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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
How To Grow Marijuana
<view this essay>.... etc.,etc. The marijuana sold in the United States comes primarily from, yes, the Uniited States.
It is estimated that at least 50 per cent of the grass on the streets in America is homegrown. The next largest bunch comes actoss the borders from Mexico, with smaller amounts filtering in from Panama, occasionally South America, and occasinally, Africa.
Hashish is the pure resin of the marijuana plant, which is scraped from the flowering tops of the plant and lumped together. Ganja is the ground-up tops of the finest plants. (It is also the name given to any sort of marijuana in Jamaica.)
Marijuana will deteriorate in about two years if exposed to light, a .....
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The Volkswagen Beetle
<view this essay>.... DKW to the 1-litre Opel, with small Adlers, the BMW Dixi (a license-built Austin Seven) and the NSU-Fiats to come. These stimulated desire rather than a year’s wage for an average worker. This prompted motorcycle manufacturer Zundapp to commission a low-cost car design from Dr. Ferdinand Porsche’s new design studio. The project did not get far, but a Porsche-designed NSU that reached that prototype stage in 1933 accurately foreshadowed the Volkswagen.
The idea of a people’s car appealed to Porsche, and it fascinated Adolf Hitler. When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, one of his pet notions was the concept of motoring for the masses .....
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Taoism
<view this essay>.... Reincarnation, life after death, beliefs are not standarized. Each religion has a different way of applying this concept to its beliefs. This paper will describe the reincarnation concepts as they apply to and Buddhism, and then provide a comparison of the two.
The goal in is to achieve tao, to find the way. Tao is
the ultimate reality, a presence that existed before the universe was formed and which continues to guide the world and everything in it. Tao is sometimes identified as the Mother, or the source of all things. That source is not a god or a supreme being, as is not monotheistic. The focus is not to worship one god, but instead on comin .....
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Occupational Hazards
<view this essay>.... task to pinpoint one's occupation as the sole reason's for one's deteriorating health. Even if an Employee is aware of the possible dangers his job poses he still is responsible to make a living for himself and his family. In some cases it seems to be a choice between earning a living and your health. An Employee generally tends to choose the one that has an immediate demand – namely to make an earning, thus compromising his health in the bargain. An Employee also feels the lack of support form the Legal system. He feels there are not enough laws made to protect him as a worker.
Fortunately things are changing for the better, as the Employees get more awar .....
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Ford Focus Copying Honda Civic
<view this essay>.... strategies. I think that Ford is trying to win over the Honda's campaign of such good advertising and the success to the first time car buyer market creating a pool of loyal customers. Honda was the first company to utilizes the V-TEC technology. Now Ford wants to throw a similar technology into the Focus called Z-TEC. I think that Ford must think that people who do not know the difference will buy the Focus, I don't think so! Ford will always be Ford & Honda will always dominate the Import compact class. As Far as I am concerned, Ford better spend that advertising money on better performance reliability. Honda has proven that it is not the advertisement, .....
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Phonology And The Dutch Stress
<view this essay>.... on one of the last three syllables. This can also be called the three-syllable restriction. This produces three different stress patterns: final, penultimate and antepenultimate. Primary stress is prohibited further to the left.
The three-syllable-window restriction:
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Data: ANT PEN FIN
VV# Amérika macaróni individú
VC# Jerúzalem catamáran kameleón
Furthermore, stress is restricted to a two-syllable windowin words containing a prefinal (or diphtongal) syllable. This means that antepenultimate stress (third syllable from right side of the word) only occurs in words with an open syllable next to it (an open pen .....
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Over Population
<view this essay>.... is looked at though, many people are being deprived of
food, shelter and clothing because of the excess of people.
Many countries are reducing their population by
family planning. Family planning tries to promote the idea
of using some sort of birth control such as condoms, the
pill, sterilization, IUDs, or some other method. Over the
past three decades, the global percentage of couples using
some form of family planning has increased dramatically. It
has changed from less than 10, to more than 50 percent. The
amount of people who use family planning would increase if
everyone had easy accessibility to it. In some rural areas
of sub-Sa .....
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Flexible Benefits Plan
<view this essay>.... & Sparks, 1994).
A young couple can be assured that their jobs not only meet the daily needs of their growing family, but that their children are covered for very little cost in their own employer-provided hospitalization and health care insurance. A worker employed by the same organization, approaching retirement, can choose benefits that will maximize his/her retirement income as much as possible. With his/her own children grown-up, he/she needs to attend only to his/her own needs.
Also known as “cafeteria plans,” the organization offering a choice of applicable benefits to their employees ensures that the benefits for which they pay are the most usef .....
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