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- 14041: American Football
- ... main body of the playing field, white lines called goal lines mark off the entrances to the end zones. Each team defends one end zone and must carry or pass the ball into the opponent's 10-yd (9-m) end zone to score. Lines parallel to the end zones cross the field at 5-yd (4.5-m) intervals. Centered on the back line of each end zone are goalposts ... in four tries, called downs. If it fails to move 10 yards in four downs, the offense must surrender the ball to its opponent. A team will often punt on fourth down if it hasn't gained at least 10 yards in its previous three tries. In punting, the kicker drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground, sending it farther away from the team's own end zone. A team scores a touchdown, worth 6 points, when one of its players carries the ball into or catches a pass within the opposing team's end zone. After scoring a ...
- 14042: Slavery
- ... cotton gin and spinning and weaving machines at the end of the eighteenth century sealed the destiny of thousands of Africans. Spinning and weaving machines could produce cotton cloth at low cost. By the 1860's southern plantations were producing 75 percent of the worlds cotton. This meant that they needed more land, but also more hands to do the terrible and painful labor. The slave traders of New England and ... All men, for some reason, did not include slaves. Slaves were property to early Americans, not people. They had no rights. A slave was like an animal, with an owner. Although some slave owners weren't certain of the idea of treating humans this way they continued to do it themselves. Many of the American Statesmen felt that slavery was a dying insititution and they hoped it would end as soon ... bought that were twenty feet square. As many as 150 slaves would be forced into the cages. Slaves were expensive, and most families never owned one. Two well slaves were worth more than a man's land, his house, and everything in it. Slaves who ran away faced torture, the lash, branding, or the selling of their children if they were caught. Free states were often hundreds of miles away ...
- 14043: Personal Writing: Boot Camp
- ... Boot Camp Nobody on the bus expected it to be this bad. Everybody, including myself, thought of it as a two week vacation. When we signed our names on the boot camp registration we didn't know what we were in for. Everybody on the bus was jumping up and down, screaming and yelling through the whole trip like swarms of grasshoppers. The officers on the bus were trying to keep everybody quiet, but had no success because we all knew that they couldn't do anything to us while we were on the bus. Finally the officers gave up and started talking among themselves. “Everybody off the bus!” screamed one of the officers. We had arrived at the Recruit ... got off the bus we were forced to do pushups until nobody could do anymore. We were being punished for being so loud and insubordinate on the bus. Some people started crying because they couldn't do any more pushups, but still were forced to do more. You are probably asking, why didn't they just stop and refuse to do the pushups? The answer is because your parents paid ...
- 14044: Historical Analysis On 1920s
- ... essence of the time and place in which the play was set in. That era (1915-1931) is one of the most significant in the history of this young nation. The decade of the 1920's is often characterized as a period of American prosperity and optimism. It was the "Roaring Twenties," the decade of the bath tub gin, the model T, the $5 work day, the first transatlantic flight, and the movie. It was a high point in African-American history as well. The Harlem Renaissance took shape; it was a time when African Americans began ... urban cities. Harlem created a growth of African-American culture which created a community exploding with art, politics, energy, and racial pride. "When the blues was hot and jazz was a growing stay in America's culture; when speakeasies were filled with both blacks and whites dancing to the 'rhythms of life' set out by the saxophone, trumpet, and drums......" This is a definition that truly captures the Harlem Renaissance. ...
- 14045: Personal Writing: Taking Some Time Off To Watch Nature
- ... I'm to busy to see. Those things are things that you have to take time and sit out of your busy life to notice. Those things are all around us but we just don't know they are happening because we're going to fast to see. I took twenty minutes out of my busy life to watch and getaway from the rest of the world to watch nature. You notice things that you never see before. The weather was cold, but warm if you sat in the sunlight. The leaves were wet because it had rained the day before, and the sun hadn't had a chance to dry them out. You couldn't hear much over the wind blowing and the leaves rustling over the ground. I sat and watched leaves and sticks getting blown off the top of the trees. Most of the trees looked dead ...
- 14046: Allen Sapp
- ... asked for more. Allen began painting what he knew from the reserve. He turned out many paintings at a tremendous rate. Dr. Gonor arranged for him to see an art professor from the U of S. The little instruction he got form her was the only formal instruction he has ever had. In September 1968 she showed some of Allen’s paintings in her backyard. The show was a great success. On the Easter weekend of 1969 Allen had his first major exhibition. The people loved him. He became a great success. The value of his ... Canada and in the US and England. He once again became proud of his Indian heritage and began to dress the part. By 1974 he even had a book written about him. In 1977 Sapp’s son, David, died. In 1985 Dr. Gonor died while visiting Thailand In December 1985 Sapp was elected to the Royal Canadian Acadamy of Arts (R.C.A.A.). He also became one of the ...
- 14047: Alice In Wonderland
- Did you read and enjoy Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books as a child? Or better still, did you have someone read them to you? Perhaps you discovered them as an adult or, forbid the thought, maybe you haven't discovered them at all! Those who have journeyed Through the Looking Glass generally love (or shun) the tales for their unparalleled sense of nonsense . Public interest in the books--from the time they were published ... a host of other absurd and captivating creatures sprung from the mind of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy, stammering Oxford mathematics professor. Dodgson was a deacon in his church, an inventor, and a noted children's photographer. Wonderland, and thus the seeds of his unanticipated success as a writer, appeared quite casually one day as he spun an impromptu tale to amuse the daughters of a colleague during a picnic. ...
- 14048: 'Spanglish' Presentation
- 'Spanglish' Presentation First off what is Spanglish? Some say it's "When one switches from English to Spanish (or vice-versa) within the same sentence", usually when emotions run high. Like a mother scolding her children. For all practical purposes I am going to focus on ... Americans we would just add an "O" to every thing. "Takeo Outo El Trasho, Por Favor" But new words are created by pronouncing an English word "Spanish style" (dropping final consonants, softening others, replacing M's with N's and V's with B's), and spelled by transliterating the result using Spanish spelling conventions (ex. Bosguagon for Volkswagen beetle). This form is predominate in but not restricted to, second and third generation ...
- 14049: Containment Policy
- By: Big Smooth America’s Policy of Containment was introduced by George Kennan in 1947. This policy had a few good points but many more bad points.Kennan's depiction of communism as a "malignant parasite" that had to be contained by all possible measures became the basis of the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and National Security Act in 1947. In his Inaugural Address ... States misunderstood the Soviet regime. .Despite much pretence, national security had not been a major concern of US planners and elected officials. historical records reveal this clearly. Few serious analysts took issue with George Kennan's position that "it is not Russian military power which is threatening us, it is Russian political power" ; or with President Eisenhower's consistent view that the Russians intended no military conquest of Western Europe ...
- 14050: Would You Recommend That We Redraw State Boundaries? Why Or Why Not?
- Would You Recommend That We Redraw State Boundaries? Why Or Why Not? Redrawing state's boundaries will cause many problems and chaos on the Federal and State level. States are continually working to distinguish themselves from other states. Certain images come to mind when we think of certain states, such ... there are many differences within the state but not enough to change the boundaries. Diversity will always exist and that cannot be changed. The first problem that comes to mind: How will one change state's boundaries? Shall we do it by population, equal land distribution, by climate, by interest…? Changing boundaries will cause many conflicts within states because each will be interested in gaining not losing. Texas will not be ... heavily black state house districts but there are few black voters in the other 107 districts. This shows microscopically the problems that can be caused if redrawing of state boundaries were to occur. Political party's majority might change, giving the advantage to one party. What would happen to the future of the government? Congress can change dramatically. Population selects the House of Representative, therefore, some states might receive an ...
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