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- 571: Personal Writing: The Day of Doom
- Personal Writing: The Day of Doom Everybody has one of those days where they feel that they are invulnerable. Those are the days were you need excitement and you don't care where you get it. The thought of ... all started with a headache and extreme boredom. I woke up on that sunny july morning with a painful headache. When you wake up with a headach you know your going to have a bad day so I popped some aspirin and went back to sleep. The annoying ring of the telephone woke me up about ten o'clock. It was one of my friends asking if I wanted to spend the day with them. I said sure and got dressed. He arrived shortly and we took off for abbot. Come to find out he was having a impending sense of boredom just like I was. Both ...
- 572: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... of seven months, Toby was chasing down and kissing the female babies, that by eight months he had flatly refused to sign the Temperance Pledge, and that by the end of his first year, he'd taken to "wearing moustaches, but had contracted a propensity for cursing and swearing, and for backing his assertions with bets." (Poe 488) As Toby reaches manhood, the narrator finally accepts that his young friend is incorrigible. By this time, Toby utters scarcely a sentence without oaths, his favorite of which is to bet the devil his head that he can accomplish whatever challenge lies before him. One day as the narrator accompanies Toby Dammit on a route which requires the crossing of a covered bridge, Toby bets the devil his head that he can leap over a bridge stile, pigeon winging as he ... in his objective creatures, how then in his substantive moods and phases of creation"? (Poe 280-81) Instead, Poe's work penetrated to the truths which govern the universe. How petty the moralists of his day must have seemed to him! Best known for his poems and short fiction, Edgar Allan Poe deserves more credit than any other writer for the transformation of the short story from anecdote to art. ...
- 573: A Look At Anemia Related To Nutritional Issues
- ... entry of iron into your digestive system. Spinach and lentils contain iron, but very little of it gets absorbed because these vegetables also contain phytate" (intelihealth, 2). Males require approximately one gram of iron each day. Pregnant, lactating, or menstruating women and growing children require approximately 1.5 to 2 grams each day (Blood disorders, 1). "However, only about 10 percent of the iron you eat is actually absorbed by your body, so the average man would need to eat about 10 grams of iron per day. Your body absorbs iron in different quantities from different foods" ("Blood Disorders", 1). "Eating plenty of iron-containing foods is particularly important for people who have high iron requirements, such as children and pregnant ...
- 574: The Chase
- ... Ben was eating his sherbert with one of those little colored spoons. Meanwhile Mike was drinking his two-litre bottle of orange juice and looking very contented, which wasn't his usual manner. Normally, he'd be complaining about life or some other thing but tonight was different. We began to cross a bridge on the way back to my flat and Ben remarked how inviting it would be to spit ... We walked up a dark street, lit only by streetlights, just talking about nothing. We turned into the first road on the right. I thought this was going to be a small detour before we'd return to my warm room for the third film. The cold air was only going to have a few minutes to find a way into my impenetrable jacket. It tried getting through my zip, up ... seemed to notice. Ben had already finished his third packet of sherbert and he continued to chug through another. He made quiet, sucking noises as if he couldn't get enough of the stuff. I'd swear he was addicted! At last we reached the end of the street and stood next to the main road. Finally, I thought we could proceed home. How wrong I was. Ben suggested that ...
- 575: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... of seven months, Toby was chasing down and kissing the female babies, that by eight months he had flatly refused to sign the Temperance Pledge, and that by the end of his first year, he'd taken to "wearing moustaches, but had contracted a propensity for cursing and swearing, and for backing his assertions with bets." (Poe 488) As Toby reaches manhood, the narrator finally accepts that his young friend is incorrigible. By this time, Toby utters scarcely a sentence without oaths, his favorite of which is to bet the devil his head that he can accomplish whatever challenge lies before him. One day as the narrator accompanies Toby Dammit on a route which requires the crossing of a covered bridge, Toby bets the devil his head that he can leap over a bridge stile, pigeon winging as he ... in his objective creatures, how then in his substantive moods and phases of creation"? (Poe 280-81) Instead, Poe's work penetrated to the truths which govern the universe. How petty the moralists of his day must have seemed to him! Best known for his poems and short fiction, Edgar Allan Poe deserves more credit than any other writer for the transformation of the short story from anecdote to art. ...
