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Unable To Play Dropped Through The Net Ball
942 wordsWhile standing at the three-point line, the ball seemed to be in slow motion. Screams from the crowd came as the ball dropped through the net. Not only did this shot go in, but also dropped through the net with such force that it made a sound that was heard throughout the gym. The place was packed and the fans were on their feet, I had just hit my first three pointer of my varsity basketball career. As our team set up the press, sweat dripped from my face. My opponent was close enough that I cou...
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Standard Of Living Trade Unions
1,986 wordsFascist Italy Style over substance To what extent is this true of Italy 1924 - 39 Mussolini did not rule with hand of iron in Italy and he was much more into propaganda and his own popularity. Yet he did achieve some victories for Italy. The substance Vs style issue can be looked at in a number of places e. g. social policy, cult of Mussolini etc Mussolini came to power in 1922 without any clear ideas about foreign policy but in just under a few months he had established a general aim, to make I...
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United States Government Atomic Bomb
263 wordsWas it really fair to take peoples rights away from them, throw them into camps that were not adequate, and not give them their rights? To top it all off it was unconstitutional. Well lets look at it from a standpoint of The United States National Government. It was a possible security risk of having Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States at that time. The Americans didnt know if what happen to Pearl Harbor could happen to any where else in the U. S. at that time. If you look at wh...
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U S District Department Of Justice
1,020 wordsIn 1994 Microsoft decided to get into the financial software system by attempting to be a central player in the mix of the software business. Bill Gates decided that the financial system would be where Microsoft would make their money. Employees of Microsoft set out with a great attitude to take control of the suddenly emerging electronic bank field. (Intuit Microsoft merger void Internet source) Intuit s Quicken software dominated the electronic banking field, controlling seventy percent of the...
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Mise En Scene Present Day
660 wordsAlthough the average viewer is rarely conscious of it, mise-en-scene is both a powerful and important cinematic technique in film. Mise-en-scene allows the director to guide the viewer s attention to what they should be looking at so that important details are not missed and trivial details are not focused on. Many effective elements of mise-en-scene are illustrated in the white room scene in The Matrix, in which directors Andy and Larry Wachowski use only minimal setting, costume, and staging i...
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Couple Of Days Period Of Time
918 wordsThrough out my teenage years I always had it made. I had security, support of my family, and other things. When I turned 16 I had found out something that would change my life forever, I was pregnant. As a teenager I was anorexic, therefore meaning I had a problem with getting fat. If I had gained just a little bit of weight I went on a crash diet (eating nothing at all for a period of time) till I lost the weight I had gained. For a period of time I had went through a spell of doing nothing but...
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Television Sets Population
2,201 wordsQuo Quo Vadis english-creative writing Quo Vadis? (Latin For? Where Do You Go? ? ) His arm was tattooed in black ink with the word? Alpha? . Behind his ears, there were instructions for both shut down and generator functions. These were handy in the Sears Catalog days before The Pollution. The days when playgrounds were full of laughing children were over. By at least two hundred years, they were over. The dry Nevada air whipped his synthetic hair into his eyes. He blinked it out. Before The Pol...
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Ty Cobb Babe Ruth
587 wordsI see great things in baseball. Its our game the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism, tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set, repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. " Walt Whitman " If youre not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything. " Chris Chambliss " Our country is the only one in the world with a national anthem that the last two words are " Play Bal...
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Bombing Of Hiroshima Die Immediately Movie
453 wordsOut of the Ashes It is August 5, 1945 and Japanese kids around the age of 10 are training for a war with the Americans; while over in America, American soldiers are getting lectured on the background of Hiroshima. These are the opening scenes of the movie, Out of the Ashes, a movie about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the effects on it. The normal things are going on in Hiroshima, Japan; the normal bustling around the city trying to get things done. Until later in the day when a warning is ...
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War Against Japan Hiroshima And Nagasaki
1,048 wordsHistory paper During the Second World War, the Americans faced a difficult time in their war against Japan. The topography of the land the well trained Japanese army and their motivation made it difficult to the Americans to decide the fate of the war. In front of that complex situation the Americans had decided to drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two major cities in Japan, killing thousands of people. The Americans hoped by doing that, they will bring the war to an end and inde...
