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- 7081: The Quinault Indian Tribe
- ... of wood was added to the front to protect the Indians from water. Finally the canoe was scorched over a fire to make it more waterproof. The Indians used much more massive oceangoing canoes for war, trading, raiding, and whale hunting. Fourth, The most important food to the Northwest coastal Indians was Salmon. The Quinaults did not wander around for food. They were the southern most tribe in the region to ...
- 7082: Influences of Chinese Culture
- ... of courtesy in personal relationships and respect for the family they also taught us resignation to the forces of nature. After my trip here in China I’m expecting to have a position in a civil service of government administration, by taking the competitive examinations. I think my trip here prepared me and helped me for that test. Footnotes 1. Scott, Littleton, Eastern Wisdom (New York: NY Henry Holt and Company ...
- 7083: The United States has Changed from a Melting Pot to a Vast Culture with Varying Racial Backgrounds.
- ... function of this craze is to raise minority self-esteem. Viewed by some, the obstacle this creates is not for the better. Multiculturalism helps unite groups and separates them from the rest of the country. . . .Civil liberties and human rights -- is portrayed as the root of all evil . . . (Schlesinger 3). A positive approach would have Americans stop seeing themselves as members of primarily one ethnic group, gaining their total identity from ...
- 7084: The History of Ice Hockey
- ... were admitted with no charge. The meager crowd left no doubt that pro hockey, even under a new banner, was still suffering from the army scandal, most of the greatest players were off fighting at war. Again on the disaster side, the Westmount Arena burned to the ground in early 1918. Montreal had not drawn good crowds during the season and with arena lost, the owners decided to call it quits ...
- 7085: Ida B. Wells
- ... most hostile forms of prejudice that has ever existed in this country. Ida B. Wells was a woman who dramatically altered race relations in our country and should be honored and respected as a phenomenal civil rights activist. She kept hope alive in the African-American history and motivated others to work just as hard as she to guarantee a safe environment for all Americans.
- 7086: Landfills
- ... prepared food. Plastics biodegrade not at all. Biodegradable plastic is an oxymoron at best; the most unstable plastic requires intense sunlight to decompose, and sunlight is denied in a sanitary landfill. Newspapers from before World War Two are still readable; they have, in fact, become important date markers for scientists examining garbage strata in landfills [Rathje 112-13]. The public is sadly misinformed as to what comprises the bulk of municipal ...
- 7087: Landfills - Fact Is More Ominous Than Fiction
- ... prepared food. Plastics biodegrade not at all. Biodegradable plastic is an oxymoron at best; the most unstable plastic requires intense sunlight to decompose, and sunlight is denied in a sanitary landfill. Newspapers from before World War Two are still readable; they have, in fact, become important date markers for scientists examining garbage strata in landfills [Rathje 112]
- 7088: Dragons
- ... dragons as an evil serpent-like creature. In an age of darkness, and ignorance the Europeans saw the world around them as evil and hostile. The dragon was used to symbolize the demons, sickness, and war that plagued their daily lives. While the Europeans feared the dragon as a beast or demon the Chinese saw them in a much better light. The Chinese thought of dragons as powerful guardian spirits. Their ...
- 7089: The Atomic Bomb anad Nuclear Bombs
- ... a test, at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The energy released from this explosion was equivalent to that released by the detonation of 20,000 tons of TNT. Near the end of World War II, on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It followed with a second bomb against the city of Nagasaki on August 9. As many ...
- 7090: Ontological and Cosmological Arguments of God's Existence
- ... of Christianity and religion in general, with great enthusiasm. It is Nietzsche who popularized the old Lutheran phase, "God is dead," but with an anti-religious twist and a shout of delight that declared open war on all remaining forms of religious "weaknesses." (Pg.349). This call for "God is dead," was based on the belief that the Christian God had become unworthy of belief. Many philosophers and "free spirits" felt ...
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