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- 1361: Ted Bundy
- ... name to Chris Hagen and settled in an apartment in Tallahassee, Florida (Reinhold.) Ted lived off of stolen credit cards for the time being. Bundy spent a considerable amount of time at the Chi Omega House on the university campus in Florida. On January 14th, after 3A.M. two sorority sisters were dead and three severely injured at the hands of Ted Bundy. The police were called and Bundy was eventually arrested again, "a college student pointed to Ted Bundy as the man who fled the Chi Omega House the night two women were killed and three others clubbed senseless." Bundy faced three trials, all spaced in three years, but it was the Chi Omega trail that sealed his fate forever. Bundy acted as ... was fighting an impossible battle. There were two events in the trial that swayed the jurors against Bundy. The testimony of Nita Neary, who pointed out Bundy as the man who fled the Chi Omega House the night of the murders. The other event that swayed the jury was the testimony of Odontologist, Dr. Richard Souviron. While on stand he described the bite mark injuries that were on Lisa Levy' ...
- 1362: Thomas Jefferson
- ... closed by the American Revolution. He had inherited a considerable landed estate from his father, and doubled it by a happy marriage on Jan. 1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton. He was elected to the House of Burgesses, when he was 25, he served there from 1769 to 1774, proving himself to be an effective committeeman and skillful draftsman, though not good at speaking From the beginning of the struggle with ... in Congress forced Hamilton to quit his office. Jefferson retired as Secretary of State at the end of the year 1793. During a respite of three years from public duties, he began to remodel his house at Monticello and interested himself greatly in agriculture. He was supported by the Republicans for president in 1796, and running second to John Adams by three electoral votes, he became vice president. Jefferson and his ... Jefferson's own title to the presidency was not real for some weeks because he was tied with his running mate under the workings of the original electoral system. The election was thrown into the House of Representatives. The Federalists voted for Burr through many indecisive ballots. Finally, enough of them allowed the obvious decision of the majority to be carried out. And so Jefferson became the 3d president of ...
- 1363: Hammurabi's Laws
- ... by death but by a fine. In case of kidnapping, the kidnapper would be put to death. Nowadays jail time would probably result from such an action. Another law dealt with breaking and entering a house. If you were caught of breaking and entering, you would be put to death and buried at the house. Today a fine or jail time would be given, which is another example of how harsh the law was back then. Many of the laws of Old Babylonian culture was punishable by death. For example ... just get you a fine or jail time but not put to death. You can tell how the people viewed crime and stealing in the culture. Another law, if a fire broke out in a house and you were to go and help put it out and you stole something from it and were caught for it, you'd be thrown into the same fire to burn to death. Once ...
- 1364: To Be Fake Or Not
- ... immigrant in the country." Sun-Kyung began to feel torn between cultural's and their vast differences. She enjoyed removing her cultural shackles when she went outside her home because as a women outside the house her equality with men was outstandingly more then inside her house. Sun-Kyung really felt the difference in cultures when she obtained a job at a Korean owned business. "I was expected to accept my inferior position as a women and had to behave accordingly." "It ... I believe were not born in Canada and do not have any pat of Canadian culture in their home this making it more difficult for Sun-Kyung to coupe outside with various situations outside the house in Canada. Stereotyping is something in our world that will always remain until people and television can change its views. A person's language and behavior should not be determined by skin color or ...
- 1365: The Internet And Its Effects And Its Future
- ... the boundaries of time and space. Even from an economic standpoint, the costs of establishing a brand new educational program for a few thousand students are far less than the cost of a building to house the same number of students. New social and intellectual connectivity is proliferating as educational institutions adopt computer-mediated communication for educational interactions. There are many school based networks that link learners to discuss, share and ... is like a library that many people access for the sake of ease. They do this rather than go to the library. Therefore, whoever needs to get this information does not have to leave the house. It starts with information, then goes to groceries, furniture, even real estate. Will it ever end? Will it get to the point where people will never have to leave their computers? And why not? If ... why not just pull a chair up to the computer that lays back into a bed and park it right in front of the bathroom? No one will ever have to leave his or her house. People will become socially inept. Is this the perfect future we are all heading towards? Questions similar to these have come up every time new sources of information have come around. However, at this ...
