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- 651: Earthquakes, Armageddon, and The Dead Sea Scrolls
- ... scrolls. This earthquake destroyed the city but uncovered many caves that have yielded over 800 scrolls only a dozen of which have been more then a couple pages at length. In 1953 the Caves of Letters near Jordan were escavated by an Israeli professor, nothing was found except a empty pack of cigarettes and a piece of a scroll. It is now believed that there is evidence of scrolls and past ...
- 652: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... the next day, Kennedy organized the Executive Committee of the United States National Security Council (EX-COMM). This handpicked group of 19 men helped Kennedy through this crisis. They provided intelligence briefings, edited Kennedy's letters, and argued over the best course of action. EX-COMM proved to be an irrefutable way to manage the crisis. The Statutory members included: Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of ...
- 653: History of the World
- ... that used wedge- shaped characters (see CUNEIFORM). Archaeologists have found thousands of clay tablets with Sumerian writings. These tablets show the high level of development of the Sumerian culture. They include historical and legal documents; letters; economic records; literary and religious texts; and studies in mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. The Sumerians used baked bricks to build great palaces and towering temples called ziggurats in their cities. They believed that their gods ...
- 654: The Development of Ancient Systems of Writing in Iraq and Egypt
- ... of a once great civilization. During the same time period that cuneiform developed, another great writing system of the Ancient Middle East appeared, the Egyptian Hieroglyphs. From the Greek ta hieroglyphica, meaning 'the sacred carved (letters)' comes our word hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics are probably the most artistic scripts in the world, consisting of actual drawings or carvings of things from the real world and written continuously in either columns or in a ...
- 655: Adoption Changes from Past to Present
- ... the fear that a birth parent may return and try to reclaim his or her child. Some people misunderstand that open adoption is not intended to be a remedy. Instead, it provides a few photographs, letters and a history to an adoptee.
- 656: Ethical Decision Making Model
- ... any past shipping problems but, together we can do our best to avoid any future problems. John is my best salesperson, so to help him out in the future, I have decided to send out letters of apology to all the customers who have been disappointed with Blitz Computers shipping service. This letter will state that we apologize for any inconvenience in the past, and that we have developed a new ...
- 657: Sexual Violence Against Women
- ... have to stand up for ourselves and stop being such weak individuals. Sexual harassment in the workplace has become very widespread. It has become one of the most serious problems across Canada. "Recent surveys of letters to the editor indicate that most women feel that sexual harassment is the norm and not the exception." For me personally, I cannot believe that this is accepted by women. Women need to stop being ...
- 658: Development of Communist Theory
- ... nineteenth century political theorists are responsible for the course of communism today. Communist leaders of the twentieth are responsible for keeping alive Marxist ideology (Hacker 516)." Communist leaders have elected to utilize the books, pamphlets, letters and speeches of Marx and Engels as their official doctrine (Hacker 513). The leaders in communist states use perceptions of Marxism as merely an aid in motivating their citizens for the pursuit of political goals ...
- 659: Racism
- ... htm 8. http://www.ohiolife.org/aborters/jessen.htm 9. http://www.cais.com/agm/main/new/wisconsin-tro.html 10. http://www.aclu.org/issues/racial/isre.html 11. http://bayinsider.com/ktvu/aboutktvu/letters/discrimination.html 12. http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~kdedyk/midtermp.html 13. http://www.house.gov/judiciary/2115.htm 14. http://www.naacp.org/about/factsheet.html 15. http://www.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/nation/docs ...
- 660: Hate Crimes
- ... rights." In 1983, while the Sunday service was in progress, a group of whites shot out the windows of the church. Later on that day they came back to the church and they scrawled the letters "KKK" on the door. Inside of the church, these terrible people destroyed the piano, tore up the bibles, smashed the crucifix, scattered beer cans all over the place, and they even defecated on the sacrament ...
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