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and the rest of the stoner community vows it was a police code for marijuana violations. After dedicating a whole project to the history of 420, I have come to accept that the true origin came from San Rafael High School in 1971, where a group of a dozen pot-smoking students who called themselves ‘The Waldos’ used the term as shorthand for the time of day the group would meet to smoke pot.…

If I have to pick a personal failure in life (thankfully there haven’t been many), I always pick my performance as first year student at Georgia Tech (fall 1995 to fall 1996). It was a fast and almost complete self destruction of what had been the crowning achievement of my young life. From the day I migrated to US (Atlanta) near the end of my 9th grade to my high school graduation, I had a singular purpose—study hard to get into top engineering school (it was always GA Tech for me) and take…

Everyone was terrified and the student was taken by an ambulance right away. It was then when the disease started to spread throughout each student makig them dssappear.It was quarantine, for life. A SWAT Team wearing gas masks and dozens of doctors wearing masks and goggles ran into the school. They locked everyone in their classes ringing bells that were heard from Crawford High School just 40 blocks away. In each…

The community is a unifying element in “Their Eyes Were Watching God”. It is a narrative detail that creates the story and plays a big role in what makes the novel so great. In this novel, community is a key detail and defines the direction of the story. For example, the novel states, “It was a weapon against her strength and if it turned out of no significance, still it was hope that she might fall to their level someday.” (Their Eyes Were Watching God, page 2, paragraph 3). Janie’s community…

A raging blaze has struck through central Portugal, leaving 61 people killed and dozens more injured in what officials there labelled as the "greatest wildfire tragedy of recent years." At least 54 people were injured in the blaze Saturday, including eight firefighters and a child. Four of the firefighters were in grave condition Sunday, according to Paulo Santos, an operations and emergencies official with the National Relief Operations Command in Lisbon. The government has declared three days…

Introduction Merlin Entertainments is a British company based in Poole, Dorset. The company was founded by Nick Varney in the year 1998. Today Merlin Entertainments have over a dozen of attractions including theme parks, Midway attractions and Legoland. As of 2016, the revenue of the company is £1,457 million with an operating income of £320 million with 27000 employees working for the company. (Merlin Entertainments, public reports, 2016). The main aim of this report is to identify and solve…

resulted in an unhealthy intrigue with Henry Wotton. Henry’s fascination with Dorian resulted in him giving Dorian a gift called the “Yellow Book”. Dorian was enthralled with the book and it “becomes like holy scripture to Dorian, who buys nearly a dozen copies and bases his life and actions on it”( Coyne 10). Some of which caused Dorian to go insane, and lead him to kill…

I was pretty good at performing, so she gave my mom information for a theater company. Shortly after, my mom enlisted me with the company and I immediately started weekly rehearsals. Four months later, our show was being put on display in front of dozens of families. Seeing the development of our show and the growth of my peers over those four months was eye-opening, and helped me realize how much loved performing. After that show, I started taking theater seriously. I started auditioning for…

In Certainly the End of Something or Other David Foster Wallace reviews John Updike’s novel Towards the End of Time. The review begins with Wallace presenting his thesis: “Toward the End of Time is also, of the let’s say two dozen Updike books I’ve read, far and away the worst, a novel so clunky and self-indulgent that it’s hard to believe the author let it be publish in this kind of shape.” (Wallace, 52.) From this claim David Foster Wallace presents a compelling argument that John Updike’s…

The Atomic Bomb and Nuclear Fusion The atom bomb was created in the summer of 1945. It was created under the name "Manhattan Project" as to retain secrecy. Only a dozen trusted scientist knew about the project; J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, DuPont's Crawford Greenewalt and Kellogg's Percival Keith, MIT's Vannevar Bush, Harvard's James B. Conant, and Berkeley's Ernest O. Lawrence. The atom bomb changed the world in multiple ways. It led to the creation of "artificial radioactivity".…