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- 20491: Anne Frank
- ... daughter of a well-to-do middle class Jewish family. Margot her sister was three years older then Anne. Anne and Margot often spent their summers with their grandmother in Aachen Germany. Otto Frank, Anne s father was eleven years older then her mother Edith Frank Hollander and both of her parents came from very wealthy backgrounds. When Anne was four years old, her family moved to Amsterdam where they lived ... four years in Frankfurt began to disappear. With her playmates she draws chalk lines on the street and plays happily "Heaven and hell". She lets no pram pass by without looking at the babies. It's a celebration when she can spend the night with her friends Lies and Jopie. After she took care for her black cat "Moortje" at home, she goes with important looking face to the neighbor s house, in her hand a big case. It is empty, but it belongs to the real "Go away". In bed there's a long giggling and chatter before they sleep in. In business Mr. ...
- 20492: Articles Of Confederation 4
- ... that supported a monarchy being formed. This faction was a section of the Continental Army called the Society of the Cincinnati. They urged the rise of George Washington, a veteran colonial general, as the country s new king, but Washington refused. In an effort to subside the uproar of the common folk, and to prevent eventual isolation of sovereignty of national affairs unto one person, the Articles granted each state exclusive governing powers over it s own political matters. By doing this, the Articles prevented the new-formed states from revolting against their own government, and they also gave the states absolute control over their own local and regional matters and ... government scraping and begging for tax revenues. The most that the government could do to try and collect taxes was to ask the public; of which they only received one fourth of the entire population s sympathy in money. Even though this led to a weak governing body, it still pleased the general public, and seemed like the fair and correct means of collecting money from the public. A lesser ...
- 20493: Augustine And Conversion
- ... more meaning and direction then what they had known before. Augustine says that conversion requires cooperation of intellect and emotion, which may have a crippling effect of habit on will, and a need for God s grace to have an unhampered will. He also says that conversion requires a public confession. Augustine himself struggled with conversion, due in large part to his fascination with women that led to his addiction to sex. Augustine s struggles in converting make his psychology on conversion a plausible one. Augustine s long road to becoming a Christian started when he first became interested in philosophy. This happened in Carthage in the year 372 AD. It was at this time that he read Cicero s Hortensius. ...
- 20494: Babe Ruth
- (1895-1948) The crowd that jammed Chicago's Wrigley Field booed when the big man with the barrel-shaped body and pipestem legs came up to bat. It was the third game of the 1932 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the ... the distant center-field bleachers. Root pitched, the big man swung, and the ball soared into the bleachers for a home run. The hitter was Babe Ruth, probably the most revered of baseball players. Ruth's legendary pointing gesture whether it ever happened or whether he even intended it captured the imagination of baseball fans, as did everything about this great player. The Babe's achievements loom larger in the record books. The left-hander held or shared about 60 records, with 28 made in World Series games. Among them were his record of pitching 29 consecutive scoreless innings ...
- 20495: Should You Be Able To Speak Basic English To Reside in the US?
- Should You Be Able To Speak Basic English To Reside in the US? Survey question Do you fell that to reside in the U.S. you should know how to speak basic English or be enrolled in a English language class? Hypothesis I feel that most people will think that people should be able to speak our language to reside ... have learned that most people feel that foreigners should learn to speak the English language in order to reside here. There were also a lot of people that feel if you live in the U.S. you should be required to speak the language in public. A lot of people seem to take offense to foreigners that speak other languages in public. The few people that said no, commented with “it's their own stupidity if they don't”. My hypothesis was fairly close I thought that 90% would say yes but only 86% said yes. As a final note I feel that this may be ...
