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- 541: The Vikings
- ... entered Iceland at a fjord in waters that were full fish and other sea life. Next they carefully scoured the lands searching for people to attack, despite a few Irish monks that weren't that big of a deal the massive island was humanless. All of the information in the next three paragraphs come from translated Viking reports and some of the truths to these reports may or may not be ... were only a few openings in these long houses, the door and smoke vents, these openings were separated by open space. Long houses were the perfect building for the average Viking family because it was big and was strong against the harsh conditions they usually lived in. Educating the young scholastically was not a high priority, it was more of how to be fit to survive. The boys worked in the ... living standards. Viking religion was polytheistic. They believed that the gods resided at Osgard, which was the Olympus of the Nordic mythology. Osgard was in the center of an enormous ash tree which was so big its roots reached all the way to the underworld and its branches pierced the heavens. Valhalla was another mythological place, it was where the dead would go before they entered their journey into the ...
- 542: Creative Story: Concussion
- ... ride. We did the usual. Had jump contests, fix jumps, and practiced new tricks. I had a good day, my jumps were perfect. And we would soon would move on to the hardest jump
. The big double. This jump was about three and a half to four feet high. And a proximately eleven feet long. Not only that, if you messed up their was a ditch in the middle. I jumped ... lap was about thirty seconds. But I was thinking about changing that. So I left the starting position and pedaled as hard and as fast as I could. The first jump was in sight, the big double. I jumped , but I was too high and going so far that I went over the landing. But the shock to my knees didn't bother me because I was used to it. I ... the record. "Oh we kinda screwed it up. Just go again". One of my friends said. So I swiftly set off. Not knowing that this time something would go terribly wrong. I remember jumping the big double and in mid air I looked to the side. My friend was giving me a thumbs up. I then remember having sort of a dream. I was riding down the street with people ...
- 543: Huck Finn Grows Up
- ... KKK drove blacks down to a new economic low. What time would be better than this to write a book about the great American dream, a book about long held American ideals, now squashed by big business and white supremacy? Mark Twain did just that, when he wrote what is considered by many as the Great American Epic . The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The great American epic, may be one of ... of the classic American idealism, consisting of freedom, morality, practicality, and an alliance with nature. Twain manages to show all this while poking fun at the emergence of the robber barons, better know as the big business of the late nineteenth century. Twain portrays many different American values in this book by expressing them through one of the many different characters. The character that Twain chose to represent morality and maturation ... as an adventure. Call me a low down abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum, is all Huck has to say on the matter, but he keeps quiet just the same. He shows his first big step in his maturation here by being tolerant of Jim and not rejecting him as a subordinate, as he and Tom had done earlier. On the island the reader does still see signs of ...
- 544: Entrepreneurship
- ... organizes and manages a business or industrial enterprise, attempting to make a profit taking the risk of loss. Although it may seem easy enough, becoming a successful entrepreneur is not rudimentary. Bill gates made it big overnight in 1979 with his creation of an interactive desktop interface he called Windows'. To become a successful entrepreneur, you have to have a product or service that consumers really want, an organized form of ... has spun. Just by adding a dial on the side, the makers of E Yo' hyped it up to an extent that every kid on the block has one. Promotion and advertising also plays a big role in the success of an entrepreneur. Utilizing the media, one should try and get as much coverage of his product as possible. The consumer has to be well informed and aware about your product ... courteous sales and service and an amiable product, one can become a successful entrepreneur. Meanwhile as Bill Gates makes his millions every day, average income homeowners keep on buying lottery tickets hopping to make it big. It may not be easy being an entrepreneur, but if it was, every one would be one.
- 545: The Catcher in The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
- ... which he is forced to live. While talking with Phoebe, she asks Holden what he would like to be. He responds saying: "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-- nobody big, I mean--except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean ... the same. He wants to be able to preserve some things in the glass: Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone, (122). Holden wants the innocence of children to be frozen behind that glass. When he visits Phoebe's school to give her a note, Holden notices two ...
