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Holes 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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Ufos And Aliens On EarthIf you had mentioned seeing a Unidentified Flying
Object (UFO), or spaceship from another planet 100 years
ago, you would probably be thought of as a raving lunatic.
If you had mentioned one 50 years ago, the case would be
thought about, but with much suspicion. Today, many people
would ...
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Blind Conformity: Malcolm XENC 1101
D.J. Henry
In today's world it is often difficult to adjust to one type of
lifestyle or another. The constant bombardment of outside opinions hamper our
ability, as humans, to choose and be comfortable with a certain way of living.
Our way of living may consist of a look, a way of ...
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HofstadterWORKS of philosophy can last for millennia, novels for centuries. Works of history, if they're really good, survive maybe a generation. But Richard 's The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It is now celebrating its fiftieth year in print and remains a solid backlist seller. High ...
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Critique Of The American DreamCritique of The American Dream
I think Michael Moore's documentary Roger and Me can be compared to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' "The Silent Partner." Perley, the fiancé of the owner of the mills visited a couple of poor families. The poor people in who visited, basically were in the same situation ...
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Civil DisobeianceCivil Disobedience Civil disobedience is the refusal to obey civil laws. This refusal is in the form of nonviolence. People who use civil disobedience are usually protesting a law that they think is unjust. Usually, they are also willing to accept any penalty like imprisonment. Henry David Thoreau ...
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The Impact Of Stalinism In 1984
Truly one of the greatest anti-utopian novels in history George Orwell's 1984 is a "nightmare vision" into the future of a world controlled by totalitarianism (Meyers 144). Through the character of Winston Smith, Orwell expresses his negative views on totalitarianism in Stalinist Russia and ...
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Five Imporant Events Of The 19Five Important Events of the 1960s
During the 1960s the world was hit with four different assassinations of some of the leaders in the world who were out to change the way things were. Although some disagreed to the changes that they were trying to do and even threatened them, they still ...
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The Salem Witch TrialsWere witches ever really a threat to humans or were they just a figment of our imagination? During the year of 1692 in a small village named Salem, approximately fifty people were hung and one pressed to death due to witchery. These people were all tried and convicted in a court of law, yet what ...
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American Dream 3The American dream, it has been said, means different things to different people. Differences in wealth and status affect the meaning of the dream for different people. Its meaning has also changed repeatedly over time. The reason that they have changed is because the American Dream is regulated ...
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Which Is The Best Contraceptive: Condoms Or The Pill??
Based on the fact that approximately 6 of every 10 pregnancies in the United States are unplanned, it should be obvious that we should be using contraceptives more often and that we should educate ourselves as to which is the best contraceptive. Two of the most commonly used forms of ...
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How A Car Motor WorksHave you ever gotten smoked in a stoplight confrontation by a lesser car that you should have creamed? Does your buddy with his almost stock car pull away from you in a roll on a consistent basis? Tired of losing in front of the crowds at the local strip? Does the local "Guru" who works at your ...
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Catch 22Satire is often used by writers to express their discontent towards a subject in a humorous way. Joseph Heller's novel, Catch-22, satirizes war and its implications on society and man himself. Heller reveals the dehumanizing aspect of war, not the glory of it. He makes a social comment on the ...
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Paradise Lost- Speech of Belial
Here is the speech, rewritten in modern prose (lines 108- 225):
On the other side of the hall, Belial stood up. He was a graceful and fair person and was high in dignity. He was an incredible rhetorician by and could sway the minds of people through his speech.
"I agree ...
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Native AmericansThe first people to inhabit the Americas were the Indians. Their settlements ranged across the Western Hemisphere and were built on many of the sites where modern cities now rise. They hunted deer, buffalo, and other game and cultivated land where today crops are still grown. Their hunters, ...
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Lord Of The Flies: The Beast Within UsHave you ever been laughed at, made fun of, or teased by one of
your friends and then thought to yourself, god, I wish he would just die.
What that feeling is, is the feeling of evil. Certainly it can't be good
if you wish your friend would die, even if you are just kidding. So where
does this ...
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The Causes Of World War 1, And The BattlesThe First World War had many causes; the historians probably have not yet
discovered and discussed all of them so there might be more causes than
what we know now. The spark of the Great War was the assassination of the
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and ...
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Ironin its pure state is soft, malleable and ductile (that can be
stretched, drawn or hammered thin without breaking ((Webster's Dictionary, 419,
1988)) with a hardness of 4-5. It is easily magnetized at room temperatures and
this property disappears when heated above 790 degrees Celsius.. Metal ...
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History Of ComputersThis project explains the , starting from Howard Aiken’s Harvard Mark I to present day time. Although I have not gone over all of the models in my report, I have chosen those which I feel have had the greatest effect on the computer world. I will show how in just forty years, computers have come ...
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The Death PenaltyThere have been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most widely contested issues in recent decades. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of on persons convicted of a major crime. It isn’t ...
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