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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
The First Flush Toilet
<view this essay>.... evaporate sewage and out a
pipe), an oil-flushed toilet (this used recyclable mineral oil, but was
not-efficient enough), the bioelectric toilet (which used heat and
circulating air to clean waste), incinerating toilet (these reduced waste
to ash), biological toilets (which used enzymes to dissolve waste), and
finally the earth closet (a pit like well that sealed the waste in soil
below).
All of these methods created were all inefficient in some way. Whether
is was the smell, the inability to get rid of the waste, the slowness, or
the tremendous energy put into it for every bow- movement. The basic
mechanism was very simple--it was made of a float, a me .....
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Tv Viewing
<view this essay>.... careful with the viewing material. The young kids should be limited to educational films only. Any other type of should be done at home at explained by the parent.
Teens are more mature, therefore their should be decreased because of the fact that at that age they need to learn more about life and what goes on around them. The best way to do that is through life experience not through TV. For example if a student saw drug use on TV he/she would have no idea about drugs until they experiment with the drug, or see the effects of drugs on someone in real life. Teenagers are at a point where they can distinguish reality from fiction. Schools should focus on .....
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The Aristophanes' Ideology: Creation Through Separation
<view this essay>.... other half, and a completion resulting in a desireable wholeness.
Aristophanes' theory states that love is a physical enjoyment which causes someone to take intense delight in the company of another. Aristopanes is trying to explain that the soul has other longings for which it cannot express, but can only surmise and attempt search for. This is the looking for our "matching half."
""Love" is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our
desire to be complete."
(Symposium, Speech of Aristophanes (192E)))
This is according to Aristophanes. His ides, or rather theory of "wholeness" is truly one of, if not the most, original and convincing of answering the .....
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“Newton Or Leibniz, Who Should Get The Credit?”
<view this essay>.... became known to be. He entered Trinity College in Cambridge. There he learned the philosophies of Descartes and Wallis. He also became interested in the mechanics of Copernican astronomy of Galileo. In 1665, traces of his scientific genius began to appear as he made a series of discoveries in the field of mathematics, optics, physics and astronomy. At that same time he laid the foundations for differential and integral calculus. It should be noted that he discovered calculus years roughly 8 years before Leibniz discovered them. He used his differentiation methods and sought to unify many separate techniques developed earlier to solve seemingly irrelevant probl .....
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Vegitarianism - A Hidden Persp
<view this essay>.... dumped into giant grinders at rendering plants, along with the entire bodies of cows and other farm animals known to be diseased. Rendering is a 2.4 billion-a-year industry, which processes forty billion pounds of dead animals a year.
There is no such thing as a dead animal too diseased, too cancerous, or too putrid to be welcomed by the rendering plant. Another staple of the renderer's diet, in addition to farm animals, is euthanized pets- the six or seven million dogs and cats that are killed in animal shelters every year. The city of Los Angeles alone sends some two hundred tons of euthanized cats and dogs to a rendering plant every month. Added to the bl .....
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Participative Management
<view this essay>.... by involving them in decisions affecting their work lives. A distinguishing characteristic of the process is that its goals are not simply acquired, they focus on the improvement of productivity and efficiency, but they are also fulfilling and self-enhancing in themselves. The key goals of employee involvement programs is to enhance the quality of the employees’ working life, management must be responsive to the requests of the employees. The best way to ascertain those requests is to ask employees.
If workers can be motivated and given the opportunity to participate in the search for improved methods of job performance, and if this motivation a .....
Number of words: 2451 | Number of pages: 9 |
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Negligent Hiring/Retention
<view this essay>.... inquiries make an interesting contrast to the
negligent hiring dogma. Discrimination law, such as title VII of the civil
rights act of 1964, as written and/or interpreted by the courts, proscribes
many inquiries that have a negative employment-related impact on protected
classes of people.
Plaintiffs also are asking the courts to curb employer access to
employee records and other personal information under the right to privacy
arguement, a constitutional arguement employing fourth amendment illegal
search and siezure guarantees. Human resources managers can be heard in
corporate hallways mumbling about these apparent conflicts and
incongriuties .....
Number of words: 3355 | Number of pages: 13 |
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The Soul
<view this essay>.... to which they all
drink, smoke and/or do other mind altering drugs in which they choose to escape
reality or just plain “relax”. This should not be going on; not now, not
tomorrow, not ever.
Hostility grows from within to which an entity of peace can force upon
such utopia, with just that; force. It shouldn't be sugar coated, but just
bluntly said; as with a philosophy or certain thought pattern. The weak will not
grasp onto an idea, but learn slowly as the strong teach them and lead them by
their hands to acceptance within themselves.
Hard times have approached, I know this; but to embrace a crutch that
serves as an excuse should not be tolerated. A crut .....
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