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Antoine Jean Letronne Flat Earth Myth Time
560 wordsLate at night, as a child snuggles up in his bed sheets, his father tells him a silly bedtime story of strange beliefs from the past. The boy giggles when he hears that the people of the 1400 's believed the earth was "flat as a pancake" because, to him, it sounded so absurd. The story had been told to the father by his father, who heard it from his father, and so on. However, throughout the years, these generations have blindly been passing down a lie, without taking care to research in order t...
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Important To Note Amount Of Energy
1,728 wordsThere are nine planets in our solar system and we have visited all of these but one. Even though Pluto is the smallest and furthest planet from the sun, it is no way inferior to the other planets. It in fact is possibly one of the most unique bodies in the solar system. There is much that we do not know about this tiny world and its equally unique moon, Charon. For this reason we are proposing to send a flyby mission to the Pluto-Charon system as soon as possible. Pluto was discovered on Februar...
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Jim Casey Depression Era
572 wordsIn the novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck brings to the reader a variety of diverse and greatly significant characters. However, the majority of each characters individuality happens to lie within what they symbolize in the microcosm of the Joads family and their acquaintances, which itself stands for the entire migrant population of the Great Depression era. One such character is that of Jim Casey, a former preacher and long-time friend of the Joads. In this story, Casey represents a la...
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Henry David Thoreau Walden Pond
542 wordsThe Transcendentalism movement was based on the belief that real truths can be found beyond reason and experience. Henry David Thoreau believed that every individual was capable of discovering these truths on his or her own through personal intuition. Thoreau's essay Walden, a record of his experiences at Walden Pond, is reflective of the Transcendentalism movement through his experiment of essential living by simplifying his life, studying nature, and seeking real truth within himself. Thoreau'...
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Sense Of Humor Hannibal Lecter
1,674 wordsIt's a cool spring night in L. A. I should be outside kicking back, holding up the wall, chugging on a 40, instead, I'm sitting in a stuffy, cluttered little room, typing my screen name and password into my computer so I can log onto AOL. I'm bored. I'm restless. I'm lonely. I'm depressed. Once I navigate through the pop-up advertisements AOL throws at me almost daily and slog through a couple of digital reams of junk mail I pull up my shareware IRC chat program (which rather silly and pathetic,...
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Story Of An Hour Yellow Wallpaper
1,065 wordsFor centuries women in life and literature were often portrayed as submissive, docile, and obedient to men. Focusing primarily on the nineteenth century, literature of the period often characterized women as victims oppressed by society, culture, as well as by the male influences in their lives. Many of the female characters suffered the effects of isolation brought on by constant oppression and subservience driving them insane and mad. The views of women in early literature were often silenced ...
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Correlation Coefficient Iq Scores
1,298 words... ke "what are the colours of the American flag/" would be urban-biased. There are examples of I. Q. tests that are more culture-fair than the Wechslers, for example Ravens Progressive Matrices. This is a visual, non-verbal test that is designed to measure abstract reasoning ability. There is also Calls Culture Fair intelligence test. Although these are better, they are by no means entirely culture fair, and this is a widely accepted fact. So far in this essay the theory of intelligence testin...
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Imagery Stanza Image
636 wordsIn poetry it is important for meanings and themes to be conveyed to us in a unique and interesting manner. Margaret Atwood uses many literary devices so the reader can really feel her poems and come to a greater understanding through her wonderful narrative voices. In the poem, This is a Photograph of Me, Atwood uses haunting, ambiguous imagery to bring the piece to life and support its mysterious theme. The first image we receive from the poem is in the title itself. The image is an actually im...
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Area Of Business Russia
542 wordsMy interest in business dates back to the age of 10, when I first became aware of the tough economic situation in Russia. I could not understand why the authorities were unable to issue more money and simply give it to the people. While a deep economic crisis was raging in the country, I was playing a successful entrepreneur selling books to my Mom in my toy bookstore. I could easily manage fake money unlike adults in a real world where true money was devaluating rapidly. As a child, I was excit...
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Death Penalty Capital Punishment
1,363 wordsCapital Punishment: a. k. a. the death penalty. To kill or not to kill. This is an extremely controversial question in today's society. The number of people who are for it still believe in the saying, " an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. " These are the people who feel if you intentionally take the life of someone else, then yours should be taken as well. But then there are the other number of people who feel the death penalty should be banned because of its cruel and unjust way of punishme...
