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- 17281: Colonial Super Mom
- ... a household. Anybody with commonsense could tell you this is no easy task but this was the everyday life of Martha Ballard. Today it would be considered absurd to have seven children. But in Martha’s time it was considered normal. They lived in a new country were population was low, and the inhabitants there had to help the numbers grow. Martha gave birth to seven children who all needed attention ... all her child rearing she only lost one child which was extremely good for that time period. It was also due to uncontrollable circumstances like disease. This is a formidable feat especially compared to today’s standards. Along with maintaining her own children she also brought other children into the families of others. The midwife today is not so important as it was two hundred years ago. Back then it was ... deeds, she had to clean things up and make sure everything was in working order. She had to tend to the yard with the crops and churn butter and make soap. Back then they didn’t have stores so she would have to go down to the market and get the rest of the goods she couldn’t make at home. She taught her children how to help her out ...
- 17282: Misunderstood
- The definition of a good father is as individual as the individuals involved themselves. A good father is able to support his children s strengths, along with being able to help them overcome their weaknesses. He is able to do this without appearing to be a know-it-all. The ability to show by example how to live life ... He defended Tom Robinson without caring that everyone in Maycomb was a calling him a nigger lover and many other racial slurs. All Atticus did was shrug them off. When Bob Ewell spit in Atticus s face, Atticus still did not retaliate. Instead, he wiped the spit off of his face and kept walking minding his own business. This showed Scout and Jem that there was no reason to worry themselves with other peoples opinion s. When Mrs. Dubose called Atticus a nigger lover to Jem, Jem got angry and went home and asked Atticus if he really was a nigger lover. Atticus said straight out with no thought, I ...
- 17283: Computer Viruses
- ... virus spreads from one computer to another by adding itself to an existing piece of executable code so that it is executed when its host code is run. If a virus if found, you shouldn't panic or be in a hurry, and you should work systematically. Don't rush! A Viruse may be classified by it's method of concealment (hiding). Some are called stealth viruses because of the way that they hide themselves, and some polymorphic because of the way they change themselves to avoid scanners from detecting them. The ...
- 17284: Computer Programming
- ... developers probably having to learn to program using the underlying programming language, except in the case of the simplest applications. The time gained from using a RAD tool can be immense, however: Programmers using IBM's VisualAge report the ability to create up to 80 percent of an application visually, with the last 20 percent consisting of specialized functions, which means by using and IBM program it is much easier because most of the program is graphics which is just point and click to do, and the rest is code, which really isn't much. Anyone who is willing to invest a little time and effort can now write computer programs and customize commercial applications, thanks to new software tools. People can create their own application with such programming languages as Microsoft's Visual Basic for Windows (which is about $130) or Novell's AppWare, part of its PerfectOffice suite. These products enable users to do much of their programming through point-and-click choices without memorizing ...
- 17285: Boss Mustang
- ... 329 BOSS Coupe is great. It has excellent ratings from consumer magazines. The BOSS can go from 0-60 in 3.2 seconds. 0-60 in 3.2 seconds is outstanding compared to many sport¡¦s cars. This car was just released to customers like ourselves 2 weeks ago. One-thousand of these have already been sold around the United States. Consumer Magazine rated this car so high that people were ... BOSS plant to be top of the line. This great car also comes with a 6-speed manual transmission. I would like to hear from you what you think of the 329 BOSS Coupe. Here¡¦s some statistics on the 329 BOSS. „h V-10 Engine „h 425 horsepower „h 0-60 in 3.2 seconds „h 6-speed manual transmission „h composite body „h much, much more The 329 BOSS ... drive on this car. I know you¡¦ll love it as much as me and more. I¡¦m encouraging you to tell your friends about this car. and how great it is. Oops! I haven¡¦t told you the top speed for this car. It can top 270 and has even been known to get in the 280¡¦s. Have I given you the impression that this is the best ...
