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What’s My Age Again?Children have become increasingly violent since the 1970s. Today more gangs exist and homicides occur than in the past thirty years. Crime rates have only dropped slightly in the five previous years (Vieregge n.p.). Now that more juvenile delinquents are entering the justice system, the question arises . . . Read more

Stephen King was a surprise to his mother. She thought she couldn’t have children so she adopted a son and named him David Victor King. Two years later Stephen Edwin King was born on September 20th, 1947, in the Portland, Maine General Hospital. His parents were Nellie Ruth Pillsbury, a . . . Read more

The story begins in Key West, Florida where Theodore “Fats” Navarrowas born of mixed Cuban-Black-Chinese parentage on September 24, 1923. Hismusical training began early with piano lessons at age six, but he did not starttaking music seriously until he took up the trumpet at age thirteen. He becamegood during his . . . Read more

Summation Hawaii, by James A. Michener, is a novel which covers, on both afictional and a non-fictional level, the total history of Hawaii from itsbeginning until approximately 1954. The work traces Hawaiian history fromthe geological creation of the islands (“From the Boundless Deeps) to thearrival of its first inhabitants, (“From . . . Read more

Remember to establish credibility Remember to cite sources Avoid Vocal Pauses Introduction: How many of you have been to the OSU Drag Show? (pause) Whether you know little about drag shows or are a drag queen yourself, going to a drag show is a unique experience for all that attend, . . . Read more

US SlaveryWhen slavery was first practiced in theAmericas during the early colonial period, it was purely for economic use. The use of slaves in sugar, tabbaco, and cotton plantations brought a greatdeal of profit and thus slavery was implemented into the whole system wherethere was harsh agriculture. These regions were . . . Read more

Abstract The Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking for Truth in the Sciences is an autobiography published by Rene Descartes’ in 1637. In this writing Descartes expresses his disappointment with traditional philosophy and with the limitations of theology. Therefore he proposes a method of thought . . . Read more

tecture. This technology will take enterprise wide computing into the 21st century. Computing power has rapidly become distributed and interconnected throughout many organizations through networks of all types of computers. Networked computer systems are taking the form of client/server computing. With client/server computing, end users can handle a broad range . . . Read more

The first 13 of the 18 documents, collectively called TheExtermination of the Jews, were not in any way new stories to me. In fact Icame into this book with the same attitude that I usually do when facedwith Holocaust stories, that of “Yes it was horrible, but I know all . . . Read more