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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
Fear
<view this essay>.... night, never walk alone on dark streets, and turn on lots of lights to keep the boogie man away. We for our health so we diet, exercise, and eat only healthy foods. Our s can also help us make wise decisions: where to live, what to do with our money, how to raise our children, even what kind of car to drive and whether or not to drive it.
Our s may be sudden like when your kid brother jumps out behind you and yells ‘boo’. People’s s can be built up over a long period of time, for example, during the cold war millions of people thought that at any moment they would be attacked by the Russians, so they built bomb shelters because of that . Some of our s come .....
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POW #12: The Big Knight Switch
<view this essay>.... black,
then white….etc.…
With those guidelines I was set to attempt to find if it were possible
for the knights to switch places with each other, following only the guidelines
above.
PROCESS:
In first approaching this POW, I reviewed for what it was exactly this
POW was asking for, making a clear mental image of the POW embed itself into my
mind. After carefully re-reading the POW and its guidelines, I had a somewhat
solid idea of how to approach it.
I first made a custom 3x3 chess board, and included the chess pieces
(two black and two white). I placed each in their appropriate sections and
proceeded to attempt to solve the problem. I calcul .....
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Proud To Be Canadian
<view this essay>.... Different cultural values and customs will prevail. Canadians have been eager and willing accomplices in their own demise.
Canadian population is shrinking and aging, and immigrants will cheerfully shell out for Canadian pensions when the time comes. Instead of encouraging the growth of Canadian families with incentives, the government rather opens its doors to immigration. But Canadians were never consulted about changes to the national policy. They are just not convinced that they like, or want, even more immigration. Canada reached the hog-wallow of lows when it limited 'free speech' to a point where it became unclear to anyone who supported t .....
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What Is A Monopoly
<view this essay>.... Microsoft is probably one of the first companies that comes to mind when one thinks of a monopoly. I will discuss Microsoft in fairly well detail because I believe that they are a prime example in my dissection of monopoly because of their recent court litigation. I also believe John Rockefeller played an important role in creating a corporate enterprise and he is also considered to be a monopolist by many. I believe monopoly is just a term used for the process of a corporation or person trying to innovate and create standards for the success of their business.
First of all, Microsoft is a technology corporation headed by Bill Gates that produces compute .....
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Discussion Of The Feasibility Of Miracles And The Grounds For Christianity Existing Without Miracles
<view this essay>.... the ideas of religion directly by stating that
without the splendor of miracles, Christianity and other beliefs would not
stand. He states that miracles are used to make us believe the scriptures.
This is not true, since from the starts of Christianity there were not always
scriptures. There were pieces of art work done for generations before the texts
were written and after that, they still had to be published. From there, only
the rich were well off enough to afford such a book. In fact, the Gospels were
written from 20-100 years after Christ died. The Acts were a collection of
works made from two hundred to three hundred years after the crucifixion .....
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Hemp...A Help For Today
<view this essay>.... industry, as it was the only cloth which would not rot on contact with sea spray. The cannabis plant also produces three other very important products which the other hemp plants do not (in usable form, that is): seed, pulp, and medicine. The pulp is used as fuel, and to make paper. The seed is suitable for both human and animal foods. The oil from the seed can be used in as a base for paints and varnishes. And, the medicine is a tincture or admixture of the sticky resin in the blossoms and leaves of the hemp plant, and is used for a variety of purposes.
Hemp seed is a highly nutritious source of protein and essential fatty oils. The leaves can be u .....
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The Internet Terms
<view this essay>.... every menu item on thousands of gopher servers. The Veronica database can be searched from most major gopher menus.
See Also: Gopher
2. A technique of combining multiple files into a single file to enable easier backup, handling or transmission. Some of the software programs used to archive files are PKZIP, WinZip, Stuffit, and tar. Files with the following extensions are likely to be archived: sea, tar, taz, taZ, tgz, and zip. See compression
3. ARPANET. The network created by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) that became the Internet. See the Internet History
4. Backbone A central network connecting other networks together. Forme .....
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Shusterman And The Aesthetic E
<view this essay>.... would probably say that the term has gotten a little out of hand, and for this reason he has attempted to nurse this so called aesthetic experience back into it's full bodied figure. In his essay the End of the Aesthetic Experience Shusterman attempts to explain how analytic aesthetics misunderstood the notion of the aesthetic experience and how this is not only relevant but important to the contemporary art world. In this essay, I will explore Shusterman's ideas concerning these concepts, and discern his validity and his theory's ability for implementation into the current art world. Shusterman makes a point of noting that the aesthetic experience from Dewey .....
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