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People Around The World Jewish Race
732 wordsMany historical events took place in the 20 th century that will be remembered forever, but the one occurrence that everyone knows of and will forever be remembered was World War Two. World War Two, the greatest tragedy that has ever happened on the face of the earth, the genocide of Jewish people, a complete nightmare. When people think of WWII, many of the time the image of "those poor Jewish people" comes to mind. Many ask themselves how this could have happened. It just doesn't make sense to...
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Neural Networks Data Mining
830 words... ; Alice " Iso Alice is a powerful and easy to use Data Mining Tool. Use decision trees to explore & exploit your data. Textual reports, SQL queries generation, What-If Analysis, etc. web SPSS Clementine Clementine is the leading data mining toolkit, twice winning the UK Government's (Department of Trade & Industry) SMART award for innovation. Clementine applications include customer segmentation / profiling for marketing companies, fraud detection, credit scoring, load forecasting fo...
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Gay Or Lesbian Lesbian Or Gay
1,694 wordsSexual Identity In our progressive society we can talk about who we are, what we like and dislike. But when it comes to our sexual orientation especially if we are not heterosexual, we may find it difficult to talk about it freely, despite a fact that today there is a large number of gay communities, where you can meet people who have a lot in common with you and who might help you in your difficulties. Thirty years ago being gay or lesbian, was much harder than it is today. You could not see a ...
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Field Trip Coffee Shop
632 wordsThe bookstore is the place where people go to buy books and magazines. On the first day of our school day we went to bookstore for our field trip. The bookstore that we just went to on our field trip is a big and new building. When I just step by the gate I can felt that door is really heavy, and the color of door is like dark brown. The left side of door is the place has some graceful music, that place is CD section. And the right side of door is the place has strong smell from coffee, yeah, th...
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Gang Warfare Todays Society
1,086 wordsINTRODUCTION: The The Outsiders The Outsiders INTRODUCTION: The Outsiders by S. E Hinton is an early novel based on two waring juvenile gangs, divided by economical and social background, the lower East side Greasers and the upper West side Socs. The novel is set in 1966 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is a novel written in first person by a 14 year old Greaser, Ponyboy Curtis who allows us an insight into the lifestyles of these distinct worlds. I chose the novel The Outsiders as a text for year 10 for ...
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Breast Implants Cosmetic Surgery
1,766 wordsBreast Implants One of the first uses of silicone in a medical implant came in the form of lifesaving tubes implanted into young children to funnel excess fluid from the brain into the chest cavity, where the fluid could be safely metabolized and excreted. Since these shunts were first used, in the late 1950 s, silicone in various forms has come to be an important part of many implants. It is used in tracheotomy tubes, in artificial lenses for the eye, in artificial heart valves and in facial im...
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Father Son Relationships Father And Son
1,362 wordsThe novel CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY finds its center in the beliefs of Christianity. Therefore its answers for philosophical, political, and sociological problems are always, in some sense, Christian. The plot of the novel is a reworking of the Old Testaments story of King David and his lost son Absalom. The most important relationships in the novel are those between man and God. It is the familiar structure, inherent in Christianity that provides man with a place and an understanding of this pla...
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Deductive Reasoning Inductive Reasoning
1,290 wordsDatamining is necessary for survival. If you dont use it to predict a trend before your competitors, youre dead. Eric Brethenoux (research director for advanced technologies at the Gartner Group) is not the only person who believes that detaining is a technology which cannot be ignored, but what is it and how does it differ from more traditional data analysis techniques? [ 1 ] Having a database is one thing, making sense of it is quite another. Datamining techniques are used to spot trends in da...
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Quest For Knowledge Victor Frankenstein
2,091 wordsMary Shelleys Frankenstein, written in the early seventeenth century, is the product of a monumental literary movement known as Romanticism. Through emphasis upon the dark, demonic and corrupt within the human mind, and upon other identifiable characteristics, this era of writings individuality and style is confirmed. Throughout the novel, these attributes and mannerisms are clearly identified as Romantic. Frankenstein may be characterized as a Romantic work due to its specific traits. Victor Fr...
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Stop For Death Setting Sun
672 wordsEmily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830. Resembling her poetry, her relationship to the world was restrained. She has spend her entire life at home, never married, and developed a particular attention for death. Through her poetry, the reader found a particular concern for death. Because I Could Not Stop for Death, published in 1863, is one of Emily s poetry that discuss the departure of human beings to the other world. Through a deep lecture, the reader will discover wealthy meanings hidd...
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