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- 691: Cry, The Beloved Country
- ... to a white man. The white mans life held more value, this can almost be compaired to how in our society if a homeless person was murdered it would not even be close to a big deal as a father of two being murdered. When Arthur died it made front page news and a big deal was made that a native person murdered him. Would it have been a huge ordeal if a white man murdered him? No, it wouldn’t be made that big of a deal because it would have been bad press. The reason Arthur’s death was front-page material was because he was murdered by a native which shows that they are all savages ...
- 692: Watership Down
- ... ahrairah, the rabbit folk hero. He could always tell stories which distracted and eased the rabbits from problems. Pipkin, a good friend of Fiver, was small like Fiver but acted as if he was as big as Bigwig. He always did what he was told and never complained. PLOT One day Fiver, sensing danger, convinced his brother Hazel that they must leave their warren. Hazel tried to warn the Chief Rabbit ... These rabbits were very strange and acted differently from other rabbits. Hazel and his group decided to leave after Bigwig got caught in a wire. The man would feed the rabbits so they would become big and healthy; then the man would kill them. After many days of travel, Hazel and the others came to Watership Down, which was an excellent place for a warren. The soil was perfect, and enemies ... that the warren needed does to survive. He used Kehaar to find some does. They made a raid on a farm and brought back two does. Then three of four rabbits left to visit a big warren to ask for more does. However, the party came back tired and injured because the warren Efrafa did not agree to give up the does; the group had to escape. Hazel decided that ...
- 693: Hitler - The Life Story
- ... was here that his disliking of the Jews most likely began. Germany after the war was in chaos. With no real Government to control the country, many groups tried to take control. One day a big communist group staged a big riot but another group of ex-soldiers including Hitler managed to hold them back. 3.The Nazi Party Since there were not many chances for employment Hitler stayed in the army. Hitler was assigned the ... race from the European continent. It is interesting to look and see how a small time boy from Austria with no education, money or political background could become within a few years the leader of big nation such as Germany. Historians believe that Hitler saw a great opportunity to get his views across to the German people who have lost all hope. Of course people did not start to support ...
- 694: Ohio
- Ohio Ohio had a major role in moving the country toward big business industrialization. First of all, it was Ohios population that moved from rural areas to urban settings. In 1860, eighty-three percent of Ohio was rural. In 1880, only sixty-eight percent of the population ... region. The water transportation was cheap, and from Cleveland the ore could be sent by train to the Mahoning Valley and other Ohio steel centers. The development of railroad systems also helped this age of Big Business. Not only did they provide transportation, they also provided jobs for tens of thousands of construction, maintenance, and operating workers. In 1860, Ohio was ranked first in the nation with 2,946 miles of ... worlds known oil. Another entrepreneur was Andrew Carnegie. these men had power not only in Ohio, but across the nation as well. They, too, played a major role in helping Ohio move the country toward big business industrialization. Ohio made several contributions to and even participated in the Civil War effort to maintain the union. The 1860 census provided several statistics for Ohio. It showed that Ohio then had 2, ...
- 695: Reasons for Juvenile Crime
- ... life and family violence, delinquent peer groups, and media violence. Especially the demise of family life, the effect of the media on the juveniles today, and the increase of firearms available today have played a big role in the increase of juveniles crimes. The most common risk factor is the demise of the family life and the increase in family violence. Between 1976 and 1992 the number of juveniles living in ... all levels of intelligence. Long-term childhood exposure to television is a casual factor behind one half of the homicides committed by juveniles in the United States. The increased availability of guns has played a big part in escalating the number of crimes committed by juveniles. In Los Angeles juvenile delinquency cases involving weapon violation grew by 86% from 1988 to 1992, which was more then any other type of juvenile ... because it shows how many more juveniles are carrying guns and the juvenile use of guns in homicides has increased from 65 to 80 percent from 1987 to 1991. The possession of firearms plays a big cause in the delinquency of children and is playing a bigger role in the crimes which juveniles commit. Another cause of the increase of juvenile crimes has been the effect of children seeing multiple ...
