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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
2nd Admendment Pro-Gun Ownersh
<view this essay>.... In 1689 the English Bill of Rights, was passed by Parliament in responsed to King James II trying to disarm his subjects. The English Bill of Right allowed the people to be armed "suitable to their condition" and "allowed by law." This Right was then transfered to the American colonies, and after the American Revolution, our Bill of Rights of 1791, further strengthed the Right to Bear Arms with the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Thesis Statement: I will persuade you in that, (1) federal gun control laws are unconstitutional, and (2) I will prove that the 2nd Amendment is both a "State" and "Individual Right." Ca .....
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Dave And Busters Inc
<view this essay>.... fake $10,000 chips. Pricey, but not outrageous, and you get value for your money.
Founded in 1982, Dave and Busters in America’s leading upscale restaurant/entertainment concept and currently operates 17 locations across the United States. Dave and Busters aggressive domestic expansion plans continue with 6 additional 1999 openings slated for San Antonio, a second site in Atlanta, St Louis, Austin, Jacksonville, Florida, and Providence, Rhode Island. At least seven more Dave and Busters locations are scheduled to open across the United States in the year 2000. There are currently two Dave and Busters operating in the United Kingdom under licensing agreement .....
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Discovery Of Society
<view this essay>.... with the history of class struggle. He felt that the history of society was a history itself of the struggles that existed between the ruling and the oppressed social classes. In Marx’s time, slaves were considered the “have not’s” and were the ones doing all the work while the “have’s” were taking advantage of their effort.
According to Marx, the economy was organized around industrial production and commercial exchange, which explains why he classified the bourgeois society into two main classes. These classes were; the capitalist who owned the factories, banks and the goods to trade and the proletarians who owned nothing but their own labor power. Marx .....
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Sponsors And Sports
<view this essay>.... the heads of these sports try to limit the influence
of companies, they are still a major part of every game played. One of the more
widely known sponsors of sports is Nike. Their rivalry with Reebok and other
shoe and apparel companies is seen on television and on the playing field.
Advertising their company is the major concern when displaying their logos in
sports. Beverages, fast foods, credit cards, automobiles and a wide variety of
companies spend their money on sports related ventures. They spend big dollars
to name stadiums and arenas after their companies. Television gives these
companies even more chances to influence the public with commer .....
Number of words: 1382 | Number of pages: 6 |
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Importance Of Fractal Geometry
<view this essay>.... the jagged edges of mountains, ferns, tree trunks, and canyons. They can be used to model the growth of cities, detail medical procedures and parts of the human body, create amazing computer graphics, and compress digital images. Fractals are about us, and our existence, and they are present in every mathematical law that governs the universe. Thus, fractal geometry can be applied to a diverse palette of subjects in life, and science - the physical, the abstract, and the natural. We were all astounded by the sudden revelation that the output of a Very simple, two-line generating formula does not have to be a dry and cold abstraction. When the output was wh .....
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Social Darwinism
<view this essay>.... suggested that species evolve through the use or disuse of particular organs. In the one example a giraffe that stretches its neck slightly to reach higher leaves will gain in neck length, and this small gain would be passed on to its offspring. Geoffroy on the other hand suggested that the change was discontinuous, large in magnitude, and occurred at the production of offspring. However, these theories of evolution were based on prior explanations that offered no demonstrated mechanism.
Darwin's theory of evolution differs in that it is based on three easily verified observations. First, individuals within a species vary from one another in morphology, .....
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Anorexia Nervosa 2
<view this essay>.... He had two cases, which were very similar. One was an eight-teen yr. old girl and the other was a six-teen yr. old boy. Both subjects had similar symptoms. They both had a strong lack of appetite, sensitivity to coldness, and extreme sadness. The girl eventually starved herself to death; however, the boy did recover (Gordon 12-13).
Through out the centuries there have been many cases of girls “fasting”, and not due to religious purposes. In the 1870’s the disorder became a topic of more medical concern. It happened around the time two doctors, Sir William Gull and Charles Lasegue, simultaneously published papers on a number of cases .....
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Terrorism 2
<view this essay>.... And in whose
history? Terrorism is not the simple, sharp-edged, bad-guy phenomenon we
all love to condemn. No clear line, marks off politics from the threat of
force, or the use, of covert or open war. Who is or is not a terrorist?
The suicide bomber, the rebel guerrilla, the liberation front, the armed
forces of the state?
Historical Background
Terrorism has had a long, and tainted, history. Aristotle recognized it,
even if it had no name, at the time. He wrote, "The first aim and end of
tyrants is to break the spirit of their subjects." What we know as
terrorism can be traced back to the Russian Nihilists and Anarchists of
the 19th c .....
Number of words: 1021 | Number of pages: 4 |
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