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- 6041: Nowhere, Kansas
- ... part of their conversation that made us feel like we were in a movie. The girl said to one of the men, “Ya know Norm, I’m going ta get out of this town one day. I’m going ta go somewhere and I’m goin ta become important.” We had to try and keep ourselves from laughing. We weren’t very successful. The disgusting smell was starting to get to ... then it had to end like this. We ended up just getting a rent-a-car and driving the rest of the way home, so it ended up not being too bad. But to this day I still remember good ‘ol Nowhere, Kansas a nice little town to experience, but the one place I would go absolutely bonkers if I lived.
- 6042: Anger & Renewal In Indian Country
- ... the world's complex ecosystem. But one group of people wanted more. They progressed and educated their minds through time. To some it may be known as plain greed and to others known as common day evolution. To this day the answer remains in the hands of the philosophers. The European continent hosted the group of human beings that thrived for ultimate knowledge and a perfect civilization. The famous quote Trial and Error was appropriate ...
- 6043: The Monkeys
- ... the monkeys to the extreme that they would rather be let free from the monkey house and fend for themselves rather than put up with a few restrictions which were placed on their lives. One day in the monkey house, however, there was a change that was not pleasing to the monkeys at all. A letter was left on the door of the monkey house which read as follows: Dear Monkeys ... how little control Gus and Barbara had over them. Gus and Barbara decided to put a full time zoo keeper in the monkey house at all times which was very disturbing to the monkeys. One day, all the monkeys gathered around the new zoo keeper and started slapping his legs and trying to knock him down onto the ground. The new zoo keeper got so mad that he lost control and ...
- 6044: Multicultural Education
- ... culture they are learning about. By surrounding children in the ideas and customs of other cultures, they can better understand what it is like to be removed from our society altogether, if only for a day. Having kids dress up in foreign clothing, sample foods and sing songs from abroad makes educating easier on the teacher by making it fun for the students. A simple idea that helps teachers is to ... and Curriculum Reform." The Education Digest 13 Dec. 1991: 10-13. Cleveland, Harlan. "The Limits To Cultural Diversity." The Futurist March - April 1995 : 23-6. Duignan, Peter. "The Dangers of Multiculturalism." Vital Speeches of the Day 22 Mar. 1995 : 492-493. Gagnon, Paul. "Balancing Multicultural and Civic Education Will Take More Than "Social Stew"." The Education Digest Dec. 1991 : 7-9. Gould, Ketayun H. "The Misconstruing of Multiculturalism : The Stanford Debate ...
- 6045: Personal Reflections
- ... to mean so much?? I have postponed the grief some what through alcohol and drug use and avoidance. He did mean something to me because when we came home from school, in seventh grade, that day in January, I was shocked when Mom declared, "you're father is dead." What do you mean?! What happened?! What do you mean he's dead?! Then the tears started to come and the "oh ... faster, but it was nice to escape for a while. Now, when January approaches it always bring heavy, depressed, and angry feelings to the forefront of my mind. January 11th is especially hard, being the day he was murdered. I try to surround myself with supportive friends and make certain I am seeing my therapist once a week or more if needed. The unexpected trouble I now expect is for movies ...
- 6046: Princess Diana
- ... no different then you and I. This may seem like a feeble task, but to a princess, it is a task accomplished by few. Diana broke all traditions embellished into the minds of the modern day royals. She showed her two young sons love and compassion in public, never before done by a member of the royal family. Diana touched the publics heart by indulging in every day activities, in order to recognize with the public. In doing this, the public was able to relate to her. Society began to realize that the Princess was indeed human. However, the fairy tale life of ...
- 6047: The Year 2000 Bug
- ... store important date-sensitive information, you may want to learn more to determine if your particular system is at risk and what you can do to minimize that risk. Anti-virus software available for 90 day trial - free of charge To assist in helping small/medium businesses and consumers to deploy anti-virus software, Microsoft has teamed with leading anti-virus firms Central Command Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Data Fellows ... leap year occurs only once every 400 years and is an exception to the usual rule for determining leap years. Some computer hardware and software may not understand that the year 2000 includes the extra day of February 29, 2000. 3. The third issue is due to an older programming practice of using dates to indicate special meanings or customized functions within software programs. (For example, in some programs, a special ...
- 6048: Wire Pirates
- ... information or commercial opportunity, they make easy marks for sharpers who play a keyboard as deftly as Billy the Kid ever drew a six-gun. It is difficult even for those who ply it every day to appreciate how much the Internet depends on collegial trust and mutual forbearance. The 30,000 interconnected computer networks and 2.5 million or more attached computers that make up the system swap gigabytes of ... numbers. When they see a victim punching in a credit card number, they transmit it to confederates for widespread use. Kluepfel, the inventor of this system, noted ruefully that his own card was compromised one day in 1993 and used to originate more than 600 international calls in the two minutes before network- security specialists detected and canceled it. The U.S. Secret Service estimates that stolen calling cards cost long ...
- 6049: Oil In April 2000
- ... Even Cheaper Fall Prices And there’s even more good news: Gasoline prices may dip lower still by fall, according to the agency. Prices may fall to a national average of $1.39 after Labor Day, the department’s Energy Information Administration said in its revised short-term forecast. “By then I expect we will have started to see some economic growth deterioration and I think from there we probably will ... the U.S. market by June as a result of a decision March 28 by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. OPEC agreed to boost production by as much as 1.7 million barrels a day. Other non-OPEC producers also have said they would increase production. And production increases mean refilled petroleum stocks and lower prices for oil products including gasoline. ”We are more optimistic today. Some of the tightening ...
- 6050: Overpopulation
- ... the past determine the present, and our actions now determine the future. In other words, we caused the overpopulation problems we are facing today, so we must also be the ones to solve them. Every day we share the Earth with 250,000 more people than the day before according to Zero Population Growth, a national non-profit organization working to slow population growth and achieve a sustainable balance of people, resources, and the environment. ZPG is the reason I have become an ...
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