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- 8441: Personal Writing: Salvation
- ... s Word. Making the most important decision of my life, I gave my life to God and accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior. I didn't wake up the next morning with a great feeling inside; the grass wasn't any greener, the sun didn't shine any brighter. And I had doubts. But I must say that a wonderful transformation has taken place! There is a noted change ...
- 8442: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... coming, and when it broke out in 1898, went to Cuba as lieutenant colonel of a regiment of volunteer cavalry, which he himself had raised among the hunters and cowboys of the West. He won great fame as leader of these Rough-Riders. Elected governor of the state of New York in 1898, he invested his two-year administration with the vigorous and businesslike characteristics, which were his hallmark. He would ...
- 8443: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... control. Under this command economy, he owned all businesses and made all economic decisions. Even though Stalin had complete control over the Soviet Union, he still felt that people were going against him. In the Great Purge, Stalin went after and killed anyone that proposed any kind of threat to him. In the end, almost 800,000 people were killed. Stalin used propaganda and nationalism to brainwash the people of the ...
- 8444: Berkley
- ... will realize that it is an impossible task. This is because the human mind can only think in terms of bounded entities; thus, in the above mentioned case, the reader may have thought of a great many stars. However, the stars were finite in number and could therefore not represent the notion of infinity. In short, the finite mind can only conceive finite thoughts. Not only this, but, as previously disgussed ...
- 8445: Down On The River
- ... told us to paddle hard forward, because the way to get through these rolling waters was to have a lot of speed. We picked up velocity and scampered over the top of the rapids with great agility. This display of knowledge and understanding of the river put all of us at ease as we progressed down the white currents. Finally, we were upon The Diamondsplitter. This is one of the largest ...
- 8446: Body Image
- ... standard of attractiveness for women promoted by the media has been shown to lead women to rate their bodies more negatively (Hamilton & Waller, 1993), which, in turn, leads to an increase in low self esteem, depression, and eating disorder symptoms (Irving, 1990, Stice & Shaw, 1994). Different vehicles of media have been researched, with magazines and television seeming to be the most widely studied and film close behind. A study of Hollywood ...
- 8447: Saint Francis of Assisi
- ... he was dragged home by his father, beaten, bound, and locked in a dark closet" (Robinson).. When he encountered some robbers in the hills of Assisi, he declared that he was the herald of the great King. The robbers "thereupon despoiled him of all he had and threw him scornfully in a snow drift" (Robinson). As a sign of their humility, Francis and his followers "found shelter in a deserted hut ...
- 8448: Charles Babbage: The Pioneer Of The Computer
- ... in things: in stamped buttons, stomach pumps, railways and tunnels, in man's mastery over nature. Babbage enjoyed fire. He once was baked in an oven at 265oF for "five or six minutes without any great discomfort", and on another occasion was lowered into Mt. Vesuvius to view molten lava. He had considered becoming a cleric, but this was not an unusual choice for the affluent graduate with little interest in ...
- 8449: Creative Writing: The Paradise Behind My Eyes
- ... I have spent my whole life searching, everyone and everywhere, for a glimpse of paradise. I have searched deep into every person, every relationship, and every place that I have ever been. I always found great things but never enough. It took me eighteen years to find what I was looking for. I finally found the fantastic flourage, mystical beast, and magical waterfall that my heart had been secretly longing for ...
- 8450: Celebrities And Their Salaries
- ... of movie stars are not the greatest writers in the world-or even very good readers-and the results of their meddling are seldom attractive. Take for example, the movie update of the classic novel Great Expectations, actor-turned-writer Ethan Hawke took is upon to write his own new dialogue and the turnout from that project? Let's just say that it won't be winning any Academy Awards this ...
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