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- 161: Creative Writing: A Sunday
- ... office is there down the road. She has her book ready in her bag but how much?; she has to think, too, about the withdrawal slip. All thats done for her now. Tom said it'd be easier. Tom doesn't know sometimes easier is harder. In the end she stands still and quiet and breathes in deeply. Makes herself think to write the name and the numbers. She has to ... they ache. The young man behind the counter has Jack's blue eyes that she smiles into and he takes her book and slides it back to her with money. He says have a nice day and she echoes it back at him, a nice day, have a nice day. Her heart is pounding. Out in the streets she panics a little. All these people and talking and music and the cars slowly nosing. There is a red-capped boy ...
- 162: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- ... with a New York law firm. While still in law school, Roosevelt met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt a distant cousin, only a few years younger than him(Alsop 28). They were married on St. Patrick's day, March 17th, 1905(Freidel 13). He was twenty-three and she was twenty-one. Her fathe A few years later in 1910, Roosevelt accepted the Democratic nomination for the New York State Senate(Freidel 17 ... January he entered the Senate at the young age of twenty-eight(Freidel 18). Later in 1912 he ra In July of 1921, while vacationing at Campobello Island, he went sailing with his children. One day, they saw, what appeared to be a forest fire, on a nearby island they quickly sailed to shore to help put out the fire. It took a couple of hours and w was able to ... terms had died. He served his people more than twelve years and had now taken his final re Bibliography Alsop, Joseph, FDR, A Centenary Rememberance, The Viking Press, New York, 1982. Hacker, Jeffrey H., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Watts, New York, 1983. Freidel, Frank, A Rendezvous With Destiny, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1990. Lawson, Don, FDR's New Deal, Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1974. Woolf, S.J., Thomas ...
- 163: ROBBERY OF FREEDOM:The Ultimate Injustice
- ... possible attempt was made to satisfy the bank, but everything was turned down except the $50,000 required to pay the loan off in full. My parents were able to raise the $50,000. The day before the scheduled foreclosure, my parents went to the bank to settle the debt. They were met by the President with a cool reception. He said he could not take it. He told them to ... was then that I learned it was John W. Waters. This was clearly a conspiracy to maliciously prosecute. Waters was coming at the Brabham family with a vengeance, attempting to destroy at all cost. The D.A. (Whigham) was his buddy. He awarded Whigham a beach house in Panama City, valued at one million dollars for this and other dirty work he has performed for him (i.e., not prosecuting his ... before court was recessed. My mother and I were taken into a back room for a most severe coercion of a guilty plea. There were 6 men present with us. The JUDGE conducted the coercion!! D.A. Whigham, the foreclosure attorney, Rutland, 2 DEA agents, and an Alabama Bureau of Investigations man were there. I had called the ABI to report the corruption, drug business, etc. He was there to ...
- 164: Creative Story: Deadlock
- ... of those Rasssjemani-Quazaric-Smith Equations and see why they were causing all those robots to go psycho," she thought. "Good thing that U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men hushed up that little incident, I'd be out of a job if the whole world, the xenophobic and primally-fearful lot of them, knew about that!" As she got out and buttered her toast, she mulled the day ahead of her in her mind. Weekends were never truly weekends for Susan Calvin, as she was forced to work for most of the weekend, with her only respite being Sunday, which she was allowed ... at that! Why do you think there is only one? There is no need for one even!" "Hah! You pathetic Moses imitator, you don't fool me, your entire education consists of a G.E.D.! And you were born when they still had G.E.D.s! So don't say I'm useless, I'm not trying to create the next generation of mechanical men without a college ...
- 165: Creative Writing: A Day at the Park
- Creative Writing: A Day at the Park It was a day I was subconsciously waiting my whole life for, but I didn't realize it until it was happening. The day was August 8, 1996, just 25 days before my son's first birthday. The Texas Rangers, my favorite baseball team, were in town to play the K.C. Royals. I had always dreamed of ...
