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- 5451: Mardigras
- ... Krewe of Comus, and it put on a parade of two floats: one carrying a King, the other showing Satan in a blazing hell. Since that time only major conflicts have interfered, the Spanish American war not having been considered Major. (The Folklore of American Holidays pg. 84-97) Mardi Gras owes its present day exuberance to a twenty two year old Russian Grand Duke, who was present only by chance ...
- 5452: Immoral Acts Of The Tobacco In
- ... has become more important than compassion in the minds of the industrys players. The success of the industry is merely a reflection of its immoral practices. Bibliography: 1.) Smoke and Mirrors: The Canadian Tobacco War 1996 Rob Cunningham 2.) Galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco A)/mangina/report/exhibits.html B)/bw.html 3.) www.courts.gov.bc.ca/Jdb%2txt.html 4.) Smoking, The Artificial Passion; 1989 David Krogh 5 ...
- 5453: The Telescope
- ... of eyesight. It would not only let you see objects from far away, it would also help you see if you had a problem with it. It could also be used for other things: hunting, war, and making new discoveries. What would the world be like without the telescope? I dont know what the world would be like, but I some very good reasons why it was good that the ...
- 5454: Paintball
- ... team loses points every time a team member is eliminated. The team gains points every time they bring back the opposing sides flag. Paintball is a fun and serious game. It does not glorify war. It is an old paintball adage that the sport actually proves how easy it is to be shot. The supporters of paintball like to prefer the sport as a tactical game of skill. (Cooke, 93 ...
- 5455: Evolution Of Profanity
- ... for him. and "to play with someone's beard" was to insult him. "God's body" 1 Henry IV,II.i.26 Swearing by Christ's body, (or any part thereof,) was off limits in civil discourse. "God's Bod(y)kins, man" Hamlet, II.ii.529 The word bod(y)kin means "little body" or "dear body," but adding the cute little suffix does not make this curse any more ...
- 5456: Muckrakers
- ... as well as many others were titled muckrakers (Hofstadter 193). Although the muckraking era is considered to span from about 1902 to 1912, some muckraking magazines and muckrakers worked on. Despite losing interest because of war events and change of values, Pearson's magazine continued to write on. Also, Upton Sinclair continued muckraking at least until the mid-1930s. In 1924, he produced an essay entitled "The Consequences of Land Speculation ...
- 5457: Beowulf
- ... people of a given society. These tales also had another purpose, which was to remind the people of the evils that were around them. Lurking in the shadows, waiting to claim another victim in the war of good and evil. Such stories fed on the fears of the people and the uncertainty of the world around them. Although the stories themselves may differ considerably from region to region, the basic underlying ...
- 5458: The Federal Period
- The Federal Period The time after the Revolutionary War when America was beginning a new consciousness, marked by its recently acquired independence, was called the Federal Period. American furniture makers still modeled designs from England but soon created styles with balanced proportions and symmetrical ...
- 5459: Panama Canal
- ... The United States wanted the land of Panama to build a Canal but first the United States need the land from Colombia. The United States became vitally interested in canal projects during the Spanish-American War of 1898. In 1902 the U.S. Congress passed the Spooner Act, which was the basic law for the construction of the Panama Canal. The law declared that the United States had the right to ...
- 5460: Essay On The Stranger
- In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, we find a group of British boys stranded on a tropical island while the rest of the world is at war. Their plane has been shot down and they find themselves without adults to tell them how to act. As they struggle to survive, they encounter conflicts that mirror the decayed society from which they have ...
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