- 1366: The Communication Decency Act: The Fight For Freedom of Speech on the Internet
- ... this past fall, they would say, "Wouldn't that have been like being given a choice between cancer and heart disease?" In other words, disrespect for the President and Congress seem appropriate. Third, the White House recognizes that it is cheaper to pass this bill, by saying, this is the law. Live with it. Doing this would prove to me this country is run by politicians who do not care about ... your time, Ryne Crabb " Another huge part of this world-wide protest was the Electronic March on Washington, DC. People, of all ages, who care about the unconstitutionality of the CDA, went to the White House and made signs, etc. while marching around the White House's property. Also, everybody was asked to e-mail the president in protest. President Clinton got over 10,000 e-mail messages on that day. I think it opened a lot of eyes. Black ...
- 1367: Location Analysis of a Franchise Resturaunt
- ... Saskatoon, complimenting the facility operating on 50th Street. Will the market areas of these two restaurants overlap? * * * * * The early beginnings of this restaurant occurred in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1963 the first Boston Pizza and Spaghetti House opened. The name of the restaurant is seemingly odd because Boston is the name of a city in the United States, and has nothing to do with a pizza restaurant located in Edmonton. Ron Coyle ... he wanted his business to use sports as a promotion. Another reason, which may have been more of a coincidence, was that his accountant's surname was Boston ("only way", 37). Boston Pizza and Spaghetti House became a popular restaurant and in 1968 it began to operate as a franchise. In mid-1968, Jim Treliving, a former drum major for the RCMP, and his friend Don Spence bought the franchising rights ... as a financial planner) became involved in real estate ventures in Hawaii and the Okanagon Valley and also in oil investments in British Columbia (Cameron, 16). In 1983, these two men purchased Boston Pizza Spaghetti House from the original owner Ron Coyle for $3 million. This money was raised from private lenders ("recipe is simple", 16). During that same year, the headquarters of Boston Pizza was moved from Edmonton, Alberta ...
- 1368: The Contenders
- ... nominated former president Millard Fillmore and Andrew Donelson, and the Abolition Party nominated Gerrit Smith and Samuel McFarland. Buchanan started his political career as a state representative in Pennsylvania, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1821, appointed minister to Russia in 1832, and elected US Senator in 1834. He was appointed Secretary of State in 1845 by President Polk and in that capacity helped forge the Treaty ... more to mold the campaign of 1856 than did any other single event. Although he did not intentionally destroy the North-South balance created by the Compromise of 1850, his focused quest for the White House caused him to make some foolish choices. Douglas coveted a rail head in Chicago for the new transcontinental railroad. This would make Chicago a major trade center for the country, not unlike New York City ... by appointing a mix of northern and southern politicians to his cabinet, but each side accused him of favoring the other for the important positions. Buchanan never married, so the social duties of the White House were handled by his niece, Harriet Lane. During a state visit by the Prince of Wales, an orchestra performed the premiere of a new song dedicated to Miss Lane, titled "Listen to the Mockingbird." [ ...
- 1369: The Lost World: Summary
- ... gas somewhere. He goes around back into a shed with these barrels in it. They were all empty. He then heard breathing, but he didn't see anything. Suddenly, the lights went on inside the house and he saw 2 figures standing there, changing their colors, chameleon dinosaurs. Inside, Levine also saw that they were chameleon dinosaurs and told Sarah. Sarah and Levine went outside with flashlights and waved them around ... goes straight to the Helicopter landing sight and is too late, so she didn't get to tell him to wait so she could get the others. She starts to go back. Meanwhile, at the house, Levine figures out why the raptors stopped. It was because of the chameleon dinosaurs, but now that it was morning, the chameleon dinosaurs weren't a threat, so the raptors would come to the house. His theory was right, and Thorne and Levine end up holding the door shut while the raptors try to get in from all ways. Kelly is on the computer trying to find a way ...
- 1370: Why Has Mary Turner Been Murdered?
- ... houseboy, Dicks unmisunderstandible order for Mary had been an avoidance of provocation of another dismissal of a houseboy. His power by the time even increased. She got by the time less active in the house: she rather slept or sat around and forgot her tasks instead of doing some work in the house. The result was that Moses was now more or less the master of the little house. This gave him another strengthen in his power. He felt nice at this position equal or even superior to a white, he might have been proud because he had been teached by missionaries that ...
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