|
» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
Baby Think It Over
<view this essay>.... the daytime, was quite rewarding. I found myself waiting impatiently for my baby to cry because I found the cooing noise to be so fulfilling. During the first day I carried the baby with me from class to class stopping in the middle of note taking or walking in the halls to tend to the electronic nuisance. During practice I gained a second key that I gave to my coach, to allow him to baby-sit for me. After practice and at home he cried when I was doing my homework, but I was pleased about the break. When it was bedtime I put the car seat on the inside of my bed next to the wall because I am a heavy sleeper and was afraid of not being able to heat the littl .....
Number of words: 653 | Number of pages: 3 |
|
Behind The Scenes
<view this essay>.... First Amendment, we march defiantly under the banner of our “right to know”, but do we have just cause? Differences and difficulties in interpretation have characterized much of the later history of the First Amendment and historians continue to debate what the nation’s founders meant to include when they wrote that there shall be “no law” abridging the freedom of speech or press. Today the U. S. Supreme Court blindly inches its way across the tightrope of censorship. Laws prohibiting obscenity and indecency have been successfully incorporated and public sentiment has historically served to curtail the over-zealous journalist .....
Number of words: 1891 | Number of pages: 7 |
|
Infrastructure And Economic Pr
<view this essay>.... and communication systems, North Bay has terrible communication and transportation systems, and Brampton has just recently developed their communication and transportation systems.
In order to understand the direct link between infrastructure and the economy, which will be illustrated by the three cities, it is important to know the history of transportation and the economy. Land transportation first began with the carrying of goods by people. The ancient civilizations of Central America, Mexico, and Peru transported materials in that fashion over long roads and bridges. The first road vehicles were two-wheeled carts, with stone disks as wheels, used .....
Number of words: 976 | Number of pages: 4 |
|
Is There Hope For The Psychopa
<view this essay>.... other people's feelings enables them to be deceitful without feeling bad about whatever they do. The underdeveloped emotional system of the sociopath is "emotionally retarded" . The sociopathic behavior problems that start as a child have links to heredity, families with a pre-disposition to perform crimes, alcoholic parents that perform crimes, irresponsible behavior that persists, and parents that do not discipline. The child that will eventually be a sociopath exhibits certain feelings inside that they are inadequate and shamed, and because of that, they are teased and made fun of.
One of the major characteristics of a future sociopath includes being i .....
Number of words: 2069 | Number of pages: 8 |
|
The Pc Industry
<view this essay>.... and their behaviors’, then by combining them into an industry analysis. The companies will be addressed from top leader to bottom.
Compaq Computer Corporation,(CCC) is the current industry leader. CCC boasts a 1999 market share of 12.8%. However, this figure has declined slightly from its 1998 share of 13.4%. The dip is due to Dell Computer Corp.’s heavy presence in the small PC market, (Industry Survey, Apr. 2000). Compaq has a wide range of PC products from smaller, less expensive machines to more costly, high-tech systems. CCC has been most successful with their smaller machines, targeted to the home/family segment, because they are able t .....
Number of words: 985 | Number of pages: 4 |
|
Physics Of Fly Fishing (curren
<view this essay>.... how fly-fishing works (the frequency, the stiffness, the air resistance, the lengths, the materials) he and other scientists have yet to come up with an equation to make “the perfect rod”.
Rist, Curtis. “Angling for Momentum”. Discover. September, 1999 .....
Number of words: 74 | Number of pages: 1 |
|
The Nuclear Threat: Yesterday And Today And Tomorrow
<view this essay>.... to survive a nuclear bomb. They told us we had to be behind a lead shield. Now, who had a lead shield? They told us to go underground, but most of us could not afford a bomb shelter. I remember movies showing soldiers in nuclear test areas. The blast and the wind and the mushroom shaped cloud. I remember news reels at the movie theater about the destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
As a child, I do not really recall feeling threatened by this. I do not remember being disturbed. Perhaps my parents did an especially good job of assuring us that we needn’t worry about such things. I remember my mother, a reminding me of a scripture in the Bible. She .....
Number of words: 1628 | Number of pages: 6 |
|
The Bell Curve Of African Amer
<view this essay>.... 1850 marked the initial rise of Black loss of rights in this period. Previously, it was possible for Northerners to ferry slaves to their freedom. However, “Included in the compromise were funds budgeted specifically for catching fugitive slaves and prosecuting anyone lending assistance in the effort” (Kevin Holloway, The Fugitive Slave Act and the Compromise of 1850). With specific funds that were directed in catching fugitive slaves, white bounty hunters could freely raid the North and search for fugitive slaves. These brutal hunters could now abduct any Black person left alone. Many Blacks that were never in bondage were kidnapped and taken to the South to .....
Number of words: 1205 | Number of pages: 5 |
|
|