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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
The Mystical Sea
<view this essay>.... peaceful than watching a sunset at the beach. The sky reminds oneself of a watercolor painting created in elementary school. As the deep-orange sun appears to fall into the ocean, one color transforms into another color, the blue turns into purple and the orange into pink. Thoughts of Emerson's transparent eyeball come to mind as a person truly becomes one with nature during a sunset. The sumptuous sound of the tide rushing on the dark sandy beach is like listening to a live performance of a meditation tape. Relaxing in a beach chair, listening to the slow recession of the water regaining strength and becoming louder until the wave crashes again and the .....
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Infinity
<view this essay>.... fact, it is understood that there are an infinite number of points on
any number line. Between 5 and 7 we can find the points 5.009852, 5.9, 6,
6.262623627000029873257690125762, 6.3336, 6.999, 6.9999, etc.
Rulers are examples of how we might commonly use a number line. Different
rulers mark off different distances such as yards, feet, inches, centimeters,
millimeters, and so on. Obviously rulers cannot be used to measure all
distances because some distances may be too small to be measured practically
with the naked eye.
Hypothetically speaking, let's say you had a worm and a razor blade. Let's
also hypothesize that this particular worm is two inch .....
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Education Through The Television
<view this essay>.... like Sesame Street and Barney. As children get older there are
many story-telling shows that either feature stories with good morals or they
tell masterpiece stories like Hercules, Hunchback of Notre Dame, etc.. Some of
these stories are now a part of our culture and children know and understand
them because of television.
As people grow older, television, at least for recent generations, plays
a large role in socialization. On many sitcoms and talk shows one can learn of
problems of today like teenage pregnancy, poverty, drugs, etc.. Television also
seems to support somewhat decent morals, a very religious person may not think
so but television still fol .....
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Deceptive Advertising
<view this essay>.... and every sentence of an ad is quite inconvenient. Advertisers must follow strict guidelines to stay clear of lawsuits resulting from deceptive advertisements. I will be focusing on automobile advertisements and how consumers have been deceived through their ads.
can be described as “advertising which is misleading in a material aspect.” (Simon 256) This definition would include all the false and misleading advertisements that would appear in print, television, radio, outdoor and direct mailings. As well as more non-traditional forms of advertising like transportation ads along with the use of pictures, trade names, display materials, labels, sales talks .....
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Hard Drive Install Process Ess
<view this essay>.... that your new drive will get along with your system's BIOS and operating system.
A. Your system's BIOS and operating system
B. Mis-configuration of the hard drive jumper
C. Connecting the data cable
V. All this is time-consuming, but you'll be enjoying your new drive's extra space when you're through.
A. Technical support
B. Load files faster
As you accumulate software, you may find your hard drive is running out of space. Today, feature-rich applications and massive operating systems, which are derisively termed "Bloatware", take up a large amount of file space. A more insidious culprit is undeleted E-mail and its attachments. Add in the m .....
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Marijuana 3
<view this essay>.... effects on the user depend on the strength or potency of the THC it contains. THC potency of marijuana has increased since the 1970s but has been about the same since the mid-1980s.
Marijuana is usually smoked as a cigarette (called a joint or a nail) or in a pipe or a bong. Recently, it has appeared in cigars called blunts. THC in marijuana is strongly absorbed by fatty tissues in various organs. Generally, traces (metabolites) of THC can be detected by standard urine testing methods several days after a smoking session. However, in heavy chronic users, traces can sometimes be detected for weeks after they have stopped using marijuana.
There are many reason .....
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Teenage Suicide
<view this essay>.... hole of sorrow.
Too far to bother,
Too far to try,
Too far to get out.
So I just wait here and die.
(Hunter) Why are teenagers in pain? "There are too many problems for the modern teenager to deal with. Growing up as a teen today is ten times more difficult than it was just five years ago. As our society ‘progresses'.... more and more responsibility is being placed on teens. We have become a very selfish society, and this causes pressure on the weakest link of our society....the teens (DeKonty)." Teens are also in pain because of the growing separation between parents and their children. "Twenty five years ago, the ‘in' thing to do was to live you .....
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Psychological Properties Of Ya
<view this essay>.... physical level. Previous research had drawn loose ties between arousal and yawning; for example, one study showed that yawning in rats increased with the presence of a penile erection. To show that arousal increases with the onset of a yawn, the authors of this study designed a correlational experiment to measure changes in physical indicators of arousal before, during, and after yawning. They predicted that signs of arousal would increase when the yawn started.
A mixed-gender group of 30 college students participated in three 15-minute laboratory trials which measured skin conductance and heart rate, two physical correlates of arousal. In each trial, subje .....
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