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- 571: How Dole Could Have Used The Issues To His Advantage
- ... being spent by government. Any presidential hopeful must address this issue adamantly. Clinton took many steps early in his first term to show his New Democrat ideology through heavy deficit cutting, and due to a big tax increase, the deficit has fallen from $290 billion to $130 billion during his first four years. He also called for a line-item veto, a Republican idea, for three years before getting it passed ... look much more coherent if it is used in context with the cost of college, home prices and the problem of caring for the elderly. Dole must also stress the fact that Clinton is for big government, which means spending big money. This will also make his tax cut more compatible to the people. If all else fails, just say, " The best way to keep government officials from spending your money is not to give ...
- 572: A Review of The Old Man and The Sea
- ... go fishing, but he has no luck for about 80 days. But one day, he goes out alone and hooks a humongeous whale size marlin. He can't bring it in because it is too big. He has to wait until it gets tired so he can harpoon it. He goes 2 days fighting the fish, without food or rest. until he finally gets his chance. But when he thinks it is all over, there is still more trouble ahead. The fish is too big to be placed in his small boat, so he has to strap it to the side. Meanwhile, the blood from the harpoon shot leaks out into the sea and attracts sharks. While the old man is returning home from his expedition, he has to fight off the sharks from eating his prize. But it doesn't take to long for the sharks to take lots of big chunks out of the fish. He ends up killing all the sharks and he gets home safely, and exhausted. Ernest Hemingway is an author of the past. Compared to a more modern author, like ...
- 573: Personal Writing: Myself and Tennis
- ... reads 5:58 a.m. The temperature reads 31 degrees Farenhieght. Although most of other kids my age are within the warm heat of their homes in their cozy beds still dreaming about cars, the big game, or their boyfriend or girlfriend of the week. I, along with a few others, am a wake dressed and ready for tennis practice. The image of white given off by the dew makes it ... eyes, is tied back under a white Hard Rock Cafι hat from London. The brim of my hat hides my lightly colored angel kisses, which are scattered across my baby doll cheeks. I am a big bulky Eskimo waiting to fish. Dressed in gloves and a blue Adidas wind suit with more layers than you can count underneath I wonder why I am here. Usually at this point I am wishing ... They are the people you cry with, laugh with, and even get into trouble with at times. Friends are like a pet. They are always there for you with an ear to listen and a big heart. They always find the right thing to say when you are having a bad day or just need someone to talk to. I hope that is the kind of friend that others see ...
- 574: Robinson Crusoe
- ... some life, people make many choices that affect their personal growth and livelihood, choices like what they should wear and/or what they should do. Even the littlest choices that they make could make a big difference in their lives. In the book, Robinson Crusoe retold by Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, while on the island, made many choices, big and small, that affected his personal growth and contributed to why he survived for so long. On the island he made a lot of smart decisions of what to do in order to stay a ... begin one. Robinson s smart decision to take in Friday helped him out and now there was a way of getting out of the island and going home. Friday and I began to make a big boat that would carry us over the sea (92). Now that Friday had knowledge of what Robinson knew, their lives changed from this point on now with Friday helping, life became more easy. (105) ...
- 575: Teachers Vs. Coaches
- ... of lights in recent years. Coaches, like teachers, are responsible for the growth and well being of their players, so when things don t go well with the team, the coaches come under fire. One big difference between a good teacher and a good coach is that a good coach can get fired just because of a team s performance. I have seen many good coaches get fired just because they ... in this country can make about one-hundred thousand a year teaching college, while pro sports coaches can easily make millions when coaching ANY pro team from any sport. Now why is there such a big gap between these two jobs, why do we put such a big value on sports, and are scores and statistics really more important then homework and grades? The reason coaches are paid so much is because the sports industry is a multi billion dollar industry, while ...
