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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
Extra-Terrestrial Civilizations
<view this essay>.... touch, feel, smell, and taste. There are others that think and
explore, fight and make peace, or are they completely different? It is all
unknown... and it is all waiting to be found...
The Search Within
The early Astronomers believed that the Moon was a another world, with
a entire new civilization at heed. The first person that took advantage of
this well spoken of legend, was a reporter for The New York Sun, whose name
was John Herschel (1792-1871), Herschel was interested in life on other
planets, so he went to South Africa with decent equipment. But what he saw
was not what he wrote, when he returned to New York he made up a story
about seeing .....
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Physical Fitness
<view this essay>.... or oils for your body to absorb it. It is needed for healthy bones, skin and hair. Vitamin D is known as the "sunshine vitamin". It keeps your teeth and bones strong by increasing the absorption of calcium and phosphorus. It is acquired from diary products and the sun. Other vitamins include: vitamin E, vitamin B1, vitamin B2; just to name a few.
Minerals are inorganic substances that your body cannot make and are necessary to life. They are important for protecting our cells and helping to keep our bones, teeth and skin healthy. They also play a role in blood pressure, heart regulation and muscle regulation. Calcium is a vital mineral because 99% of a .....
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The Fibonacci Sequence
<view this essay>.... is a collection of numbers arranged in order so that there is a first term, a second term, a third term, and so on. The first 14 Fibonacci numbers are: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, and 377. It is a number sequence in which each new term is the sum of the proceeding two terms. After the first two Fibonacci numbers, every number in the sequence equals the sum of the two previous numbers. is called a recursive sequence because each number is a function of the proceeding two numbers, both of which change as the sequence progresses. (1) The formula for Fibonacci numbers is: Fn=Fn-1. (4)
To show his sequence he often created interes .....
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Student Roles And Responsibilities For The Master Of Counseling Marriage, Family And Child Therapy Specialty
<view this essay>.... adopt and synthesize the
professional and ethical standards of the program into his own academic and
personal development. He must develop and demonstrate a broad base of
theoretical knowledge and therapeutic skills combined with his own ethical
judgment and counseling expertise. The student is responsible for maintaining a
grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or better to indicate a foundation of
behavioral and social sciences, developmental theories as well as principles
and practices for planning, initiating and evaluating therapeutic roles. In
addition, a GPA of 3.0 or better must be maintained in all clinical courses to
display excellence in standards and .....
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Sadomasochism
<view this essay>.... together in the same person. He who experiences pleasure by causing pain to others in sexual relations is also able to experience pain as pleasure. A sadist is simultaneously a masochist, though either the active or the passive side of the perversion may be more strongly developed and thus represent his domimating sexual activity." The tendency to cause pain to the sexual object - and its opposite, the tendency to seek out and suffer pain from the sexual object, is designated sadism in its active form, and masochism in its passive.
In terms more understood in the year 2000, the sadist might now be termed the Dominant: the Master, Dominatrix, or Mis .....
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Euclidean Geometry
<view this essay>.... just for
mathematicians. Anyone can benefit from the basic learning of geometry, which
are how to follow lines of reasoning, how to say precisely what is intended, and
especially how to prove basic concepts by following these lines of reasoning.
Taking a course in geometry is beneficial for all students, who will find that
learning to reason and prove convincingly is necessary for every profession. It
is true that not everyone must prove things, but everyone is exposed to proof.
Politicians, advertisers, and many other people try to offer convincing
arguments. Anyone who cannot tell a good proof from a bad one may easily be
persuaded in the wrong direction. G .....
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What Are Memes
<view this essay>.... recipes, respect for elders, nodding to say yes, French, Beethoven's Fifth symphony.... Dawkins believed that ideas, habits, behavioral norms etc undergo the same evolutionary struggle and adaptation that the genes in Darwin's Galapagos beasts underwent. A meme, therefore is a unit of cultural transmission, struggling to keep a place in an ever changing world.
How do memes work ? Think of your mind as an environment. A new idea arrives: "make your own bread with a breadmaker." Your neighbor’s mind environment may love Wonderbread, and be very hostile to breadmaking. However, he may fervently believe that OJ is innocent. You, on the other hand .....
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The Lottery
<view this essay>.... that her daughter and son-in-law \"didn\'t take their chance,\" (562) Mr. Summers reminds her that \"daughters draw with their husbands\' families,\" (562) showing that power is exclusively held in the hands of males in families. Women, inferior housewives, must submit to their husbands\' power over them because as men in the work force, they ARE LINKED to the community economically and provide for THEIR FAMALIES. Mrs. Hutchinson, however, rebels against SOCIALLY ACCEPTED male domination. (Arriving late, she raises suspicions of resistance to everything represents.) When her family name is called, she pushes her husband, \"Get up there, Bill. .....
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