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- 4711: Marilyn Monroe
- Marilyn Monroe: An All-American Sex Goddess or Hollywood Tragedy? When someone mentions Marilyn Monroe, one usually thinks off the seductive all-American sex goddess who captured the world with her woman-childlike charm. Yet not many know her as the illegitimate child who endured a childhood of poverty and misery, sexual abuse, and years in foster home and orphanages. Most people don’t ... Norma Jeane was then placed with a family friend for a year until being placed in another orphanage for another two years. Norma Jeane was once heard to reflect on this time and say: "The world around me then was kind of grim...I had to learn to pretend in order to...I don’t know.. block the grimness. The whole world seen sort of closed to me..(I felt) on the outside of everything, and all I could do was to dream up any kind of pretend game." (MarilynMonroe,http://www.ionet.net/~jellenc/mmbio3. ...
- 4712: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... the common man. "Come out of the cemeteries of the past!" "Look forward into the woodlands of the future! The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead."... "Build your own world." [Thomas- 352] Nobility of the commonplace- ... "the world exists for you." [Thomas- 253] Asserting oneself- "All that Adam had, and Ceasar could, you have and can do." ... "There are no bounds to the possibilities of man." [Thomas- 253] Be of good cheer!- "This world belongs to the cheerful, the energetic and daring." [Thomas- 253] Friendship. The life of man is a search for friendship. It is not just a passion, but an action in our souls. "The Alps ...
- 4713: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... scientific talents. He never earned a degree or received any special academic honors. He was never a candidate in an election or a member of government. Yet when he died, in 1948, practically the whole world mourned him. Einstein said in his tribute, “Gandhi demonstrated that a powerful human following can be assembled not only through the cunning game of the usual political maneuvers and trickery but through the cogent example ... and thought it was wrong to kill animals for food or clothing. In his religious studies, he happened upon Leo Tolstoy’s Christian writings, and was inspired. It stated that all government is based on war and violence, and that one can attack these only through passive resistance. This made a deep impression on Gandhi. Gandhi developed a method of direct social action, based upon principals of courage, nonviolence, and truth ... was an astounding example of someone who was pass and misunderstood, and yet had great determination and beliefs. Throughout his life he brought attention to his beliefs of equality and nonviolence - two main factors of world peace. He’s teachings, thoughts, and beliefs hold great knowledge and will be forever left as his legacy. Hopefully, when his life accomplishments and beliefs are looked at and considered by all masses, Gandhi’ ...
- 4714: Landfills
- ... such a monstrous mound of garbage is the largest thing ever produced by human hands. Unhappily, this is not the case. The Fresh Kills Landfill, located on Staten Island, is the largest landfill in the world. It sports an elevation of 155 feet, an estimated mass of 100 million tons, and a volume of 2.9 billion cubic feet. In total acreage, it is equal to 16,000 baseball diamonds [Miller ... of prepared food. Plastics biodegrade not at all. Biodegradable plastic is an oxymoron at best; the most unstable plastic requires intense sunlight to decompose, and sunlight is denied in a sanitary landfill. Newspapers from before World War Two are still readable; they have, in fact, become important date markers for scientists examining garbage strata in landfills [Rathje 112-13]. The public is sadly misinformed as to what comprises the bulk of ...
- 4715: Dragons
- ... stories, legends, and drawings it is the dragon that has captured my imagination. The Europeans saw the dragons as an evil serpent-like creature. In an age of darkness, and ignorance the Europeans saw the world around them as evil and hostile. The dragon was used to symbolize the demons, sickness, and war that plagued their daily lives. While the Europeans feared the dragon as a beast or demon the Chinese saw them in a much better light. The Chinese thought of dragons as powerful guardian spirits. Their ... Tatzlwyrm ~ {Germanic legend} A winged, fire-breathing dragon monster. Wyvern ~ {U.K.} A winged, two-legged dragon with a barbed tail. The wyvern often appears on heraldic shields and symbolizes guardianship. Jormungand (Norse Legend) The world serpent that dwelled at the bottom of the sea,and that encircled the whole world. It was to rise against the gods at Ragnarok,helping the Fenris Wolf and Surt,and the other enemies ...