- 166: Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite
- ... there sleep. “Each year, Americans spend more that $98 million on over-the-counter remedies to help them sleep at night, and another $50 million on caffeine tablets to help them stay awake during the day” (Graber 90). Imagine how much money they would have saved if only they understood what keeps them awake or what puts them to sleep. Many smokers also wonder why they have contributed to that great ... in the hot tub can relax your muscles for a peaceful night” (Insomnia 1). Nothing feels better than being free of aches and pains and then being able to lie down comfortably after a hard day. Some important muscles that can cause problems in sleeping when tense are your legs, buttocks, shoulders, and neck. Massaging these places will reduce tension that may deprive you of precious sleep. As for your mind ... they have things to keep them busy. Overall, there are more people that want to sleep and can’t. The most common reason why they can’t sleep is stress. These stressful people see each day as not being long enough as compared to the others who think they can take their time because they have all day. “There seem to be only two kinds of people, those who can ...
- 167: Reaching Up For Manhood
- ... home. I could not imagine telling a child not to go to the playground and play after school because it wasn't safe. If put in this type of culture, I would feel like I'd have to shield my child from everything when the reality of it would be that I am not the educator. The "tough" boys on that playground are the educators in a younger boy's eyes ... who was constantly told by his mother never to go to this certain street to play football with most of his classmates. Ronaldo wanted so much to be a part of the group that one day he and his close friend snuck over to that "forbidden" street and started playing football with the other boys. Ronaldo was having so much fun, felt so much apart of a group, and almost forgot ... even think of permitting me to leave my neighborhood when playing outside. I couldn't ride my bike down the street to the United Dairy Farmers to get ice cream on a hot summer's day like a lot of the other kids got to do. I, like Ronaldo, watched as my friends cheerfully ran in the other direction I was forbidden to go. I could never understand why mom ...
- 168: Skydiving
- ... be totally familiar with your equipment. The sport parachute, called a rig in skydiving jargon, is a very simple machine. It must include two canopies, a main and a reserve. The components must be TSO'd, meaning they meet government technical standard orders that require high manufacturing and testing standards. All rigs are worn on the back and consist of similar components. A look at the diagram will show that a ... cells causes it to take on a wing shape. A parachute has a fixed angle of incidence, built into it by the length of the lines. The "A" lines in front are shorter than the "D" lines in back, causing the wing to point slightly down. It essentially flies forward and down on the slope of the angle built into it. This angle causes it to fly about three feet forward for every one foot down, giving it a 3 to 1 glide ratio. In other words, on a calm day a parachute opened at 4,000 feet could fly a straight line distance of 12,000 feet before landing! The speed at which it flies is about 20 miles per hour forward and 6 ...
- 169: To Kill A Mockingbird - Plot S
- ... Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself" - p.10 c. awareness difference in social classes "nothing to buy and no money to buy with it" - p.10 d. narrow span of interest and almost no interest in the world outside Maycomb. "nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County" - p.10 2. Approximately when does the story negin? Show evidence to support ... Dill come out and play with Scout and Jem, Dill has always found interesting studying Boo's place, because Dill think Boo is phantom bogeyman. Chapter 2 1. Scout makes three mistakes during her first day at school. What are her mistakes, and why do they make Miss Caroline so angry? First of all, the teacher found out that Scout already can read, so she make Scout promise not to read ... what she see/heard. 4. Why does Atticus say that the law is rigid for "common folk", but it is bent in certain ways for the Ewells? I think it is because common folk that day just won't have enough money to hire lawyer to protect themselves, so it is not too fair to them. AS for Ewell, they are some how always "let off" by the law. For ...
- 170: Sonnet 72
- William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? a Thou art more lovely and more temperate: b Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, a And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: b Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines c And often is his gold complexion dimmed, d And every fair from fair sometimes declines, c By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed; d But thy eternal summer shall not fade, e Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; f Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, e When in eternal lines to ...
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