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- 2141: Christmas Is A Good Holiday For Many Reasons
- ... a wonderful time of year. Millions of people around the world will agree that Christmas is one of the most fun and exciting holidays. Christmas is a good holiday because students get a vacation from school, people get to exchange gifts with friends and family, and people get to spend time with their families. Those three reasons, among others, help to make Christmas one of the best holidays. First of all, Christmas is a good holiday because students get a vacation from school. While not in school, students have no homework. That really helps to make the holidays more enjoyable. With no school, students have no reason to get up early so they can stay out late and sleep late in ...
- 2142: Import Substitution
- ... Import Substitution: All present day industrial and developing countries protect their manufacturing industries for the domestic markets. While the industrial countries of today rely primarily upon the usage of relatively low tariffs, developing countries apply high tariffs or quantitative restrictions which either limit or completely exclude competition from their imports. Protection like that - high protection - discriminates against exports through the explicit/implicit taxation of the export activities. Explicit taxation can take the form of export taxes whereas implicit taxation occurs as a result of the effects of protection on ... will decrease in order to ensure the necessary equilibrium of the balance of payments and the lower the amount of domestic currency exporters receive per unit of foreign exchange earned. There is no need for high protection at the first stage of import substitution in the replacement of the imports of non-durable consumer goods (clothing, shoes, household goods, textile fabrics, leather, wood and other types of inputs) since these ...
- 2143: John F. Kennedy
- ... fights with Joe. "The boys enjoyed playing touch football."(The World Book Encyclopedia, 261). His childhood was full of sports, fun and activity. This all ended when he grew up old enough to leave for school. Kennedy attended elementary schools in Brookline and Riverdale. "In 1930, when he was 13 years old, his father sent him to the Canterbury School in New Milford, Conn." (The World Book Encyclopedia, 261). One year later, he transferred to Choate Academy in Wallingford, Coon. He graduated from Choate in 1935 at the age of 18. He was promised a ... the rest of the summer trying to recover. He was not entirely well when he started Princeton, several weeks later in the fall of 1935. The jaundice returned and he had to drop out of school. Before the next school year began, he told his father he wanted to go to Harvard. He entered Harvard University in 1936. There he majored in government and international relations. At Harvard, he tried ...
- 2144: Demian
- ... to be noticed; his manner and bearing was that of a prince disguised among farm boys, taking great pains to appear one of them." The first encounter between Sinclair and Demian occurs one day after school as the two boys are walking home. Sinclair had learned the biblical story of Cain and Abel from the book of Genesis that day in class. Demian starts a conversation about the story and challenges ... his childhood, his family, and the "world of light". The fourth chapter brings the separation of Sinclair and Demian, as well as Sinclairs separation from his family, when Sinclair is sent off to boarding school. This foreign world offers only loneliness and insecurity to Sinclair, who does not fit in with the other young men. Sinclair goes through a trying time of confusion and isolation at the boarding school as he searches for the road to himself. At one point, out of desperation, Sinclair resorts to rebellion. He begins to drink in bars and he becomes renowned among his classmates for being careless, ...
- 2145: Eating Right And For The Right Reasons
- ... life and still lives with her dad and brother. Her dad is a stockbroker and brings in an above average income. She works about 20 hours a week and has 15 units to carry of school work. She is 58 tall and weighs about 155 lbs.. Female B grew up in Napa, CA and lives here in Sacramento with three other girls from her sorority. She does receive money frequently from her parents to pay for her living expenses. She baby-sits every once in a while, and only has 12 units of school. She is about 56 and weighs about 120 lbs.. The two men that I studied were different in that one was white and one was of Filipino descent. They both are about the same ... two other guys about the same age as he is. He is from Stockton and grew up there his whole life in a middle-class home, but received a private and exclusive education at Catholic school. He does work a little and he gets most of his money from his school loans or from his parents. Once a week he goes home to get his food and laundry for the ...
