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- 211: Welfare
- ... establishment saves about $2 billion. The costs included in the bill are $9.9 billion for the work program and approximately $2 billion for miscellaneous state options. OK, personally, I don't see what the big fuss these whiny little democrats are making over this bill. "You shouldn't be so hard on un-wed teenage mothers." Well, lets think about this one. They're unwed, they're teenage, and they ... expect some benefits. Limiting AFDC payment by $75 to those who haven't completed high school or gained a high school equivalency seemed way liberal to me. High school drop- out is one of the big reasons for the enormous about of money welfare consumes each year. If you don't have at least a high school education, you will find it tough to land a job that will support yourself ... School keeps kids off of the streets, and out of trouble with drugs, sex and pregnancies- things that will run them right out of school and right onto the welfare payroll. Democrats love making a big sob story out of welfare "victims." It makes me truly sick. Want to hear a sob story? Me hardly seeing my family for four years because I was too busy studying, and involving myself ...
- 212: Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim Prediction of the Future
- ... hours a week. That is more that 2 days straight without sleeping, eating, or going to the bathroom. He also wouldn’t have passed by this magazine advertisement that could be seen in 1984: Is Big Brother watching? If you are tired of Government, tired of big business, tired of everyone telling you who you are and what you should be, then now is the time to speak out. Display your disgust and exhibit your independence, Wear a “Big Brother Is Watching” tee-shirt. $10, Canadians remit us dollars. Big Brother is Watching LTD. Neenah, WI. This advertisement makes one wonder if there is really a group dedicated to the rise to power ...
- 213: The Roaring Twenties
- ... was about 25 million when the decade started and about 40 million at its close, (Cronon 341). Tabloids and magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, National Geographic, and the Literary Digest also became very big during the Twenties. One author noted for his work during the Twenties was H.L. Mencken in his witty magazine "The American Mercury" which ridiculed the antics of dim-witted politicians, and prohibitionists. The artists ... the turntable was flipped on, Americans just had to dance. It was a new feeling of pleasure, and enjoyment which came hand in hand with the beginnings of jazz music in America. With jazz becoming big, Americans veered away from traditional song and dance and began exploring other types of music such as jazz. The cheerful, light, easy feeling accompanied with jazz music was just an extension of American feelings during ... the United States going to be that of the American Dream? The image of a successful entrepreneur whose once insignificant business exploded into a nationwide corporation? The image of the stock holder who hit it big on the market? The image of the local supermarket owner whose business grew to a chain from coast to coast? What about the bootlegging capital of the world? The truth was, there was no ...
- 214: Stefan Edberg
- ... very memorable victory for him. Star even in school But a couple of years went by before he ”dared” to go in for tennis full time. He was in the ninth grade as took the big step and gave tennis the big chance. -I felt I had a serious chance of becoming a worldplayer. Because I had just won JEM and taken a set on Mats Wilander who was a professional player, Stefan says. But it couldn ... very good student with an average about 4,3 after the ninth grade. He was better than all the others!!! The trainers at the club where he was training, Westerviks TK, quickly realized what a big talent this boy was. Just after a couple of years, they noticed that his way of playing tennis was different from all the great Swedes who played at that time, for an example Björn ...
- 215: Firearms
- ... barrel back-and-forth. In automatic rifle you don’t have to -- it discharges automatically each time you pull on a trigger – a precious toy of all the snipers, but quite unpopular, because of its big weight, unreliability, and limited mobility. Mini-machine-gun – is a portable automatic weapon, (halfway between a pistol and a machine-gun) which is capable of shooting pistol bullets continuously at a high rate. There’re ... range and accuracy of mini-machine guns are quite limited – and that’s why they are not used in army so frequently. For instance, Israeli “Mini-USI” gun (it quite small, about a size of big pistol) has a capability of firing 1250 bullets per minute – but I would never use it on a battlefield, because it is quite ineffective at distances larger than 600 meters. By the way, its standard capacity is only 20-24 bullets – not big of a deal (try to calculate how long will it take you to completely discharge the gun if you pull and hold the trigger – yes, it is about 0.67 seconds). Machine guns – are ...
