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- 26511: What Family Is To Me
- ... The two ideas go hand in hand. My parents respected me enough to tell me that I was adopted, instead of lying to me and having me find out later in life that I wasn't their biological son. This respect that my parents gave me, in turn gave me their trust. And I gave them the respect and trust that was given to me. Without sacrifice, a family cannot be ... may not seem that my parents would sacrifice anything for me, I realize that they would do anything for and everything for me and that I would do the same for them. At times it's the smallest sacrifices that make the biggest difference in a family. Families do not have to be biological. Here in Altoona, I have a chosen family of friends who I consider to be just as ...
- 26512: Biology 2
- ... to the supporting baseplate of the platform. An aluminum plate was glued to a honeycomb shaped piece of plastic. The platform was calibrated by using the methods outlined in Biewener and Full (1992). The platform's vertical and horizontal channels were calibrated to individually hold up to 10 N which equates to approximately 30 times the animal's weight. The platform was then used to calculate the animal's force that was exerted when jumping in order to initiate flight. The data that was collected was that the Desmodus rotundus was able to, and consistently exerted a force of up to 9.5 ...
- 26513: Welfare Reform
- ... goals , financial penalties and rewards. Many of the new approaches now require a human being to decide when a individual recipient is ready for work and should be cut off from assistance. These welfare caseworker's responsibilities went from a simple task of handing out checks to those who fell under standard guidelines to actually deciding who will and will not receive benefits. As a result, assistance which used to be ... rolls. The recipients that receive lump sum for staying of the rolls are barred from receiving welfare for a certain period of time. The old system was criticized for granting benefits to people who didn't deserve them, and should have been working instead. The new system creates the possibility that people who do deserve assistance will be denied it. Now there will be so much discretion involved that it makes ...
- 26514: Personal Writing: Welcome to Maysville
- ... enrolled student at Mason County Middle School I welcome you. This school has a great academic status and we are one of the first schools in Kentucky to offer the Student Technology Leader Ship Program (S.T.L.P.). Not only do we have a great school, but we have a wonderful community as well. The east end of downtown is a fast pace area with friendly people. Forrest Avenue (the main ...
- 26515: Benito Mussolini
- ... he became editor of the Socialist newspaper Avanti, and in 1914 he started his own Socialist newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia. At this time he wrote a novel, then translated into English as the Cardinal’s Mistress. During World War I he served for nearly 2 years as private in the infantry. After the war there was much poverty and industrial unrest in Italy. Mussolini’s political views were changing during this time. The desire grew in him to be the strong man of Italy who would vesture order, rule as a dictator, and lead his country to national greatness. To ... seized Albania in 1939, and he laid claim to Malta, Corsica, and, Tunis. He sent Italian troops to help defeat the republicans in the Spanish Civil War. His fatal mistake was his alliance with Germany’s Adolf Hitler in 1939. During World War II his armies were swept from Ethiopia and North Africa; and when the Allies invaded Italy in 1943, Mussolini was thrown out by the Fascist Grand Council ...
- 26516: Truth About God
- ... of the past and fear the effects of these radicals. But when these radicals like the prophets arrive, they persecute them because they are uncertain about the truth. An example is when the Jews didn't want to believe Stephen in Acts 7:56-58, " Look,' he said, I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.' At this they covered their ears and ... of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds." Yet the Church, by its very nature, must be made up of the likes of us. "Imagine yourself as a living house," wrote C. S. Lewis. "God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on. But ...
- 26517: Computer - Hacking
- ... of banks and companies with a very common P.C without moving out of their own living-room. Most hackers see a big challenge entering into the database of an organisation like the N.A.S.A for example. Often they do not know what kind of problems they will have to face. An example for this would be a little boy of twelve years of age, who managed to enter ... entrance because of a lack of security. This brings me to my second point which deals with passwords. Very often Passwords are written down on a sheet of paper and then, fixed to the computer’s screen, which is definitely not the best way to protect yourself from hacking. (A password should have a minimum of 5 characters and should definitely be a combination of letters and numbers, which makes it ... used for important data only, which should not be accessible from any other computer outside the company. These data-storing computers should only be connected by wireless media like simple floppy disks or recordable CD’s.
- 26518: A Prayer For Owen Meany
- Prayer As A Symbol in Irving’s A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY In John Irving’s A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY there are many prominent symbols. Those of arm-less figures, water, and angels are a few of the more prominent ones but, there are also many symbols that are much ... TO HEAR THE PRAYER, EVERYONE POPS UP TO SING (23)." In this passage prayer is viewed only as a part of the "hocus-pocus (21)" of church ceremony. It is thus representative both of Owen’s view of church formality and ceremony, and of the attitudes that both Owen and Johnny hold toward certain aspects of the church and its traditions. This becomes important on a larger scale when the ...
- 26519: Mayan Beliefs
- ... rise through earthquakes (Eufraccio Internet). Hun Came and Vucub Caquix invited Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu to a ball game. When Hun Hunahpu and Hunahpu arrived, Hun Came and Vucub Caquix killed them. Hun Hunahpu's head was placed on a dead tree that came to life. Ixquic, a virgin, wanted a fruit. Hun Hunahpu told her to open her hand, where he spit. She instantly became pregnant. She gave birth to Hunahpu and Ixbalanque. Hunahpu and Ixbalanque killed Hun Came and Vucub Caquix to avenge their father's death (Eufraccio Internet). There are some Mayan gods that have similar functions with the Greek gods. Hunab Ku is the god of gods, as Zeus is the god of gods. He also is a creator ... of agriculture, as Demeter is the goddess of agriculture. Hun Hunahpu is a fertility god. His son is Hunahpu. He also is a creator god. Him and his brother, Ixbalanque became rulers after their father's death. Hunahpu became the sun god and Ixbalanque a female moon deity. They are the parents of the first pair of humans (The Encyclopedia Mythica Internet). The creators made four attempts to create creatures. ...
- 26520: EPA Urges Tough Rules On Arsenic
- ... For our table topic we are doing “EPA urges tough rules on arsenic.” The Environmental Protection agency has concluded that it must adopt a new standard for the amount of arsenic allowed in the nation’s drinking water that is at least as though as the one proposed by the Clinton administration, officials said yesterday. Christie Whitman recommend a limit of arsenic allowed in the nation’s drinking water after the National Academy of Sciences stated the health risks posed by arsenic are much greater than previously assumed by the EPA. Person 2- The decision addresses one of the most controversial environmental ... lungs, skin, kidney, nasal passages, and liver according to the EPA in March of 1999. Person 5- The proposal by the EPA must still be approved by the White House. The ex-president Bill Clinton’s proposal had drawn criticism from officials and leaders through-out the South-West who said the regulation was to strict and would mandate expensive water system improvements that would bankrupt their communities.
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