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Endangered Whales
Words: 659 - Pages: 3.... distances so wide, possibly carrying from Antarctica to Alaska. Unfortunately, whales may not be able to receive communications from other whales, which are anymore distant than a few hundred kilometers anymore. Their communication is interfered with by the sound of ship’s motors, sounds that must be as painful to whales ears as a truck on a highway is to human’s ears.
The decimation of great whales has been going on for centuries, one species after another hunted to levels so low that it is no longer profitable to hunt them. As early as the eighteenth century the Basques of northern Spain hunted the Atlantic Right Whale for meat a .....
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Legacies: Roman, Greeks, And Hebrews
Words: 347 - Pages: 2.... gave us one of the first forms of democracy, and a well
developed navy. Athens, one of the most powerful city-states in Greece had a
form of government called a direct-democracy, which is where the citizens
directly interact with government affairs. The other legacy of the Greeks was
their Navy. The navy was mostly utilized by Athens in their struggle against
Sparta. It served as a useful way to fight and transport armies across seas.
The main legacy of the Hebrews was religion. They brought in the idea of
monotheism which is still used today in religions such as Christianity and
Judaism. The Hebrews governement was very much based on re .....
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Sigmund Freud
Words: 573 - Pages: 3.... recalls and relives repressed traumatic situations and is eventually
relieved and healed. Freud was now convinced that functional diseases had a
mental cause. In the following he discovered how mental energies may casue
physical symptoms.
After breaking with Breuer Freid found out that the abnormal emotional
state of neurotics was almost invariably associated with conflicts involving the
sexual impulse. Based on these findings he develoepd his theory on repression
and defense as well as the sexual aspect of neurotic behaviour.
Freud was unjustly blamed with "pansexualism". His theories created a
storm in meical circles .....
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Gambling
Words: 657 - Pages: 3.... early
peoples, contend that the attitude of early humankind toward gambling
derived from their general attitude toward the environment. To these
people the world was a mysterious place controlled by supernatural beings
whose favor or disfavor was manifested through chance situations and the
outcome of such events as hunts, wars, and games of chance; instruments
of divination frequently included objects used in gambling.
As people gradually acquired knowledge of the nature of their
environment and interpreted it in terms of cause and effect, their attitude
toward gambling changed. Games of chance became pastimes, but the
ancient .....
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Juvenile Crime
Words: 2538 - Pages: 10.... to communities. A recent report for the US Congress by a university group noted how few scientific evaluations exist on traditional policing and incarceration programs. Where they exist, they do not usually show positive results.
Some persons commit crime despite their life situation; for others, it is the reverse, but multiple factors generate crime. Individuals are less likely to offend repetitively when their early childhood is dominated by consistent and caring parenting and troublesome behavior when found school, is met with solutions.
Crime tends to be lower in countries where there are more social benefits and fewer children .....
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The Latvian-Russian Relations
Words: 2531 - Pages: 10.... part of their lives.
Communism was a serious problem that has left even more serious
consequences. Many were killed, many were hurt, and many will never recover.
Even though described as perfect form of government, communism has caused
mare pain to so many absolutely innocent people than anything else.
(Britanica) I was also in Latvia 8 years ago when Latvia along with two
other Baltic States, Estonia and Lithuania, regained their independence and
became free countries once again. The time goes by really fast, but even
though Latvia has a democratic form of government, now all of the post-
communism countries face more problems than eve .....
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Existentialism
Words: 912 - Pages: 4.... endeavors.
Philosophers since the time of Aristotle, circa Third-Century B.C.E.
(before the common era), have held that everyone should aim for a common
peak of ethical achievement. Aristotle argued for the existence of a
divine being, described as the "Prime Mover," who is responsible for the
unity and purposefulness of nature. In order for humanity to attain such a
climax, everyone must imitate The Almighty's perfect profile. Aristotle's
basic philosophy deduces that humanity strives for an identical peak of
moral excellence, as judged by a higher being (Aristotle).
Existentialism declares that the individual must choose his way .....
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A Look At Cheap Amusements 2
Words: 1815 - Pages: 7.... roles. More significantly however, is how the establishment of leisure activities for women came about, rather than the simple change in availability of such activities. First let s look at Peiss s position on the matter of how cheap amusements challenged gender traditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What does Peiss have to say about women s roles at the turn of the century? Peiss argues initially that young women experimented with new cultural forms in terms of sexual expressiveness and social interaction with men, linking heterosocial culture to a sense of modern individuality and personal style. Creating this style was .....
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The Effects Of Friendship
Words: 909 - Pages: 4.... the telephone or huddled in school hallways, teen-agers are constantly reaching out to their friends. They can’t imagine surviving high school and adolescence without them.” The very word of friendship is complicated in the world today. When someone leaves you for any reason you are going to miss him or her with many affects. As memories flow through your head remembering the person that left seems to get harder and harder. In the book Dandelion Wine John started to notice little things that he never noticed before, and this scared him for he was afraid that Doug wouldn’t remember him. “Shut your eyes, Doug. Now, tell me, what color .....
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The Simpsons - A Cartoon Portr
Words: 1219 - Pages: 5.... counterpart, held firm. Greenwood now has an elementary school named "Springfield."
The Simpsons, a constant festival of disrespect, has graced television (if "graced" is a word that can ever be applied to the cartoon family) and the United States with a greater impact than most television series ever created. No wonder such a debate has arisen around the characters, their lives, and, most importantly, their attitudes.
Artist-cartoonist-writer Matt Groening's animated family began life as disruptive little drawings tucked in between the sketches of real actors on "The Tracey Ullman Show" in 1987. Groening says that he created these bri .....
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