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- 4711: Bless Me, Ultima
- ... book. There are many cases in the story where people had lost their innocence of life and it was lost to them forever. Tony s brothers are of such a case. They had gone to war to fight for their country and explore the world. But as they yearned and sought the outside and how it was, they lost their innocence in the process. Being in war they saw death and destruction which soiled their once virgin eyes. Although they gained knowledge and experience they were becoming no longer young and gay, but were becoming mature and knowledgeable. Growing at such a ...
- 4712: Critical Analysis Of "Identity Crisis" and "Oppositional Dress"
- ... example the Hippie movement of the 1960's started a dress trend that is still seen across america. They wore bell bottomed pants, flowery shirts, they grew their hair long, and they supported peace over war. These views were seen as oppositional to their parents, and thus they became "Hippies" Another example Wilson gives is that of the Gay Movement. In the 1970's this movement was in full form. What ... a distinctive style of dress called a zoot suit. These suits had exaggerated padded shoulders, peg top trousers, narrowing ankles, and the were lavishly draped. The zoot suiters dressed this way to demonstrate against the war effort. The zoot suiter is a clear example of a symbolic sub culture that was a statement of ethnic pride, and a refusal to assimilate. In mainstream american culture, sub cultures are not lost or ...
- 4713: China History
- ... introduced ideas of Confucianism as the main school of thought. These ideas sound to provide people with jobs and titles according to skills and merit not their lineage. So a test to find the best civil servants was adopted. the Han dynasty had faced corruption. Also, in the present. Farmer's were/are fed up with the taxes and corruption of the local communist party as we can clearly see in ... new but very important. An example in the period from AD 9 to 23 Wang Mang was murder when he tried to establish a reform that every citizen will have equal political, economic, social and civil rights. As in the present, in January 8 Zhang Huangli was murder fighting for his rights. At one time in China, commerce duly benefited the state, a feeling of disagreement come over to people who ...
- 4714: When Will We Learn
- ... own failures and mistakes for so long that we can t seem to break through this bad habit. Sitting here in out artificial pride and patriotism as we go out on the limb of World War Three. We tap dance on the landmines of world dominance. We are not in control anymore. And yet, we think he have this power over all. And it s this grand feeling of strength that ... learns from their mistakes. No one owns up to the responsibility. Which explains this whole conflict in Kosovo. God willing this will be the end of times, the final straw. On the brink of nuclear war. Just wipe the whole fucking world, and cut God a break from having to do it himself. Of course, that is what the book of Revelation is really saying. I don t honestly find the ...
- 4715: Software Licensing
- ... an organization, and giving an unauthorized copy to someone else - is prohibited. Under this law if anyone is caught with the pirated software, an individual or the individual=s company can be tried under both civil and criminal law. A Civil action may be established for injunction, actual damages (which includes the infringer=s profits) or statutory damages up to $100,000 per infringement. The criminal penalties for copyright infringement can result in fines up to ...
- 4716: The Life Of George Washington
- ... James Thomas. George Washington. Little. 1967 George Wahington George Washington was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. He served as commander-in-chief of the Continental army during the Revolutionary War, and later served as the first president of the United States. His thoughts and ideas helped mold the United States into the great country that it is today. George Washington was born on February 22 ... and Kentucky were added as states in 1791 and 1792 respectively. George Washington reluctantly agreed to serve a second term as president, even though he wanted to go home to Mount Vernon. An outbreak of war in Europe plagued Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy design. Alexander Hamilton formed a pro-British foreign policy during Washington's second administration. Jay's Treaty of 1795 settled outstanding American differences with Great Britain. This ...
- 4717: Griffin's Egg: Gunther
- ... a man who lives on the moon. And his adventures,as he gets into all kinds of situatutions. He, along with many others, have inhabited the moon because Earth is engauged in a full thermonuclier war. The dangers of the moon however, also come along. Solar flares, dangerous robots, CMP chips, and many more dangers await Gunther on the moon. As gunther is delivering some fuel rods to the G5 Assembly ... teamed up and after a while of research, found a way to stop Krishna from broadcasting over the chip's frequency, and therefore, stopped him from taking over peoples minds. Finally, in the end, the war on earth died down, then was over. The world was at peace once again. Earth send up space ships to bring the moon inhabitants back down to earth. Gunther returned to earth along with the ...
- 4718: Tiger Woods
- ... the b est golfer. The only way Tiger dealt with racism was to let his clubs do all the talking for him. The book starts off with Earl Woods, Tiger's father, during the Vietnam War. A sniper almost took out Earl but his friend saved him. Later on that day, he gets in a predicament with a bamboo viper, and once again, his friend saves him. The friend's name ... was good in combat; he was a tiger in combat. Nguyen Phong had the nickname of "Tiger". Earl vowed that if he ever had an o ther son, he would call him "Tiger". After the war, back in the United States, Earl met a Thai woman named Kultida and he married her and had a son. They named the baby Eldrick, but Earl called him "Tiger". Tiger Woods took interest in ...
- 4719: Who Can Stop Credit Card Abuse
- ... universal" card that allowed its holders to purchase goods and services at different places across the country. An industry was born, Diners Club As a matter of fact, the period right before the First World War, was the first year for a new industry, the credit card industry. Those first credit cards were not really credit cards as they are today because they served only for limited needs. They could be used only on a very low level. "The use of credit cards by retailers began in 1914" (Lewis, 1990). Since that date there was an inconceivable growth of credit card production. Prior to World War I, few hotels, oil companies and department stores issued credit cards. Then in 1931 the airline companies introduced the credit cards in their business (Lewis, 1990). The evolution and the expansion of the card went ...
- 4720: Chrysalids 2
- ... in Waknuk will stop thinking that Tribulation was sent by God and that all deviations are devil's creation. They might understand that the radiation might be the remaining of a nuclear bomb or nuclear war. The sealant people might help Waknuk in education and they themselves may build the machines like today's, and grow more productive crops. The entire thinking and appearance of Waknuk might change. On the other ... points were influenced by mental telepathy. This type of story could be an example how people were in the past (in the really world). It is an idea what could really happen if a nuclear war would become a reality.
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