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- 481: An American Epidemic
- ... a criminal. In the 1980 s it appeared that teen pregnancy was going to be the downfall of American society, but as Marion Wright Edelman, president of the children s advocacy group puts it, The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children. Between 1979 and 1993, guns killed more than 60,000 children, a figure greater than the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. Also, a child in the United States ...
- 482: All An Adventurer Must Know Ab
- ... sour dishes, lengthily cooked and fast-cooked ingredients, exotic spices and condiments - while retaining its own very special character. International Food Chinese food in Thailand, normally quite bland is second to none. Major European, Levantine, Asian and Oriental cuisine are represented in gourmet restaurants. American, English and Continental breakfasts are served in most hotels and numerous, ubiquitous coffeeshops specia1ise in European dishes. Western-style fast food shops, snack bars and ice-cream parlours gain increasing popularity with Thais. Restaurants and Food shops Food parks, or centres, usually in large shopping malls and hotels, are unusual Thai ventures. Numerous restaurants offer every imaginable type of Asian cuisine and huge colour pictures of dishes assist diners in their choices. Open-air garden restaurants, and riverine restaurants, are more peaceful and are favoured in the evenings by most Bangkokians. Menus are extensive. Service ...
- 483: The French Revolution
- ... Louis XVI came into power, he realized that these problems existed. At first he did not know what to do, until he found a man by the name of Robert Turgot. He eased the financial crisis of France, but he had difficulties when he tried to introduce a major reform, that of taxing the nobles. He had such difficulties because the king could not tax the nobles unless the Parliament approved ... The Estates General was the place where representatives from each social class could be represented. Here, many issues would be discussed, and at this time in French history, it would be centered around the economic crisis. When the Estates General met in 1789, the deputies, or representatives, from the Third Estate demanded that the three estates meet together, with each deputy having an equal vote. That way, the First and Second ...
- 484: A Lesson From Oliver
- ... into print, by which time someone who knew how to go about that task would undoubtedly have returned from their distant cavortings... I sidled my way back to the newsroom, hoping against hope that the crisis had somehow managed to resolve itself, pack up and move on during my three-minute news break. From my vantage point at the window it was plain that, if anything, there were now more police ... buildings and, of course, the plush offices of CJRS. Next came a series of eye-witness weather reports. These were eventually embellished by complete three-day forecasts when I discovered that, oblivious to my personal crisis, the telex machine continued to perform its duties a scant four feet away. The final insult came with the tapping of a later report over the wire in which BN described events at a bank ...
- 485: Ebonics Is Not The Answer
- ... under-educated with provincial variances in accent and structure from locale to locale throughout the English-speaking world," declared the NAACP. "What our children need, and other disadvantaged American children as well -- Indian, Spanish-speaking, Asian, Appalachian and immigrant Caucasian -- is training in basic English which today is nearly an international language as any in the world... Let our children have the opportunity, and be encouraged to learn the language which ... Ebonics instruction in California's public schools because Ebonics is an unacceptable dumbing-down of English standards that legitimizes academic underachievement by creating a role for slang in education. Oakland District states in its bulletin Asian-American, Latino-American, Native American, and all other language-different children are provided general funds for bilingual education, English as a Second Language (ESL) and state and federal (Title VIII) bilingual education programs to address ...
- 486: The French Revolution
- ... Louis XVI came into power, he realized that these problems existed. At first he did not know what to do, until he found a man by the name of Robert Turgot. He eased the financial crisis of France, but he had difficulties when he tried to introduce a major reform, that of taxing the nobles. He had such difficulties because the king could not tax the nobles unless the Parliament approved ... The Estates General was the place where representatives from each social class could be represented. Here, many issues would be discussed, and at this time in French history, it would be centered around the economic crisis. When the Estates General met in 1789, the deputies, or representatives, from the Third Estate demanded that the three estates meet together, with each deputy having an equal vote. That way, the First and Second ...
- 487: The Major Cause of the French Revolution
- ... Louis XVI came into power, he realized that these problems existed. At first he did not know what to do, until he found a man by the name of Robert Turgot. He eased the financial crisis of France, but he had difficulties when he tried to introduce a major reform, that of taxing the nobles. He had such difficulties because the king could not tax the nobles unless the Parliament approved ... The Estates General was the place where representatives from each social class could be represented. Here, many issues would be discussed, and at this time in French history, it would be centered around the economic crisis. When the Estates General met in 1789, the deputies, or representatives, from the Third Estate demanded that the three estates meet together, with each deputy having an equal vote. That way, the First and Second ...
- 488: Domestic Violence
- ... look the other way even when a man mad it's to wife beating." (Langley and Levy 154) When the judicial system fails to help the abused, the abused must turn elsewhere. Places such as crisis centers, church, or shelters. But in many places there are no such places or organizations to help the abused, then the abused must depend on community help as well as family and friends to help ... Violence" (1997): June 3. 1997 Http://www.abanet.org/domeviol/home.htm Lemon, Nancy. Domestic Violence Law: A comprehensive Overview of Cases and Sources. Austin: 1996 Langely, Roger and Levy, Richard. Wife Beating: The Silent Crisis. New York: 1977 Walker, John. Domestic Violence. New York: 1996 Word Count: 1588
- 489: The French Revolution
- ... After the revolution began, no European kings, nobles, or other members of the aristocracy could take their powers for granted or ignore the ideals of liberty and equality. The revolution began with a government financial crisis but quickly became a movement of reform and violent change. In one of the early events, a crowd in Paris captured the Bastille, a royal fortress and hated symbol of oppression. A series of elected ... of the middle class were also worried by their social status. They were among the most important people in French society but were not recognized as such because they belonged to the third estate. Financial crisis developed because the nation had gone deeply into debt to finance the Seven Years War (1756-1763) and the Revolutionary War (1775-1783)." (Burley, 22) The Parliament of Paris insisted that King Louis XVI could ...
- 490: Over Population
- ... others. Overpopulation is a serious dilemma that is growing every year, every minute, and every second. It is the root of most, if not all, of the worlds problems1. It is the greatest global crisis facing humanity in the twenty-first century. Overpopulation is the major global problem because of several reasons. Most of the problems we have today, such as ocean depletion, food shortages, water shortages, air pollution, water ... the third world take advantage of the unlimited supply of resources to keep their family alive, which then leads them to think they can have a larger family. These are several solutions to the global crisis of overpopulation. Overpopulation is the number one problem confronting the human race. Most of the other global problems are created from overpopulation, such as violence, war, global warming, and pollution. Overpopulation was a result of ...
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