It is a ritual that tells us that people with "bad eyes" can cause a negative influence on the child. By people with "bad eyes" we mean people who are jealous. Also, Russians don't buy any baby clothing until the baby is born because we believe it is bad luck. On the other hand, Americans are free of any bad or good luck beliefs. ... For example, if a wife comes back home in late hours and neighbors see her, they start talking about her in a bad manner. ...

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"The cowards never started and the weak died along the way" This is very true pertaining to the Plymouth Pilgrims, who clearly had to possess courage, strength, and faith to make such a journey to America. The Pilgrims, or Separatists, of England wanted complete division from the Angelican Chur...

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Whenever times were good enough to put a little money in the bank, times would be bad a gain and the account would soon be emptied. ... Luck was on his side and without that he never would have become an entrepreneur. ... But luck is a much more essential factor when striving for success in a society where the circumstances which you live are not ideal for someone of your race. ...

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1. Introduction This term paper will be about the magazine FIRE !! which was published during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if they stick together, things could work out fine. I start to take a short look at the political and social situation of the blacks in the twenties and of course I look at the most influential writers at this time. ...

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Stories of quick fortunes caused hoards of citizens to try their luck in the stock market. ... The bad practice of buying on credit without any means to pay the credit back would finally catch up with the Americans. ...

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The purpose of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was to bring the grim conditions of Chicago's meatpacking industry and its workers to the American public's attention. After Sinclair was commissioned to investigate labor conditions in the Chicago stockyards he wrote about his observations in The Jungle. ...

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The United States is a great and strong country made up of about three million populations. The population, Americans, usually defined as citizens of the United States. However, it is hard to distinguish as they are without a common heritage, ethnicity, or lineage. Therefore Americans should be prec...

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Those who usually wore the tattoos were often bikers and circus "freaks", which gave the tattooing industry a bad reputation. ... Many see this as an understanding to why people have associated tattooing in the survival and healing of bad wounds (Flamepoint). ... Once again, ominous luck fell upon the world of tattooing after World War II, when Marlon Brando type bikers and juvenile delinquents wore them and an unfortunate outbreak of hepatitis in 1961 sent tattoo artists heading for the hills (Midre). ...

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They had books that were in bad conditions and schools that were in bad conditions too. ... For the six weeks that John is a black man in the South, he tries to find a job everywhere but does not get any luck. ...

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Body image involves our perception, imagination, emotions, and physical sensations of and about our bodies. It is not static, but ever changing; sensitive to changes in mood, environment, and physical experience. It is not based on fact. It is psychological in nature, and much more influenced by self-esteem than by actual physical attractiveness as judged by others. It is not inborn, but learned. ...

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