Miscellaneous Essays and Term Papers
Is Our Society Becoming Post-literate?
Thousands of years have passed since our culture invented an alphabet to allow spoken words to be permanently recorded. This 'great leap' from orality to literacy had many consequences that will be discussed here. However, many other technologies have come into existence since the ...
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A Critical Look At The FosterCare System
OVERVIEW
Children entering the shadowy world of foster care are often assigned labels arbitrarily and on a bed-available basis. They may end up spending some time in conventional foster homes, only to find themselves shuffled through group homes, residential treatment facilities, ...
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FateWebster defines as a “ a power thought to control all events and impossible to resist” “a persons destiny.” This would imply that has an over whelming power over the mind. This thing called is able to control a person and that person has no ability to change it.
Its been proven time and time ...
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Teaching KidsThe issue of morals and values being taught to our children is one of the most pressing problems in our society today. The responsibility of raising children with a strong moral base has been lost in the chaos of the modern world. With an increase in single parenting and more homes where both ...
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Deceptive AdvertisingAs a consumer in a world of constant advertising messages being flashed before my eyes, I am always wary of the truth of those messages that I see. It is terrible when consumers see an advertisement, whether it is in a magazine, television or any other medium, and they decide to make a purchase ...
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1980’s SportsThe eighties were a great time of talented athletes, it was a decade of all sports. The popularity of many sports were increased in this decade, mostly because of television. The Olympics were a big part of the 1980’s. The world records, the Olympic records, the introduction of new sports and ...
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Lipari Landfillis just one of 115 landfills and hazardous waste sites in New Jersey. LiPari is a fifteen acre municipal and industrial waste landfill first opened in 1958.
is located in Mantua Township, New Jersey. Mantua is a small town in South Jersey neighboring Pitman Township and Glassboro. The landfill ...
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Pythagoras Of SamosBorn: about 580 BC in Samos, Ionia
Died: about 500 BC in Metapontum, Lucania
Pythagoras (fl. 530 BCE) must have been one of the world's greatest men, but he wrote nothing, and it is hard to say how much of the doctrine we know as Pythagorean is due to the founder of the society and how much is ...
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Cultural Anthropologyis a term that is in everyday lives and topics. When one thinks of anthropology they think of the study of old remnants commonly referred to as archaeology. This, however, is not the only form of anthropology. There are four types of anthropology and they are archaeology, biological ...
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The Immigrant ExperienceThey are our grandparents, our relatives, our friends. They are the
immigrants. They came from all over the world for many reasons, such as,
religious persecution and racial tension, but the largest reason for coming
to America was for freedom. The freedom to live where we want, to own
property, ...
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Statisticsare used everyday in life, and are very important in the everyday world. One important use of is to summarize a collection of data in a clear and understandable way. For example, if a psychologist gave a personality test measuring shyness to all 2500 students attending a small college, How might ...
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Australias Exchange RateWhat is an exchange rate? What factors determine the exchange rate for the Australian dollar?
An exchange rate is the ratio at which a country's currency exchanges for the currency of another country. Exchange rates are typically expressed as the foreign currency equivalent of one unit of domestic ...
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IrrationalismFrom the ontological, epistemological, and ethical to the psychological and social of individual psychology, manipulation of the masses has always gone hand in hand. During the infantile stages of its discovery to the full blown power seen in today's world, nothing alone has contributed more to ...
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Aristotles Views On Human ActionIn his book, the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle raises questions about human happiness and what it takes to make a good human life. In his quest for an answer, Aristotle covers a great deal of ground and touches upon a variety of topics that, while not obviously so, tie significantly into to the ...
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Witchcraft 2It seems that in today’s society, new religions and practices are popping up all over the place. One of the oldest, yet fastest growing faiths today is witchcraft. This earth-based, nature oriented belief has been established since the thirteenth century, but it is not until recently that it ...
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British Authors Think Great Britian Is Shaping World Events ThroughBritish authors believe that their country of Great Britain is shaping
world events potentially and morally through its intelligence agencies.
Morally , there are several methods in which they have shown this. In Ian
Fleming's books, James Bond embodied the idea of a consumer society which
have ...
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The Fun Filled Fractal Phenomenon
A fractal is a type of geometric figure. It is generated by starting with a very simple pattern such as a triangle and, through the application of many repeated rules, adding to the figure to make it more complicated. Often, an input will be entered into a recursive function and it will ...
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Computers And The MilitaryWhen the first computer was built some decades ago, it was capable of doing simple calculations and other basic tasks. The engineers had no idea what the future would bring within the world of computers. Their invention was the first step in a major professional and personal transformation in the ...
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Monasticism And Intellectual LReligious and intellectual institutions underwent significant changes throughout the middle ages. In some cases, advances were made, and in others, there was a major decline. Through all of these times, the people of the middle ages learned what didn’t work, what did, and how to progress once ...
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The Pitfall Of The InsensitiveStill Killing us Softly by Jean Kilbourne gives us prime examples of how the media tries to influence the way we see our society. The advertisement examples that she gives show how they portray the ideal woman as young, thin and beautiful, as well as making all men to look like powerful and ...
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In Search Of Your Own IdentityAfter various writings by Richard Rodriguez and Octavio Paz, I have come across several realizations. Who am I? Should I be a part of a nation and a “system” that does not value me, or should I be a part of a nation that does not acknowledge my existence? The United States as a ...
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Social Order Versus Personal Fulfillment
In the regal, and superficial high-class New York world presented in The Age of Innocence there is one particular, unchallenged rule of social order. This rule of complete social grace has been, instead of branded in stone, been impounded deeply in the minds of every generation raised ...
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The Dissolution Of MarriageThere are three family Law Act processes that cover the ending of marriages, they are:-
1. Decrees of divorce, which is
2. Decrees of nullity
3. The declarations for validity of marriage
While today I shall be talking about the first one I said, , which is the most common out of the three.
Why a ...
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Drugs And RavesThe Association Between Raves and Drugs
Generally people associate raves(Underground Techno parties) with designer drugs like Ecstasy(MDMA), Speed(amphetamine) and other acids like LSD. These drugs are called the Techno Drugs for that reason and most of the time have uplifting and sensatory ...
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