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- 28761: Teen Workers
- ... 30 am wake up call, after having had five hours sleep. In the next hour and a half this teen must prepare him or her self for school which may include doing some homework that's due this very day. After all the preparations are done and our typical working teen arrives at school the struggles of staying awake begin. As first period ends the awaking of the working teenager begins ... work ahead. While the realization of the work ahead sets in, the teenager starts to plan when to try and do home work and how much time is needed per assignment. After the school day's end the typical working teenager has prepared to work for another 7 to 8 hour and possibly another hour or two doing home work, before jumping into bed for tonigths 5 hour ration of sleep ...
- 28762: A Brief Overview Of Psychedeli
- ... go to class, because they know the lecture notes will be on the class web page along with the practice midterms and finals. The fact that computers make these things easier reinforces the computer owner’s dependence. Furthermore, students no longer have to do research outside of their room. Today, students can do all their research on the web, or through the online library system, which many universities offer. Students who ... time to refine. If a person spends the majority of their time on the computer, time is lost, time which could be used for social interaction. The result is most likely detrimental to the individual’s social development. This generation is beginning to define itself as computer dependent. We have grown up in a society where computers are the trend. And, furthermore, we constantly reaffirm our dependence upon them, as a ...
- 28763: The Jim Crow Laws
- ... a social separation system and to keep whites as the supreme race in the south. They were also passed because after the Civil War the two races were able to do things together, but weren’t equals. Jim Crow Laws stopped the merge, and kept them separated. The first court case that challenged segregation was Plessy V. Ferguson in 1896. Homer Plessy filed a lawsuit because he felt that he was ... case that battled segregation was Brown V. Board of Education in Kansas in 1954, that declared segregation in schools unconstitutional. African Americans were effected heavily by these laws that discriminated against their race. Blacks didn’t like being separate, and their lives were changed because of Jim Crow Laws. The Delany family was one such black family that were slaves in the nineteenth century, and lived during this time period that ...
- 28764: Russian Revolution
- ... a true method of moderate reform. At this same time, the soviets were rising to power. They demanded the right to run factories and issue orders to the army. This greatly harmed the moderate government's ability to control the country. The moderates lost much of the popular support, and the Bolsheviks then came to seize power. Lenin, the key figure behind the Bolshevik revolution, soon became the leader of Russia. He has previously studied the works of Karl Marx, and has a staunch supporter of the method of government proposed by Marx. Many people objected to Lenin's leadership. They created eighteen groups which were opposed to Lenin. The opposition groups, however could not unite under a single banner. Lenin set up the Red army to combat all of his enemies. He also ...
- 28765: Female Genital Mutilation and Culture
- ... permanent damage: hemorrhage and shock, which may be fatal; many infections including tetanus, scaring which obstructs normal childbirth and may result in the death of both mother and child; infertility due to infection. And that’s not all, FGM causes urinary and menstrual problems, frigidity, painful intercourse, and many, many needless deaths. The highest childbirth mortality is recorded in areas where FGM is practiced. Some may argue that this is their ... These children do not realize that their life could be at stake just so their future husband will be satisfied. They live a life of pain for the mans happiness. FGM is desecrating the woman’s body and ultimately her soul.
- 28766: Malcom X
- Malcolm X Malcolm X (born in 1925 and died in 1965), was black American leader, born in Omaha, Nebraska, as Malcolm Little. Malcolm's father, who was a Baptist minister, was an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey, a black nationalist leader of the 1920s. The family moved to Lansing, Michigan, and when Malcolm was six years old, his father was murdered after receiving threats from the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm's mother suffered a nervous breakdown and the eight children were taken by the welfare department. Malcolm was sent first to a foster home and then to a reform school. After the eighth grade, Malcolm moved ...
- 28767: Israeli Arab Conflict
- ... Day War. Israel suffered much causality but in three weeks they again beat the Arab force. In 1977 President Anwar al-Sadat flew to Jerusalem for peace talks with Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin. U.S. President Jimmy Carter invited the two leaders to Camp David where an Egyptian-Israeli treaty was signed. "Sadat's peace treaty with Israel was harshly criticized by other Arab nations, who considered that he had betrayed the Arab cause. In 1981 Sadat was assassinated at a military parade"(Baerwald 486 and 487). The 1980s ...
- 28768: Albert Camus
- ... a novelist and essayist and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957. Though his writings, and in some measure against his will, he became the leading moral voice of his generation during the 1950's. Camus died at the height of his fame, in an automobile accident near Sens, France on January 4, 1960. Camus's deepest philosophical interests were in Western philosophy, among them Socrates, Pascal, Spinoza, and Nietsche. His interest in philosophy was almost exclusively moral in character. Camus came to the conclusion that none of the speculative systems ...
- 28769: Berlin Wall 2
- ... Germany was to be divided into four sectors:the American, British, and French in the west, and the Soviet Union in the east. From June 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949, the Soviets blockaded Berlin's Western side from the Eastern side. This is what we call the Berlin Wall. In 1948, during construction of the Wall, the Soviet Union cut off all rail water supply to the West, Western Berlin ... sector. Many escape tunnles were dug under the wall. Police found many of these tunnles and closed many of them off. After alot of controversy, and discussion of a new travel law, Leader of Berlin's Communist Party announed in unclear words that the border would be opened for "private trips abroad". Little later, celebrations took place at the Brandenburg Gate and at the Kurfurstendamm in West Berlin.On November 10th ...
- 28770: The Chrysalids
- ... the image of perfection. His description of her was so perfect that it described her flaws. She was too perfect, as though artificial. She communicates on a higher level as him so that he can’t understand and does not worry about his troubles. Sealand may not be a utopia but it is deffinatly not a dystopia. The Chrysalids are free to use their gifts and feel more comfortable using them ... free to live their life the way it should have been lived and are not forced to hide their gifts. The fact that the social system is not totally equal is unfortunate but we can’t all live a dream.
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