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Washington D C Wearing Sunglasses
1,083 words
On March 20, 1995 a nerve gas believed to be sarin
was released in Tokyo. The gas was released in
several commuter trains throughout the Tokyo
metropolitan area, killing six, and injuring
twelve hundred others. This act, described by
local authorities as "a case of organized and
indiscriminate murder, but one item in a string of
crimes committed by the doomsday religious cult
Aum Shinri Kyo (Aum Supreme Truth). At about 8: 15
A. M. Tokyo time, packages left on several
commuter trains throughout ...
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Truancy And The School System
800 words
How far has the school system advanced in the last
century? Some would say not far. I feel
differently. In my opinion, schools have advanced
from cesspits of enforced obedience to happy
environments where learning is looked forward to
instead of required. What has brought this about?
Some would say technology; some say teaching
techniques have advanced. However, there is proof
that truancy has been the key to advancing
education during the last century. Truancy is
increasing in all areas of scho...
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Children Under The Age Child Labor
1,433 words
Child labor first appeared with the establishment
of the domestic system. The domestic system was a
process through which entrepreneurs would purchase
raw materials that would be "put out" to the homes
of many families and be made into finished
products that could be sold by the entrepreneurs.
The families were paid by the piece, and so the
adults would use their children to their fullest
capability to aid in some way. The domestic system
was prominent in England, on the Continent, and in
North ...
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Middle East Main Character
411 words
Written By Charles Enter and Joseph Elliot 1. The
main character is a young women named, Caitlin
Ciccone, who is a typical American, girl next door
type of little daddys girl. She departs for
college as she enters the new world of life. 2.
Caitlin is a very smart girl. She is the kind of
student that every teacher would wish to have 20
in one class. She gets straight As, high SAT
score, editor of the school newspaper, 2 nd in her
class, and more. 3. Caitlin is going to a very
prestigious college...
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Newspaper To Read Began To Read Train
886 words
He did not know why he was reading the pamphlet
that was handed to him when he boarded the train.
He had often seen people handing out these little
booklets to passers-by. The man had even taken a
few in the past to be polite, but they were always
filed in the nearest wastebasket. This one was
entitled The Gospel of John. He had forgotten to
purchase a newspaper to read during the ride home
for this long awaited three-day weekend. So rather
than sleep or view the passing scenery, the man
decided...
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Medium Sized Large Amount
1,149 words
Savannah monitors (Various exanthematicus) are
medium-sized monitor lizards that are usually
readily available in most reptile specialty stores
and from breeders. They are intelligent (for
lizards), beautiful, usually tame pretty easily,
and do not grow as large as some monitors.
Savannahs usually are less expensive to purchase
than some of the other monitor species. Savannah
monitors hail from Africa, and they are also
listed as a "threatened" species in their natural
habitat, due to the pet tr...
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Newspaper Article March 11
362 words
The country originated in 1948. In 1967 - 1973 a
war broke out between Lebanon and Israel Conflict
between the Christian-dominated government and
Moslem leftist led to a crisis in 1958, which
United States troops at the request of Lebanon's
president being sent to restore order (Sean
Sheenan, 35) They believe the conflict between the
two countries broke out because of the differences
in cultures and faiths in gods. During the 1970 s,
relationships between the Christians, who
dominated the econom...
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Collection Of Short Stories Farewell To Arms
1,179 words
Ernest Hemingway is revered by some as one of the
best writers in American history. He had his share
of problems and successes and made a deep impact
in our literature. Hemingway was an important
literary figure and writer, whose childhood
experiences and significant events in his adult
years are reflected in his works in a variety of
ways. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899.
He grew up near Chicago, in Oak Park, Illinois, in
a well off, middle-class family. He had four
siblings named Ma...
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Television Vs The Printing Press
763 words
The television and the printing press are two very
essential and widely used media products. In order
to determine which one could be named the superior
of the two I have researched and studied both
topics extensively. In this essay I will explain
why I have come to the conclusion that the
printing press is more influential, vital, and
educational to society than the television. How
can a five hundred-year-old printer be
influential? I can answer this question in one
word, literacy. What do lite...
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Edgar Allan Poe Tales Of Ratiocination
1,098 words
... is and the more out of the ordinary the case
is, the more easily, ironically, the case can be
solved by the key detective. The problem in "The
Murders in the Rue Morgue" that has the police so
stumped is simply how can a non rational, inhuman
being break through the bounds of law, custom, and
civilized order and commit such a gruesome and
horrible atrocity on two well protected women. The
police cannot bring themselves to conclude that a
human could possibly do this. The house is built
in su...
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Sixties And Seventies Jimi Hendrix
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... usic. In the mid-sixties Jimi Hendrix wrote a
song called Purple Haze it was also known as an
archetypal psychedelic drug song of the sixties.
