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- 731: Holocaust-concentration Camps
- Concentration Camps Concentration Camps were a big part of the Holocaust. My first topic is the concentration camp Dachau. Then I will talk about another concentration camp called Bergen-Belsen. After that, I will tell you about the concentration camp Treblinka. Finally ... killing center. The most notorious concentration camp ever was Auschwitz-Birkenau. Auschwitz was opened in April of 1940. It became the first Annihilation death camp. It was also the largest death camp. It was so big, it was split into three parts. This place was called "hell on earth", because the prisoners were forced in, and killed almost immediately. Trains transported prisoners there every half hour. Almost all of the people killed there were from Poland. Over all, about 1.25 million people were killed at Auschwitz. All of this makes Auschwitz-Birkenau the most notorious death camp. In conclusion, concentration camps were a big part of the Holocaust. The camps I talked about were Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. I chose them because they were bigger and more notorious than the other concentration camps. These concentration ...
- 732: Catcher In The Rye
- ... motivated Holden to want to be Christ-like. Holden’s desire to be Christ-like is best evidenced in the following quotation: "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousand 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…" Previts 3 ... nine of ten murders, whackos, serial killers and, oddly enough, disgruntled teenagers. John Lennon was killed to promote this book. In the movie Silence of the Lambs, the serial killer John Hinkley was also a big Catcher in the Rye fan as well. The level of general craziness surrounding the book is so bad the movie Conspiracy Theory made it a running joke, even tracking the protagonist portrayed by Mel ...
- 733: The Blues
- ... Blues could not stay in one place. As a massive migration of Blacks to Chicago from the Mississippi and Louisiana Delta area took place, the traditional Blues packed up and got ready to become the Big City Blues. The Blues Finds a Home in Chicago The Chicago Blues development came about as a massive migration of blacks from the Mississippi and Louisiana Delta area, Tennessee and parts of Texas took place ... the Blues in a quiet and complex manner in many of Chicago’s nightclubs, while holding down a full-time lifelong job as a groundskeeper at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. At the other end was Big Joe Turner, who sang in a powerful, hard-driving, swinging manner that was classified as a more urban, big band Blues but also original in it’s own category of “Blues Shouter”. In between these were a number of talented musicians and singers such as Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Otis Rush, ...
- 734: Poul Voulkos Ceramist
- ... returned to Helena, and was resigned to selling his ceramics to make a living until the fateful call came from Sheets. "I was just a hick from Montana, so coming to L.A was a big thing for me," Voulkos remembers. "When I got that job, it was my big break. I didn't have to do dinner plates anymore. I got paid for teaching and didn't have to worry about selling. Being able to teach helped expand my vocabulary. I learned from my ... soot from the firing process in the kiln decorate the irregular surface of the clay. "There was a certain kind of casualness about some of the Japanese ceramics that I liked. There can be a big crack in the pot caused by the kiln, and the piece becomes a national treasure," he says. The 1980s brought about a serious personal challenge, however. By mid-decade, he was forced to confront ...
- 735: Interstellar Travel: Sooner or Later?
- ... scientific breakthroughs are needed: discovery of a means to exceed light speed, discovery of a means to propel a vehicle without propellant, and discovery of a means to power such devices. Why? - Because space is big, really, really, really big." (Why is Interstellar) For any human to ever reach another star, speeds greater than comprehension would be needed. Millis illustrates this idea on his web site, "The most obvious challenge to practical interstellar travel is ... the amount of propellant we would need would be enormous and prohibitively expensive." (NASA Lists) The final challenge to be over come is need for energy. It was indicated in Millis' research that, "Our third big challenge is energy. Even if we had a non-rocket space drive that could convert energy directly into motion without propellant, it would still require a lot of energy. Sending a Shuttle-sized vehicle ...
- 736: Hamlet: To Be Mad, Or Not To Be Mad?
- ... handle the revenge of his Dads death. The plan that he goes with first is to act like he is crazy or Hamlets words "As perchance to put on antic disposition." That is the first big clue that he is just acting. Now the reasoning for acting crazy in his plan for revenge is for everybody to think that he killed Claudius at the spur of the moment and not a ... few hours after seeing the ghost of his Dad. Hamlet has reasoning enough not just to run out and kill someone. During Hamlet's debate on what to do about his Fathers death, many other big events happen. First he kills Polonius thinking that he was the king hiding behind the curtains. To Hamlet that is a big event because it proves to himself that if he had to do it he could. He could kill someone that he doesn't care for too much. But when Ophelia dies he has to ...
- 737: 20/20 Vision, Not A Vision For Me
- ... me as a child. There is one picture in particular of my kindergarten graduation that always makes me wonder how bad my childhood actually was. I was a skinny little girl with small eyes, a big smile and extremely large glasses. The pictures always seem to bring back memories for me. These memories are mostly bad ones involving teasing and harassment from others about my vision. When I was younger I ... understanding about the problems and the things I had to do. I had to sit in front of the class which never seemed like the "cool" thing to do. This may not seem like a big deal but the front of the class for me was two feet away from the blackboard. Some teachers used to say I would get in the way but I just took it all in because ... thought to be innocent I was showered with names. Normal activities were hard for me and it seemed like everybody knew it. It always felt like everyone was out to get me. It was a big event to watch me read a book because I held it so close. I remember one day in the cafeteria I asked the girl next to me what was on the menu for lunch ...
- 738: Human Resource Challenges In T
- ... programs, HR professional must be aware of HR integration during development of company intranets. U.S companies must be aware of the host country workforce framework and structure. Russia provides an excellent example as a big country with big needs-millions of potential consumers eager for goods and services denied them under communism. Since the fall of that system, a new market economy has grown quickly. Foreign businesses (an estimated 35,000 registered enterprises ... including joint ventures) now compete with each other and with Russian startups for market share. Today, most U.S. companies are looking to replace expatriate employees with Russians at all organizational levels. Cost is a big part of the answer, primarily because Russian salaries in U.S. firms average 20 to 30 percent below U.S. employees' wages, although the gap is narrowing, especially at senior levels. In addition, Russian ...
- 739: 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) ...
- 740: The Stars Are My Destination
- ... they were badgering him about the NOMAD. Other than carrying twenty million in platinum bullion (currency), onboard the wreckage was twenty pounds of pyrE. A piece of metal that helped create the universe in the Big Bang theory. The only way to release an energy of that magnitude was through Will and Idea. Also revealed at the end was who gave the order to leave Foyle drifting in space. To his surprise ...
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