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Chinese Exclusion Act Standard Of Living
1,214 wordsWhat caused our country to choose racism over open-mindedness, to choose exclusion over inclusion? Why could we not accept the Chinese immigrant in a country of foreigners? Could it have been jealousy? The thought of someone being better than the American people was something that was unacceptable so in turn we passed laws forbidding those of another race entry into our country. I suppose when the national anthem states the land of the free it wasnt pertaining to the Chinese. There were two main...
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Waited For The Sound Asked Jessica Door
1,078 wordsMy hand Quiet Quiet My hand shook violently as I fumbled with my keys. I tried to quiet the jingling, tried to unlock the door quickly without making much noise, tried to get inside before he caught up with me. I turned the knob and rushed through the door, locking it with a click behind me. My heart pounded in my ears as I shoved my back against the closed wooden door and shut my eyes. I held my breath as the footsteps echoed down the hallway. I prayed silently as they drew nearer, hoping they ...
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Bang After Bang Began On September Bombing
1,055 wordsIn September of 1940 through May of 1941 there was a strategic bombing attack that was lead by the Germans targeted towards London and other cities located in England, this was known as The Blitz. The Germans aimed the bombs mostly at populated cities, dock yards, and factories. The bombing on London began on September 7, 1940 and lasted for 57 consecutive nights. During these nights of bombing people took shelter in warehouse basements, and in underground subway stations with no privacy and poo...
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Oil Crisis Stock Market
327 wordsRecently, the stock market has been very unstable. After a period of extremely good business and market highs, it seems we are experiencing just the opposite. The market has become increasingly unsure and risky, even with well known companies. I believe the shift in the stock market is based partly with the oil crisis caused by OPEC and partly with constant bad reports presented by companies. Maybe if assessment firms gave good reports more often than bad ones, the market would go up. The market...
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Rimbaud Poetry Life
368 wordsPart II A man so confused and confusing as Arthur Rimbaud, it is a wonder that he can even be analyzed, critiqued, and judged by his literary works. Never the less it has been done, however how accurate can they be, when even Rimbaud said in his Lettre Du Voyant that for the I is someone else. That Much is clear to me: I am a spectator at the blossoming of my own thought. Charles Whimbley (essay date 1899) tried to explain where Rimbaud was coming from and how he came up with the prose that he d...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sex Education Classes
1,791 wordsSex Education and the Classroom In todays society there is an on going debate over sex education and its influence on our children. The question is no longer should sex education be taught, but rather how it should be taught (DeCarlo). With teenage pregnancy rates higher than ever and the imminent threat of the contraction of STDs, such as HIV, the role of sex education in the school is of greater importance now then ever before. By denying children sex education you are in a sense sheltering th...
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Danielle Westerman Carol Shields Reta
1,181 wordsHell hath no fury Unless by Carol Shields 224 pp, Fourth Estate The chapter headings of Carol Shieldss new novel take the form of prepositions and conjunctions Notwithstanding, Despite, Whatever, etc. The word But is not among them, though its one she has met, in open deprecation or as a silent parenthesis, when her books are reviewed. Her best-known books Happenstance, The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party, The Republic of Love are known for their accessibility (but not for their wisdom); are praise...
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Life Without Parole Capital Punishment
1,139 wordsCapital Punishment It is by exacting the highest penalty for the taking of human life (Edward Koch). As a supporter of the death penalty, I believe that capital punishment is a good thing for each state and its citizens. It is a very big issue. Putting people to death was a form of punishment that many states have practiced in past years. The United States today, capital punishment has been practiced, abolished, then reinstated. I believe capital punishment is necessary and not an option. Our so...
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Degrees Celsius Kinetic Theory
806 wordsSquash Ball Experiment Input Variables: Pressure Of Air in Ball Type Of Surface Height Of Drop Temperature of Ball Material of Ball Acceleration Due To Gravity Mass Angle Of Surface Air Resistance Diameter of Ball Outcome: Height Of Bounce Prediction The squash ball will bounce higher as the temperature gets warmer. This is because as it gets warmer the atoms in the ball vibrate more. This means that when it hits the ground the atoms push each other way forcing the ball to bounce higher. When th...
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Laura Tom
1,648 wordsThe Glass Menagerie: A Study in Symbolism In the drama, The Glass Menagerie (1945), Tennessee Williams reflects upon personal experiences he and his family encountered during the Depression of the 1930? s. As a lower class family, the characters are placed in the slums of St. Louis in 1935. The protagonist, Tom Wingfield, is the narrator and Williams? surrogate. Living with his mother and sister, Tom supports them by working in a shoe manufacturing warehouse. He should feel lucky to have this jo...
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