It had cities, big and small. ... While in Kansas a tornado rips through, and carries Dorothy to an unfamiliar place. ... It tore through America with out warning, taking it to a place not seen before, economic turmoil. ... There were large and small ones just like in America. The large one in Oz was the emerald city and the small one was Munchkin city. ...
Though the concept of virtual place and time would not become part of the terminology of human thinking for almost another 150 years, the foundations were laid with this invention. ... In the 1990's the technological frontier opened doors to digital phones smaller than the human hand. ... The size of these digital phones are getting smaller, less means more. Smaller chips and circuit allow for such small phone designs. In 1991, two major commercial events took place, which put the power of CD-ROM storage technology and computer based search engines in the hands of ordinary people....
Because slaves could be sold in America for twenty to thirty times the price in Africa, men, women, and children were forced to aboard small vessels and travel to the New World. ... The areas of slavery were through out the entire country, but the most common place for plantation was in the Chesapeake area, along with South Carolina and Georgia. ... " They used the slaves to work in the plantation, which took place in watery fields, thus causing a huge outbreak from mosquitoes caring malaria. ... They had small farms that few slaves would work by maintaining the agriculture, and becoming ...
Ionization detectors respond more quickly to flaming fires with smaller combustion particles; photoelectric detectors respond more quickly to smoldering fires. ... Never place the detector at the top of the basement stairs by the cellar door. ... Place smoke detectors at the top of each stairwell and at the end of each long hallway. ... If you mount it on the wall, place it six to 12 inches below the ceiling and away from corners. ... Establish a meeting place outside the house for all members of t...
Small local bookstores are all going on the internet to compete with companies who have easier access for their book products. Most of the small bookstores will have a web page explaining their Bookstore mission statement. ... This is a way that small retailers can compete with a large internet companies as Amazon.com. ... A bookstore will not only provide a place for people to gain knowledge or exercise their creative thoughts but can also serve as a place for career opportunities. ... This would be a great place for a recreation and leisure major person because they could incorporate some le...
Continuous Abstinence: no sex play Pros-no cost, prevents 100% of not getting pregnant or any STD's, no medical or hormonal side effects Cons-none Outercourse: sex play without vaginal intercourse Pros-nearly 100% effective, no medical or hormonal side effects, may prolong sex play and enhance orgasm, can be used when nothing else is available Cons- difficult for people to abstain from vaginal intercourse for long periods, pregnancy is possible if semen or pre-ejaculation is spilled on the vulva Sterilization: an operation to keep sperm from joining the egg Pros-permanent protec...
Locavores state that eating locally grown food supports farmers and small business in their communities. ... James McWilliams a journalist for Forbes.com implies in an article he wrote called "On My Mind: The Locavore Myth" that buying local threatens small farms elsewhere in the world (1). ... Only 20 percent of Americans live in rural small areas, meaning that the majority live in densely populated urban areas, usually hundreds and thousands of miles away from food production (Roberts). ... (Maiser) Some places don't have access to a farm. ... Local farmer market shoppers are far more l...
Because of these people, the introduction of the plastic bag ban must be in place to save the environment. ... After becoming waste, only a very small amount is recycled or combusted into energy. ... Other smaller wildlife is endangered by strangling or entanglement and die due to suffocation or drowning because they are unable to move. ... One example is "Plastic bags photodegrade: over time they break down into smaller, more toxic Petro-polymers." ... (Moore) This quote explains that plastic bags merely break down into smaller pieces, a process called "Photodegradation". ...
Also, America is known as the place which has welcomed refugees when they have suffered in their own countries. ... Now, they need the assistance around the world when they have no place to stay. ... It is actually a very small number for a Nation of immigrants like America. ... The smaller nations like Turkey and Lebanon also agreed to take over one million Syrian refugees. ... It has proven itself to be a place of freedom and opportunity for the refugees. ...
His confidence and ability to argue his opinion with his experience in business and a family man definitely translates well across on television screens, he is able to use sympathetic language to persuade Americans to vote for him, by using a lot of examples of touring states on the campaign and using real life grievances that Americans have, especially in unemployment to place blame on current policies of Obama . ... The strength of Romney's is that he was able to open with humor in the first debate referring to Obama's anniversary, he states that he as 5 basic parts to his plan to ...
This small percentage mainly consisted of children from upper and middle socio economic background. ... Civil Rights Act of 1964 followed by the Higher Education Act of 1960's facilitated increase in number of students who proceeded to college after secondary school by more than half by putting into place the necessary legislations (Kimball and Bruce 89).The 1990's saw the increase in financial aid to students inform of tuition discounting and this enabled more students to access highly competitive courses at the university. ... Much of this increase is attributed to public and commu...
