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Ancient Stories Of The Flood
<view this essay>.... displeased with the evils of mankind decided to destroy it by means of a great flood. Ea, the god of wisdom and subtlety, was privy to their council and warned Utnapishtim, the Babylonian Noah, of the coming disaster. Utnapishtim was told to build a ship thirty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. Provision it and put in it specimens of every living thing. Then to board it with his family and possessions and launch it on the waters.
For six days and nights the wind and flood raged. On the seventh day the flood abated. Everything, including mankind, had turned to mud and clay.
Utnapishtim sent out a dove on the seventh day but it came back. He .....
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Oregon Trail
<view this essay>.... with cholera, poor sanitation, and accidental gunshots. The travelers had to gather all the resources that they had in order to survive. Usually the travelers traveled in large groups to help dealing with obstacles such as ravines, deep mud, snowstorms, thunderstorms, and rivers. Since there were no bridges or ferries crossing rivers and streams was a major hazard. Many supplies, animals, and travelers were lost attempting to cross rivers.
The men did the hunting, navigating, and most other dangerous or hard tasks. The women; however, did not have it easy. Women played very important roles taking care of children and cooking under very difficult conditions. W .....
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Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-18
<view this essay>.... the "tyranny of the majority," which he felt would destroy the freedoms of the people. His work, Democracy in America was not to measure the mastery of United States but to look how France could learn from the emerging democracy that was sweeping the west. It is my goal to learn more about this man and even read this book, Democracy in America. Works Cited
"Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)." DISCovering Biography. 1999. Galenet.
4 May 1999. .
Kraynak, Robert P. "Tocqueville's Constitutionalism." The American Political Science Review.
81. Dec., 1997: 1175-1195.
Mitchell, Harvey. "Tocqueville's Mirage or Reality? Political Freedom from Old Regime t .....
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Generation Ecstacy
<view this essay>.... "rhythmic phsycadelic," Reynolds, finds two predominant, contrasting strains: the search for gnosis, or spiritual revelation, and the desire to get completely out of it at the weekend. Setting these timeless traits in the context of the up-to-the-minute technology that made rave emblematic of its era—the fragmentary, fast-forward aesthetic, the flexible production and distribution network, the avoidance of personality and narrative in favor of sensation—he comes up with a portrait of hi-tech millennium that resonates well beyond its subculture confines.
There are those who might find a book to analyze music that often aims for the effect of a sledgehamme .....
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Descartes Knowledge
<view this essay>.... that our senses aren’t
totally reliable we then have to look at what we know of without our senses. Descartes says that the only thing
that we can be sure of is that we are thinking things. Even in denying that we are thinking things we are affirming
the actual point that we look to deny. The thought that we are not thinking things is still a thought and therefore
proof that we are thinking things. For it is not conceivable for one to think of a point at which we are not thinking.
We can try to persuade ourselves that there are times when we are not thinking but in doing so we see that we do
exist. For it is imposs .....
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Popular Culture Of America
<view this essay>.... and she talks about how advertisements for products and services attempt to convey to males what a "real man" is supposed to look like. The advertiser message is that their product will make men fit this ideal image.
According to Diane Barthel, in today's society, advertisements target men and urge them to adopt traditional male roles. Advertisements are pushing men to become anything from the typical cowboy in blue jeans to a corporate tycoon with a business suit, or the playboy look to the gentlemen look in their ads. She says advertisement companies are doing this by compelling males into thinking that they have to look rugged, untouched, muscular and p .....
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Pearl Harbor
<view this essay>.... than 350 Japanese bombers, torpedo
planes, and fighters struck. More than 75 U.S. warships(including battleships,
cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and auxiliaries) were based at this "Gibraltar
of the Pacific." All U.S. aircraft carriers were elsewhere. Observing radio
silence, it reached a launching point at 6 AM, December 7. At 7:50 AM, the
first wave of Japanese planes struck Pearl Harbor, bombarding airfields and
battleships moored at the concrete quays. The U.S. totally taken off guard had
to defend themselves in pajamas. They used anti-aircraft guns in an attempt to
stop the Japanese. A second wave followed. The surprise attack was over before
10 .....
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Charlemagne
<view this essay>.... tall (around six feet tall) and powerfully built with a thick neck and deep chest. He had the red hair and blue eyes of his tribe and was possessed of both strength and stamina.
He was typical of the Franks in his love for hunting and for feasting, but Einhard notes that his king drank in moderation--a mere three cups of wine with a meal.
was an ambitious king, aggressive and ruthless, but equally notable was his perseverance, his ability to carry through on a plan. He was not a great general, but he was a dogged campaigner and was often able to wear the enemy down through sheer force. Indeed, one of his more important attributes was his physical energy. Einh .....
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