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- 11: The Town Of El Dorado Springs
- ... the Indians considered the water medicinal? Could I prove this statement false? Farther on in the book, I came to the section titled "For Whites Only." "From the town's founding[,] no negros have ever lived here." This in itself, to me, was phenomenal, but the last sentence was what made me want to search farther. "El Dorado still has no negro residents, but under today's Supreme Court rulings on ... Little things kept popping up about the town in conversations or in things that I read. Being a strong believer in "there are no accidents," when my English instructor mentioned a teacher she knew who lived there but taught in Kansas City, I asked if I could tackle El Dorado Springs as the subject of my I Search for English. When the answer was yes, I set out to find if ... the Internet turned up no information. It was time to contact the only person's name I had that knew about the area, Susanna Swager, the teacher who worked at the Blue Springs campus and lived in El Dorado Springs. I called her and introduced myself. "Ms. Swager, my name is Pamela Yeager, a student at Penn Valley Community College; my English teacher gave me your name. I'm doing ...
- 12: A Life Lived In Fear Is A Life
- ... but there is no breaking new ground without leaving the beaten path. This was the theme of the movie "Strictly Ballroom". It was best described by a character in the movie when she said " half lived." To live your life in conformity is to keep yourself from your full potential. The main character in this movie was a dancer who wanted to show the world what he could do, but was ... t win if you don’t play. No longer do we live in a world where we can create our own standards without feeling ostracized by the society that forms the standards for us. half lived, and I for one will not let society decide what or who I can be. I won't give in to fear, and when I look back at my life, it will have mattered and ...
- 13: A Life Lived In Fear Is A Life
- ... but there is no breaking new ground without leaving the beaten path. This was the theme of the movie "Strictly Ballroom". It was best described by a character in the movie when she said " half lived." To live your life in conformity is to keep yourself from your full potential. The main character in this movie was a dancer who wanted to show the world what he could do, but was ... t win if you don t play. No longer do we live in a world where we can create our own standards without feeling ostracized by the society that forms the standards for us. half lived, and I for one will not let society decide what or who I can be. I won't give in to fear, and when I look back at my life, it will have mattered and ...
- 14: Essay And Opinion On The Way O
- ... and housework. It meant setting a new mold for themselves’ and insisting that other women follow the same path at one's own discretion. But this was not as easy as it seemed. These women lived during a time were they had no time for revolution. Most women were so busy tending to home management, husbandry and child rearing that an inconsiderable amount of them had the time or the energy ... any man. ***** Mary’s experiences are here to be shared by all of us now and to come. The thing she went through instilled values in all the people around her. Though the age she lived through was strenuous, yet rewarding, her story also illustrates and represents numerous amounts of people that lived through an inconceivable time of growth and development for our people and our country. In a world were there is constant evolution, there is constant longing for revolution. Women are still learning to be ...
- 15: History Of The World
- Article printed from World Book INFORMATION FINDER. WORLD, HISTORY OF THE (Introduction) WORLD, HISTORY OF THE. People have probably lived on the earth about 2 million years. But the story of world history begins only about 5,500 years ago with the invention of writing. The period before people began to write is usually called ... prehistory by studying what the people left behind, including artwork, tools, ruins of buildings, fossils, and even their own skeletons. Such objects provide the main evidence of what prehistoric people were like and how they lived. For a description of life in prehistoric times, see the Information Finder article PREHISTORIC PEOPLE. The first traces of writing date from about 3500 B.C. From then on, people could record their own history. By writing down their experiences, they could tell future generations what they were like and how they lived. From these documents, we can learn firsthand about the rise and fall of civilizations and the course of other important events. The history of the world--from the first civilizations to the present--is ...
