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- 7111: Watching Payton Was Pure Sweetness
- ... an amazing 1,852 yards and 14 touchdowns in a 14-game schedule. He was not as breathtaking to behold as Barry Sanders, who despite retiring this season with 15,269 career yards might one day break Payton's all-time record. Payton was no match for O.J. Simpson or Earl Campbell in the venue of charisma. Payton was merely, consistently, great. In a day when 1,000-yard seasons are commonplace, Payton and Sanders remain the only runners to do it 10 times. And there wasn't a cheap 1,000 among the bunch; Payton's worst 1,000 ...
- 7112: Spin Cycle
- ... such as exact quotes of the president and his advisors, probes into the minds of the White House aides, and even such things as what kind of tie he would be wearing on a particular day. when first reading the book, one finds themselves lapping it up like a kitten with milk, but near the end you finally begin to ask yourself: how in the hell does he know what ... has had more than just an ordinary amount of work on their hands. This has been a full scale workout from the very first days of Clintons initial term as president, to the present day, with little time for rest. Jest when it appears that the spin meisters can have some time to catch their breath, another juicy tidbit of political misbehavior reaches the public, setting the spin cycle into ...
- 7113: Black Plague
- ... who came down with the disease. Wives abandoned sick husbands; parents deserted their diseased children. The sick were left to die and the dead was left unburied. Things in Europe were getting worse by the day. Until the day that so many died off that the few left were healthy. Before the plague, Europe had been severely overpopulated and almost in a great economic depression. Most of the land that could be farmed on ...
- 7114: Living Theater
- ... in growing success for the Living Theater (Downer 104). The next production that put the spot light on the Living Theater was a play written by Kenneth Brown called "The Brig". "The Brig" dramatized the day to day life of the Marine Corps. It's purpose was to expose the relentless ways of military inhumanity (Gottfried 298). Using Artaud's theory, Beck and Malina tired to make the audience feel as if they ...
- 7115: The Odyssey
- ... the Akhians let her finish her weaving, and if by the time she is finished and Odysseus hasn't returned, then she will be forced to choose another husband. Penelope worked on it during the day, but secretly at night she would unravel everything she did during the day. Her plan worked, until the Akhaians caught her and forced her to finish it. She was extremely crushed, and disappointed. The Akhaians told Telemakhos that, "He has to dismiss her mother from the house, or ...
- 7116: UFOs Exist
- ... sightings first started in the late 1800s, but there weren't that many until the 1940s. In the 1940s UFO sightings were being told all over the world. Since the 1940s UFOs are seen every day by people all over the world. Ufologists have come up with a system to divide UFO incidents into three major types of close encounters. First, close encounter of the first kind (CEI) are classified as ... UFO sighting is when one hovered over a science lab for ten minutes on December, 10, 1975. Four pictures of the space craft were taken and have never been able to be explained to this day. One famous UFO sighting abduction is the incident with Barney and Betty Hill. They claim to have been abducted by aliens in a space craft at their home. Barney Hill believed that he saw alien ...
- 7117: Commentary On The Short Story
- ... s predicament. By having Rachel recount her birthday rather than a narrator tell the story in the third-person point of view, the reader gets to witness everything Rachel feels during the course of her day. We are able to see Rachel s thoughts as she ponders why when you turn eleven, you do not feel eleven, but rather all the previous years together like pennies in a tin Band-Aid ... from coming out just like she was three again. Her birthday was ruined and she wanted to be as far away from eleven as possible. A birthday is a special time, particularly during youth. That day should be perfect but for Rachel, unfortunately, her birthday was devastated by this school experience. Everyone has an embarrassing moment from childhood that they want to forget about being yelled at for something that was ...
- 7118: Excessive Alcohol Consumption--its Effects And Social Accept
- ... related to alcohol use were divided into three general categories driving under the influence, drunkenness, and liquor laws. The World Almanac and Book of Facts lists the total estimated arrests as 1,467,300 for D.U.I.s, 718,700 for drunkenness, and 677,400 for liquor laws (892). With the drop of alcohol use also came the fall in alcohol-related crashes. Recent alcohol research has shown that from ... the anti-drug message that alcohol, which many people don t consider a drug, has gotten lost (62). Of course there are some teachers, administrators, and law officials who dedicate their time to programs like D.A.R.E. in an attempt to educate children (Patrick 62). Although these programs are not perfect, they do seem to help in preventing abuse and misuse at a young age. But, alcohol misuse will ...
- 7119: Leukemia
- ... that family history, race, genetic factors, and geography may all play some part in determining the rates of growth of these Leukemias. Stewart Alsop is an example of Acute Myeoblastic Leukemia, or AML. On the day of July 21, 1971 Stewart was made aware of some of the doctors suspicions due to his bone marrow test. He was told by his doctor in Georgetown that his marrow slides looked so unusual ... of the radiation from the bomb. At this time Sadako was only a twelve year old little girl and she died of Leukemia. Everyday Sadako grew weaker and weaker thinking about her death and the day finally came. Sadako died on October 25, 1955. Sadako was very much loved by all of her classmates. At the time of death, her classmates folded 356 paper cranes to be buried with her. This ...
- 7120: Lassa Fever: An Old World Arenavirus
- ... antibiotics did nothing. Her fever escalated, she was severely dehydrated and blotches, hemorrhages, were appearing on her skin. She began to swell and became delirious, so they shipped her to a larger hospital, where one day later she went into convulsions and died. After a nurse who was tending to the sister came down with the same symptoms and died, the doctors in the hospital began to suspect it was a ... membrane. The virions bud from the cell membrane, leaving the cell intact until, finally, the production of virions exceeds the cells capabilities and the c ell lyses. Infection with Lassa virus leads, after a 10 day incubation period, to a gradual onset of fever, then full blown Lassa fever begins. First, the throat gets exceedingly sore, even to point of severe ulceration and inability to swallow or drink. In the first ...
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