It is at this important juncture that cars and culture collide. ... In 1941, the United States had 29.5 million automobiles registered, by 1950 49.3 million were registered and at the close of the decade some 73.8 million automobiles were on the streets. ... By 1950, Detroit had caught up with demand following the switch from war production and stopped offering "drab, clunky, warmed-over, pre-war designs and automakers decided to give Americans what they assumed they really desired- "big, powerful, flashy new cars-not next year-now!" ... These finned creations would remain the staple of car de...

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He is the one who names Ruth's son Milkman. ... The hospital is located on Not Doctor street, a name not recognized by the post office. ... After years of this informal name, the authorities decided to name the street Mains avenue. ... The people in the community look at the car in good natured envy, but they don't think of Macon as using the car as a car should be used. ... Milkman lies quietly feeling his fear and his eagerness for death return. ...

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The reason for his radical behavior is the fact that there are two sides to Claude as Susan Rosowski points out; "On the one hand there was Claude, a sensitive youth burning with desire to find meaning; on the other, there was his world-intractable, immediate, alien" (Rosowski 97). ... The full, uncut, cherry tree represented Claude's fulfilled desires and fantasies. However, his father cut down those desires before Claude had a real chance to experience them. ... Claude "followed them out of the crowd into a quiet street, and onto another, even more deserted, where the houses looked s i...

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He was not allowed to be present during her illness, death, or burial. ... He made friends with all of the little white boys he met in the streets. ... In New York , Frederick dropped his two middle names and changed his last name to Douglass to avoid capture (Scruggs). ... In New York, he also met a man named Mr. ... He had to be dragged from the white cars. ...

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The director of the movie Scarface named Brian De Palma, is from New Jersey, USA. ... They get the cards in exchange for killing a former Cuban political official, at the demand of a powerful drug dealer named Frank Lopez. ... After some time Tony is sent to Bolivia, where he makes a cocaine importation deal, with big time Bolivian drug lord named Sosa. ... She has a desire for cocaine and which turns into an addiction. ...

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His number one target for some time were the pregnant women who abused crack of which he named their unborn children "crack babies". ... Arresting people for drugs does not kill their desire to use them. ... Drugs can help people achieve their desired status, and more power. Ultimately, the desire for the drug is worth the risk of being caught. ... Extremely high usage of marijuana can cause death. ...

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- Superimposed pictures of Oswald were put on the street 8 hours after the president's death. ... The 3 cars circled the parking lot as if they were checking the area. ... - In 1961, while lee Harvey Oswald was in Russia, a man was using Oswald's name to buy cars in the USA for Democratic Cuba. ... JFK's death saved LBJ's political career and kept him out of jail. ... The CIA Initially I was flabbergasted by the accusation that the CIA was involved in JFK's death. ...

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Such methods of social control and responsibility fall on the shoulders of law enforcement, and officers feel significant pressures from the public and the media to act as problem solvers, psychologists, and social workers to name a few... They are first on scene when a child dies, a woman is raped, a senseless homicide, a teenager's suicide, a car ablaze with victims trapped, drug overdoses, and domestic violence calls. ... Officers enter policing with high ideals and a noble desire to help others. ... (Violanti, 1995) Making arrests, clearing the streets, trying to diminish the drug...

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At one time, he was very rude when paying only ten dollars to a dog seller on the street... It shows that Nick's morals are high he can not hurt an old man who had just lost his son; whereas Tom's morals are so low, that he hurts a poor stranger walking down the street, who is trying to make a living. ... "After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes power of correction. ... Tom was very much responsible for Gatsby's death, for he led the killer, Mr. ... He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owed the car. ...

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The deaths of these two artists remain unsolved. ... In accordance to freedom of expression principles, which hip-hop was founded upon, some artists have decided to rhyme about fancy cars, clothes, and other riches. ... When we die, eternal fire or the street of gold Only God knows, vica versa. ... This is a life-and-death matter." ... Even though these two organizations have opposing viewpoints on how to change the hip-hop culture, the desire to free hip-hop of its negative image ...

