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- 1611: Juice
- ... the volume of the blood, its oxygen carrying capacity, and even the heart size of the user. (Wright, Cowart) The use of steroids among athletes has greatly increased in the past few years. Professional and high school level athletes alike have been searching for an enhancement in their skill and strength ability. The majority of users claim that they take steroids for appearance. Users could include a skinny high school kid who wants a girlfriend or weight lifter looking to increase his physical ability. Steroids also has many negative effects, both mentally and physically. Physically, there are both long term effects and short ...
- 1612: Five Against The World - Perl Jam
- ... importance of music over idolatry. But the burden of Pearl Jam's popularity has fallen most solidly on Vedder, who spent much of his off-season wondering about the effects of being in such a high-profile band. Vedder had - uncharacteristically - even gotten into a barroom fight defending the band. (In a Waits-like voice, he offers a snippet of an unrecorded song that he has written about it: "Gave myself ... I didn't get along with, a guy I thought was my father. There were fights and bad, bad scenes. I was kind of on my own at a pretty young age. I never finished high school. He was Eddie Mueller then. After moving briefly to San Diego, both his parents had returned to Chicago. Vedder, who subsequently took his mother's maiden name, had stayed behind to pursue his career ...
- 1613: Kurt Cobain
- ... songs. He was in several bands throughout highschool, some of them were named Fecal Matter, Skid Row, Brown Cow, The Sellouts, and Pencap Chew. Around the time of Kurts senoir year he formed Nirvana with high school friend, Krist (Chris) Novoselic. A few drummers of their's fell through and then they found what kurt called "the worlds best drummer", Dave Grohl. His drumming style was exactly what nirvana needed. Two months before Kurt's high school graduation he dropped out. This move made his mother angry so she kicked him out of the house. He lived with friends, and for a time he even lived under a bridge of ...
- 1614: The Internet, Pornography, and Children
- ... via the commercial online services over regular phone lines. Some of these services include Prodigy, CompuServe, and America Online. Businesses, universities, government agencies, and the like, often have direct connection to an Internet provider over high-speed digital lines. Some of these providers include Netcom and PSI.1 The number of adults online in the United States by the end of 1998 has been estimated as low as 44 million and as high as 80 million. 2 At the end of 1997, the number of children online was almost 10 million. It is estimated that by the year 2002, 45 million children will be online.3 While it is not clear how many these children have access to the Internet at home, it is clear what percentage of them have access at school. Currently, about 81.8% of all American schools have the Internet. It is estimated by the end of the 1998-1999 school year, about 95.9% of all American schools will be hooked up ...
- 1615: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... could not provide the luxury of spiritual affirmation. He grew up in Clatskanie, Oregon to working class- parents in a alcoholic home where reading material was limited to Zane Gray novels, and the newspaper. Following high school, Carver married his pregnant high school sweet hart. His drinking became heavier. A list of meaningless jobs followed , in which writing only provided a emotional outlet. During this time, Carver's hard life may have instigated the disjunction he ...
- 1616: The Color Purple
- ... of who she was. she was just a person who cooked and cleaned and took care of the children without any consideration given to her. She is uneducated because her father took her out off school as a result of her pregnancies. Celie is raised in an environment where she wasn't allow to have a mind of her own because her father dominated and controlled all her actions. For example ... pretty and smart"(10). She has always been told how ugly and stupid she was by her stepfather. "She is ugly. . ."(9). "She ain't smart either. . . "(9). "You are too dumb to go to school"(11). Celie is also influenced by her environment in the sense that her father and husband both mistreat her, she learns to fear men. This will be a big factor in Celie's sexuality in ... and husband she was able to overcome it with the help of Nettie. Nettie who later in the book serves as a silent confidante to Celie, taught her that education was important in developing a high self-esteem. "helping me with spelling and everything else she think I need to know"(17). , ". . . try to teach me what go on in the world"(17). Sofia is the one that teaches Celie ...
- 1617: Tele-education
- ... spurred by multimedia computing and communication, will do more than extend the educational system, that is revolutionize it. Technological advances will make classrooms mush more accessible and effective. Today, classroom education dominates instruction from elementary school to graduate school. This method has remained popular for a very long time and will probably persist as the most common mode of education. However, classroom education has its problems, that is the effectiveness decline with increase in ... know one another since, for example, one of the first activities for students was to upload their CVs and pictures and to browse through those of other students. The level of concentration appeared to be high. Naturally, as in a classroom, there were moments when students attention moved away from the subject of study but these were not frequent. Interestingly, they usually stayed at the workstation but moved to another ...
- 1618: How Did World War 2 Change The
- ... misnomer that very few women had jobs back in the 30s and 40s, is not true. In fact, the majority of women had jobs. Even during the Great Depression, almost all women leaving school looked for jobs, and eventually found one. Of the women born in 1915, 91% had a job by 1938, which was relatively good compared to the 96% of men in the work force. Most women, however, quit their jobs after getting married so by 1939, there were millions of housewives with a variety of job experience. The untapped resource of high school and college women made for potential recruits for the wartime labor force (Campbell, p.73). December 7th, 1941 had came and gone, with the U.S. naval fleet being seriously damaged at Pearl Harbor ...
- 1619: Pro-Wrestling In The Nineties
- ... cable television. All of this popularity is due to one man, Steve Austin. His hatred for authority and trust no-one attitude brought the federation into its new era. His character appealed to everyone from school children to regular businessmen. Unfortunately for the WWF this newfound popularity has also brought new problems. These new problems are lawsuits, brought about by the parents of children who are injured while wrestling. While the ... 30 states where youth organizations are staging weekly wrestling matches, videotaping them and selling the tapes or broadcasting the matches over the Net. (Thomas) There have also been problems with these matches, because kids doing high-risk maneuvers on other kids have caused death. A 17 year old from Massachusetts was killed after he was piledrived onto a metal chair. That isnt as bad as some of the other wrestling ... everyday from kids who try outrageous stunts in order to get their foot in the door. He feels it is just stupid, and he wont even view the tapes until the kids have graduated high school. (Foley 62) Is the WWF at fault for all of these injuries sustained after watching these trained men? I feel that it might be, they may have all of the warnings, and a ...
- 1620: Michael Crichtons Life
- ... Chicago. B. Parents were, John Henderson Crichton and Zula(Miller) Crichton. Oldest of four children. II. Growing up A. Lived in Roslyn, New York when he was 6. B. Was a star basketball player in high school. C. Graduated in 1960, from Roslyn high school. D. Decided to go to Harvard University and become a Writer. III. Life at Harvard A. Writing was severely criticized, had grades around a C. B. Thought Harvard was an error. IV. Persuing ...
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