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- 4751: Martin Luther King's Life
- Martin Luther King's Life "Without a universal respect for human rights, the world cannot achieve peace" Martin Luther King Jr. led a heroic mission to educate, awaken, and revolutionize the American people. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man who knew what he believed in. Dr. King revolutionized the black communities, he also brought power and confidence into the heart of men and women all over the world. He wanted to fight for equality and to show people that he could do anything with the power of words and praise. He led many protests, fought for Civil Rights and lobbied of the right ... beginning from the back and whites in the front. Also the bus company would have to hire black drivers in black areas.(3) From this the civil rights movement would began. From there victory a new found pride that the African Americans discovered from Martin Luther King Jr. After a month Dr.King started receiving hundreds of hate letters and telephone calls threatening him and his family lives. Finally, the ...
- 4752: Eli Whitney
- ... money crop to export. Tobacco was a land waster, depleting the soil within very few years. Land was so cheap that tobacco planters never bothered to reclaim the soil by crop rotation -- they simply found new land farther west. The other crops -- rice, indigo, corn, and some wheat -- made for no great wealth. Slaves cost something, not only to buy but to maintain, and some Southern planters thought that conditions had ... around the district so rapidly that Whitney's workshop was broken open and his machine examined. Within a few weeks, more cotton was planted than Whitney could possible have ginned in a year of making new machines. Before Whitney had a chance to complete his patented model, the prematurely planted cotton came to growth. With a harvest pressing on them, planters had no time to wait for the legal fine points to be sorted out. The cotton gin was pirated in a heart-beat. Whitney went into partnership with Miller. Whitney was to go north to New Haven, secure his patent, and begin manufacturing machines, while Miller was to remain in the South and see that the machines were placed. The partners' first plan was that no machine was to be ...
- 4753: Little Girl Lost
- ... composed as an afterthought to its original counterpart, having been first written in "Innocence," it acts as a conclusion to the original poem. The two poems both observe a young girl as she encounters a world filled with innocence (in "The Little Girl Lost") and a world of experience ("A Little Girl Lost"). In first poem, a young seven-year-old girl named Lyca falls asleep in the wilderness under a tree. While her parents worry about her, she sleeps innocently in ... poem, following a model of AA, BBB/ CC, DDD /EE, FFF, etc. This allows each stanza its own little narrative and separates them, in turn preparing the reader for a slightly different theme with each new verse. First the prologue or Chorus tells the reader the meaning of the poem. Then the curtain lifts on a scene of pastoral beauty, transporting us to an ancient world that is no more. ...
- 4754: American Revolution - Causes
- ... England then they exported to the colonies. They were importing raw materials from the colonies and making them into exportable goods in England. They would then ship these goods to foreign markets all around the world including the colonies(America Online ). Throughout the seventeenth century the English saw America as a place to get materials they didn't have at home and a market to sell finished products at after the ... a deliberate aim to disinherit the colonists by denying them the rights of the English(Blum 96)." The first of these acts were the Townshend Acts. The Townshend Acts were passed in 1767 and placed new taxes on paper, paints, tea, lead and, glass. The new taxes would be used to pay for British officials in the American service. These acts infuriated the colonists because they believed that Parliament had the right to put taxes on the trade of the ...
- 4755: To Kill A Mockingbird: The Brave Jem Finch
- To Kill A Mockingbird: The Brave Jem Finch The book To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, has manycharacters and themes. The main themes are racism and theinteraction of colored and white people in the south. The settingis Maycomb County, Alabama. The main characters are the Finchfamily; father Atticus, daughter and narrater Jean Louise (Scout),and her older brother, Jem Finch. Jem was a brave boy. He was brave enough to stand up and do the things he had to, even if they scared him. An example is when he had to help cure Mrs. Dubose's drug problem. The following Monday Jem ...
