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youth and living
During his youth, he did not escape trying temptations and around this time he thought of retiring from the world and living a life of solitude and prayer.
In these years he recovered the manuscript that he and Thomas Young had worked in his youth from Young's widow, who was living in Albany, and began to develop it into the work that was published in 1785 as Reason: the Only Oracle of Man.
A youth protest demanding more political freedoms, fighting corruption and delivering improved living standards forced President Mubarak to step down on 11 February 2011.
She also asked for Tithonus to be made immortal, but forgot to ask for eternal youth, which resulted in him living forever as a helpless old man.
Isaac Newton wrote of the earth, "“ Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather inanimate vegetable, draws in æthereall breath for its dayly refreshment & vitall ferment & transpires again with gross exhalations, And according to the condition of all other things living ought to have its times of beginning youth old age & perishing .”
The song Far Away in Australia sung by the Irish ballad group The Wolfe Tones portrays the sorrow of two young Irish lovers who are separated when the male youth is forced to make his living far away in Australia, leaving his girl behind.
He spent much of his youth playing old time music for friends and dances, earning a living as a farmhand into the 1920s.
Adrian had in his youth married a woman named Stephania, by whom he had a daughter, and both were still living at his election, following which they lived with him in the Lateran Palace.
This system of école libre ( Free Schooling ) is mostly used not for religious reasons, but for practical reasons ( private schools may offer more services, such as after-class tutoring ) as well as the desire of parents living in disenfranchised areas to send their children away from the local schools, where they perceive that the youth are too prone to delinquency or have too many difficulties keeping up with schooling requirements that the educational content is bound to suffer.
Seton, a British-born Canadian living in the United States, met Baden-Powell in October 1906, and they shared ideas about youth training programs.
In childhood, Vātsyāyana says, a person should learn how to make a living ; youth is the time for pleasure, and as years pass one should concentrate on living virtuously and hope to escape the cycle of rebirth. The Kama Sutra acknowledges that the senses can be dangerous: ' Just as a horse in full gallop, blinded by the energy of his own speed, pays no attention to any post or hole or ditch on the path, so two lovers, blinded by passion, in the friction of sexual battle, are caught up in their fierce energy and pay no attention to danger '( 2. 7. 33 ).
Often living in dilapidated neighborhoods and marked as outsiders by their " eastern " traditions and poor command of the German language, Turkish urban youth gravitate towards hip hop as means of expressive identity construction.
In his youth, Albert was seriously concerned with the situation of the working classes in Belgium, and personally traveled around working class districts incognito, to observe the living conditions of the people.
* Marilyn Monroe – Actress ( Briefly spent a few years of her youth in Van Nuys while living with her aunt )
Over 15 years, New Zealand's economy and social capital faced a steady decline: the youth suicide rate grew sharply into one of the highest in the developed world ; the proliferation of food banks increased dramatically ; marked increases in violent and other crime were observed ; the number of New Zealanders estimated to be living in poverty grew by at least 35 % between 1989 and 1992 ; and health care was especially hard-hit, leading to a significant deterioration in health standards among working and middle-class people.
Many of the houses, which in past decades were single-family dwellings, have become vacant as the youth move elsewhere and the older citizens move to assisted living situations or die.
In the United States the economic difficulties have led to dramatic increases in youth poverty, unemployment, and the numbers of young people living with their parents.
Adults use toys and play to form and strengthen social bonds, teach, remember and reinforce lessons from their youth, discover their identity, exercise their minds and bodies, explore relationships, practice skills, and decorate their living spaces.
Alongside Eliade's main works, his attempted novel of youth, Minunata călătorie a celor cinci cărăbuşi in ţara furnicilor roşii, which depicts a population of red ants living in a totalitarian society and forming bands to harass the beetles, was seen as a potential allusion to the Soviet Union and to communism.
Anaxagoras, whose works were studied by Socrates, was living in Athens when Aristophanes was a youth.
" Lady Chatterley's Lover focuses on the incoherence of living a life that is " all mind ", which Lawrence saw as particularly true among the young members of the aristocratic classes, as in his description of Constance's and her sister Hilda's " tentative love-affairs " in their youth:
" In Letters to a Young Conservative, written as an introduction to conservative ideas for youth, D ' Souza argues that it is a blend of classical liberalism and ancient virtue, in particular, " the belief that there are moral standards in the universe and that living up to them is the best way to have a full and happy life.
James T. Kirk, Spock, and Leonard McCoy find Cochrane living on an asteroid with a being he calls the Companion, an ethereal presence of pure energy who rejuvenated the aged, dying Cochrane 150 years earlier, and has held him captive — and in a state of youth and vigor — ever since.
Cassady spent much of his youth living on the streets of skid row with his father, or spending time in reform school.

youth and Muskogee
In addition, the DAR provides $ 70, 000 to $ 100, 000 in scholarships and funds to American Indian youth at Chemawa Indian School, Salem, Oregon ; Bacone College, Muskogee, Oklahoma ; and the Indian Youth of America Summer Camp Program.

youth and Oklahoma
Scouting in Oklahoma has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.
The Boy Scouts of America Arbuckle Area Council maintains offices in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and serves youth and their families in Pontotoc, Murray, Johnston, Garvin, Coal, Atoka, Carter, Love and Marshall counties in southern Oklahoma and the city of Ringling.
Though she ultimately became a conservative, as a college freshman in 1945 she joined the Young People's Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party of America, influenced by her grandfather who was a founder of the Populist and Socialist parties in Oklahoma.
Born in Coweta, Oklahoma, Bright described himself as being a " happy pagan " in his youth.
The origins of youth ministry lie in Sunday schools like this 1900 Oklahoma class
Oklahoma Wesleyan University was founded by the Wesleyan Church to provide higher education within a Christian environment for Wesleyan youth.
* Oklahoma Deaf-Blind Technical Assistance Project-working with children & youth with DB, their families, educational teams, and agencies
Based in Norman, Oklahoma, its name a reference to the band members ' youth and " chainsaw guitar sound ", the Chainsaw Kittens were active from 1989 to 2000.
During his youth he lived in Dallas, Texas, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Mexico and Vermont.
The son of an oil man, Hazlewood was born in Mannford, Oklahoma and spent most of his youth living between Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Louisiana.
Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, also known simply as " Falls Creek ", is a conference center and youth camp along Falls Creek in the Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma.
She spent most of her youth growing up in the rural community of Piedmont, Oklahoma.

youth and was
A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.
Madame Lalaurie gestured with her riding crop toward the 20-year-old youth who was stomping and writhing with the king snake still draped over his bare shoulders.
It was our hope to educate him and to give him his freedom when the right time came, for he was a bright and friendly youth who seemed worthy of our interest.
He must have fallen in with evil companions, for he was a simple youth and quite trusting and inexperienced.
Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.
His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.
In B. M. Spinley's portrayal of the underprivileged and undereducated youth of London, a salient finding was the inability to postpone gratification, a need to satisfy impulses immediately without the pleasure of anticipation or of savoring the experience.
Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.
He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.
He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.
A hypothetical issue of this sort might deal with the establishment of a free public junior college in a community where there already was a good private college which served the middle-class youth adequately but was too expensive for working-class youth.
It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).
The dead youth was identified as Robert E. Sims, 19, of 1688 Oak Knoll Cir., Aj.
Hospital officials said the injury was severe but the youth was in good condition last night.

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