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Term Papers on Miscellaneous
A French Philosopher
Number of words: 1403 - Number of pages: 6.... the power to disguise themselves. Communication in cyberspace lets people explore their personalities by creating new on-line personae. This seems to be the main concern for frequent Internet users. A significant observation is the amount of men that will log on as women. Jodi Obrien put it best when she states, “Many men say that a common motivation for logging on as a female is because they are fascinated by the unusual amount of attention they receive from other men when they are perceived as women” (http://www.echonyc.com/~women/Issue17/art-obrien.html) .....
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The Phenomenon Of Professional
Number of words: 638 - Number of pages: 3.... Just because they're fixed doesn't mean you know who is going to win. The atheletes sacrifice their bodies to all kinds of punishment for the fans. Professional wrestling is completely unlike any other form of entertainment on television.
Professional wrestling is a television production and a touring live show consisting mostly of fixed matches and interview-like segments. These are used to build angles and feuds among the performers. Storylines may last several weeks or months before they play themselves out. The writers, known within the industry a .....
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The Protestant Ethic And The S
Number of words: 2829 - Number of pages: 11.... to sum up this essay.
Marx in his study of Western capitalism; saw it developing from a struggle between two forces, mainly feudalism and early capitalism(1). However, having studied Marx’s ideas(2), Weber put forward a different analysis to describe the development of Western capitalism. Weber instead put forward an idea which did not seek to replace Marx’s idea as a spiritual alternative(ibid), but was to give a different angle of how capitalism may have developed in the West. This idea was based on a coincidence which Weber believed exhist .....
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Pythagoras Of Samos
Number of words: 1261 - Number of pages: 5.... mistrust, and we hear of many struggles. Pythagoras himself had to flee from Kroton to Metapontion, where he died.
It is stated that he was a disciple of Anaximander, his astronomy was the natural development of Anaximander's. Also, the way in which the Pythagorean geometry developed also bears witness to its descent from that of Miletos. The great problem at this date was the duplication of the square, a problem which gave rise to the theorem of the square on the hypotenuse, commonly known still as the Pythagorean proposition (Euclid, I. 47). If we were right i .....
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Computing
Number of words: 1824 - Number of pages: 7.... tabulate the 1890 U.S. Census. His tabulation machine was so successful, he formed IBM to supply them. (Constable 11) The computers of those times worked with gears and mechanical computation.
Unlike today¹s chip computers, the first computers were non-programmable, electromechnical machines. No one would ever confuse the limited power of those early machines with the wonder of the human brain. An example was the ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. It was a huge, room-sized machine, designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the militar .....
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American Values
Number of words: 1102 - Number of pages: 5.... current entertainment and consumer retail industries in the US are the biggest insult to basic human intelligence. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week average American is being target by unavoidable and annoying commercials from TV, radio, Internet, highway billboards, etc. Brought by large corporations, they are intended to brainwash the individual and turn him/her into a loyal brainless consumer of the product that is offered. Fake promotions, grand openings and other tricks are designed specifically for these who refuse to become believers r .....
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Personal Writing: My Experiences Of Interracial Schooling
Number of words: 572 - Number of pages: 3.... Classroom behavior toward minority students may be shown
in appropriate, and/or unrecognized. For instance, a teacher may call on a
non-minority student before a minority student. The teacher may pick on
the non-minority due to a belief that these students care about their
schooling, whereas minority students are being pre-judged without the
chance to really learn. Some people even believe that combining the
different minorities may cause problems.
Combining minority with non-minority students can create some
conflict. Some non-minority students, this .....
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Freud And Dreams
Number of words: 2238 - Number of pages: 9.... Freud reportedly admired Aristotle's assertion that dreaming is the
activity of the mind during sleep (Fine, 1973). It was perhaps the use of
the term activity that Freud most appreciated in this brief definition for,
as his understanding of the dynamics of dreaming increased, so did the
impression of ceaseless mental activity differing in quality from that of
ordinary waking life (Fine, 1973). In fact, the quality of mental activity
during sleep differed so radically from what we take to be the essence of
mental functioning that Freud coined the term .....
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