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- 6731: A Fight!
- ... age of 9, I saw my first fight between two of my best friends. It all started approximately 3 weeks before the actual fight with a silly name calling game which turned very bad. One day both of these very close friends were in a classroom together with a group of other students in the same room, one person started to call another a name to get recognised by other students ... said a comment back to each other in defence. It started of as a small game, but by the end of the class, it was getting serious. This continued for about 3 weeks, then one day they were in the same class as each other, again throwing comments at each other when one said to the other; "lets take this out side". Everyone around them urged them to fight so after ...
- 6732: Computers In Society
- ... is irrevocable, and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow. You have probably heard that if you payed an employee a penny a day, and doubled it every day, your employee would be making $10 million by the end of the month. Although if the month were only three days shorter, your employee would only be making $1.3 million. When an effect is ...
- 6733: 12th Night Explication
- ... on him; And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me. What will become of this? As I am man, My state is desperate for my master's love. As I am woman -now, alas the day!- What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe! O time, thou must untangle this, not I; It is too hard a not for me t' untie. Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" is a comedy of mixed signals ... and the complexities of love through Viola's speech. She becomes frustrated with her position as a pretended gentleman and realizes the consequences that her unmasking will bring: "as I am woman, -now, alas the day!- / what thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!" (II, ii, 26). She longs to reclaim her femininity, to proclaim her love to the duke, and to stop her deceptive path. However, she also realizes how disappointed ...
- 6734: The World's Longest War
- ... Middle East. Russian and Chinese weapons continue to be sold for Arab oil money. During centuries of warfare the western countries have become democracies. Even Eastern Europe is avalanching into democracy. But, except for present day Turkey and some Far Eastern countries which practice a mild form of Islam, the Moslem world is run by military dictators, theocratic oligarchies, or a combination of both. A short list of these contemporary dictators ... parties. The consequences are being fought out ever since. The islands of the Mediterranean, including Crete, Sicily, and Rhodes have been bloody battlegrounds for centuries, passing back and forth between Christendom and Islam. To this day, Cyprus is divided between Turkish troops and Greek troops. Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Arabia, Egypt, the Balkan countries, and portions of the USSR have had alternating wars and peace treaties with each other, beyond counting ...
- 6735: Love Canal
- ... both because Napoleon France was an aggressive power and because western settlers depended on the Mississippi River for commerce. In a letter to the American minister to France Robert R. Livingston, President stated that The day that France takes possession of New Orleans...we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and the nation. Late in 1802 the right of deposit at New Orleans, granted to Americans by the Pinckney Treaty ... On April 11, 1803, the French foreign minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand opened negotiations by asking the surprised Livingston what the United States would give for all of Louisiana. Bargaining began in earnest the next day, on Monroes arrival in Paris. On April 29, the U.S. envoys agreed to pay a total of $15 million to France; about $ 3,750,000 of this sum covered claims of U.S ...
- 6736: Im The King Of The Castle
- ... a museum, Edmund's father had been a great collector of moths and butterflies. Edmund looked in a glass case and he touched a large black moth then the moth became dark dust. The next day mr. Hooper told Edmund that someone will come to look after the house because mr.Hooper has to go to London very oft. He also told him that the one who comes here to look ... of him and he gave him the key and they entered the room. Edmund immediatly saw the galleon which Charles had made. Chapter 5: Mr. Hooper and mrs.Kingshaw would go to London for a day and mrs. Boland would be at Warings to look after the boys. Charles made an escape plan, he would leave very early and take some food out of the kitchen. Mrs.Alice Boland wouldn't ...
- 6737: Rites of Passage
- ... proper religious traditions that they need to know for the ceremony, and for the rest of their lives, as this initiation will conclude their step into religious righteousness, and manhood. This all takes place the day before the ceremony, while other men, who have already been through the ceremony, prepare by hunting for food and arranging a site, not too far from the village, where the initiation will take place. The next morning, a new day at hand, the novices are taken to the site at which time the ceremony commences. Howitt continues in writing of his recollection of the ritual by inferring that after many ritual movements (gestures of offering ...
- 6738: The Haunted House
- The Haunted House It was a hot, sticky July evening and the day that John moved into what was said to be a old haunted house. It all started one night when he was watching TV and he heard something. It seemed as if the noise was coming ... exclaimed. Is that all of them? Joe questioned. Yeah, every last one of them. John said. What about all of the people that are missing? Joe asked. Well, we ll have to take it one day at a time, but for now, I m hungry. John said. I m with you on that one. said Joe. I m sure everyone will be back sooner or later. John said. Yeah, I guess ...
- 6739: Indulging In Escapism
- ... crippled leg, she magnifies her problem by not allowing her real beauty from within to come out. This is how Laura hides from a world she fears. Tom faces the sad fact of working every day at the factory and having to return home every day to a family who cannot understand his problems and insecurities. He goes to the movies instead of facing his problems. He uses the movies and his dreams of going away and joining the "Union of ...
- 6740: American Criticism In Short St
- ... Sargeant hard on the knuckles and says, "Shut up, you crazy coon." "Coon" was the word that was used to describe people who were black. It was very racist, and is still heard in present day from time to time, considering that this story comes from before the 60's. At the beginning of the story there is a very good example of hypocrisy within the church. Reverend Dorset does not ... Nineteen Fifty-Fives racism and discrimination of the wonderfully talented but un-noticed Gracie Mae Still, they both show their negativity to a maximum. Many of these problems show up in history, and in present day. You just have to look closely
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