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- 431: The Day in the Life of A Drug Addict
- The Day in the Life of A Drug Addict I awoke to the smell of an old house, the lights were off and the house was cold and damp. Doug was nudging me saying "Wake-up! I ... I rolled up the shirt sleeve on my right arm. I looked at my arm. I had tracks, needle marks, up and down my arm. My shirt sleeve had blood stains on it from the day before. I held out my arm and demanded "I get the first one and I want coke not watered down coke!" Doug pulled my arm close to him and inserted the needle in my arm ... felt the impulse to watch the street outside the old ran down house. I stared out the window shade and thought of how I was going to make enough money get some more cocaine that day. Doug yelled "If you want more of this you best get in here!" I went back into the bathroom and did the last shot of cocaine we had. Doug stared getting mad "You do ...
- 432: A Wedding Day
- A Wedding Day The day was August 17, 1974. The weather was hot, the people were gathered to watch. The moment had arrived; I was ready to walk down the aisle. Suddenly, someone walks in and states "the groom isn ... out of his pocket and said "see if this will fit you". The ring fit, so we were engaged. I wonder what would have happened if it had been too small. We set our wedding day for September 6th. I had ordered my wedding gown and made some of the arangements when my fiancι wanted to change the date. He wanted to change it to August 17th. I now had ...
- 433: Mama Day
- The entire structure of Mama Day is fitting to the telling of multiple love stories entertwined. Like the most heartfelt episode of Seinfeld ever Gloria Naylor doesn t tell a love story, but rather lays out in detail the events of ... and Cocoa (arguably the main love story). Through the book we see them meet, fall in love, and go through excitement and hardship; all that love is. There is also the love story of Mama Day, Abigail, and Cocoa. Even though Abigail is Cocoa s grandmother and Mama Day is her great-aunt, they both take on the role of mother through their mutual love for her. There is also the love story between Bernice, Ambush and Little Caesar. Despite their squabbles, they ...
- 434: The Meaning of Life To Different People
- ... everyone. We have to experience life rather to think about life. Life is what you make of it. The remarkable thing is that we have a choice everyday that plays an important roll for that day. We are in charge of our own life. Annie Dillard, a poet and teacher, thinks that the meaning of life is to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to ... we are here to learn that we can make our own life; whether it will be pleasant or awful, that is your own choice. "Its my belief that the meaning of life changes from day to day, second to second . Were here to learn that we can create, and that our world , if we choose, can be a heaven or hell."5 Albert Einstein, believes that the meaning of life ...
- 435: Darkness Be My Friend
- Darkness, Be My Friend is the fourth book in John Marsden's series consisting of Tomorrow, When the War Began, In the Dead of the Night and The Third Day, The Frost, in which seven young people are thrown into the middle of a violent war zone. Ellie, Fi, Kevin, Lee, Homer, Robyn and Corrie set out on a camping trip to a remote part ... could have understood what was going on in my own mind... but I found that difficult at the best of times." "It was nothing to do with Lee. I still liked him a lot. I'd got over those feelings I'd had ages ago, the negative feelings towards him. So it wasn't that. I thought maybe it had something to do with the boy in New Zealand, whose name I realised with a shock ...
- 436: The Petersburg Campaign
- ... the entire Union effort, morale soared on the home front. However popular Grant was with the civilians, the soldiers remained skeptical. Grant may have done well against the Confederate Generals in the West, but he'd never met Bobby Lee. After receiving his promotion and attending a few of the required festivities, Grant left for Tennessee to confer with General Sherman about the the course of the war. The basic summation ... was met by stiff resistance and determined counterattacks. General Longstreet was severely wounded near the spot where Jackson had fallen two years earlier. By nightfall, the conflict was still undecided. Both sides spent the next day quelling forest fires and tending to the wounded. Union Losses: 2,246 K, 12,037W, 3,383M Confederate Losses: Believed over 12,000 total By now, a pattern had developed in the Army of the ... somewhere on the road to Richmond, and would turn the Army back to Washington, where it would receive new volunteers, new equipment, and a new commander to take them south again. On May 7th, the day after the battle, Grant chose to break with this tradition. Having been stopped at the Wilderness, he slipped around Lee's right flank (as he would do for the rest of the campaign) and ...
