Papers on Miscellaneous Topics
The Identity Theory
Words: 839 - Pages: 4.... think, therefore I am" or vice versa.
Churchland first tries to parallel the identity theory with sound and light. "We now know that sound is just a train of compression waves traveling through the air..." (BR323). Society does know or has some common sense notion of how sound travels, yet we still consider it just "sound". Even though we are not automatically thinking when we here a sound, "it is waves traveling through air", we are aware to the fact that is how sound travels. This parallelism is intertheoretic reduction; taking an older version of reductive materialism and using it to help explain a newer version, Churchland's identi .....
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Home Shopping
Words: 3033 - Pages: 12.... complex regularly, and most of the time they will only visit on Sunday or public holiday. Since everyone go shopping at the same time, the shopping complex will become very crowded and people will feel very uncomfortable when walking in such situation, the followings are some situation that occurs:
Queuing
In crowded environment, queuing is an usual scene. We can easily found long queue either in front of the cashier counters, food stalls or even in car park.
Time Consuming
Sometimes it is very wasting time by just walking around without any purpose. Just like people walking around and donβt know what he/she is planning .....
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Production Of Silicon Chips
Words: 633 - Pages: 3.... or water droplet can ruin a batch of chip production.
The manufacturing of a silicon chip starts when silica, the main component of sand, is heated with carbon which makes 98 percent pure silicon. This is then dissolved in hydrochloric acid. The resulting liquid is fractionally distilled to separate almost all of the impurities.The remaining liquid is then heated in a hydrogen tmosphere, which produces the purest silicon possible. This silicon, however, is in the form of many crystals of different sizes and orientations. This silicon goes through the Czochralski pulled crystal
process in which it is melted in a large crucible into .....
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One Is Born A Woman
Words: 1968 - Pages: 8.... school of Social Constructionist thought the pervading idea is, all perceived relations between the individual and the external world are a product of the social milieu. Monique Wittig argues dogmatically this very ideal in her essay One Is Not Born A Woman. Wittig is a Material Feminist; consequently she analyzes the definition of what a woman is, and tries to move away from the notion of naturalness in women. She concedes there is no naturalness in male or female, rather the notion of sex is a gross misrepresentation created by the social milieu. Subsequently she argues for a type of class uprising to free "women" from this oppressive .....
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Nuclear Weapons: Other Options
Words: 530 - Pages: 2.... would take its place. Empty lots can be transformed in to
affordable and clean rooms. Thus, more houses lowers the costs to buy one
which, in turn, allows more people to move in off the streets. If home
cannot be built, existing shelters could use food and medical aid. Shelters
for the homeless are in bad shape and need the extra money to clean up the
area.
Many people talk about a drug-free America, including Georg Bush.
Although he wants drug trafficking to stop, he does not allocate enough
funds to accomplish the task. When production of useless weapons are
stopped, the new income can be use to further the police force. Mo .....
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Lipari Landfill
Words: 1426 - Pages: 6.... industrial materials. Records were not kept, but it is estimated that roughly three million gallons of liquid wastes and 12,000 cubic yards of solid waste were deposited on the site. Dumping continued for a fourteen year period, beginning in 1958 and continuing through 1971.
Out of over 700 ranked sites, LiPari is listed number one (1) on the National Priority List (NPL), a list created to rank all landfills and hazardous waste sites identified as particularly dangerous. Due to its high concentrations of hazardous wastes, toxins, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), was first proposed for NPL listing on October 10, 1981 and was granted S .....
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Sammy Sosa Vs. Mark McGwire
Words: 689 - Pages: 3.... Sosa. McGwire has a .575 as Sosa has .497 averages. In the past few years McGwire's slugging percent has gone up. However, for Sosa he has pretty much stayed the same in the past few years. If Sosa's average keeps fluctuating during the season his overall slugging percentage will pretty much stay the same.
The numbers of hits that McGwire and Sosa have have been pretty close to the number they should have in this point of their careers. McGwire has 1,388 hits in 1,576 games and Sosa has 1,280 hits in 1,289 games. If Sosa were in the league the same amount of time that McGwire has been, Sosa would have probably had more hits. Sosa ha .....
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Reality Of A Dream (roughing I
Words: 398 - Pages: 2.... at Colorado College and found that it had almost no gold in it at all. The college said the whole area was probably the same. All this time the stampede was going the two men who staked the claim sat and watched as all the greedy people invaded the area just because they said the land was rich with gold.
This shows how greed and the dream of making it rich blinded the peoples reasoning. If the people would have been clear of mind they would have asked questions and then asked more questions before embarking on such an involved venture. Holmes and Fisher summed up the reason for the fiasco when they said, " in every man's mind was the .....
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Tennis 2
Words: 508 - Pages: 2.... or her left shoulder toward the net, placing the left foot in front of the right foot. The server should hold the racket in his or her right hand, holding the right arm straight toward the ground. The racket hand should point in the direction of the net. The server should hold the ball in his or her left hand, touching the ball to the racket face.
The actual serve motion requires timing and speed. The server should toss the ball straight up into the air by fully extending his or her left arm. He or she should leave the left arm fully extended to help sight the ball as it ascends. While the ball is in the air, the server should rotate the .....
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The Maori Of New Zealand
Words: 542 - Pages: 2.... having very little technology, were easily
subdued and the land became an English colony, used at first for its natural
resources but also as a exile or prison colony. The lack of resistance from the
natives made it relatively easy for the English to accomplish their task. This
gave the Aborigine absolutely no respect from the English, and almost to this
day are they treated as inferiors, by the English. This was not the case with
the neighboring Maori's.
As stated before, the English eventually found their way to the south,
where the beautiful island lay untouched by foreign hands. They also found that
the island had a native populace j .....
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