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Over My Dead Body
Words: 635 - Pages: 3.... more pain to the family. They then have to face the reality while staring at the gross cadaver. Sometimes families even get in large arguments over what the person is going to wear when buried. I believe that we could all save stress, time, and money by finding better way to dispose of our bodies. I feel that there are better options.
Cremation has many advantages but is rarely used unless the person is badly hurt or has no family. Some people think that cremation is morbid and sick, but I believe that it makes good sense. By cremating the body, large land plots are not wasted and the body can not be eaten by insects. The family .....
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Sophistic Movement
Words: 544 - Pages: 2.... of the sophists, except for what other prominent theorists have said about them. At the head of this condescending army was Plato, whose own theories opposed those of the sophists in numerable . Anyone who has read some of Plato’s writing can tell you that what he had to say about Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus and the other sophists was by no means benevolent, and according to G.B. Kerferd, nor was it a completely factual description of them. Unfortunately, since these innacurate depictions are all we have left, the generations that were to come accepted Plato’s hostile opinion of the sophists and it is for this reason that the .....
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The Bicycle: From Wood To Metal.
Words: 1476 - Pages: 6.... to discuss the change of materials used to construct bicycles, and why the change came about, starting with the first machines to modern day super-light- weight machines.
Most written sources agree that the first bicycle was introduced around 1817 by a man called Von Drais. This wooden two-wheeled vehicle that weighed some 45kg (100 lbs). It comprised of a wooden beam structure, straddled by the rider, with a fixed wooden rear wheel and a steerable wheel in front, controlled over a tiller mechanism. It was propelled by pushing off with the legs, rolling along between these propulsive pushes. (fig 1)
page 14 von drais 1817.
Despite the te .....
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Aids 2
Words: 1256 - Pages: 5.... healthy people should not get. Most were from New York City, California, Florida and Texas, and not all were homosexual men. Men and women who used intravenous drugs were also getting sick, as were men with hemophilia, the male and female sexual partners of people in these risk groups, immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, and some of the infant children born to women at risk.
All these varied people had one thing in common: almost absent levels of the white blood cells called T helper cells that keep the immune system functioning properly. Their defective immune systems left them vulnerable to one serious health problem after anoth .....
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Does College Help
Words: 557 - Pages: 3.... are among the lowest in the world and “ at the same moment as we are transferring our responsibilities to the shoulders of the next generation, we are blaming them for our own generation’s most conspicuous failures” (Barber 472). Every election year the candidates use something about education as one of their platforms, but few ever carry through with them once they are elected. Most education bills die in congress in some shape or another and the ones that actually make it through congress, are usually ineffective because they have been changed and modified to the point of ineffectiveness.
Also, many of the learning faci .....
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A Comparison Of Typewriters Vs
Words: 423 - Pages: 2.... According to Paez (1985, 55):
A familiar keyboard, which requires fewer keystrokes and
has a simpler, less code-intensive user interface, makes the
Transition to a high-end typewriter much easier than the
Transition to a personal computer with the same functions.
Typewriter Flexibility
An electronic typewriter can perform some functions computers cannot, but a personal computer (PC) cannot be used a mere typewriter (nor should it be). Perhaps that is why one large survey found that 85% of secretaries who use PC's also use typewriters. Using microchip technology, sophisticated electronic typewriters can perform many of the automat .....
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The Lorax
Words: 665 - Pages: 3.... the loss of the Truffula Fruit. Approaching intense ecological problems in a colorful nonsensical tale. The child-sized Lorax emerges from the stump of the first Truffula tree that is axed as a sort of nature spirit, and he then uses the stump as a type of pulpit to deliver his desperate message: “I am . I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” Like an activist trying to stop this madness, he establishes the responsibility of all creatures for the welfare of others, especially those unable to defend themselves. Throughout the book, continues to assume the position of the guardian of living t .....
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Phonology And The Dutch Stress
Words: 1433 - Pages: 6.... restriction:
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Data: ANT PEN FIN
VV# Amérika macaróni individú
VC# Jerúzalem catamáran kameleón
Furthermore, stress is restricted to a two-syllable windowin words containing a prefinal (or diphtongal) syllable. This means that antepenultimate stress (third syllable from right side of the word) only occurs in words with an open syllable next to it (an open penultimate syllable). Therefore, the Dutch stress system depends on the character of the second to last (penultimate) syllable.
Data: ANT PEN FIN
-VV-VV Pánama pyjáma chocolá
-VV-VC báriton célebes pelotà .....
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The Issue Of Block Scheduling In Schools
Words: 525 - Pages: 2.... are now 90 minutes of class instead of the old 45. If students only have a 45-minute attention span and there is 90 minutes of class, then really the additional 45 minutes of time is actually being wasted. Another problem with 90-minute classes is that students are less likely to remember the same amount as they would in a regular class time. As humans we tend to remember the things we do first (primacy) and the things we to last (regency). The time in the middles is sag time and is remembered at a much lower percentage. So basically you start our remembering a greater percentage of things in the beginning and as you move to the mi .....
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History Of Gunpowder
Words: 1710 - Pages: 7.... would not light the powder
because it couldn't get enough oxygen. But if it were packed too loosely, it
couldn't build up enough gas forces to push the cannonball to it's target.
A new way to make gunpowder into grains, instead of powder, was
invented in the fourteen hundreds. In this method you would moisten it and
pound it into a cake. Then it was broken into small bits and put into a sieve to be
sifted. The pieces that came through the sieve were different shapes and would
not fit together well enough to pack tightly, so that careful packing of a cannon
was not necessary.
When a long-barreled, rifled cannon came into .....
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