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Second Head Count Found Private Pruner Team
928 wordsIt was a hot, humid Hawaiian night, and we could see the lights shining along the beach at the Turtle Bay Hilton. Though we could not hear the sound of the waves crashing, we saw the the white shadow of the waves as they broke. This beautiful sight just hurt the moral of my team and my job that much harder. When I joined the Army I never thought Hawaii would be a hard place to work. Apparently I was in for a journey that would seem like an eternity. We were on a 32 hour mission, with very little...
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Supreme Court Slave Ship
1,787 wordsIn January 1839, fifty-three African natives were kidnapped from eastern Africa and sold into the Spanish slave trade. They were then placed aboard a Spanish slave ship bound for Havana, Cuba. Once in Havana, the Africans were classified as native Cuban slaves and purchased at auction by two Spaniards, Don Jose Ruiz and Don Pedro Montez. The two planned to move the slaves to another part of Cuba. The slaves were shackled and loaded aboard the cargo ship Amistad (Spanish for "friendship") for the...
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Sense Of Guilt Death Instinct
1,266 wordswe have organic disease versus the symptom complex of neurosis with no physical determinants, but rather we must look for the underlying conflicts ascertained by "talking through" psychotherapy. How do you apply this to a collectivity like a nation? Is there a national character in which invariably a nation follows a pre-selected pattern of inherited behavior? For instance, are the Germans warlike, the Russians passive, and the Americans beneficent? 2. Or must we look to an interdisciplinary app...
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Five Major Personality Development
1,279 wordsThesis: The influence of Scouting appears mostly in the five major goals that Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the movement, has stated: social, spiritual, manual, physical, and personality development. A. Training youth in responsible citizenship A. Discovering God through nature A. Amelioration of child behavior 1. Attribution of responsibilities 2. Submission to regulations 3. Inter-relation with peers B. Career preparation and education 1. Step by step capacity discovering 2. New horizons d...
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Small Groups Work Teams
699 wordsIn a world where there are books that show the proper way to pitch a baseball, on how to build better relationships, on self improvement, studies on any number of topics, why wouldnt there be any for something so essential and important to our lives? For this reason, it would be a good idea to observe, study and write about groups. We must look into our lives to get a better perspective on how important this issue is and the impact of those studying this topic. We live in a time where companies ...
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School Uniforms Economic Impact
1,118 wordsIn our schools today, there are problems that take the focus off education and make it more difficult for a student to learn. These problems include ridicule and discrimination, violence, expense, distractions, fashion extremes, and the formation of cliques. School uniforms can eliminate the problems that arise and distract students from the main focus of school, their education. School uniforms put an end to the "grueling, expensive, and sometimes violent competition to keep up with the latest ...
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Atlantic Slave Trade Evils Of Slavery
1,938 wordsCollective memory is a dynamic topic that can be discussed through a number of disciplines. In my paper I will attempt to dissect this subject of collective memory as clear and concisely as possible through the exploration of narratives, novels, music, poetry and history. Collective memory is defined as the breadth of procedural knowledge the community acquires through experience when interacting with each other and the world. Research in collective memory is a relatively new area capturing the ...
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Carbon Dioxide And Water Organic Compounds
791 wordsHave you ever wondered why your plants in your house and outside lean towards the sun. In my project I hope to answer why this happens. I am going to be using lima beans to do this with. The Greek philosopher Aristotle may have been the first to attempt to explain the processes of photosynthesis and food production. He believed that plants could obtain from the soil all the components required for growth. The cycle was completed when organisms perished and became reincorporated into the soil. Th...
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Revolution Of 1905 Workers Of The World
1,041 words... e workers' revolutionary apprenticeship. The growing number of strikes, their extension and increasing duration pointed towards a possible ' General Strike, that is, to the impending social revolution. Each particular strike was a facsimile in reduced scale of the General Strike, and a preparation for the final insurrection. The increasing revolutionary will would not be measured by the success or failure of political parties, but by the frequency and vehemence of the strikes. The revolution...
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Identity Formation Older Sisters
1,085 wordsThe article by Kathleen Hall, "There is a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian: The Politics of Identity among British-Sikh Teenagers, " (1995) exposed me to the inherent hardships associated with the complex process of identity formation among the youth of multicultural societies. The children Kathleen Hall wrote about were raised in a social world far removed from their parents homeland. She explains how these children are pulled between two ways of life; they are pulled between two wo...
