William Clinton
Forty-second American President

William J. Clinton, at 46, The youngest man elected President since John Kennedy, came to the White House calling for deep changes in American life. On the 29th day of his Presidency, he appeared before a session of Congress and asked for an end to politicial fights. Before that. he had been urging "to make our economy thrive again".
A fifth-generation Arkansan, President Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in a tragic accident. When he was four years old, his mother married Roger Clinton of Hot Springs, Arkansas. In high school he took the family name. He excelled as a student and as a saxophone player, a talent he exercised in amateur form throughout his political career. While in highschol, he journeyed to Washington, where he met President Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden, an encounter that inspired him to enter a life of public service.
Clinton attended Georgetown University in Washington DC, majoring in international affairs, and in 1968 received a Bachelor's degree in foreign service. Later he studied at Oxford University for two years. He had received a law degree from Yale University in 1973, when he returned to Arkansas to teach law at the University of Arkansas and to prepare to enter politics.
In 1975 he married Hillary Rodham, a pretty woman he had met while they were both studying law at Yale. That began a strong personal and politicial partnership of talented equals. Their daughter, Chelsea, was born in 1980.
In 1978 Clinton was elected governor of Arkansas. In 1992 he was elected president.

Witches and Witchcraft

There are a lot of supernatural things that people in the Middle ages believed in. One of those things are witches and witchcraft. We usually have the habit of putting everything in categories- bad - good, sweet - salty, black - white,etc. Witches are divided into Good and Evil. Like in the stories we read when we were little, but witchcraft is not that simple and fun.

Witchcraft was believed to be a kind of a religion that was found in the past as well as in the present. However, the people who believe in witchcraft involve in magic. This belief uses religious elements like spirits or deities, the afterlife, magic, rituals,etc. Sometimes witchcraft is referred to the practice of magic, common to the shamanism. According to some documents in the Middle ages all kinds of magic is witchcraft. When it was discovered it rose a panic among the Catholics and Protestants and it was believed that this new religions is a kind of a Devil worship.

To remind the people of witchcraft today we have created movies, books and games, but they don't tell us that much about witches. Many movies contain witches as a plot element (Harry Potter, The Craft, etc.), but generally they only use brooms, wands and cauldrons from the history. In books , especially children's books, witches are shown as wicked old women with wrinkled skin, pointy hats, dressed in black or purple, with warts on their noses and sometimes long claw-like fingernails. This gives the impression that they are bad and children are often scared of them, but do they really exist?

Different people have different opinions about witches and witchcraft - some think that they are superstitions and don't believe, other believe , but are afraid of the Devil, and third think they are not bad and try to understand and recover the old religion. Whether its real or not it was believed that it can manipulate the human body and that makes it the most dangerous weapon among others, but like we said in the beginning there are Good and Bad witches. There is always a possibility that the Good ones are nice and can help a person in need.

Written by: Aylene and Fikrie

Edited by: Novak Novakov Novakov