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- 28571: The American Dream Is Based on Success, Happiness, and Money
- ... almost thirty percent of your life spent in school so the rest of your years can be good ones. Lastly I will discuss happiness. Many people think haplessness revolves around money, and many people don't. I personally think it does to a certain degree. I think you don't need to be rich or successful to be loved and have a nice family. However I do think you need money to go where you want to go, as in vacations, and you do need ...
- 28572: Woodstock
- ... free. The music began Friday afternoon at 5:07 p.m. August 15, and continued until mid-morning Monday August 18. The festival closed the New York State Thruway and created one of the nation's worst traffic jams. It also inspired a bunch of local and state laws to ensure that nothing like it would ever happen again. Woodstock was the idea of four young men: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman ... airlifts were being operated from the site and outlying areas, bringing in a total of 1,300 pounds of canned food, sandwiches, and fruit. In fact, the food problems were so great that the Women's Group of the Jewish Community Center of Monticello and the Sisters of the Convent of St. Thomas prepared and distributed 30,000 sandwiches for the festival go-ers.
- 28573: The Telephone
- ... contains the needed electronics for the phone to work properly. In older models of a working telephone, this board may look like an electronic box. This board is called the telephone network. The telephone network's function is to provide all the necessary components and termination points (screw on or push on terminals). The components and the termination points connect and match the impedance of a handset (transmitter and receiver) to ... opened and closed at a rate of 1 pulse per second. The number of pulses created is determined by how far the finger wheel has gone around before being stopped by the finger stop. Let's say that you dial the number 5, that means the internal switches open and close 5 times before the finger stop stops it. During the dial, a second set of switches remain closed and stay ...
- 28574: Chinese Arts and Crafts
- ... Chinese instrument similar to a guitar is called a pi-pa. It has four strings which the player strums. The sheng is a small hand organ which was first used in China in the 1200's. It was an early version of the modern accordion, harmonica, concertina, and cabinet organ. Many western instruments have roots in China. Chinese literature goes back through hundreds of years. Their favorite type of literature is ... silks and linens are worked into fine, lacelike designs. Bronze is used to shape vases and bells. Other products of the Chinese hand industry are laquerware, decorated porcelain, enameled fans and silk robes. The world's first porcelain was baked in China over two thousand years ago. Gorgeous antique vases and other objects made of porcelain by the Chinese may be seen in art museums in the United States. Porcelain was ...
- 28575: Our Secret
- ... together. The author also uses her own memories mixed in with what she heard from the interviewees. Her recollection of her memory is not fully told, but with missing parts and added feelings. Her interviewee's words are told to her and brought to the paper with added information. She tells throughout the book about these recollections. The author starts the essay with an interviewee and adds in the first fragment about V-1 rockets. Then the interviewee's story mixed in with a biology fragment. The author uses this type of fragment to relate to subjects farther down the essay which makes each fragment relate to the content. Fragments that are used help ...
- 28576: Diction And Imagery In The Poe
- The Challangers Quest The world today can be a dangerous place, causing people to be precautions. To be a risk taker in today s society involves courage and a willingness to be vulnerable. In the poem Swimming alone, author Patricia Keeney uses diction and imagery to convey that venturing into risky situations requires one to be brave and yet ... the darkness. Imagery such as Deliberately fracturing glass moving down through pools conveys the mental picture of the water being glass shattered with every stroke. Shattering glass suggesting danger and fear. Barely missing the moon s pale hiss, portrays the image of a deadly snake, heightening the risk of the challenge. The depiction of white nudes between each sizzling shaft, brings to the reader the vulnerability the swimmer feels running from ...
- 28577: Treatment of Drug Offenders is Dysfunctional
- ... divorced. Many times the kids are taken to foster homes to raised. Mothers and fathers are left to raise a family on their own while the other rots away in prison. During his first wifes first six months of pregnancy, John M. was imprisoned for drug charges. John never had the opportunity to see his daughter born. He also had a very steady career and family. He is now divorced and rarely sees his kid. Thus forcing the mother and daughter to welfare. Did this solve Johns drug problems? No, he now has no family, lives in daily fear, and has acquired a more severe drug problem while in prison. How can one rehabilitate when he has nothing to return to in ...
- 28578: Paintball
- ... and furious sport. It is played on both a social and serious level by over 16 million people around the world (Cooke,11). It is one of the fastest growing sports on the planet. Paintball's history, games, guns, and safety are all part of the fun. In 1970, James Hale, an engineer, invented and patented the first commercially successful paintball gun. Paintball guns were first used by the National Forest ... comes off the field, punches the card and returns to the game. The team loses points every time a team member is eliminated. The team gains points every time they bring back the opposing sides flag. Paintball is a fun and serious game. It does not glorify war. It is an old paintball adage that the sport actually proves how easy it is to be shot. The supporters of paintball ...
- 28579: Analysis of the Poem: The Fly
- ... is clean with its filth and decay. Its hungry burrowing and laying of maggots in a dead body is described, as is its perpetual shyness from its adversary, man. In the third section, the fly's close interaction with those that would destroy it is discussed. The horse is shown as being its mortal enemy, sweeping it with what the fly sees as the hurricane force of its tail. The author ... are to enjoy any other meal. The imagery presented in this poem, though somewhat unusual, is a superb example of how vividly and passionately poetry can express something, even something as trivial as a man's battle against the fly. The strong overstatement of this poem also makes it entertaining. This poem thus creates an interesting effect for the reader, using this combination of overstatement and descriptive imagery. This combination results ...
- 28580: Mathematical Realism And Its D
- ... their math would much different than ours. Others would argue and say that math is the same all around the universe. Mathematicians find it mined boggling that Hersh believes math is created. A mathematician cant imagine an alien not knowing two plus two is four. Hersh argues that all math isnt based on facts. He says there is no proof that two plus two is four, and when a mathematician argues with him by giving him math rules Hersh replies by saying I find it so ...
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