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- 21211: Personal Writing: "Jen"
- ... time again I have seen my favorite band Less Than Jake. Four days after my 16 birthday, my view of them changed forever. That was the day I went from fan to friend of today's most popular punk/ska band. The day started normal, well as normal as a Saturday can be when you're going to a concert. I woke up, watched cartoons, took a shower and then left ... show to start. A few moments later she comes back and says "Happy Birthday" as she hands me a backstage pass. The first band just started to play and she kept talking but I couldn't hear her. If it was because of the music or just how shocked I was. Anyway she started to walk away and she motioned for me to follow her. In my state of shock I ... was hanging out with my favorite band. When I finally sat down and talked to them I could not believe how laid back and happy to talk to me they where. I mean they didn't care about making money as much as they cared about making their fans happy. Shawn the rodie /manager /friend of the band came and told them they had ten minutes before they went on. ...
- 21212: Washington Irving
- ... interests were more into reading books of adventure and travel. He was very good at writing, though. He loved the theater. His fascination with the arts grew and was encouraged by one of her sister's boyfriends (Myers 64). His interests in the arts and in the theater were obvious in his works. Irving did not wish to go to college. Though he had great interests in the theater and the ... sons to support himself, so Washington decided to be an apprentice in a law office. His employer was Ogden Hoffman and Irving fell in love with his daughter. He also wrote articles for his brother's paper, the Morning Chronicle. He signed his articles "Jonathon Oldstyle". Later he joined his brother William and his friend Jim Paulding in making a humorous magazine called Salmagundi. In 1809, he published Dreidrich Knickerbocker's History of New York. He later went to Europe in 1815. Many people were very anxious to meet him. From 1815-1832, he lived in England, Dresden, Paris, and Spain. In 1819, he published ...
- 21213: Creative Writing: My Idea Of Where The Heck Life Came From
- ... pre-existing life on the Earth billions of years ago? Did it come from this primordial soup filled with itty-bitty organisms swimming around in it? What came first; the chicken or the egg? Let's face it, no-one has the answers, which leads way for scientists to form some pretty wacky ideas of where life originated (such as the theory we came from clay). So, without further ado, I ... were brought forth by these cat-like martians. Really, think about it! You see, these martians landed on earth about 4 million years ago and coughed up these giant hairballs. Apparently these extraterrestrial cats didn't digest their food very well, and a few small creatures were still alive caught in the hairballs. After these cats left, these little martian bugs and small furry animals resembling monkeys crawled out of the hairballs and from that evolved into what we know as life today. Wouldn't my idea of the theory of life work? I mean, they did find these little microorganisms in the rocks on Mars. Also, bribed sources from inside the Pentagon and NASA have quoted that they ...
- 21214: William Buffalo Bill Cody
- ... and he worked for the army in the summer. The Wild West show began in 1883 in Omaha. When this began, real cowboys and real Indians showing how life really was in the west. Cody s show spent ten out of its thirty years in Europe. Buffalo Bill was a featured attraction at Queen Victoria s Golden Jubilee. Only Egypt s fame opposed the Wild West as the talk of Chicago at the World s Columbian Exposition in 1893. His show exhibited many famous people, such as Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull. By the 1900 ...
- 21215: Warren G. Harding
- Before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality...." A Democratic leader, William Gibbs McAdoo, called Harding's speeches "an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea." Their very murkiness was effective, since Harding's pronouncements remained unclear on the League of Nations, in contrast to the impassioned crusade of the Democratic candidates, Governor James M. Cox of Ohio and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thirty-one distinguished Republicans had signed ...
- 21216: Personal Writing: Going to School in the United States
- ... up into a young mature adult. Even though living with my uncle and auntie was a wonderful idea, it felt different to have them as my father and mother figures. My brothers and I didn't enjoyed being scold at and punished for being disobedient and often felt that they were extremely strict, hard, and discipline on us. During times of argument with my uncle, I felt very rebellious because they ... life and why they sent us here to the United States. During this moment, I felt the reason that they sent us to America was only a excuse for them not wanting us. I couldn't cope with this kind of pressure and problem all at one time. My uncle realize that my bad progress in high school and disrespectful attitude at home was the result of my parents divorce. His ... dream of transferring into an university. I was determined to pursue this goal and to set an example on my brothers. If you set you mind to do something, then anything can happen. I didn't want to disappoint my parent's expectation. I only wanted them to be proud of me. Most of all, I understood the importance of an education will only help you succeed in life and ...
- 21217: Adam Smith
- ... a new light, but I have arrived at three heavily debated conclusions. First, he believed that self-interest is the singular motivation that effectively leads to public prosperity. Second, although Smith feels that the ones pursuit of selfinterest should be their primary concern, he knew that humans are inclined to take interest in and enjoyment from kind and charitable acts. Lastly, when Smith developed the concept of the invisible hand he assumed that the economy would relatively remain unchanged. Let us start with my first hypothesis. Self-interest is defined as regard for ones personal advantage or benefit. We see and carry out this everyday. It is natural to look of ones self first and Smith knew that, in fact he encouraged it. He observed that if everyone acted in his or her own best interests the market would automatically produce what the people demand. He ...
- 21218: Creative Writing: Sensory Writing
- Creative Writing: Sensory Writing Standing here, in this arena that's larger than five of my houses, I feel like a needle in a haystack. So many people surround me it's like I'm a little grain of sand in a huge ocean. The people in round gymnasium all form a crimson, white, and blue rainbow. Their shirts mesh together like a finely woven shirt with ... as a lizards skin that has spent the day in the desert. Her sweatshirt contrasts the dry feeling of the jeans. It is made of a soft cotton that makes me think of a bunny's fur. Then a man in front of me comes to his seat with a glass of lemonade. The tangy smell makes me squint thinking somebody running their fingernails down a chalkboard. And then the ...
- 21219: Personal Writing: My Grandmother
- ... a long, slender stairway that led up into the main hallway of the house. The strong smell of cigarette smoke is quite evident when you reach this point. Yes, my grandmother did smoke. My grandmother's house was always full of laughter and many cheers. Our family used to call it Grand Central Station. There was always someone over her house visiting whether it be family or friends. My grandmother's doors were always open to everyone no matter what. When my grandmother had company she would tell us very seriously to act nicely in front of them or she would be very upset at us ... anything that I needed. She was a highly giving person to everyone around her and she never asked for anything in return. She always had a ear to ear smile that would brighten up anyone's day if it wasn't going to well. My grandmother had a very softhearted voice that I remember sung us to sleep when we were little. She would wait with us until we fell ...
- 21220: Internet Site Evaluations
- Introduction "Wow, will you look at this website I found, they claim that 9 out of 10 people in America are millionaires. What's more, they claim to be the largest online wealth creation firm. Surprisingly, there is no information regarding the author or the origin of this site." Internet dream or website scheme? If one is easily persuaded ... manner by another well recognized author or an author who has listed personal contact information about themselves may also be of valuable insight when researching. If the authorship of a site seems questionable, it doesn't necessarily mean that the site lacks validity, it simply means that the site is not of an absolute scholarly background. Learning to pinpoint useful and noteworthy sources is a difficult task but usually, when one ... and biases on topics of interest to them. When analyzing the bias of a website, there are, once again, a variety of factors which one must consider before beginning to use or understand a resource's full potential. To begin, one must take a look at the URL of a website. Usually, the server of the URL will inform one of the organization or corporation under which a website is ...
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