...1963. 53 years ago. What do you think of the year? It was before the iPhones even existed. Before there were old stuff which were about antique and discontinued today by most people. Well there was more to that than old school. In the novel, ‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham- 1963” (WGTB- 1963), a very clumsy 4th grader, Kenny Watson goes through many hilarious adventures while he and his family experience the year 1963. One of the adventures are when Kenny and his family go to Birmingham to see Grandma Sands and Kenny’s older brother Byron to stay there for behavior. When they arrive there, little does Kenny know that the year 1963 can impact heavily on him and his family, and other people of his race, black. But there are more impacts, effective...
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...in the world there are still children being recruited to war. (according to Reliefweb) In fact, child soldiers are used for fighting. For instance, kids are forced to take part in wars, forced to kill, and commit other acts of violence. In addition,the children are used as cooks, porters, messengers, informants, spies or anything their commanders want them to do. Many people believe that child soldiers should not be given amnesty, however, I believe that these juveniles should because they are forced to take part in the military, are also not old enough to know how to make the right decisions. Also these adolescents do not have 100% control over their...
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...Herman Wouk is an internationally Pulitizer Prize-winning Jewish American Novelist and author of some amazing books such as The Caine Mutiny, and The Winds of War. Herman Wouk was born on May 27, 1915 in the Bronx borough of New York City. The son of Abraham and Esther Wouk, Jewish Immigrants from Minsk, Russia which is now Belarus. When Wouk was 13 his grandfather, Rabbi Mendel Leib Levin, arrived from Russia and took charge of Wouk’s religious Education. Judaism would become both his personal life and career. Wouk went to attend Columbia University, graduating in 1934 with a B.A. in comparative Literature and Philosophy. During his time at Columbia he edited college humor magazine, The Jester, and wrote several variety shows. He really enjoyed...
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...characters responded when they lost everything, the way they responded when they were freed from all authority and the way they reacted when war was provoked. The ark is dying, the air was running thin and the leader of the ship didn’t want to lose any innocent lives, so he decided to take corrupted lives. Criminals, all under the age of 18. (all crimes are punishable by death unless under 18) So all 100 of the imprisoned criminals are sent down to earth. When they got to earth none of them knew if earth still toxic or if it was survivable, what they did know is that they had nothing. No shelter, No food, No contact with the ark, they only had a tip that there. Clarke through everyone’s panic collected herself and opened the doors being the first person from the ark to step on earth in 200 years. Bellamy...
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...Adolescents are expected to be young mature adults but many things are stopping them from being trusted with the rights that are given to them. They are many things that should lower the age of adulthood. Some of those things are brain development, renting a car at an airport, going to war. Scientists identified that the brain development doesn’t stop until age 25. They also use brain-scanning technology to look more into the human brain. They pointed out that, “The prefrontal cortex and its links to other regions of the brain are not fully formed until age 25.” This quote explains that you're brain isn’t fully developed until the age of 25. So what they are trying to say is that you should be considered a mature adult until that...
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...1. What is the supreme law of the land? A: The Constitution 2. What does the Constitution do? A: sets up the government A: defines the government A: protects basic rights of Americans 3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words? A: We the People 4. What is an amendment? A: a change (to the Constitution) A: an addition (to the Constitution) 5. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution? A: The Bill of Rights 6. What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?* A: speech A: religion A: assembly A: press A: petition the government 7. How many amendments does the Constitution have? A: twenty-seven (27) 8. What did the Declaration of Independence do? A: announced our independence (from Great Britain) A: declared our independence (from Great Britain) A: said that the United States is free (from Great Britain) 9. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence? A: life A: liberty A: pursuit of happiness 10. What is freedom of religion? A: You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion. 11. What is the economic system in the United States?* A: capitalist economy A: market economy 12. What is the "rule of law"? A: Everyone must follow the law. A: Leaders must obey the law. A: Government must obey the law. A: No one is above the law. B. System of Government 13. Name one branch or part of the government.* A: Congress A: legislative A: President A:...