- 576: The Aztecs
- ... by the small city-states that fought one another in shifting alliances, the Aztecs finally found refuge on small islands in Lake Texcoco where, in 1325, they founded the town of Tenochtitlan, which is modern day Mexico City. The term Aztec, originally associated with the migrant Mexica, is today a collective name applied to all the peoples linked by trade, custom, religion, and language to these founders. Fearless warriors and pragmatic ... ever more distant regions. The Aztecs had a very great calendar system. There were two parts of Aztec time counting, each with different functions. The first was the tonalpohualli, "counting of the days," a 260-day cycle used for divination. A repeating round of 20 days--each with a symbolic name, such as rabbit, water, flint knife, alligator, jaguar and so forth, and each with a number from 1 to 13 that changed with each 20-day cycle- -formed a sacred almanac, widely used among Mesoamerican peoples long before the Aztecs. The second division of the calendar system was a 365-day solar count, known as the xiuhpohualli, "counting of the ...
- 577: Charles Manson- Methods To The
- ... men and the hair of women, which only reinforced his opinion (Bugliosi 322-323). In Verse 15 of Revelations 9, the Bible says, So the four angels were released; this was precisely the hour, the day, the month, and the year for which they had been prepared to kill a third of mankind. Manson preached that the third part of mankind was the white race that would die in Helter Skelter ... naive, eager to believe, and, perhaps even more important, belong. There were followers aplenty for any self-styled guru. It didnt take Manson long to sense this. In the underground milieu into which hed stumbled, even the fact that he was an ex-convict conferred to a certain status. Rapping a line of metaphysical con that borrowed as much from pimping as joint jargon and Scientology, Manson began attracting ... destroyer. Bibliography Bugliosi, Vincent. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. New York: Bantam Books, 1975. 7, 54-56, 196, 222, 300, 317, 320, 322, 323, 325, 635, 637-638. Charles Manson. n.d. Online. AltaVista. Dec. 1997. Available AltaVista: //www-scf.usc.edu/~kmho/O0OO0O00IllIlIIl/mansonbio.html The Church of Scientology. n.d. Online. AltaVista. Sept. 1997. Available AltaVista: //www.webzonecom.com/ccn/cults/scien-05.txt ...
- 578: Prophet Muhammad
- ... writers who are not familiar with the social set-up of the pre-Islamic Arabs write that after marrying Khadijah r.a., Muhammad (s) living standards changed. This is not true as till his last day there was not a bit of wealth in his life and after him the Caliphs followed a simple and content lives. The Holy Kabah was filled with three hundred and sixty idols. The original, pristine ... treat you as Prophet Yousuf (Joseph) treated his brothers. There is no reproach against you. Go to your homes, and you are all free." (Sahih Bukhari) The Prophet also declared: Allah made Makkah holy the day He created heavens and earth, and it is the holy of holies until the Resurrection Day. It is not lawful for anyone who believes in Allah and the last day to shed blood therein, nor to cut down trees therein. It was not lawful to anyone before me and it ...
- 579: Ukraine
- ... a favorite meal. HOLIDAYS Many holidays are celebrated during periods of transition from one type of agricultural activity to another. Easter is celebrated in spring, which is a time of warmth and rebirth. The Ascension Day is celebrated on the 40th day after Easter. It is tradition for people to go out to check the progress of wheat during this time. The Trinity is celebrated in summer. Ukrainian people decorate their houses with tree branches and fragrant herbs during this time. Another summer holiday is known as Saint Kupala, which is celebrated on July 7th. This is a day where fire and water, symbols of cleansing, are celebrated. Everyone is immersed in water on this day. St. Illia Day, August 2, marks the first day of autumn. Ukrainian Christmas Festivities are celebrated with ...
- 580: The Dangerous Opportunity: Community Based, Crisis Intervention
- ... to help people resolve crises with options that respect their circumstances and capacity for self determination. These services include crisis lines, crisis response teams, hospital diversion/ rapid return to hospital programs, community or hospital based day and evening programs and emergency/short stay residential facilities.(p33) Flexibility and accessibility in crisis response programming is a key component. Planning should provide a seamless package of continuity of care. (Crompton,1993) Crisis intervention ... can benefit from timely and skillful intervention. Crisis intervention lays groundwork for minimizing risk while actual potential for human growth can be supported. Crisis is a dangerous opportunity, but skillful intervention accentuates opportunity. References Aguilera,D.C.(1990) Crisis Intervention Theory and Methodology (6th ed.), St Louis, C.V. Mosby Books Ash,D., Gallety,C. (1997) Crisis beds: the interface between the hospital and the community, International Journal of Social Psychiatry 43, 3, 191-197 Blair, D.., Ramones, V. (1997). Education as Psychiatric intervention: The cognitive behavioral ...
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