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Irish Republican Army Post Office
894 words
Morgan Llywelyn was born in New York City; her
parents were Irish and Welsh-Irish. She is an
Irish citizen and lives in Ireland year round. The
majority of her books cover Ireland and Irish
history. Ms. Llywelyn is the only woman to have
walked the entire length and width of Ireland. Ned
Halloran is on the Titanic with his mother and
father. They are going to his sister Kathleen's
wedding. Onboard the ship, Ned meets Dan Duffy,
and they become friends. When the ship begins to
sink, Duffy and Ned...
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Ralph And Jack Jack And His Hunters
1,746 words
Trace the development of the deterioration of the
relationship between Ralph and Jack Both
characters whom I will be focusing on and
contrasting in this essay come from the same book;
it is the William Golding's Lord of the Flies. The
book was the first work of fiction of Golding's,
written in 1954. It is an unusually and carefully
constructed fable that was, in Golding's words, an
attempt to trace the defects of society back to
the defects of human nature The novel shows a
group of English boys...
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Beneath The Surface Mauna Loa
1,512 words
Which are the biggest (tallest and largest volume)
and smallest volcanoes on Earth? The island of
Hawaii is probably the largest volcano on earth.
From its base (on the floor of the Pacific Ocean)
to the summit of Mauna Kea (about 13 000 ft) is
some 30 000 ft i. e. higher than Everest. The
island comprises several coalescing volcanoes
including Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea and Kilauea. Mauna
Loa alone has an estimated volume of 40 000 km 3.
It is impossible to say which is the smallest
volcano since the...
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Human Beings Human Nature
1,394 words
In the Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 27 A-B, the
people are given the traditional release of one
prisoner. They have a choice, the just man Jesus
Christ and the notable prisoner Barabbas. When
asked which prisoner should be released the people
responded, Barabbas. (convinced by the chief
priests and elders. ) Pontius Pilate asks what
punishment he should be given. They all responded:
Let him be crucified. Disturbed by the obvious
injustice, Pilate feebly asks, What evil hath he
done? The people...
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Sonny Blues Sonny Brother
778 words
The short story Sonny's Blues, by James Baldwin,
tells the story of two brothers who come to
understand each other. More specifically, it
shows, through its two main characters, Sonny and
his older brother, the two sides of
African-Americans experience with much of racism.
The narrator, Sonny's brother, has tried to
assimilate to the white society, but still feel
the pain and the limits on his opportunity. On the
other hand, Sonny has never tried to assimilate
and has to find the way out for his...
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Teenage Pregnancy Teenage Mother
575 words
Teenage pregnancy is normally something unexpected
and something that could ruin a young womans life.
There is a continuing increase in teenage
pregnancy. This increase is a major concern
because teenage mothers and their babies face more
risks to their health. The birth rate for young
teens (age 15 to 17) is steadily rising. Between
1986 and 1991, the rate increased by 27 percent
(from a rate of 30. 5 to a rate of 38. 7 per 1,
000 women). In 1991, nearly 4 in 100 girls ages 15
to 17 had a baby....
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Twenty First Century People To Live
887 words
There are several problems that affect the world
today: war, crime, pollution, and several others.
Overpopulation is a serious dilemma that is
growing every year, every minute, and every
second. It is the root of most, if not all, of the
worlds problems 1. It is the greatest global
crisis facing humanity in the twenty-first
century. Overpopulation is the major global
problem because of several reasons. Most of the
problems we have today, such as ocean depletion,
food shortages, water shortages, ...
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000 Square Miles Acid Rain
1,060 words
The Adirondacks are a group of mountains
surrounded by many lakes and rivers, that cover
over 5, 000 square miles in the northeastern part
of New York. There are a lot of large tourist
villages on every lake. Motor boating and other
water activities take place on almost every lake
in the area. It is a vacation paradise for
thousands. But, industrial emissions from Canada
and the Ohio river valley always drift to this
area and cause acid rain. This silent killer is
destroying these beautiful lake...
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Altitude Problem Morning People
718 words
The pale pearly light of pre-dawn was spreading
across the sky above Mount Kinabalu on the
northeast of East Malaysia. The early morning
silence was shattered by the bustle of campers
getting ready. I drew a sharp intake of air. As I
peered outside my tent, the forest around the
camping ground came to life. Birds started
chirping and a morning breeze blew past, sending
shivers down my spine. There were three other
groups hiking together with us on this climb.
Waking my friends up, I headed to pr...
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Natural Gas Interest Rates
816 words
In the article The Economy Needs More Big
Government Now it is in the opinion of the author
that the US Government step up and be more
aggressive in their stance in stabilizing the
economy and beefing up our health system. I agree
with the article in the sense that before when the
economy was stronger, the country basically ran
itself. Now that the country has been crippled, I
feel that the government should step up and act
like a parent coming to rescue her injured child.
