the other day from one of my Jazz collections that my grandpa gave to me and realized that their was so much energy and pizzazz in this music. He explained to me that it was all put together by a guy named Benny, and I understood why. Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David in...
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Los Angeles Times Soft Money
1,556 wordsThere are four important parts to a campaign: the candidate, the issue, the campaign organization and the money to run it. Without the last one the other three will not exist (Janda/Berry/Goldman pg. 164). Politicians need money to keep their careers going. Political money is divided between dollars that are regulated called hard money and money that has no restrictions called soft money. Soft money is money which, by definition and law, is not supposed to be part of our federal campaign finance...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Detroit Gale Research
1,940 wordsStephen Spenders Epilogue to a Human Drama and Toge Sankichi's Dying are poems detailing the destruction of two cities, London and Hiroshima, respectively, during or after World War II bombings. Spender wrote Epilogue to a Human Drama, hereafter referred to as Epilogue, after a December air raid of London during the Battle of Britain, which ravaged and razed much of England from Summer 1940 until Spring 1941. Sankichi wrote Dying from his vivid recollections of the surprise atomic bombing of Hir...
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