- 216: Rap Music
- ... O'shea Jackson) sang at a concert where he had to take violence towards a korean This started a riot after his concert,that resulted in a dozen of burned korean shops. This was a big misunderstanding, so is peoples view on rap music. What we must do is get to the heart of the problem. SEX, HOMICIDE, MONEY, these are some controversial things rappers must rap about to get "Mad ... not realizing that that lots of kids out their are loking up to them as role models. Did you know that %20 percent of the population in North America listen to rap, so thats a big number of people that rap performmer are responsible for. Many rappers talk about streets life, but lots of rapppers are out there trying to make the big bucks. These rappers sing music about violence and corruption because they know thats what sells around here. And big music companys don't really care what rappers singing about, as long it brings big ...
- 217: Kurt Cobain: Collection of Personal Accounts From Family Relatives
- ... sudden, we heard this horrendous combination of screaming, warbling and yodeling from Kurt, who was upstream and out of sight. Gramps told me to run up there and help Kurt, who must have hooked a big fish. When I reached Kurt, he didn't even have his line in the water. When I asked him what was going on, he just looked at me with those piercing eyes and huge grin ... Kurt was off to my right side and I could see he was just sort of looking up into the treetops as he was walking. I just cringed when he really hit hard into a big mountain hemlock. I mean, he really smashed into it. He sort of staggered over to me with this stupid grin on his face and said: "Boy, that kind of hurt. Got any more candy bars ... related at the memorial that Kurt had been howling and screaming and generally making a lot of noise. Gramps had told me to go upstream to find Kurt because he must have hooked into a big fish..and, of course, you all know that he didn't even have his line in the water! He was just kicking back against a good sized rock in the sunshine, practicing his screaming ...
- 218: America's Right Turn
- ... office, was similar to the inefficacy of the Bush administration which allowed Bill Clinton to gain the presidency, one which declared "It's the economy, stupid" in its first term and promised "The end of big government" in its second. Berman contends that Clinton could not find a viable political alternative to the GOP and eventually focused on the federal deficit and economics, the legacy of Reagan and Bush. Further, the ... politics away from the left and more toward middle-ground, to the point of co-opting numerous issues of the Republican agenda while still supporting popular Democratic programs, "While rhetorically proclaiming that 'the era of big government is over,' Clinton also co-opted Republican positions on family values, crime, welfare reform, and a balanced budget…Thus, this New Democrat had absorbed well the chief political lesson of the day, that America ... working class. Carter's inefficacy where the national economy was helped fuel the conservative fervor sweeping across America. Americans began to lose faith in the Democratic party as being able to responsibly handle the economy. Big government seemed to be on the backs of working-class and middle-class Americans, spending millions of dollars on programs which had little to do with their interests. While Reagan's programs actually benefited ...
- 219: The McDonaldization of Society
- ... tendency to emphasize quantity rather than quality. This leads to a sense that quality is equal to certain, usually (but not always) large quantities of things." (Ritzer 1994:142) Examples of this element include: the "Big Mac," the Whopper," "Big Gulp," Wendy's "Biggie Meals," food sold by its weight--Taco Bell's 8 ounce burrito. Another manifestation relates to time-quicker is better. "Lose weight fast," microwaving allows for "spending less time in the ... Rational people need to know what to expect. They want to be sure that the fun, satisfaction, taste, and benefits they received last week in Cincinnati will be repeated next week in San Diego. A Big Mac is a Big Mac is a Big Mac. The movie industry builds upon this concept by churning out sequel after sequel. The spin-off series in television programming, or the success of authors ...
- 220: Jazz Age
- ... and its music is perhaps the happiest and most significant aspect of the Swing Era, a quality impossible to recapture now, and, for those who did not actually experience it, difficult to savor in retrospect. Big bands in the swing era were made up of ten or more musicians whose instruments were grouped into three categories called “sections:” rhythm, brass, and drums. The brass section included trumpets and trombones. The saxophone section was separated from the brass section because they originated from instruments made of wood. In a big band the sax section contained from three to five musicians. The size of the trumpet section varied from two to five musicians, two or three being the standard (Schuller323). Unlike the early jazz era, in ... of only a few years before. The challenge, as most bandleaders saw it, was to hold on to the past. But for the most committed ones, the goal was nothing less than to bring the big band into the future. Many of them looked to the world of contemporary classical music for inspiration. For the most part they looked to bebop as the magical ingredient that would revitalized the big ...
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