- 16: Skeptical Views On Noahs Ark
- ... 5000 years, a boatload of animals did not ground on so-called Mount Ararat or on any mountain, and the world's animals are not descended from two or seven pairs of each species that lived during the third millennium BC. Nor is there any archaeological proof that a man survived a flood by being on a boat loaded with animals, food, and drinking water. The Noah's Ark book summarized ... of Baghdad. Some but not all Sumerian cities also show signs of this river flood at the beginning of the Early Dynastic I period. According to the Sumerian King List, a legendary king named Ziusudra lived in Shuruppak at the time of the flood. There was also a flood myth about king Ziusudra which includes several story elements very similar to the Genesis flood myth. Shuruppak was also the flood hero ... of Baghdad. Some but not all Sumerian cities also show signs of this river flood at the beginning of the Early Dynastic I period. According to the Sumerian King List, a legendary king named Ziusudra lived in Shuruppak at the time of the flood. Zuisudra was the Sumerian Noah. There was also a flood myth about king Ziusudra which includes several story elements very similar to the Genesis flood myth. ...
- 17: Leonardo Da Vinnci
- Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 14, 1452 in the town of Vinci near Florence Italy. He kept the name of his town for his last name. He lived during the fifteenth century, a period when the people of Europe were becoming interested in art. This period of time was known as the Renaissance period. Leonardo Da Vinci was very talented. He was a ... them vital to the painting. Another attribute about this painting is that it is Leonardo's favorite that he made. People all over the world consider Leonardo as one of the finest painters that ever lived. Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 14, 1452 in the town of Vinci near Florence Italy. He kept the name of his town for his last name. He lived during the fifteenth century, a period when the people of Europe were becoming interested in art. This period of time was known as the Renaissance period. Leonardo Da Vinci was very talented. He was ...
- 18: From Water To Land
- ... terrestrial vertebrates. The earliest tetrapod known is Acanthostega. It is also considered the most primitive tetrapod. It is very close to its fish ancestry, but still anatomically far from its terrestrial relatives. These creatures still lived in water, but they had a lot of the terrestrial tetrapod anatomical characteristics. Introduction: Before tetrapods existed, all vertebrates were confined to living in aquatic habitats. The only animals that lived on land were arthropods. Through natural adaptations, the fish developed into amphibians. This colossal stage of change made necessary the evolution of new ways of breathing, locomotion, and reproduction. Paleontologists needed to understand how this ... help them survive. This time period is very difficult to study because there is a very small amount of fossils preserved. After all, this occurred approximately 350 million years ago; and since the first tetrapods lived in water, their remains were damaged as time went on. Summary: . In 1940 Alfred Romer of Harvard offered a powerful scenario about the process of evolution of the fish into amphibians. He argued that ...
- 19: The Meaning Of Life To Different People
- ... somehow enhance each other’s humanity to love, to touch others’ lives, to put others in touch with basic human emotions, to know that you have made even one life breath easier because you have lived." 4 Thomas. E. O’ Connor, an Aids activist, believes that the meaning of life, changes everyday. He thinks we are here to learn that we can make our own life; whether it will be pleasant ... society. The Dalai Lama suggest the meaning of life is the search for happiness and fulfillment of ones desires. Gary Lamb, a farmer believes that a person should be judged on the way they have lived their life, rather then on the number of years they have lived. "My belief is that a man should be judged not by the duration of his life but by the donation."7 He believes that our goals should be to contribute back to society, in ...
- 20: Native Americans
- ... peoples of the world today. The were also the first to raise turkeys. They found uses for such native American plants as rubber, tobacco, the sugar maple, and the cinchona tree (for quinine). The had lived in America for thousands of years when the first European explorers set foot on their land. When Christopher Columbus landed in the New World, he called the native people indios (Spanish for Indians) because he ... not fill this vast area. It has been estimated that only about 1,025,000 were living north of Mexico when the first white men came to America. Differences in Ways of Living The Indians lived in different ways in various parts of the country. When a roaming band of Indians found a place with good hunting and plenty of seeds and berries, they settled down. Gradually they learned to utilize ... the eastern part of North America had a region with plentiful rainfall. Forests spread over mountains and valleys. There were many lakes and streams. The Woodland tribes largely depended upon the trees, the animals that lived in the woods, and the fish and shellfish from the streams and the sea. They used tree bark and branches to make their houses, many of their weapons and utensils, and the canoes in ...
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