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Chili Judge One Cayenne Peppers Frank
809 wordsNotes from an inexperienced Seattle chili taster named Frank who was visiting Texas: Recently I was honored to be selected as an Outstanding Famous Celebrity in Texas, to be a judge at a chili cook-off because no one else wanted to do it. Also the original person called in sick at the last minute and I happened to be standing there at the judges' table asking directions to the beer wagon when the call came in. I was assured by the other two judges (native Texans) that the chili wouldn't be all t...
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Made Out Of Wood Appearance And Reality
1,202 wordsUses of seeming idioms are to express what one believes is most likely the case or to express reluctance about what is specifically the case. Even though one thing may appear to be another, as in the case of the finger and water using the term appears means that if one saw the finger in the water without knowing the actual size of the finger, one would not be able to distinguish whether the finger was actually large or only seemed to be large. Looking idioms can be considered in three main respe...
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1,210 wordsTHE TWO SIDES OF ME I can vividly remember when I took my first drink of alcohol. I was five years old then when I first got my taste of a hard drink at a party. It was not exactly a memorable one but I got to like the different taste it had. It was as if I feel that I was an adult so I seemed to crave for it during those times when I felt like an immature boy. I continued to drink a lot and by 13, I was an alcoholic. I drank in order to have fun and to belong. The effects on alcohol made me str...
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Coffee Good Or Bad
1,133 wordsCoffee: Good or Bad? Abstract Coffee has been part of human life for many centuries, and in cultivation for at least 1400 years since its legendary discovery in the Arabian Peninsula. However, like many other foods is now under scientific and economic scrutiny. This article looks at the positive and negative aspects of the subject. Outline Introduction This asks the question Is Coffee good or bad for society? , a simple pleasure or a drug? Benefits A certain amount of coffee can be beneficial to...
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Catherine Zeta Jones Director Rob Marshall Chicago
546 wordsThe 1920 's in Chicago. The city is rife with illegal booze, jazz clubs, and corruption. Roxie (Renee Zellweger) is a chorus girl who dreams of being a star. One day she shoots her lover in a rage at his betrayal. In prison she meets Velma (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who was Chicago's most celebrated showgirl until she shot and killed two people. Velma has retained the city's most successful defense lawyer, Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), who never fails to produce acquittals for women indicted for murd...
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1,034 wordsClement Greenberg (1909 - 1995) 'Avant-Garde and Kitsch' Clement Greenberg is an influential twentieth century art critic, best known for his promotion and defense of abstract expressionism. In "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939) he somewhat paradoxically combined his socialist convictions with a defense of avant-garde, abstract, "non-objective" painting and poetry, even while admitting that this art appealed to a small and shrinking elite, members of the ruling class, on whose money the avant-garde...
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Colonial Era Civil Liberties
1,148 wordsMovie Review The colonial history of North Carolina is filled with numerous outbreaks of violence, due to independent spirit of people who lived in this part of America at the time. This is because it was much harder for colonial administration to maintain their authority there then anywhere else, since the area was scarcely populated, with lack of reliable means of communication and only a few roads. (1) The Battle of Alamance many consider as a prelude to American War for Independence, which b...
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Lowering Fat Intake Diet Safe And Toxic Foods Vegetables
762 wordsNutritious Diet In the 21 st century diets have been transformed by refrigeration, improved and faster transportation, advances in food preservation, and new farming methods that prolong the growing season and increase the yield per acre. As a result, foods are available more regularly, items purchased in one season can be frozen and consumed in another, and prices have become more competitive. There is the growing number of households in which all adults are employed, contributed to an increase...
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How Did Music Influence My Life
748 wordsHow Did Music Influence My Life I suppose that there is hardly a person in the world, who feels indifferent to music. Music is one of the most beautiful, inimitable and divine forms of art, which may evoke wide spectrum of emotions: from sorrow to happiness, from cry to laughter. Music is universal language, and it occupies very important place in our culture. It helps people to express feelings, to communicate or to learn better. Every nation and ethnic group has special unique tunes and melodi...
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1,082 wordsGenius for Acting of Jack Nicholson Jack Nicholson is an extremely successful American actor, screenwriter, producer and director. He gained his fame and recognition as a wonderful performer for his laconic style and explosive temper, for his vivid portraying of cynical, sarcastic, aggressive and eccentric personages. His talent is appreciated and generously estimated: he received seven Golden Globe Awards and won Kennedy Center Honors, he has been numerously nominated for an Academy Award, thre...
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Jeffrey Moore Weidenfeld Red Rose Chain One
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Edna Journey
3,162 wordsThe following paper is in regard to Mary Wollstonecraft? s novel Maria, or the Wrongs of Women and Kate Chopin? s novel titled The Awakenings. The two stories have a similar plot and both discuss the oppression of women in the institution of marriage. This paper will include how the two main characters in each story, Maria (in Maria) and Edna (in The Awakenings) challenge the oppressive ideology by finding a new love and how they also encountered problems as long the way. Edna? s Marriage? It wa...
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1,130 wordsMy intentions was to return to that rather frightening but nonetheless undeniably intriguing place where I had been on my last trip. A bizarre, brain wrapped around the universe, mode. This time I was equipped with a greater degree of understanding of the place, due in part to conversations I had had, and in part to my own realizations in integrating the details of the last trip. Only a double dose of LSD this time, but it was quite enough. Again, the start time was late at night. I lie in bed. ...
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Third Place Cottage Time
679 wordsThe world is a very busy place. Life is hectic and running on a strict unbending schedule. Sometimes all of us have an urge to go against all logic and reason and bend this schedule a bit. This is the time when we take a U-turn from the hectic to the peaceful. This is the time when we take a vacation. This is the time when we break ourselves away from logic and order and enter a third place where order and logic dont matter. The only thing that matters is inner peace and quiet. For me this third...
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American Dream Dinner Party
1,134 wordsSelf-Betrayal In American Pastoral And Great Gatsby Self-Betrayal In American Pastoral And Great Gatsby The final scene in American Pastoral and the first party scene at the Gatsby estate in Great Gatsby serve important functions in explaining common characteristics of Swede and Gatsby. The scenes convey that both protagonists share a common trait of not being true to themselves. In these scenes, both characters betray themselves so that they can attempt to live their version of the American Dre...
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Potato Chips Liver Cancer
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Physical Activity Daily Routine
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Driving Force P 14
739 wordsPhilosophy, Hume An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals What is a moral? This is a question that has plagued philosophers for many years. Is it possible have a set of universal morals? There are many questions that surround the mystery of morals. They seem to drive our every action. We base our decisions on what is right and what is wrong. But what is itthatt actually determines what is right and what is wrong? Is it our sense of reason? Is it our sense of sentiment? This is a question t...
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768 wordsWater is the most refreshing drink in the world, and probably the cheapest. People drink water because its easy to achieve and cost barely anything. Lemon is one of the worse kinds of grapefruit people eat or doesnt eat at all. It taste extremely sour and even bitter if you eat the skin. But if you add these two ingredients together, you get one of the most prolific drinks ever. There are hundreds of ways of making lemonade. From whiskey lemonade to chocolate lemonade, there is a very wide range...
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