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Ordanance Specialists
<view this essay>.... engineering to the development of guns. Those who choose military engineering as a career can find jobs designing and manufacturing weapons for all branches of the military: the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marines.
An Ordnance Specialist is a highly skilled, highly trained person, who transports,
stores, inspects, prepares, and disposes of weapons and ammunitions. Ordnance Specialists do all sorts of jobs like defusing unexploded bombs and locating, identifying, and disposing of chemical weapons. They also load nuclear and conventional explosives and ammunition on aircraft, ships, and submarines. They also inspect mounted guns, bomb release systems, missile .....
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Divorce 2
<view this essay>.... is one of the seven deadly sins. Whereas, it is common sense that due to human nature, people are never content with what they have. We always long for others even though we know that it is wrong and unfair. In the teenage drama, "Dawson's Creek", the main character's mother is caught having an affair with her co-worker. When asked why she cheated, she replies, "I had a perfect life" and admits that she longed for the feeling of needing something. In spite of the fact that it is just a television show, these instances do occur at a less exaggerated and realistic level. Adultery always breaks the trust in a marriage and
often creates hatred toward the unfa .....
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Evolution Of Women’s Underwear
<view this essay>.... pushing it down under the rib cage. “This classical style of dress in diaphanous materials was fashionable” (Sichel, 18). Underneath an early 1890s corset there were some things kept hidden. It is said that breast piercing was a quick little trend in the 1890s. Piercing was done to improve the bust line by making it curve more. “By the end of the nineteenth century skirts still trailed on the ground at times, corsets were still too tight, but there were no more freak fashions and the Edwardian fashionable woman was not the model for others to seek to follow…” (Ewing, 137).
As years went on underwear changed. Between the years 1990-1910, underwear had a f .....
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Birth Order 2
<view this essay>.... human behavior--no personality test or system can--but it does give us many clues about why people are the way they are (Leman, Birth Order 11).
There are four basic classifications of birth order: the oldest, the only, the middle, and the youngest. Each has its own set of advantages, as well as its own set of disadvantages (Leman, Birth Order 10).
First born children tend to be high achievers in whatever they do. Some traits customarily used to label first born children include reliable, conscientious, list maker, well organized (Leman, Birth Order 11), more oriented toward authority and responsibility (Moore and Cox 19), and tough-minded (Stephens 356 .....
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Chemical And Biological Weapons
<view this essay>.... upon humans, animals, or
plants. Biological weapons are living organisms, whatever their nature, or the
materials that are created because of their use. Biological weapons can cause
disease or death in living organisms, and are depended upon for their further
ability to multiply inside the organism that it attacks. Even though the two
weapons are closely related, chemical weapons are used far more commonly because
they are inexpensive to make and use. Chemical weapons are more dangerous to
America because of the conflicts we have involved ourselves in. Iraq for example,
has a long and extensive history of using chemical weapons. In the 1980’s, Iraq
released p .....
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Child Labor
<view this essay>.... twelve hours or more a day, six days a week, for pathetic wages under unhealthy and hazardous conditions.
Thousands of young boys descended into dark and dangerous coal mines every day, or worked aboveground in the dust of coal breakers, picking slate from coal with torn and bleeding fingers. Small girls tended noisy machines in the spinning rooms of cotton mills, where the humid, lint-filled air made breathing difficult. They were actually kept awake by cold water being thrown in their faces. Three-year-olds could be found in the cotton fields, and twelve-year-olds on factor night shifts. Across the country, children who should have been in school or at pl .....
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What Is An Education?
<view this essay>.... process of becoming educated than the actual instruction
and schooling one may receive.
If you asked a person in high school or college exactly why he is in
school his response would probably have something to do with "getting an
education." Is that really why he is there? The next question you may ask is
"what are you going to do with your education?" The response would undoubtedly
include something about "getting a good job" or perhaps "to make a lot of
money." Most of the people in the United States have been brainwashed to think
that unless one has at least a high school diploma there is no future anywhere
for him. This is completely untrue. There .....
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The History Of Greek Culture
<view this essay>.... Aeschylus, Sophocels, and Euripides were the three greatest tragic playwrights. All of the before mentioned known for passion, and graceful language. Comedy was also prominent on the Athenian stage as is shown in the attached pictures.
During the Golden Age, prose had surpassed poetry in literature. Historical writings were especially popular. Herodotus, (“The Father of History”) traveled throughout the civilized world and recorded the manners and customs of elder nations.
About 450 BC, a group of philosophers, the Sophists, became prominent. They were groups of teachers, and scholars of theories of knowledge. They invented what is known in literatur .....
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