- 437: The Start of World War 2 For the United States
- ... Union, China, and Great Britain were among the Allies. Germany, Italy, and Japan made up the alliance known as the Axis. Six other nations joined the Axis later in the war. In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the neutrality of the United States after the war had started. Roosevelt and other interventionists wanted to aid other Allied nations in fighting the Axis. Isolationists opposed the U.S.aid to warring ... the attack on Pearl Harbor outraged the United States and everyone wanted revenge on Japan for their actions. On December 8, 1941, the United States, Cananda, and Great Britain declared war on Japan . The next day China declared war on the Axis, ( Bulgaria, Austria, Germany, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, and Romania). Germany and Italy declared war on the United States on December 11. World War II had become a Global conflict ... Union, China, and Great Britain were among the Allies. Germany, Italy, and Japan made up the alliance known as the Axis. Six other nations joined the Axis later in the war. In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the neutrality of the United States after the war had started. Roosevelt and other interventionists wanted to aid other Allied nations in fighting the Axis. Isolationists opposed the U.S.aid to ...
- 438: The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
- ... City, they were married. Within two years they became the most notorious young couple in America, symbolizing what Fitzgerald called The Jazz Age. The Jazz Age began, Fitzgerald tells us in his short story, "May Day," in May of 1918. It ended with the stock market crash of 1929. The Jazz Age brought about one of the most rapid and pervasive changes in manners and morals the world has ever seen ... they came back, they were determined to have a good time. "How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm, now that they've seen Paree" was one of the most popular songs of the day. And have a good time they did. The saxophone replaced the violin; skirt hemlines went up; corsets came off; women started smoking; and Prohibition, which was supposed to stop drinking, only reshaped it into secret ... the tension of those years: "When I was your age I lived with a great dream. The dream grew and I learned to speak of it and make people listen. Then the dream divided one day when I decided to marry your mother... I was a man divided--she wanted me to work too much for her and not enough for my dream." The dream, of course, was his dream ...
- 439: The History of The Internet
- ... a test network of this type, ARPA decided to fund a larger project in the USA. The first university to receive a node called an Interface Message Processor for this network was UCLA around Labor Day, marking September 1, 1969 the birth date of the Internet as we know it today (Cerf 1). The next university was Stanford Research Institute (SRI) then UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), and finally University of Utah ... living from using, exploiting, and teaching English, "English" as an institution is public property. Much the same goes for the Internet. Would the English language be improved if there was an English Language Co.? There'd probably be far fewer new words in English, and fewer new ideas. People on the Internet feel the same way about their institution. It's an institution that resists institutionalization. The Internet belongs to everyone ... way to various private backyard barbecues (Sterling 4). At any moment or time there are over 28,000 separate newsgroups on USENET, and the discussions generate about 7 million words of typed commentary every single day (Sterling 4). All USENET newsgroups are organized by hierarchies and given prefix names such as: alt (alternative), rec (recreation), comp (computers), misc (miscellaneous), and soc (society). These were the top five newsgroup hierarchies in ...
- 440: Suicide in Las Vega
- ... these three wise kings about the suicides in their hotels. The suicides of their employees in tract apartments and trailer parks facing desert mountains. The mgm Grand employs over eight thousand people on any given day. Circus Circus owns the Luxor. Circus Circus is where I try my first slot machine. The casino is a silvery pink outside, like foil wrapping for cheap candy. It is a color children will remember ... word money. I can't save any money. The city eats it up. Somehow, every quarter and nickel. I work steady, and where does it go?" It is over eighty-five degrees on the third day of March. The coroner's office is located in a dusty white cement-block building with candy-apple-red trim. Inside, the friendly staff files everything there is to know about murder, suicide, and death ... inked, on his skin. When his ex-wife called the coroner to find out the details of his death, she gasped. The date under his heart, shy of a close-range bullet wound, was the day, month, and year their divorce became final. Sometimes they are criminals, attracted to the glamour of not going back. Judge John C. Fairbanks, 70, of New Hampshire, stole $1.8 million from his law ...
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