.... Dre and the Black Crows celebra it's use. Television shows like Saturday Night Live and Kids In the Hall depict it as harmless fun. Marijuana fashion has grown into a ten million dollar industry, with the seven branch marijuana leaf showing up on caps, T-shirts, earrings and tattoos. Studies show that after a decade of declining drug use, marijuana use has increased sharply among gh school students and college students in the last two years (Duschbaun 8). In the movie , rap star Ice Cube plays the character Craig. Craig has never smoked marijuana. However, his best friend "Smokey" smokes marijuana everyday. Craig looses his job, leaving .....

.... young, from the ages of 15 to 25. They left their families and they would "‘not be coming back...not ever.'" 73 Michener This was done for many different reason. No one was going to get in the way of their dreams and ambitions. Generation X is a group, we're told, ‘numb and dumb,' lazy underachievers, apathetic ‘boomerangers' who slink home to the parental nest after graduating from college, as if being born into an era of reduced economic expectations. Abusive, neglectful, busy, absent, non-emotional and working parents have no time for relationships, because today's young people have been deprived of intimacy they value it more .....

.... everything he could to. He went to the president elect who denied anything about political prisoners. The husband was found later dead. Romero was faced with many of these abductions of young kids, girls being raped and killed, and families being torn apart. He met with each family, listening to each story and receiving a picture of the missing people. At one point in the story the church had been taken over, Romero and another priest went to the church in the city of Aguillarez to take care of the Eucharist. He was allowed in the church, but on his way to the alter he was stopped. A man asked him wear he was going, and .....

.... historic handshake ended the more than two decades of hostile separation of the world¡¯s two great nations, and China established officially diplomatic relations with the US on January 1, 1979. During President Nixon¡¯s visiting, China purchased 10 Boeing airplanes from America, which is a real beginning of Sino-US economic and trade co-opration. Bilateral economic ties and trade have developed rapidly since the two countries resumed high-level contacts and opened the door for further development of relations in 1972. Trade between the two countries grew out of nothing, expanded from small to large and is rising in a gratifying way. Ac .....

.... work by professional musicians and the faithful admiration extended to him by amateurs. Outside the purely personal considerations one must not overlook the drastic changes which passed over the whole of European society in Beethoven's lifetime. Twice during the most productive part of Beethoven's life, Vienna was occupied by Napoleon's armies but his work went steadily forward. Nevertheless, the ideas that brought those armies into existence was sweeping across Europe. The spirit of independent thought and action was stirring and it was this that eventually gave birth to the inventive genius of the 19th century. It animated the poetic .....

.... by the Americans. “FDR believed that the UN was the only device that could keep the United States from slipping back into isolationism after WWII�(1). After detailed explanations of the UN proposal, by Secretary of State, Edward R. Stettinius, Stalin and Churchill agreed to the guidelines proposed. Because Churchill strongly wanted to have certain countries in the British commonwealth accepted into the UN, Roosevelt was unable to deny Stalin the admission of Soviet Ukrainian and Belorussian republics in the UN. Another very important matter on the table of discussions at was Poland. Since Poland was a very large country and situat .....

.... Florentine painter and sculptor of his day. In Verrocchio's workshop Leonardo was introduced to painting and sculpture in marble and bronze. In 1472 he was entered in the painters guild of Florence, and in 1476 he was still considered Verrocchios assistant. In 1478 Leonardo became an independent master. His first commission, to paint an altarpiece for the chapel of the plazzo vecchio, the Florentine town hall, was never executed. The period of Italian art in which lived is called high Renaissance. In the course of the fifteenth century a long chain of early Renaissance artists, mainly of Florentine decent, had concentrated on a visual .....

.... that produced little apple pies the size of an ashtray and that was what we got for our overtime instead of money.� That paragraph just blew me away when I first read it. I can’t imagine little, innocent, eight, nine, ten year olds working long hours in a very big, tough, factory. I find it to be very sad to see business tycoons putting little children to work. Another sad fact, “And when the inspectors came around, do you know what happened? The supervisors made all the children climb into one of those crates that they ship material in, and they covered us over with finished shirtwaists until the inspector had left, because .....

.... they didn't go get the calls they hit over the fence and they told him that " The Beast" lived over there. They said that " The Beast" had eaten a kid that went over the fence to get a ball. One day Benny slugged a ball over the fence and nobody had any money to go get another ball. Scottie's step dad had a ball autographed by Babe Ruth, but Scottie didn't know who Babe Ruth was so he didn't know how valuable it was. The other boys didn't know that it was autographed and they started playing with it. One day Ham hit it over the fence. They didn't pay much attention to it until Scottie told them it was signed by Babe Ruth. They knew t .....

.... sobbing into his recorder, "It's burning, bursting into flames, and it's falling on the mooring mast and all the folks. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world. . . . Oh, the humanity and all the passengers!(Marben 58)" When this floating cathedral, called , burst into a geyser of flaming hydrogen there was a tremendous impact on the public, although two thirds of the people on board survived. Two theories about why it happened surfaced and this tragedy put an end to the short age of these massive airships. The demise of had a searing impact on public consciousness that far surpassed the bare statistics of the calamity. Men and .....