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Humans Vs. Technology
<view this essay>.... take refuge in households, business', and even schools. They have become as common as a toothbrush. However, technology is not merely defined by computers. Clocks, banking machines, radios, and many more appliances run on computerized chips. Little bits of technology that we take for granted are all of the same making. The world has come to a point where it relies on technology to make life easier. The more humans progress, the more technology will be available for creating a relaxed lifestyle. At this rate, the years ahead will prove to be the age of technology. It will reach a stage where human skills and trades will be obsolete. Every year, millions o .....
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The Road Ahead By Bill Gates
<view this essay>.... is the currently used Internet. The development and use of this interactive network is the main focus of the book. Gates uses the metaphor of the “ultimate market” to describe how all manner of human activity will take place in this market, with the medium of exchange being digital information of all kinds. Bill Gates states that the ability to change and manipulate information and the increasing speed at which is it handled places us at the beginning of an “information revolution.” Since almost all information in the future will be digital, conventional communication devices will be altered. As soon as the cost of communication dr .....
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Athena
<view this essay>.... her. She was noted for
her wisdom which explains her close association with the owl, an ancient symbol
of wisdom and reason. The most famous temple to Athena was the Parthenon (5th
century BC) which was named for Parthenos ("the Maiden"), which still stands
atop the Acropolis in Athens. The interior of the Parthenon stands a statue of
Athena Parthenos, sculpted by Phidais. When I was reading through myths, I
decided I would talk about "The Gift of Athena" which, in my opinion, best
illustrates Athena's colorful personality. Here is how "The Gift of Athena"
goes:
Long, long ago, when this old world was a very young place, and when the few
people there were .....
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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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Biblical View Of Sex
<view this essay>.... same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control." [I Corinthians 7:3-5] [God created sex for marriage, and it is a good thing.]
"But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion." [I Corinthians 7:9] [No sex before marriage.]
"May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful deer - may her breasts satisfy you alway .....
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Cheerleaders
<view this essay>.... only do they condiser cheerleading a recreation but they also but them uniforms and jackets just like the school's teams. Just like on a soccer, football, or baseball team the are forced to work together. All going for the same goal, if one messes up it affects the whole team. All the girls on the squad must get along and learn how to work well with one another. In order to go out and compete together or even preform together they must look together and if all the girls don't know how to work together they won't look like one.
practice just as hard if not harder then other athletes. They are required to go to mandatory clinics to improve their skills. They .....
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Child Protecetive Services
<view this essay>.... over the past 30 years because professional have become more likely to report apparently abusive and neglectful situations. But the question remains: How many more cases still go unreported? Two studies performed for the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect by Westat, Inc. provide an answer. In 1980 and then again in 1986, Westat conducted national studies of the incidence of child abuse and neglect. Each study used the same method: In a sample of counties, a sample of professionals who serve children was asked whether, during the study period, the children they ha seen in their offices appeared to have been abused or neglected. Because the informa .....
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Hot Springs National Park
<view this essay>.... the water deep into the Earth. As the water percolates downward, the increasingly warmer rock heats it, and filters out the impurities. In the process the water dissolves minerals in the rocks. Eventually the water meets the faults and joints in the Hot Springs Sandstone leading up to the lower west side of Hot Springs Mountain where it flows to the surface. The waters gush at an average rate of 850,000 gallons a day.
For Indians, the Hot Springs was a neutral ground where different tribes came to hunt, trade and bathe in peace. Tradition has it that the first Europeans to see the springs were the Spanish explorer Hernando deSoto and his troops in 1541. Fre .....
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