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Hero Essays and Term Papers
Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging An Honest ConsensusVisiting Researcher, The Foresight Institute
P.O. Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
hanson@charon.arc.nasa.gov 510-651-7483
To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth
Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, London, 7/90.)
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Iran-contra AffairIran-Contra: Crossing That Line
”I think everyone knew we were walking a very thin line.”(Owen) Not many Americans know the truth that lies behind the Iran-Contra scandals. Most would be surprised to know about the deception of our leaders. Still today, some truth of Iran-Contra lies hidden in the ...
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Farewell To Arms PaperHemmingway has a unique style of writing. It works on multiple levels. A person could read Farewell to Arms and enjoy it as a tragic love story. Hemmingway’s concise writing style allows a literal interpretation. At the same time a reader could get involved with the various symbols that he has ...
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F. Scott FitzgeraldFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald once said \"Mostly we authors must repeat ourselves–that\'s the truth. We have two or three experiences in our lives– experiences so great and moving that it doesn\'t seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up\" (de Koster n. pag.). Fitzgerald\'s works ...
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CommonwealthHistory: Early Days: The first people arrived in Ireland and came from Scandinavia to Scotland and then from Scotland to Ireland. They were a Stone Age people and lived by hunting, farming and fishing. The next groups were the Bronze Age people from southern Europe who skilled metal-workers. The ...
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Charley Skedaddle Charley Skeddaddle is a story that takes place during
the Civil War (1861-1865) in the North. The main character
is Charley Stephen Quinn. He was a young boy growing up in
New York City without parents. Charley’s older brother
Johnny died at the Battle of Gettysburg. We learned about
Johnny ...
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Beowulf And Jesus: Sacrifice And Inspiration"Game, set, match," are three words that tennis-gods Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi both yearn to hear daily. Sampras and Agassi parallel each other beautifully, but by all means are not comparable. They both have amazing serves, ground-strokes with depth, volleys with placement, and overheads ...
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The Odyssey The Role Of PropheWhen one ponders the Greek mythology and literature, powerful images invariably come to mind. One relives the heroes’ struggles against innumerable odds, their battles against magical monsters, and the gods’ periodic intervention in mortal affairs. Yet, a common and often essential ...
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John Lennonis considered to be one of the most influential people in the history of music. He took the initiative to stand up and speak for an entire generation. He sung about freedom, peace and solutions to the world’s problems. Many of the people of this generation lived vicariously through him and his ...
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The Red Badge Of CourageIn today's society, many people are faced with internal conflicts that cause them to wonder who they really are. These struggles sometimes allow people to realize their true self identity. During these mental battles the person can recognize what they can and cannot do. After undergoing this ...
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Robin Hood SummaryRobin Hood's good traits are easily seen throughout the story. The author did a good job of making his hero come across as a good person, who has often been misinterpreted because of things that he did as a young boy. Showing the change Robin Hood has made since he was a little boy easily allows ...
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Theodore Seuss Geisel, Betterknown to generations of readers all over the world as "Dr. Seuss," is the American author of many popular children’s books. Dr. Seuss’ "deft combination of easy words, swift rhymes and batty nonsense" (Horn 69) has convinced many children that reading does not have to be a boring chore, but ...
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Louis Pasteurwas an example of a truly gifted person who made many wildly diverse discoveries in many different areas of science. He was a world-renowned French chemist and biologist whose work paved the way for branches of science and medicine such as stereochemistry, microbiology, virology, immunology, and ...
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The Punic Wars 264 BC -- 146 BCThe Punic Wars were wars between the Carthagins and the Romans.
These wars took place in three separate times and places. The wars were
called the Punic Wars because the Romans called the Carthaginians Poeni.
The first of the three wars started in 246 BC, and the last of the three
ended in 146 ...
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ArrayOn November 22, 1963, while being driven through the streets of Dallas, Texas, in his open car, President John F. Kennedy was shot dead, apparently by the lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. The world had not only lost a common man, but a great leader of men.
From his heroic actions in World War II ...
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ElizabethHenri IV (Henri de Navarre, Henri de Bourbon), 1553-1610, first Bourbon king of France, was the son of Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne d'Albret. On her death he succeeded to the kingdom of Navarre (1572). He took leadership of the Huguenot (Protestant) party in 1569. His marriage in 1572 with ...
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Macbeth - Contradiction In TheIt has often been said that Macbeth is a
character of powerful contradictions. He is evil
and all-powerful. Are his violent acts and his
criminal activities simply the result of Macbeth’s
ambition to be King of Scotland? Why is he willing
to kill his king and his best friend with
apparently ...
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Night Essay- The DehumanizatioIn the novel, Night, Elie Wiesel narrates his experience as a young Jewish boy during the holocaust. The captured Jews are enslaved in concentration camps, where they experience the absolute worst forms of torture, abuse, and inhumane treatment. Such torture has obvious physical effects, but it ...
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Woodrow WilsonThe Life, duties and term of the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow (Thomas) Wilson.
Wilson went to private schools his whole adolescent life. When Wilson went to college, he studied to be a politician. Later Wilson decided he wanted to become a lawyer, this failed so he enrolled in ...
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Five Against The World - Perl JamThere are two Eddie Vedders. One is quiet, shy, barely audible when he speaks. Loving and loved in return. The other is tortured, a bitter realist, a man capable of pointing out injustice and waging that war on the homefront, inside himself. On a warm and windy late-spring day in the San Rafael, ...
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