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Architecture In 1975 Focused M
<view this essay>.... year, they were minor ones compared to how often issues dealing with the environment showed up. More specifically, two particular themes were evident, recycling and the use of natural energy.
Some may ask why the sudden interest in the environment? The answer is simple; looking back a couple of years an energy crisis crippled the nation in October of 1973. People not only did this to aid nature, moreover people wanted to be more independent in case future energy crises should arise.
In addition to just reusing old building materials, recycling was executed on a large scale by renovating old buildings instead of knocking them down and building from scratch. B .....
Number of words: 1166 | Number of pages: 5 |
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Original Narrative Anticipated
<view this essay>.... of computers this century, however, has revolutionized the way things are done. Those who own the technology no longer have to "think" about menial tasks. For example, when one buys a product in a store for $1.38 and hands the cashier a five-dollar bill, the cashier will punch in the five dollars and let the computerized cash register indicate the correct change of $3.62 to give to the customer. No thinking on the part of a person is involved. Instead, it is substituted by a reliance on mechanical and repetitious actions which are unproductive and unhealthy for the mind. We human beings are blessed with the capability to reason and to think logically; therefo .....
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Desriptive Essay On Wrestling
<view this essay>.... know the layout of the arena. Once they end up finding their seats there are normally people sitting in them or they are in the wrong one and have to move.
When they see the wrestlers they are so much bigger than they thought. The wrestlers have big and powerful wrestlers. They are always in top condition. The smaller wrestlers still have muscles but they are not as powerful as the bigger ones. The smaller wrestlers rely on their speed to win their matches.
During the event there is a smell of smoke in the air from the fireworks that had gone off. There is a general noise throughout the building that gets louder as the wrestlers do a special move or look .....
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Monotheism Vs. Polytheism; The
<view this essay>.... one of the most significant fields of philosophical endeavor to both Christian philosophers and those of other persuasions. The focus of problems in the philosophy of religion, that will be centered on, are the grounds for the belief in God(s), the immortality of the soul, the nature of God(s) to humankind, and the problem of evil.
Polytheism is distinguished from monotheism, on the basis of polytheism's claim that divinity, while personal and distinguished from the universe, is many rather than one. Most traditions are polytheistic, or at least monotheistic with helper spirits; but there are a few monotheistic ones which posit a single Great Creator with no .....
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Practices And Winning In Sports
<view this essay>.... everything,
it's the only thing." This saying means something different to everyone.
To me it means, you should do your best all the time and to always have fun
while doing it. Winning comes down to just plain having fun. You can't win
if you don't have fun. If you win as an individual and everyone as a team
wins individually, then you will win on the scorebo ard.
As the varsity coach my main objective would be to make the team
play as a team, and not as a group of individuals. Once this is achieved
then anything else that I would want to achieve or the team wants to
achieve, will follow. Other objectives would be to make everybody on the
team a team player .....
Number of words: 682 | Number of pages: 3 |
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The Last Day Of The Year
<view this essay>.... says in line one of this poem, “The year at its turn” (Droste-Hulshoff, 1). Throughout this poem, she uses the year to represent a period of time that is coming to an end. Referring to the introduction in the World Reader, Droste-Hulshoff was a woman “yearning for the freedom to be herself” (Caws, 2002). This forces the reader to consider that she is using the time period of the year as the time of women’s oppression. She feels that the time of the oppression is coming to an end. “I wait in stern silence, O deep night! Is there an open eye?” (Droste-Hulshoff 5-7) is one example of how she considers the era .....
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Bornstein
<view this essay>.... born to a very strict Roman Catholic Italian family. My grandfather worked construction 50 hours a week while my grandmother tended seven children. My own mother was not even allowed to attend college because they believed that "girls weren't supposed to go to college". Inequality and gender difference was very visible. Do to social construction, my mother grew up believing that there were certain jobs for men and certain jobs for women. Ironically it was the changing society of the late 60's and early 70's that gave my mother the motivation to question tradition. I feel that in this situation it's not society in general that constructs gender but simply igno .....
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What Causes Juvenile Delinquin
<view this essay>.... major reason for kids becoming delinquent. To explain this you must ask, "why should I care about how I live if my parents don’t care about how they live?" Juveniles would rather stay away from a place that they don’t care to live in which leaves them bumming from other people for housing. When moving from place to place many different things can be encountered such as drugs, or abuses such as physical, sexual, or mental. A juvenile without a stable place to live will almost inevitably become delinquent.
Use of drugs or alcohol can also cause problems in the home. Either of these items being abused in the home will immediately cause it to be u .....
Number of words: 781 | Number of pages: 3 |
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