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One Strike Law For Pedophiles
498 wordsPedophilia in short is the desire of an adult for sexual contact with children. Pedophiles have been known to molest children only hours after being released from a lengthy prison sentence. In some instances, they kill their victims in order to cover up their crimes. Over the years, society has implemented many attempts to contain pedophilia including such measures as incarceration, therapy, and even castration. Few of these have proven successful. Pedophilia poses an alarming problem for societ...
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Barnum Museum Circus And Menagerie
2,157 wordsP.T. Barnum Phineas Taylor Barnum reinvented the circus. His knowledge of what people want and how to make people think they want what he had was amazing. He constantly fooled people and had a way of making the customers come back. Barnum was ultimate salesman. He single handed ly turned the circus into the 'Greatest Show On Earth' it is today. P.T. Barnum was born in Bethel, Connecticut on July 5th 1810. He later called himself a 'Yankee doodle dandy, plus one. ' He was the oldest of five, all ...
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Usual Controversial Don Cherry
735 wordsDon Cherry, born and raised in Kingston Ontario, is known for his openness, often debatable and always amusing commentary. Mr. Cherry can be seen weekly during the National Hockey League season. He has a segment during the first intermission, every Saturday on CBC's Hockey Night In Canada called the Coach's Corner. Don grew up playing hockey, for he was playing in the OHL by the time he was 17. Unfortunately, Don never made it big, but he managed to make his way around the minor league system fo...
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Legendary Boxer Rocky Marciano
2,969 wordsOn Sept. 1, 1923 Mr. and Mrs. Pierino Marchegiano of Brockton, MA became the proud parents of a lively twelve pound baby boy. The child was named Rocco Marchegiano, but the world would one day know him as the legendary boxer Rocky Marciano. When 'bambino Rocco' was 18 months of age, he contracted pneumonia. Although the infection nearly killed him, his exceptionally strong constitution enabled him to survive without impairment. As a pre-teenager, Rocky relished his mother's Italian cooking so mu...
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Now Doctor
764 wordsThese are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place: Q: What is your date of birth? A: July fifteenth. Q: What year? A: Every year. Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact? A: Gucci sweats and Reebok's. Q: This myasthenia graves, does it affect your memory at all? A: Yes. Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory? A: I forget. Q: You fo...
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Jack Nicklaus
1,257 wordsJack Nicklaus For the past 30 years, Jack Nicklaus has been considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (1). His stamina has matched that of Arnold Palmer, and only the likes of Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Bobby Jones, and Tiger Woods are to be considered players in Nicklaus' league. In numbers of major tournaments won, Nicklaus stands alone with 18 victories (1), a number that does not include major titles won on the Champions Tour. He has won 73 times on the PGA Tour and has 58 secon...
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First High Priest In The Mikdash
5,354 wordsTHE JUBILEE CALENDAR A Major Point of Contention between the Zadokite Priesthood and the Hasmonean Priesthood INTRODUCTION Halachikally the Torah Law we follow today is according to the School of Hillel. The School of Hillel and the School of Shamai were so far apart that the Talmud expresses fear that the One Torah might end up as two to rot ("Sanhedrin" 88 b). Medrashim say that when Moshi ach comes we will follow the School of Shamai. In other words, the School of Hillel will become lower, an...
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Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
2,053 wordsFerdinand Graf von Zeppelin Probably hardly a shape of aviation history is part of as many legends as Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin. He was born on July 8, 1838 in Konstanz at the Bodensee. He was educated at the Ludwigsburg Military Academy and the University of T&u uml; bingen. He entered the Prussian army in 1858 and went to the United States in 1863 to work as a military observer for the Union army and observed the Civil War. Zeppelin served in the Franco-German War of 1870-1871; he retired in...
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Encyclopedia Britannica Tycho Brahe
569 wordsTycho Brahe was born on December 14th, 1546 in a town calledKnudstrup in Scania, Denmark. His early years were filled with pain, as he was kidnapped by his uncle and raised in his castle in Tostrup, Scania. His education was backed by his uncle, and he went to the University of Copenhagen to study law from 1559-1562. It was during this time that Brahe developed a love for astronomy. He saw a solar eclipse of the Sun which was predicted for August 21st 1560, and he found it fascinating how a pred...
