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- 171: DEPRESSION
- ... families packed up all of their belongings and headed west. The population of the Pacific states was rapidly growing. In some southern states, many of the unemployed worked picking cotton for only one dollar a day. Many of the more fortunate people who still had jobs had pity on those who had lost theirs. Some grocers provided food to needy families on credit. Teachers and policemen would bring lunches to the ... for Americans who were veterans of World War I. They did not act fast enough, however. So many were now starving and homeless, that thousands of people, including war veterans, started to gather in Washington D.C. to protest. By May, 1932, nearly twenty thousand of them had set up Hoovervilles, there. The World War One veterans waved signs that said, "Heroes in 1917-Bums in 1932." President Hoover soon became ... all of the extra people around the White House. He even refused to meet with the leaders of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, and called them Communists. He put the police on twenty-four hour a day guard of the White House, making sure that all entrances were secure. They prepared for an attack, and it occurred on July 28, 1932. The veterans had become restless, and they were ordered to ...
- 172: Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging an Honest Consensus
- ... CA 94306 USA hanson@charon.arc.nasa.gov 510-651-7483 To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, London, 7/90.) C O U L D G A M B L I N G S A V E S C I E N C E? Encouraging an Honest Consensus The pace of scientific progress may be hindered by the tendency of ... astrologers, chemists, and people like Bacon and Galileo -- argued that they and their theories should be judged by how well they agreed with observations, and not by how they agreed with the authorities of the day [Gal]. This was the age of utopias [Whi], as these rebels debated possible academic reforms and imagined whole new social institutions, for both academia in particular and society in general. Within a century or so ... most questions of fact usually convergence with time, evidence, and sincere study. We hope that history will prove us right. We debate and discuss, essentially saying "I'll bet if we talked it out, you'd see I'm right". We take the advice of experts, indicating that we think we would come to believe what the experts believe, if only we were to study what the experts have studied. ...
- 173: To Kill A Mockingbird 4
- ... 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 ...
- 174: The Color Purple: Celie
- ... it.” (9) As soon as she is married, she is being abused by Mr. _____. She has to work the fields, raise his children (one of which splits her head open with a rock on the day she gets married), and endure beatings whenever he gets mad about something and wants to take it out on her. One time when Mr. _____ is asked by his son Harpo why he beats Celie, he ... tells her “You ought to bash Mr. _____ head open.”(37), but she knows she would never get away with it. She’s just coping with things as they are because that was the way she’d always been raised and treated. It’s almost normal to her, but at the same time, she admires the way Sophia can fend for herself, and I think she wished she was brave enough to ... Sophia finally leaves Harpo because of the way she is treated, but Celie finds out that she’s not so lucky when she shows her attitude to the Mayor and his wife in town one day. When she’s asked if she’d like to be a maid, she replies “Hell, no.” When the mayor asks her what she said, she repeats it, and he slaps her. With that, Sophia ...
- 175: Creative Writing: An Unforgivable Choice
- ... t have dragged you with. It wasn't supposed to take so long -I swear” Lucinda excused. “ Well I should have got enough presents now, I have almost spent all my pocketmoney in just one day! I better go home now.” “Can I come?” Jason asked. Lucinda said that he could, but only for a peace of bread. Outside the door Lucinda stopped. “Bzzz -be quiet” Lucinda whispered. “We have discussed ... 17 years old now, has temperament, is negro and has curly hair and his number is 2206786587. And I just want you to find him.” “We'll see what we can do, have a nice day.” “Dot dot dot dot dot.” “Was that a job!!?” “Sure was, -make an effort!” “I'll try!” The detective hacked in on the file that contained UK's inhabitants secret informations just to check that ... received the money and showed her into The detective's office. The detective told her that she couldn't tell anybody were she had got the informations from. June Promised at got the information. Next day she went to the address she'd got from the agency. Very unexpected Lucinda thought that Jason had stolen her parents from her and over the years Jason had begun hating his mother for ...
- 176: The Computer Underground
- ... the following charac- teristics: At least one quarter of the users were registered out- side the state of the board called; the phone line were exclu- sively for BBS use and available 24 hours a day; and the information and files/warez were current "state of the field." Elite CU members argue that there are less than ten "truly elite" p/hacker boards nationally. We obtained the names and numbers of ... once obtained: Welcome to the world of hacking! We, the people who live outside of the normal rules, and have been scorned and even arrested by those from the 'civilized world', are becoming scarcer every day. This is due to the greater fear of what a good hacker (skill wise, no mor- al judgements here) can do nowadays, thus causing anti- hacker sentiment in the masses. Also, few hackers seem to ... 1,2,7,8 I know will) Anybody? 89Mar10 From *********> I was hacking around on telenet (415 area code) and got a few things that I am stuck-o on if ya can help, I'd be greatly happy. First of all, I got one that is called RCC PALO ALTO and I can't figure it out. Second (and this looks pretty fun) is the ESPRIT COMMAIL and I ...
- 177: Act Of Courage (jim Abbott)
- ... view of Justin changed. During Color War the whole camp is divided into two teams. The teams play each other in various competitions and sports for 4 days and at the end of the fourth day the points are tallied up to see who won. It was the last day of Color War, the day everything would be decided. There was not one camper whose heart wasn t rushing with intense emotions and pride. It was about 3:00, the voice over the intercom said it is now time ...
- 178: Comparison Of Shakespeare Shal
- Comparison of 2 Poems Mid Term Break by Seamus Heaney and Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer s Day by William Shakespeare Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in a small agricultural town in county Derry. In 1957 he went to Queen s University in Belfast where he studied literature. He returned to Queen ... couplet. The Sonnets describe the devotion of a character, which is often the poet himself, to a young lady in whom he is infatuated. The sonnet uses the rhyme scheme: A B A B C D C D E F E F G G In Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer s Day? which is Sonnet eighteen in the series of one hundred and fifty four, Shakespeare writes in praise of ...
- 179: 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 ...
- 180: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- ... successful Wall Street stockbroker. Her mother, Janet Lee Bouvier, was an equestrian. Jackie spent her childhood in New York City and Long Island with her parents. In 1940 her mother divorced and remarried to Hugh D. Auchincloss II in 1942. Jackie then moved with her mother to Newport, Rhode Island (22-23). The government source also indicates that Jackie attended Miss Porter’s School for Girls in Connecticut and Vassar College ... writing poems and short stories, riding horses, ballet and studying the French culture and language (23). Jackie’s first job was the “Inquiring Camera Girl” for the Washington Times-Herald. She would spend her working day walking around the city with her camera capturing citizens’ reactions to issues of the day. At a Georgetown dinner party, Jackie was first introduced to John F. Kennedy who was a newly elected senator from Massachusetts. From there, Jackie and John’s relationship progressed. Upon her return from Europe, ...
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