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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
“A Dog Is A Man’s Best Friend.
<view this essay>.... resist a purring cat? When they’re not feeling affectionate, cats are generally quite playful. They love to chase balls and feathers, or just about anything dangling from a string. They especially enjoy playing when their owners are participating in the game. Contrary to popular opinion, cats can be trained. Using rewards and punishments, just like with a dog, a cat can be trained to avoid unwanted behavior or perform tricks. Cats will even fetch or go for walks on a leash! “Cats – at any age – can be trained to walk on leashes if the proper steps are taken. It could take a few days to perhaps a week,
to train a cat, depending on the personality of t .....
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World Order
<view this essay>.... weaknesses in human nature and power politics and concerns it self with trying to minimise the occurrences and detrimental effects of conflict, and with regulating conflict when it does occur, for the benefit of all concerned.
In order to determine the effectiveness of in dealing with these conflicts, one must first examine the different initiatives that have been established with this purpose and the role of international law. The players in international law are the states, Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), regional and Inter-Governmental Organisations such as the EC and ASEAN, and the United Nations. Individuals have virtually no rights and duties at int .....
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Teenagers
<view this essay>.... that of any other. Through the years, it seems that a teenager has grown more to be a separate class in itself, rather than a certain time period in life. Although are really almost a separate sub-species of the human race, none of us are really quite the same. We may be divided into three separate categories ranging from the radical, moderate, and conservative.
The "radical" teenager may be best described as one going to all extremes to try and prove something that nobody else can really understand. Punks, stoners, new-wavers, skaters, surfers, and other similar people fall into this category.
The "moderate" sub-species of the teenager may best be .....
Number of words: 643 | Number of pages: 3 |
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Loki
<view this essay>.... children with the giantess Angrboa who are Fenrir, Jormungandr and Hel. He is the father to all of these children. He has also conceived a child with the stallion Svailfare, Sleipnir, and lastly he has given birth to the giantess Hyndla after having eaten the burnt heart of a dead woman. Rooth points to similarities between Snorri´s account of ´s bestial children and that of mediaeval conceptions of the biblical origins of evil. as the father of great supernatural beings corresponds to Cain as the origin of monsters and giants.
´s bestial children are strongly connected with the escathology of the eddas. Fenris and Jormungandr as well as their father both pl .....
Number of words: 564 | Number of pages: 3 |
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VIOLENCE IN TELEVISION, MOVIES, AND VIDEO GAMES:The Wrong Ex
<view this essay>.... movies, and video games are the cause of crime because they don’t know the facts on the issue. They single out those three because they have violence images and suggestive themes and therefore believe that these will create violence in real life. This happens when people are misinformed on the issue. This essay will explore the causes for these assumptions about violence in television, movies, and video games. As well, it will properly inform people on the facts about violent crimes that are supposedly related to television, movies, and video games. When a violent crime is committed by a youth, the crime is often blamed on the television that the youth watche .....
Number of words: 786 | Number of pages: 3 |
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Male, Female, And Religion
<view this essay>.... to be the beginning of the end of the normal lives of women in Afghanistan.
One must consider all the various elements that compromise the picture of Islamic womanhood. Many of these elements are directly related to the religion of Islam itself, such as past and present legal realities, roles permitted and enforced as a result of Muslim images of women, and the variety of Islamic and hetero-Islamic rites and practices in which Islamic women have traditionally participated. The Holy Quran (sometimes transliterated as "Koran") still forms the basis of prevailing family law in most areas of the Muslim world. It has always been and still is considered to be th .....
Number of words: 2498 | Number of pages: 10 |
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Cyberspace Offers A Revolution
<view this essay>.... to everyone. As it stands now, the Internet seem to be the only truly democratic society in the world.
Cyberspace is a global community of people using computers in networks supported by the Internet. Over 17 million Web pages float throughout cyberspace (Malkin & Marine). Never before has information been so instant, and so global.
The Internet supports many forms of relaying information and communicating. From sending electronic mail (e-mail), reading the works of Shakespear, instantly talking to people on the other side of the world just by typing, listening to music, ordering food & products, paying bills, reading newspapers, and so on, the interne .....
Number of words: 1512 | Number of pages: 6 |
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Why I Have No Hero
<view this essay>.... and know they did the right thing.
That person also needs to go out and make a difference in their community and
not need any more motivation than the good feeling they feel when they've made a
positive impact on the few people they met with and helped. A person that is to
be considered a hero must be naturally good and work for good and be there when
they are needed most. They should not have to feel guilty about the negative
effects of something they have done if the good it causes out weighs the bad.
Honesty is a good trait to have if you want to be a hero. A hero needs
to be honest with the public so that he/she will get the public's support to
retain .....
Number of words: 684 | Number of pages: 3 |
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