.... and is clearly universal. That is because the purity and innocence of the young child is in contrast with the complications of adult life. A baby is pure and untouched by the vulgarity and coarseness of everyday life. Sexual naivete, especially, is looked upon as endearing since sex is one of the great complications of life. A young child is removed from most aspects of providing, so he can usually concentrate completely on his art, something older artists cannot afford to do. This belief, "that there only doing it for the love of…" remains on of the most important tenets of the eternal ch .....

.... airbags have been deployed in over 3.3 million automobile crashes and more than 660,000 passenger airbags have deployed while the front seat was occupied (www.highwaysafety.org/safety_facts/airbags/stats.html). Air Bag Death Statistics Based on a NHTSA report from September 1st, 1998, 53.0 million cars, or about 42 percent of all cars on the road, are equipped with some form of air bag protection. With the amount of cars on the road with air bags, the NHTSA reports only 113 confirmed air bag deaths. (www.nhtsa.dot.gov/airbags/). This number seems to be a tad "sugar-coated" if you will c .....

.... to acknowledge her for her writings. “I wanted him to interrupt.” Sandra wanted her father to see what she was doing. Everything that she wrote was for her father and she wanted to win over her father’s approval. But since she was the only daughter, she was thought of as very highly by her father. When she told her father she wanted to go to college, they both had different visions. She wanted to go to college to become a writer but her father wanted her to go to college to meet a husband. Her father his sons to go to college to become masters with their hands. The sons in S .....

.... economic flows. Questions related to trans-border control, as opposed to purely domestic issues, have also exercised states. The claims states have made with regard to authoritative control of movements of people, commodities, investments, and information, ideas, or culture across their international boundaries have changed across time and over countries. (Krasner 86) The question of trans-border flows of information, ideas, and culture will be dealt with below. At issue here is how economic sovereignty and territorial sovereignty interact. Put differently, how do trans-border eco .....

.... them in this way? There is great diversity among gifted and talented children, and as with any child, each exhibits unique qualities. Yet, there are fundamental characteristics that are commonly associated with giftedness and are generally observed in different levels in most of these children. An article in the Instructor categorizes these qualities as "..creative, perfectionistic and intellectual" and asserts that gifted and talented children exhibit advanced development in these general areas. Through my research I have found that there are general consistencies among these stude .....

.... running fluid and this fluid formed into the likeness of a man. He was given the name Ymir. As the frost continued to thaw another form was created. This form became a cow called Audhumbla. From her teats flowed four rivers of milk and it was upon this that Ymir was fed. While he fed, Ymir slept, and while he slept a male and female frost giant grew from his armpits and one leg fathered a six headed troll with the other leg. Audhumbla lived by licking the ice-blocks that were salty, and by the evening of the first day there appeared a man's hair where she licked. On the second day, a .....

.... tiresome’. She knows that her mother only means well but sometimes she wishes she could be like Lonnie. Lonnie is in care of her father; her mother had passed away some time before. Her father never notices her and does not show his affection for her, she is pretty much on her own. The narrator considers her as a ‘Blue-Baby’ and privileged. The narrator also sees her mother as ‘shameless and obscene’; she tries to direct her friend’s attention away from her mother as much as possible. In the story, we are told by the narrator that she was ‘ne .....

.... are hounded mercilessly by the men-and a few women-who wield long lenses and a brazen shamelessness (Maclean, 38). Today, paparazzi’s tread on private property, film celebrities during intimate moments, and even go as far as stalking a public figure. Some of these photos can be worth in the millions of dollars. A single photograph of Prince Charles seen together with his mistress Camilla Parker-Bowles is estimated to be worth 5 million English pounds. The prince says he "would love to figure out a way for the proceeds to go to charity" (Newsweek, 95).The prince and his mistress u .....

.... may be stopped. Desertification is caused not only by nature but also by human factors (over-grazing, poor irrigation, deforestation, and over-cultivation) all of which are preventable. Livestock, in many continents, overgrazes and flattens vegetation. Arid areas, such as the Sahel ("Desertification was brought to the world's attention by the Sahel disaster..."), the dry plains of India, and semi deserts of Turkey can usually support a small number of people and their livestock without permanent damage. The land often recovers when the animals move on but when there are too many sheep .....

.... and a sence of inferiority towards women. Such symptoms are the results of past psychological and/or physical abuse from this opposite sex. Quite often in a male's teenage life, abusive mothers and other female members of the family account for a large percentage of the abuse being done to these innocent juvenile males. Another large and common offender to men in this sensual epoch of growth are the unusual agressive and dominant female characters who possess negative and often destructive relationships with them. All problems linked to gynephobia are tied-in to some sort of prev .....