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University Of Toronto Handmaids Tale
498 wordsNovelist, poet, short story writer, critic, teacher, and feminist Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born on November 18, 1939. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Atwood was the second of three children to Carl Edmond and Margaret Dorothy Killam Atwood. She went on to marry writer, Graeme Gibson, and give birth to a daughter named Jess. Atwood's religion was that of Immanent Transcendentalist. During her childhood, she spent her summers in Northern Quebec while her father fulfilled aspirations of being a forest ...
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Leisure Activities Philadelphia Pa
597 wordsPeiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of -the-Century New York (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1986). Kathy Peiss describes the leisure activities of young working women living in New York during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in her book Cheap Amusements. The book explores the emergence of a young female working class and the conflict the women encountered with the "Old World" traditions. Peiss also explores the commercialization of lei...
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Intrinsic Value Mutual Funds
1,305 words1. Introduction: The world of futures and options. A. Explanation of futures contract. A. Explanation of options contract. C. Intrinsic value and time value of contracts. 4. Conclusion: Risky investments. Futures and options are very similar financial investments. Basically, these two investments are the result of financial uncertainty. They are used for speculation and for hedging against losses from other areas. A futures contract is the right to buy or sell some commodity or financial instrum...
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Drug Abuse With Athletes
1,254 words... of energy, reduced levels of drive and ambition, apathy, depression, agitation, and withdrawal from previous interests. It's believed that this syndrome can be reversed by abstinence. Marijuana affects most people socially too... Some take place internally and some are irreversible. Males who take large doses of anabolic steroids typically experience changes in sexual characteristics. Some possible side effects are shrinking of testicles, reduced sperm count, impotence, balding, difficulty i...
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Management Of The Public Lands System
1,029 wordsManagement of the BLM's Public Lands System The government has control of over one-third of the nation's land, and 398 million acres of that is controlled by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM 6). This land hold a wide diversity of resources, from timber, and grazing lands found on the surface to a mass of oil, natural gas, and minerals laying below the earth. The history of these lands is hardly a dull story, because it is the story of the taming of the "Wild West." Should the BLM though, still...
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Played A Big Won The War
1,034 wordsWWI - The Battle of Passchendaele: ISU Some politicians, soldiers, and military historians say that the battle of Passchendaele was "the most futile of battles and the most horrendous of slaughters" (Dancocks Inside Front Cover). Others, such as Norm Christie remark that "Passchendaele was a huge achievement" (Back Cover). The battle of Passchendaele lasted a grueling four months in the year of 1917. Two-hundred-fifty-thousand soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing; Sixteen-thousand of which ...
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Critical Incident Stress Cis
902 wordsEmergency Service Worker's (ESW's) can experience excitement from saving property from destruction and the ultimate satisfaction of saving a life, but the exhilaration and thrills can come to a holt when ESW's are faced with an occupational hazard called Critical Incident Stress (CIS). (Mitchell 86). A critical incident does not have to be a major disaster, but is any situation faced by Emergency Service Worker's (ESW) that causes them to experience strange reactions which may have the potential...
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Chinese Communist Party Prime Minister
1,055 wordsLeader and leading theorist of the Chinese communist revolution, born in the village of Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China, the son of a farmer. He graduated from Changsha teachers' training college, then worked at Beijing University, where he was influenced by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. He took a leading part in the May Fourth Movement, becoming a Marxist and a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (1921). During the first united front with the Guomindang (Nationalist Party), he concentrat...
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1,555 wordsLangston Hughes was one of the most original and versatile black writers of twentieth-century Langston Hughes, I never realizing the monumental literary portfolio that he produced. His accomplishments are well represented through his poetry, fiction, and drama. Born in Joplin, Missouri, to James Nathaniel and Carrie Mercer Langston Hughes, he was reared for a time by his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas after his parents' divorce. By his twelfth birthday he had lived in several major cities, foll...
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Put To Death Death Penalty
1,602 wordsDeath Penalty The death penalty is needed in the country, do to the high crime rate and violence. It helps as a deterred, stopping people from committing crime, such as murder. With the death penalty it also brings closure to the victims family, because they are reassured that the person that committed the crime is going to pay for what they have done. The death penalty can also help save the taxpayers money if the execution is done an a timely manner. But as everything in this world nothing is ...
