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Credit Cards

... balance of $1,670 per card (People weekly). Banks are pushing the credit card to consumers in an effort to make money on the interest rates and various fees that can be charged. Since the early 1990's, banks have upped the credit limit on customer's cards by more than a third, and sent out another three billion offers in 1997 alone (Dollars and Sense). The new targets for these credit card companies are the low-income household families. While only 20% of poor families had a credit card in 1983, 40% did in 1995. Their balances were highe ...

Number of words: 2269 | Number of pages: 9

Baseball's New Rules

... If you do not believe me just ask Roberto Alomar of the Baltimore Orioles he tried the new rule out and was successful. Another new rule of the game of baseball that was not there last year is that if you are sitting in the stands you can reach over the wall and catch the ball before the players can. This new rule was first tried out at a New York versus Baltimore Orioles game, when New York was at bat and they needed a home run to win. The batter hit the ball not far enough to the wall and when the out fielder was going to catch it a kid ...

Number of words: 342 | Number of pages: 2

Soap Operas

... opera, but all of a sudden if you catch them off guard they're the first ones to tell you what happened to Sammy and Austin on yesterdays episode of Days of Our Lives. But of course, they cover with the simple manly answer that they only watch the soap opera because they have "hot chicks". Yeah, sure. According to a recent survey that I happened to spot on Global News, studies show people that watch are much happier and less stressed than those who don't. Well who wouldn't feel less stressed when you see what goes on in the lives of th ...

Number of words: 574 | Number of pages: 3

What Is Basketball Without Mic

... It has been said “He’s the most famous American in the World” (Daniel.) After winning his sixth National Basketball Association Championship, Michael Jordan has decided to walk away from the world of basketball for the second time in his life. Why would the greatest player to ever play the game leave at the highest point of his career? He claims the sport is no longer a challenge to him. After his many awards, trophies and titles this is not hard to comprehend. At this time in his life, Jordan wants to devote all of his ...

Number of words: 2016 | Number of pages: 8

Native American Women

... man's partner, who preformed her share of the obligations of life and who employed an influence quite as important as his, and often more powerful. Native Americans established primary relationships either through a clan system, descent from a common ancestor, or through a friendship system, much like tribal societies in other parts of the world. In the Choctaw nation, " Moieties were subdivided into several nontotemic, exogamous, matrilineal 'kindred' clans, called iksa." (Faiman-Silva, 1997, p.8) The Cheyenne tirbe also traced their ances ...

Number of words: 1163 | Number of pages: 5

Aquinas First Proof Of The Exi

... fire, acts upon it. When this meeting occurs the action of the wood becoming hot is a movement or change in the object. The object in the act of in the above mentioned example is the fire. It is in the state of action. The fire is the initiator of the woods action. It transfers its energy to the wood allowing the wood to fulfill its potential. In this case, or any other, neither the object that has the ability too nor the object in the state of action can be the first to act. The wood cannot be the first to act, as it is in the state ...

Number of words: 447 | Number of pages: 2

Dreams: Their Analysis

... this particular afternoon being warm and bright. The scenery seemed to depict a post card perfect summer's day. My mother and I were walking in a park, a park I've never visited or seen. I felt as if anyone were to stare at us they could see the contentment and harmony radiating from myself. I was watching myself lay down on very soft green grass, but before I did I turned around to see if my mother was still near. I saw myself lay down under a tree. This tree was uniquely beautiful because of its thin twisting, almost fragile looking ...

Number of words: 1431 | Number of pages: 6

Compare The Ways In Which Ferg

... to the reader. Marie Colvin was in Baghdad writing about the crisis in Iraq in January 1991. She wrote a lot of controversial things in the article “Baghdad under Fire” due to the fact that the general atmosphere was such that any criticism of British or American forces was not seen to be acceptable and there was some censorship of the news by the ministry of defence. Fergal Keane’s article was written much later in and it was broadcast on Radio 4 as part of the foreign correspondent programme. During the time that Fergal K ...

Number of words: 1375 | Number of pages: 5

Egyptian Cuisine

... most of the cuisine is delicious. Listed in the following paragraphs are some common Egyptian ingredients. The mainstay of Egyptian diets, bread (aysh) comes in several forms. The most common is a pita type made either with refined white flour called aysh shami, or with coarse, whole wheat, aysh baladi. Stuffed with any of several fillings, it becomes the Egyptian sandwich. Aysh shams is bread made from leavened dough allowed to rise in the sun, while plain aysh comes in long, skinny, French-style loaves. Hard, dry aysh can be softened in wa ...

Number of words: 1863 | Number of pages: 7

Joel Poinsett

... mainly for her harbours San Frasisco and San Diego. The American policy towards Mexico which ensued in the following years was governed almost exclusively by President James Polk's personal opinions and actions, as well as Nicholas Trist's defiant behavior; a manifestation of the state-centric theory in which key individual decision makers govern policy. In addition, Polk's policies were secondarily influenced by the consideration of relative power, American mass ideology, and Public opinion. In 1845 President Polk began, cofidentially fro ...

Number of words: 540 | Number of pages: 2

Parental Hostility

... either had full IQ's or they met the criteria for a psychotic disorder, leaving a sample of 87. This study was done mostly by questionnaires, some being Symptom Checklist 90-Revised (SCL-90-R), Dimensions of Temperament Survey (DOTS), Personality Inventory for Children (PIC), The Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI), The Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS), and the Children's Depression Rating Scale (CDRS). A research assistant administered the questionnaires to each child after admission. Following a structured interview with each child ...

Number of words: 665 | Number of pages: 3

Gender

... a solution. That is only part of the problem. With all the focus on discrimination towards women, few understand the sexism directed towards men. Women and men should be treated as equals; however, more attention is directed towards discrimination towards women. In society today, women and men are not socially equal, but ultimately, men are favored more than women are. In the short story, “Only Daughter,” by Sandra Cisneros, Sandra wanted more attention from her father. She wanted her father to acknowledge her for her writings. “I wa ...

Number of words: 1029 | Number of pages: 4

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