.... of people known as the Yoruba. They were brought over as slaves to Cuba to work the plantations and harvest the islands sugar crop. The Yoruba's were forced to disguise their religion. To do so they worshiped their Orishas (or spirits. The Yoruba believe that for every action there is a Orisha), beneath the images of Catholic Saints. When the Yoruba people were brought over from Nigeria they were baptized as Roman Catholics. Although they were forced to accept Catholic beliefs they worshiped their Orishas according to Roman Catholic Rites. This way of worship soon became the accepted way to practice their "forbidden religion" and developed into ; t .....

.... early history of the in Hispanola both established and patterned the settlements in Jamaica and Suriname and the response of the authorities to them. The Jamaican in particular were a community to be reckoned and bargained with and are believed to have come into existence around 1655 with the capture of Jamaica's capital St. Jago de la Vegain. They were numerous and made a refuge for slaves escaping from the estates. The military were posted in these territories and were provided with dogs to catch raiders who tried to slip through the defenses of the estates. The disturbed the peace but did not directly affect estate discipline. There were r .....

.... systems are being installed. A typical big block V8, using a blower and nitrous, will generate about 600-800 hp, with an extreme of around 1500 hp. Germany has been known for building high quality, innovative cars. They take easily to tuning, and last a long time. Tuned German cars have been known to be some of the best handling cars in the world, typified by the company Porsche. Using somewhat lighter cars, they can corner at frighteningly high speeds. It often takes a very professional, and brave, driver to extract anything near full potential from them. The V6 is the engine of choice here, with turbocharging being the number one choice for force .....

.... your grave. One must provide tools for happiness in his/her afterlife. They would provide replicas of their everyday environment for their tombs for the enjoyment of their spirits. It was also important to provide a body for the spirits to dwell in a mummified corpse or a statue in the case that the body was destroyed. These sacred pyramids for the pharaohs were built in all types of shapes. Common in all pyramids is a central location that is high in elevation. This “high point� represents the stepping stone to the heavens. Usually there would be a Mastaba in the tomb it was known to be as a squarish mound faced with brick or stone above t .....

.... World War II by jazz musicians and hustlers as a slang term for down and out, poor and exhausted. The word as used by a Times Square hustler named Herbert Huncke came to the attention of William Burroughs. The word was passed on through Burroughs on to Allen Ginsberg and a friend named Jack Kerouac. Ginsberg, hearing Huncke use the word in the original street slang usage, felt that the word meant “exhausted, at the bottom the world, looking up or out, sleepless, wide-eyes, perceptive, rejected b society, on your own, streetwise.� Kerouac was completely captivated by the mood and tone of the word ‘beat.’ He insisted that the word possesse .....

.... are around 40,000 children each year that suffer from head injuries. Some of these individuals will have received severe injuries, in that they will have been unconscious for at least 20 minutes and so will most likely have suffered brain damage. The sport of swimming has the obvious danger of drowning. There are also potential risks of spinal injuries caused by collisions with the floor of the pool, the walls in the pool and other swimmers. Many other injuries can be the result of a slippery deck or training equipment not correctly stored away. There is also a risk of injury from the chemicals which are present at a pool such as chlorine. Ri .....

.... prison sentences for drug dealers and users. Especially since offenders only serve one third of their sentenced prison terms. What lesson are they learning with less prison time and no substance abuse counseling? Programs - The individuals in the community must also work together though in order for all of this to work. For instance; people should support school locker searches, random drug tests, and neighborhood watch programs. Implementing these programs may be hard at first, but with support people believe that they can help the drug problems in America. Pros - If this choice worked as it claims, the crime rate would decrease. Since a thir .....

.... their land and California will refuse to lose some of their population. These are powers not willingly given up by states. One example is in Bowman/Kearney where New York and New Jersey disputed the ownership of Ellis Island for 200 years. Even though it was finally decided by the Supreme that both would receive ownership, it foresees problems of redistribution. Also, if boundaries were redrawn states can possibly lose a large amount of resources and population. If boundaries were drawn so that Texas loses part of their oil fields to another state, chaos will occur. If Manhattan becomes Connecticut, New York will not be silent when losing a large .....

.... country folk call it stupidity! Take a moment to sit back and think about it, almost everywhere you look now a days you see somebody doing something really stupid. There’s more people infected with the stupidity epidemic than with the AIDS virus. As you can see this is no laughing matter, it could be a threat to man kind. Realizing this I decided to research the subject and try to find a cure for it. I decided to only concentrate on the real severe cases. So I choose a few candidates to research upon. One of my top "lab rats" I discovered watching CNN one night. His name; William Clinton, AKA Bill. This a very severe case of stupidity that .....

.... abstraction, higher-order routines and iters, exception handling, assertions, preconditions, postconditions, and class invariants. Sather code can be compiled into C code and can efficiently link with object files of other languages. pSather, the parallel and distributed extension, presents a shared memory abstraction to the programmer while allowing explicit placement of data and threads. Sather and the ICSI Sather compiler have a very unrestrictive license aimed at encouraging contribution to the public library without precluding the use of Sather for proprietary projects. This chapter will provide a basic introduction for new users, pointing .....