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Netiquette
<view this essay>.... point. E-mail is meant to be a time saver, make your point clear and eliminate the need of a follow up phone call. Another thing you what to practice is not flaming. That is, harshly attacking the other person with your words(Dries). Sarcasm when written can be hard to pick up on, so be careful of your humor. One final thing to remember is that no e-mail is private so be cautious of what you say about others because e-mails are very easily forwarded(Electronic Communications).
E-mail is said to be a combination of talking and writing, which makes it a informal , bantering type of communication(Dries). However, when put into the field of business, it beco .....
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The Bald Eagle
<view this essay>.... two white eggs for around thirty five days. The young eagles are ready for their first flight about seventy five days after they are hatched.
The average length of a male Bald Eagle is about three feet long from its head to its tail. They have a massive wingspan of almost six and a half feet and weigh only seven to ten pounds. The females are larger then the male and weigh sometimes double the size as the male. They usually live around thirty years in the wild , but when in captivity they live a longer life.
Experts believe that there may have been as much as twenty-five thousand to seventy-five thousand Bald Eagles living at the time when the bird was m .....
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Risk Taking
<view this essay>.... a cure for AIDS, a hunch that is
false. Before we make this distinction, however, it is necessary to define the
terms acceptable and unacceptable risks.
Acceptable and Unacceptable Risks
There are several ways in which one could define which risks are
acceptable. One could say, for example, that the only acceptable risk is one
for which the odds of success are greater than the odds of failure. Another
definition of acceptable risk might be a risk that does not harm one's future.
We might also say that the only acceptable risk is one where the aggregate
happiness is increased, thus increasing the moral good of the risk, an idea
which is based .....
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Swaziland
<view this essay>.... until recently isolation for our kind culture. The interesting thing about the group is tat they have managed to retain their native pattern of warfare and political integrity without interference from the outside world. This is due to their isolation in a remote corner of the Amazon. They have remained sovereign and in complete control of their own destiny up until a few years ago.
The Swazi people live in a small land locked country border on three sides by South Africa. They have a wide range of ecological zones; rainforest in the north, west mountainous regions, the center is level land and the east scrubby lowveld. It mostly rains in the summer, which .....
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Marriages
<view this essay>.... and the couple retreats to their relationship. My divorced male friend D. says if you simply must get married, live together first. Dive in. To hell with the survey that says it doesn't work. Communicate. If you can't do that, call the engagement off. Here are some topics for exploration before deciding on marriage: · How much time do we spend together? · Do I need permission to hang out with the friends you hate? · Who keeps track of the money? · Who decides how to spend it? · How often does your family come for dinner? · Do they help clean up? · To whom do we lend money? (Your chronically out-of-work sister? Does she qualify as a charitable tax deduction?) · .....
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Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right?
<view this essay>.... aloud. Also in the movie "Dead Man Walking," the act of
lethal injection, a form of capital punishment, is presented and made visual for
one's eyes. Both the readings and the movie hit on emotions that some people
have never thought about feeling. With the many people in the world there are
many different feelings on capital punishment. Upon reading George Orwell's "A
Hanging," the reader can obviously see that the writer is against capital
punishment. Orwell brings out many of the points that are considered for
argument against the death penalty. Orwell writes "It is curious; but till that
moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a heal .....
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TV Violence
<view this essay>.... that takes place within it. Research shows that television
is definitely a major source of violent behavior in children.
The truth about television violence and children has been shown. Some are trying to fight this problem. Others are ignoring it and hoping it will go away.
Still others don't even seem to care. However, the facts are undeniable. The studies have been carried out and all the results point to one conclusion:
Television violence causes children to be violent and the effects can be life-long. The information can't be ignored. Violent television viewing does affect
children.
The effects have been seen in a number of cases. In New York, a 16-ye .....
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GroupThink
<view this essay>.... decisions that may be risky. The group has an enormous amount of confidence and authority in their decisions as well as in themselves. They see themselves collectively better in all ways than any other group and they believe the event will go well not because of what it is, but because they are involved. The second symptom is the belief of the group that they are moral and upstanding, which leads the group to ignore the ethical or moral consequences of the decisions. The group engages in a total overestimation of its morality. There is never any question that the group is not doing the right thing, they just act. The disregarding of information or warnin .....
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