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- 1661: Personal Writing: Boot Camp
- ... because the food was valuable to me. After all the push ups and sit ups and squat thrusts make you quite hungry. After lunch we went back to the barracks and let go for the day. Meaning we all got to talk and get to know each other better. I made some friends during that time. One was Desmin who had long black hair that he was quite proud of. Another ... instructor got everyone out of their bunks and made us run around the barracks until the windows in the barracks got foggy from body heat. That certain person got jumped in the bathroom the next day when we got up because people were mad that they did not get enough sleep. On a regular basis we went to bed at 10:30 and got up at 4:30. So sleep was valuable thing. The next day we were marched to a big brick building on the out skirts of the base. When we went in the building we stood in line for about an hour not knowing what we were ...
- 1662: Abortion
- ... mother, which can include lung and kidney if the salt finds its way into her bloodstream. In spite the horrible burning effect, some babies have survived salting out and been born alive. Dilation and Curettage (D&C) is a method used during the end of the first trimester and the beginning of the second trimester. In D&C the doctor inserts a curette, a loop shaped steel knife, into the womb through the dilated cervix. As the curette scrapes the wall of the uterus, the baby is cut into pieces. Bleeding can ... but this is very rare. As with a suction abortion, there is a risk of infection or hemorrhage, so the abortionist must reassemble the body parts to sure the uterus is empty. Dilation and Excavation (D&E) In a D&E abortion it is similar to D&C, except that forceps must be used to grasp the babys body because of the childs advanced development. The baby is ...
- 1663: The Welfare System
- The Welfare System Welfare, it is on just about everyones' mind, whether it is Medicare or the A.F.D.C. Some believe there is too much and others think there is too little. As the years go by, the need for welfare reform increases. President Clinton had pledged in his 1992 campaign to "end ... and 1889 respectively. Today European countries such as Germany, Norway, and Sweden have highly sophisticated Welfare systems (Bender, 13). Welfare did not reach the United States, however, until shortly after the Great Depression with Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal." The New Deal brought on new economic and social welfare legislation. This is the first time that the United States Government used federal and public funds to finance the welfare needs of the people. Today, the most expensive welfare program is Aid to Families with Dependent Children (A.F.D.C.). The A.F.D.C. was created after the passing of the Social Security Act of 1935. Throughout the last 60 years, the welfare system has faced many changes, including the 1988 Family ...
- 1664: Tom Sawyer
- ... of freedom he had a stroke of genius, instead of him paying people to work for him, he made people pay him to paint. Tom managed this by telling people that it isn't every day that you get a chance to paint a fence and he thought it was fun. He had people begging him to paint by the time that he was finished his story. He would have taken ... and paddled to an island in the middle of the Mississippi River. They stayed and pirated for several days, then they all became so home sick that they could not bear it anymore. The next day Tom, Huck, and Joe showed up for their own funerals and there was much thanks and praise. The next big event in the town was the trial of Muff Potter for the murder in the ... cell for a week. At the end of the week he was to be hung unless some one in court had proved him innocent. While Muff was in jail temporarily he was not alone. Every day Tom and Huck would go and talk to him through the jail cell bars and on occasion bring him food. On the last day of court, to everyone's surprise they called Tom Sawyer ...
- 1665: List Of Amendments
- ... a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. The person having the greatest number of votes as ... on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Amendment XX (1933) Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin. Section 2. The Congress shall assemble ...
- 1666: Adolf Hitler
- ... of the child was Adolf Hitler. He was the son a Customs official Alois Hitler, and his third wife Klara. As a young boy Adolf attendated church regulary and sang in the local choir. One day he carved a symbol into the bench which resembled the Swastika he later used as the symbol of the Nazi party. He was a pretty good student. He received good marks in most of his ... to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the dean's office that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would have happened IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have had a bit more talent....or IF the Dean had been a little less critical, the world might ... and it was here that his disliking of the Jews most likely began. Germany after the war was in chaos. With no real Government to control the country, many groups tried to take control. One day a big communist group staged a big riot but another group of ex-soldiers including Hitler managed to hold them back. 3.The Nazi Party Since there were not many chances for employment Hitler ...
- 1667: Atomic Bomb
- ... bomb? Did the United States have to bomb both Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Why did the United States bomb two cities heavily populated by civilians? These questions, including a numerous amount of many more to this day are left unanswered. The horrific display of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still haunts and sickens people to this very day. Nonetheless, Hiroshima affected both United States and world history forever, and has made the change in military warfare uncanny. No doubt, August 6, 1945 began as any other day. Before it had ended, something dramatic occurred that would change the way nations dealt with each other- perhaps for all time. On this day at 8:15 A.M, the Enola gay- a B- ...
- 1668: Cystic Fibrosis
- ... this through the cries and pleads from your child "please mommy not today". Yes this may sound terrible and even painful, but it is required to keep the child alive. Actually this is the every day routine for a parent of a child with Cystic Fibrosis. See without this daily "pounding" on the child's chest his or her lungs would fill up with mucus and that child would die. Cystic ... used to treat lung infections by way of pills, or medicated vapors which the patients inhale (Scientific 2). Some Cystic Fibrosis patient's strap on a vest connected to an air compressor, three times a day. This vest which they wear for 15 minutes each time pounds on them to loosen the mucus in their chest (Charleston 2). In 1990 scientists successfully made copies of the "normal" gene, and added them ... salt content (showing that I had Cystic Fibrosis) that I might not be here today to be writing this paper. I feel for the people with children who have Cystic Fibrosis, because they live every day in limbo not knowing if their child is going to live another day. These children go through so much, with the every day chest physical therapy and the sicknesses they go through due to ...
- 1669: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
- ... of freedom he had a stroke of genius, instead of him paying people to work for him, he made people pay him to paint. Tom managed this by telling people that it isn't every day that you get a chance to paint a fence and he thought it was fun. He had people begging him to paint by the time that he was finished his story. He would have taken ... and paddled to an island in the middle of the Mississippi River. They stayed and pirated for several days, then they all became so home sick that they could not bear it anymore. The next day Tom, Huck, and Joe showed up for their own funerals and there was much thanks and praise. The next big event in the town was the trial of Muff Potter for the murder in the ... cell for a week. At the end of the week he was to be hung unless some one in court had proved him innocent. While Muff was in jail temporarily he was not alone. Every day Tom and Huck would go and talk to him through the jail cell bars and on occasion bring him food. On the last day of court, to everyone's surprise they called Tom Sawyer ...
- 1670: Glass Menagerie 2
- ... how to eat his food Tom leaves the table to go smoke a cigarette on the fire escape. Amanda tells Laura her story of the old days when she received seventeen gentlemen callers in one day. The next day Amanda finds out that Laura has dropped out of business school, and confronts her, Laura explains that she could not handle the class and has been out walking every day. Amanda sits down with Laura and asks if she ever liked a boy ?, Laura points to a picture in her yearbook. Later that evening Amanda and Tom argue, she does not understand why Tom ...
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