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Millions Of Dollars Crimes Committed
1,350 wordsNew times bring new crimes. It's a story as old as humanity and as new as the Internet. First comes cars, then car thieves follow. Telephones are followed by telephone fraud. Now we " ve got computers... To make home, school, and office life easier, society relies on computers. As a result of this dependency, computer use grows everyday. Along with the growing use of computers comes widespread computer crime. With the Internet becoming increasingly popular, more and more people are becoming comp...
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593 wordsWhether openly stated or only hinted at, oedipal difficulties and how the individual solves them are central to the way his personality and human relations fold. By camouflaging the oedipal predicaments, or by only subtly intimating the entanglements, fairy stories permit us to draw our own conclusions when the time is propitious for out gaining a better understanding of these problems. Fairy stories teach by indirection. (201) This is an excerpt from Bruno Bettelheim's Snow White essay fro the ...
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Broken Down Maverick Spur Of The Moment Car
1,573 wordsWalking, there appears to be no end in sight, stranded on a country road for all eternity. It is almost dark; so far, away from all that is familiar. The trees are groaning against the wind's fury: when did the wind start blowing? Have I been walking for so long that time hysterically slipped away! The leaves are rustling about swirling through the air like discarded post-it notes: smashing, slapping against the trees and blacktop, "splat-snap. " Where did the sun go? It gave the impression only...
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S E Hinton Easy To Understand
1,016 wordsThe year is 1966 and if you were a kid growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. You belonged to one of two groups, you were either a soc or a greaser. Soc is pronounced like society, and means just that: money, nice cars, nice homes and a bright future. Greasers are the poor kids from the bad side of town with no future and no real hope. Always at each other's throats, the two warring groups fight to save face and prove themselves. The Outsiders is the story of two of the Greasers who come to realize that...
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Subatomic Particles Quantum Mechanics
756 wordsQuantum Mechanics is the science of subatomic particles and their behavior patterns that are observed in nature. As the foundation of scientific knowledge approached the start of the twentieth century, problems began to arise over the fact that classic physical ideas were not capable of explaining the observed behavior of subatomic particles. In 1913, the Danish physicist Neil's Bohr, proposed a successful quantum model of the atom that began the process of a more defined understanding of its su...
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Real Estate Agents Percent Earned
588 wordsBuying or selling a house or an apartment is one of the biggest decisions of a person's life. And when selling or establishing a price for real estate, people seek out real estate agents to do the dirty work. A real estate agent has to convince a prospective homeowner that he or she is trustworthy and knowledgeable. In many ways, the agent acts as a counselor to individuals and families about to embark on a huge commitment. Real estate agents have a thorough knowledge or real estate market in th...
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Listen To Music Positive And Negative
692 wordsGood evening ladies and gentlemen I will be speaking about music and how important it is. Are people typically geniuses? Statistically, people probably are not. In fact, most people probably aren't even intellectually gifted at all. Most people are likely to be pretty much average, maybe a little bit above average, or a little below, but very average none the less. It is universally understood that people strive to learn to become wiser and more informed about the world around them. The more peo...
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Greenhouse Gases Greenhouse Effect
412 wordsIs global warming real? Im sure this seems like quite an absurd question to many people. With the accumulation of hard evidence for global warming and our supercharging greenhouse effect most people have already taken for granted that the problem truly exists. There are, however, a small, almost unheard of group of people who are convinced otherwise. One such person is William Robert Johnston. His article on web clearly shows his scepticism towards global warming. He has come up with his own evi...
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The General Strike Of 1926
1,198 words... off the General Strike did they realised that they had nothing in their hands. While the miners were left to fight alone until their humiliating defeat in November 1926, the other workers re-turned to work where they faced their strengthened employers. In some trades, such as railways and printing, work-ers suffered widespread victimisation. The real extent of victimisation, however, is very difficult to estimate be-cause besides the dismissal of militants and the replacement of workers by v...
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John Smith And Pocahontas A Disney Romance
990 wordsIt can be easily assumed that almost everyone has heard the tale of the American Indian princess, Pocahontas the narrative of a mysterious young girl who rescues an English explorer from death only to fall in love and win his affections in return. It is one that is quite popular and has even been developed into an animated movie by Walt Disney Pictures. Regardless of which version they may have heard, most people are familiar with the legend now thanks in part to Disney. However, what they are n...
