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Fell Asleep Police Station
1,711 wordsIt was like any other Friday at my house that night. I ate my dinner in a rush, ran into the living room afterward to watch television, and quickly fell asleep. My mom was always sure to wake me up around 7: 30 or 8: 00 and send me up to my room for the night. Usually I would go upstairs to sleep, but not on Friday nights. Friday nights were the nights when every teenager went out on the streets. Myself, being eleven years old and practically a teenager, was in the mindset that I was just as des...
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Operating System System V
809 wordsIn the following file, all references made to the name Unix, may also be substituted to the Unix operating system. Brief history: Back in the early sixties, during the development of third generation computers at MIT, a group of programmers studying the potential of computers, discovered their ability of performing two or more tasks simultaneously. Bell Labs, taking notice of this discovery, provided funds for their developmental scientists to investigate into this new frontier. After about 2 ye...
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Choice Of Wording Mud Puddle Crane
1,260 wordsToday in modern America, it has become almost impossible to avoid the tales of horror that surround us almost anywhere we go. Scandals, murders, theft, corruption, extortion, abuse, prostitution, all common occurrences in this day in age. A hundred years ago however, people did not see the world in quite such an open manner despite the fact that in many ways, similarities were abundant. Peoples lives were, in their views, free of all evil and pollution. They assumed they lived peaceful lives and...
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Benjamin Franklin Youngest Son
1,678 wordsFranklin's memoirs, his Autobiography, project a Benjamin Franklin who is a highly self-conscious individual able to reason himself into a life of self-control, self-improvement, virtue, and multifaceted success. To what successful ends does this Franklin apply himself? Some may argue that Franklin takes no action but that which ultimately benefits himself. This paper argues, however, that the Franklin we see in the Autobiography-as author, as boy, and as young man-is not merely self-serving (in...
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Petrol Kerosene Mineral Turpentine Kerosene Mineral Turpentine Fire
1,221 wordsA fire investigation is a difficult task. The devastation, charred debris, collapsed structures, water soaked ashes, along with the smoke and stench, make an investigation uninviting and seemingly impossible. There are different types of fires; in homes, factories, brush, and in the forest. The best way to investigate a fire would be to use a trained team of personal. Fire marshals and private investigators with their experience of fires along with police officers skills for determining motives ...
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Leadership Style Decision Making
1,067 words... and hard work from employees. The majority of men lean toward the traditional 'command and control's the and were more likely to view job performance as a series of transactions with subordinates offering rewards for services rendered or punishment for inadequate performance (Brody, 1994). Women understand the effectiveness of immediate praise and tend to be more supportive of one another and the people who work for them. Men wait for proof of achievement before extending gratitude or compli...
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Bill Gates Business Transactions
862 wordsThis is quite a controversial issue. Not that I believe it, but it is interesting to note how people can put two and two together and come up with a whole new interpretation of facts and figures. Read on and see what you think. Subject: Bill Gates is the ANTICHRIST! ! ! This is pretty much a load of crap... but the coincidences are interesting. Something To Think About. Did you know that Bill Gates real name is William Henry Gates III? Nowadays, he is known as Bill Gates (III) where III Means th...
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Female Role Role Model
1,566 words"Poetry, Passion, and Power: The Lyrics of Andal-God and the Music of God Andal, " Vasudha Narayanan "Mirabai: Inscribed in Text, Embodied in Life, " Nancy M. Martin-Kershaw This is a summary and reaction to the above articles, both of which have similar foci in that they each discuss different female Hindu saints. These Saints, though women, have life histories that do not exactly fit into the prescribed gender roles of current modern India. Interestingly, in an India where men dominate and fem...
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Interesting To Note Lost Forever
933 wordsThroughout a long journey and endless flight the Mennonites have suffered religious persecution almost wherever they were. In the story sailing to Danzig the author Rudy Wiebe describes the life of a man who is searching for his identity through historical books and the tales of his family members. The Mennonites religious movement was first started during the protestant reformation in the 1520 s and was led by Menno Simons (Encarta). Originating in Switzerland it was not very long before they w...