- 4716: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... scientific talents. He never earned a degree or received any special academic honors. He was never a candidate in an election or a member of government. Yet when he died, in 1948, practically the whole world mourned him. Einstein said in his tribute, "Gandhi demonstrated that a powerful human following can be assembled not only through the cunning game of the usual political maneuvers and trickery but through the cogent example ... and thought it was wrong to kill animals for food or clothing. In his religious studies, he happened upon Leo Tolstoy’s Christian writings, and was inspired. It stated that all government is based on war and violence, and that one can attack these only through passive resistance. This made a deep impression on Gandhi. Gandhi developed a method of direct social action, based upon principals of courage, nonviolence, and truth ... was an astounding example of someone who was pass and misunderstood, and yet had great determination and beliefs. Throughout his life he brought attention to his beliefs of equality and nonviolence - two main factors of world peace. He’s teachings, thoughts, and beliefs hold great knowledge and will be forever left as his legacy. Hopefully, when his life accomplishments and beliefs are looked at and considered by all masses, Gandhi’ ...
- 4717: What Is Witchcraft
- ... constantly changing environment, people should be more aware and open-minded to things, especially to those that are rejected by our old traditional sets of values. We should get to know why does the Old World reject some beliefs by studying the original meanings behind those myths. The more we keep ourselves open to ideas, the more chances we have to explore ourselves and to advance our lives and our society ... religion that believes in Gods and the harmonic relationship between humans and the natural environment. This research paper is to redefine, in more accurate words, the truth of one of the oldest religion in the world. 2.0 Methods In this research paper, I have used information from the Internet such as some homepages built by some Coven and believers. I also used books that are mainly about the general structure ... Boyle, on the 14th of November 1998. I asked him general ideas and some specific details about the Craft and the religion. 3.0 Results 3.1 Brief historical background of the Witchcraft in the world. Scholars like anthropologists, archaeologists and historians believe that the practice of "Witchcraft" has been existed for the around 20,000 to 40,000 years (Johnson). In every society, practitioners' vocations vary, like midwives or ...
- 4718: Austria
- ... valleys, the average annual rainfall is between 1542 and 2032 mm (about 60 and 80 in). Natural Resources Austria has sizable deposits of iron ore, lignite, magnesite, petroleum, and natural gas and is a prime world supplier of high-grade graphite. Some small deposits of bituminous coal have been mined, as well as lead, zinc, copper, kaolin, gypsum, mica, quartz, salt, bauxite, antimony, and talc. Plants and Animals Deciduous trees, mainly ... Jewish. Language German is the official language of Austria. About 2% of the population speak languages other than German, chiefly Turkish, Croatian, Slovene, or Czech. Culture Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, Vienna was a world center of culture, particularly in music and literature. Austrian fine art usually is considered with the art of southern Germany. A distinctive Austrian style, however, is manifested in the refined baroque architecture and sculpture of ... horses. Forestry and Fishing Approximately 39% of the total land area is forest or woodland. A comprehensive reforestation and conservation program has been in progress since the early 1950s to compensate for damage inflicted during World War II and for postwar overcutting of forest trees. More than 80% of the forests consists of conifers, mostly spruce, which are important in the paper and pulp industry as well as in building ...
- 4719: Nineteenth Century
- ... since the Nineteenth Century, including many major ones, including slavery. In 1854, Massachusetts, Oregon, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont all had prohibition laws that lasted until the beginning of the Civil War. From when the colonies became a country until the early Nineteenth Century, slavery was very wide spread, especially in the South. Many farmers and Plantation owners in the south had hundred or even thousands of ... The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws passed in 1850, by the United States Congress hoped to regain peace and end the fighting between the North and South. These laws helped delay civil war for about 10 years. However, from 1861 until 1865 the Civil War was fought to keep the Southern states from leaving the Union over slavery. The Union won on April 9, 1865, when General Lee Surrenders to General Grant at Appomatox. On January 31, 1865, the ...
- 4720: The DHC-6 Twin Otter
- The DHC-6 Twin Otter With arctic challenges of rough terrain and extreme climatic conditions, Canada provided a unique opportunity for manufacturers, enterprising businessmen and pilots. Following World War II, deHavilland Canada (DHC) made a corporate decision to re-enter the northern bushplane market. Incorporating the needs and preferences put forward by northern pilots, engineers initiated development of the Twin Otter, an aircraft that has had far reaching impact on the development of transportation and communication around the world. Development of the Twin Otter was an evolutionary process. Its predecessor, the DHC-2 Beaver was, to a large extent, designed by the pilots who would fly it. It was the first plane that ...
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