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- 6311: A Brief Overview Of Psychedeli
- The computer has become one of the most important and influential luxuries of this generation. Young people use computers every day for school, work, and entertainment. They are the first generation to have become computer literate as early as the onset of adolescence. For most of their lives they have used computers, so it is not ... conveniences, they live happily within the vicinity of their colored monitor. What is most surprising is the excessive time spent playing computer games. Many friends of mine spend four, sometimes five or more, hours a day playing computer video games. They skip class and stay up at all times of the night, to play popular computer games, like Star Craft. Even when Friday and Saturday nights come around, these students insist ...
- 6312: Stephen Hawking
- ... to Galileo. When Hawking visited the Vatican, he saw Galileo’s theory that the earth went around the sun. Hawking has a great fondness for Galileo as he was born three hundred years to the day after Galileo’s death. In 1975, Hawking was elected Lucasion Professor of Mathematics (once held by Isaac Newton). There is a big book that everyone who holds this title has to sign. After one year ... quite some time. He may have different opinions when it comes to God but he has a much better working relationship with the church than Galileo did. The book was published on April Fool’s Day in 1988, six years after he started writing it. Since then it has been translated into thirty languages and has sold about 5.5 million copies. A film has also been made as well as ...
- 6313: A Pair Of Tickets By Amy Tan
- ... and her father are on a train, the are destined for China. Their first stop will be Guangzhou, China where he father will reunite with his long lost aunt. After visiting with her for a day they plan to take a plane to Shanghai, China where Jandale will meet her two half-sisters for the first time. It is both a blissful time and yet a time of remorse, Jandale has ... in the story is Jandale Woo; she is the one the reader becomes a part of because it is her life that is mostly being affected. When her mother told her that she would one day feel her Chinese blood, she never believed it, but now the reader can get a perception of her understanding her Chinese roots and believing in what her mother has told her. Although Jandale was not ...
- 6314: Sir Isaac Newton
- Isaac Newton was born prematurely, on Christmas Day, 1642, in the small English town of Woolsthorpe. His father, a farmer, died just before Isaac was born. When Isaac was three years old, his mother remarried and moved to another town. Isaac stayed on ... month time period he started what would be his life’s work. During that time he discovered a new mathematical tool that he called fluxions or flowing quantities. Today, fluxions are known as calculus. One day in 1665 Newton was sitting in the garden in Woolsthorpe, thinking about force that kept the moon moving around the earth, he saw an apple fall from a tree. This sent him thinking about falling ...
- 6315: St. John The Evangelist
- ... is important but not just loving the once who only give you love. Giving love to God important. I should not worry about my clothes or possessions or what worries I should overcome the next day. God takes care of that. I am a lot different right now. I worry about what I will ware the next day, if I lost something I can panic, when I do not realize that the more I panic the less I have a chance of finding the thing that I have lost. St. john was a ...
- 6316: Sci/fi Sort Story
- ... on the UFO’s hovering over New York. The Battle turned out to be successful, although America suffered a great loss of fighter pilots. The aliens retreated and moved their forces to Europe. The following day the White House received a message from Russia. It demanded assistance in the war against the UFO’s. Russia felt that America was obliged to send forces to them, this was because they were fighting ... at war against. Parker and the politicians final decision on Russia’s demand was not to assist them as an ally, seeing that America simply couldn’t afford to lose any more forces. The following day Parker’s red alert phone rang, The Minister of Defence was sorry to tell Parker that Russian had obliterated the entire state of New York, he also informed Parker that Russia attempted to launch a ...
- 6317: The Mafia and Street Gangs
- ... getting very rich while other mobsters were losing money, fell out of favor with other Mafia gangsters and several attempts were made on his life. Capone took revenge by staging the infamous St. Valentine’s Day massacre in which he killed several of his enemies ending resistance to his continuing business dealings. He was finally sentenced for tax evasion and spent most of his eleven-year sentence in Alcatraz. (Al Capone ... a single rival gangbanger. However, if a group of individuals are together committing either random or pre-planned violence, aren’t they a gang? In gangbanging, today’s witness is tomorrows suspect, is the next day’s victim. The above research has shown that the Mafia and today’s common street gangs have become a wide spread problem. These two groups have continued to grow and infest our society from the ...
- 6318: Civil War - The Battle Of Vicksburg
- ... wait for the supplies in Baten Rouge. This message never made it to Grant, it was too late and he was already in the execution phase. Sherman joined Grant on May 7th; the exact same day Grant would begin his movement to Jackson. He moved thru Rocky Springs to Raymond. McClernand was ordered to move straight north to Auburn. Grant wanted Pemperton to assume that his next target was Champion’s ... could towards the direction of the hospitals in Vicksburg. Public buildings were completely filled, many residences were converted into hospitals, but even there, there weren’t any medications that could be provided to them. Each day, dead wagons as they were called, made the rounds of the hospitals and the dead brought out in everyday increasing numbers. They were laid to rest in the city cemetery, north of town. As May ...
- 6319: Tha Screets 4-life
- Tha day before today I was gang banging around tha hood in tha Screet. Chillin at tha crib making snaps wit them old heads. Unless you where affiliated with a gang in some way you would not ... The early gangs helped each other, while the gangs today are looking to be loved or notice by others, and then everybody in society have options about every thing that they do. Back in the day, before all the guns and drugs, gangs where simple. All their was, were knifes, leather, and your hood and peeps. Back then, gangs were spontaneous and unplanned (Roth 698). There was no set leader, no ...
- 6320: The Homeless Population
- ... people have to offer. The homeless have no remorse while they dig through garbages and dumpsters in search for scraps of food, cloths, and blankets to keep themselves warm. These homeless people have to live day by day trying to survive. Homeless people usually tend to sleep in alleys or on sidewalks in big cities throughout the world. Some of the homeless tend to wander out of the city borders and into less ...
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