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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
Shock Treatment - Nike Adverti
<view this essay>.... stir among critics. The title of this commercial is “Beautiful”. The thirty second spot, created by longtime ad agency Wieden & Kennedy, debut nationally on October 12 during the National League Championship Series and will air into November. What this ad focuses on is a handful of athletes who have each suffered serious scarring or physical trauma while participating in their sport of choice. The spot is filmed in black-and-white, accented by a haunting rendition of the song “You Are So Beautiful To Me,” and featuring close-ups of injuries suffered by both elite and so-called “everyday” athletes. It closes with the .....
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Sports In Rome
<view this essay>.... usually were slaves that had been trained by their owners. The race was seven laps or three miles, and the turns were the most dangerous part of the race, where the carts would often overturn, killing the drivers. Only men wearing togas, which symbolized Roman citizenship, were allowed to watch the races. The races were between four teams owned by contractors. Each team was named by a color: the reds, greens, whites, and the blues.
("Circus Maximus," site of the Chariot Races in Rome)
Gladiators
The Romans flooded into the Colosseum to watch bloody combat between gladiators and between men and wild animals. The gladiators were mostly men, who were .....
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Online And Research Journalism
<view this essay>.... and television services, and now there are other categories of information that might migrate, this time to the net. The printed paper risks losing revenue generators such as classified and personnel ads, and thus runs the risk of becoming less profitable. Unexpected competitors such as search engines and free homepage services, as well as the online directory services of television stations, now fight in the same arena for the user's attention and the limited advertising money available. New services, such as interactive features, guides to information sources and community building are new to newspapers, as is the continuous production cycle that the Internet .....
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Utilitarianism
<view this essay>.... wilderness, and a healthy biosphere. These
two moral demands do conflict. In fact, economic growth is the prime source of
threats to the natural environment.
We have a rough sense of what a good quality of life for humans consists
of. Also, we can make some rough judgments about when a person's quality of
life has increased or decreased. Utilitarianism about future generations says
that people should weigh these increases impartially with respect to times. And,
in particular, should not prefer a smaller increase in the present well-being to
larger increases in the future. We should try to maximize the sum of increases
in well-being across times cou .....
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Instant Replay Should Be Reinstated In The NFL
<view this essay>.... 90% of the time and
the other 10% of the calls are so bad that it can change the outcome of a
single game or a team's season. In cases like these, instant replay would
equalize the game for each team, even though the human element of bad
calls and mistakes would be taken out.
Bad calls are the most common reason for instant replay to be
reinstated because bad calls can do more than just than just change the
outcome of a game/season of a team, it also affects people affiliated with
the team. Examples of this include rival games that cause coaching
positions to become tougher to hold on to . Also included in these are
momentum halting calls and calls tha .....
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Intergrating Technology And Le
<view this essay>.... by people standing side by side to each other.
Leadership is a necessary component to the success of any business or organization. Leadership says, “I care about you” to the customer. Used correctly, technology can enhance the practice of leadership in today’s businesses and organizations. It is necessary, though, that some personal interaction remain to show people that the business is still customer oriented.
Leadership can be divided into three categories: mentoring, risk-taking, and facilitating. Although there are many attributes and characteristics of a leader, these three are the most important in today’s business and organizations. Most other .....
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Smile...Come On...It's Free !!!
<view this essay>.... Some people are too
tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so
much as he who has no more to give."
-- based on the writings of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
A smile is such a precious thing. So often used that we take it
for granted. Look around; smiles are everywhere. From the most depressing
depths of poverty to the fenced in lives of the wealthy, we all find
something to smile about. A smile helps us display our feelings to the
world. Feelings of love, joy, or just pure uncensored laughter; all put on
display with a smile. The darkest of days; brightened by a simple
"flexing" of seventeen muscle in the mo .....
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Biography Of John Grisham
<view this essay>.... to a permanent residence in Southaven, Mississippi, a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee (Current 221). John Grisham said, "We didn't have a lot of money, but we didn't know it, we were fed and loved and scrubbed" (Hubbard 44). Along with being a famous writer, Grisham is also a devout Christian. While his father usually had to work seven days a week, Grisham's mother always had Grisham and his four siblings in church every Sunday. Grisham said, "My mother led me to Jesus." He was eight-years-old when he confirmed his faith in God and says "It was the most important event in my life" (Norton 16).
John Grisham an excellent education, going to some very good schools. .....
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