- 576: Grapes Of Wrath 3
- ... front of you. Not being able to predict where you are headed, or what is around the corner. The turtle getting ran over by the truck driver, intentionally, really symbolizes a lot. It shows the big companies walking over the people, the people fall down, and then get back up slowly and come crawling back for more of it. They have to, because they couldn't survive any other way. The ... hit it. The driver of the truck works for a large company, who try to stop the migrants from going west, when the driver attempts to hit the turtle it is another example of the big powerful guy trying to flatten or kill the little guy. Steadily the turtle advances on, ironically to the southwest, the direction of the migration of people. The turtle is described as being lasting, ancient, old ... Casy done,' he said. . . Ma said, 'How'm I gonna know about you?' 'Well, maybe like Casy says, a fella ain't got a soul of his own, but on'y a piece of a big one - an' then -' 'Then what, Tom?' 'Then it don' matter. . . Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I' ...
- 577: Bill Gates
- ... teenagers"(Gates 14). Gates and Allen had more less successful endeavors in starting a software company. In 1974 Intel announced their new chip: the 8080. The two college students sent off letters "to all the big computer companies, offering to write them a version of BASIC for the new Intel chip. We got no takers"(Gates 15). While at Harvard, the cool thing to do was to slack off on classes ... sleeping regularly, their version of "BASIC was written- and the world's first microcomputer software company was born. In time we named it 'Microsoft'"(Gates 17). Gates left Harvard on leave in 1975. Microsoft's big economic break came in 1980 when "IBM- the computer industry leader- asked Gates to develop an operating system for its new personal computer"(Clayton 452). IBM usually did not use external help in software design ... antitrust jurisdiction with the Department of Justice, took the first crack, quietly opening an inquiry "(Cook 64). Many other software companies have "cheered"(Pain) the government and offered a deluge of help. One of the big complaints of computer manufacturers is that they "must agree to pay software royalties...for every computer they ship, regardless of whether the computer is sold with any Microsoft software." It is "an all or ...
- 578: Of Mice And Men
- ... a child but has the strength of an ox. Lennie loves rabbits or small and fuzzy lovable creatures, such as mice. The irony of the title is that Lennie is a huge creature and as big a man as you will ever see but its not the size of one that makes a man, it's the heart and mind of a one. In a way Lennie is the mouse because ... burden of solitude. George has small views of running a cheap, small ranch and the loneliness that he attaches to himself is Lennie. Lennie and George are both mice in that; they do not dream big dreams but wish to have rabbits that can be tended. George and Lennie are opposites of each other. George is small, fast and witty. Where as, Lennie is large, slow and half-witted. This plays a key role in their friendship. Just as Arnold and Danny work well in movies together. "I am big and dumb and cannot see, sit on my shoulders and you shall guide me through the world and I shall carry you."(The mighty) When Candy's dog was shot by one of the ...
- 579: Creative Writing: Godzilla in Tokyo
- ... smoothly until about half an hour ago when the detected....when....when they detected a transfluxual distortion of tremendous proportion, he said worriedly. What was it caused by? asked the commander perplexed. A distortion this big could only have been caused by, he paused, well...a distortion this big could have only been caused by Godzilla. The commander gasped in shock. Was there any visual contact established? he asked. No sir, but our indications lead us to believe that the only possibly cause could only be Godzilla based only the fact that the distortion was so big. Very well. It is imperative that we establish visual contact before we take this whole thing way to far. Tell the pilot to determine his course, if he is headed for Tokyo we must ...
- 580: Personal Writing: Boot Camp
- ... did not get enough sleep. On a regular basis we went to bed at 10:30 and got up at 4:30. So sleep was valuable thing. The next day we were marched to a big brick building on the out skirts of the base. When we went in the building we stood in line for about an hour not knowing what we were waiting for. To my surprise when I ... faces. On the day before graduation the squad got together to play a practical joke on the drill instructor. We planned to unhook his bed so when he laid down it would collapse with a bang. So during free time Marshawn, Desmin, and I went into his office and rigged the bed and sure enough that night he laid down and we heard a giant thump! The drill instructor thought it ...
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