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- 10291: Acronyms, Idioms and Slang: the Evolution of the English Language.
- ... before the morning crush of more amenable hours rendered the restaurant uninhabitable on Berra's maxim. This piece, while cleverly phrased, has a wordiness to it that would rarely be found in the average present-day essay. This is not because writers of today have smaller vocabularies than essayist of yesteryear (although they might), but rather because there is a much simpler way of saying exactly what Gould said. Ever since ...
- 10292: The Good Corn & Turned: Cultural Circumstances and Its Effect on A Character's Reaction to Certain Situations
- ... on her husband and besides him Elsie was her only companion. Mrs. Marroner on the other hand was a well educated, high society woman. She lived in Boston, an upper-class suburb, had a Ph.D. and once lectured at university. Because of her suburban upbringing and education she was a confident and independent lady who relied on no-one. She was the more dominant person in their marriage whereas in ...
- 10293: A Comparison of Contemporary and Romance Literature
- ... no one else is around, Rosicky, disregarding his doctor's orders, rakes some thistle plants out of one of his alfalfa fields, but the work is too tough on his heart. Rosicky dies the next day (48-71). Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets is another short story of someone analyzing his life. Tom Benecke is a workaholic who has a month's worth of his work scribbled on a ...
- 10294: Methods of Control
- ... go to, and the youth want to stay out with their friends and have a good time. Good times can lead to tragedy. Drinking, drugs, sex, and violence make curfew a good thing. During the day most teens are at school, but at night lots of teens gets together to party. So making your stat home is good if parents want to try and keep there kids out of trouble. Most ...
- 10295: Abortion
- ... woman is treated with prostaglandin (misoprostol) suppositories to expel the fetus; the woman then aborts the child at home: It also requires three visits to a doctor to complete the process. Methods of Late Abortion: D&E: the cervix is pried open. Using forceps, the abortionist tears the child out of the womb, limb by limb. The child is then reassembled to assure that no fetal parts are left inside. Possible ...
- 10296: 1963: The Hope That Stemmed From the Fight for Equality
- ... the position was taken away from the Negroes and given back to white men. In the time that the Negroes occupied these positions, southern whites developed a deep hatred and animosity for Negroes. From that day forward the strain between blacks and whites grew. Racial discrimination appeared to be eternally present. Hope looked slim as the years wore on, and little progress was made toward freedom. Tension came to a head ...
- 10297: The Presidents' Decisions During The Civil War
- ... April if not resupplied. On April 12, 1861, as the Union ships carrying supplies to Fort Sumter entered Charleston Harbor, Beauregard directed his men, the Palamento Guard, to attack the Fort. Anderson surrendered the next day, and his forces left the fort without sustaining any casualties. Seward and others in the Lincoln administration who had advised Lincoln that withdrawal from Fort Sumter would prevent widening of divisions between the North and ...
- 10298: Ku Klux Klan
- ... 1877, the Klan as an organization disappeared by the end of 1872. However, at the turn of the century the story of the Klan was popularized in Thomas B. Dixon's The Clansman (1905) and D. W. Griffith's powerful movie The Birth of a Nation (1915). This led to the revival of Ku Klux Klan, which spread throughout the nation preaching anti-Catholic, antiblack, anti-Jewish, anti-immigrant, antisocialist, and ...
- 10299: Why Are American Afraid of Dragons?
- ... of taking care of the family's financial needs. A good man is preoccupied with his wife, his children, his work, his colleagues etc... So which form of entertainment should he choose for his busy day? I sincerly hate to be rude but Ursula K. Le Guin has to keep in mind that we live in a mediatic world. Among the many different forms of media including books, radio, theatre and ...
- 10300: The Great Depression
- ... selling. Farmers picketed roads asking people to join in on their holiday. They gave away free milk to the poor and unemployed rather then let it spoil because they refused to sell it. A thirty-day holiday on farm selling was begun August 8 and extended indefinitely. In December 1932, 250 farmers from twenty-six states gathered together for farmers National Relief Conference. They announced that they demand relief, from creditors ...
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