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Lucille Ball Love Lucy
756 wordsCuban bandleader and singer-turned savvy TV mogul who, after his marriage to comedienne Lucille Ball in 1940, parlayed their successful I Love Lucy series into the Desi TV production empire, which in its heyday also produced the successful and highly lucrative The Untouchables and Star Trek series. p Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Area III was born in 1917 to wealthy Cuban landowners. His father was also the mayor of the town they lived in, but that soon changed. At the age of 16, Desi and his mot...
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Chief Executive Officer Senior Vice President
1,269 wordsEastern Airlines Facing Bankruptcy In 1986, Eastern Airlines was in desparate trouble. The fourth quarter of 1985 had shown a $ 67. 4 million loss, and financially experts had told Frank Borman, president and chief executive officer, that the airline had three choices: 1) a 20 percent pay cut for all union and non contract employees. 2) Filing for Chapter 11 (bankruptcy) or 3) Selling the airline. On February 23, 1986, Eastern's board of directors met to decide the fate of the company. Frank Bor...
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Prime Minister India
1,110 wordsIn every region of the world there are culture and social differences that set countries apart. Each with an economic, social and political outlooks on the future that determine the way people live. These endless arrays, even occur in different parts of a particular of every country including one of the worlds most diverse, India. India is separated into 25 states and 7 territories which create 16 major languages and 1, 000 minor languages and dialects. This diversity in language creates somewha...
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Nobel Peace Prize Gold Medal
880 wordsElie Wiesel's statement, " to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all" stands as a summary of his views on life and serves as the driving force of his work. Wiesel is the author of 36 works dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust, and the moral responsibility of all people to fight hatred, racism and genocide. Born September 30, 1928, Eliezer Wiesel led a life representative of many Jewish children. Growing up in a small village in Romania, his world revolved around family...
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Ray Brown Record Label Fitzgerald
853 wordsSinger. Born April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. (Though many biographical sources give her birth date as 1918, her birth certificate and school records show her to have been born a year earlier. ) Often referred to as the first lady of song, Fitzgerald enjoyed a career that stretched over six decades. With her lucid intonation and a range of three octaves, she became the preeminent jazz singer of her generation, recording over 2, 000 songs, selling over 40 million albums, and winning 13 ...
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Race Class And Gender Men And Women
1,244 wordsGender, Class, And Race Stereotypes In American Gender, Class, And Race Stereotypes In American Television Gender, Class, and Race Stereotypes in American Television A Content Analysis Gender, class, and race stereotypes abound in contemporary society, much like they have done throughout human history. With the advent of television, however, stereotypical assumptions have become so pervasive, and so diffused, that some call for a serious and purposeful scrutiny of televisions contents. On the fo...
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Cliffs Notes Asia Minor
790 wordsThere is no Homer HOMER There is no question that the writer of the Iliad and the Odyssey was one of the greatest poets in the history of Western Europe, but aside from this, very little can be said about him. Ancient Greek tradition, as well as a study of language and the style of the poems indicates that he probably lived and wrote sometime in the eighth or ninth centuries B. C. , but no more definite date can be determined. In ancient times, seven different cities claimed the honor of having ...
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Tens Of Thousands Martial Law
1,025 wordsThe movement led by Cory against the dictatorial rule resulted in the People Power Revolution that overthrew the Marcos government in February 1986. Once in power, Cory ordered all political prisoners freed and built the machinery for democracy. Cory ordered the dismantling of monopolies controlled by the cronies of President Marcos. The economy showed signs of recovery but a series of political struggles and natural calamities that ensued threatened the gains made by her administration. Her pre...
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Chairman Of The Bbc Marmaduke Hussey Long
656 wordsDuring it out Chance Governs All Marmaduke Hussey 326 pp, Macmillan In September 1986, the doomed director-general of the BBC, Alastair Milne, was on a platform at the National Film Theatre when he was handed a note. It told him that a new chairman of the BBC had been appointed. Milne rose to leave as fast as his brown suede shoes would allow, with journalists, including me, in hot pursuit. Ive never heard of him, he said of Marmaduke Hussey, a previous managing director of Times Newspapers, who...
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Patients With Schizophrenia People With Schizophrenia
1,016 wordsIs Schizophrenia Associated With Crime? Lisa Moore Abstract Many studies have been conducted to examine the relationship, if any, of schizophrenia and crime. Some of these studies have shown that there is a relationship between the two. The general public believes that schizophrenia is associated with violent crime. The perceived link between mental illness and violence could lie in television and films that sensationalize murders committed by mentally ill persons. Studies, results and interpret...
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