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- 4291: World Order
- ... bound by a treaty until it ratifies it, thus incorporating either some parts of it, or concepts of it, into its own legislation. An example of such is the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the UN in 1989. However, despite Australia's agreement with its concepts, it did not become law in Australia until it was ratified in 1990, with the Family Law Reform Act ...
- 4292: Baseball And American Popular
- ... game enjoyable to me. It has become a tradition to go watch a game with the family. Rooted in this custom are our culture's values of family and passing the experiences from parent to child. According to A.G. Spalding, author of America's National Game, baseball "is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness ...Dash, ...Determination, ...Energy, ...Enthusiasm ...Spirit, ...Vim, Vigor, and Virility"(Spalding, p.4). We see the ...
- 4293: Why 2
- ... gas giant movement? As ridiculous as it sounds, this type of proposition often arises in science, though not as grotesque, but nevertheless as distant, for example, Theory of Relativity and the Quantum Theory. If a child would have been told to expect the same behavior from and ant and from and elephant, he would be quite confused. How do we then expect gigantic objects to obey the same rules as microscopic ...
- 4294: Where Are The Heros
- ... With the great Akhilleus we find a similar beginning, he too leaves the comforts of home to fight for the honor of Menelaus. Akhilleus comes much closer to fulfilling the hero image. He is the child of an immortal mother, on a quest for glory and greatness. Akhilleus has the greatest military prowess of any of the Achaean ranks and has the greatest fighting ability of all the warriors, Trojan or ...
- 4295: What Is Zen
- ... of Siddhartha Gautama. Around 500 BC he was born a Sakyan prince. At the age of twenty-nine, deeply troubled by the suffering he saw around him, he renounced his privileged life, his wife and child, and went out among the shamans to seek enlightenment. After six years of struggle, he finally understood the meaning of enlightenment under the legendary Bo tree. After this he was recognized as a Buddha (meaning ...
- 4296: What Is Basketball Without Mic
- ... it take the skills but it also requires a certain set of values to become a role model. Many stars of the NBA lack both of these qualities. But somewhere out there is a young child with dreams of becoming the next Michael Jordan. He is on every playground all around the world. He has the endless desire to make something out of himself. Basketball could be his only chance out ...
- 4297: What Is A Human Being
- ... person || of people as limited creatures, human failings || resembling man 2. A person Of course there is more to being human than that. A concise yet broad definition of human would be any man, woman, child, etc. on this earth. To be human means that you can read this paper. It means that you don t have to worry you are resting comfortable at the top of the food chain. There ...
- 4298: Werewolf Legends
- ... sons or daughters dead, with savage bites on their necks, legs and arms. To prevent the attacks by tlahuelpuchi witches, parents leave by the bedside in the kid's room a mirror reflecting the sleeping child, a knife or a pair of scissors, all of which are said to have magical properties that scare-off these savage female werewolves. In the Mexican state of Oaxaca, there are several indigenous groups, having ...
- 4299: Wells Social Imagination
- ... the need to struggle, with the corollary of the extermination of the unfit, had practically ceased. Humanity had become differentiated into two races, both recessive. The Eloi, the descendants of the leisured classes, have become child-like androgynous creatures, weak and unable to fend for them selves. Their lives of leisure are enjoyed only at the cost of premature death, at the hands of the cannibalistic Morlocks. The Morlocks, the descendants ...
- 4300: Wedding Traditions
- ... their cake to be eaten on their first anniversary. This originated in the ninetieth century, when the extra tiers of the wedding cake were preserved and served at the christening of the couple s first child, an event that normally occurred about a year after the marriage. A wedding cake is for the most part white. Many would probably say this was to symbolize purity or virginity, but there was actually ...
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