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Gas Station License Plate
1,900 wordsMary and Peter Jackson were driving down highway 50 in the middle of Nevada when Collie Entragian, the Desperation police officer, pulled them over for having a missing rear license plate. He told Peter that he could take the front license plate off and put it on the back and they should be ok. Peter went to the trunk of the car to get a tool kit under the spare tire. When he lifted up the tire to get the tools, Entragian and Peter found a bag of marijuana. Entragian started to get violent and h...
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Thoughts Rushed Through My Mind Held My Knees Close Body
1,943 wordsI could smell the vodka entering my lungs, surrounding my body in its evil presence. I held my knees close to my body, and rested my head upon a kneecap. The shattering glass echoed in the background, filling my ears with the calls from hell. Tears ran down the sides of my cheeks, as I tried to hold back from bawling. My whole body began to shake as the fighting between the two I loved grew louder and harsher. Bottles crashed against the walls and shattered into a million pieces on the cold tile...
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Eapont And Dathan Fairly Easy One
1,342 wordsThe pleading breaths and throbbing heart of the man echoed through the tangibly silent darkness of the crisp midnight air. A shot rang out as he collapsed and struggled to breathe through the warm liquids that filled his severed esophagus. Suffocation overcame him while two more equally fatal shots were delivered into his chest and spinal column. Three pale gray uniforms emerged from their assigned sentinels and, without any disgust or remorse, carried his limp murdered body down through a stair...
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Balance Of Power School Of Thought
1,052 wordsMuch of written history displays the conquests of the most powerful nations over less powerful ones. This has led to ever-changing territories as nations have been conquered or have conquered others and the most powerful nations or alliances of nations hold the ultimate authority. Especially in the past century, however, there has not been one major world power but many powerful nation-states capable of dominating the smaller nation-states around them. Before World War One, a balance of power (i...
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Republican Government Political Power
297 wordsRome had an well-organized government that used monarchy, democracy, and aristocracy to make it balanced. However, the Republican government collapsed and modified the powers of the rich and poor. The citizens have the power to vote, add laws, and make changes by voting for their leader to do this for the people. When the government collapsed, the citizens didn't get these advantages and the rich came to power. The collapse of the government occurred because a variety of events. First, the peopl...
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The Effect Of Temperature On Air Pressure
1,303 wordsDESCRIPTION: My project consists of a series experiments to determine the effect of air pressure in a given environment at various temperatures. The experiments I chose to conduct are: 1) Heat an ordinary pop can on a hot plate and then putting the can upside down in cold water to see the effect of a fast change in temperature. 2) Partially full milk jug with hot water, put the cap on tightly, and let it sit for one hour to see the effect of a slow change in temperature. 3) Setting a small piece...
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Power Or Light People
406 wordsAs an Armenian poet Hovaness Tumanyan said, "No sun, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no birds, December. " The beauty has gone since the earthquake occured. We live in the world today that business, commerce, science, technology, changes very fast. Even in the new century scientists can't predict the disaster, the earthquake. The five-minute earthquake can destroy a huge country. Armenia was a highly industrialized country. Agriculture was the second largest sector of the Armenian economy. Th...
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Young Girl Three Years
1,158 wordsIt was a dreadful afternoon, big droplets of rain fell directly on my face and clothes. I tasted the droplets that mixed with my tears, the tears I cried after the incident. The pain in my foot was excruciating. It caused me to make a big decision of whether I should visit you or not. I decided I would. I limped towards my bright, blue car where my bony, body collapsed onto the seat. I started the engine up but at the same time being cautious of my bleeding foot. I then drove to the destination ...
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Material Possessions Social Relationships
1,379 words... tives make decisions that affect the lives of many other people, and there are often ethical dimensions to these decisions. It is true that, in recent years, a number of Big Businesses have been accused of overstepping ethical boundaries in their drive for profit. What I find disturbing, though, is that even in these charges, the focus is invariably on money: Did a business executive or particular investor (like Martha Stewart) make a profit from having inside information, while others lost ...
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20 Th Century Neutron Stars
1,393 wordsThe 20 th century saw a great many new discoveries regarding celestial phenomena in the universe. One of these entities, which has only recently been encountered, is the Black Hole. These are formed when a star which has consumed all its fuel collapses in on itself, eventually turning into a black hole with infinite density and zero volume and an immensely powerful magnetic field. We are unable to see black holes even with the most powerful telescope, because their gravitational pull is so stron...