Ever since Akira was released, there has been a small, yet loyal following of otaku, or anime fans in America. ... Now that otaku are being found all over the nation, more and more anime cons are taking place in America. ... Cons are great places to go to to meet and talk to distributors, dealers, production companies, voice actors, animators, translators, and other anime fans. ... Also, because of the "cartoons are for kids" mentality, just a small amount of violence sets people off when what they need to understand is that violence happens. ...
They were packed very tightly on ships for months at a time chained to each other with no place to go to the bathroom, little water to drink, and hardly anything to eat. ... There were small farmers with two or three slaves, planters with ten to thirty slaves and big planters who owned a thousand or more slaves. Scholars generally agree that slaves received better treatment on the small farms and plantation that did not employ overseers or general managers. ... A former slave recalls, "Children had to go to the fiel' at six on out place. ... As a child, Ross was "hired out" by her maste...
These workers that were living off of a very small income started to organize around these issues facing them. After violent responses from the low wage work force occurred, labor unions were put into place, which solved many issues causing the outbursts. ... Because many Americans blamed this on the economy being controlled by a small number of powerful corporations, the populist movement gained traction by promising to help mainstream Americans financially. ... We see changes first begin to occur in 1870 in the Wyoming Territory, the first place women are legally allowed to vote. ... There...
Today, there are small civilizations of these tribes in South America and North America, but they live in extreme poverty. ... Instead of blindly throwing money at charities and countries, citizens and organizations need to start doing research and making sure their money is going to the right place. ... Regardless, in a place with such successful people and so much "opportunity" the amount of people who suffer every day is unnecessary to say the least; no one can deny that. ... It is a sad place to be, but in other countries, that is not an option. ... These affluent countries of to...
These two main reasons made me decide that America is the best place to study International Relations. ... The bracelet has several small charms and one of them is a small boat like the one you would imagine from the city name "Venice". ... We grew up in different places, in different situations, and in different ways. ...
It is characteristically an American form of music, and its history occupies a much smaller span of time. ... Small orchestras, military bands and piano-banjo combos were among the earliest recordings of Ragtime, which added elements that alluded to popular dance bands of the Dixieland, New Orleans and Swing styles yet to be developed. ... The term applied to a number of bands and small groups who played a darker sound than their big band era counterparts. ... Although the Swing style may have launched the art status of jazz by placing it in the ears and minds of the world, it was its succe...
Despite the large population, only one American in twenty lived in a place with more than 2,500 people in 1790, (this did not change much by 1840). ... These successful merchants and lawyers, large plantation owners, and other various professional men were at the top of the social scale, followed by farmers, storekeepers, and successful artisans as "higher-middle class" folk, and then came the smaller "hard-pressed" (common farmers and mechanics, landless laborers), and then finally bring up the bottom were the slaves. ... The United States was primarily a handmade land in ...
It is supposedly the safest place our kids can go. ... While most of America was shocked that such a thing could ever happen in our schools, a small segment of kids suddenly found a pair of martyrs. ... And junior high and high-school are such a small portion of experience to go on, but by the time you graduate it's been the last third of your entire life. ...
Highways were built to take people quickly from one place to another, bypassing small towns and helping to create central marketing areas or shopping malls. ... People carrying small transistor radios listened to music, which could be heard in any location because it was now portable. ...
The illegal drug use among adolescents in small towns and rural America is reaching alarming proportions. ... Rural and small town areas need to begin shaping up (marijuana.com)." ... It's no crime to have random drug tests at schools or at the work place. ...
Over the years, many changes have taken place in American politics. ... Large contributors harm both non/small contributors and force out promising candidates who cannot afford to compete or who are disgusted by the corruption of electoral politics. ... When outrageous campaign contributions are made, the contributors at least have a small intention of getting a favor in return. ...
Later organized crime stretched their involvement from the rackets to gambling, sports, and just about every small business you could think of. ... In Kansas City, organized crime leaders took their involvement into restaurants, grocery stores and other small businesses. ... The roots of America can be traced all the way to the first pilgrim taking his place on Plymouth Rock. ...
Later organized crime stretched their involvement from the rackets to gambling, sports, and just about every small business you could think of. ... In Kansas City, organized crime leaders took their involvement into restaurants, grocery stores and other small businesses. ... The roots of America can be traced all the way to the first pilgrim taking his place on Plymouth Rock. ...
