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Term Papers on Miscellaneous
Eleanor Roosevelt
Number of words: 1208 - Number of pages: 5.... her benefits to mankind, and her motives to accomplish her goals.
Helping other people was what lived for. There were many accomplishments made by this woman in social and political matters. For one thing, she spoke out for women to make them more equal to men. In 1928, she helped originate the nation-wide web of active units of Democratic women (Lash, 49). Eleanor believed that women could do just as much as men, especially in politics. The League of Women Voters was where she was "grounded in citizenship and government" (Benton, 237). Beca .....
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John Steinbeck
Number of words: 380 - Number of pages: 2.... dream of lennie and george in Of Mice and Men tragedy and misfortune are often the result.
Steinbeck presentd scenes of great crulty and passion in his books, his characters often use profanity beacuse they know no other way of speaking, it's sort of a manerism with them. the reason for this is that profanity is often found inthe speach of illiterate people. Foul language in some groups is as much a convention as politness is in other groups. Stienbeck's characters are seldom cruel, and are more
likely to be gentle. If they commit crimes it is usually thro .....
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Ethics And Engineering
Number of words: 759 - Number of pages: 3.... or the product of their work will involve the public,
that person should also be responsible to the public. The only concern of an
engineer cannot be to make a bridge as sound as possible in a certain budget.
If the people are to be crossing over this bridge, an engineer must also
consider if it is possible to truly make this bridge safe within the allotted
budget. He must not think purely of the technical aspects of the bridge making,
but of the human side. Statements like "Is it safe?" should be replaced by "Is
the bridge safe enough?" Whenever one's .....
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Internet For Newbies
Number of words: 1808 - Number of pages: 7.... well in written language, you either learn more effective ways of communicating, or get lost in the shuffle. The ingenious way people are beginning to communicate over the Net is amazing. "Netspeak" is evolving on a national and international level. The technological vocabulary once used only by computer programmers and elite computer manipulators called "Hackers," has spread to all users of computer networks. The language is currently used by people on the Internet, and is rapidly spilling over into mainstream advertising and business. The words "on-lin .....
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Michael Collins Biography Figh
Number of words: 853 - Number of pages: 4.... magazine edited by "Arthur Griffith" who later went on to became the founder of Sinn Fein, a nationalist party that still exists to this day.
In July 1906, at the age of 15, Michael Collins immigrated to London; he did not take long to become involved in a strong Irish community in London and also became involved in the Gaelic Athletic Association. He easily found work in London moving from job to job, and when he was 18, before moving back to Ireland he found himself involved in a group called the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). Back in Ireland and a .....
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Hume And Descartes On The Theory Of Ideas
Number of words: 612 - Number of pages: 3.... to him. I believe this is a
strength of his because of his convincing argument, "If the objective reality
of any one of my ideas is found to be so great that I am certain that the same
reality was not in me…therefore I myself cannot be the cause of the idea, then
it necessarily follows that I am not alone in the world, but that something
else, which is the cause of this idea, also exists" (75). Descartes weakness is
his idea of innate ideas. It is not necessarily correct to say people have a
mind the minute they are born, instead they have gained it after .....
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The Chicago Bulls: Number 5???
Number of words: 213 - Number of pages: 1.... they have recently signed star center Shaquille
O'Neal, the biggest force in the league. Now that they Shaq, Magic Johnson will
unretire (again), because he feels that with Shaq, Nick Van Exel, Cedric
Ceballos, Eddie Jones, and Kobie Bryant, they will finally be a contender for
the title. They have drafted Derek Fisher, he is a strong player and shows good
leadership, but he will mainly serve as Van Exels backup.
Finally, the Houston Rockets. They have Hakeem Olujuwon, Clyde Drexler, and
guess who? Charles, yes, Charles Barkley, the man from Phoenix, the round mound
of rebound. They have als .....
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Labyrinths And Mazes
Number of words: 768 - Number of pages: 3.... to protect, but what if the person
trying to be protected was lost in it. A double-bladed axe would be
similar. It can be used to defeat the enemy as long as the other side of
it does not defeat the allies. Labyrinths could be used to protect all
sorts of things. The Egyptians used them to protect riches and even
important bodies. In one instance, in Cretian mythology, the labyrinth was
built by Daedalus for King Minos to protect the people of Crete from a
minotaur. Instead of it keeping him from completing the labyrinth, it kept
him inside so he could do th .....
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