.... an obsession. These people are addicted to the Internet and have been consumed by its wealth of resources. Our society has generally praised computers without reservation as an incredible intellectual tool. Only recently have we begun to weed out the hype from the reality and realize that there are unpleasant side effects to computing as well. Webster's Concise Dictionary defines addiction as "a habit so strong that one cannot give it up." We are all aware that people form addictions to many things, from cocaine to gambling. References to alcoholism, "workaholism," even "chocoholism," are commonplace throughout our society. The idea that people can form addicti .....

.... to find the murder of the former king of Thebes. He even curses the murder and demand that he speaks up. Ironically, it is no other than himself. He also warned by his wife/mother Jocasta not to continue the search for killer. He does not listen to her, and in return he discovers the horrible truth. In which costs Jocasta her life. He also says that he will go easy on the man who will turn himself in for the murder of Laius. But, ironically the punishment that he gives himself is far worse than anyone else would have received. This great play is filled with many cynical parts throughout. But the irony is what makes this play such genius. When Laius g .....

.... People spoke in a brouge accent and carried swords around in the street. the fair was a friendly place and no one was hurt. These are the kinds of pretending that make role playing fun. A role playing game is where you pretend to be someone your not. If compared to annything it would be compared to an impromptue play. However role playing is not typically acted out. Role playing games that you buy in stores such as Star Wars, Vampire and Dungeons and Dragons are all games that people play from pieces of paper. Someone assumes the role of one of the charictors on the paper and trys to talk and declare what it is his charictor would be doing in c .....

.... information. In light of these facts, one must ask why countless groups and organization spend millions of dollars in an attempt to gain control of our minds. Has mankind decided that knowledge is inherently evil? That perhaps there are certain things we simply should not know? Conceivably our fear of knowledge lies in its misunderstanding. Knowledge has in the past proven to be both a blessing and a burden, and it is this duality of knowledge that has created a dilemma for human beings for countless centuries. We are often too quick to put the blame on knowledge, yet knowledge without interpretation is ineffectual, only in the mind of a human being can i .....

.... teacher, students’ attentiveness during the beginning and end of English class, learning methods, and students’’ productivity according to others’ encouragement. In analyzing the groups that presented, they did as well as what was expected out of them for the first time this year. Mistakes were made in the experiments and it was hard not to with the little time we were given to actually conduct the experiment, if we were given more time a more throe job would have been done. The class showed me that surveys are not the most accurate means of finding your experiment. When trying to conduct a survey there are so many variables to cope with it is incredible. .....

.... of the essay, Roberts thinks if you take the opposite side of an issue than every one else in your class, your paper will have a better chance of getting the ideal grade. This idea is a common sense idea that I just never thought about. Maybe that’s why I found it to be the most contributive idea in this essay. Perhaps the reason why I the article talking about taking the least obvious point of view is my first choice is because this is something I never did while attending High School. The entire time I was in High School, everything I did was the effortless. I would write whatever the Teacher explained as an example. The grades I received on my essa .....

.... to the invention of writing, many hold the same opinion in relation to the mass media today. Major Changes Several major changes have occurred in the media industry in the last two decades that have fundamentally altered the way in which the media institution operates. The most major changes of note have been: a. the growth of the media industry, b. the advancement of satellite communications, c. women’s increased role as consumers of mass media, and d. the growth of the internet. The media has seen spectacular growth since the first daily newspaper for the ‘common man’ was produced on 4 May 1896. ‘The D .....

.... more dangerous for there are thieves and he did not want to heed his mother's warnings. So he was off to Athens on foot to meet his father. On the journey Theseus met many thieves and out whited every one of them from asking to see there nice weapons and using them agents the thieves to seeing what they were trying to do to him and using that to hurt or usually kill them. Either way Theseus showed courage and wisdom in his quick thinking that would make him a great hero that would be remembered for many years to come. The first day in Athens Theseus started looking for Aegeus' castle but what he did not know was that Aegeus was ,at the time, under the .....