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Amish CultureThe past five weeks in my life have really had an impact on me. In such a short period of time, I have become more aware of the different cultures that exist around the world today. We tend to think that our way of life is the only way there is, or at least the only right way. It is really very ...
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Cartoon ViolenceA few months ago when visiting a friend, I was disturbed to see her eight-year old sister making one of her Barbie dolls, in her Barbie Ferrari, run over another Barbie. When I asked why she was making her doll hurt the other doll she replied, "Because it's funny. The Coyote gets run over all ...
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Chernobyl, What HappenedOn April 1986, Soviet's Union Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded letting out a massive amount of radiation that would debate of all Russian citizens for hundreds of years to come. At exactly 1:21 Am. on April 1986 in Chernobyl, a city near the Pripiat River the No. 4 reactor exploded and released ...
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Tom Clancy's GeniusThe Cold War and post Cold War eras have brought with them many interesting aspects. New technologies initially meant for mass destruction filter down into the civilian world, making current lives easier. One example of this is the anti-lock braking systems of today’s cars. Originally designed to ...
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Mi Vida Locameans “my crazy life (as a girl).” The movie documents the phenomenon of female gangs in the early nineties in Los Angeles. It is written and directed by Allison Anders, who grew up in Los Angeles and went to UCLA. She uses personal experiences to help influence her story writing. In Echo ...
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Kerouac's On The Road: Living In Clip"The only ones for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in ...
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The American Dream In Self RelThe American Dream remains viewed as the success which one obtains. The American Dream has had a great impact on literature as well as an impact on the changing of time periods. The 19th century Transcendentalists’ idea of the American Dream focuses on reaching one’s goals by honest, hard work. On ...
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The Greenhouse Effectis another alarming problem that we have encountered
through our own negligence. The earth's atmosphere consists of mostly
nitrogen along with oxygen and small amounts of other gases. One of these
gases, carbon dioxide, affects the temperature on the earth. The earth
already contains the ...
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J.D. SalingerBorn on January 1, 1919, Jerome David Salinger was to become one of America’s greatest contemporary authors. In 1938 Salinger briefly attended Ursinus College in Pennsylvania where he wrote a column, "Skipped Diploma," which featured movie reviews for his college newspaper. Salinger made ...
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Making The CorpsThomas Ricks, author of “”, gives a description about the United States Marine Corps’ basic military training. The book’s main focal point is Platoon 3086 at Parris Island, S.C., in 1995. Their story is about their eleven weeks boot camp training to become a full-fledged marine. Mr. Ricks ...
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The Catcher In The Rye Is HoldEveryone has to make choices about what is important to them during life, and often, the time when this is hardest is the teen years. In The Catcher In The Rye , author J.D. Salinger epitomizes the growing pains of these teen years. The main character, Holden Caulfield, is a sixteen year ...
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The Great Gatsby 4A big house, nice cars, 2.5 kids, a dog, a beautiful devoted spouse, power and a ridiculous amount of money. That is the classical American Dream, at least for some. One could say, an outsider perhaps, that Americans strive for the insurmountable goal of perfection, live, die and do unimaginable ...
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Media Effect 2I. Introduction Media nowadays is considered a window for learning and is also considered to be our main window to the world. Media has evolved from simple text in papers, to voices in radios, to voices with pictures in television and movies, to the very broad and information packed Internet. But ...
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Martin Luther KingThe most important person to have made a significant change in the
rights of Blacks was . He had great courage and passion
to defeat segregation and racism that existed in the United States, and it
was his influence to all the Blacks to defy white supremacy and his belief
in nonviolence that lead ...
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LasersDid you know that some laser beams are small enough and powerful enough to drill two hundred holes on a spot as tiny as the head of a pin?
The first major advancement in laser development came in 1954. This was the year that Charles H. Townes, an American physicist, created a device that amplified ...
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The House On Mango Street: The American DreamThe American Dream. Everyone has their own definition of The American Dream. To most people it is succeeding in America, living in a nice neighborhood, having the house they’ve always dreamed of, and not having to steal cars just do get attention. Has your American Dream been fulfilled? In Sandra ...
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Apartheid In South AfricaApartheid, meaning apartness, in Southern Africa began in 1948 by the National Party lead by Dr. D. F. Malon. The apartheid was created to keep the races as separate as possible. It was unfair to all races of color because it gave the minority the power to set the laws for the majority. The ...
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Acid Rain 3Acid rain is caused by extra amounts of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Natural sources of sulphur oxides and nitrogen oxides do exist, but are balanced by nature. Normal rain reacts with alkaline chemicals from the region's bedrock that are in the air, soils, lakes, and streams. This ...
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Communication Analysis: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From VenusJohn Gray’s “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” portrays the differences that men and women feel, and encounter in everyday life. Being so different, often times it is hard for men and women to communicate without upsetting the other. Gray offers some recommendations for couples to ...
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AlkanesThe are the simplest form of organic compounds. They are made up
of only Carbon atoms and Hydrogen atoms. All of the bonds are single and the
number of hydrogen atoms versus carbon atoms follows this formula: CnH2n+2
are all non-polar molecules so they aren't soluble in water. Here are
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