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Miscellaneous Essays and Term Papers
Allen Ginsberg : HowlAllen Ginsberg and HOWL: Analysis and Response
Throughout the ages of poetry, there is a poet who stands alone, a prominent figure who represents the beliefs and morés of the time. During the 1950's and 1960's, the Beatnik era in America brought forth poets who wrote vivid, realistic poetry in ...
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Trends In PolicingSince the founding of this country, to the wild west, and up to the present, the agenda of the policing bodies have been clear: to uphold and enforce the laws of our society. Of course the way they do this today had undergone changes from the first police forces of early America, law enforcement ...
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What Is A Baseball Fan? The word fan is an abbreviation of fanatic, meaning “insane”. In the case of baseball fans, the term is appropriate. They behave insanely, they are insane about trivia, and they are insanely loyal.
Baseball fans wear there official team T shirts and warm-up jackets to the mall, the supermarket, ...
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Cold Mountain Essay"I am coming home one way or another, and I do not know how things might stand between us. I first thought to tell in this letter what I have done and seen so that you might judge me before I return. But I decided it would need a page as broad as the blue sky to write that tale, and I have not ...
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Humans Hold The Idea Of Heroes With Great SignificanceThinking in mythological terms by seeing the value in the lives of those that came before us enables people to erase anxiety and face the uncertainty of life. Charles Horton Cooley, a sociologist in the late 1800's, beautifully stated, "To have no heroes is to have no aspiration…." This ...
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Collective BehaviorOn Saturday, April 15, protesters gathered in Washington DC in opposition of the IMF and World Bank. The two institutions were to have their spring meeting this weekend and the approximately ten thousand protesters, whose main point is the elimination of poverty, paraded down the streets of DC ...
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Air Bags 2Crash! Your car just smashed into the car right in front of you at a speed of 35 mph. The whole front of your car is smashed but luckily your head isn’t, thanks to the airbag deploying. This scenario happened over 2.9 million times through August, 1998. Airbags significantly reduce the ...
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Manuscript For Experimental PsRunning head: GENDER AND NUMBER OF BYSTANDERS
This study was designed to look at the effects of gender and the number of bystanders on helping behavior. There were 128 participants in this study, compromising of students, faculty and also the general public in the area of Lexington, KY. The ...
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Celebrities And Their SalariesThe President of the United States makes $200 000 a year. A Supreme Court justice gets $170 000. The average annual American household income is $34 076. And Steven Segal? He makes $10 million per picture. We want celebrities to be like us, and then we don't. We want them to inhabit a world ...
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HockeyThe fastest of all team sports, ice has been described as a combination of "blood, sweat, and beauty." Stiffer penalties have not discouraged the players from using their basic equipment of sticks and skates as weapons, and this brutality has diminished the abstract beauty of the sport. Even ...
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Alcohol An Issue Within CollegAlcohol: An Issue within College Society
Do you remember graduating high school? Remember all the questions you had to ask yourself. What are you going to do now? Do you want to work? Do you want to go to school again for another four years? These questions are eventually answered and some choose ...
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The Egyptian PyramidsThere are several reasons why pyramids were being built in Egypt during the times between 3,000 – 1,000 B.C. First of all, the pyramids were to be used for funerary monuments. During this time period Egypt had been divided into great dynasties known as the Predynastic period. The Old Kingdom, ...
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How Television WorksThere have been countless inventions that have forever changed the world just by their existence. Many of these have been related to communications, such as a radio, phone, and more specifically the television. Soon after it's release, millions of families across the nation had their own ...
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Its Up To You, New York Its UpIT’S UP TO YOU, NEW YORK
New York, New York says Frank Sinatra. There must be something about New York that makes this city this much popular and this much special. Even when someone speaks about the United States New York is one of the first things that come to the mind. But Why? Why New ...
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Should A Superpower Establisha Sphere of Influence?
This influence, that was felt around the world, led to many wars and possibly prevented a holocaust. It was a visible defensive action and an invisible security wall. The real importance of this question is not "should" a sphere of influence be established, but "why ...
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The Lottery, what are the results? This is a question often ignored
today. In a world of get rich quick and something for nothing
seems to fit right in. Is it to good to be true. It promises better
schooling for children and lower taxes for the average worker. It is
toasted as the answers to all of a ...
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Anthropology TurkanaThe most important factor that influences the social organization of the Turkana is their environment.
The wet season is a major factor in the Turkana social organization. Because there is less concerns about the animals and water supply, more time is devoted to social interaction. This is a time ...
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DowryCulture is the enduring behavior ideas attitudes and tradition shared by a large group of people and transmit it to one generation to the next. India is one of those countries that has strong influence by culture.
The custom of , long entrenched in India’s male dominant society , has attained ...
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Condom Dispenser In HighschoolActing as nonchalant as their maturity would allow, the four senior boys meandered their way through the busy hallway with only one thought on their minds. Make it to the bathroom without giving away “The Plan.” Their quarters quietly played an off~key tune as they bounced around in the boys’ ...
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RespectIn this paper I will argue that , when earned, is more stable, more specific, and allows for a better relationship then when is simply demanded. has been a major issue throughout time. Towns and countries alike were crushed simply for dising their invaders. Vlad Dracul, a Transylvanian ruler ...
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Placebo EffectThe activity I chose to write about was on Dr. Walter A. Brown’s article in Scientific American about placebos and their effect on the patients. His article described what a placebo is and if it is ethical for doctors to prescribe this “treatment” to their patients.
Dr. Brown, ...
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Two Brands Of NihilismAs philosopher and poet Nietzsche's work is not easily conformable to the
traditional schools of thought within philosophy. However, an unmistakable
concern with the role of religion and values penetrates much of his work.
Contrary to the tradition before him, Nietzsche launches vicious ...
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Socratic MethodThe Socratic Philosophy is basically a quest for the virtuous life; the main pillar of the Socratic thought is a virtuous life. Although, to his death, he did not offer any definition of a virtuous life--his life itself is the answer.
The consists of the question and answer mode of inquiry. It ...
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The French Sociologists(holistic approach), during the eighteenth and nineteenth century were
much concerned with the ‘nature’ of society and of the human social institutions. Their interests
lay rather in what human society essentially is, than in the history of it’s development, either
generally or ...
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Hobbes PhilosophyBorn during a period of medieval philosophy, Thomas Hobbes developed a new way of thinking. He perfected his moral and political theories in his controversial book Leviathan, written in 1651. In his introduction, Hobbes describes the state of nature as an organism analogous to a large person ...
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