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- 3911: Capital Punishment is Murder
- Capital Punishment is Murder Imagine your child, Johnny, calling you from school, asking you to come join him at the principal's office because he is in trouble. Your child has been sent to the principal's office for hitting a classmate in the nose. You are furious. As you are driving to the school you think to yourself, "there is no excuse for hitting another person." When you arrive at the school, your child explains that his classmate "hit him first." It seems that they were fighting over a popular toy when Johnny was hit by another boy. Your Johnny got mad and punched him square ...
- 3912: Geology Fo Mars
- ... present in the form of an ice cap. Tharsis: The region known as Tharsis is at the center of a bulge in the planets surface. This giant volcano is 4000 km across and 10 km high. Another bulge is called Elysium and it is about 2000 km across and 5 km high. At the summit of Tharsis are three volcanoes the tallest of these is Olympus Mons. The peak of this volcano is 27 km above the place where Tharsis ends and Olympus Mons begins. The volcano ... The deposits are thought to be composed primarily of dust and ice. The layering indicates that the deposits are in some sort of a cycle. Ground ice only occurs at extreme lows or at very high altitudes. Water vapor cannot escape fast enough so it becomes ice deposits on the ground. This also happens around the edge of craters suggesting the possibility of ground water. Little is known about the ...
- 3913: Grant Hill
- ... became interested in the sport of basketball. He played at the playground with his friends and soon was able to be on a team. 3. After playing on the AAU team, Grant entered South Lakes High School. He was looking forward to playing on the freshmen team with his boyhood friends. 4. Grant soon decided to try out for the varsity team. As a freshman he played power forward and was averaging ...
- 3914: Langston Hughes
- ... child and his father moved to Mexico. He was raised by his grandmother until he was twelve, when he moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband. It was during his high school years that Hughes began writing poetry. Following graduation, he spent a year in Mexico and a year at Columbia University and travelled to Africa and Europe. He moved to Harlem, New York, in November 1924 ...
- 3915: Gun Control-Forfeiting Our Rights
- Gun Control-Forfeiting Our Rights Everyday our children wake up and make the dangerous journey to school. With the recent occurrences in Jonesboro, Arkansas and Littleton, Colorado, our children are even more scared to make this dangerous journey to school. With the threat of death becoming more apparent, parents are questioning as to whether or not they should even let their children go to school. What is this dangerous threat to children, and how can this threat of death be stopped? Although the answer is complicated and will continually be debated a solution must be posed. We must outlaw ...
- 3916: Frank Lloyd Wright Innovator I
- ... Wright's family spent many evening listening to William Lincoln Wright read out loud the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Blake. Uncle Jenkins was the family minister while Aunts Nell and Jane would open a school of their own which following the philosophies of, German educator, Froebel. With truth and unity stressed, Wright was brought up in a comfortable, but certainly not warm household. His father, William, moved from job to ... up on from Gardner's model relate directly to Wright's childhood of comfort rather than warmth including a touch of estrangement, distance from society but not ignorance, a value of learning and achievement, and high expectations for oneself or from another. In reference to the retention of childlike qualities, it could be argued that Wright's lack of concern in financial situations and his habit of running away from comfortable ...
- 3917: France 2
- ... centuries. It is an industrial center as well. Paris is world renowned as a cultural and intellectual center which holds many masterpieces. The Eiffel Tower was built in 1889, and today is 1,052 ft. high. It welcomes tourists from all over the world. The revolution of 1789 was a very important part of history. The people could be divided into three groups, the Nobles, the Clergy, and the rest. At ... close eye on the standard of wine it produces. A good wine must meet certain requirements. When a wine is awarded the label Appelation d Prigine Controlee or AOC, this means it is of guaranteed high quality. The traditional goods for which France is renowned include fine china, wine, perfume, and textiles. France now has some very successful firms producing cars, electronics, tires and chemicals. Oil refining is one of the ... that stretches to all parts of France. Trains are an important source of transportation throughout France. The latest in a line of new fast trains, which includes the mistral and the Turbo trains, is the high-speed TGV. This train averages 133 miles per hour. The French railway of SNCF has a reputation for being fast, efficient, and reliable. It is also punctual. So much emphasis is placed on punctuality ...
- 3918: The Drinking Age In Ontario
- ... the government regulations, people will drink: "Despite a legal drinking age of 19 in Ontario, most other provinces, and both territories(Single et al., 1995), statistical reports indicate many Canadian teens drink alcohol." Furthermore, Many high school students have been to parties ( at which a large number is not of legal age drinking) which involve much drinking of alcohol. Liquor is also obtained at home where an open bar is accessible without ...
- 3919: The Seat Belt Law
- ... to the statistics in Michigan, approximately 45,000 people a year are killed in motor vehicle accidents in the United States. The death rate for victims of car crashes per 100,000 people is very high for 15-24 year olds and those over 75. Males have a higher vehicle death rate than females. Crashes occur more often in urban areas rather than rural areas, but deaths, on the other hand ... racial data on traffic tickets claiming it was irrelevant, harmful, and lead to negative stereotyping. But, the M.C.R.C. wants to reverse the policy in order to protect the police from accusations of high numbers of minority stops, especially when the seatbelt law gets passed. Starting in mid October, the racial data will once again be noted on traffic tickets so the information can all be studied. This is ... legislators will support the measure. Police departments that stopped keeping track of race on a citation have no defense from charges that they may have engaged in racial harassment. If departments are handing out a high number of citations to minorities, they will be questioned or hassled. Michigan police agencies are trying to do more to ensure minorities will not be unfairly targeted when the seatbelt law takes effect next ...
- 3920: Shakespeare
- ... of a tradesman and Alderman of Stratford, John Shakespeare in 1564. William, the eldest son, and third child of eight, was baptized on the 26th April 1564. He received his early education at Stratford Grammar School, but little is known of his life up to his eighteenth year. His Grammar School curriculum would have provided a formidable linguistic, and to some extent literary education. It is noted that he did not like grammar but did have a love for dramatics. Shakespeare attended Kings New School in Stratford which was one of the best grammar schools. Shakespeare read many books. He used some of these books as sources for his plays. One of his most prominent sources of literature was ...
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