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Term Papers on Miscellaneous
The Baswate Tribe
Number of words: 387 - Number of pages: 2.... to the gods; they burn the food and the smoke going up is supposed to reach the heavens. This shows of how frightened they are of the gods, that they are willing to offer food although it may mean going hungry for a long stretch of time. The Baswate, though, take the ash of the burned food and mix it in with the water, supposidly blessing it, to help the hunger “pass.”
The Baswate have no formal education or political rule, showing that not much attention is put into it. The only education is that of their religion and the elders are the people who politically .....
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Crown Casino
Number of words: 741 - Number of pages: 3.... casinos have a much better operational efficiency compared to Crown due to the high levels of tax and intense monitoring experienced by Australian casinos. Nevertheless this excessive regulation reduces the perception of corruption which can be used to market Crown as a reputable operator in the world stage.
Its current strategy of focusing on the Asian market is an inefficient management of resources. Crown should focus on the growing local market, which would stabilise the balancesheet, as the focus should be on maintaining a high volume of local gamblers as .....
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Trigonometry
Number of words: 534 - Number of pages: 2.... their
societies? In "Geometry and Algebra in Ancient Civilizations", the author
discusses who originally derived the Pythagorean Theorem. He quotes Proclos, a
commentator of Euclid's elements, "if we listen to those who wish to recount the
ancient history we may find some who refer this theorem to Pythagoras, and say
that he sacrificed an ox in honor of his discovery". If this statement is
considered as a statement of fact, it is extremely improbable, for Pythagoras
was opposed to the sacrifice of animals, especially cattle. If the saying is
considered as j .....
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Sociology Essay
Number of words: 599 - Number of pages: 3.... legs. One of their norms is to first tranquilize an animal, and then explain to this animal that their family needs food, and that it was a must to kill the animal. Their culture traits consist of no forks, spoons, nor knives, but cook everything by fire and eat with their hands. In the Kalahari there is a period of no rainfall for nine months, yet the Bushmen survive on water from roots and plants.
When there is a discovery of a coke bottle, cultural diffusion begins. The Bushmen think the bottle is a gift from the gods. They begin to feel greed and envy. .....
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Violence In Schools
Number of words: 1023 - Number of pages: 4.... said they can
easily obtain a handgun if they wanted to(Glazer 14).
The cause of violence can be blamed on many things but 1 mainly.
And that one thing is drugs and gangs. Now that more people are selling
and buying drugs, people are making money to buy weapons. Gangs, since
they came around violence has been increasing steadily. The spread of
gangs and drugs has also been implicated in the increasing violence of
school youths(Glazer 14).
Experts have also said that most violent conflicts among school-
age children can be traced back to long-simmering disp .....
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Architecture In 1975 Focused M
Number of words: 1166 - Number of pages: 5.... of 1973. People not only did this to aid nature, moreover people wanted to be more independent in case future energy crises should arise.
In addition to just reusing old building materials, recycling was executed on a large scale by renovating old buildings instead of knocking them down and building from scratch. Besides recycling, steps were taken in the creative and high-tech arenas to permit the use of natural energy. As mentioned before, these two issues were not the only ones that were covered during the year, but they were by far given the most exposure. .....
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Aquinas First Proof Of The Existence Of God
Number of words: 447 - Number of pages: 2.... that has the ability too nor the object in the state of action can be the first to act. The wood cannot be the first to act, as it is in the state of ability too. When the wood is in this state, it has no action to transfer, and therefore is obviously not the first to act. The fire, although able to transfer the action, must have been at one time in the state of ability too, and therefore was acted upon, making it not the first too act.
The first to act is understood to be God. God is that which has action, but did not receive the action from another object .....
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Educational Research Single Su
Number of words: 468 - Number of pages: 2.... . .was completed with only 1 participant in only one condition because of time limitations on the participants’ hospital admission.”) Phase 1: Functional Analyses and Descriptive Assessments. Alternating treatment with no baseline design. “During this analysis, a test condition . . .and a control condition were compared using a multi-element design.” Phase 2: Communication and Discrimination Training. Phase 3: Treatment Evaluation of FCT with Discriminative Stimuli. Between series, alternating treatment (ABAB) design was used to c .....
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