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- 8871: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... what some consider an all time high. “The Rich Man’s Club” dominated the Senate as the Gilded Age reached its peak. On the local front, mob bosses controlled the cities, like Tammany Hall in New York. Graft and corruption were at an all time high while black rights sunk to a new low. Even after experiencing freedom during the Civil War, their hopes of immediate equality died with the death of Lincoln. Groups like the 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 ...
- 8872: Ray Kroc
- ... from? In the small town of San Bernadino, California, during the fifties, a young man named Ray Kroc had an idea that would drastically revolutionize the food industry with the efficient use of a multimixer, new ideas, and incredible entrepreneurship, the McDonalds corporation began a remarkable empire in the American and worldwide fast-food industry. Ray Kroc began his working career the same as most others do by finding a solid ... a paper cup in that it could be formed in a way which kept the cup more durable. The cup's name was rightfully called the "One in a Million," and the introduction of this new product took off like a barn fire and boosted sales dramatically in a stagnant industry. The intelligent business decisions made by Ray were incredible. He advised the head of the company to raise the price of the new cup by two cents. Instead of selling at ten cents, the cup sold at twelve which made the boss an extra one hundred thousand dollars. With this invention by Ray Kroc, new ideas were ...
- 8873: HOW TO Buy A Computer (A HOW T
- HOW TO BUY A NEW COMPUTER Before buying a home computer, the smart shopper must first assess their computer wants and needs, do some basic research and finally, comparison-shop for the best price. First, determine how you will use the new computer system. Will you be buying it primarily for gaming and personal use, or using it as a home-based business system? The fact is, the average home user who needs a general purpose PC ... buyer will need to determine which applications and software they will need. They must also consider the overall operating speed and data storage capacity of the computer that will function the most efficient for their new computer system¡¦s intended use. Consumers contemplating the purchase of a computer should expect to pay between $1,200 - $2,200 for a new well-equipped system. Second, a person unfamiliar with computer configurations ...
- 8874: Creative Writing: Hackers Manifesto
- ... s technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me... Damn underachiever. They're all alike. I'm in junior high or high school. I ... m a smart ass... Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike. And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is ...
- 8875: Evangaline
- ... explains the pain Gabriel's death caused. Also she felt as if his spirit was there instead of his whole body. Their love caused pain and was especially evident when Gabriel died. In the real world, many people are separated because their job places them in other places than their love ones. They are in love but separated which causes them pain and anguish. When people die people weep because they ... soul is sad and afflicted , means she wanted to be with him because her soul was in pain. Her love was devoted to Gabriel and causing pain and anguish in her heart. In the real world devotion can cause a lot of pain. When a person is in love another person and yet they don t want to give up friends and possessions for that person. But you do this because ... believe this had to hurt Evangeline. If someone were pursuing someone for their whole life because they love that person and yet the person isn t looking for them would really hurt. In the real world there is a lot of love and pain connected by actions and words. Many people these days don t understand what people mean when they say something. People say something and the other person ...
- 8876: The Civil War and Its Ending of Slavery
- ... peace between the Southern and Northern supporters in the Democratic and Whig parties, political leaders tried to avoid the slavery question. But with growing opposition in the North to the extension of slavery into the new territories, evasion of the issue became increasingly difficult. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 temporarily settled the issue by establishing the 36° 30' parallel as the line separating free and slave territory in the Louisiana Purchase. Conflict resumed, however, when the United States boundaries were extended westward to the Pacific. The Compromise Measures of 1850 provided for the admission of California as a free state and the organization of two new territories—Utah and New Mexico—from the balance of the land acquired in the Mexican War. The principle of popular sovereignty would be applied there, permitting the territorial legislatures to decide the status of slavery when they applied ...
- 8877: Shopping
- Shopping Buying new items is a task in which we all need to engage in sometime or another. For some, searching for and purchasing a new baseball glove that needs worked in, a new Barbie that when unwrapped, unleashes a familiar plastic odor or a new pair of "scuff free" shoes, provides a thrill from shopping. Whether one dwindles hours away in a crammed brand-name mall, or ...
- 8878: Planting Flowers
- ... most of the other flowers in their vicinity. Purple loosestrife for example, seen growing along the Susquehanna River, has become a serious problem at wildwood park, where the use of herbicides are vast areas of New York, Pennsylvania, and New England are covered with loose strife plants blooming in late July and August. While all the flowers in our garden derive from wildflowers, garden varieties are the result of human intervention. Research in cross-pollination ... as baneberry and blue cohosh, require two or more years to germinate. The best propagating times are early spring, late summer, or fall depending on the species…Many plants with very fleshy roots will grow new roots and buds when cut into pieces. When planting pieces of root, remember that the side facing up will grow shoots and the side facing below will grow roots" (Sperka 18,19). When transplanting ...
- 8879: Tess Of The Durbervilles
- ... a result of his love for Tadzio. The novella begins with Aschenbach considering the results of his latest writing. The reader is introduced to a man who cannot find fulfillment in his work, despite the world's approval of him. Aschenbach is loved by the world through the "national honor"(Mann, 199) his supporters give him. His desire concerning his career being "intent from the start upon fame" (Mann, 200), Aschenbach recognizes himself as the subject of his own reputation. Despite ... character who deliberates his being alone during the summer. It is evident from the beginning that Aschenbach has no family contact- his wife being deceased and his daughter married. Aschenbach is indeed "loved" by the world for his work, and yet, he is at first unable to express love or emotional desire. He is therefore unable to experience divinity within himself or the surrounding world because although he is loved, ...
- 8880: The Hoa Lo Prison Camp
- ... and pretend they had captured him. The prisoner was then taken to Hoa Lo suffering from pneumonia and fever and thrown into a torture chamber. The POWs would later refer to this place as the "New Guy Village" because all new prisoners were interrogated there. The prisoner was subjected to five days with neither food nor water. In addition, no sleep was allowed and the questions and beatings continued (Colvin 6). Prisoners were beaten for a ... is probably a question that will never be answered. However, if any men remained and died there, they should know they died with dignity, they died for their country-America. Bibliography Colvin, Rod. First Heroes. New York: Irvington Publishers, Inc., 1987. Hubbell, John. P.O.W. New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1976. Blakey, Scott. Prisoner At War. New York: Anchor Press, 1978.
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