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Telephone
726 wordsThe unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except the way we think Technology has developed and changed so much over the past century. Each day new things are being developed, and new things are released to the buyers market. Who would ever thought wed be able to talk live with someone who lives on the other side of the world. Its truly amazing all the luxury's we have, and its amazing how one those these inventions has the capability to change the world in a very drastic way... Coul...
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Tarahumara People Live In Small Groups
686 wordsThe Tarahumara or Rar muri, as they call themselves, inhabit the Copper Canyon, as it is known in the U.S., or the Sierra Tarahumara in northwest Mexico. The actual name Tarahumara was what the first Spanish called these Native American people. The Spanish originally encountered the Tarahumara throughout Chihuahua upon arrival in the 1500's. After mineral wealth was discovered in the mountains, many areas where Tarahumara Indians lived became desirable lands to the miners & mining companies forc...
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Gates And Cora
888 wordsDr. Carol A. Martin Hu 208 Intro to Humanities February 08, 1999 In the memoir, Colored People, Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks about what was the un talked about racial rule in integrated schools. Now that the races had been blended together there was still the line of race and gender (Gates p. 98) that could not be crossed. In the story by Langston Hughes, Cora Unashamed, Cora is a daughter in the only black family in town. She ends up pregnant by a white boy who drifts in and out of her life. She...
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Love With Commander Dwight And Dwight
1,492 wordsEvery thought of man originates from an emotion. Most of the times our actions are carried out from the heart rather than the mind. We respond to various situations on the basis of how we feel rather than what we think. However, we should not let our emotions take absolute control so that we make careless decisions or do something for which someone else has to suffer. In the novel, On the Beach, Nevil Shute creates an emotional impact on the reader by showing how man misuses his intelligence, ho...
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Lycurgus
652 wordsPhilosophy is a study that tries to define and explain how people in a community should live wisely. In his Life of Lycurgus, Plutarch wrote Lycurgus produced an inimitable constitution, showing the spectacle of an entire city acting like philosophers (Readings, p. 185). Unlike other philosophers, Lycurgus ideas were practical; his laws didnt just describe the proper way of living, but also put it to work. Using his constitution, Spartans became harmonious, developed feelings of honor, self-reli...
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Lives In Insecurity
550 words"We are all part of a complex web of connection". This statement sounds un-materialistic because of its banal nature. But the truth is, it is the sheer reason for our existence. The relationship between true spirituality and human connectedness are apparent. For example, the way Griffin's adult life was shaped from the unbalance she suffered as a child eventually was the telling factor what she would eventually become. "We considered ourselves finer than the neighbors to our left with their chao...
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Jewel's Parents
868 wordsMy opinion of the book mentioned above is that it is extremely well written and inhibits several unique characteristics. The typical biography or autobiography is written in a sober manner, such that the reader is completely bored by the events of the life of the subject. The author Kristen Kemp, wrote this book so that the audience is excited and anxious to discover what happens in the next chapter in the life of the specified individual. An example of the authors exciting style of writing is e...
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Filipinos Lack Of Discipline And Colonial Mentality
4,650 wordsMetaphysics and its application to Filipinos PATRIOTISM and NATIONAL PRIDE OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY: 1. To be able for Filipino to know heideggers Metaphysics and apply it to their everyday living. 2. To be able to know that the foundation of success is oneself 3. To be able to encourage Filipino people to evaluate themselves; 4. To be able to maximize Filipinos good values and minimize their weakness; 5. To be able to develop discipline and initiatives among Filipinos; and 6. To be able to promot...
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Part Of Their Car
1,419 wordsSUBSTANCE AND ECONOMICS Culture is a learned reaction, this human survival trait gives us a way to colonize and adapt to our environment. With out this key element, adaptation becomes complicated, and our species will die off. Archeologist have dug and scraped away the dirt, rocks and mud to bring us a glimpse of the past. Their fieldwork has shown us how we, as a whole, have biologically adapted to suit our modern needs in the environment that our ancestors have lived in. In addition, they also...
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Form In The Form Of Yhwh
534 wordsExodus 21-24 was definitely quite an instructive piece of literature. It was almost raw in its nature as a text or "book" but more of reading an excerpt from a piece of non-fiction most similar to an instruction manual of some sort that you get when you buy a dissembled bike or desk. Something like being enrolled in a police academy there was definite sense of a master-slave relationship in the air. It is like something never before seen in the Torah, these chapters showed a whole new YHWH. The ...
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Gimpel Story
1,152 wordsJosh Stanley Mrs. Mc Micheal TR 8 am Priority In the short stories 'Gimpel the Fool" and "Death of a Traveling Salesman" we meet two characters that are vastly different and yet very similar. One is Gimpel, a nave Jew living in Russia that is the joke of the town, Fram pol. The other is R.J. Bowman, a traveling salesman, who is judgmental and rather suspicious about most things. Bowman in the story is very sick and has had a car accident where he needs to retrieve his car from a ditch and receiv...
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George's Adolescent Receptivity To The Grotesques
904 wordsThe figures of Winesburg, Ohio usually personify a condition of psychic deformity which is the consequence of some crucial failure in their lives. Misogyny, inarticulateness, frigidity, God-infatuation, homosexuality, drunkenness these are symptoms of their recoil from the regularities of human intercourse and sometimes of their substitute gratifications in inanimate objects, as with the unloved Alice Hindman who "because it was her own, could not bear to have anyone touch the furniture of her r...
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Poem About His Old Uncle's Estate
470 words"Buckthorne" can also be called "The Young Man of Great Expectations". The reason for that is in the story, Buckthorne is a man who has high expectations for himself and has trouble living up to those expectations. He is intended to inherit a lot of money, but soon takes that for granted by ignoring his family and friends. By doing that he is disinherited and is forced to change his ways. He starts out in the hope that he will succeed and almost does until he sets his expectations too high and f...
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Louisa Lawson
552 wordsOrdinary, everyday Australian people are often doing extraordinary things. It could be a young child saving someone in a fire, or just by helping out the homeless. These people often show bravery, friendship, and qualities of endurance, adaptability and democracy. Nowadays this is know as ANZAC spirit, but before there was the ANZAC's there was a woman called Louisa Lawson, who spent her entire life fighting for women to be given the right to vote and be equals. Now her life is remembered on a c...
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Jonathan Seagull
2,502 wordsOnce there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth. But one creature said at last, "I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom". The other creatures laughed and said, "Fool! Let go, and that cu...