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Desperation By Stephen King
1,419 wordsDesperation, a recent Stephen King novel, is not just a book, but an experience that leaves the reader frightened, paranoid, and questioning his moral beliefs. Picture, if you will, a lone, crazed Nevada policeman who pulls over vehicles on a lonely desert highway and forcefully takes away their occupants. Whichever of them he doesnt kill immediately, he locks up in the jail of the small desolate town of Desperation. Among those captured are the vacationing Carver family, whose RV is sabotaged o...
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Cookies And Doughnuts Golden Brown Dough
460 wordsCookies and doughnuts are both yummy treats, but they also have their advantages and disadvantages. Cookies for instance can be produces with relative ease in any kitchen using flour, water, sugar and eggs. Doughnuts on the other hand are not usually made at home, hence all of the doughnut shops. This is one disadvantage to doughnuts; they are relatively difficult to produce. Doughnuts are made from the same ingredients as cookies, but they also have east in them to give them a more bearlike qua...
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Richard Cory First Stanza
941 wordsIn a society generally shaped by its commercialism, many people will fall into the unfortunate trap of trying to exceed someone elses standards. The catalyst for this maddening condition exists all around us: in car commercials, on bumper stickers (He who dies with the most toys wins! ), in stores peddling expensive passing fashions, and on billboards flaunting houses of ridiculous size and cost. Children are conditioned to covet a brass ring that is impossible to attain, and will either spend a...
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W W Norton Norton Anthology Of English Literature
992 wordsWilliam Wordsworth's description of his poetry in Preface to Lyrical Ballads gives the impression that it feel much like a modern newspaper to a reader; basic and with wide appeal. He emphasizes the idea of simplicity and familiarity of both topic and language, arguing the superiority of a poem that appeals to the common person. However, despite the value placed on simplicity, his poems are far above what many readers would perceive to be elementary. This is demonstrated by the fact that his poe...
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Japanese Americans African Americans
1,618 wordsComing to the United States, a nation that was supposed to offer better life to newcomers was a major turning point for immigrants. For few it was joyous, others adventurous, and for many it was a heart wrenching experience. The fear of not being accepted as equal human beings in the US was a fear that all immigrants shared, especially the Africans, Latinos, and Japanese immigrants. This fear has been expressed not only by the immigrants themselves, but also by poets throughout history. White se...
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National Football League Super Bowl
1,353 wordsThis was war! Since its inception seven years earlier, the upstart American Football League (AFL) had fought the National Football League (NFL) for players, fans, television revenues, and respect. The successful new league had won everything except, respect. On January 15, 1967 the first World Championship game against the AFL and the NFL took place. The powerhouse NFL champions the Green Bay Packers against the AFL champion the Kansas City Chiefs. What ended in a 35 to 10 loss to the NFL, the A...
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Illustrating The Duality Of Hamlet Character
1,354 wordsIt is often noticed that people have more than one side to their personality at the same time. The character of Hamlet is a perfect example of the duality of human nature as Hamlets character is both noble and wicked at the same time. At the beginning of the book the reader sees normal Hamlet as he grieves for the death of his father, Hamlet is still in shock over his fathers death and the quick remarriage of his mother, he is not sure of what is really going on, thus the duality is not yet pres...
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Straight Sided Figures Zero As A Number Lord
1,545 words... aps a single stick split lengthwise, held by the parties to a purchase or debt. The two sticks are held parallel, scores are made across both to indicate a count, and, if it is deemed necessary, they are signed or stamped by both parties to guarantee authenticity. Different symbols are usually employed for larger quantities: compare our use of a diagonal slash across a group of four lines to complete a count of five. The two sticks can be compared at any time, and together comprise a difficu...
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Telling The Truth Play The Crucible
1,234 wordsPower can take many different forms and meanings in life. Often times, people have more power than could be imagined. Going against such people can result in them showing what they are truly capable of, whether it be hurting someone directly or manipulating others against him or her; it is dangerous to underestimate those who felt they have been wronged. In Arthur Millers play, The Crucible, a great example of this is displayed. The character of Abigail Williams holds more power than anyone else...
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Acute Modest Proposal
1,219 wordsOn Basis Of Our Reading, What Would On Basis Of Our Reading, What Would Your Definition Of Satire Be? Explain In Detail Why. An exaggerated, often witty or ironic, indirect approach to express one´ s opinions or disgust with the aim to ridicule a desired victim. This is my definition of satire and hopefully satisfies the areas of satire that need to be explained. The satirical text written by Jonathon Swift in 1729 fit the above description perfectly. The piece I refer to is A Modest Propo...
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