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Mikhail Gorbachev Ronald Reagan
1,232 words... believed that the feared nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union might begin due to the actions of Reagan. However, the lofty Star Wars project was never built or put into operation partly due to the massive budget it would have required and the controversy it stirred about its function. Not all of the actions by the Reagan administration increased tensions between the two great superpowers. In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev visited the U. S 7. He and Reagan signed the Intermedia...
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Lost Their Jobs Factories Closed Prices
565 wordsOn October the 24 th, 1929 the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed when millions of shares at inflated prices were offered on sale. Over $ 50 billions were lost on what was called "Black Thursday" when the stock prices returned to their actual value. Soon after the crash, the entire world economy began a period of deflation; prices and wages dropped as the demand for goods was significantly reduced. Because of this lack of need for goods production halted and several factories closed; peopl...
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Soviet Union Cold War
698 wordsThe Cold War: Was there a Soviet Plan to Dominate the World? (1) In order to be able to positively answer the question about whether Soviet Union strived to dominate and even to conquer the world, one only needs to look at Soviet coat of arms, in which hammer and the sickle are crossed over the globe. Since the time when Soviet Union was founded in 1922, to the time when it collapsed, Soviet Constitution openly stated that USSR only temporarily consists of 15 republics and that it is only the ma...
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Contemporary Society Republican Government
313 wordsContemporary Society's Link To The Republican Fall Contemporary Society's Link To The Republican Fall In Rome Rome had an well-organized government that used monarchy, democracy, and aristocracy to make it balanced. However, the Republican government collapsed and modified the powers of the rich and poor. The citizens have the power to vote, add laws, and make changes by voting for their leader to do this for the people. When the government collapsed, the citizens didnt get these advantages and ...
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Germanic Tribes Roman Empire
900 wordsRome was not built in a day, nor did it fall in a day. Many factors contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. The most important factors were that the cities consumed without producing and that disease ravaged the Roman world. The Roman cities never became commercial cities like the cities of the Greek Empire. After the Punic Wars, the plebeian farmers flocked to the cities looking for food. Their farms had been demolished and there was no food left for them and their families to eat. Rome ga...
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Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche
1,435 wordsFriedrich Nietzsche was born in Rock. He spent much of his time alone, reading the Bible. Nietzsche? s father died in 1849. The young man withdrew deeper into religion. Friedrich received a scholarship to Schulpforta, an elite predatory school with only 200 students, in October 1858. The scholarship as intended to fund Nietzsche? s training for the clergy. His mother, Franziska, and his young sister, Elizabeth, are dedicated to Friedrich? s success, certain of his future. At the age of 18, Nietz...
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Hundred Feet Ten Minutes
2,162 wordsSo Gothic Story Gothic Story So what are we going to do? , asked Brad. I don? t know. We always just hang out around town until we get sick of it and go home, I said. That? s so boring, though, Mike said. We should do something different tonight. What, though, Brad said. Everything else costs money. And we don? t have any. You got to have a job before you get money, and why would I waste my summer by getting a job? Hey! I know what we could do, Mike said with sudden excitement. We could go out t...
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Knights Of Labor Labor Unions
861 wordsOrganized labor, during the period from 1875 to 1900, was not as successful in improving the position of workers as one was hoping it would be. There are many results that arose from these organized labor attempts that prove how unsuccessful they actually were. These results include the collapse of many labor unions such as, NLU, Knights of Labor, and ARU, the failure of many strikes such as, the Great Railroad Strike, the Haymarket Riot, and the Pullman Strike, and the techniques used by manage...
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Brave New World Ability To Control
1,141 wordsThe Eleventh Commandment portrayed the state church as being the supreme dictator. It is through the eleventh commandment that the church held its power and control over the masses. Without the church and its leaders to guide the masses, their society would have collapsed. However, compared to Brave New World, the whole society is conditioned to " work for everyone else" (Huxley 67) by the abuse and daily consumption of soma. Without the drug called soma, their society would have also ...
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Andrew Carnegie Competitive Nature
1,609 wordsEven before the beginning of the twentieth century, the debate between socialists and capitalists has raged. In The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, he portrays capitalism as the cause of all evils in society. Sinclair shows the horrors of capitalism. In The Gospel of Wealth, by Andrew Carnegie, he portrays capitalism as a system of opportunity. However, both Carnegie and Sinclair had something to gain from their writings; both men had an agenda. Capitalism and socialism both have advantages and pitfa...
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