Coin flipping

If you're a woman or child, it stands for tender!” – Mr. T Mr. T grew up in Chicago. He said growing up as a young man he saw that his father and other African Americans did not get a lot of respect in their communities. Therefore, he decided to coin himself Mr. T. He said that was because the first thing you say is Mister and that word is an automatic sign of respect. The letter T is simply the first letter of his last name. “When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so…

was always conducted by the same qualified operator. In each individual, one surgery was completed while, using the Aloe vera-Green tea mouthwash, the other being considered as a control; the order of the two surgeries was randomly assigned by flipping of a coin. Surgical pack was not placed in the area of surgery to obtain the highest effectiveness of the mouthwash. For the treatment arm, patients had to rinse their mouth with 15ml of herbal mouthwash twice a day (one in the morning and one in…

Jake saw Sky plunge into the midnight black pool. He was now absolutely terrified. Sky was the most dangerous person on the planet, and if you convert that to evil . . . that’s something he didn’t want to think about. “Max you’re a mad man,” Jake screeched, “and soon to be a dead man!” Max chuckled. “You couldn’t take me.” “Not me,” Jake answered. Jake answered his questioning look. “As soon as she comes up, she won’t be herself. If she’s evil and the most dangerous thing do you think that…

“A squared plus b squared.” I blurted. “That’s the equation isn’t it?” I hid the book behind my back hoping Pythagoras wouldn’t see it. He narrowed his eyes at me. “What’s that behind your back?” Pythagoras’s brown hair was mussed like he hadn’t slept well and there were shadows under his green eyes. I suspected that he had woken from his “dream from the gods” and had stayed up pondering his options. Why would he have come to my house and arranged triangles from firewood? “It’s nothing.” I…

Lucy Knipe Essay #3 M01A Contrast Essay Steve Martin’s The Pleasure of my Company and Raymond Carver’s Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? The ancient fabulist Aesop famously wrote that “every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.” The truth as it pertains to love, is no different. In a juxtaposition of Steve Martin’s Pleasure of my Company and Raymond Carver’s Will You Please Be Quiet, Please, this duality of love’s power is both what…

boss Lepke Buchalter. Siegel was arrested and tried for the murder (by that time, he had also killed Krakow). He was acquitted, but newspapers referred to him for the first time by his nickname "Bugsy." Siegel was not pleased, especially when his gangland past was revealed. On one return trip to the East, Siegel drove through the small town of Las Vegas, Nevada. Legend has it that Siegel suddenly had a vision of turning Las Vegas into a gambling mecca. Others said he had merely stopped there…