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- 3721: Alexander The Great
- ... every sport of his time (Durant 538). In 338 B.C., at the age of 18, Alexander led the cavalry of his father s army in the Battle of Chaeronea, which brought Greece under Macedonian control. At the age of 20, Alexander s father was murdered by one of his bodyguards, and Alexander succeeded the throne as king of Macedonia. After Alexander s father died, some Greek cities under Macedonian rule ... seas around his empire. Alexander the Great accomplished all of this in just 33 years. After his death, the cities of his empire were split between his leading generals who mostly fought amongst themselves for control of the empire.
- 3722: Thomas Jefferson
- ... farmers west of the Appalachian Mountains could use the land strictly for agricultural purposes. If the Treaty of 1795 had not been signed, the United States would have gone to war with France to gain control of the territory. Initially, Jefferson, through his minister of France, Robert R. Livingston, offered Napoleon $2 million for a small stretch of land on the lower Mississippi River (internet). There, Americans could build their own ... and unknown to Jefferson, France had offered all of Louisiana to Livingston for $15 million (internet). However, Jefferson temporarily set aside his idealism to tell his supporters in Congress that “what is practicable must often control what is pure theory (Bober, p.323).” The purchase of this land would bring about the issue of whether or not this was safe judgement made by Jefferson. Jefferson’s decision was made in consideration ...
- 3723: Extent Of European Influence B
- ... example they could trade a metal knife or pot for twenty bags of grain. In turn this gave them more to trade with further down the trade route. Because the Portuguese pretty much had complete control of these routes the rest of Europe was going to concentrate on figuring out what the hell was across that big blue ocean. The only problem that was created by this idea was that common ... beavers were discovered. This is important because beaverskin repels water and are good for making hats. All the sudden the English, French and a few other European countries with their advanced weapons were able to control all the waterways and defend their villages from the Indians. This massive pilgrimage from Europe to America expanded an already large and powerful area even bigger. And finally the most important ingredient in the domination ...
- 3724: A Midsummer Nights Dream For T
- ... to his aunt's house to be married. However, because of the spell, Lysander can not be held responsible for his misanthropic behavior toward Hermia. The spell of the pansy also makes the characters lose control of their actions, as is evident through Demetrius. The woman he scorns at the begining of the story is the woman he loves by the end of the story. This is because when Puck reverses ... the spell on Demetrius. Helena has loved Demetrius from the begining of the story, so the relationship works out well. Again, Titania not only is oblivious to the appearance of Bottom, but she has no control over her feelings for him. "How came these things to pass?", she asks of Oberon upon being released from the spell. "O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!" When she is under the ...
- 3725: Report On Book Titled Black Li
- ... that I would have been murdered due to a lack of respect for anyone who had a lack of respect to me. I would have psychologically snapped on someone somewhere along the line and lost control. I like to debate over things with others and argue my point until it is at least seen why I feel the way that I do, even if the person(s) so not feel the ... put under such harsh ridicule simply for being born with his parent s heritage. Under no circumstances is it morally right to purposely, repeatedly, bash someone for something, anything, never mind something that they cannot control or change. This world evolved form one-celled organisms to forests with dinosaurs. Nature has changed to accommodate our arrival, is there any reason why we cannot accommodate to live and be happy with what ...
- 3726: Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live”
- ... considered to be by many one of the foremost political and spiritual leaders of that century. Gandhi’s quest in life was to use a nonviolent resistance method to free India from bondage under British control. As a result of Gandhi’s never-ending pursuit and unique style of nonviolent resistance against Britain, the India people honored him. (World Book G24) As an infant, Gandhi was born into a family that ... Their parents arranged the marriage, and they had four children. Gandhi was extremely intelligent and studied law in London. In 1893 Gandhi was required to do legal work in South Africa which was under British control. Because he claimed his rights as a British subject, he was constantly discriminated against due to his Indian race. He witnessed malicious discrimination toward people of the Indian race by the British. As a result ...
- 3727: Getting Out Of Reach
- ... of dollars annually on research. Joe Madera, a retired man in his late 60s living in Pomona, CA, pays more than $250 a month out of pocket for prescription drugs to maintain his diabetes under control. Medicare covers his doctor bills and any hospital visits, but the federal health program does not cover prescription. While this man’s household income is fixed, the cost of his medication just keeps going up ... So are drug prices inflated? Joe Madera, like many other older Americans is fed up. “The situation is really discouraging,” he says. The Federal government needs to step up and impose some kind of price control. In addition to that, politicians have to find the way to give to people like Joe Madera some relief. Word Count: 822
- 3728: Body Image
- ... body dissatisfaction after exposure to certain TV ads. Participants were divided into one group that viewed 15 sexist and 5 nonsexist TV ads, another that viewed 20 nonsexist TV ads, and a no TV ad control group. Their results showed that women exposed to the sexist ads revealed larger discrepancies between their actual and ideal body sizes and judged themselves as larger than the women who viewed the nonsexist and no ... desire to be thin, and were more afraid of getting fat than were the group that viewed news magazines (Turner, Hamilton, Jacobs, Angood, & Hovde Dwyer, 1997). A similar study with an experimental group and a control group found significant changes in beliefs regarding their own body images of the group that viewed magazine advertisements that contained ideal body size images. This study concluded that it is possible for fashion advertising to ...
- 3729: Becoming A Soldier
- ... a soldier, and that is where we got our uniforms and equipment. They gave us three pairs of uniform and military shoes and other essential equipment like different kind of ropes, cleaning pad for the gun and more. There was a big room for all of us to change our cloths. There was no privacy there, and you had to do it quickly. We went out to a big area that ... canvas. It was obvious that sleep was going to be very hard and uncomfortable. We ate dinner, which reminded me of lunch, and later we had our first couple of lessons about the M-16 gun. At the end of the lesson our commander told us we will have guard duty, even though we did not received our guns yet. I was scheduled to guard between 3am and 3:30am. I ...
- 3730: Boxing - A Safe Sport
- ... and then the athlete has his or her first game or competition. A boxer will know how to defend himself in most situations. If the boxer cannot defend him or herself, the referee will take control of the bout and stop the action between the two boxers. Very few major injuries in the sport of amateur boxing, but there are some that occur in the sport. If an injury does occur ... bout will continue or be stopped. The doctor may stop the bout at any point during the bout to check a boxer. The doctor might also check a boxer between rounds. The referee exercises more control than the doctor in the ring. Referees warn boxers to let them know that they are breaking the rules. If the referee stops a bout because of blows to the head, the boxer is not ...
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