Introduction The LEGO Group, a popular company based in Billund, Denmark, has been in the toy industry for over 80 years. The company was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen and was passed down for generations to its recent owner, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen. The word 'lego' is originated from a Danish word 'Leg Godt', which in other words also means 'play well'. Lego toys are popular among kids, teenagers and even adults. Their products are sold all around the world such as Australia, Singapore…
The science-fiction novel Kindred, written by Octavia E. Butler, is an extremely dramatic and fascinating novel that revolves around Dana, an African American writer living in California in the year 1976 and her mysterious trips to pre-Civil War Maryland. How she is being sent back to that time is unknown, but after the initial few trips, she realizes she is being sent back to ensure that her bloodline continues; and this begins with saving a young, white boy named Rufus. This novel forces the…
All throughout my life, my stepfather Jason Sebastian has been my helping hand through the storm called life. When he came into my life I was four years old and he had his hands full. Not knowing what to expect, he was able to show me resilience. Even though Jason had taken over the role of my father at a very young age I don’t call him dad. I have gotten so used to calling him by his name that it has grown on me as a name but also as a meaning. Whenever I hear the name Jason I automatically…
Yummy Yummy, Food Get in My Tummy When it comes to eating food, it involves everyone. Considering you must eat to stay alive, but what most people don’t think about before they decide what to eat is what exactly are you eating? It’s important for you to understand what really is inside your breakfast, lunch and dinner. Reading calories on the side of a cereal box is one thing, but being able to understanding how some animals are treated to make the food you eat, or what happens in these…
Other languages spoken in India come from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman language families. India has no national language. Hindi, with the largest number of speakers, is the official language of the government. English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a "subsidiary official language"; it is important in education, especially as a medium of higher education. Each state and union territory has one or more official languages, and the constitution…
Commerce Commission was given expanded powers to protect the public interest. B. Industrial Empires. -Early factories : textiles, clothing, leather products -After Civil War (2nd Industrial Rev) : steel, petroleum, electric power, industrial machinery. a. The Steel Industry ~ 1850s, Henry Bessemer (England) & William Kelly (U.S.) discovered blasting air thru molten iron produced high-quality steel. ~ Great Lakes region had abundant coal & iron ore of Minnesota’s Mesabi Range became…
The innocence of a child is something nothing can compare to, we would never think to harm them or put them in danger. They are fragile, they have no defense other than a parents protection and love. But what if the resources they needed to survive slowly started disappearing and thing things that brought us joy were taken away from them because of the people that said they would never hurt them. Can we apologize in advance for something we turned away from because we felt it wasn 't our problem…
Grigori Rasputin and the 1917 Russian Revolution One of the most significant events of Russian history was the 1917 Revolution. Predating the revolution, Russia was formed of a hierarchy society consisting of four piers; royalty, aristocracy, middle class and peasantry. After the 1917 Revolution, Russia was dismantled and transformed into the Soviet Union under the governance of the Communist Party. The Communist Party consisted of socialists with the objective to modernize their country-as…
About the author Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of immense integrity. He belonged to an era of communists shaped by the Russian Revolution and the Second World War, an era that ruled leftwing politics for right around a century including Hitler's triumph in Germany in 1932, trailed by the Spanish common war, spellbound legislative issues all through the landmass. Ralph joined the energetic Jewish-communist youth association Hashomeir Hatzair (Young Guard), whose individuals later…
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression, when discrimination against African Americans was active, the stock market crashed, and asylums for the mentally ill were not sufficient. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the narrator named Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus, have multiple encounters with three characters dealing with common issues found in the 1930s. Tom Robinson is an African American man who was wrongly accused of…