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Are We Civilized As Civlized A
Number of Words: 373 / Number of Pages: 2
... the wars, society has not grown in understanding other people. There is still prejudice today. Many hate groups like the KKK are still around today, and many new ones have come into being. In the past when our country was just starting to be formed, there were prejudices just because people were different. Over 100 years later, people haven't changed much, and there is still prejudice, making one wonder if we have become civilized yet.
Technically we have become civilized. We can now travel across the country in a few hours or send someone an e-mail. Most people think that becoming civilized i ...
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The American Basketball Association
Number of Words: 665 / Number of Pages: 3
... from college. As a result, many college stars began to go straight into the ABA before graduating. One which did this was Moses Malone, he was the first player to come straight out of high school into professional sports. This was a revolutionary event in the history of professional sports.
The ABA had a style of its own. Newsweek once described them, “Sex, drugs, platform shoes, sideburns, slam dunks, midnight franchise shifts, million dollar deferred-payment player contracts, the three-point shot, Dr. J, Marvin (Bad News) Barnes, LaVerne (Jelly) Tart, and Pat Boone. Pro sports the way they ou ...
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Canada 2
Number of Words: 709 / Number of Pages: 3
... is very light. Our home is enclosed by the United States of America, south, the Pacific ocean and Alaska on the west side, the Atlantic ocean on the east side and the Arctic up north.
One of the dominant reasons Canada is so well populated is due to the fact of our financial status. At this present time, the economy is not doing too well, but who's is? Canada is highly industrialised by manufacturing Automobiles, food, liquor and tobacco. We as a Unified country accept other cultures and religions. Canada has about every nationality possible and together they form a great home. Despite the many cu ...
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A Liberal Arts Education
Number of Words: 1435 / Number of Pages: 6
... and
connections between fields. With this foundation, great thinkers can build and
expand from what others have learned rather than wasting time and effort on what
has already been discovered. While it is true that the factual information
about each subject is very important, the most useful tool liberal arts students
can possess is the knowledge of the strengths and capabilities of each
individual field, as well as the weaknesses and restrictions. With this
knowledge, the students can mesh attributes of different subjects to formulate
new and more brilliant concepts; the brilliance being ...
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Modern Day Sweatshops
Number of Words: 441 / Number of Pages: 2
... machinery, working feet or even inches from a soon to be severed limb, and just adding to the noise that falls on soon becoming deaf ears. If these women are lucky enough to have children, they are fortunate enough to come to work with their mothers, and spend the days in a dank room unattended, and sleeping on musty old mattresses.
The situation has not changed much since the publication of the writings in Rebecca Harding Davis' book Life in the Iron Mills. These labor practices still exist and are now constantly in the news. One of the more recent sweat shops incidents was at a factory in H ...
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"Black" And "White" Styles Of Basketball
Number of Words: 378 / Number of Pages: 2
... was pretty general.
One thing that was a little confusing to me was that Greenfield would go back and forth on what he was talking about. For example, he would start off talking about the two different styles of basketball. Then he would compare the basketball court dimensions to other athletic facilities, such as baseball fields, hockey rinks and football field. Greenfield would then jump into talking about present basketball players to past basketball players. Greenfield would go back to talking about the two different styles of basketball back to talking about team players again. For his conclusion ...
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Antony Flew: The Existence And Belief Of God
Number of Words: 1776 / Number of Pages: 7
... garden represents God, "…invisible, intangible,
insensible…". The "Sceptic" says there is no gardener, just as an atheist
denies the existence God. The "Believer" says there is a gardener, like a
theist telling everyone that God exists. The "Believer" tries to prove that
there was a planter, who planted the seeds for the flowers to grow. This
planter takes care of them, a parallelism to God supposedly taking care of "us".
Flew talks about assertions. He states that "what starts as an
assertion, that something exists…may be reduced step by step to an altogether
different status". He uses the ...
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College Costs
Number of Words: 2212 / Number of Pages: 9
... private 4-year colleges, tuition and
fees for the 1995-96 academic year averaged about $15,400, compared with about
$5006 at public 4-year colleges. The cost of attending an institution of higher
education includes not only tuition and fees, however, but also books and
supplies, transportation, personal expenses and, sometimes, room and board.
Although tuition and fees generally are substantially lower at public
institutions than at private ones, the other student costs are about the same.
According to MS-Encarta94,"the average cost for tuition, fees, and room and
board for the 1995-96 academic year at ...
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The History Of Baseball Cards
Number of Words: 1246 / Number of Pages: 5
... are common, considering that there were no star
athletes back then. There were not many cards sizes during
this time period. The only size that I could find was one
and a half inches by two inches. There were many company's
that manufactured cards during this time period. They were:
Mayo Tobacco Works, Buchner, Kimball's, Old Judge, Allen &
Ginter, and Goodwin (SCD). These cards are rare, but are
not very difficult to obtain if you're willing to pay top
dollar.
What many collectors call "the golden years of
baseball", took place from 1902 until 1935. One reason ...
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Benefit Programs In The Airline Industry
Number of Words: 2302 / Number of Pages: 9
... American Airlines realizes that it must stay competitive in this area to ensure that they get the most qualified employees. American Airlines offers many benefits and incentives for their employees with hopes to attract the best. Many of the benefits are standard and required by law such as social security, unemployment, workers compensation, and leaves without pay. What really must be paid attention too are the benefits and incentives that are offered in addition to the ones required by law. These benefits and incentives are what attract individuals to work for American rather than another a ...
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