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Sailing
<view this essay>.... of in the working boats of old. Early developers knew that the speed of the boat was proportional to the size of the sail. They put huge sails on boats in efforts to speed shipping. Yet, the size of these sails were so large they became unmanageable without mass amounts of crew. Where labor was cheep, the Far East, huge sails were fitted, but for the rest of the world, a knew solution needed to be found. Sails became split into smaller units and ships carried more masts. Some ships had as many as seven masts and forty nine sails set at once.
Bit by bit, the sails evolved into triangles with moving points and arms that could turn, enabling people to .....
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The Johari Window -benefits To
<view this essay>.... informations between a person and those around him or her. There are four windows or panes in it and are called Arena, Blind Spot, Façade and Unknown. (Figure 1)
ARENA
Arena is also called as Open Self, Public self and Agenda (Figure 2). All of them are in the same area. It represents about all the information, behaviours, attitudes, feelings, desires, motivations, ideas etc. It is also the portion of total inter personal space devoted to mutual understanding and shared informations. This ‘small’ window or pane is “known by self” and also “known by others”. For example, teacher and students; a teacher knows his/her studen .....
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Allen Ginsberg : Howl
<view this essay>.... well-known poem, "HOWL", caused an incredible amount of controversy; however, it also forever changed the world of poetry.
Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1926 to an upstanding middle class Jewish family. In a lifetime of literary accomplishment, he has moved from the position of a curiosity on the borders of society to become the hero of a broad-based subculture. In 1943, Ginsberg entered Columbia University where he met Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, two names that would later join him as fathers of a literary/social movement known as the Beat Generation. Ginsberg's subject matter focused on the activities of his social circle .....
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GI Joe As A Role Model
<view this essay>.... the most important factors that mold a child into a grown adult.
GI Joes’s symbolized the general census of the public that men should be physically strong and brave in physical encounters. Young boys saw the muscular build of the action figures and related that to the optimal shape that a man’s body should be. GI Joe’s are similar to Barbie dolls in many ways. Although GI Joe’s did not come under as much criticism as the Barbie doll, the two important characteristics of the figures are the same. Both figures promote the stereotypical image of the male/female body and both figures characteristics promote the stereotypical actions of how one should act as a .....
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Persuasive Essay On Becoming A
<view this essay>.... of rebirth in an adult way” recalled his father Reginal Green. For the Green family the tale would soon seem bitterly poignant.
On September 29, 1994, as the Greens from Bodega Bay, California drove at night along a desolate highway in southern Italy with Nicholas and his little sister, Eleanor; a small light colored car overtook them. Two men inside, their faces hidden by kerchiefs
shouted in Italian and gestured for Reginal Green to pull over. When Green fearing for his family, didn’t, the men open fire. Little Nicholas, who was sleeping on the back seat, was struck in the head with a bullet. He died in the hospital two days later.
As a nation, all of .....
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Tatoo
<view this essay>.... tattoos have been found among the cultures of Oceania--for example, the MAORI of New Zealand tattoo complex spiral designs on the face and buttocks. Traditionally, fine tattoos have been to them a sign of good breeding. The word tattoo is derived from a Tahitian term. Sailors showed an early interest in the tattoos of the Pacific, and the practice of tattooing has persisted among seamen. Tattooing techniques vary widely--for example, the Eskimo use bone needles to draw soot-covered thread through the skin, and the Japanese use fine metal needles and multicolored pigments. Scarring, or cicatrization, is most common in the cultures of Africa, Australia, .....
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Influence On Proxemics
<view this essay>.... a necessary relation is present between the use of senses in interaction and interpersonal distances. Proxemics relations vary too because the definitions of the self are different, for these reasons, the people of a particular culture arrange their space in certain ways.
Hall has identified eight distances that may be indicative of certain types of messages. They included:
(1) Very close (3 inches to 6 inches) - soft whisper, top secret, or intimate information.
(2) Close (8 to 12 inches) - audible whisper, very confidential information.
(3) Near (12 to 20 inches) - soft voice, confidential.
(4) Neutral (20 to 36 inches) - soft voice, personal informati .....
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Tele-education
<view this essay>.... evolving from primarily ‘one-way’ technologies and applications such as computer aided learning, computer based training and computer aided instruction, to more ‘two-way’ technologies and applications such as computer mediated communications and computer conferencing systems for education. The significance of ‘two-way’ technologies is that they allow foe interaction between participant and tutors, and perhaps even more significantly amongst participant themselves. This development has allowed and in some senses force researches to look more closely at the impact of educational environment, on the students learning experience .....
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