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Term Papers on Miscellaneous
Binge Drinking On Americas Cam
Number of words: 2512 - Number of pages: 10.... campuses. Schools affected are both large and small, just as they are both urban and rural.
At the same time America has managed to keep the same percentage of its students from drinking entirely for the last five years, binge drinking has been on the rise (Thompson, J.J. 63). While 49 percent of college students binge, only 28 percent of their non-college counterparts do (McCormick, John; Kalb, Claudia 89), clearly illustrating the divide that exists between students and non-students. These figures are upsetting in that one would expect universities to be t .....
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Hobbes Philosophy
Number of words: 983 - Number of pages: 4.... For example, if I were to donate to charity, I am actually taking delight in demonstrating my power. Hobbes believes that any account of human action, including morality, must be consistent with the fact that we are all self-serving. His theory notes that humans are essentially equal, both mentally and physically, so that even the weakest person has the strength to kill the strongest (p.44). Given our equal standing, Hobbes believes that there are three natural causes of quarrel among people: competition for limited supplies of material possessions, distr .....
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Trench Coat Mafia And Society
Number of words: 591 - Number of pages: 3.... coat Mafia, told classmates of their plans to carry out a massacre at school, but fellow students jeered and dismissed their comments as empty threats.
The preferred attire of the Trench coat Mafia were black trench coats, sunglasses and army berets. This code of dress was designed to stand out from the rest of the students, and to attract attention to them. This was not a wise decision made by the group as it attracted more abuse from students and became clearly recognised as ‘misfits’. This worsened the communication gap between the group and .....
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History Of Basketball
Number of words: 710 - Number of pages: 3.... that relied solely on strength.
He needed a game that could be played indoors in a not too big, but not to small
space. The first basketball game ever was played with a soccer ball and two
peach baskets used as goals.
Naismith made a set of thirteen rules for his new "basketball" game:
1. The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands.
2. The ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but never
with the fist.
3. A player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on
which he catches it, allowance to .....
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C.s. Lewis: The Abolition Of M
Number of words: 607 - Number of pages: 3.... of character, personality, values and some of them we copy from them. We are not being innovative but adaptive of thought. We look at others and sometimes act accordingly to their nature. We all have a personalized nature but we tend to identify and be changeable to other ways besides your own. I can relate to Lewis’ idea of science and magic to what ethical innovators are really doing. Magic is something that happens that is impossible much like the innovation of ethics. Just like there is no innovation for ethics then there is none for science. My .....
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Ahold In The Czech Republic
Number of words: 2353 - Number of pages: 9.... company is rapidly expanding in Asia and Latin America. Besides in these countries, Ahold is recently also active in Central Europe and Russia. Since the economies in Central European countries have just become more open and freer, Ahold has seen a promising business opportunity over there. One of the countries in Central Europe to which Ahold has already expanded business activities is the Czech Republic. Nowadays, Euronova, Ahold's subsidiary in the Czech Republic that specializes in food retailing, is the largest foreign investor in this country. Since .....
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Sweet Briar College
Number of words: 202 - Number of pages: 1.... in the areas of math,
engineering and sciences, their number one priority is preparing women for
careers in these fields.
Sweet Briar's students consist of about 600 women representing more
then 40 states and 15 different countries. The campus consists of 35
buildings stretching over 3,300 acres. Tuition for the 1996 through 97'
school year is about 14,990 dollars for full-time students, room and board
fee charge is 6, 510 dollars; student activity fee is 125 dollars.
Sports that offer competition at the Varsity level include field
hockey, lacrosse, riding, soccer, swimming, tennis, and volleyball. Sw .....
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Why Public Education Must Integrate Information Technology
Number of words: 1281 - Number of pages: 5.... of the good teachers. Teaching is interacting with students, not taking attendance or duplicating handouts. There could be many, less skilled, educational support jobs in the schools of the future (Layton 1).
There is also a need to provide the teachers and students time together when and where it is most needed. Currently we have very rigidly structured school days. Often this rigid structure will interrupt a dynamic lesson, or leave a student with nothing to do while the rest of the class finishes. To maximize each student's time and each teacher's interact .....
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