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- 6211: Great Depression
- ... the rich and the middle-class, between industry and agriculture within the United States, and between the U.S. and Europe. This imbalance of wealth created an unstable economy. The stock market was kept artificially high, but eventually lead to large market crashes. These market crashes, combined with the lack of distribution of wealth, caused the American economy to capsize. The "roaring twenties" was an era when our country prospered tremendously ... stocks without the money to purchase them. Buying stocks on margin worked the same way as buying a car on credit. Investors' craze over the plan of profits like this drove the market to extremely high levels. The exploratory boom in the stockmarket was based upon confidence. In the same way, the huge market crashes of 1929 were based on fear. Prices had been drifting downward since early September, but generally ...
- 6212: Telekinesis
- ... by 'wishing it' to happen on the physical level. The energy to move or bend an object is created by a person's thoughts created by their subconscious mind. Your energy levels must be very high. The desire to move or break or bend an object must exist in a level of though we do not as yet have control over with the 10% of the brain human's presently use ... tried seeing an object as the components of thousands of molecules, then re-arranging them, but it doesn't work that way as I am still thinking with my physical mind. I know I have high energy and can control many things in my environment. The ability to work with electro-magnetic energies--altering anything electrical is not that hard for me on the conscious level. I just raise my frequency ...
- 6213: Joy Luck Club: Conflicts Faced By June and Her Mother
- ... why her mother was upset was not because she had not lived up to her expectations. She was unhappy because June di d not care about having the best for herself. She did not have high hopes or a passion to be successful at anything. She failed because she did not try and she did not care. This is in strong opposition to Suyuan's high hopes that originate from the stron g love she has for her daughter. It is not until much later in her life, after Suyuan's death, that June realizes just how much her mother loved ...
- 6214: How Humans and Fish Obtain Oxygen
- ... But there is a waste product to this activity which is what we exhale carbon dioxide. Now carbon dioxide diffuses back into the blood which carries it to the lungs and since there is a high level of oxygen in the lungs and a low one in the blood and a high level of carbon dioxide in the blood and a low level of it in the lungs the oxygen simply diffuses into the blood and the carbon dioxide into the lungs where it is exhaled and ...
- 6215: The Life and Work of Nemerov
- ... was born on March 1, 1920, in New York City. Until he moved to Vermont in 1948, New York influenced most of his poems. Nemerov's wealthy and culturally refined parents sent him to Fieldston School. At this private school, Nemerov was an impeccable student and a strong athlete. After graduating in 1937, he went to Harvard, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree. At the start of World War II, Nemerov became attracted ...
- 6216: Jacques Louis David
- ... a prosperous middle-class family in Paris on August 30, 1748. In 1757 his mother left him to be raised by his uncles after his father was killed. He was never a good student in school- in his own words, "I was always hiding behind the instructors chair, drawing for the duration of the class". When David was 16 he began studying art at the Académie Royale under the rococo painter ... works. The cold colors and severe compositions of the heroic paintings gave place to a new feeling for pageantry which had something in common with Romantic painting, although he always remained opposed to the Romantic school. With the fall of Napoleon, David went into exile in Brussels, and his work weakened as the possibility of exerting a moral and social influence receded. (Until recently his late history paintings were generally scorned ...
- 6217: The Life of Ian Fleming
- ... loves or circumstances. The knowledge of Ian's late father's looming wealth, and Ian's lack of access to it was bound to make the young Fleming feel disinherited. The unattainable Fleming fortune and high achievements of Valentine and Peter, Ian's older brother, seem to have put a chip on Ian's shoulder. As Ian failed to fill their shoes, it appears he became more determined to build his ... banker. Ian had enough money to host dinner parties for his lose-knit group Le Cercle gastronomique et des jeux de hasard. Fleming's love of the off-beat and simple elegance impressed his friends. High-stakes bridge games, elaborate meals and indifferent romances filled Fleming's off-work hours. Ian also began a considerable book collection which was later recognized by the Library of Congress. By 1939, it appears Fleming ...
- 6218: Afluenza
- ... it consumes them and the final product is surely not The Waltons. An example of this is a women named Julie, 24, who filed for bankruptcy last year when harassing phone calls from creditors and high monthly credit card payments overwhelmed her. The mother of a 7 week-old child, she erased more than $20,000 of debt, most Causes & Cures of which was run up by her affluenza infected former ... Even credit card companies are advertising to young kid with the credit card barbie doll, and there always seems to be credit card advertisements in elementary schools lunchrooms, and the ads continue through middle and high schools as well as college classrooms as our own. Now with the information that is available to parents and consumers alike have to educate the children and instill the value systems that they see fit ...
- 6219: Missouri Fox Trotter
- ... their pleasant gaits and surefootedness. According to the Missouri Fox Trotter Horse Breed Association, this is a "horse of all talents." ("The Winning Combination") The Missouri Fox Trotter Horse should stand fourteen to sixteen hands high (approximately seven to nine feet tall) and able to carry weight. All colors are accepted including pinto and albino, and they usually have white markings. A strong saddle horse, compact and up to weight, its head is attractive and alert, tapering to a small muzzle. (Edwards, Larousse Guide , 196) The withers are pronounced; the back is short and straight; the croup muscular and rounded; the tail set rather high; the chest broad and deep; the shoulders sloped and muscular. The legs are sturdy and well muscled. (Hendricks, 286) Its uniqueness lies in its ability to execute the strange gait known as the Fox-trot ...
- 6220: Environmental Issues Associated With Vehicle Use
- ... of the countryside, which damages the environment and destroys habitats. Other problems are the increase in air pollution and the significant noise and visual pollution that is produces. The cost of building roads is extremely high and once they are up and running, they are comparatively expensive to maintain. The high investment in roads in the UK has not been matched by investment in railways, buses or cycle-ways. It has been argued that the choice of public transport has become limited for the 33% of ...
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