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- 6651: Drugs And Teenagers
- Drug use is the increasing problem among teenagers in today's high schools. Most drug use begins in the preteen and teenage years, these years most crucial in the maturation process. During these years adolescents are faced with difficult tasks of discovering their self identity, clarifying their ... sleep, sexual behavior, body temperature and appetite. The sensation sight, sound and touch are enhanced, that's why it's usually used at discos and parties. It takes about 30 to 40 minutes to "get high" and about three to four hours to wear off. Side effects include heart and blood pressure problems, blurred vision, chills and sweating. The tablet changes every week and counterfeits are always around, it is not ...
- 6652: Computers and The Disabled
- ... use of the arrow keys on the keyboards numeric keypad to move the mouse around the screen. ToggleKeys is another program that aids the disabled, it provides audio feedback for certain key strokes by providing high and low pitched beeps that tell the current status of Caps Lock, Number Lock, and Scroll Lock keys. Windows 95 offers several features for those with limited sight. They make a high contrast layout that can be scaled to multiple sizes for easy reading. Their program Showsounds lets you set a global flag that shows sounds in a visual format. In an age when computers seem to ...
- 6653: Ukraine
- ... Christmas Festivities are celebrated with a puppet theater. Everyone dresses in costumes and walks from house to house enacting the nativity and singing about the birth of Christ. DRESS Traditional dress in Ukraine shows a high degree of sophistication, elegance, and artistry. Components of Ukrainian dress are universal. These include skirts, shirts, and a sleeveless jacket or vest. Shirts are generally long-sleeved and go down to a person’s ankles ... all of us, from the Sain to the Don, We won't let anyone govern in out motherland. The Black Sea will smile yet, grandfather Dnipro will rejoice, Yet in our Ukraine luck will be high. Our persistence, our sincere toil will prove its rightness, still our freedom's loud song will spread throughout Ukraine. It'll reflect upon the Carpathians, will sound through the steppes, and Ukraine's glory will ...
- 6654: Immigration And Population In America
- ... Penn, a British colonial official, encouraged people of Holland, France, and Germany to colonize in the 1680’s. Immigration in the 1700’s was again encouraged greatly by the British. Lax policies on citizenship and high fertility allowed population in these colonies to soar. British colonies allowed any immigrant who declared themselves a Protestant and “swore allegiance to the British crown” to have the same rights of any citizen born in ... low. In 1830, immigration to America again increased. By 1854, an Irish potato famine and political unrest in the German Principalities saw the number of Irish and German immigrants in America reach an all-time high. Until then, America had been a mostly Protestant upper-class society. These natives were now forced to live with poor Catholic foreigners, the result of which was hostile. (380) Despite the popular community view of ...
- 6655: Saudi Arabia
- ... Khali has an estimated area of about 300,000 sq. miles. An extension of the Syrian Desert projects into northern Saudi Arabia. The highest point in Saudi Arabia is the Jabal Swada, 10,527 ft high, is located in the southwestern portion of the country. The average elevation is about 4000 ft.(BOOK) Principal Cities The capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh has an estimated population of 2,000,000. Other important ... found at Ad Damman on the Persian Gulf. Aramco was originally owned by four American oil companies, but in 1974 controlling interest was gained by the Saudi Arabian government. The country's vast reserves and high level of oil production have made Saudi Arabia a leading producer of oil. Saudi Arabia's proven reserves of petroleum exceed 150 billion barrels. Annual production in the late 1980's was some 2 billion ...
- 6656: Joy Luck Club - Literary Analy
- ... held in such a spotlight, as to be called a prodigy. Suyuan takes it upon herself to make her daughter rise above the accomplishments of her peers, and prove to the mothers their family is high in the running competition, whether Jing-Mei approves or disapproves. Suyuan decides that with piano lessons she and her daughter will rise above Lindo and Waverly. Jing-Mei only sees tedious lessons and hours of ... announcement of her achivements. Amy Tan clearly suggests Chinese mothers rely on success to establish status. Other people’s thoughts determine their statue, and the mother will go to extremes to be accepted in the high flown Chinese community. Many times mothers want to show off their daughters accomplishments, and in doing so embarrass and anger the child without knowing so. Mothers should be aware of the child’s thoughts and ...
- 6657: Ralph Waldo
- ... was left with him and his four other siblings. At the age of 18 he graduated from Harvard University and was a teacher for three years in Boston. Then in 1825 he entered Harvard Divinity School and preached for three years. At the age of 29 he resigned for ministry, partly because of the death of his wife after only 17 months of marriage. In 1835 he married Lydia Jackson and ... higher reality that exists beyond the powers of human comprehension. Plato explained that the idea of absolute goodness transcends human description. Neoplantonism was a collective designation for the philosophical and religious doctrines of a heterogeneous school of speculative thinkers who sought to develop and synthesize the metaphysical ideas of Plato" (Encarta). Ralph Waldo Emerson found motivation to write in anything he did, whether it was visiting England, the Transcendental Movement or ...
- 6658: Chapters 1-6 To Kill A Mocking
- ... you hear?” (Lee 25) Burris Ewell and Walter are both from poor backgrounds, yet they are quite different. Walter and his family are poor, but respectable. They are ambitious. This is evident because Walter attends school. Burris is also poor, but he does not have the ambition to attend school (Lee 30). He also has very little self-pride. This chapter deals with Boo Radley and the way he interacts with his neighbours. Boo is an unknown character who causes much suspicion, especially among the ...
- 6659: Rutherford B. Hayes
- ... father Rutherford Hayes passed away two months prior to Rutherford Jr. being born. Along with his 4 other siblings, Rutherford was raised in Ohio by his mother for most of his life. Rutherford went to school in Norwalk, Ohio and Middletown, Connecticut. In 1842 he graduated from Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio, valedictorian of his class. After a year of study in a Columbus law office, he entered Harvard Law School and received his degree in 1845. Hayes began his practice in a small town called Lower Sandusky. Not finding many opportunities here, he left for Cincinnati in 1849 where he became a successful lawyer. In ...
- 6660: John Savage Desires What Makes
- ... land wasn’t properly worked; there were strikes in all the factories; the laws were set at naught, orders disobeyed; all the people detailed for a spell of low-grade work were perpetually intriguing for high-grade jobs, and all the people with high-grade jobs were counter-intriguing at all costs to stay where they were. Within six years they were having a first-class civil war. When nineteen out of the twenty-two thousand had been killed ...
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