.... celestial "hand" somehow diverts the beast's attention and saves the threatened runner. Here, the runners who are bunched up in a disordered pack, chant a homily to the saint to entreat his protection just before the bulls are let loose from the pen. "Of San Fermin we ask, as our protector, to bless us and safely guide us in this run." Before the race begins, chaos is formed. People are up and about as early as 6:30, trying to find that perfect seat for the viewing of the bull run. The race starts at exactly 8:00 am every morning during the annual festivals that are celebrated from the 7th - 14th of July. All of the spectators must s .....

.... In reality, it was a blood bath (Almond). When the truth of the extremity and the reality of the war broke ground and reached the public eye, society's realization of the truth collided head-on into the government's world of lies, and all hell broke loose. The people's opinion began drifting non-stop against the war, as opposed to their previous pro-war attitude. There were anti-war demonstrations and peace movements (Almond) that shut down colleges, and sometimes towns across the country. Then one day, as the media was delivering their daily recurrences of the horror that was Vietnam, reports of a massacre in a village designated as .....

.... their conscience says to itself, “Okay, lying and/or stealing is not really that bad, and is acceptable to my parents.â€� A majority of Americans youth today are morally confused, due to the un-honorable actions of their parents. 1984, by George Orwell, shows an example of un-honorable actions of parents, rubbing off on their children. About 99% of the population in this book, were uncaring robots. They would turn their best friend into the “thought policeâ€� at the drop of a hat. They don’t think for themselves, and therefore are robots. The children of 1984, were even worse because they would turn their own parents into the â .....

.... the teachers expect less of you because you are younger and at a lower maturity level. There are several reasons why less is expected of you in middle school. Because so little is expected of you in middle school, it makes it a more difficult jump to make up to high school. When all of a sudden it goes from almost no expectations to something much greater, it can often be quite difficult. Now, you are expected to be mature, and responsible, as well as having a much larger commitment to make towards homework. This is a very large reason why high school is so much more difficult. To add on to ones problems, not that it's much of a t .....

.... impede those who are not, whether expressed in terms of employment opportunities (job success) or just on a social level. One need look no further than their everyday activities in order to realize how important literary skills are. Without adequate literary skills one may not be able to identify on a label the correct amount of medicine to give a child, or read and interpret a sign giving instructions on what to do in case of a fire. These two examples bring perspective to literacy's importance. Nevertheless, recent surveys have indicated that, "4.5 million Canadians, representing 24 percent of the eighteen-and-over group, can be consi .....

.... threaten to alienate the very people it needs to reach in order to be successful. The animal rights idealogy crystallized with the publication of philosophy professor's exploration of the way humans use and abuse other animals. Animal Liberation argued that animals have an intrinsic worth in themselves and deserve to exist on their own terms, not just as means to human ends. By 1985, ten years after Peter Singer's watershed treatise was first published, dozens of animal rights groups had sprung up and were starting to savor their first successes. In 1994 Paul Shapiro, then a student at Georgetown Day School, didn't feel these non-profits w .....

.... Since the time of Adam and Eve however, there has been a drastic evolution of both the female species and the relationship between woman and man. The woman began as a worker, slaving over a hot stove and making a family and home for both her and the man. She was almost an equal to him in the amount of work that was done. But somewhere along the way, the female became lazy and greedy. She became too involved with her looks and money, and not involved with anything having to do with work. The purpose of a woman changed from helping her man, to being an ornament for him to display. In , Pope tells the story of a young girl, Belinda .....

.... Known scientifically as "Tridecaphobia," fear of the number 13 is probably the most common of all superstitions. Buildings avoid numbering the 13th floor. Airplanes avoid the 13th aisle. And most common of all, Friday the 13th is considered a bad luck day. Psychologists believe that Friday the 13th will become a day of bad luck if people focus on the day because people will create their own bad luck by paying attention to the superstition BLACK CATS A black and white cat crossing your path means good luck. A black cat crossing your path will cause you bad luck before your journey is over. If this occurs you can take 12 steps backwar .....

.... knew products, saved the wilderness by not dumping trash on it, and best of all created basically new products without almost any waist. Lots of people believe that it is not worth their time to recycle or that whatever they do is insignificant, but that's wrong it really takes no longer to throw a can in the bin than in the garbage. Anything that anybody recycles makes a difference, for instance one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a T.V for 3 hours, a single glass jar saves enough energy to light a light bulb for 4 hours. So for every thing you recycle it does save energy. One of the big myths which I think prevents a lo .....

.... Alberta in Canada, and Montana in the U.S. The Blackfoot consisted of three main tribes: the Northern Blackfoot(Siksika), the Piegan(Pikuni), and the Blood(Kainah). The tribes differed little in their speech, but were politically independent. Blackfoot population varied, but was less affected by the arrival of the white man than some tribes due to their location. "In 1855, there were approximately 2,400 Northern Blackfoot, 2,000 Blood, and 3,200 Piegan. The total population of Blackfoot varied as follows: 15,000(1780), 9,000(1801), 7,600(1855), and 4,600(1932)" ( ). The decline of population was most likely due to the w .....