Papers on Miscellaneous Topics
Time The Final Frontier
Words: 960 - Pages: 4.... something; a task, action, or lack thereof. At any given instance, the present exists. One can choose any moment in history, and, at some time, it had existed in the form of the present. Also, in the mind of the person remembering this moment in the past, it exists as present in that particular memory. How can we know that the definition of the word present actually establishes this instant in time? The instant itself only lasts for zero time before subsequent moments follow. How can one define what a word means if one cannot observe the object it represents? Right as one realizes what this present consists of, it leaves his world, a .....
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Personal Seat Licenses
Words: 1292 - Pages: 5.... fans the right to buy a season ticket or specialty seating such as club seats. PSL’s offer the holder a series of amenities and benefits including the right to transfer your long-term season-ticket rights, sometimes for a profit.
Stadium revenues come in a variety of ways, and in today’s world of professional and collegiate sports, they are the key to profitable teams. This is why many team owners claim they cannot afford to keep teams in old stadiums without the tremendous earnings potential of special seating and other stadium income. In theory, seat licenses are a simple if slightly devious device that allows teams to raise large .....
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Philosiphy Of David Hume
Words: 304 - Pages: 2.... and Berkley. Hume supported Locke’s belief that compound ideas are the combination of simple ideas, furthermore Hume went on to clarify Locke’s theory of association. Berkley influenced Hume with his theory of mentalism, stating that the material world did not exist until it was perceived. This theory of Berkley would reappear in Hume’s own writing.
Descarts contributed his thoughts concurring the dualism of mind and body to Humes core beliefs. though Hume gave much wait to the works of these men he was not against taking issue with some of their work, and would loudly voice his decent if the occasion presented its .....
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Success
Words: 903 - Pages: 4.... We are also apt to identify having good friends with having achieved socially. We have achieved societal , typically, if we have met the right person, lived happily, started a family and raised our children well. A part of societal is also to learn to treat people well; to practice the “golden rule.” We need to fill these goals that society has for us and attempt to achieve societal in order to fill our need to belong to society and fit in as an every day, functioning member of society. We also realize the personal goals and dreams that we set for ourselves in this pursuit of conformity. Achieving this civic , as you .....
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Deep Ecology
Words: 1822 - Pages: 7.... Furthermore, they address the roles that scientific ecology plays as well as the concept of self-realization. Aside from these ideas, ecosabotage needs to be discussed in terms of how it fits with the practice of .
The basic principles of as characterized by the authors mentioned, show us what is supposedly wrong with the world and also give us a framework by which we can make a change. In fact, Naess and Sessions went camping in Death Valley, California in order to gain a different perspective. They condensed fifteen years their thought on the topic of in an effort to make it appeal to people from all kinds of backgrounds. They al .....
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Cross Cultural Psychology
Words: 616 - Pages: 3.... to Anthropology.
Cross-cultural research investigates social behaviors, personality differences, problem solving intellectual abilities, perceptual abilities, and esthetics. Cultures differ with respect to two major classes of variables: biological and ecological. Biological variables include such factors as diet, genetics, and endemic diseases. Ecological variables include such factors as geography, climate, political systems, population density, religion, cultural myths, and education. Behavioral differences among people of different cultures result from differences in biological and ecological variables. From an Anthropologica .....
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Backpacking: A Different Way Of Camping
Words: 667 - Pages: 3.... a stove, a twelve man tent, two
coolers of meat and potatoes, five gallons of water, and maybe tow a camper. On
the other hand, when backpacking, the circumstances are very different. One is
limited to his or her own capabilities: the amount of weight that can be
carried, endurance levels, just to name a few. Provisions must be carefully
measured. If overloaded, it can affect performance while hiking to one's
destination, but if not enough provisions are carried it, will impact how long
one can last out in the wilderness. The equipment must be minute in size and
weight. Special lightweight stoves, tents, sleeping bags, and clothes .....
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Smartcards
Words: 988 - Pages: 4.... of electronic data processing equipment.
Some are smarter than others, the smartness of a card depends on the complexity of the embedded processor, as well as the software that is installed on the chip. Even the simplest cards, like the pay phone cards, are smart enough that they are virtually impossible to copy or falsify. However, the simplest do not provide any security against unauthorized use. In other words, if you lose your pay phone card, anyone else can use it. There are of course smarter cards that provide such security by incorporating a password or even a biometric identifier such as a fingerprint to restrict its use to one p .....
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Fine Automobiles (persuasive)
Words: 552 - Pages: 3.... after the millions of years of evolution and development we have cluttered our picture. Now there are so many objects in view and situations on the average individual's mind that they may not think much of what the cavemen of the past thought about, such as the sun. So, now that the sun is no big deal, what is? The eye catching object is the automobile. That is man's current attraction, even if that attraction lasts for a split second.
Today a car is practically a necessity, not an absolute one, yet with the nature of work it has a definite play in modern life. Cars are safer than ever before. With crash safety devices such as multiple .....
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Quit Smoking!
Words: 926 - Pages: 4.... number one killer of smokers is heart disease” (Bailey 135). Not only that but also, “Cigarette smoking accounts for 30% of all heart disease deaths” (Kim and Saltzberg 1). Carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke causes the amount of cholesterol clogging the arteries to rise dramatically. Smoking also makes the walls of the arteries harden which increases the chance for the artery to rupture. Another drug in cigarettes, nicotine, causes your blood pressure to rise, your heart rate to rise, and your heart increasingly requires more oxygen to keep pumping.
Along with heart disease, smokers are afflicted with life threa .....
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