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- 2801: Romeo & Juliet - Friar Lawrences
- ... Lawrence does not have very much time on stage but the time he does have is crucial to the plot line. Through his words Friar Lawrence demonstrates the he is a good intentioned, yet sometimes short-sighted, man who is not afraid to take risks to help others One of Friar Lawrences most favourable traits is how good intentioned he is. He may do something out of the ordinary if he ... an extremely risky thing to do because anything might happen to Juliet while she unconscious. Even after all Friar did to help Romeo and Juliet the play still ended in tragedy because of Friar Lawrences' short sightedness. When the Friar married Romeo Juliet in secrecy, he did not think of all the complications that would arise but instead went on with the marriage because at that time he thought it was ...
- 2802: Romeo & Juliet
- ... Lawrence does not have very much time on stage but the time he does have is crucial to the plot line. Through his words Friar Lawrence demonstrates the he is a good intentioned, yet sometimes short-sighted, man who is not afraid to take risks to help others One of Friar Lawrences most favourable traits is how good intentioned he is. He may do something out of the ordinary if he ... an extremely risky thing to do because anything might happen to Juliet while she unconscious. Even after all Friar did to help Romeo and Juliet the play still ended in tragedy because of Friar Lawrences' short sightedness. When the Friar married Romeo Juliet in secrecy, he did not think of all the complications that would arise but instead went on with the marriage because at that time he thought it was ...
- 2803: The Media
- The Media The media has been causing problems and clashes in opinions probably ever since the television was invented. The media probably started out OK, but after a while, they started twisting opinions and stories, and taking sides. I think that the media is going to twist a story to make it more interesting once too many times, and someone is going to sue them badly for it. I would ... I doubt that many people would send their hard earned cash if they knew that the person was just going to buy more drugs with it. I think that the media has been messing up stories and opinions, but I'm sure that they did some good work also. It would be pretty hard to get every little single fact right, but they shouldn't change things to make them sound ...
- 2804: Alcatraz
- ... that had been carefully wrapped to be watertight. But no sign of the men was found. Several weeks later a man's body dressed in blue clothing similar to the prison uniform was found a short distance up the coast from San Francisco, but the body was too badly deteriorated to be identified. Morris and the Anglins are officially listed as missing and presumed drowned. #14. December 16, 1962 - John Paul ... Scott and Darl Parker bent the bars of a kitchen window in the cellhouse basement, climbed out, and made their way down to the water. Parker was discovered on a small outcropping of rock a short distance from the island. Scott attempted to swim towards San Francisco, but the currents began pulling him out to sea. He was found by several teenagers on the rocks near Fort Point (beneath the Golden ...
- 2805: China
- ... both meat and fertilizer. China has more than 350 million hogs, more than 40 percent of the world’s total. China has the world’s largest fishing industry. The Chinese catch about 16 1/2 short tons (15 million metric tons) of fish, shellfish, and mollusks (soft-bodied animals with no bones) annually. The Chinese rely mainly on simple, traditional means for transportation over short distances. Railroads make up by far the most important part of China’s modern transportation system. China has an extensive network of roads that reaches almost every town in the nation. Most of the roads ...
- 2806: France
- ... three groups, the Nobles, the Clergy, and the rest. At this time the peasants owned 80 percent of the land, but had no rights at all. To add to their misery, the food was in short supply. It is estimated that on the eve of the French Revolution one-fifth of the population had no resources at all. World War I broke out August 1914, setting France, Russia, Britain, Belgiumand Serbia ... local councilors. Until the 18th Century, the main crop in France was wheat. This was because people mainly ate bread, and very little meat, if any, was eaten. Grass for cattle to eat was in short supply and as a result, cattle were rare. The few animals that peasants did own were used to pull farm equipment and to fertilize the soil. The animals were not killed for meat. Sheep were ...
- 2807: Boom Towns of the Amazon
- ... rapid clearing of the largest tropical rainforest in the world, which has over shadowed the genesis of new urban centers. The prototypical urban community in contemporary Amozonia is a bustling boomtown, a dynamic and sometimes short-lived frontier settlement. The change of the region’s landscape occurs in the social area of conflicts involving Indians, agricultural colonists and activists clergy, cattle ranchers miners, timber interest, governmental agents and others. These conflicts ... the labor required for resource extraction but after that the migrants disperse. Classic frontier models, based on autonomous rural communities, do not predict the demographic influx associated with Amazonian conditions. Frontier expansions so far entail short-term appropriation of wealth, but not necessarily in the Amazon. The continued development of towns in this region is dependent on economic diversification aimed at providing a steady livelihood for the many migrants still entering ...
- 2808: Evaluation of Baja Seasons Resort
- Evaluation of Baja Seasons Resort Just a short drive from virtually anywhere in Southern California is a small resort in Mexico worth visiting. This resort is called the Baja Seasons Resort. This is the perfect place for a family to get away for ... been there six times, and each time gets even better. Overall the Baja Seasons Resort is a great place to go to get away from it all. Not a long way home and just a short drive back to reality.
- 2809: Mexico
- ... plateresque (a 16th-century Spanish style suggestive of silver plate), classic, and baroque styles sometimes decorated with Native American motifs, is found throughout Mexico. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first during the short reign of the Habsburg emperor Maximilian and later under President Porfirio Díaz, the French splendors of the second Empire style were introduced into the capital. Díaz also commissioned the ornate Palace of Fine Arts, completed ... 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a priest in the small village of Dolores, raised the standard of revolt, demanding the abolition of Native American serfdom and caste distinctions. Although initially successful, the Hidalgo revolt was short-lived. The priest was captured by royalist forces and shot at Chihuahua in 1811. The leadership in the liberation movement passed to another priest, José María Morelos y Pavón, who in 1814 proclaimed a republic ...
- 2810: Aztec Jungle Agriculture
- ... came to each one: each day a tiny death, dust, worm, a light flicked off in the mud at the city's edge, a tiny death with coarse wings pierced into each man like a short lance and the man was besieged by the bread or the knife, the cattle-dealer: the child of sea-harbors, or the dark captain of the plough, or the rag picker of snarled streets: everybody lost heart, anxiously waiting for death, the short death of every day: and the grinding bad luck of every day was like a black cup that they drank, with their hands shaking.(Bly 71) In the early 1400's the Colhua-Mexica, Mexica ...
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