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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
Side Mounting
<view this essay>.... less than a foot
for most divers. British sump divers were among the first to perfect the side-mounting system. To reach the submerged and deep portions of a cave, known as sumps, the diver is often required to waddle or clamber over slick or jagged rock floors. With 100 pound
double sized tanks on their back this could be very dangerous. So the divers would carry the tanks through the dry portions of the cave and just attach it to their weight belt when they get to the dangerous portion of the cave. The next phase in the side-mounting
history came when Americans began using side-mounted tanks to squeeze into low or narrow underwater cave passages too con .....
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Social, Ethical And Biological
<view this essay>.... the body to grow and to heal after injury. Damage or mutations that occur to the proto-oncogenes (POG) and tumour suppresser Genes (TSG) in the genetic material (DNA and RNA) by these carcinogens bring about Cancer, which causes cells to have less control of cell division and differentiation. POGs lead to changed cells or transformed cells and cause excessive cell division. Further mutations cause the cells to become immortal. These cells continue to divide and form a ball of cells. These cells require a lot of energy and fluids flowing to maintain the high rate of the cell division. When these balls become too large for fluids to flow through, the middle of t .....
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The Third Millennium - Threat
<view this essay>.... quality of life has consistently increased in this country in the last six years, but can the next thousand years promise the same general improvements? Has the new millennium changed things that much? The increase of awareness has led me to think that maybe we can organise life for as many people as possible. Unfortunately, I don’t believe that the world assets can ever be balanced equally. The human race has a primal selfishness that can show itself in the most generous.
In 1999 the uproar of genetically modified food began. Scientist Dr Arpad Pusztai research found that genetically modified potatoes damaged rats, stunting their growth and attac .....
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Sex On Television
<view this essay>.... the most comprehensive study of sex on TV. According to this news study of sex on TV, over half (fifty-six) percent of all programming contains sexual content. In prime time, over two- thirds (sixty-seven) percent of all shows deal with sex. Sitcoms, surprisingly, deal with sex, only (fifty-six) percent of the time. The study also found that most of the sexual content is talk. About one- fourth of the shows (twenty- three) percent actually depict sexual behavior- usually passionate kissing- and three percent show the characters having intercourse. Eight percent of the shows include sexual content involving teenagers.
did not just happen over night. It has evo .....
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Psychoanalytic Approaches To P
<view this essay>.... Successful therapy was a long-term and costly process, which
most people during that time, with the exception of the wealthy, could not afford.
Sigmund Freud’s main contribution to this new field of studying personality was in the
area of the understanding the unconscious, an aspect of the mind to which, he claimed, we
did not have ready access to, but was the source of our actions and behavior. Freud believed
the human mind was divided into three parts: the id, ego, and super-ego. The id is man’s
(generic meaning, referring to both sexes) instinctual, primitive, and hedonistic urges for
pure pleasure, which the id was bent on experiencing, wit .....
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The American Museum Of Natural History: Anthropology
<view this essay>.... Biology and Evolution. The second floor had
African Peoples, Asian Peoples, Mexico and Central American Peoples, and South
American Peoples. Finally, the third floor had Primates, North American Eastern
Woodlands And Plains Peoples, and Pacific Peoples. The museum also included
many other interesting exhibits that did not have to do with anthropology like
the Dinosaur Hall. All these exhibits in the museum had detailed information on
each exhibit whether it was a big sculpture or a little skeleton. There was
also films that could have been seen for a small price, but if one has the time
it is very educational and worth seeing.
In the hall of Asian Peoples .....
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Bridging The Gap Between Cross
<view this essay>.... tense, gender generalities and structure vary greatly from culture to culture. A majority of these differences are based on core values and perceptions in different cultures; therefore, such differences must be acknowledged if effective communication and relationships are to occur.
A principle rule of mutual respect is the basis for success in communication and relationships. Mutual respect should be based on the following criteria:
„h always allow for and assume differences, until similarity is proved
„h emphasize description, rather than definition or judgment
„h practice empathy
„h treat your interpretation as a unproved theory until further understan .....
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Japanese Human Resource Manage
<view this essay>.... age of 60. This kind of long-term employment system makes employers feel that labor is more of a fixed cost than a variable cost.
Regular employment is not determined by a legal contract, but more in the style of a social relationship, where performance in a by-product of the whole process and not a cause and effect of getting paid. In western societies, industrial identity is more focused on skill, or what one does, but in Japan it is where the employee belongs, or which company he works in is the main concern.
Performance is not the purpose or goal of the Japanese firm, instead it is a corporate reality in itself. The Japanese firm also exists in two .....
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