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- 671: How Advertising Affects What You Buy
- ... was a fancy new style of car. Preston Thomas Tucker, the maker, put a two page article in the FIC magazine about his car idea and within a week he received one hundred fifty thousand letters inquiring about his car and how they could get them. He had new and improved safety devices, safety belts, shatter-proof glass, and moving head lights. This is how he won over the people with ...
- 672: Racism
- ... which, in Greek, meant Circle Clan. One person thought it would be a good idea to call it the "Ku Klux Klan" as a parody of the fraternity names which always had three Greek alphabet letters in it. They created the Clan to be mischievous and to do it without anyone knowing who they were which accounts for their costumes and masks. They, like most whites, were upset that the black ...
- 673: College Fraternities
- College Fraternities A fraternity, as defined by the The American Heritage Dictionary is "a chiefly social organization of male college students, usually designated by Greek letters."(pg. 523) This definition, however, is very limited and leaves plenty of space for short sighted people to believe the stereotype conveyed by the popular media, where fraternity members are depicted as drunks who accomplish ...
- 674: Responsible Driving
- ... what to do. Route markers include signs for interstates, highways, freeways, and turnoffs. Guide signs include destination/milage, roadside services, and recreational areas. All warning signs are either yellow or orange with black symbols and letters. Most are diamond shaped. Rgulatory signs usually only have 5 color schemes. Red, white, black, green and white, or white and black. (O'neil 47-51). There are two other aspects pertaining to road markings ...
- 675: Street Gangs: A Guide To Community Awareness
- ... name or the name of their gang. It may include members' nicknames, or be a declaration of loyalty to a particular gang. Hispanic gang graffiti often uses block lettering that is exaggerated or has reversed letters. JEWELRY: Accessories may be worn to signify gang association. It may be expensive or inexpensive. Belt buckles, bracelets, necklaces, key chains, earrings, and rings are all commonly used. Some gang members wear dice earrings to ...
- 676: Censorship of Books: Freedom of What?
- Censorship of Books: Freedom of What? The denotative meaning of censorship is the examination of books, letters, movies, etc. and the removal of anything thought not right for the people to see or hear. In other words, censorship takes away the right of the individual to decide what is appropriate for them ...
- 677: UFOs Exist
- ... security. "It is a widespread belief that the government knows far more about UFOs than it is willing to reveal" (Sheafferr 25). National archives had shown that many reports were missing from files. Dozens of letters to the other agencies and even to the white house simply elicited the same official response-essentially, that UFOs did not exist. Why then all the missing files? On december 15, 1978 these docuiments were ...
- 678: Memory
- ... makes perfect and the way people use the devices include rhymes, clues, mental pictures , and other methods (Rhodes p. 130). Another method provides clues by means of an acronym , a word formed from the first letters or syllables of the words (Rhodes p.132). A mental picture can be provided by the key-word method , which is particularly useful in learning foreign words (Rhodes p. 135). Mental pictures can also be ...
- 679: Roswell Incident
- ... have recognized the remains of a crashed weather balloon. Secret Rocket or Airplane * If what crashed was any kind of secret military apparatus, one would expect at least some of the pieces to have recognizable letters or numbers on the them. Many of the witnesses say that some of the wreckage bore a very strange kind of writing, but not one witness has said that any of the wreckage bore any ...
- 680: Weather Forecasting
- ... thermometer. Of course all of these inventions have proven helpful for forecasting weather, there was still one problem. The main problem was communicating. The reason for this was that if the forecasters were to send letters to each other every time there was a storm, their counterparts would not learn of a storm or tornado for days! The solution to this problem began with the invention of the telegraph. The telegraph ...
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