- 546: Nuclear Energy 2
- ... to ten million dollars to purchase enough plutonium to make a nuclear weapon. Others place the estimate as high as twenty or thirty million dollars (2). The problems of obtaining money and scientists are not big. The Soviet Union has left many of its top nuclear scientists without jobs and money. Many would be happy to get out of their crime ridden country to work for a terrorist group or another ... of the biggest radiation threats is uranium mill tailings. "After the uranium ore is separated, the tailings are left behind. Tailings contain radioactive thorium which remains dangerous for over 100,000 years" ("Nuclear Waist: The Big Picture", 2). Thousands of tons of uranium mill tailings are being produced each year. Abbots and Nader comment that uranium mill tailings is a byproduct of the enrichment process. Less than one fifth of the ... form of sand. This sand can blow across large amounts of land. "By 1986 2.7 billion cubic feet of tailings were blowing in the wind, damaging native crops and human life" (Nuclear Waist, the Big Picture 2). This is one of the biggest environmental hazard that we face today. Expressing their concern about uranium dust, Nader and Abbotts write : Uranium dust represents a respiratory hazard to mine and mill ...
- 547: Short-story Paper
- ... the old South, the choice and use of words indicts us to that region. Furthermore, what is also noticed here is that there are many descriptions(descriptive language) used in the story; It was a big, squarish frame house that an eyesore among eyesores (431-2). These help to understand more about the surrounding environment and about the appearance, They rose when she entered-a small fat woman in black while ... presentation. There are many characters involved in the story, and Faulkner is presenting information about all of them, in most of the cases he also describes the appearance of them as well; a Yankee-a big, dark, ready man with team of bays from the livery stable (434). The information that I received can be interconnected and form a point of view for each one of the persons involved. The protagonist ... like adduced to Emily s actions and emotions, while on the other story the reader has to deal with other people s actions and feelings. Added to this, I have also to say that two big differences concerning the main characters in that Emily s complex personality-in relation with her father and loved one is projected more, while on the other story we have more on Minnie s environment ...
- 548: Dinosaurs
- ... thought that they belonged to giant lizards. The word "dinosaur" means "terrible lizard". The larger dinosaurs must have seemed to be terrible to the smaller animals. Some of the first dinosaurs were only about as big as a small dog. That is how big the horses of that time were. Over the years, as the dinosaurs aged, they grew to be much more large in size. The sizes of dinosaurs ranged greatly, all the way from two feet long ... handle the conditions, so they all died off. The theory of the canopy collapsing, I believe is why dinosaurs are gone. The atmosphere after the flood was too harsh and hot. Also there was a big air pressure release after the flood. After doing my research, I do not understand how Evolutionists believe what they do. Contrast In Evolution the beginning of time was started by accident. The planets just ...
- 549: Bob Dylan
- ... Chicago. He pestered the local record store for the newest singles from Hank Williams, Chuck Barry, Howlin' Wolf , and John Lee Hooker, just to name a few. These early influences played, and still play, a big role in Dylans unique musical style. Somewhere around the age of ten, Dylan realized that he wanted to be a guitarist and a singer. Soon he formed his own bands, The Golden Chords, The ... in the University of Minnesota, but never graduated. Instead, he started playing in nearby coffeehouses, and was quickly taken in by the artistic community. There he was introduced to rural folk music of artist like Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Roscoe Holocomb, and the great Woody Guthrie. Throughout his life, Dylan will blend these three (blues, rock 'n' roll, and folk) musical styles together. Dylan soon realized that if he wanted to ... became, and still remains the fastest selling single in Warner Brothers history. This type of protest song, as they would come to be called, were single handedly started by Dylan. He had made such a big impact upon the folk stages of America in the early sixties, that when he started moving back to his original rock 'n' roll roots (by incorporating the electric guitar into his music), there was ...
- 550: Creative Writing: The First Day
- ... the front door shut, and screamed at the top of my lungs I hate it here, I am moving back to Illinois with my dad!' And ran upstairs to my room, slammed the door shut. Bang bang bang, went the door as my foot thudded against it. Each hit relieved a lot of anger. But I had to go to school. And with all the courage I had in me I went ...
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