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Politics Of Plato And Aristotle
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To compare the political theories of two great
philosophers of politics is to first examine each
theory in depth. Many experts regard Plato as the
first writer of political philosophy, and
Aristotle is recognized as the first political
scientist. These two men were great thinkers. They
each had ideas of how to improve existing
societies during their individual lifetimes. It is
necessary to look at several areas of each theory
to seek the difference in each. The main focus of
Plato is a perfect s...
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Deaths Due Highest Rates Smoking
341 words
Cigarette smoking is considered to be injurious to
the health of a person. It is the reason many
diseases that include lung cancer, cancer of
larynx, kidney, bladder, and cervix. The habit of
smoking has increasingly gained importance due to
various harmful effects on the human body that
have led to numerous deaths. The media has played
an important role in creating awareness about the
same. Some reports, however, reveal a completely
different side of the story. These reports throw
light on the ...
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Death Penalty Capital Punishment
1,446 words
Support Death Penalty Violent crimes and murder
are some of the cruelest, most inhuman and
disparaging crimes that exist and they violate the
victims right to life. Modern societies have
invented many ways of punishing those who
disrespect their fellow citizens. It is
questionable, however, whether people who
committed awful crimes once will change and
rethink their attitudes. Only capital punishment
is a deterrent against future violence and is able
to save other innocent lives. In itself, the ...
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Love And Hate Racial Hatred
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Love and Hate Emotions are the strongest feelings
that come to life through our highest highs and
our lowest lows. The two most extreme emotions
known to man are love and hate. As experience has
taught me, Love conquers all. With love, you can
do anything. The power of love is stronger than
hate because love gets you where you want to go
and hate only brings pain and sorrow in its wake.
When we begin to read Wuthering Heights, we begin
to realize that the story is built around love.
Heathcliff a...
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Story Takes Place 19 Th Century
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EDGAR ALLAN POE HOP-FROG (1849) Slavery was
definitely one of the major causes that led to the
Civil War, the most dramatic event in the American
history. Numerous masterpieces were written to
criticize slavery. Among them, we count Poe's
Hop-Frog, also known as Eight Chained
Ourang-Outans. Written in 1849, Hop-Frog delivers
the message to the Southern States about
inevitable tragedy that awaits the Americans as a
result of slavery 038; the slave trade. Each
element of the Poe's story, includ...
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Heroic Qualities Ill Fated
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An epic Odyssey The Odyssey An epic hero can be
described as a legendary figure endowed with great
strength or ability that is admired for his
achievements and noble qualities. To better
explain the true meaning of an epic hero, one
might compare this definition to the legendary
hero in Homer? s The Odyssey, the great Odysseus.
Through The Odyssey, we, the readers, are taken on
a journey of the main character, Odysseus, bearing
witness to the many vices and virtues that play a
pivotal role on hi...
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Saturated Fat Fast Food
386 words
Forty Burger Wars Burger Wars Forty million
customers are served every day by Americas biggest
hamburger chains McDonalds, Burger King, and
Wendy's. In fact, many fast food restaurants are
becoming an extension of the family kitchen. About
two-thirds of all fast food is takeout, and most
of that goes home. Some chains are beginning to
put mobile units in unpredictable places such as
Wal-Mart, hospitals, schools, and even gas
stations. So, what is it about their burgers that
attracts people to th...
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Macbeth To Kill Duncan King Of Scotland
809 words
Is Macbeth The Tragic Hero of The Play? Is Macbeth
the tragic hero of the play Macbeth? This question
may seem to be redundant; however, not all of
Shakespeare's Tragedies are named after their
tragic heroes. For example, Julius Caesar is not
the tragic hero of Julius Caesar. A tragic hero
must conform to a set of characteristics which
evolved all the way from ancient to medieval
times. Macbeth conforms to these characteristics
and is the tragic hero of Macbeth. The death of an
ordinary person i...
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United States Constitution Percent Of Americans
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Sex, Erotica, nude women, three some, these are
some keywords for finding pornography on the
Internet. The censorship of pornography has had
positive affect on the United States of America
and that is a good thing because pornography leads
to crime, and since pornography has no positive
affects on society, and censoring pornography is
not against the constitution. Crimes and
pornography have a direct and apparent link.
Eighty-one percent of Criminals rate pornography
as their highest sexual inte...
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Hardware And Software Occupational Outlook
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Matt Computer Programming Computer Programme Matt
Katz Writing for the Real World Pelkey November
30, 1999 Computer Systems Analyst I push the
button, I hear a noise, and the screen comes
alive. My computer loads up and starts to process.
I see the start screen for Windows 95, and I type
in my password. Even though this takes time, I
know that I will be able to do whatever I want to
do without any trouble, without any glitches,
without any questions. My computer is now easier
to use and more use...
