It was an era full of dark wallpapers and heavy velvety drapes in dark colors. The furniture was also dark, made of mahogany or cherry wood and had intricate designs carved into some of the pieces. ... It is as if the Age brought the English and Americans out of the dark ages and into the light. ... Much more time was spent in the Victorian Age in preparing for death of ones self and others. Moreover, there was a great deal of death in the Victorian Age. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."1 Therefore, it makes sense that if mortals cannot bear the darkness, they [should not] not go there. ... The remedy is very simple: Avoid the darkness and seek the light. ... He will immediately turn to the darkness. ... Children will always be afraid of the dark and men will always shudder at what they do not understand, yet everyone will continue to seek it.5 Perhaps it is because society, particularly American society because of its history, believes the final h...

• Word Count: 3126
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• Grade Level: High School

The 1960's was a decade that changed the world. This decade was filled with countless important events that are still impacting us. The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American as...

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Many women in Afghanistan will get stoned to death for wearing the wrong color socks, or for not covering up the proper way (Skaine 61). ... It became a scary dark world. ... One woman described how her father no longer felt comfortable flying she said: My dad didn't fly for a while afterwards, for a month, because he fits the profile, because he's from the Middle East, you know, he's not dark; he's actually fair, he has a beard, the dark hair and the accent and he's Arab and all these things. ...

• Word Count: 2898
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• Grade Level: High School

The works of American poet Robert Frost tell of simple things- swinging on a birch tree, stopping by woods on a snowy evening, and the death of a hired man. ... The New York Times Book Review gave this quote "new poem after new poem makes clear how deeply each Frost poem bears on all Frost poems, and how surely all are a constant symbol of his life's commitment to making metaphors that clarify the dark paradoxes they contain. Probably the most famous quote was given by President Kennedy "his death impoverishes us all; but he has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from wh...

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Taj had witnessed the deaths of friends and family, He was only seven years old at the time. as was asked to kill other soildiers and civilians. ... This may seem like a dark sort of a children's book but I like the author's goal of making the youth aware of the injustices happening around the world. ...

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The Grateful Dead, one of the best-loved bands in the 1960's, finally had a top-10 album, In the Dark, with a hit single, "A Touch of Grey." ... Other releases of oldies included reissues of Turtles albums, four repackagings of Elvis Presley songs to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Presley's death, and a four-record set called The Otis Redding Story. ... Deaths in 1987 included jazz artists Buddy Rich, Maxine Sullivan, Kid Thomas, Sammy Kave, Jaco Pastorius, and Woody Herman; blues artist Paul Butterfield; songwriter Boudleaux Bryant; and reggae artist Peter Tosh. ...

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Child Sexual Abuse It is frightening to realize how widespread sexual abuse is in our society and yet how strong the denial of it is.1 "Don't waste your time talking about what an aberration it is and how unlikely it is " just get to the place where you understand that one of the things humans do is have sexual contact with children,"" says [Gavin] de Becker, author of Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane).2 Sex with children is a crime. It has long been illegal for adults to have sex with children in the U.S. But [thanks to a 1994 federal law,...

• Word Count: 3479
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• Grade Level: High School

As Kristin Anderson has noted in his journal "Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories From The Dark Side Of American Immigration," "Parents' employment and financial struggles combined with the daily difficulties of paying bills and affording basic necessities trigger emotional reactions within the family that affect children's development" (120). ... As Marcia Yablon-Zug states in the journal, "Separation, Deportation, Termination," "the most extreme cases of punishing post-IRCA immigration laws came in 1996 with the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant...

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Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's book Time on the Cross, analyzes the Southern economy before and after the Civil War. The book's purpose is to show how important African Americans were to the Southern economy, and tries to "correct t...

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• Grade Level: High School

Many of these were babies and toddlers who often did not live past age five, their deaths caused by dysentery, fever, almost any sort of infection. ... No act of cruelty in any part of American history is any darker than that suffered by the American Indians. ...

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One of the most sensitive aspects of our relationship with animals is the use of animals in laboratory sciences. Some manufactures of cosmetics and household products still conduct painful and useless tests on live animals, even though no law requires them not to. Some people, called anti-vivisectionists, are at one extreme in their concern. They want to abolish all experiments on live animals. At the other extreme there are those who say that it is quite all right for us to do whatever we like to animals. ...

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Individuals who participate in moderate or vigorous intensity physical activity can reduce their risk for disease and premature death (USDHHS, 1996). ... A sedentary lifestyle has been linked to higher rates of obesity, heart disease and diabetes, which are some of the leading causes of death in the United States. ...

• Word Count: 10521
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• Grade Level: High School