The government has the...
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Things They Carried
1,718 words
... h-as-catch can. At various times, in various
situations, they carried M- 14 's and CAR- 15 's
and Swedish K's and grease guns and captured AK-
47 s and Chi Com's and RPG's and Simon carbines
and black-market Uzi's and. 38 -caliber Smith
& Wesson handguns and 66 mm LAW's and shotguns
and silencers and blackjacks and bayonets and C- 4
plastic explosives. Lee Strunk carried a
slingshot; a weapon of last resort, he called it.
Mitchell Sanders carried brass knuckles. Kiowa
carried his grandfa...
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Irish History And The Republican Army
648 words
The Irish Republican Army are a clandestine group
of militants who serve for the Sign Fein, a legal
political group in Ireland who are dedicated to
removing any British rule or forces located in
Northern Ireland. Many have deemed the IRA as a
terrorist group, while others have branded those
who have served, are serving and those who have
died for the IRA's cause as heroes. In a time when
our world has been rocked with terrorism, it
becomes important to figure out what motivates
these militant gr...
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Nestle Growth Strategy And Business Development
1,048 words
1. ) Does it make sense for Nestle to focus its
growth on emerging markets? As it can be derived
from the text, Nestle generates operates worldwide
with a focus on European markets, which make up 70
percent of its sales. These markets are in the
mature state of life cycle of that industry and
additionally demographic changes such as the
stagnation of population growth rates make it very
hard companies like Nestle to generate higher
profits through higher sales. As a matter of fact
the western ec...
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Natural Greenhouse Effect Carbon Dioxide
1,107 words
Global warming is sometimes refereed to as the
greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the
absorption of energy radiated from the Earths
surface by carbon dioxide and other gases in the
atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to become
warmer. The greenhouse effect is what is causing
the temperature on the Earth to rise, and it is
creating many problems that will begin to occur in
the near future. For the last 10, 000 years, the
Earths climate has been extraordinarily beneficial
to mankind. Human...
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Proposition 13 And The California School System
1,331 words
To understand the effects of Proposition 13 on the
California school system, we must first understand
what Proposition 13 is. We must also briefly
glance at the events leading up to Proposition 13,
also known as the Jarvis-Gann initiative.
Proposition 13, adopted on June 16, 1978, is an
amendment to the Constitution of California. It
forever changed Californian property laws and sent
massive shock waves across other state
governments. The sound roaring out of the West-
what was it? A California ...
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Sonny Blues Brother
829 words
The Poe Works Sonny? s Blues The short story?
Sonny? s Blues, ? by James Baldwin, tells the
story of two brothers who come to understand each
other. More specifically, it shows, through its
two main characters, Sonny and his older brother,
the two sides of African-American? s experience
with much of racism. The narrator, Sonny? s
brother, has tried to assimilate to the white
society, but still feel the pain and the limits on
his opportunity. On the other hand, Sonny has
never tried to assimilate...
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Federal Bureau Primary Reason
705 words
The Primary Reason for the High Cost of Justice.
In a country that is plagued with crime from the
tip of Maine to the shores of California, the
federal government needs to take measures to
decelerate the rising crime rate of this country
at any expense. If a person were to think of it,
there are multiple agencies that fight the war on
crime everyday. There are employees at the local
level, state level, and federal level, all
requiring various means of equipment from guns to
helicopters. This sys...
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Teen Suicide Year Olds
339 words
Every year thousands of teens die in the United
States, not from cancer or car accidents, but by
their own hand; they make the choice that they
want to die, and they take their own life.
Statistics conducted in 1996 reveal that every 42
seconds a teenager attempts suicide and every 16.
9 minutes a teenager completes it. Many people
think that the matter is not factual, and they try
to sweep teen suicide under the carpet. Yet it is
all true. Suicide is the fastest growing killer of
youth in Ameri...
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Teen Suicide Year Olds
344 words
Every year Suicide Teen Suicide Every year
thousands of teens die in the United States, not
from cancer or car accidents, but by their own
hand; they make the choice that they want to die,
and they take their own life. Statistics conducted
in 1996 reveal that every 42 seconds a teenager
attempts suicide and every 16. 9 minutes a
teenager completes it. Many people think that the
matter is not factual, and they try to sweep teen
suicide under the carpet. Yet it is all true.
Suicide is the fastest ...
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Fiscal Year National Economy
618 words
As California's electricity crisis unfolded, there
was much talk about using the states surplus to
fend off high energy costs. Indeed, in recent
years the surplus has been regarded as the answer
to just about any social need in California. There
is just one problem, evident in the governors
budget documents but ignored by the public and the
Legislature. In the current fiscal year ending
June 30, California is running a deficit. And the
budget proposals for the next fiscal year
similarly project ...
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