- 20496: Balkans, History On Geographic
- ... slow trade and communication. According to certain theories there were multiple Indo-European groups that invaded the Balkans by using and introducing horses. They had to use horses due to the terrain. During the Rome s rule many different ethnic groups periodically invaded the Balkans. The ethnic groups such as the Slavs who arrived in the third century and conquered the Bulgar had time to develop their culture, customs, and religions ... Palestine, and Egypt. The eventual fall of this great empire was dues to many things, such as the gaining of the empires wealth and commerce by Italian traders, also their army, and political system wasn t doing so good, and with this Venice took advantage and seized and plundered it. The other main empire that controlled the Balkan Peninsula was the Ottoman Empire. The founder of this empire was Osman who ... Ottoman Empire started with Osman conquering a small state in northwestern Anatolia, capturing the towns of Eskiºehir, Bilecik, Yarhisar, and Yeniºehir from the Byzantines. Though he was the founder of the Ottoman Empire, he wasn t the conqueror of the Byzantines, which was left to Muhammad II. Born in 1432 and died in 1481, Muhammad captured the Byzantine City and made it his capital. He did not just do this ...
- 20497: Homelessness
- ... something must be done. Homelessness, specially in families, is a devastating experience. It disturbs nearly all aspects of family life, damaging the physical and emotional health of family members. In addition, it interferes with children's education and development and often results in the separation of family members. It is hard to say exactly who the homeless are because it is usually a temporary circumstance and not a permanent condition. Therefore ... risk of becoming homeless (National Post, 1998). Of these people between 30% and 35% are people with severe mental illnesses (National Post, 1998). "On any given night, 45% of the 4 200 people filling Toronto's homeless shelters are families with children" (Toronto Star, 1998). An increasing number of the homeless are teenagers of which many are runaways who have been kicked out or felt they had no choice but to ... for money and drinking the remainder of the day away until they have to search for a place where they can spend the night (High Class Skids, 1990). HELP FOR THE HOMELESS Although there isn't as much help out there as there should be for the homeless, there is always shelters, which in most cases overflowing with homeless, and soup kitchens and organizations like street newspapers to raise money ( ...
- 20498: Battle Of New Orleans
- INTRODUCTION: (2 Min.) 1. GAIN ATTENTION: In December of 1814, 11,000 to 14,450 of Great Britain s finest troops were lead to destroy a much smaller force of 3,500 to 5,000 United States troops. This was part of the War of 1812 that was fought from June 1812 to the ... this period of instruction. TRANSITION: If there are no questions on the learning objectives, the method I will use to present this period of instruction or the way in which you will be evaluated, let s take a look at when and where the Battle of New Orleans took place BODY: (5 Min.) 1. WHY THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS TOOK PLACE: (CPLX1.1a) a. (ON PLACARD #1 MAJOR GENERAL ANDREW ... southern Louisiana looked to Major General Andrew Jackson, known to his men as "Old Hickory." Jackson arrived in new Orleans in the late fall of 1814 and quickly prepared a defense Marines along the city's many avenues of approach. TRANSITION: We now know strategic significance and why the Battle of New Orleans took place. Now lets take a look at the strategies that General Andrew Jackson took which as ...
- 20499: The Increasing Prison Population
- ... demographics of inmates are changing rapidly. More prisoners are women or elderly, and have drug problems, AIDS, or other chronic health conditions. The number of prisoners seems certain to increase--but even if it doesn't, the cost of running prisons will. Prisons are often referred to as "the big house," but "full house" may be a better term. In 1994, 1 million people lived in America's federal and state prisons. Another 3.7 million were on probation or parole, and half a million were confined to locally run jails. The grand total: more than 5.1 million adults were under some ... number of state and federal prisoners has more than tripled since 1980, due in large part to a national wave of tough anti-drug laws. While those laws removed thousands of drug dealers from America's streets, they also created a huge and rapidly growing industry funded by American taxpayers. The private sector is heavily involved in prison management, and prison privatization is one of the country's hottest industries. ...
- 20500: Bird Flu Crisis In Hong Kong
- ... chicken snacks. 3 of them even claimed that their chickens were from USA, not from the mainland. Only one i.e. Delifrance replaced chickens with turkeys. Fast Food Shops Ready-to-serve chicken snack McDonald¡¦s ¤ Hardee¡¦s ¤ Maxim¡¦s ¤ Wendy ¤ Café de Coral ¤ Fairwood ¤ KFC ¤ Delifrance ¨ Oliver¡¦s Supersandwich ¤ It seems that the deprivation of chickens had little effect on the business of different food premises. They simply replaced fresh chickens with pigeons, ...
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