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- 5991: Martin Luther King Jr. 9
- ... King, was a schoolteacher. Martin had an older sister, Christine, and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel. Martin encountered racism at an early age. When he was 6, his friendship with two white playmates was cut short by their parents. When he was 11 a white woman struck him and called him a "nigger." A bright student, he was admitted to Morehouse College at 15, without completing high school. He decided to ...
- 5992: Myth or Reality, Today's Perception on Monsters
- ... just myth and fantasy, do have some truths to their legend. In fact, some creatures may have actually existed and still do today, even though they should not be percieved as monsters. What if the stories of a giant "ape-like" creature that have circulated over the globe for centuries were true? There have been numerous sightings and first-hand accounts of this creature everywhere in the world, from the United ...
- 5993: Urban Legends and Folklore
- ... re about things that happened to a friend of a friend, or a relative of a friend, or a relative of a friend of a friend's hairdresser. You'll never hear one of these stories straight from the horse's mouth, but swear to God, it really happened. Many people have asked me why I believe in urban legends. My response to question is simple; I'm intrigued by these ...
- 5994: The Enlightenment and the Role of the Philosophes
- ... popular ignorance and official repression. This gave the enlightened literati an interest in popular education. They promoted educational ventures and sought in witty, amusing, and even titillating ways to educate and awaken their contemporaries. The stories of Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle or Benjamin Franklin, the widely imitated essays of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, and many dictionaries, handbooks, and encyclopedias produced by the enlightened were written to popularize, simplify, and ...
- 5995: Smile...Come on...It's Free !!!
- ... it. There we were, three of the best friends that God had ever slapped together for some unknown reason. Standing in a darkened room, trying to grasp the signifigance of the moment but coming up short. The love that we had for each other rivaled that of a mother for a child. The futures we had created for ourselves was just a step ahead while we were left, clinging to the ...
- 5996: Driving in India
- ... in accordance with the maxim: to slow is to falter, to brake is to fail, to stop is defeat. This is the Indian drivers' mantra. ARTICLE IV Use of horn: Cars (IV, 1, a-c): Short blasts indicate supremacy, i.e. in clearing dogs, rickshaws and pedestrians from path. Long blasts denote supplication, i.e. to oncoming truck, "I am going too fast to stop, so unless you slow down we ...
- 5997: UFOs
- ... skipping over water". There the term Flying Saucer was born. [III] UFO Waves: Since 1947 there have been UFO sightings in almost every country. Sometimes there is something called a UFO wave, which for a short time UFO sighting increase rapidly in one certain area. For instance, UFO waves occurred in France and Italy in 1954, in New Guinea in 1958, and in the USSR in 1967. In the United States ...
- 5998: How Toxic Waste Affects Our Natural Environment
- ... washed up along the Atlantic coast and in one of the Great Lakes. Mutated and disfigured fish as well as other water animals have washed up dead or been caught by fishermen. The list of stories goes on, and it's still growing. Canada and the USA have created laws and regulations to try to stop the illegal dumping of toxic wastes and the destruction of our environment. The US has ...
- 5999: Comparison Essay of A Tale of Two Cities and Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- ... Cities is similarly compared to Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. One can compare their novels by society's pressure of aristocracy the novels describe and the irony each author uses as the stories go on. Each novel has characters that experience life in many different ways, because each novel describes these social pressures, irony and the fates of the characters, can be compared. In A Tale of Two ...
- 6000: The Great Depression
- ... States undertook a three million-dollar slum-clearing project, by helping to provide new work over existing work. President Roosevelt firmly incorporated a new public works program. The goal of this was to provide to short term work to many and to improve the quality of the states and its cities. One of the reasons blamed for the depression was overproduction. President Roosevelt described in his speech the problem of overproduction ...
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