Years

Celebrations Each year at Christmas, my employer goes to great lengths to gather everyone together for a formal sit down dinner and party to celebrate the values and victories of our organization (Johnson, 2014, slide 6) throughout the year. This tradition started back in 1960 when my employer, North Huntingdon EMS/Rescue was first founded. Our…

Since 1968 America has been better enlightened than previously concerning current events and happenings around the world. A considerable factor for this occurrence is the television program 60 Minutes which debuted on the air in September of 1968. Many other television news magazines have been produced since its creation, however none have possessed the longevity…

The year is 2050 and my name is LAME. I currently attend Clinton HighSchool on the outskirts of San Jose. Since the year 1993, no action hasbeen taken to resolve the environmental problems within the US, but thirdworld nations are prospering because they started to preserve their rain-forests. Many US citizens are packing up and…

rre Curie won the Nobel Prize for discovering radioactive elements polonium and radium. The scientific world was excited with the newly discovered force of nature, but they soon realized that that the discovery was not the best for human race. They soon learned that the great discovery was a threat to health. Unfortunately, long time…

The book of Leviticus is filled with different rules and teachings. They were written down by priests. They were known as the Holiness Code. One of the most prominent teachings in this section of Leviticus was about the jubilee year. Every fifty years, debts should be forgiven, and people who have lost their property have…

Believed by many to be one of the world’s greatest writers, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian-born author and journalist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and a pioneer of the Latin American “Boom. ” Affectionately known as “Gabo” to millions of readers, he first won international fame with his masterpiece, One Hundred…

Stalin was born in 1879 and died 1953. He was the leader of Russia and wanted to industrialize it because they were behind most of the other countries. A quote that Stalin made was We are 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this lag in ten years. Either we do it,…

ed through a steepravine of the Andes Mountains in southern Bolivia. The guerrilla band ledby Ernesto “Che” Guevara – a chief lieutenant in the Sierra Maestra, authorof a book on guerilla tactics, one-time president of Cuba’s National Bankand later Minister of Industries under Castro, and who renounced his Cubancitizenship and set off to devote his…

Since the beginning of time, man has clung to the notion that there exists some external force that determines his destiny. In Grecian times, the epic poet Hesiod wrote of a triumvirate of mythological Fates that supposedly gave “to men at birth evil and good to have”. In other words, these three granted man his…

Holy Year of JubileeThe ultimate derivation of the word jubilee is disputed, but it is most probable that the Hebrew word jobel, to which it is traced, meant “a ram’s horn”, and that from this instrument, used in proclaiming the celebration, a certain idea of rejoicing was derived. Further, passing through the Greek iobelaios, or…