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Relay Races
<view this essay>.... can easily make up for a lack of speed. A bad hand-off can cost a team all it's speed.
The basic idea of the baton pass is to get the lead runner the baton while both runners are at top speed. This maximizes the effort of the team over the entire race.
There are two fundamental types of passes in the relay. The upsweep consists of the back runner sweeping their arm upward to the receiver's hand. The downsweep consists of the runner moving their arm downward into the outstretched palm of the receiver.
The elementary outside change is one of the basic forms of baton passing. The initial runner carries the baton in the left hand and runs the outside half of .....
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CULTURALPLURALISM
<view this essay>.... to the husband. He was accustomed to crossing the U.S./Mexican Border weekly to conduct business, where he dabbled in the American culture. However, no amount of amateur dabbling could have prepared him for the striking cultural differences which he had encountered as a resident. The mother and her two young boys had never before entered the United States, furthering the families feelings of extraneous inhabitants. People looked slightly different and spoke a language which was incomprehensible for most of the family.
Daily life was a lonely life. Daily routines were handled different in the States. The mother would not dare venture out on ordinarily .....
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Internet Relationships
<view this essay>.... his/her love for the other and all of a sudden an internet relationship is taking place. Time goes by and they meet offline somewhere and go from there. Although to many internet romances seem very unlikley more and more people are meeting their loved ones through this meduim.
How can someone start an online relationship and have it feel so deep and intimate so fast? Online affairs shift the emphasis in a relationship from outward appearances and superficail conversations to inner thoughts and feelings each person has. When the only thing you can do is communicate, things can get deep quickly. Many times people cannot share the superfical things because they .....
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The Motionless Arrow: Aristotle's Thoughts On Zeno's Arror Argument
<view this essay>.... by evaluating the philosophy of both men,
many points can be reached about the validity and soundness of the argument.
Though, by finding the premises false, the argument is not sound, and therefore,
Zeno's argument leaves much to be said.
Deciphering from what we know of the argument by what Aristotle tells us
in Chapter 9, the premises are sketched out:
1. Everything is at rest when at a place equal to it;
2. The Flying arrow is at rest when at a place equal to it;
3. Time is composed of indivisible nows (instants).
4. Everything that changes place is doing so in the now.
5. Conclusion: The flying arrow doesn't .....
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The Ironies Of Education
<view this essay>.... state, without education, he possesses those same characteristics found in the learned ones.
According to Paolo Freire, oppression is ultimately the result of an educational system which lacks substance, and does not challenge its students. In this piece, Freire states that the "banking" concept of education suppresses the cognitive abilities of students and tends to dehumanize them. Moreover, the system teaches students to be passive, mechanical objects instead of teaching them to recognize and acknowledge their own existence. When this occurs, Freire believes that the students become prime targets for oppressors. The system presents oppressors with a "p .....
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Christmas, Retailers, And The Santa Claus Conspiracy
<view this essay>.... that
their first thoughts will be about buying the perfect gifts, having the
most eye-damaging house decorations on the block, or having a hairy old fat
man in red underwear arrested for putting their child on his lap and
whispering to them to tell him what they "really" want (strangely enough
there are some parents out there who actually pay money each year to have
this abuse inflicted upon their children).
The whole idea of Santa Claus is one of the scariest I've come
across and yet we embrace it. The entire story sounds like something you
should threaten your kid with if he doesn't want to eat his veggies. As I
understand it he's supposed to be a fa .....
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The Three Paradigms In Society
<view this essay>.... conflict paradigm fits today’s society.
The functionalist paradigm focuses on the integration of society, and how society how its own groups which has their own functions to help improve the peoples lives. Functionalist paradigm fits in the category of macro-sociology, because it focuses on the patterns that shape an entire society. Functionalists believe that society is maintained through the thought of trust and consensus on moral values for ideal behavior. Working together will result in a stable social environment that will create equality. Conflicts or dysfunctions will be view as a disease in the social system. Social conflict paradigm believes that so .....
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Unacknowledged Gifts
<view this essay>.... they were forgiven because of all the great talents he had. Heracles' most noticeable characteristic was his strength; both his contributions and flaws were a result of this. There were several times during his life when he killed people unintentionally, but the Greeks acknowledged the great gifts he had brought to them instead. Blessed with courage and strength, Heracles cleansed the earth of monsters and helped the growth of civilization. By accomplishing the twelve labors for Eurystheus, he exhibited his intelligence and creativity. The Greek's acceptance of flaws is one of the many ways we can learn from them. We should take advantage of the knowledge .....
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