- 2146: John Locke 3
- ... very strict. This helped John later in life disciplining him self to his essays and his thoughts. But as a child raised in a bookish home, he had received a good private education before entering school. His family was visited by very wealthy and influential people. These influential visitors would challenge Locke's mind and have him express is feelings on certain topics at a very young age. This I believe helped Locke in his future in philosophy and his writings. In the fall of 1647 John was admitted to a tough course of studies under the school's headmaster, Dr. Richmond Busby. This was Locke's first enrollment at a school away from his home. This experience would be a major building blocks for his career. During his schooling he was educated in Doctrines of Political Liberty. This was one of the topics in the ...
- 2147: Poetry: Not Me
- ... and tall. His family was poor, though they had money His dad owned a business, always on call. He lived in a small town in the Northwest. He was told that he was disadvantaged. His school was bad, but his teachers the best. The classrooms were old, the textbooks were damaged He didn't excel, although a bright student. Teachers called him an underachiever. He didn't notice a quarter-life ... world. "Why not study?" said his mom, cooking the stew. He thought of that during supper and hurled. His mother soon tired of the grades he brought home. She made him study each day after school. He was grounded from TV, and from the phone. He was shut in his room and force-fed gruel. His grades slowly improved, thanks to his mom. Although he didn't thank her at the ... s motivation, He came home on his own and went straight to his room. Reading Provided some mental relaxation. He even read during lunch in the afternoon. Still not an A student, he struggles in school. Once it was easy for him to get A's. Now the hard work makes him feel like a fool. The work has caught up to him and his ways. Now tired of school, ...
- 2148: History Of The Computer Indust
- ... for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years has it changed the American society. From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of people's lives for the better.The very earliest existence of the modern day computer's ancestor is the abacus. These date back to almost ... the military. New weapons systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchley, and their associates at the University of Pennsylvania decided to build a high-speed electronic computer to do the job. This machine became known as ENIAC, for "Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator". It could multiply two numbers at the rate of 300 products per second, by finding the ... wire it to perform whatever task he wanted the computer to do. It was, however, efficient in handling the particular programs for which it had been designed. ENIAC is generally accepted as the first successful high-speed electronic digital computer and was used in many applications from 1946 to 1955 (Dolotta, 50). Mathematician John von Neumann was very interested in the ENIAC. In 1945 he undertook a theoretical study of ...
- 2149: The Effects of Creatine
- ... of it is located in muscle tissue. It is composed of three amino acids: glycine, arginine, and methionine. Muscles cannot normally break down energy storages fast enough to meet the demands of the body during high intensity weight training. They rely on creatine phosphate (CP) to provide chemical energy. ATP is the primary source of energy for anaerobic endurance before glycolysis is initiated and for aerobic activity before aerobic metabolism is ... between the two groups. Muscle torque did not increase following placebo treatment. A second study by Balsom (1993) supports the findings of Greenhaff. In this study, subjects completed 10 sequentially repeated 6-second bouts of high intensity exercise on a friction-loaded cycle ergometer. Subjects receiving creatine were able to sustain exercise intensity over the entire exercise while subjects receiving the placebo failed to do so. The creatine group decreased their ... patients was lowered 2% and was not statistically significant. Creatine supplementation also increased the total lifting repetitions and lifting volume which were not evident in the control group. The synthesis of creatine is inhibited by high concentrations of ornithine, which is found in patients with gyrate atrophy. Gyrate atrophy is a hereditary and very complex dystrophic eye disease. The cause of this disease is an enzyme inhibition of the creatine ...
- 2150: Charles Manson
- ... of them. Manson's mother often neglected Charles after her husband left her. She tried to put him into a foster home, but the arrangements fell through. As a last resort she sent Charles to school in Terre Haute, Indiana. Mrs. Manson failed to make the payments for the school and once again Charles was sent back to his mother's abuse. At only fourteen, Manson left his mother and rented a room for himself. He supported himself with odd jobs and petty theft. His ... near Omaha, Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in "Boys Town" before running away. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois for robbing a grocery store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana, where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sent to the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C. Manson never had a place to call " ...
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