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- 6241: Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead
- ... Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Garcia passed out at his home in San Rafael, California, and slipped into a diabetic coma. His body was not agreeing with all the years of road-life and drug abuse. When he came out of the coma the Dead made a tribute song to growing old gracefully and bravely, "Touch of Grey." Unfortunately, though, Garcia's health was going nowhere but downhill, and according to ...
- 6242: Gangsta Rap: Crime
- ... encounters involve extramarital sex (Newsweek, 1994). This trend is startling when compared to the fact that children spend more time watching television than they spend in school. According to the American Psychological Association, a typical child sees 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on TV before graduating from elementary school (Nation, 1994). The results of how television, specifically sex and violence, affect children is not completely known. Although ...
- 6243: Personal Writing: A Beck Concert
- ... and dignity not, disrespect and harm. To throw a typewriter ( 2) is just so extrodenary stupid, I don't think I can even relate to the person who did this. The way that is said "child's play", has absolutely everything to do with this. I don't even think my 8 year old brother is capable of doing something so stupid! When I heard the quote ( 5) I thought people ...
- 6244: Poseidon
- ... still floating and was not a land yet. But she still could not give birth to the babies because Hera had forbid Ilithyia the goddess of childbirth to go to her. "Without her help no child could be born." All the goddess' felt bad for Leto, so they bribed Hera with a necklace. It was nine feet long and made of gold and amber. Hera gave in and let Ilithyia go ...
- 6245: Sportsmanship
- ... it and we bring it under disciplinary control which we believe satisfies the public (Snyder201). Its better that the violence take place between two willing combatants such as in sports than ina situation involving spousal abuse where the majority of the times the female is being attacked againsther consent. Allowing people not to be able vent their frustrations through sport in my mind wouldincrease the violence that is happening away from ...
- 6246: Violence In Sports / Hockey
- ... and we bring it under disciplinary control which we believe satisfies the public (Snyder 201). Its better that the violence take place between two willing combatants such as in sports than ina situation involving spousal abuse where the majority of the times the female is being attacked againsther consent. Allowing people not to be able vent their frustrations through sport in my mind wouldincrease the violence that is happening away from ...
- 6247: The Swayzak People
- ... the Swayzak people also have a very deep ritualistic side to them. Rituals are an important part of the lives of the Swayzaks. For them a ritual connects them to thier mother earth. When a child is born a ritual is performed to welcome and let him become part of the mother earth. At death rituals are performed to send a persons back to the earth. Thier "rites of passage" ritual ...
- 6248: Loki
- ... Sigyn, Nare or Narve and Vale. He also has three children with the giantess Angrboa who are Fenrir, Jormungandr and Hel. He is the father to all of these children. He has also conceived a child with the stallion Svailfare, Sleipnir, and lastly he has given birth to the giantess Hyndla after having eaten the burnt heart of a dead woman. Rooth points to similarities between Snorri΄s account of Loki ...
- 6249: Aztec Mythology: Quetzalcoatl
- ... task by splashing his blood on the bones and ashes of previous human beings that had existed in a previous age. Out of this auto-sacrifice of blood sprang a male and then a female child, the forbearers of all modern people (Berdan 121). Thus Quetzalcoatl is not only a god to be worshiped out of reverence for his powers over nature but as a father figure as well. The Aztecs ...
- 6250: Nuclear Warfare
- ... about the long-term effects. The most major is radiation in the ground. Food cannot be grown in certain areas, and people who were hit with high radiation and lived, and then had children, the child is defective due to the high radiation in his bodys genetics. Another situation to consider is nuclear terrorism. What would happen if a terrorist got his hands on an A-bomb. With that kind ...
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