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...many books written about World War I. All Quiet on the Western Front was written by Erich Maria Remarque. Paul Bäumer is a German soldier who fought in the trenches during WWI. Bäumer is the protagonist and narrator of All Quiet on the Western Front. Paul Baumer’s testament of the war is bitter invective against sentimental ideas. Paul Bäumer is a 19 year old male that enlisted in World War One. Bäumer is very fit because of the war. All Quiet on the Western Front states, “All four are nineteen years of age, and all four joined up from the same class as volunteers for the war.” (Remarque 4). Because of Paul’s fitness, he can do many things in the military, and to help him stay alive. Paul Bäumer...
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...War on Drugs 1 Running Head: WAR on DRUGS: EFFECTS of DRUGS War on Drugs: Effects of Drugs Matthew Boone Camden County College War on Drugs 2 Abstract This paper will attempt to explore the effects of the War on Drugs by showing the way drugs have effects on people and been classified. This researcher will show how effects of drugs plays a major factor in today’s society. It will explore the cost of incarceration that play apart of today’s economy and how it has increased since the War on Drugs. This paper will also explore the term drug interdiction and how it has affected the War on Drugs. Drug interdiction is the process of confiscating illegal drugs from traffickers smuggling drugs into the United States borders. War on Drugs 3 War on Drugs Drugs have been around for years, being used for their medicinal uses, for their hallucination affects and other reasons. The same drugs are still being used today. Some argue that certain drugs should be legal considering that they are mainly plant based and therefore natural. The problem with it is people are learning ways to modify and condense the chemicals that are producing the affects wanted and making the affects stronger. Drugs are also being combined to create new drinks and drugs to be used, known as designer drugs. These new combinations can become lethal due to the drugs being condensed to intensify the effects. The United States has been fighting a war on drugs for over 100 years. In...
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...|REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES | |cOLLEGE OF HOSPITALITY AND INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT | |The Impact of Domestic Tourist in Mt. Samat, Bataan | |[Our Lady of Fatima University] | | | |In Partial Fulfillment | |of the requirements in the subject | |Tour 12 Tourism Research | |03/15/2013 | Presented By: Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Problems and its backgrounds Statement of the Problem Hypothesis of the study Significant of the study Scope & limitation of the study Definition of terms Chapter 2 Review of related litreture ...
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...Howard Fast is a realistic fiction that gives readers insight on the beginning of the Revolutionary War through fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper’s eyes. Protagonists, Adam Cooper, and the nation, seem to work alongside each other in the fight against the antagonists, the Red Coats. Adam states, “We had won the battle, but there is less joy in winning a battle than the history books tell you” (Fast 169). Although the colonists are successful, there is more beneath the surface of the American victory. While conflict arises with the Red Coats, Adam Cooper’s life and the nation consist of order, chaos, and reorganization. Before the British disrupt the peacefulness of Lexington, Adam works to maintain order in his life by completing tasks, and the nation sustains order by having meetings to make decisions on important issues. One of the chores Adam completes is retrieving water from the well for his mother (Fast 3). It is routine that every evening someone brings water into the house. Not only does Adam have a routine to follow, but Adam’s father, who is a representative of the nation, has tasks to complete. After supper, Adam’s father attends a Committee meeting (Fast 28). The Committee...
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...Lord Cheshire of Woodhall in 1948. By then a famous war hero, at the beginning of that year he was living alone in an isolated mansion in Hampshire winding up a community project for ex servicemen and women which he had started at the end of the war. Discovering that one of the former members of the community was terminally ill and had nowhere to go, he offered to care for him in his own home. To his surprise, he found others in need coming to him for help and so started what was to become a worldwide organization developing services for disabled people. After the world war he drafted the community because of the situation. Then came the idea of those homes to help the disables. 50 years ago in April 1955 when the Mother Queen opened the 1st official building of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation. The philanthropic enterprise of Group Captain Leonard Cheshire which started in 1948 in England has grown to some 200 Homes around the world in addition to those in the United Kingdom. Sir Seewoosagur was the President of the Board of Trustees of the Cheshire Home until he became Governor-General in 1983. Here is the organizational chart of the Chirshe Home which shows us the keys persons in the organization: Section B The goals of the organization are mainly: To help the elderly as the home specializes to help the old one only, the age at which they start taking the old person is 60 years old. To maintain the quality of those old person life by giving them all those facilities that...