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The Effect Of Technology On English
1,247 wordsTechnology has always had a hand in the shaping of languages. From the time cavemen formed tools to draw pictures to the internet age, technology has changed the way we write and speak. With the spread of the internet age we have seen many changes in English in the last few years. The English language will continue to evolve and spread with our increased dependence on these new technologies. The December 31, 1999 issue of the Economist wrote The birth of the computer and its American operating s...
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Social Construction Native American
664 wordsBraxton The theory of social construction states that many concepts that appear naturally are really the result of human actions and choices. The British constructed the myth that the American Indians were savages for their own economic benefit. Because the British needed to have a legitimate and verifiable reason in order for the countrymen of Great Britain to advocate the taking of the lands of America from the Indians, the British developed a scheme of developing a myth to perceive the Indian...
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Social Protest Revolutionary Party
977 wordsPresident Clinton recently visited Mexico. While there, he met with PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) president Ernesto Zedillo. The PRI is the political party in power. It has been in power for over 60 years and has never lost a presidential election. Is the PRI the true expression of the democratic will of the people of Mexico, or a totalitarian dictatorship? In 1968 Mexican students protested the PRI government and army. Over 300 students were murdered. On January 1 st 1994, a group of ...
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Social Environment Social Interactions
1,143 words"self and society are two sides of the same coin" - To what extent is this true? "The self is the individual as known to the individual" (Murphy 1947). The self as defined by Murphy above shows a definition of the self described as in internal occurrence but this idea is then subject to outside contributions - family, friends, colleagues - society in which you live. The definitions of self all seem to highlight a reflective process to achieve its identification (looking inwardly to determine who...
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Acetic Acid H 3
842 wordsIn the simple formalism proposed independently by Bronsted and Lowry in 1923, an acid was defined as a proton donor and a base was defined as a proton acceptor. In the simple acid-base reaction shown below, H 3 O+ is termed a Bronsted Acid, and HO- a Bronsted Base. In writing organic reaction mechanisms, the flow of electrons is often shown using "curved arrows" and in the example shown, the arrows are designed to show that an unshared pair of electrons from hydroxide anion moves to abstract a p...
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Form Of Racism Kill A Mockingbird
1,371 words"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a story about bravery and courage in a small town. Racism is present and is the main theme throughout the story. Everyone in Maycomb County is consumed by the hatred and impurities of prejudice, everyone but the main character, Atticus Finch. He was a lawyer in the small Alabama community who helped defend a black man, Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Atticus goes through some tough times as this trial is going on, as well as his kids, Scout and J...
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Genetic Engineering Dna Molecules
633 wordsTwo years ago, genetically engineered bacteria, which unexpectedly killed beneficial soil fungi, escaped into sewers through human error and have become toxic to plants and survived when expected not to. 3 These are the sorts of consequences that come with playing God. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) - the chemical compound that makes up the genes and determines the type of proteins a cell can make - is the core of genetic engineering. It can be manipulated in ways we could never dream of such as a ...
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Oversize Ripple Marks Landscapes Were Formed Flood
1,147 wordsHuman beings existing, breathing, and walking around on a measureless, changing and growing quickly as times goes by. Similar to the human growth, landforms kept on changing rapidly over years after years. For many centuries, geologists believed landscapes were formed through a long process known as uniformitarian- a gradually slow process of changing its landscapes toward its environments. Evidence of multiple catastrophism- a speed process of landform has been developed over the years, especia...
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Alcohol Affects Alcohol Abuse
1,097 wordsDrinking alcohol, in excess, can cause severe damage in our internal organs. However, if we learn how our body metabolizes alcohol, we can prevent illness caused by alcohol abuse. The alcohol in beverages that we drink, contain ethyl alcohol which is made of a fermentation process of several products such as corn, potato mashes, fruit juices, beet, and sugar cane. Today, mass production of alcoholic beverage is through hydration process. Alcohol is easily mixable with water, and since plasma and...
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Storm Surge Tropical Storms
1,424 wordsWhat is a hurricane? Hurricanes are part of a family of weather systems known as "tropical cyclones. " The word hurricane is from the West Indian word hurricane, meaning "big wind. " A hurricane begins its life as a disorganized storm system, which forms over warm, tropical waters in the Atlantic. When the storm system become more organized, it is classified as a "tropical depression, " and given a number by the National Hurricane Center. If the winds in a tropical depression grow in intensity t...
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