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Chris's Confidence
1,248 wordsChris HausfeldDehanEnglish 101 Substantive Revision-profile Sidekicks We arose out of the swamp dripping with black mud and covered with blood- sucking leeches. Our guns pointed toward the enemy. We fired at the incoming platoon of enemy soldiers. The barrage of bullets seemed endless. We were heavily outnumbered while under constant gunfire from the enemy at almost point-blank range. We were pummeled by clip after clip of bullets from the enemy while grenades exploded all around us. Our flesh w...
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Andrea Salina Monster Aileen Wuornos
6,341 wordsMonster: The Story of Aileen Wuornos By: Andrea Salina MONSTER Aileen Wuornos didn't stand a chance from the very early years of her life. Her family background lays the groundwork for her emotional instability that would deem her one of the most notorious female serial killers of all time. Aileen was born February 29, 1956 in Rochester, Michigan as Aileen Carol Pittman. Her biological father, whom she never knew, was a crazed child molester that hanged himself in prison in 1969. Her mother Dian...
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Distrust Schliemann's Archaeological Reports
4,821 words'We could describe (Heinrich) Schliemann's excavations on the hill of Hissarlik and consider their results without speaking of Troy or even alluding to it,' Georges Perrot wrote in 1891 in his Journal des Savants. 'Even then, they would have added a whole new chapter to the history of civilization, the history of art' (qt d. in Duch&ec irc; ne 87). Heinrich Schliemann's life is the stuff fairy tales are made of. A poor, uneducated, and motherless boy rises through his hard work and parsimonious ...
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Later Poussins Painting
3,036 wordsNicolas Poussin 1594-1665 Pictori philosopho (Blunt, 3), Painter-philosopher was a name given to Nicolas Poussin by Serous d Agincourt in 1782. Agincourt later found out that the name Pictori philosopho had already been given to the German artist Anton Raphael Meng as. Nicolas Poussin was born in 1594 in the town of Les Andelys on the Seine. He came from a nobel family that was ruined by religious wars according to Giovanni Pietro Bellori. No actual proof of this has been established his father ...
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One Large Battle Between Nabonidus And Cyrus
2,776 words(Apologies for certain lapses in grammatical English. However, the information is correct and this essay recieved a mark of 63%) 1. What are the events of the reign of Nabonidus Nabonidus became king as a usurper, after Labasi-Marduk had been killed in a palace intrigue. There has been a little confusion of the date of the beginning of his reign, since Nabonidus was recognized as king in Nippur from 25. May 556 BC. but he is first recognized as the king in Uruk and Sippar as late as the end of J...
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General George Custer
1,071 wordsGeneral George A. Custer Few nineteenth century military leaders gained as much fame and publicity as General George Armstrong Custer of the seventh cavalry. From West Point, to the battlefields of the Civil War, and then on to the Great Plains to fight the Lakota Indians, he had his hand in many of the most important and influential battles of the late 1800's. Although, it was his tragic demise at the Battle of Little Bighorn that put him into history books everywhere. George A. Custer was born...
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Ancient Kernels Of Popcorn
3,817 wordsWhat is the history of popcorn? Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Don't you love the smell of fresh popped corn? Popcorn's history dates back over 5,000 years ago. It's believed by archaeologists and researchers to be the oldest of a group of five sweet corns; Indian corn, pod corn, popcorn, sweet corn and field corn. Ancient corn pollen (not popcorn variety) has been found and judged to be 80,000 years old. This pollen was found two hundred feet below where the site of Mexico City sits today. Popcorn was ori...
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New Basilica For St Peter
1,175 wordsPerhaps one of the most mysterious, yet magnificent, buildings ever, St. Peter's Basilica has amazed people for hundreds of years. Its massive size can be seen for miles, and the dome is simply stunning. Inside, it contains famous work by Michelangelo, Giotto, and Bernini. St. Peter's Basilica is basically a masterpiece. However, before the "new" St. Peter's Basilica was created, there was an "old" one before it. In the early 4th century, around 330, emperor Constantine decided to erect a basili...
