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Our Earth Essays and Term Papers
A Modest ProposalHave You Eaten Yet?: Swift’s Final Solution
As a lately favored eighteenth century essay, Jonathan Swift’s "Proposal" has been canonized as a satirical model of wit. As will be discussed shortly, Swift’s essay is often seen as an allegory for England’s oppression of Ireland. Swift, ...
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Uses And Abuses Of InformationIn George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, we are presented with a dystopian vision of the future. Orwell’s book follows the life of Winston Smith, a citizen of Airstrip 1, formerly Britain and part of the nation of Oceania. The country is governed by Ingsoc, the English Socialists, a ...
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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.)
C O U L D G A M B L I N G S A V ...
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Shockwave RiderThere are numerous books on the science fiction
market, that deal with the myriad of possibilities
involving the technology of the future. John Brunner’s
book, “,” is one of the most popular, as
well as one of the most famous, books dealing with this
issue. Brunner presents many ...
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Living In The Present Causes More Harm Than GoodSome people claim that the living in the present can actually cause
more harm than good. They say that in order to lead a productive and
profitable life, one must study both the past and the future, the present
is only a stepping stone. I think that this is quite the opposite. The
past must be ...
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Women As News AnchorsWomen in all careers are striving to gain equality in the work force
today, and female television news anchors are definitely part of the fight. The
road to television news anchoring is a rocky one, where only a few women survive
and many fail. Where progress was once thought to have been made, ...
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Observing Persuasion In The New Age
Thesis: The allure of the New Age can be attributed in part to an overall lack of understanding its nature; when its history is taken into consideration and its persuasive element is exposed, we see that, contrary to the assumption that the New Age is a freer alternative to mainstream ...
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World Hunger*** Warning: the following is a look at which some people may
disagree with, if you would look at non-partisan look at then keep
reading ***
Hunger is an issue which many people think lies little importance. Im
going to give you a look at World Hunger as a Picture of Poverty, how it ...
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The Twentieth Century Belonged To CanadaIn discussing the upcoming century, it was inevitable some writer in your year end issue would make reference to Laurier's famous quote about how "," and include the oft repeated comment he was wrong. What a disappointment, however, that it would come from a writer of Peter C. Newman's calibre. ...
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Tintern Abbey Seeing Into TheTintern Abbey: Seeing into the Life of Things
What does Wordsworth see when he “sees into the life of things?” Remember that in the lines leading up to his portrayal of the “blessed mood” that gives him sight, Wordsworth has been pointing to the power of human memory and ...
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The Disproof (and Proof) Of EverythingThe Disproof (and proof) of Everything
Since the beginning of time, men (I'm speaking of the human race, this is not
sexist in anyway because women are included in this too) have pondered our
existence and purpose, as well as the nature of the world we live in. This is
perhaps the single most time ...
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Punk Rock View on 9/11On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, my life changed forever. The life of everyone I know changed forever. My city was attacked by terrorists.
Typing those words seems like a surrealist joke. It doesn't seem real. I can't comprehend the things I have witnessed with my own eyes in the last two days. I ...
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Euthanasia: Ending Life with DignityA Doctor is someone that gives debilitated people medical treatment in order to make them feel better. He is also the person who helps people have a better quality of life; however, not all diseases are curable. Some treatments may help for a while but as time passes it is inevitable that the ...
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GPSThe Global Positioning System
With the proliferation of satellite-based defense systems and their continuing presence in the media it makes us more aware of our national defense. The United States is large, economically strong and a sometimes tumultuous presence in the global community. ...
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Air PollutionGood morning, to our lecturer Mr.Lau and my beloved friends, I am here to talk to you about something which is becoming a huge issue in our world. Air Pollution is a major problem facing our government today. It is harmful to every living creature on the planet. Just imagine one day having to walk ...
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Spying and PrivacyThe right to privacy is slowly declining, not because of society’s lack of willingness to safeguard that right or because of the government’s lust for power. But instead, it can be attributed to the fact that technology is evolving at quite a rapid pace, which brings along with countless new ...
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Thomas EdisonDid Thomas Edison really invent the light bulb? Well, this is a very controversial matter. There are three theories about it. The first theory is that Thomas Edison was an absolute genius, and he invented the light bulb, and no one else even received a thought about anything called a lightbulb. ...
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Recycle ThisRecycle This
Recycling is an issue we are all faced with today. I am sure we are all in agreement that our planet is in dire need of change. We are asked daily in one form or another to ‘Go Green’ and be more ‘eco-friendly’, but should it be a requirement?
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God's DebrisWhen thinking about there being a God that created us leads you into whether or not you believe if God controls the outcomes in our everyday life. If one is to view life as all around process of a God controlling our every move; we must then be forced to decide if there is fate within our world. ...
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Stranger in a Strange LandI feel like I have spent most of my life being a stranger in a strange land. I grew up always having a place to live but never having an actual home. People give words a deeper meaning. The word “home” will always carry a deeper meaning to me. Home is a place one can count on no matter what. ...
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