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Made Her Heart First Class Marisol
491 wordsMarisol walked into the large highschool building. There were people socializing in little groups all the way down the long main hall. She glanced at her schedule and headed toward her first class. On her way she passed people she would have waved to in middle school, people that would " ve smiled were they not so observed in themselves now, they didn't notice her. In her first class of the day, which was English, she sat in the corner behind a group of cackling girls. They girls passed notes to...
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Effects Of Global Warming Interesting To Note
1,155 wordsOne of the hottest topics being discussed now a days is the effects of global warming on the environment and the efforts being made in order to combat the potential effects. Simply put, global warming refers to the environmental effects caused by the constant emission of carbon dioxide from carbon based fuels. These effects are supposedly widespread; the temperature of the earth will rise, the land becomes less conducive to, vegetation, and various ecosystems become extinct. There is no common c...
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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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Society Has Taught Relationship With His Mother
1,237 wordsTesting The Boundaries Of Algerian Conventional Society Testing The Boundaries Of Algerian Conventional Society Testing the Boundaries of Algerian Conventional Society In this essay, I am going to explore Albert Camus? use of Meursault? s murder trial in The Stranger to note the absurdity of the defined social behavior in Algeria while forcing the reader to evaluate his or her own morality. Camus asks the reader to form a mental and emotional relationship with Meursault through the descriptive a...
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Back And Forth Sound Waves
694 wordsChristian Johann Doppler, born November 29, 1803 in Salzburg, Austria died March 17, 1853 in Venice. Christian Doppler an Austrian Physicist who first described how the detected frequency of light and sound waves is affected by the relative motion of the source and the detector. This aspect became known as the Doppler Effect. Christian was educated at the Polytechnic al Institute in Vienna. Doppler became director of the physical Institute and professor of experimental physics of the University ...
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Felt That Caesar Julius Caesar
398 wordsBrutus: A Tragic Hero By Chad Gingery In the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, Brutus is a tragic hero for he was easily manipulated, naive and patriotic. Brutus believed that the Romans wanted him as the leader to assassinate Caesar, because of the forged notes that were sent to him by Cassius. The note explained how to assassinate Caesar by Speaking, Striking and Redressing. This note by Cassius caused Brutus to be manipulated into joining the conspirators, one of many flaws that lea...
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Terminally Ill Patient Cause Of Death
1,937 wordsImmoral or Human Right? Recent debates over active euthanasia, " killing" a terminally ill patient, in Holland, has risen the question whether euthanasia is immoral or a simple human right. Doctors seem to have no doubt. They made an oath. The definition of Euthanasia depends on whether it is active or passive. Active Euthanasia i only allowed in Holland, and it means that the doctor takes direct measures to put a patient to sleep, whereas passive Euthanasia only involves stopping pill...
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Taming Of The Shrew Apparent Reason
1,269 wordsKatharina and Beatrice are both similar characters. They each are plagued with unrequited love, and depressed by their own inability to woo the suitor of their choosing. Each of them are unable to accept the female role of passivity. Although both women seem to accept their roles of wives at the conclusion of the plays. Upon further examination, one will find that Beatrice is a much more complex character. One would have to agree with the critic who said, Katharina is a character sketched in bol...
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Nobel Prize For Literature South African
904 wordsGordimer (1923 -) South African novelist and short-story writer, who received Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Gordimer's main themes are exile, loneliness and strong political opposition towards racial segregation. She was a founding member of Congress of South African Writers, and even at the height of the apartheid regime, she never considered leaving her country. Nadine Gordimer was born into a well-off family in Springs, Transvaal, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg. It was th...
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Book Of Job Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,429 wordsNathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams Into Much Of Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams Into Much Of His 19 th Center ENG 1015, Sec. 331 March 19, 1997 Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams into Reality in Much of His 19 th Century Prose Nathaniel Hawthorne, a master of American fiction, often utilizes dreams within the annals of his writings to penetrate, explore and express his perceptions of the complex moral and spiritual conflicts that plague mankind. His clever, yet crucial purpose for using dreams i...
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Road Less Traveled One Less Traveled
1,037 wordsTHE ROAD NOT TAKEN Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And look down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that mornings equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet kno...
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