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- 3631: Prison Overcrowding
- ... and alcohol awareness classes. You then move to another physical training session. The program is designed to build self-discipline along with self-esteem. I personally know someone in Shock right now. He went to high school with me and like many kids from my area turned to drugs. Now he realizes what he did and plans on starting fresh in a new city when he is released in January. Once you ...
- 3632: Electronic Money
- ... that 40% of households will shop with a debit card by the year 2000. 23% of people today shop with a debit card. I find this to be a very good thing due to the high expense of the check clearing system. Costs will not only decline for individuals, but hopefully for everyone. It should be noted that although debit cards may be convenient and fast, they are not as safe ... point of view. CyberCoin can offer many great benefits to merchants. One benefit is that it offers the merchant a cost-effective way to get casual and spontaneous sales. These are estimated to be as high as 80-90% of the Internet digital goods market. It is a way for merchants to expand their market, because now customers have an alternative to high subscriptions, being low pay-per-view. Typically low amounts are not able to be processed on a credit card. The merchants generally have to pay anywhere from 3.25% to 3.5% in credit ...
- 3633: What Are Teens Supposed To Do?
- ... done to help teens out is to allow the local schools to sponsor events during the weekends that the can go to get out of their homes and out of the malls. For example a high school gym could be used for an intermural sports facility on the weekends for competition between the teens. Last but not least would be for parents make sure that their teenagers feel they are welcome have ...
- 3634: Body Modifications
- ... hurt when her clothing touched the area, or when she moved the skin near her navel. Aside from the pain, she felt a sense of satisfaction. Then theres Dillon. Dillon was a senior in High School, in fact he had just turned eighteen. Dillon decided to get a tattoo. He spent countless hours deciding on the design he wanted. Then, he visited some of the local tattoo parlors. He wanted to ...
- 3635: Anti-Censorship
- ... be censored. First, if one can't read a book because it is censored, then he is losing some of his freedom. Imagine having to secretly get a copy of a book, just because the school deems it unfit. Also, how would the school decide if a book is safe to read. If a teacher finds a book to be trash, a student may the same book educational, and worth reading. Not only do the people reading the book ... they won't be worried about what they are writing. Many books that are part of American society could be banned because of their content. If a book says a few curse words, then the school could say than it can't be read even if it teaches us an important lesson. Many books important to society have local color in them, and censorship takes away from the connotation if ...
- 3636: Donkey
- ... as: hook-tenders, rigging slingers, and educated engineers. Many of the men originally hired by Carter were as uneducated as Carter himself. There was no room for the uneducated when it came to operating a high-tech machine as the steam donkey. The result of such an increase in production of logs, brought on by the steam donkey, was that the economy did not have the demand for logs that they ... Allerdale. Woodsmen of the West. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1996. Robert, VanNatta Logging History Museum of Northwest Oregon. [webpage online], accessed 14 November 1999; available from http://www.aone.com/~robert/histlog.html. Geneva Elementary School, Bellingham, Washington. [webpage online], accessed 14 November 1999; available from http://wwwgen.bham.wednet.edu/irondonk.htm.
- 3637: The Struggle Between Being And Knowing
- ... we are not most interested in. But unlike him, we dont have the luxury of simply studying what we like because what we like wont always get us the job we need. The high demands in todays job market and the intense level of competition require at minimum a baccalaureate degree or higher in any given field. The degree is the building block for all other qualifications such ... to belong to a desired social circle that would be otherwise unattainable. A good example is an alumni club, in which members would not be included if they did not graduate from this or that school. We associate with the people we relate to, and the things we feel conformable with, so we strive to stay within that domain. Yet another reason we find ourselves at a university is to answer ...
- 3638: Dorothea Lange
- ... Germany to the United States as immigrants. When Dorothea was seven years old, she suffered from polio. In 1907, her father left her family. And soon, her mother became an alcoholic. Dorothea was lonely in high school until she began studying photography. At the age of twenty-three, Dorothea left home, and in 1918, began an around the world trip. She taught Ron Partridge photography and people started calling him her assistant ...
- 3639: Hepatitis B 2
- ... highest risk of contracting the disease are: anyone who is sexually active; health, dental, and emergency workers; adoptive families with children form Asia, Africa, South America, Eastern and Mediterranean Europe (as these areas have a high number of people infected); drug users; and anyone in close contact with someone infected. This is not as scary as it seems, for you cannot contract the virus through sneezing, coughing, or holding hands. A ... vaccinated. The vaccine is very safe and effective. It is in the form of three shots, given over a period of six months. The shots can be given at a doctor s office or at school clinics. One very informative source is The Hepatitis B Foundation. The address is: 700 East Butler Avenue Doylestown, PA 18901 (215) 489-4900 For additional help contact your doctor. Hepatitis B is a very infectious ...
- 3640: Dizzy Gillespie
- ... s also always expressed the true conflict between an artist and his work. His phrases and ideas jagged and sharp, shocking the audience (Watrous, January 17). Another way he explored through his horn were the high, blistering, "stratospheric" notes he blurted out with a scream during his solo's (Levy, 1). "His range was breath taking." (Yardley, 2). Unlike many other trumpet players "Dizzy" did not use cheap tricks in his ... Each of his melodic lines would flow freely through the harmonic patterns or progressions be played by the rhythm section beneath him Suddenly after sliding down the musical staff Gillespie would bolt into a extremely high register only to tumble his way back down to begin again (Watrous, January 15). "Dizzy" took is own intricate melodies and advanced even more during his solo's. His playing flowed freely and logically (New York Times, December 22). In his composition "Groovin= High", based on the harmonic pattern of "whispering" an earlier popular tune, he improvises a complex line of ascending and descending lines and patterns. A sample of the original melody is shown below.(see Fig. ...
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