- 4756: Catcher in the Rye: Holden Caulfield's Perception and Gradual Acceptance of
- Catcher in the Rye: Holden Caulfield's Perception and Gradual Acceptance of the "Real" World. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden views the world as an evil and corrupt place where there is no peace. This perception of the world does not change significantly through the novel. However as the novel progresses, Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is powerless to change this. During the short period of Holden's life covered ...
- 4757: Homesteading by Percy Wollaston
- ... resisting even the elements." These people had to basically start their life over, in hopes of accomplishing the American dream, only to find this dream turned over to just trying to survive. "here was a new route to a new land and any number of people, land-hungry and looking for a place to settle. That they would be settling on land already in use for grazing by established ranches was a matter that few ... major ones were the influenza epidemic and the flu epidemic. This quote is relating to the influenza epidemic. "Conditions were so bad that any vacant space in the hospital wards was immediately taken up by new patients...Doctors and nurses worked day and night until sheer exhaustion felled them if they were spared from the disease. Coffins or even shipment of the bodies home from the camps were unavailable for ...
- 4758: Jumping Mouse
- ... the black race, but were certainly prejudice about the lifestyle in which they must now live, a lifestyle completely stripped of any and all luxuries they once enjoyed. All of the family members, facing a new way of life, adjust to their situation in radically different ways. Each one drifts in their own direction in search of comfort and acceptance throughout their experiences living amongst Julys people. The first adjustment ... scrap and food they can. "That was how people lived, here, rearranging their meager resources around the bases of nature, letting the walls of mud sink back to mud and then using that mud for new walls, in another clearing, among other convenient rocks"(26). Bam and Maureen react to their situation in extreme ways, some similar and some not. The most radical adjustment in which the couple has the greatest ... change in stature, but he quickly realizes that its the only way for his family to survive. Throughout the entire story, Bam is a very loving father and husband. He is confused over his new position with July who becomes a necessity for the Smales rather than a luxury. Even with all of the problems he and his family have to deal with, Bam manages to control himself and ...
- 4759: Breast Cancer
- ... family history of the disease, their chances have been measured up to a one in six chance. 69 percent of African American women survive from it, and there are predicted to be nearly two million new cases reported this year in the U.S. The disease is breast cancer. Breast cancer is a group of rapidly reproducing, undifferentiated cells in the area of the breast in women. The earliest changes occur ... epithelial cells of the terminal end buds (TEB) of the breast milk ductal system. While the outlining steps of breast cancer are unknown, the cells in the breast trigger a reaction of cell reproduction. These new cancer cells form tumors. If cancer cells are active or are considered malign, the tumor grows at tremendous speeds, and may end up in metastasis. Metastasis is a complex process in which cells break away ... shot up, demonstrating its potential in the Iceland people. A number of doctors simply take the common sense approach to preventing against breast cancer exercising and getting your proper nutrients is the best precaution. The New York Times reported in May of 1997 a study that was done on 25,000 women in Norway. Compared with sedentary women, those who exercised at least four hours a week had a 37% ...
- 4760: Depression
- ... future his depression gets to be more severe and the other therapies fail to work. References Arky, R. (1998). The Physicians Desk Reference. Montuale, NJ: Medical Economics Co. Beck, A. (1979). Cognitive Therapy of Depression. New York: Guilford Press. Dawson, Dawn P. (1995). Magill's Medical Guide: Health and Illness. Posadene, Ca: Salem Press, Inc. Depression. (1994). In Encyclopedia Americana (1st ed.) (Vol. 8, p. 747) Danbury, Conn: Grolier Incorporated. DiPalma, J. (1971). Drill's Pharmacology in Medicine. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. Goodman, A., Goodman, L., Gilman, A. (1980). Goodman and Gilman's: The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. New York: Macmillian Publishing Co. Klein, D., Wender, P. (1993). Understanding Depression. New York: Oxford University Press. Macpherson, Gordon (1992). Black's Medical Dictionary. New York: A and C publishers/limited. Malseed, Roger (1985). Drug ...
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