ANATOMY OF A LETTER

Addressing the Cover Letter: It s best to get the exact name of the person to whom you are writing. This makes your approach personal.

Exact Name of Principal
Exact Title School Name School Address City, State zip

Date

First Paragraph: The first paragraph explains why you are writing the letter.

Second Paragraph: Here you have a chance to give some details about yourself or your motivation for writing.

Third Paragraph: In the third paragraph, you can continue selling your concept or reason for writing.

Fourth Paragraph: Here you have another opportunity to reveal facts which will impress or persuade your reader.

Final Paragraph: This is an important paragraph in your letter. You have to let the reader know what the next step is.

Alternate Final Paragraph: Its more aggressive (but not too aggressive) to let the employer know that you will be calling.
Dear Exact Name (or Dear Principal if you dont know the Exact Name):

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Louis Pasteur Suppressed Experiments That Didn’t Support His Theories

One of the greatest scientific duels in history occurred between those who believed that microorganisms spontaneously generate in decaying organic matter and those who believed that the tiny creatures migrated there from the open air. From the late 1850s to the late 1870s, the eminent French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur was locked in a death-match with opponents of spontaneous generation, especially Felix Pouchet.

The Auschwitz Tattoo Was Originally An IBM Code Number

The tattooed numbers on the forearms of people held and killed in Nazi concentration camps have become a chilling symbol of hatred. Victims were stamped with the indelible number in a dehumanizing effort to keep track of them like widgets in the supply chain.
These numbers obviously weren’t chosen at random. They were part of a coded system, with each number tracked as the unlucky person who bore it was moved through the system. Edwin Black made headlines in 2001 when his painstakingly researched book, IBM and the Holocaust, showed that IBM machines were used to automate the “Final Solution” and the jackbooted takeover of Europe. Worse, he showed that the top levels of the company either knew or willfully turned a blind eye.

A year and a half after that book gave Big Blue a black eye, the author made more startling discoveries.

World War III Almost Started In 1995

What were you doing on January 25, 1995? Whatever it was, it was almost the last thing you ever did. On that day, the world came within minutes of a nuclear war between the US and Russia.
Norway and the United States had launched a research rocket (for charting the Arctic) from a Norwegian island. Following standard protocol, Norway had alerted Russia in advance about the firing, but the message never made its way to the right people. In the middle of the night, Russian radar detected what looked like a nuclear missile launched toward Moscow from a US submarine.

Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped On North Carolina

Fortunately, no atomic bombs were dropped on the Moon, but the same can’t be said of North Carolina. The Tar Heel State’s brush with nuclear catastrophe came on January 24, 1961, about half past midnight. A B-52 with two nukes on-board was cruising the skies near Goldsboro and Faro when its right wing leaked fuel and exploded. The jet disintegrated. Five crewmen survived, while three died.
The two MARK 39 thermonuclear bombs disengaged from the jet. Each one had a yield of two to tour megatons (reports vary), up to 250 times as powerful as the bomb that decimated Hiroshima. The parachute opened on one of them, and it drifted to the earth relatively gently. But the parachute failed to open on the other, so it plowed into a marshy patch of land owned by a farmer.
The nuke with the parachute was recovered easily. However, its twin proved much more difficult to retrieve. Because of the swampiness of the area, workers were able to drag out only part of the bomb. One of its most crucial components the “secondary,” which contains nuclear material is still in the ground, probably around 150 feet down.

The US And Soviet Union Considered Detonating Nuclear Bombs On The Moon

You’d be forgiven for thinking that this is an unused scene from Dr. Strangelove, but the United States and the Soviet Union have seriously considered exploding atomic bombs on the Moon.
It was the late 1950s, and the Cold War was extremely chilly. Someone in the US government got the bright idea of nuking the Moon, and in 1958 the Air Force Special Weapons Center spearheaded the project (labeled A119, “A Study of Lunar Research Flights”).
The idea was to shock and awe the Soviet Union, and everybody else, with a massive display of American nuclear might. What better demonstration than an atomic explosion on our closest celestial neighbor? According to the project’s reports, the flash would’ve been visible to the naked eye on Earth. (It’s been suggested that another motivation may have been to use the Moon as a test range, thus avoiding the problems with irradiating our home planet.)

The First CIA Agent To Die In The Line Of Duty Was Douglas Mackiernan

As of the year 2000, 69 CIA agents had died in the line of duty. Of these, the identities of 40 remain classified. Former Washington Post and Time reporter Ted Gup spent three years hacking down information about these mysterious spooks who gave their lives for the Agency. (Mm resulting publication, The Book of Honor, names almost all of them.)

The Ten Commandments We Always See Aren’t The Ten Commandments

10-commandments First Amendment battles continue to rage across the US over the posting of the Ten Command-ments in public places courthouses, schools, parks, and pretty much anywhere else you can imagine. Christians argue that they’re a part of our Western heritage that should be displayed as ubiquitously as traffic signs.

Congressman Bob Barr hilariously suggested that the Columbine massacre wouldn’t have happened if the Ten Commandments (also called the Decalogue) had been posted in the high school, and some government officials have directly, purposely disobeyed court rulings against the display of these ten directives supposedly handed down from on high.

Too bad they’re all talking about the wrong rules. Every Decalogue you see from the 5,000-pound granite behemoth inside the Alabama State Judicial Building to the little wallet-cards sold at Christian bookstores is bogus. Simply reading the Bible will prove this. Getting out your King James version, turn to Exodus 20:2-17. You’ll see the familiar list of rules about having no other gods, honoring your parents, not killing or coveting, and so on. At this point, though, Moses is just repeating to the people what God told him on Mount Si’nai. These are not written down in any form.

Later, Moses goes back to the Mount, where God gives him two “tables of stone” with rules written on them (Exodus 31:18). But when Moses comes down the mountain lugging his load, he sees the people worshipping a statue of a calf, causing him to throw a tantrum and smash the tablets on the ground (Exodus 32:19).In neither of these cases does the Bible refer to “commandments.”

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ANATOMY OF A LETTER

Louis Pasteur Suppressed Experiments That Didn’t Support His Theories

Louis Pasteur Suppressed Experiments That Didn’t Support His Theories

The Auschwitz Tattoo Was Originally An IBM Code Number

The Auschwitz Tattoo Was Originally An IBM Code Number

World War III Almost Started In 1995

World War III Almost Started In 1995

Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped On North Carolina

Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped On North Carolina

The US And Soviet Union Considered Detonating Nuclear Bombs On The Moon

The US And Soviet Union Considered Detonating Nuclear Bombs On The Moon

The First CIA Agent To Die In The Line Of Duty Was Douglas Mackiernan

The First CIA Agent To Die In The Line Of Duty Was Douglas Mackiernan