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- 27671: Abraham Lincoln
- ... making friends, he became quite popular and was elected to the Illinois legislature in 1834. In his spare time, he taught himself law and became a lawyer. In 1847, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, but returned to his law practice until 1858, when his concern about the spread of slavery prompted him to return to national politics and run for the U.S. Senate. Lincoln rose to greatness from a humble beginning. Born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln spent most of his childhood working on the family farm. He had less than a year ...
- 27672: Character Development
- ... violence. Children are not being taught at home the destruction that these things cause. Researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and business leaders are the ones addressing this lack of a full range of development in today’s youth. They feel that character development is as important to effective schooling as reading, math, science, or social studies. The youth will become active members of family, school community, and society as a whole. This ... teaching character development. First off, we as educators must first understand what are role is and what is the purpose of schools today. Also, we have to know the students we teach. Knowing a student's home life should give us a better understanding of the type of character development they get from home. Then we must understand what to teach to help develop their character. How do we teach is ...
- 27673: Wyatt Earp
- ... on March 19, 1848. He is the son of Nicholas Earp, a lawyer/farmer and Virginia Earp and was born at 406 South Third Street, Monmouth, Illinois. Wyatt was given the name of his father's Army captain. When Wyatt was quiet young, his two older brother, James and Virgil, went off to fight in the Civil War for the Union. A story is told in which Wyatt tried to run ... 1879, Wyatt and his brothers Morgan and Virgil journeyed by horseback down to Tombstone, Arizona. There he furthered his reputation as a gunfighter, first as deputy sheriff of Pima Co. and later as deputy U.S. marshal for the entire Arizona Territory. Earp and three of his brothers, together with the American frontiersman Doc Holliday, participated in the famous O.K. Corral gunfighter in 1881, during which they killed several suspected ...
- 27674: Creative Writing: Life in Sumitville
- Creative Writing: Life in Sumitville Sumitville is a city with 1,000,000 people in it. It’s is prosperous city because it has a great economy, government, and social structure. The city is also very well maintained and fits the peoples needs. All basic things needed for the city to function were ... jail of Sumitville is very small, but high-tech. People have never escaped from the prison. The prison is small because there is very little crime. Punishment for harsh crimes is death at the family’s expense. For small crimes the culprit receives three lashes with a bamboo cane. The economy of Sumitville is very prosperous. The economy is prosperous due to its broad production of products ranging from produce to ...
- 27675: Architecture in India
- ... or Mahadeio was dedicated to Shiva and has an entry shrine, open porch, main hall and inner sanctum.4 It has been said to be "an illustration of one of those rare occasions when men’s minds, hearts and hands work together in unison towards the consummation of a supreme ideal".5 In the 6th century AD, the Hindu Rashtraputa kings continued to build not only temples but elaborate rock-cut ... rounded domes, arches and minarets but they are not as luxurious and elaborate as the Hindu style. The Gol Gumbaz in Bijapur, Mysore State is said to have as large a dome as St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and yet, surprisingly, is considered to be a rock-cut temple. Most of the temples built in last six centuries, were rock-cut but not necessarily in "living rock". They were sculpted ...
- 27676: Richard III: Impact On The Audience
- ... why is it so unheard of among the general public of the United States? A large part of the anonymity of Richard III can be contributed to the fact that it is one of Shakespeare’s harder plays to understand. Because of this, the general public often pays no attention to the play and knows little of the glorious technique that Shakespeare uses to draw in the audience and put them ... even the innocently helpless children who actually have the true right to the throne. This would make any audience hate the man, however, Shakespeare gives Richard a string with which to pull at the audience’s heart: his grotesque deformities and the effect they have on Richard and his life. Richard uses this string to his advantage during the first thirty-five lines of the play. How could anyone hate a ...
- 27677: Wealth & Poverty
- ... the fulfillment of material needs as creating a need to change the way we gauge economic welfare and equality from income to consumption. Each author uses different indicators to support his thesis. Frankly, I don't accept either premise. In my opinion, the issue is much larger than just the failure of the unions to maintain power or changing the way we determine economic equality. It is a basic, gut-level ... alleviate the burden on the working poor. There will always be those among us who cannot work due to disability, age or infirmity, and the current "Welfare Reform" seems to ignore these individuals. I don't believe government "hand-outs" are the solution but the Federal government could develop incentives and a "safety net". Word Count: 783
- 27678: Abraham Lincoln
- ... making friends, he became quite popular and was elected to the Illinois legislature in 1834. In his spare time, he taught himself law and became a lawyer. In 1847, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, but returned to his law practice until 1858, when his concern about the spread of slavery prompted him to return to national politics and run for the U.S. Senate. Lincoln rose to greatness from a humble beginning. Born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln spent most of his childhood working on the family farm. He had less than a year ...
- 27679: Comparison/Contrast of Fairfield College Prep School and Jesuit College Prep
- ... at the usual drab colors of an off-white based paint that showers the walls of each main building. Each building of Fairfield contains hundreds of lockers, each with a lock protecting each locker. Fairfield's padlock security scheme does not exist within the Jesuit Prep community, as each locker is bare with no locks or locking devices anywhere in sight. As the environments are different, the overall attitude of both ... properties, yet they each have their own distinguishing features. The United States has many schools, but none of them are exactly the same as another. Any school, no matter where it is located, has it's own unique background, which truly makes the experience of learning at more than one school, a gift.
- 27680: Frank J. Horgan Filtration Plant
- ... about 57 million dollars to construct. About nineteen major contractors worked on this plant and were supervised by the Engineering firm of James F. Macharen Limited. Although it is the newest plant, it had it’s disasters. Their intake value exploded twice between 1980 and 1995 because of the extreme pressure and Wight of the water. these incidents cause a shutdown of the plant until they could repair it. Production The ... currency per 1000 gallons. That is essentially less than one cent per gallon. United States and Canada produce 49 billion gallons of water each day. That is about a revenue of 54.6 million U.S. dollars per day. The Franc J. Horgan filtration plant accounts for a part of this production with revenues of $122 200 us dollars a day. About 10% of the water produced is lost or unaccounted ...
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