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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
Gender Issue
<view this essay>.... the others, two groups began to occupy the dance floor. That dance floor was filled with enjoyment at that time, but the real dance floor of life had never been fully occupied. The ends of the dance floor are nevertheless crowed with the same group, uncertain whether to close up the gap between them. But it is a relief to note that the width of the gap has been shortened, and is still undergoing changes. Now the ‘he’ or ‘she’ is many times considered as ‘us’, as a unity then disregarding of gender differences. One question, however, still remains. Can the idea of unity truly penetrate the heart of everyone? No matter how close we are to close up the g .....
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Christian Morality
<view this essay>.... abstract basics.
Basics are the realities upon which other realities depend.
They create the bedrock of all subjects.
This website defines the basics of morality and builds upon
them to explain moral concepts. A definitive moral analysis is
not produced elsewhere, because theologians do not
understand the abstractions of morality. They use religion to
rationalize the subconscious forces which cause sin .....
Number of words: 1105 | Number of pages: 5 |
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Cold Mountain Essay
<view this essay>.... the Civil War affect the social relationships between Southerners? In order to answer this question thoroughly, three main components must be looked at; the economic effects of the Civil War for the South, how the Civil War brakes down families, and how the traditional social system changes.
In a true deferential society (such as antebellum America) there only can be two social and economic classes, the rich, and the poor. But once we enter the Civil War this system of wealth and authority brakes down. The ease by which the rich make profits collapses, whether by trade embargoes inhibiting the exportation of goods or investments falling through. With the .....
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Plato And Love
<view this essay>.... be a one universal explanation of love and there has yet to be one who understands its powers fully. As we see from Plato's Symposium, even the wisest of men, in a time when the search for knowledge was seen as the pathway to enlightenment, couldn’t adequately define love and its implications on the human spirit.
Though many of the guidelines and characteristics of love set forth by Plato provide important incite to the meaning of love, some have become antiquated and cannot apply to modern society. The Symposium outlines the different popular views about love during Plato’s time. Plato intentionally portrays some as ignorant and others as valid .....
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Media Control
<view this essay>.... Chomsky have defined the reasons that media fall short in their mission to inform. The model they created has four major filters: (1) the size, concentrated ownership, owner wealth, and profit orientation of the dominant mass-media firms; (2) advertising as the primary income source of the mass media; (3) the reliance of the media on information provided by government, business, and "experts" funded and approved by these primary sources and agents of power; and (4) "Flak" as a means of disciplining the media.1 Each of these filters takes a bit of the true reality out of the information and eventually leads to a misinformed public.
A recent incident at The .....
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Primary Education & Post Plowden Legacy
<view this essay>.... chapter can be split into two main areas of
discourse:- relationships and 'work' and negotiation.
As there has been little research into pupils' approaches to schoolwork, the
author's chief concern is that of the pupils perceptions of , and approaches to,
schoolwork, and the first point s/he makes is that there are differences
between teachers' and pupils' ideas of what constitutes worthwhile work. The
author sets out to define 'the meaning of work' and in doing so draws our
attention to differences between 'pleasurable work' and 'labour'. Workmanship,
it is argued, has been replaced by unskilled labour and people now work as a
means to an end seekin .....
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Study Guide For European Histo
<view this essay>.... Protestant princes would govern Prtestant states,
Catholic princes Catholic states.
5. Bill of rights.- The English constitutional settlement
of 1689, confirming the deposition
of James II and the accession of William and Mary,
guaranteeing the Protestant
succession, and laying down the principles of parliamentary
supremacy.
6. Edict of Nantes.- An edict of 1598 signed by Henry IV of
France granting toleration to
Protestants and ending the French Wars of Religion. It was
revoked by Louis XIV in
1685.
7. Boccaccio.- Giovanni Boccaccio (131375), Italian
writer, poet, and humanist. He is
most famous for the Decameron (134858), a col .....
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A Geological Journey
<view this essay>.... was a flash flood warning in one of the sights we were going to visit. At 9:56 a.m., we arrived at the first site, Convict Hill. We looked at the lower Glen Rose from inside of the van, since it was raining really hard. Lower Glen Rose was made of mostly limestone and corals. Our professor stepped out the van and collected some samples for us to see. After about 15 minutes of observing Convict Hill, we were on our way to the second stop, but before we proceeded, we stopped at Walgreens around 10:18 a.m. We drove for about an hour before we arrived at our second destination, a location just east of Marble Falls. When we arrived at 11:06 a.m., it wasn .....
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