- 17286: Oil Never Sleeps
- ... both of them (Emic). His discussion making this inclusion was very clever. The surfboards, wetsuits, wax, and accessories are primarily made from petroleum. The transportation to the beach even uses and supports this beast that's been destroying the ocean and earth. His examination of the data is fairly thorough. It reminded me of class discussions about cultures that exploit nature versus those who live in harmony with it. All of ... lycra shorts, bottles, even the wristwatch. The same applies to skateboarding. At this point I look up and see thousands of gallons of oil in my house. I'm surrounded by it. My sofas, phones, t.v., vcrs, planters, catbox, computer system, picture frames, all of my product containers, security system, bags, tapes, cameras, even the pen I'm using. I wear it, put it in my mouth twice a day ... pointed the finger outward to lay blame on "them" when Exxon Valdez spilled our lover into the ocean. The culture of the industrial world has revolved around oil. It fights and kills for it. It's worse than any drug addiction and more powerful than money (which was printed on 50% oil based paper). This illness is limited to those of us above the farming level. The mode of subsistence ...
- 17287: Clown
- ... clowns are buffoon, jester, fool, conjurer, mirthmaker, tumbler, gleeman, mime, actor, harlequin, merry counselor, comic, and puppeteer. Even though there are many types of clowns, each clown develops a face, meaning a personality. A clown’s face, once created, becomes the clown’s unique personal property. Whiteface The oldest type of clown is the whiteface, which dates back to the 18th century. The white color of the face was first done with flour. White lead replaced flour, but ... eyes. His bald head was shaped like a cone, with red hair around the ear. Jacobs also wore a red rubber-ball nose. He retired in 1988 at the age of 84. Two of America’s most famous clown characters also fit into the auguste category: Ronald McDonald, which is the Mcdonalds profit maker of young childreb and old, and Bozo who now owns his own Tv show with dozens ...
- 17288: Pablo Friere
- Based on the demands of our educational system, our society is forced to conform to the level of education that they want us to be at. This educational distortion is beneficiary to the educator's realm and the way of governing education . We are seen as merely objects rather than subjects and are fed only facts/information that the educator only wants us to memorize not actually comprehend it or even ask questions or give our opinions to given facts/information. This is what makes the educator the oppressor and us the oppressed. Paulo Freire's "Pedogogy of the Oppressed" deals with the concept of oppression in the school system and suggests an alternative method of education. There is an absolute need for students to "Tear down the wall" (Pink Floyd ... will be filled with facts/information that the student will not always understand. This "banking concept" method of education also keeps a restraint to knowledge for the student to a certain level because it doesn't give the student initiative, motivation, and drive to actually go out and want to learn. In other words this isn't the way to go about education. As Freire states "This solution is not ( ...
- 17289: Oedipus Vs. Society
- ... crime by marrying his mother and killing his father. The Greeks never looked down upon any criminal like they would look down upon someone who went against their family. If one refers to the 1970's film, The Godfather, the Corleone family was very strict on family morals and they as well as the Greeks considered the family to be everything and if one went against the family it was punishable by death. In today's society the family has lost some importance and peoples morals toward their kin have begun to decrease in the last few years. Now one sees parents beating their children and possibly killing them. Kids' killing ... and thought nothing of it because the media made them stars. When one walks into a bathroom or down the school hall, they will either see or hear the word "motherfucker", but many people don't seem to realize what it means exactly. Today it is used commonly in the English language, but it is really happening today, whether it is with mother, father, brother, sister, or even grandma, it ...
- 17290: Immigration to America
- ... they streamed into Ellis island to escape political or religious persecution and poverty. Today immigrants come for many of the same reasons. Immigrants come different ways, perhaps in large trucks, or in Enrique and rosa's case, a long walk through smelly sewer pipes. Coming through Ellis island wasn't much different. They were shoved into tiny rooms that couldn't nearly accommodate the vast number of people in the rooms. Neither was very comfortable nor pleasant, but was a price to pay for freedom. Coming through Ellis island was much easier than through Guatemala, ...
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