The Blind And Deaf
.... that the person is blind. They are also longer than a normal cane so that the blind person can find his or her way around. Another aid to get around is a specially trained dog. These dogs can lead a blind person around without difficulty. Engineers are developing new devices to help the blind. One of these is a sonar device that is in a pair of glasses. These glasses send out sonar that reflects back sound. There are also many other types of glasses made to help the partially blind.
The first sc .....
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The Burning Of Chicago
.... than good. Waud before returning to St. Louis made a full sketch of the city, which was later turned into an engraving. Keeler stated that there weren't enough ruins to make an accurate sketch. Many important buildings were lost. Headlines in the Chicago Tribune read; 'Chicago shall rise again!'. The western mentality of hard work made it possible to rebuild the city. One year later Waud returned to Chicago on an assignment to make new sketches of the city, found pleasure in illustrating pictures wit .....
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The Calling Of Isaiah
.... oracles of Isaiah are found in the first part of the book. Chapters 6-12 are considered the oldest collection in the book. It includes the account of the vocation and mission of the prophet, the oracles concerning the Syro-Ephraimite War, oracles referring to the crisis of 701B.C.E., and other salvation passages (Obstat, p.278).
Isaiah chapter 6 versus 1-13 stand apart from the rest of the Bible as a unique record of how God called on and reached out to a man, and in doing so a prophet was bo .....
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The Camera
.... the lens. With twin-lens reflex and larger view cameras, the whole lens and the panel are moved toward or away from the film. To view an object for composing nearly every camera has some kind of viewfinder. One of the simplest types is a screen that is placed on the back of the camera and replaced by the film in making the exposure. This time-consuming procedure is avoided in the modern 35-mm single-lens reflex cameras by placing the screen in a special housing on top of the camera. Inside the c .....
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The Canadian Personality
.... great piles of money, while we tell of our failing economy. There could be the odd time where we think of our good contributions to this planet. Then we realize that our importance is going down in world affairs and start to sulk once again.
Another trait that sets Canada apart from the other nations of the world is our great ethnic diversity. No other country in the world has inhabitants from so many different backgrounds, still practicing their cultural traits. Canada seems to encourage being .....
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The Causes Of American Revolut
.... opinions on the revolution; for example, J. Franklin Jameson said the nature of the revolution could be divided in four categories:
a. Establish personal rights and liberties. Through the war of independence, American society started to pay attention to their rights. The improvement of the slave’s condition was a very good example.
b. Focus on land and availability of land for the settlers. In fact during Andrew Jackson period was a movement of peasants that can hold lands.
c. The abolition .....
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The Challenges Of Dating
.... feel
the same when it comes to yours. The person you choose to date
will have to understand and trust that your friends, whether male
or female are just platonic friends. Some people have more friends of the opposite sex than others. In factbecause people get along better with the opposite sex,the person you date should not be jealous of the closeness you have with your friends. Jealousy
plays a key role in destroying a relationship. I, for example, have more male friends that females; in .....
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The Changes In The World And T
.... the selection, a prstigious internaltional for depressi8on and other mental illnesses.
In making the slection, a prestigious international jury hailed Miledi for unraveling fundamental scientific answeres to questina about how nerve cells communicate.
He was in the beautiful valleys of Ovideo, Spain, to accep the honor from Queen Juan Pressy. His outstanding prize of the International Prize for the Science and is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy o .....
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The Channeled Scablands Of Eas
.... ago- volcanic rock terrained eastern Washington. This rock floor was 10,000 feet thick in places and covered more then 100,000 square miles. The lave fields were almost completely surrounded by mountains and encircled by three rivers. As the molten rock cooled it began to crack and form hexagonal patterns through out it. These joints broke up the lava in vertical columns of basalt rock. After eruptions as a whole stopped, the lava field was tilted as a unit to the southwest. Today the northeast ri .....
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The Christian Gospels
.... and teachings that appear throughout all the Gospels, both Biblical and Gnostic. Together, these two beliefs form a basis for a number of new theories about how the Gospels were written.
All the Gospels were written after the Roman sack of Jerusalem in 70A.D. The first to be written was the Gospel of Mark around 75A.D. This work was intended for the Jewish audience of Judea, which had just gone through a bloody war with the Roman Empire. With that in mind, Mark focuses his story on the Death of Jesus .....
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The Church On Homelessness
.... is a sign of the presence of the kingdom
of salvation and liberation.
3) The mission of the church also consists in helping to make society
more human.
The Catholic Church agrees with these three ideas and also makes its
own judgement on the suffering of these millions of people. From the time of
the earliest Christian communities, the church has always shown a preference
for the poor, the needy, and on the outcasts of society. The way that the
church insists on reaching out to the .....
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The Color Purple
.... away and she is told they are dead. Then she gets bargained off to this man, Mr., who becomes her husband and she becomes his slave. He beats her, makes her take care of his rotten children, cook and clean, and work his feilds. They never make love, but he rapes her. Her sister, Nettie,comes to live with them awhile and when she leaves Mr. tries to rape her. Nettie gets away, but Mr. swears Celie will never hear from her again. After many months without a word from Nettie, Celie decides she must be dead. .....
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The Coming Of Age
.... In “The Lesson” the character, Sugar undergoes a realization of the world around her, through her teacher Miss Moore, Sugar notices that there is a better way of living in the world besides, her own little world with her friends. Sugar says, “You know, Miss Moore, I don’t think that all of us here put together eat in a year what that sailboat costs,” (Bambara 452). Miss Moore is an African American woman who has broken through the expectation that society has plac .....
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The Communication Challenge
.... "Hello? Is anybody listening? Enough with the 'why we're changing' crap," was one of my responses during a study interview. "I want solid information I can use to make real decisions. Not just 'context setting.'"
Context is nice, and if done well, greatly helps us understand the changing world around us. But mostly (over 80 percent) what we're looking for is clear, effective, useful, day-to-day information and sense-making. Think of the majority of our communication needs as organizing and deliverin .....
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The Communication Of Cyberspac
.... to keep a conversation flowing in a chat room while using correct grammar and punctuation. The main purpose of modifying the original language was to speed up the rate of conversations. The second reason is that online communication is very impersonal. Nobody knows with whom they are really communicating. Even if they have talked to that person online before there is still a great deal that is unknown about that individual such as height, bodily figure, weight, facial features. Another way that langu .....
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