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- 29461: Taking The Hard Road
- ... an autobiography. Maynes reveals, “The views they [the autobiographers] reveal come from a very particular location within working-class culture” (43). On page four, Sebastian Commissaire is quoted as declaring in his autobiography, “workers don’t write memoirs.” Similarly, in order for a person to write an autobiography, he or she must have a particular reason begin writing in the first place. The numbers of autobiographies rise with the amount of ...
- 29462: A Trip to the Dark Side
- ... desires. They began gambling and drinking rum. They soon saw money and alcohol as their gods. In five years, Hector died of a heart attack and Steve choked on his own vomit, for he hadn’t enough strength to excrete it from his body. They were both sitting in a small office when they heard a voice saying, “Hector an Steve, this is your god calling. you have violated my bidding ...
- 29463: Teen Smoking
- ... being smoked everywhere authority is not, during school or any other place kids congregate. Kids smoke because they want to feel like they 'fit in' and they want to rebel at the same time. "U.S. News discussed the smoking issue with twenty teenagers from suburban Baltimore. Half were boys, half girls, and all were between the ages of fifteen and seventeen. Over more than four hours of conversation, it became ...
- 29464: George Washington Carver2
- ... gifted in plant hybridization and the study of fungi. In 1894, Carver earned a bachelor of science degree and, in 1896, a Master of Science degree in agriculture and bacterial botany. That same year, Booker T. Washington offered Carver a job teaching at Tuskegee Institute. During his first few years at Tuskegee, he made many improvements in the agricultural program. With the help of other colleagues, he created the Farmers Institute ...
- 29465: Migration of the Bantu People
- ... a more efficient source of food production than hunting and gathering did. Because of the enlarged population more food was required. So the earliest of the Bantu speakers planted more land, and soon there wasn’t enough land to go around. The Bantu could not go north in search of land, because the area was highly populated and was undergoing desertification. So people started moving eastward and southward. With in only ...
- 29466: Destruction (holocaust)
- ... were murdered in the gas chambers. The most famous of these was Auschwitz, which was both a labor camp and an extermination camp. The Nazis targeted many groups for persecution among them Catholics, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Communists. Only three groups were targeted for systematic exterminations, which were Jews, the handicapped, and the Gypsies. Sometime in 1944 it became obvious the leaders of the Nazis that they would soon be ...
- 29467: Grace Murray Hopper
- ... following her graduation. Upon graduating, Grace was accepted to the Bureau of Ordinance at Harvard University. That is when she was introduced to and assigned to work on Mark I -- the first large-scale U.S. computer and precursor of electronic computers. Her first assignment with Mark I was to "have the coefficients for the interpolation of the arc tangents completed [in about one week]" not a problem for Grace. She ...
- 29468: Self-Reflective Essay
- ... their studies. It has worked for me in terms of experience. Even though I worked with them for the experience and knowledge, I also did it so I would make a difference in a child’s life, also to make a new friend.
- 29469: Aerosol Spray Cans
- ... aerosol sprays and other common household items such as cigarette lighters, paint thinner, gasoline. Inhalant abuse is becoming increasingly common among young middle-class teenagers. It is a cheap, and sometimes deadly, thrill. Bibliography: Aylesworth, T.G. It Works Like This. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Casey, Maura. "When a quick high may be quick death." The New York Times 30 July 1995 sec:cn p:4 col:5 Flexner, Bob ...
- 29470: Forensic Science
- ... alcohol in the blood can be measured in two ways. The first is to measure the amount of alcohol exhaled in the breath of the person. This reveals the concentration of alcohol in the person s blood. Blood alcohol level can also be determined by blood tests, usually through chromatography. In this method, the blood sample is vaporized by high temperature, and the gas is sent through a column that separates ...
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