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Cruel And Unusual Death Penalty
502 words
Many Americans today still feel that capital
punishment is a fair and necessary method of
punishing their most violent criminals. One
argument for the death penalty is the deterrent
effect. In a 1985 study, published by economist
Stephen K. Lesson at the University of North
Carolina, he found that every execution of a
murderer deters, on average, 18 murders. The study
also demonstrated that raising the number of death
sentences by one percent would prevent 105
murders. However, only 38 percent o...
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Law Enforcement Agencies 100 000 Population
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Crime In the United States Introduction: Our
report is on Crime in the United States. Crime is
a major problem all over the world, but we are
focusing on the crime problem right here in our
own country. We have listed some different
statistics, problems, and solutions. FBI Crime
Statistics: Final 1995 crime statistics showed
that 13. 9 million Crime Index offenses were
reported to law enforcement across the Nation. The
1995 total represents a rate of 5, 278 offenses
for every 100, 000 United Sta...
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Plan Needed People
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During the 1800? s Great Britain? s empire
stretched around the world, and with raw materials
easily available to them this way, they inevitably
began refining and manufacturing all stages of
many new machines and other goods, distributing
locally and globally. However, despite being the
central? workshop of the world, ? Britain was not
producing the highest quality of merchandise. When
comparing factory-made products made in England to
surrounding countries, most notably France, those
products ...
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Type 1 Diabetes Type 2 Diabetes
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Nearly 16 million people in the United States
nearly one out of every 17 people have diabetes.
And about 1, 800 new cases are diagnosed each day.
Technically, this disease is known as diabetes
mellitus, diabetes from the Greek for excessive
urination, a symptom the ancients noticed, and
mellitus, from the Latin for honey diabetic urine
is filled with sugar and is sweet. There are three
types of diabetes: type 1, type 2, and gestational
diabetes. All of them are a little different. But
everyone w...
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One Of The Greatest Blue Collar
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One of the biggest problems I have with our
society today is in sports. Dont get me wrong, I
love sports. I love to watch the competition and
seeing these men doing seemingly superhuman feats.
The problem I have with sports is the
over-commercialization and over-hyping of athletes
by their agents, and themselves. I think that it
is absolutely sick how so many athletes are
getting paid so much for what they do. I did say
that they performed difficult athletic feats, but
a couple of events a week ...
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Duke Ellington Piano Lessons
809 words
Duke Ellington By the time of his passing, he was
considered amongst the worlds greatest composers
and musicians. The French government honored him
with their highest award, the Legion of Honor,
while the government of the United States bestowed
upon him the highest civil honor, the Presidential
Medal of Freedom. He played for the royalty and
for the common people and by the end of his
fifty-year career, he had played over 20, 000
performances worldwide. He was the Duke, Duke
Ellington Edward Ke...
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19 Th Century Human Beings
737 words
Throughout history, there have been many isms that
had come and gone. Many things have come out of
these so-called isms. Romanticism began in the
closing decades of the eighteenth century. It
practically dominated European cultural life in
most of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Poets such as Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats, and
Byron were all exponents of romanticism. This was
expressed in many different ways such as Writing,
art and music. Victor Hugo, A. W. , Friedrich
Schlegel, Schiller...
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Supply And Demand Years Ago
544 words
In the article we find that teenagers have the
opportunity to be demanding about their salary in
the baby sitting field, because the amount of
babysitters today are scarce. The babysitting
population, teenagers, find themselves busy with
school, part time jobs, and extracurricular
activity. Teenagers with drivers licenses are even
more scarce than those with out, all in all, Its
hard to find a babysitter. Times have changed,
just twenty years ago there were 33 million
children who needed to be w...
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Ultraviolet Rays Gamma Rays
343 words
I went to Hawaii on vacation to get a tan, but I
got something else instead. Ultraviolet rays are
stronger, and hotter near the equator. When I got
home I got x-rays. I was sent for treatment with
gamma rays. Wow! What a vacation. It was so hot
that I had to jump into a pool just to cool off.
Ultraviolet rays have wavelengths between 10 nm
and 430 nm. They also have a very high frequency
of about 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 Hz. - 1, 000,
000, 000, 000, 000, 000 Hz. Photon energy
emissions are al...
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Innocence And Beauty Beauty Is Truth
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Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats portrays the theme
of eternal innocence and the sufficiency of beauty
throughout this poem. The Grecian urn, passed down
through countless centuries to the time of the
speakers viewing of it, exists outside of time in
the human sense it does not age, it does not die,
and it is alien to all such concepts. In the
speakers meditation, this creates an intriguing
paradox for the human figures carved into the side
of the urn: they are free from time, but they are
simult...
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