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- 1291: Death And Bereavement
- ... to confront death is the fact that "American society in its preoccupation with perpetual youth, beauty and strength, has typically disguised, avoided denied and embellished death. Acknowledgment of death implies a sense of limits that flies in the face of American consciousness." (Hoefler & Kamoie, 1995: p. 172). Americans treat death as a great surprise when it overcomes a friend or family member, even if the departed was relatively old and ill ...
- 1292: Career As A Military Officer
- ... briefings. I also fly with them. I have to fly at least 2 hours month with them just to stay current. The flight has to be in the back seat of whatever aircraft the unit flies, and my unit happens to be the F-16 unit. 2.What benefits do you have? What is your salary? We have a retirement you re eligible for at age 65 but you must spend ...
- 1293: Canines On The Police Force
- ... able to distinguish between different people s scents. Wind can have a big effect on raft, which is blown around by a slight breeze. To understand the effect, if smoke blows in the wind, it flies to one direction. It is the dog and the handler s job to be able to understand the way the wind blows and not be distracted by a blown raft. When wind hits a building ...
- 1294: Americas Fetish For Death
- ... the purification of numerous heathens. Their mission was simply to expand their territory while infecting the globe with the words of a pathogenic messiah. If in the process it was necessary to "swat a few flies" then so be it in the name of Christ. Nevertheless, their unforgettable actions can never compare to the atrocities of America. In the tradition of the great mother country, America continued its importation of Africans ...
- 1295: Catch 22
- ... consumed with the fact that people he has not even met keep trying to kill him. He is convinced to "remain alive forever or die in the attempt" (Heller, 89). The more combat missions Yossarian flies the more intense his struggle with life becomes. Yossarian is constantly frustrated with his situation. One of his frustrations is the small crawlway leading out of the plane used in the event of an emergency ...
- 1296: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... been sacrificed as burnt offerings. In Leviticus 18:21: 'You shall not give any of your children to devote them by fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.' Moloch appears in the poetry of Milton and Coleridge. Ginsberg is cursing the false idols to which human beings are still sacrificed today. "Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries ...
- 1297: McCarthyism
- ... for forgiveness for their past sins could the penitent cleanse themselves before the inquisition". Some victims would later write about their ordeals, and about the social reality of the time. Others such as Ko-Ko, Lord High Executioner who themselves were in part to blame for the crisis would write sorrowfully about their actions, from the book, The Mikado : "As someday it may happen that a victim must be found, I ...
- 1298: Martin Luther King Jr And Malcolm X
- ... one day every valley will be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places shall be made plain, and the crooked places shall be made straight, and the glory of the lord shall be revealed, and all shall see it together," (Internet, Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech) Unlike Malcolm X, King does not incite his followers to riot and hate, but encourages his ...
- 1299: J. Edgar Hoover
- ... would help Hoover on his quest to power. Bielaski did not forget the young man that his neighbor had recommended - though he did not bring Edgar into the Bureau (Summers 29). Instead he told John Lord OBrian, head of the War Emergency Division, about Edgar (Summers 29). Many people helped Hoover to become what he was. Many of the people who helped him, made drastic changes in Hoovers life ...
- 1300: Comparison Of Colonies
- ... Haven. Connecticut was founded by those separatists in Massachusetts who felt that the religion was too strict. Yet another colony established for exclusive, religiously motivated purposes was Maryland. Roman Catholics, under George Calvert, the First Lord Baltimore, fled religious persecution in England from the Protestants. Due to the immediate wealth from tobacco harvesting, Protestants came over to the new colony seeking some of the wealth. Ironically, the Protestants began to outnumber ...
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