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- 851: The Praying Mantis
- ... mule. Camel-crickets (Unknown) PRAYING MANTIS KUNGFU If one talks about Praying Mantis Boxing then one must know that its founder and patriarch was someone, named Wang Lang. However it is unknown when exactly he lived and what kind of family he came from but certainly his family was not wealthy. Wang Lang was famous for his passion for martial arts and was an outstanding person. He traveled a lot around ... the taoist monks of the Lao Shan taoist religious community and it was kept as a part of the secret taoist doctrine and closed to lay people. Wang Lang, for the rest of his days, lived in the taoist temple practicing self cultivation, developing Praying Mantis boxing and following the way of the Tao..."
- 852: Gangs
- ... In the early 1900s the U.S. economy worsened, the population grew at a rapid pace, and the gap between the rich and poor widened. All across the nation gangs appeared where poor, hopeless people lived. The dawning of the 20th century also brought with it a widespread use of firearms. 1920sBy mid 1920s there were 1313 gangs in Chicago and more than 25,000 members. Gang warfare in Chicago was ... states and come from many backgrounds. Some gangs still form in immigrant communities populated, for example, by recent arrivals from Vietnam, El Salvador and Haiti. Others cultivate members in neighborhoods consisting of families who have lived in the United States for generations. Members are still usually male, between the ages 13 and 24.Geography of Today's GangsAlthough gangs are more common in metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, Chicago and ...
- 853: Cause And Effect Of Lack Of Education, Communication, And Action
- ... What I mean by self-segregation is people unwilling to reach out and help. By segregating themselves they limit their ability to effectively help the community. I recall a story of a young woman that lived in a metropolitan city. Going to school and working to support herself was all she was guilty of. She lived in a large apartment complex. Was friendly with neighbors and new them well. One evening around five o’clock she was returning from work. A man in the courtyard attacked her. She was beaten and ...
- 854: Civil Disobedience
- ... as Mahatma, meaning `good soul' in Indian. For Gandhi the fight was not just about nonviolence, but about truth and love for human beings. He saw sacrifice of self as the law of life, and lived by that ideal. His dream was to see his country free from Britain, without war, and without blood shed, using soul-force only. Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it ... ideals, there is no guarantee that they will be listened to or respected. Francois-Marie Arouet, adopting the pen name of Voltaire, was too advanced in his thinking for the time period in which he lived. He challenged all of the abuses that existed in France at the time, and satirized what he saw as societal flaws. People, however, weren't educated in the sixteenth century, and were unaware of events ...
- 855: Human Evolution And The Fossil Record
- ... argon dating. However, thanks to scientific breakthroughs, these two processes can be used with reasonable security in establishing a time for fossils. Our farthest believed ancestor is believed to be Australopithecus afarensis. This species, which lived between three and four million years ago, is believed to be the first real hominid because it is the oldest, and "most primitive of any definite hominid form thus far found."(Turnbaugh, 281) Evidence from ... time of Homo erectus, the next key hominid on the human lineage. Because they are believed to have evolved apart from Homo hominids, it is not important to cover these species in detail. Homo erectus lived between 300,000 and 1,800,000 years ago, and still had portruding jaws and a "keel" effect on the top of the cranium. It, like its predecessors, had no definable chin, and thick brow ...
- 856: Birth Parents Should Not Be Able To Reclaim Their Child
- ... traumatic if the child would have to be moved to her birth parents. Schmidt even married Clausen just to say that the state could not take the baby away from them. When a child has lived with loving birth parents like these two there would be no point in losing a past and switching families, such as when the legal system agreed and gave the Jessica back to her birth parents ... not theirs). Kelly Stifferman stated if the children's opinion were considered in all cases birth parents would not have the right to reclaim their children. Trying to relive a life that has already been lived, these parents should not be granted the right the reclaim their child. (Sifferman 1994, 33) Depending where birth parents live, many have the opportunity to wrongly reclaim their child, and are taking advantage of it ...
- 857: Contaminated Motives
- ... is actually tarnishing his image by entering the world of illegal trades and bootlegging. Furthermore, he jeopardizes his inner character by regarding Dan Cody as a role model, and aspiring to be him. Dan Cody lived on a boat, and drank himself into an alcoholic haze nearly every night- is this a role model one should desire? Overall, Pip and Gatsby accomplished their paralleled tasks of not being common to grasp ... albums, which in turn erected a momentous image. He was not seen as the poor boy from Las Vegas anymore, but rather the man who made it through the tough life. Eventually, the life he lived within gangs delivered his death in a drive by shooting. He created enemies while conspiring with the gangs, and although this brought him money and eventually fame, it killed him, much like Gatsby. Dennis Rodman ...
- 858: Tsunamis
- ... impacts and supermarine landslides disturb the water because the momentum of the falling object is transferred into the sea and rarely affects coastlines which are a distance from the source. The existing energy is short lived and although powerful, dies down quickly. These features include deep ocean trenches, mountain ranges, and explosive volcanic islands. Most tsunamis originate along the so-called Ring of Fire, a zone of volcanoes and seismic activity ... efforts forcing affected locations into debts. Tsunamis have left beaches and coasts destroyed. The land may be entirely eroded thus ruining the shape of the beach, and all of the vegetation and life that had lived on it. These features including coral reefs, dunes, living creatures, and the vegetation which had taken hundreds of years to naturally evolve, may be permanently destroyed without the help of humans. The process of rebuilding ...
- 859: Abigail Adams
- ... slaves but were called servants to avoid the dehumanizing effect that the word 'slave' can mean. Their house was a sight of luxury in the eyes of the common folk in the parish. Though they lived well, the Smiths had no fortune. Abigail's father often worked with his own hands, planting corn and potatoes, gathering hay, sowing barley, or making sure that his sheep received proper care. Abigail, with the ... war and on June 17 John Quincy and Abigail went to Bunker Hill and watched the roar of the cannons and saw the flames of burning Charleston atop of Penn's Hill near where they lived. Soon they learned of the British losses and how greater they were, but Abigail knew someone named Dr. Warren who died. He helped John Quincy from the loss of his finger. Abigail wrote many letters ...
- 860: Death Of A Salesman Essay
- ... a Salesman": An Appreciation, in the Forties: 1969) rpt in clc. Detroit: Gale Research. 1983 vol. 26:323 Themes/Purpose/Ideas The main theme in Death of a Salesman is illusion versus reality. Willy has lived his entire life in a world of illusions. These illusions include Willy's belief that being well-liked is the key to success, as well as the literal illusions that Willy has of his past ... of the play he has become completely disillusioned. Once Biff comes to fully understand his place in life, he says to Willy, "I'm a dime a dozen, and so are you." Willy, however, has lived too long in his dreams and cannot understand what Biff is trying to say. If Willy had to face reality, he would then be forced to examine the affair he had in Boston, his philosophy ...
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