TheLer's New Writeups

McDonald's fries (thing)

2001-06-15T00:07:06Z

I don't eat McDonald's Fries.

Last summer my friend worked for his dad's produce distribution company in Providence. Every day they unloaded the trucks and sorted the contents, all sorts of fruits and vegetables, including potatoes. Now this is where it gets gross.

The good potatoes are sorted out and purchased by supermarkets. By good I mean fairly clean, decent looking ones. The other potatoes -- rancid, disgusting, putrid lumps of fiber, so disgusting people working at the place have actually vomited the first time they got a wiff of them -- are boxed and purchased by McDonald's for french fry use.

King Philip's War (thing)

2001-06-06T01:47:53Z

King Philip's War: conflict between Native Americans and English colonists in the New England region during 1675-1676.

A general distrust between the colonists and natives caused King Philip's War. The colonists were rapidly encroaching the Wampanoag and other Native's lands. Governor William Bradford died in 1657 and Massasoit, leader of the Wampanoag, died in 1660. The personal bonds, which had helped to create a working peace, were gone and tensions grew. The two cultures had vastly difference concepts of land use and different ways of life. The colonists' livestock continually trampled the Native cornfields. Technically the colonists were legally responsible for this damage, although those laws were not really enforced, especially in remote rural areas like Rehoboth and Taunton. Competition for planting land and hunting and fishing areas also caused a conflict between the two groups. After the fur trade collapsed, many Natives supported themselves by selling…

Pequot War (thing)

2001-06-05T02:36:48Z

The Pequot War was a culmination of many disputes between the Native Americans and the Colonists in the New England region. These conflicts included disputes over dishonest traders, livestock damaging Native's crops, property disputes, colonists over-hunting the region and the selling of alcohol to Indians. The colonists also believed in their god-given right to settle the new world and believed that it was their obligation to convert these pagan "barbarians" to Christianity.

The Pequots were also weakened by two events prior to the war. After sachem Wopigwooit died, sachem Uncas broke off from the Pequots and formed his own tribe, the Mohegans, who were hostile to the Pequots. The Pequots were also weakened by a smallpox epidemic in 1633. Between these two events the Pequots lost about half of their population.

On July 20, 1636, the Pequots killed a dishonest trader, John Oldham. A ninety man Massachusetts's militia headed by John Endicott landed on Block Island…

Alexander Hamilton (person)

2001-06-05T02:15:02Z

Alexander Hamilton was an aide to Washington during the Revolutionary War, the main author of the Federalist papers, and a chief proponent of a strong federal government in the newly established United States.

Hamilton was born January 11, 1755 in Nevis, British West Indies. His father abandoned the family in 1765 and at age eleven Hamilton went to work in a countinghouse owned by two New York merchants who had recently set up shop in St. Croix. When his mother died three years later his mother's relatives took custody of him and by 1772 he had become the manager of the countinghouse. Friends of the family sent him to a preparatory school in New Jersey and in 1773 he entered King's College (now known as Columbia University). He became a serious and intensly driven student, but his studies were interrupted by the brewing revolution. In 1774-75 he anonymously authored three anti-British pamphlets. One of these pamphlets was assumed to be written by John Adams and…

Andrew Jackson (person)

2001-06-05T01:39:22Z

Andrew Jackson was a military hero, the seventh president of the United States, and one of the most important people in the country's history. He was the first president to be born in the area west of the Appalacians, the first "common man" president and the first president to gain office by directly appealing to the voters of the United States.

Jackson was born on the western frontier in an area that was in dispute of ownership between North Carolina and South Carolina. Although both states have attempted to claim him as a native of their state, it is commonly accepted that he was a native of South Carolina. There was little opportunity for a high quality education on the frontier, and what little education Jackson would have received was cut short but the British invasion of the Carolinas during 1780. He was captured by the British and struck across the face with a sabre after refusing to shine the shoes of a British officer. His mother and two brothers died during the British…

Padding your report (idea)

2001-06-04T02:22:23Z

some ideas on how to maximize report length.

Selecting the Correct Font
Font choice plays a big role in the length of the report. From my experience, Courier New is your best choice. Courier New is a wide, fixed width font, which lengthens your writing significantly while still maintaining the professional aspect of the report. Comic Sans MS is also about as large as Courier New, but it looks goofy and some teachers may not even accept it. You may want to experiment with font size, although this is definetly an overused method of increasing report length.

Margins
MS Word has a default margin size of 1.25". Experiment with this in order to gain a few extra lines. You probably don't want to go much over 1.5" or it will be fairly obvious that you are attempting to increase length.

Spacing
If the teacher requests double spacing, try going for 2.5 spacing. Most teachers won't notice the difference, but you'll definetly…