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Term Papers on Miscellaneous
Descartes' Meditations
Number of words: 2745 - Number of pages: 10.... that
our senses are prone to error and thereby cannot reliably distinguish between
certainty and falsity. To examine those ideas that have “objective reality,"
Descartes makes the improbable hypothesis of “an evil genius, as clever and
deceitful as he is powerful, who has directed his entire effort to misleading
me” ( ). By proposing this solution he is able to suspend his judgment and
maintain that all his former beliefs are false. By using doubt as his tool,
Descartes is now ready to build his following proofs with certainty.
Meditation Two Compar .....
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Uniforms Will Make Schools A Better Place
Number of words: 823 - Number of pages: 3.... be a solution to school violence. This also shows that, schools are actually starting to take action while trying to avoid problems. In addition, uniforms are spreading to the suburbs, where this is a cheap way to make schools safer, just by making students wear these uniforms. This shows that, it’s possible for all students to be able to find a way to get these uniforms to schools. It also shows that, were there are places with a lot of violence and hopefully their uniforms could helps these students. However, uniforms could be a pricey engagement. This shows t .....
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The Play Years
Number of words: 772 - Number of pages: 3.... their own -- is often seen is children ranging from two to six or seven years. Piaget’s three mountain problem illustrates this phenomenon clearly; that is, children who looked at three mountain peaks, designated by different colors, could not pick a picture representing the three peaks from a doll’s point of view. Instead, the pictures represented their own point of view.
Conservation problems also are characteristic of early childhood. Conservation refers the changing of an object’s outward appearance while its physical make-up stays the sa .....
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The Newbury Centralized School
Number of words: 1703 - Number of pages: 7.... in coming. These goals were delayed due to a couple of reasons.
One of the reasons is that the community did not want to pay for the school.
At first, in 1925, the future school’s price was calculated at $85,000.
This calculation was reached by an architect, whose name was Walter A.
Rabold, was hired by the Board of Education to draw up plans and reach an
estimate (Bottger Newbury’s One Room Schools) . This price was beyond
what the community was willing to pay for it. They were unwilling to pay
as proof shown by a vote which the Board held in May of .....
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Adoption And Identity Formatio
Number of words: 2010 - Number of pages: 8.... will have a better chance of “normal” adjustment than a child who is adopted at the age of ten. This may be due in part to the probability that an infant will learn how to trust, where as a ten-year-old may have more difficulty with this task, depending on his history. Eric Erickson, a developmental theorist, discusses trust issues in his theory of development. The first of Erickson’s stages of development is Trust v. Mistrust. A child who experiences neglect or abuse can have this stage of development severely damaged. An adopted infant m .....
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Malaysia Car Industry
Number of words: 2468 - Number of pages: 9.... Year 1998
Position Makes Sales Unit Share
1 Proton ( EON ) 67595 49.5%
2 Kancil 38921 28.5%
3 Proton ( USPD ) 19894 14.6%
4 Honda 4100 3.0%
5 Toyota 1930 1.4%
6 Nissan 1407 1.0%
7 Mercedes Benz 1160 0.9%
8 BMW 672 0.5%
9 Volvo 422 0.3%
10 Peugeot 350 0.3%
Total Passenger .....
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Following A Dream Toward Freedom
Number of words: 438 - Number of pages: 2.... freedom is allowed to work for everyone.
"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward
to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms," stated Franklin
Roosevelt in his 1941 President's Annual Address to Congress. "The first
is freedom of speech and expression-everywhere in the world. The second
is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-everywhere in the
world. The third is freedom want-which, translated into world terms,
means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy
peacetime life f .....
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Serial Killers --
Number of words: 2325 - Number of pages: 9.... taken place in the last decade (Douglas, p. 137). One of the most popular and well-known serial killers in history was Ted Bundy. He was convicted of killing three women but is suspected of killing thirty-six other women (Douglas, p. 137).
So what makes a serial killer? Levin points out that contrary to popular belief, serial killers don’t just “snap” or “go crazy” (Douglas, p. 137). Many of the serial killers have been the victims of childhood abuse. Jack Levin stated “Research shows many serial killers suffered abuse .....
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