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- 3141: The Prison
- ... faces. They had smiles, as they sang gospel songs and songs from the hymnbook. The Chaplain had a message that I felt was just for me. He talked about how the Promise Keepers march in Washington D C the day before affected thousands of people and how they were Standing in the Gap. I started to see how that was what God had asked me to do. God was asking me ...
- 3142: Thurgood Marshall
- ... influenced young Thurgood in the years yet to come. Thurgood was always top of his game and graduating from an all black high school in Baltimore at 16 and graduating from Howard Law School in Washington D.C. first of his class, proved it. During his time at Howard, Thurgood met and eventually married his first wife, Vivian Burey. After finishing up law school in 1933, Thurgood moved to New York ...
- 3143: Creative Writing: Apocalypse at the Nuclear Plant
- ... the multitude of his coworkers. His day began just like the others. If there was any plutonium to be expected, he was damn sure he would be the one to inspect it. He walked past George the security guard, asked him how he was doing even though he didn't really give a rat's ass how he was, he was just a friendly person. As he strolled down the corridor ...
- 3144: Creative Writing: Siege of Yorktown
- ... trenches allowed 100 cannons to be close to the British but still be under protection. Soldiers were moved to the area and issued shovels and picks. It was truly a patriotic moment to see General Washington break the first ground at the Siege of Yorktown. We had sent a small band of men to the western side of us to fire on the British. Our plan worked and all the British ...
- 3145: Creative Writing: No Coins Please
- ... up my Attack Jelly stand near Times Square. We, the Ambulance group continue traveling across the country. Me running off and selling something in Nebraska, or setting up a gambling station on Capitol Hill in Washington. Then we got to Las Vegas, where all my plans were ruined. It all started when I was winning like there was no tomorow at the BlackJack Tables, going from 1 casino 2 the next ...
- 3146: Tim Paterson
- ... the world's most widely used computer program: DOS. Creating DOS at age 24, Paterson claims, "it is an accomplishment that probably can't be repeated by anyone ever." After Paterson graduated from University of Washington in Seattle with a bachelors of science degree, he tried going to graduate school but lost interest. "I thought they were too oriented towards theory and not what I needed." Although he received a good ...
- 3147: Virginia Woolf
- ... few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to the Brontes and a sketch of Haworth Parsonage under snow; some witticisms if possible about Miss Mitford; a respectful allusion to George Eliot; a reference to Mrs. Gaskell and one would have done. But at second sight the words seemed not so simple (719). Woolf wanted her essay to be different and break away from the conventions ...
- 3148: Creative Story: Fast Eddie
- ... citizens expected to be "lost". The report seldom made reference to what was happening in the eastern part of the country. Once in a while it would mention a directive or order that came from Washington that effected what was happening in this region. It made constant reference to dates. The report covered about six months when it described an administrative order that spoke of the 'greatest good for the greatest ...
- 3149: Creative Story: Death Cload
- ... a national threat and a violation of their air-space. So it begins. The Russians make the first crucial move, launching twenty-four nuclear armed missles on populated cities scattered throughout America. Strategic cities like Washington DC, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Dallas fall among the list of targets. American satellites pick up the launch, forcing them into Defcon 1. The United States counter-attacks with a wave of their ...
- 3150: William Butler Yeats
- ... studies were inconsistent, he was prone to day dreaming, and poor at sports. In 1884 Yeats found his way to the Metropolitan School for the Arts, here he met a poet by the name of George Russell. Yeats and Russell sheared the same dreams, visions, and the enthusiasm for them. Russell and Yeats soon founded the Dublin Hermetic Society for the purpose of conducting magical experiments. They promoted their idea that ...
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