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- 6891: Work And Labour
- ... board and ask for a handout. But, unable to keep the family together on the money they earned as seamstresses or housekeepers, they would finally file claims, only to be told that their husband's death was not work related. His rotted lungs and aggravated heart had come not from mining, but from cigarettes and a bad eastern European diet." Dust to Dust. Not only can work be bad for your ...
- 6892: Women In Western Religion
- ... to save her people, but in her role as a woman she did not think she could do anything. Thankfully, her cousin, Mordecai would not accept Esther's "woman solutions." He demanded a life or death option. An option that went totally against the tradition of his people. "Go to the king," he commanded Esther. "Implore his favor. Plead for your people" (4:8). His words caused Esther to realize that ...
- 6893: Baseball And American Popular
- ... 1950s, and 1960s, changing race relations appeared in the major leagues. Nineteen ninety-seven marked the fiftieth anniversary of the first black baseball player, Jackie Robinson, permitted to play in major league baseball. He tolerated death threats, white teammates spitting on him, and lack of enthusiasm by the press. Eventually, people came to realize that African Americans had a place in baseball and the rest of society. Soon, more black players ...
- 6894: Witchcraft 2
- ... Cassia Bernoulli, a 17 year old student, was killed at the Littleton, Colorado shooting. However, most do not know that she used to be a witch before her conversion to Christianity. Many believe that her death may have been because she turned away from the craft. These teens are just two examples of the many hardships teen witches go through today. Probably the largest group of people who greatly disapprove of ...
- 6895: Wicca Versus Witchcraft
- ... the Christian Church decided to obliterate religions that were a threat to it s power (including Witchcraft), they decided that their "Satan" had horns and that Witches were actually worshipping the Devil. This became the death warrant for millions of innocent people. The Pentagram (a five-pointed star in an upright, one-point-up position) is the symbol of the religion. The top point symbolizes Spirit (the Creator) being 'above', or ...
- 6896: Whats Normal Whats A Freak
- ... any one tell me that again. I m free to make my own decisions and I don t care if it ll end me up in the gas chamber, I will follow my heart to death if I have to and down with any one who tries and tell me what is normal, or right or wrong. I m a human being and will not be regulated by my peers, nor ...
- 6897: What Is Postmodernism
- ... all encompassing definition. The term postmodernism was first used in relation to architecture. Modern architecture, namely the high rise tower blocks of the sixties, were becoming more and more unpopular. Charles Jencks (1977) traces the death of modernist architecture to the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis, and other writers (Lemert (1990)) have seen this as a symbol of the end of modernity. Society was reacting against ...
- 6898: Werewolf Legends
- ... and dangerous chemistry procedure. Ergot is extremely poisonous and is separated from grains when harvested. Eating or coming in contact with this fungi can result in extreme sickness, arms turning black and falling off or death. The chemicals found in this fungi can have a very mild hallucinogenic and sedating effect, but one would have to consume a large amount of the ergot to get enough of these chemicals in to ...
- 6899: Wells Social Imagination
- ... recessive. The Eloi, the descendants of the leisured classes, have become child-like androgynous creatures, weak and unable to fend for them selves. Their lives of leisure are enjoyed only at the cost of premature death, at the hands of the cannibalistic Morlocks. The Morlocks, the descendants of the working classes long ago driven into subterranean factories, have degenerated into troglodytes, still with some intellectual capacity, but emerging at night to ...
- 6900: Watching The Box Watch Peter H
- ... Television does, however, play an important role in the life of her now elderly mother; instead of having positive human connections, her mom has television. Personal contact with other people has faded away with the death of her husband and other major life changes, but he connection to television remains. For her, "TV is good company" (604). My own experience with television is rather ambivalent. Looking back on my childhood, I ...
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