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He was shot and then left on a pair of train tracks to suffer a terrible death, which was eventually ruled a suicide. The death of his father left his mother in a terrible predicament. ... On his trips to Harlem, Malcom sold sandwiches in the railroad cars and upon arriving in New York; he would explore the big city life. ... Malcom and Shorty would break into the house and based on the plans the women gave them they would steal things of value while Rudy waited in the getaway car. ... Muhammad expressed his desire to learn about the Muslim religion and his desire to help blacks in America...

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Lysergic Acid Diathylamide (LSD) was first made in 1938 by a chemist in Switzerland named Albert Hoffman whom first tested it on animals. ... A user often has enlarged pupils, rapid heartbeat, nausea, chills and trembling, convulsions, extreme mood swings, fear of insanity or death, and severe anxiety. ...

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Vonnegut focuses on the death of a nation and its dream, a similar theme to that of another celebrated American author - Joseph Heller. ... However, unlike Vonnegut and Heller's existential critique, Thompson's Stanislavskian reportage (that is, a kind of "method writing" conducive to great verisimilitude) involves him directly participating in the search for - and death of - the American Dream. ... Vonnegut shows us chaos in Breakfast of Champions through the stories of the main character, the absurdly-named writer of th...

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After learning about the Holocaust, I've asked myself many times how this could have happened. Why would anyone believe it's acceptable to massacre an entire people? This is my reasoning for writing my paper on how Christian theology influenced anti-Semitism. Much of the Holocaust appears to have it...

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Black Nationalism is the name given to revitalization movements among black Americans. It emphasizes black pride, desire to control their own communities, and sometimes the desire to form a black nation in Africa or some part of the United States. ... In 1817, shortly before Cuffe's death, the American Colonization Society was founded to accomplish his plan with greater efficiency. ... Members were reminded that their last names were names that had been imposed on them by the "White Devils" and that they should drop their Christian last name and substitute it with the letter X until their...

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For example in 1988 on February 26 rookie New York City police officer Edward Byre was sitting alone in his police car guarding the house of a drug trial witness in South Jamaica, Queens where he was shot four times in the head and killed. ... Those favoring gun control laws claim that such laws would keep more guns off the streets and out of the hands of criminals in an increasingly violent world. ...

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Another positive outcome of Tom's response to "The Principia" was that it helped him cultivate a graphically sound and free spirited style of thinking... and a desire to prove all things to himself through practical experimentation. ... One day, during the process of "proving out" every experiment he read about for himself, he spilled some chemicals and set the baggage car on fire. ... In 1868, after making a name for himself amongst fellow telegraphers as being a flamboyant and quick witted character - who enjoyed playing "mostly harmless" practical jokes - he returned home one day ragge...

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Questioning Modern Technology in Crowd Control Controlling riots is a difficult task for any government with a desire to keep peace as well as protect the constitutional rights of it's citizens. ... Rivalries between Gangs creates violence on the streets which can escalate into a riot. ... Shooting to wound rioters is also a very risky task because of the risk that a bullet may ricochet off of a sign or a car and injure an innocent civilian or another officer. ...

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Nixon, a regional official of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Ralph Abernathy, a NAACP activist and secretary of the black Ministral Alliance. ... King's and Abernathy's homes were both bombed, along with his Hutchinson Street Baptist Church. ... However, the protests had the desired effect on the Kennedy Administration. ...

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Until his death five years ago, Mrs. ... Detectives are investigating at least two cases of home improvement scams in which a con-artist -- who uses the name "Peter Spaziano" -- disappeared after collecting down payments for home improvement jobs that he never started. ... The suspect arranged a meeting at each home to offer an estimate using the business name of Mid-Florida Contracting. ... Numbers and amounts While more than $100 billion will be spent on home remodeling and repair this year, ($1 billion will be spent on scams), you should be aware that home remodeling contractors ranked...

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