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Parts Of A Bomb
<view this essay>.... inefficient. This type of bomb is designed to travel slowly through the air and explodes on the roof of the building, spreading fire over a wide area.
The case of one kind of bomb used to destroy dams has special wings. When this bomb hits the water, its wings make it skip across the surface like a flat stone until it hits the dam or some other obstacle. The bomb then sinks and explodes underwater.
The cases of hand grenades are lightweight because troops carry these small bombs and throw them at the enemy. Most time bombs are built according to the circumstances and concealed next to their target. They may consist of explosives and a timer in a cardboard b .....
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Lacan
<view this essay>.... society particularly the phallus is the new law of desire. That is suppose to substitute for the pleasure you had to give up your object relations with mom. that is a metaphoric process a metaphoric substitution for the phallus for the words of mom the privileged words with mom. Pleasures that are gone. Once you are in language you are force in to a split your being or your meaning. You can’t have both of them. your being your jouissance your pleasures stemming from earlier development and socialization. You can be in those pleasures but not at the same time in societies meanings in the language of society the symbolic order. Which tells you the l .....
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Over My Dead Body
<view this essay>.... it allows the worms, bacteria, and other decomposers to eat away at the body. Besides that, cemeteries are taking up a large amount of land that could be used for something useful. Also, when having an open casket funeral, I believe that it brings more pain to the family. They then have to face the reality while staring at the gross cadaver. Sometimes families even get in large arguments over what the person is going to wear when buried. I believe that we could all save stress, time, and money by finding better way to dispose of our bodies. I feel that there are better options.
Cremation has many advantages but is rarely used unless the person is ba .....
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Aristotle Defination Of Friendship
<view this essay>.... to say that Aristotle felt that friendship is something that every human must have in order to reach a peaceful state of mind. It has all of the qualities of good as long as both parties of a friendship are considered good. Therefore, the role of friendship in a society is to promote goodness between all parties involved in it.
As previously mentioned, Aristotle has identified three different types of friendships. The first is friendship based on utility. This is a friendship in which both parties become involved with each other for their own personal benefit. An example would be a working relationship with an individual. These are people who do not spend much .....
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What Is A Baseball Fan
<view this essay>.... bedsheet signs proudly proclaiming “Go Dodgers” or “Braves Are Number One”. At the game, these fans form a rooting section, constantly encouraging their favourite players and obediently echoing every cheer flashed on the electronic scoreboard.
Baseball fans are really fascinated by trivia. Every day, they turn to the sports page and study last night’s statistics. They simply have to see who has extended his hitting streak and how many strikeouts the winning pitcher recorded. Their bookshelves are crammed with record books, team yearbooks, and baseball almanacs. They delight in remembering such significant facts as who was the last left-handed third ba .....
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Christmas Satire
<view this essay>.... the presents that Santa had brought the night before. Even if the family was struggling, children would appreciate the hard work and thought put into each gift. At night mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters would curl beside a blazing fire and watch a classic Christmas movie called, "It's a Wonderful Life". This is what the true spirit of Christmas should be.
The Christmas of the present is not what it used to be. What once was a delightful, Christmas caroling time is now a chaotic, screaming in someone's face nightmare. Relatives avoid each other for fear of actually reliving bad childhood family moments. Children still run around the house clamoring over p .....
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Armadillos
<view this essay>.... They are active, running with a tiptoe trot. Their trot is as an aged
pony that is tired. They have a varied diet. They hunt by night.
Today's Armadillos are not the biggest armadillos that have ever
existed. The soil of South America is full of larger Armadillo bones from
the past. Some of the past bones were as much as sixteen feet long
including the tail. Some even migrated to Texas.
There are several species of these animals. The Six-banded Armadillos
were good burrowers and massive devourers of insects. They also ate
vegetable matter and were useful for devouring carrion. One specie called
the Peludo was clumsy bet was effective in ge .....
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Hume And Descartes On The Theory Of Ideas
<view this essay>.... ideas. His argument was the nature of the ideas which make up
the mind could gain an idea about God, but instead, humans could think about God
by other means. A major strength of Descartes was his idea of objective reality,
which is one's perception of reality. If something accurately represents
something, then it is objective reality, according to him. I believe this is a
strength of his because of his convincing argument, "If the objective reality
of any one of my ideas is found to be so great that I am certain that the same
reality was not in me…therefore I myself cannot be the cause of the idea, then
it necessarily follows that I am not alone in the .....
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