- 696: Paper Motif On Invisible Man
- ... job represents the white man pushing the black man out of view. The warning letter that the narrator receives from a brother makes him aware of the fact that going too fast and growing too big will get him nowhere in the white man’s world: Do not go too fast. Keep working for the people but remember that you are one of us and do not forget if you get too big they will cut you down. You are from the south and you know that this is a white man’s world. So take a friendly advice and go easy so that you can go on ... to burn shows that his race will always be used and manipulated by puppet masters. On the other hand, the anonymous warning letter burns very quickly, illustrating that he and his race can become as big in the world as they can imagine: “It was the anonymous letter, which burned so quickly that as it flamed I hurriedly unfolded another.. (555).
- 697: 1984, George Orwell
- ... aspect of its citizens lives. Telescreens that monitor their movements are found in every house and apartment. If a member of the Thought Police catches you so much as gritting your teeth during one of Big Brother s speeches, it s off to the Missionary of Love to be interrogated about your partaking in a conspiracy against the Party. It s a time of unknowing chaos where war is peace, ignorance ... way, the Party s predictions are always true. So our good old friend Winston is sitting in his office one day when he starts to have--gasp!--negative thoughts about the Party and its leader, Big Brother. He buys a diary, a crime considered worthy of death by the Party, and begins to record these thoughts daily. By chance, Winston happens to meet a fellow Party-hater, Julia. They believe that ... interrogator and the person behind his getting caught is none other than O Brien. Through a series of torture and brainwashing, O Brien converts Winston to the ways of the Party and the love of Big Brother.
- 698: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... Workers of northern Pennsylvania walked out in May, demanding a 10-20% raise, recognition of their union, an eight-hour workday, and fringe benefits. Until October, the UMW danced around the owners of the six big mines in the region. The union continually professed its willingness to negotiate, but the owners refused. Waiting “for the union to crack” (Mowry 134), two of the owners claimed that God had granted them their ... illegal interference from either capitalists or nonunion men” (qt. in Mowry 141). Roosevelt believed in unions in principle; he did not want either labor forces or capitalists to go too far in asserting their ‘rights.’ “Big labor, like big capital, [Theodore Roosevelt] remarked, was one of the laws of the social and economic development of the age. Unions, he believed, conTheodore Rooseveltibuted to the general welfare” (Mowry 141). Roosevelt occasionally did sTheodore Rooseveltetch ...
- 699: Muscle Cars
- ... car all started in 1961 and lasted till 1972. It all started in the fifties with a group of people that were called hot roders. They where striving for the need for speed, the three big car makers thought they should get in to racing and they did . In 1961 they started producing factory race cars with high horsepower and lots of light weight items to increase speed . These cars were ... s were produced in 1972 . The most significant GTO was called The Judge, the car had a bright orange paint job . "After the 400ci limit was lifted in 1970, the GTO was fitted with a big 455 V-8 also used in the Bonneville . The ram air edition produced 370 hp and 445 lb-ft of torque which was more than enough to worry street racers into whispering’ "Here comes the ... luxurious with more options like air and bigger engines than Ford’s. The Cougar is Mercury’s ponycar. It started as a nice little muscle car, but unfortunately it changed over the years into a big family car that hardly had the power to move it down the road. But the sporty Cougars will always be remembered as the Mustang with class. Mercury also had cars like the Cyclone GT ...
- 700: El Toro Bravo
- ... Spanish means DEATH so, it doesn t matter any way they get shipped to be eaten. What the breeder looks for in a bull is if it is aggressive and stubborn. He also checks how big the bull is and to see if he is muscular. He checks to see if his legs are short. The bulls horns have to be big and long, almost perfect. The bull needs big morillos (shoulders) and small body. Most bulls see no color just black and white. They seek movement when they charge and they weight around 1000 pounds or 500 kilos. The breeders now test the ...
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