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- 711: Greek Myths
- ... To protect himself, Cronos swallowed each of his first five children -- Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon -- immediatly after birth. After the birth of her sixth and last child, Rhea tricked Cronos into swallowing a rock and then hid the child -- Zeus -- on earth. Zeus grew up on earth and was brought back to Mount Olympus as a cupbearer to his unsuspecting father. Rhea and Zeus connived against Cronos by mixing ...
- 712: Sorrow
- ... complain, or I can focus on the more important things in life. Why waste away the days feeling gloomy and depressed? What good is it serving me to feel this way? Sorrow is like a rock being thrown at you. You can choose to watch it approach you until it hits you right between the eyes, or you can out of the way and let it pass you by. Of course ...
- 713: The Volkswagen Beetle and Advertising
- ... It is a new trend; traditionally American advertising sticks to older music for their advertisements. Actually, Volkswagen originally attempted to get the rights to certain Beatles songs, but the remaining members of the 60's rock band would not give their approval. Some of the catchy taglines that the Volkswagen ads have to accompany the music and imagery are; "Less Flower, More Power", "If you sold your soul in the 80 ...
- 714: Can the United States Justify the Civil War
- ... There was quite an uproar on the decision and this made it very impossible not to foresee the coming of the Civil War. When we look to the past and see that this hunk of rock now known as the United States was given to us to explore our frredom of religeon, who would of thought that it would be taken this far. Brothers against brothers, families torn apart because of ...
- 715: Observation of A Meal
- ... at a time until it forms a soft dough of pounded yam. Pounded yam is served with an array traditional Nigerian soups. You take a small piece of the yam dough with your hands and roll it into a small, edible ball. You then dip the ball into one of the soups that I will mention. The soup acts like a lubricant as you swallow the yam dough. The following soups ...
- 716: The Suspension Bridge
- ... below the river, and the caisson was filled with concrete. The first foundation was finished. On the New York side of the river, the caisson sank deeper and deeper below the river without reaching solid rock. Washington worked day and night doing tests on the soil beneath the caisson. He discovered that it was hard-packed sand and gravel, a very solid surface. He concluded that it could support the bridge ...
- 717: The History and Progress of Wrestling
- ... Wrestling has been a popular sport in American activity since the earliest days of colonization. One source includes wrestling matches among the activities of the settlers and Indians at the first Thanksgiving celebration at Plymouth Rock (Boring, 7). Styles such as Irish, English and the Greco-Roman have all been popular in America. Rules for contest often had to be agreed upon on the spot. One such contest took place in ...
- 718: History of Lacrosse
- ... then ranged in all directions. There were two goals, between 500 yards and half a mile apart usually, but sometimes they were miles apart. (Boyd 17) Goals ranged in types, a single pole, tree, or rock. Or two goal posts were used where hitting the single "post" or shooting between the two posts resulted in a goal, or one point. Games were reported to reach a hundred points or more on ...
- 719: Misinformation In The Media
- ... hometown newspaper. The Yankees, one of New Yorks baseball team, happens to be in the World Series this year. They won Game 1. The score was 4-1. Headlines in this paper include Yanks Roll and Rocked! These articles ooze with statements about how the Yankees are excellent players and the Braves need to practice in order to even have the privilege to scrape the mud off their cleats. Filip ...
- 720: Dante's Peak
- ... in any geothermal area can turn on or off, or change temperature abruptly, but these changes are usually related to rapid changes in the "underground plumbing" (the system of cracks and fractures present in underground rock that allows hot or cold underground water to flow from one spot to another brought about by earthquakes that are usually not directly related to the magmatic activity in the area). Since most undergound hot ...
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