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Sinking Of The Titanic
Number of Words: 880 / Number of Pages: 4
... and no one responded ( Maddocks 126-127). Among the other people who died was the captain Edward J. Smith who went down with the rest of his crew ("Mute Testimony Of The Wreckage" 702). Most of the people sacrificed their own lives to save their families.
The Americans and the French spent many hours looking for the wreckage of the Titanic. The French and the Americans joined forces to find the wreckage, and during this period the French revealed their new sonar equipment that enabled them to survey a half-mile strip of land each time it passed by. On June 28, 1985 the Americans revealed a ship wi ...
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The Media As An Institution
Number of Words: 1418 / Number of Pages: 6
... of the internet.
The media has seen spectacular growth since the first daily newspaper for the ‘common man’ was produced on 4 May 1896. ‘The Daily Mail’ was a halfpenny paper of eight pages with advertisements on the front cover and was described as ‘A Penny Newspaper for One Halfpenny’ and ‘The Busy Man’s Daily Journal’. The Daily Mail reported on domestic and foreign news items, political gossip, society, sport and the stock exchange. The Daily Mail was also the first newspaper to include a number of features for women.
In Australia ...
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Relationships In Cyberspace
Number of Words: 755 / Number of Pages: 3
... this world of electrons and light speed communications. Often friends meet here. Sometimes enemies. Even lovers. Some say that it's the exotic setting the Internet provides that leads to these relationships. Perhaps because it is a mysterious place, or the magical qualities of someone being with you, without physically being there. Whatever the reason people are drawn into these relationships. They are real and there out there. The problems are going to grow before they get better. The Internet, as cold and starched as it may seem, has sparked fires that have grown into love. Words on a screen turn i ...
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What Is Radar
Number of Words: 2203 / Number of Pages: 9
... to protect a country against attack.
In peacetime, radar can help navigate ships, land planes in a fog, and
guide astronauts. Radar can help control street traffic and assist the
police in finding speeding automobiles.
Radar sets come in many sizes. A small set, made for use in a guided
missile, is not much larger than a coffeepot. The larger sets used to study
distant planets may oupy a building many stories high. The size of a radar
set depends on the job it is expected to do. But all radar sets, regardless
of their size, use the principle of the echo.
How Radar Works
Radar sets produc ...
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The Rise Of Gladiatorial Combat In Rome
Number of Words: 3289 / Number of Pages: 12
... As for the gladiators themselves, an aura
of religious sacrifice continued to hang about their combats. Obviously most
spectators just enjoyed the massacre without any remorseful reflections. Even
ancient writers felt no pity, they were aware that gladiators had originated
from these holocausts in honor of the dead. What was offered to appease the
dead was counted as a funeral rite. It is called munus (a service) from being a
service due. The ancients thought that by this sort of spectacle they rendered
a service to the dead, after they had made it a more cultured form of cruelty.
The belief was ...
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A Brief Overview Of Psychedelics
Number of Words: 6103 / Number of Pages: 23
... towards psychedelic drugs, they have granted some scientist and psychologists permission to experiment with such agents, and despite the controversy and varying results there seem to be many positive uses of psychedelic agents. These positive uses and the research that has been directed toward these uses will be reviewed in the following, as well as a brief history of psychedelic drugs.
Native Americans are probably the people most known for their use of psychedelic drugs. Being a very religious people, their entire society revolved around the spirit world, and some believed that access to thi ...
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Aztec Mythology: Quetzalcoatl
Number of Words: 2998 / Number of Pages: 11
... paper.
The translation of Quetzalcoatl means literally Plumed Serpent. A more understandable translation would be feathered serpent. This point is interesting in that he very rarely appears in this form. He is more often depicted in many of his other roles, specifically as Topiltzin the high priest (Brundage 102-03). The significance of this will appear later in the paper, but suffice it to say the name is in itself misleading when referring to this complex deity of the Aztecs.
Many of the roles designated to Quetzalcoatl are unrelated to say the least, however the Aztecs seemed to be able to accept th ...
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Psychological Properties Of Ya
Number of Words: 2211 / Number of Pages: 9
... students participated in three 15-minute laboratory trials which measured skin conductance and heart rate, two physical correlates of arousal. In each trial, subjects pressed a button when they felt a yawn coming on, and equipment in a nearby room took readings from sensors attached to their fingertips. The first trial measured skin conductance, the second trial measured heart rate, and the third trial used an electromyogram with electrodes attached to the subjects’ masseter muscles to verify that they were yawning when they said they were. Each subject was alone in a room for the course ...
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Advertising And Alcohol
Number of Words: 1299 / Number of Pages: 5
... on radio and television. Even if these TV ads are aired only after 9 or 10 PM, they will still reach millions of American children.
Alcohol advertising may increase alcohol consumption, including drinking by minors. Based on this effect, various municipalities around the country have attempted to ban alcohol advertising. These attempts have met with mixed results in the courts. This section will attempt to explain how a municipality can legally ban alcohol advertising.
Commercial Speech
The only constitutional impediment to banning alcohol advertising is First Amendment freedom of speech. Alcohol prod ...
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Cinderella
Number of Words: 1726 / Number of Pages: 7
... stepsister that relates to Danielle not only because of the way the stepmother treats her but she knows how it feels because her own mother is doing the same to her. She meets the prince in the forest when she saves his life instead of the traditional stories of meeting the prince at the ball. I think that this gave more plot and details to the story. Even though this is relating to the fairytale of it is a real life experience. Which doesn't include the help of the animal helpers instead it is the help of the peasants in the household that get her a dress and do her hair. The evil stepmother a ...
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