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Term Papers on Miscellaneous
Ark
Number of words: 1772 - Number of pages: 7.... life. Here we have a first hand account of the flood, by one of the sole survivors of the flood, the tale itself is found in an epic of a great king, which wasn’t exactly revered as a sacred book in the Mesopotamian culture, but was still treated with a great deal of respect.
This is quite from the ancient Hebrew account of the flood. In the Old Testament, it is presumably Moses who is telling the story of Noah in the book of Genesis. In this case, we have a second hand account of the story, found in what is considered to be a sacred piece of scripture, as .....
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Prepubescent Strength Training
Number of words: 3019 - Number of pages: 11.... in our youth and more importantly the unsafe and unethical training practices that tend to be utilized in implementing strength training programs in all levels of amateur athletics. These controversies have enabled many people associated in medical and exercise sciences to take a further look at the field of prepubescent athletics and their impact on the developmental patterns of the children involved. The research in the field has provided feedback regarding the physiological, mental and social effects - negative and/or positive - that strength training infl .....
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Spanish Labor Systems And Indi
Number of words: 2173 - Number of pages: 8.... people by teaching them the ways of Christ but
many of the Articles in Colonial Spanish America, Struggle &
Survival, and The Limits of Racial Domination prove
otherwise. Through letters, personal stories, and other
documents these books present accounts that tell about the
labor system used in this area. They tell of the Spanish
labor systems such as the encomiendos and later
rapartamientos and how these operations were run. In
discussing the Labor system that existed during the time of
Spanish rule it is important to understand what labor
system .....
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Roman Blood
Number of words: 718 - Number of pages: 3.... of his own father. Gordianus accepts the commission to investigate the crime, partially knowing the betrayal and conspiracy hidden beneath. The answers he needs, sends him through the narrow streets of Roam and to the small town of Ameria. The citizens and slaves he encounters can not be trusted to speak the truth, nor can the accused Sextus Roscius. Gordianus in not prepared for the dangerous wild ride this case sends him on and is definitely not prepared for the truth.
Characters
Roman Blood is an ancient mystery and every mystery must have it's det .....
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Socrate's First Accusers And Athenian Law
Number of words: 1084 - Number of pages: 4.... and
the opinions which they revere so highly, Socrates is placed on trial for his
life.
The question now becomes why and in what manner did Socrates refute the gods
and is he quilty? Socrates, himself, speaks out the accusers charges by saying
"Socrates does injustice and is meddlesome, by investigating the things under
the earth and the heavenly things, and by making the weaker the stronger and by
teaching others these things" (Plato, 19b;c). This is the charge of the "old"
accusers. It is seen from an example in "The Clouds". Strepsiades goes to
Socrates in .....
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The Second Shift
Number of words: 1098 - Number of pages: 4.... financial and emotional support, increases self-esteem because they are contributing to the world they live in. These women receive a renewed interest in life because they are in the thick of it. They are living life to the fullest. This model is the one that is constantly referred to as "bad" because it paints the woman as someone who does not really care about the effect of working will have on the baby. In fact, most of these mothers have made this choice with painstaking care. They are constantly feeling what everyone is thinking, and this in turn causes undu .....
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90s And 50s
Number of words: 508 - Number of pages: 2.... the family, or communication. In the 90's, almost all of the teen
crimes in America is blamed on a parents communication with
their children. There are many advances today that were not
conceivable in the 50's. Today you can live after suffering from
many diseases that would killed you in the 50's. We don’t have to
worry about polio, the flu, and or pneumonia. Today we all have at
least one TV, most of us have more. We can live out in space for
months at a time, and there are computers in every classroom in
school. We also have much better .....
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Plato's Republic: The Virtues
Number of words: 1343 - Number of pages: 5.... the community becomes one.
The first virtue to be discussed is prudence. Prudence, also known as
wisdom, is found in the rulers. "The people who have it are those rulers…"
(428d) In order to have wisdom one must be resourceful, in which he/she has
obtained knowledge. Plato says, "… resourcefulness is obviously a kind of
knowledge… it's not ignorance which makes people resourceful; it's knowledge."
(428b)
The second virtue is courage, which is found in the military section of
the community. Courage is not the virtue of standing in front of a tank and .....
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