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...Reaction Paper #3 Gary Stansberry I decided to do this reaction paper on the World War I Trench Diary because I found it very interesting. The beginning of this document describes the feeling of pages from a 100-year-old book, written in at the beginning of World War I. Describing the book feeling gives the reader a sense of how old this book really is, and how interesting it must have been to discover it and read straight from it. The first entry is dated back in 1914, and describes the feelings of tiredness, but also the feeling of pride because it says that this man’s team did its job at the beginning of the war. I find this very interesting, because these people did not know that this war would become one of the largest and most well known. The next entry mentioned is from a captain named James Patterson, he describes what he has seen, from trampled grass to explosion remains. He says that all he sees is remains of battle, and he’s had enough. This makes me feel bad for him and everyone else involved because they had no choice, I am sure they would have rather been home with their families, but they are fighting for freedom instead. The next line reads that he ends his entry with him going to write his mother. This makes me feel sad for him because he misses his family I’m sure, but he knows how important he is to this movement. His story in this article ends by telling us that he died six weeks later. This means he never saw his mother again, and all she had of him was...
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...Cola Wars The Cola wars really began getting started in the 1970s and 1980s. Pepsi was starting to become popular in the United States and they had effective advertising, like the Pepsi challenge. Coke was outspending Pepsi in advertising by $100 million but was losing market share because it was not as effective. A change for Coke was worth considering. After ninety-nine years of the original formula the top executives agreed to change the taste to a sweeter flavor and take the old Coke off the market. The new CEO of Coke, Goizueta’s father joked threatening to disown him. The media publicized the protests and Coke was worried about boycotting. Coke apologized to the public and brought the original taste of Coke back. The major blunder by Coke was short lived and Coke kept both flavors in the market. Coke classic outsold new Coke 2-1 nationwide and Coke’s fortunes was improving steadily. There is huge power in the media. The power of the media should be a factor in making decisions that may affect an organization’s public image. It might have been thought that Coke engineered the New Coke scenario to get attention and free publicity. The marketing research was flawed even though the results for new Coke were positive. “No other product has been so widely used and so deeply entrenched in societal values and culture as Coke.” In blind taste tests, new Coke was chosen over old Coke but participants were not told that old Coke would be taken away. The symbolic value and the...
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...Everyone enjoys a roaring crowd and everyone cheering them on and wanting them to well just so they can say they were there when they saw that person make history, and Jesse Owens had it all. Jesse Owens was one of the best track and field athletes to ever live. He played a large real in the cold war between the United States and Germany before World War II. Jesse Owens had a very outstanding track and field career way back from when he was a kid in high school all the way up to when he was competing in the 1936 Olympic Games. James Cleveland Owens was born on September 12, 1913 (Turini). His family was a poor sharecropping family from Oakville, Alabama (Turini). Owens parents were named Henry and Emma Owens. His father was a son to former slaves and grew up in the same town as Jesse had. Henry spent most of his life afraid of...
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...What Will 2113 Bring? Life Expectancy There is an evolutionary theory of aging; however the life expectancy has changed throughout the years. In 1913, the average man’s life expectancy was 50.5 for men and 55 years for a woman due to health precautions. But as time passed, the life expectancy has increased to 75.98 for men and 88.08 for women. These conclusions can be drawn because of better technology and more intelligence. Over 100 years, the life expectancy increased by about 30 years and in another 100 years, 2113, the expectancy will change once again. Instead of 75.98 and 88.08, the life expectancy would be more around 105 and 118. Transportation With an image from a man named Karl Benz in 1886, others have sparked on his invention of the car and transformed the whole idea. By developing Benz’s first model of the car, scientists, engineers, and inventors has used technology to control the outcome of an automobile. With endless possibilities, due to the fact that technology always grows stronger and minds become sharper, transportation in 2113 would be considered of lightning-fast travel that is almost like teleporting. The plan for the future in Japan already is the Maglev Train that can hit 310 miles per hour. If the plans for Japan are a success, than there truly is no stopping for technology then. There will be bigger and better things in 2113. Fashion Starting in 2013 fashion has created new and exciting ideas for clothing options and it also has repeated many...
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