Jimi was questioned about this song, and he said
that the song was only about a dream that he had,
had. The song was really about drugs, but if he
admitted that, it would have been banned from the
radio, and that would have been a major down fall
for him. Jimi took a lot of drugs, he took some so
that he could stay awake, some to fall asleep,
some so ...
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Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady
745 words
In the past hundred years, many people have had a
dramatic influence on the world. However, the
people we usually recognize are men. Einstine with
E = mc and John Kennedy with Ask not what your
country can do for you but what you can do for
your country. Now its time to recognize the women
who dramatically changed history and generations
of lives. There are many women that should be
mentioned in this paper but the women I write
about have changed my life as well as yours. Ann
Richards is a forme...
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Orhan Seyfi Ari Orhan Seyfi Cyprus
527 words
Orhan Seyfi Ari An Idealist and Visionary (1918 -
1992) A luminary to so many teachers (Editorial in
Halkin See of 27 December 1992) A School Teacher's
Mark on Educational History, Teaching, Social
Culture Of those who wrote about him in
English/American, in Turkish, in Greek
book-magazine-newspaper articles and officially
and privately (in England, Cyprus, Australia)...
to a poet he was a star in his poem, to a
columnist an eminent school, to an author a
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Late Night Long Weekend
1,760 words
Welcome to Hell. Please let us enslave you. We "
ll give you a free t-shirt if you fill out this
credit card application... You can drive home in
this brand new car, with no payments until 2000...
It's so much easier to not worry about these
details. We " ll take care of them for you. All we
ask is that you send in your payment every month
like a good slave. No, no, don't read books.
Libraries are closing more and more everyday
anyway because they " re obsolete, now superseded
by television. Tha...
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Liberal Conservative Traits In Editorial Columnist Donald Kaul
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Donald Kaul, a Tribune Media Syndicates newspaper
veteran of twenty five years, can be said to be
famous for his often sarcastic but astute
observations on everything from campaign reform to
"Who Wants to be a Millionaire. " Occasionally a
letter to the editor appears in the newspaper
protesting his remarks, usually from a
self-proclaimed, right-wing conservative calling
him a "bleeding heart liberal. " What exactly do
these terms mean, however? Are they absolute in
what they represent? In gener...
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Squealer Role In Animal Farm
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The novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is an
allegory portraying the evils and pitfalls of a
totalitarian government. It attempts to illustrate
a society where all live as equals has not
existed, and cannot be obtained. Orwell, through
the use of the character Squealer, demonstrates
how propaganda can influence members of a
communist community in a negative way. By drawing
parallels to events in communist Russia, Orwell's
Animal Farm shows how propaganda was used to
dominate the Soviet people....
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Didnt Like Change Part Of His Day Walter
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He was a quiet man, never bothered anyone and
hated to be bothered. Walter kept to himself
mostly, no one wanted to talk to him and he was
never able to find reason for conversation. He was
set in his ways, and didnt like change, in fact,
he wouldnt stand for it. Walter had had the same
daily routine for the better part of his life. He
woke promptly at 6 a. m. , used the wash room to
brush his hair (what was left of it) and his teeth
(what was left of them. ) After doing this, he
went to his clo...
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Knights Of Labor Labor Movement
1,150 words
... Missouri, Kansas, and Texas), and the Wabash
railroads, which included approximately ten
thousand miles of line. In October, 1884, a 10 %
reduction in wages of shopper and others was
ordered by Gould on the Missouri Pacific. A strike
broke out in Moberly, Missouri and spread
throughout the three roads. The Union Pacific
Knights of Labor sent Joseph Buchanan with $ 30,
000 to support the strike against these wage
reductions, and he was ordered to organize local
assemblies at Kansas City, Seda...
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Pepsi Vs Coca Cola Research
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Pepsi vs. Coca Cola research paper Coca-Cola and
Pepsi-Cola are considered to be one of the biggest
companies in the world. Their marketing strategies
differ though the history of their development has
a lot of common features. The companies have
represented a great number of new products and
package types. Most of all, they both have
introduced a new stage in advertising. Coca-Cola,
for example, has to change even its formula for
Coke. Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola showed different
strategies in pri...
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American Society Free Speech
298 words
While Burl Osborne is a strong believer in the
right to free speech, he said that the urge to
censor is the reaction of well-intended people to
the expression of views that they find repugnant.
Osborne, who serves as the president of the
American Society of Newspaper Editors as well as
the editor and publisher of The Dallas Morning
News spoke of campus censorship in a meeting in
the Student Union? s Arizona Ballroom yesterday.
Osborne says that many campuses around the country
have instated poli...
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