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- 11391: Booker T. Washington
- ... So, people saw Booker T. Washington as their champion and adopted his autobiography, up from slavery. In Franklin County, Virginia Washington was given birth too. He was raised as a slave until after the civil war when he and his family were declared free. Washington does not no know much about his family history other than his ancestors, form his mothers side, suffered in the middle passage of the slave ship ... but also used as the kitchen for the plantation. His life went fast and devoted all of his time into some kind of labor each and everyday and no time for sports. After the civil war was over, all blacks were free and they felt that they should change their names and leave their plantations either for a couple of days or weeks in order to really feel free. As Washington ...
- 11392: B.b. King
- ... radio commercials and became a disc jockey. Later he played in small clubs, and then in larger venues in the mid-1960's. He has toured extensively through- out the United States and around the world, appearing in concerts, at blues festivals, on television, and in films. How did Riley B. King receive the nickname B.B. King? Well, he was known as " the blues boy from Beale Street," later shortened to B.B. "Riley B. King is the world's preeminent blues guitarist. There is hardly a rock, pop, or blues player anywhere who doesn't owe him something." Frank Sinatra and Nat Cole are two who use the "B.B. King style of ...
- 11393: Babe Ruth
- ... extent of his extraordinary ability" that put a smile on all the youngsters faces. No matter where he was the fans would follow; the attendance was always the greatest in his presence. After the 1919 World Series scandal by the "Black Sox", along with the problems in the National Commission, professional baseball was reorganized and a new commissioner was appointed. In 1921 the new ball, which is also the current ball ... Ruth's home run record of sixty from 1927 was still standing. Even though Ruth was getting older attendance was remaining steady in New York, while the American League attendance was suffering drastically. The 1932 World Series tried to correct all this. This time it was New York versus Chicago but things started going wrong. There was bantering between games, name calling during the games and Ruth was the target and ...
- 11394: Basketball
- ... a ball through a raised goal (basket) at the opponents end of the playing court. 2.) a large, round, inflated ball used in this game. Basketball is a game that is played all around the world. Here in the United States we have enjoyed playing and watching it since it was invented by James Naiemith in 1891. Basketball is played by just about everyone. Although, usually, the players who are the ... basketball is very difficult to learn and to play. There are so many different strategies, techniques, and many other things that make this sport very unique in its own way. Americans and people around the world are beginning to take the sport very seriously, but the sport was mainly started up just so we could have fun.
- 11395: Cloudstreet, Tim Winton
- ... born novelist Tim Winton is essentially a story revolving around how two rural families have come to live together at number one Cloudstreet. This novel’s themes are about finding one’s place in the world and the search for the meaning of life. As in this instance, Winton has successfully used setting and structure, crucial factors in any prosperous novel to help create a feeling of a real-life type ... water symbolises cleansing, a type of cleaning and a new way of seeing or thinking about something. It is in Fish’s heaven that we see his other-self and his desire to remember this world and too see it again. The spiritual ramifications of the novel’s prologue and epilogue scenes are unmistakably clear. In water as there is death, there is rebirth or life. This is shown in the ...
- 11396: The Greenhouse Effect
- ... carbon dioxide for food. The huge amounts of carbon dioxide are trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere increasing the temperature. Experts predict that a possible result of the greenhouse effect will be that the world's oceans will rise a possible 1 to 4 feet. Temperatures are expected to rise causing more rain in some places and less in others. Another provider to the greenhouse effect is the use of ... alternative forms of energy, and by conserving energy. As for the CFCs we need to stop the production of them all together and ban the use of them in all aerosol cans everywhere in the world. The global warming problem is one that can be addressed with logical ways to fix it. The only problem is that we need to start now before the earth's atmosphere continues to get worse ...
- 11397: Love 2
- LOVE Once in a person's lifetime, everyone finds this one perfect person who they fall hopelessly in love with and live happily ever after. That is a mere fallacy, in the real world, this simply does not happen. Yes, people do have common interests and therefore develop romantic involvement, but it is basic common sense that these relationships have a life span and simply cannot last. Real life relationships are definitely more like "The Real World" rather than "Romeo and Juliet". Romanticism is wonderful in itself, and thus two people can live in heavenly bliss, but it all must come to an end somehow. It is a fact of life that ...
- 11398: Ghana And Mali
- Before Columbus sailed to the New World and before Europe reached their “Enlightenment Era” two significant kingdoms flourished on the west coast of what some refer to as the motherland: Africa. The name of these two mighty states are Ghana and Mali ... Songhay and Mossi people. Mali continued to exist as a small, semi-independent state for many years. Ghana and Mali were two very important kingdoms in the history of the continent as well as the world as a whole. Researching their times of prosperity and also their decline can be keys in unlocking the mysteries of the twenty-first century.
- 11399: Death Penalty in the United States
- ... abolish and then reintroduce the death penalty do not seem to have any change in their murder rates (Bedau). Death penalty opponents also point to the fact that over half of the countries in the world have abolished the death penalty, including all other major industrialized, democratic nations (Flanders 35). In the five countries with the highest homicide rates that do not impose the death penalty, the murder rate is 21 ... criticized the US for this practice ("U.S."). In 1996, prosecutors in some states sought the death penalty for children as young as 13. This has brought about widespread criticism from other nations of the world ("Stop"). Death penalty opponents use these facts as evidence that society is not competent enough to carry out the death penalty. Death penalty opponents also feel that the judicial system is not flawless, and that ...
- 11400: One Messy Situation (book Thei
- ... she knew that they knew her dirty little secret. Hey guys, what s happenin? was the only thing that popped into Phoeby s head. You little bitch I hate you more than anything in this world Janie screamed. The only thing that Sam could do was show his heart-broken face, he had no energy to scream and yell. I m so sorry, Janie, I didn t mean any harm Teacake ... separated. About that time the same day Janie was moving all of her things out of Teacake s house and back into hers. Please don t do this, I love you sweetheart, you mean the world to me. Then why would you have done such a thing? I don t know what I was thinking, I was jealous of Sam and how happy he was with his wife and how you ...
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