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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
Siddhartha The Buddha
<view this essay>.... the answer to a mathematical equation. Still, the story of Siddhartha gives to me personally a very close insight in the nature of Being. A good amount of imagination and unprejudiced mind is necessary to understand the concepts of this and similar writings.
Religions of any kind, which existed ever since there is humanity, tell us that the meaning of life is to follow the rules of God or to reach God. That is the unique similarity of all religions. Every believer is promised a reward for his lifelong faith in the Almighty.
That is what I believe too, but I think that it’s free to everyone to decide who this God is and how to reach him. For me, God is ev .....
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Overpopulation 2
<view this essay>.... environment will be put into greater danger, the overexploitation of natural resources will continue and poverty will rise in most of the world’s countries.
Rapid population growth is a huge threat to the environment. We consume
materials and energy from earth and then return heat and wastes to earth, but the environment can only handle so much waste before serious effects on humans are seen.
As human numbers increase, deterioration of water quality and destruction
of animal and plant communities increase too. The serious effects of population
growth apply even on the protected locations of this planet. Rapid expansion of
human numbers also causes .....
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The Growing Need For The Aware
<view this essay>.... or other especially if it differs from one’s own. In other words, political correctness (better known as PC) is behavior and speech manifested in people of all race and culture that reflects an open-minded attitude towards other people present within the society today. For example, being “PC” refers to using phrases as “physically challenged” instead of “disabled” and “Asian” rather than “Oriental.”
This term originated, interestingly enough, after the Civil Rights Movement and during the birth of modern feminism when many minority groups were fighting for their rights as Americans. The .....
Number of words: 1434 | Number of pages: 6 |
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Radioactive Wastes
<view this essay>.... During this active period, while the atoms are
'decaying' to a stable state their energies can be used according to the
kind of energy they emit.
Since the mid 1900's radioactive wastes have been stored in different
manners, but since several years new ways of disposing and storing these
wastes have been developed so they may no longer be harmful. A very
advantageous way of storing radioactive wastes is by a process called
'vitrification'.
Vitrification is a semi-continuous process that enables the following
operations to be carried out with the same equipment: evaporation of the
waste solution mixed with the
1) borosilicate: any of several .....
Number of words: 1825 | Number of pages: 7 |
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The Philosophy Of Truth Making You Free
<view this essay>.... but will not know from where it is being caused.
This effect will be expressed in the sort of decisions they make and company
they keep. A more defensive society cannot feel free until the conspiracy is
brought to light, that is until the truth is told and the harm is stopped,
society cannot be free.
Furthermore, a harmful conspiracy in the highest levels of our
governments prevents freedom on a greater scale. If the truth cannot be found in
the government that we elect, then what hope have we for progress. Mistrust and
suspicion will be the tools of this brand of enslavement. If the truth is
revealed then the uncovered conspiracy will free the public .....
Number of words: 1445 | Number of pages: 6 |
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Roswell
<view this essay>.... aircraft they issued a press release stating that they had
come into possession of an Unidentified Flying Object. The present US
Government have passed the Roswell incident off as a closed case - their
investigations declared the incident to be nothing more than a crashed
weather balloon from the top secret Project Mogul and the alien bodies
merely to be crash test dummies. This essay will argue the point that there
is other life in the Universe and that the crash landing at Roswell in
1947, was an alien space craft and not a weather balloon.
Leading up to the 'Roswell Incident' UFOs were spotted all over New Mexico
and the mid-western coast line. .....
Number of words: 826 | Number of pages: 4 |
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Effects Of Advertising
<view this essay>.... place women in an inferior role; one characterized by helplessness, fragility and vulnerability. Certainly one can not deny that visual images serve to create the ideal female beauty within the material realm of consumer culture. The problem is that if one strays from this ideal, there's the risk of not being accepted by men. Advertisers, by setting ideals, not only sell their products, but in fact reaffirm traditional gender roles in mainstream America.
Women portrayed in sexual ads are depicted as objects and commodities, to be consumed by men for visual pleasure and by women for self-definition. Any depiction of a woman in scant clothing ultimately makes .....
Number of words: 659 | Number of pages: 3 |
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Standardization Of The English Language
<view this essay>.... marks date that English is used in writing wills, a
seemingly small step, but one that impacted many people and began a legacy of
record keeping in English. In 1450 English became the language used in writing
town laws and finally 1489 saw all statutes written in English. But it was not
until 1649 that English became the language of legal documents in place of Latin.
The formal rules intended to keep the use of French in official capacities were
not enough to combat the effects of the Black Death and the Hundred Years War
between France and England, which both contributed greatly to the rise of
English and fall of French. By the fourteenth century, English w .....
Number of words: 1743 | Number of pages: 7 |
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