... of their 1996 findings. The NEA's 1997 summary of that analysis confirmed Miller's assertions, concluding that audiences for theatre are aging faster than the overall population. In support of this conclusion, the summary stated that, "In 1982 those under thirty years of age comprised 29.1% of the theater audience, and by 1997 young people comprised just 16.7% of the audience for theater ... musical play, and 14.5% attended a musical. Among the 25-34 year-old age cohort, 9.2% attended a non-musical play, and 16% attended a musical. By way of comparison, the report states that in 1992, 13...

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... Women seized the opportunity for representation and formed delegations and deputations that actively petitioned the legislature. The women's section, as announced by Palm in a speech to the Confederation on March 8, 1791, was designed first to lobby for justice for women- for the elimination of primogeniture, ... caused their defeat? The answer is simple: The French people were not yet enlightened. The majority of the population, whether or not they supported women's rights, saw women's place in the home as a mother and a wife. It was inconceivable that women, like a man, could ... . 1...

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... . Between 1985 and 1987, biologists captured the last nine California Condors in the wilderness and mated them. In 1992 the biologists tried to return the birds to the wilderness because the population of the birds had grown. By 1997 the population of the birds had increased to 133, which 33 of them live in the wilderness. The American Bald Eagle was once plentiful near lakes and ... coasts in North America, but because hunters prized the bird's white head and ... rhinoceros is also threatened by habitat fragmentation, which is when the contiguous habitats can be fragmented resulting in...

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... , the society had successfully refined another child into its strict system of beliefs and principles. In the eighth century B.C., Sparta was in need of more fertile land to support an ever-growing population that demanded food. Consequently, Sparta was forced to do what any ancient civilization did when in need of resources: They invaded their neighbors, the Messenians, and after a twenty year war ... p-87). This strange and brutal test of the boy's manhood served two purposes for Spartan society. One, it directly controlled the population of the helots, and two, it gave the boy valuabl...

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... , and who administered the abuse. The most recent of these studies was conducted in 2000. In 1990 861,000 children were abused out of a total population of 64,163,192. In 1991 the child population grew to 65,069,507, and the number of abuses rose to 912,000. In 1992 the child population rose again to 66,073,841, and with it the number of abused children ... rose to 995,000. In 1993 there was a slight increase in population to 66,961,573, which caused the ... number of abuses to rise to 1,026,000. Again in 1994 the child population rose to 67,803,294, and the number ... ...

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... reclaiming of dignity by these men and women. Through these themes Bourgois (2002:17) portrays that the people living in El Barrio are known to blame the victim for their misfortune of being the underclass of the United States population and "living in the inferno" due to their inability to compete with the classes above them who are more able of succeeding since ... ). Puerto Rico had never had a prosperous economy and was always easily controlled by other countries through the use of military force. According to Bourgois (2002: 49), "in 1992, more than 50 percent of the Puerto Rican po...

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... put forward until the eve of the Middle Ages, although it started to become lame and inhumane. Another purpose present in the minds of Rome's rulers was the desire that potentially unruly and dangerous city population should be amused and kept quiet. They should be given entertainment that they wanted, no matter how disgusting if might be ... stated that all criminals who would have in the past have been enrolled for the games must in the future be condemned to forced labor in the mines instead. By the end of the fourth century, gladiatorial shows had disappeared from the Eastern Empire....

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... a sewer and not fit for consumption. "Disgusted, local authorities initiated a project to fill the sewer with earth from an adjacent hill. In 1805, in order to drain the garbage-infested waters, designers opened a forty-foot wide canal that today is known as Canal Street. 8" By 1811 ... imagine, focusing on the sixth ward where the infamous Five Points are, the large population of poverty stricken immigrants who came to New York looking for a better life were not excited to find themselves in worse conditions than they fled from. Many of these immigrants were German, Irish, ... from her...

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... the early eighties, but nterest soon dropped however, because the crisis was soon solved. Today the current surge of interest in electric vehicles replacing the internal combustion engine, or ICE, is due strictly to one concern, air quality. The world's population is booming and cars are polluting the world's cities, dumping large amounts of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering greenhouse ... moves into mass production. IV. Environmental Impacts A. Greenhouse Gasses It is a general consensus around the world that major reductions in greenhouse gasses are needed in order for the hum...

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