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- 5231: Matilda
- ... the climate was starting to get hot and the Wormwood family didn't pay much attention to Matilda and her incredible abilities. The local color and verisimilitude of the setting consists in the typical modern-day English village, lots of houses with gardens full of flowers infront of each house, people walking their dogs in the street, cars passing by, kids laughing, happy people all over the place, Matilda's friends ... age of three; by the age of four she had pored a dozens of times over the only book to be found at her parents house, Easy Cooking. While her mother was playing bridge all day and her used car salesman father was at work, Matilda walked to the public library and read books all afternoon. Matilda's parents were both so warmless and so wrapped up in their own silly ...
- 5232: Jimmy Carter: The 39th President of the United States
- ... would say, "I basically a redneck," but he believed that the sincerity of the land, the assets of rural virtue and the basic values of farm life ought to be a ruling factor in Washington D.C. Jimmy's small town life, and his success and ideas that developed Plains, Georgia, helped get him into the governor's mansion in Georgia, and into the White House. When his father died, he ... of the Treasury: W. Michael Blumenthal (1977-1979), G. William Miller (1979-1981) Secretary of Defense: Harold Brown Attorney General: Griffin B. Bell (1977-1979), Benjamin R. Civiletti (1979-1981) Secretary of the Interior: Cecil D. Andrus Secretary of Agriculture: Robert S. Bergalnd Secretary of Commerce: Juanita M. Kreps (1977-1979), Philip Klutznick (1979-1981) Secretary of Labor: F. Ray marshall Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare: Joseph A. Califano, Jr ...
- 5233: Dune
- ... was said that a man would come to lead them out of the caves and they thought this was Paul by how he knew their traditions. Paul began to grow more powerful with each passing day. This part was very interesting because I was shown how Paul has grown and how his dreams were coming to reality. The Fremen also developed because they seemed amused, but simultaneously fearful of Jessica and ... future who is destined to be the almighty ruler. He/she will guide us out of depression and into a new era of peace and prosperity. Their may be truth to this story and one day a fight between good and evil may come to reality. Dune is the typical `Good guys vs. Bad guys' theme. The Atreides are at war with the Harkonnens and the good always win (as you ...
- 5234: Ernesto Che Guevara
- ... Fidel knew that if he could take Santa Clara, then the war would almost be guaranteed his. Santa Clara fell on January 1, 1959 not long after Batista had left the country. By the next day the whole island was under the control of the rebel forces. Fidel setup groups of men in all the towns and cities he conquered to help keep law and order. The new government showed no ... possible to come to a blind alley (Perez-Stable 96). This debate raged on for many years after Guevara left the country, and there are still flaws in the way they did it to this day. In 1965 Guevara resigned his position and disappeared from public site. He had gone to help the struggle against imperialism around the world. First he went to Congo, now know as Zaire, to help with ...
- 5235: Biography of Moshe Dayan
- ... was elected to the Israeli Parliament in 1959 and served (1959-64) as minister of agriculture in the government of David Ben-Gurion. By popular demand, Dayan was made defense minister just before the Six-Day War of 1967, which greatly enhanced his reputation. He was, however, blamed for Israel's unpreparedness in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, and he subsequently resigned (1974). Named foreign minister in Menachem Begin's ... Dayan became the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Force. He undertook a major overhaul of the IDF. Dayan was recalled to active duty as Israel's Minister of Defense to supervise the Six-Day war, which was initiated with a bold pre-emptive air strike that destroyed the Egyptian air force while it sat on the ground. Dayan's contribution to the IDF was so important because He dramatically ...
- 5236: The Openings Of The Time Machi
- ... the Eloi (H.G. Wells). Both writers use good descriptions to convey this idea of paradise. In the Time Machine the land of the Eloi is described as calm and peaceful, and like a summers day. The intense blue of the summer day , everything was calm and peaceful . It is a perfect world to live in, The air was free from gnats, the earth from weeds or fungi; everywhere were fruits and sweet delightful flowers . The place where ...
- 5237: Pesticides
- ... to peel your produce or buy organically grown fruits and vegetables. Some scientist advice only to eat organically grown fruit while other scientist advises not to fear produce. What is a consumer to do? Every day, scientists learn more about the health threats posed by pesticides. (Reigart, Line 9) The concern at most, is with the health factors that pesticides may impose in our internal systems. For instance, a childs ... carcinogenic and have contaminated the U.S. water reservoirs due to the floating pesticides or pesticide spills. For instance, Sacramentos Highway 99 closed for several hours due to a pesticide spill on a February day earlier this year. The Sacramento Bee reported it as an accident and a clean up. The Bee did not report what techniques were used to clean up the spill or how long after the spill ...
- 5238: Loyalty Definition Paper
- ... of his fellow man. Society thrives on people who show their loyalty by caring more for society as a whole than they do for anything else, including them. These people are the heroes of every day and sometimes only for a moment in time. They prove that they are loyal by committing great acts, or by the ever-slight ones. When all the soldiers of our country swore their allegiance to ... who is ten years older than I, was then affiliated with a local gang. Some of the members of this gang were his lifelong friends. They had been true and loyal to each other every day that they had been together. Once they joined the gang, that loyalty became a law between them, and breaking that law would bring about repercussions, possibly even death. The gang started to get involved with ...
- 5239: Buddhism
- ... at an early age and participated in the common life of the court. Buddha found his carefree, dishonest life boring, and after a while he left home and began wandering in search of "enlightenment." One day in 533, according to tradition, he met an old man, a sick man, and a dead body, and he suddenly realized that suffering is the common part of humankind. He then met a beggar monk ... Many scholars regard it as comparable, in its tone of truth and importance in history, to Jesus Christ's Sermon on the Mount. Beginning as a religious movement within the important Brahman tradition of the day, Buddhism quickly developed in a strange direction. The Buddha not only abandoned important conditions of Hindu philosophy, but also questioned the priesthood, denied the importance of the Vedic scriptures, and rejected the sacrificial cult. Also ...
- 5240: Lord of The Flies: Human Nature
- Lord of The Flies: Human Nature "We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be." R. D. Laing British psychiatrist. R.D. Laing obviously backs up William Golding's point of view that human nature is evil. Human nature is directly affected by the environment; and is constantly changing due to the experiences of the individual. Oscar ...
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