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1,516 wordsMerriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary defines piracy as, an act of robbery on the high seas or an act resembling such robbery (885). From this we can define software piracy as an act of robbery on the information superhighway. Many people do not see it as such. Even though the average person would never consider going into a convenience store and stealing a stick of gum, many have no qualms about stealing thousands of dollars worth of software. In a study done by the Canadian Alliance Against S...
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1,655 wordsMore often than not, the outcomes of events that occur in a persons life is the product of the idea of the self-fulfilling prophecy. It is that which occurs when a persons expectations of an event make the outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise have been true (Adler and Towne, Looking Out, Looking In 66). Or restated, as Henry Ford once put it, If you think you can, you can. If you think you cant, youre right! This brief research paper touches on the two types of self-fulfilling proph...
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1,761 words... their school boards and administrators applied dress codes and uniform policies. As the result, by 1999, 675 elementary schools of New York Citys (almost 72 percent) decided to introduce a standardized dress code. In 2000, a districtwide policy requiring some type of uniform was adopted by the Philadelphia School Board. The same year, in Miami, school uniforms were applied in 60 percent of the public schools, in Chicago - 80 percent, 65 percent - in Boston and 95 percent - in New Orleans. Mo...
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1,110 wordsThere are not that many words in English that can be, without any change in their grammar structure, both a verb, a noun, several slang nouns, and a transitive verb (that is the one that derived form the noun). The verbal meaning of can came to our language from either Old High German kan (in modern German it is kann and has the same meaning as English can) or from Old English's cuban which meant to know more. If we think for a moment about the meaning of being able to do something as can prescr...
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1,337 wordsThere are not that many words in English that can, without any change in their grammar structure, be both a verb, a noun, several slang nouns, and a transitive verb (that is the one that derived from the noun). The verbal meaning of can came to our language from either Old High German kan (in modern German it is kann and has the same meaning as English can) or from Old English's cuban which meant to know more. If we think for a moment about the meaning of being able to do something as can prescr...
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803 wordsFree Will and its effect on the Greeks, Christians, and Romans Free will is defined as: Voluntary choice or decision; freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention (Websters Online Collegiate Dictionary). Free will had an effect on the Greeks, Christians, and the Romans. Three stories, Oedipus the King, the Bible, and the Aenied, respectively, that we have studied and that fall in each society are examples of how free will is altered by diffe...
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1,393 wordsSelf-respect is essential to every human being. When a person is born, throughout his life he develops a certain degree of self-respect for himself. No one can teach him self-respect. Self-respect comes from within a person. He has to learn it for himself. Alfred Whitney Griswold put it best when he said, Self respect can not be hunted. It can not be purchased. It is not for sale. It can never be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet pla...
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