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College Stress
Number of Words: 753 / Number of Pages: 3
... stressful to wake up in the morning and be one time for classes. Finally, preparing and taking mid-term and final exams are the most stressful time that student encounter for the entire semester. In a similar case to Jack, my friend, Som, who is a good student at City College, always gets nervous and stays up all night to study for his mid-term and final exams. Since, school requires students to maintain their GPA to a certain point in order for them to stay in school, passing the classes and getting good grades are one of the most concerning issues for a lot of students.
In addition to academic stre ...
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The Mexican Revolution
Number of Words: 1160 / Number of Pages: 5
... Morelos organized an attack force and began raiding Spanish plantations and towns. Hidalgo’s army was defeated in 1811 and he was executed. Jose Morelos took control of the revolution and led attacks until the Spaniards captured and killed him in 1815. When Morelos died so did the revolution of 1810.( www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/mexicanrev.htm, Encarta 98)
In 1876, Porfirio Diaz, an Indian general in the Mexican Army took control of the nation, and continued to be elected until 1910. This new era was too one way and started the Mexican Revolution. The government eventually allowed Mexico to fall i ...
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How To Set Up A Repel
Number of Words: 701 / Number of Pages: 3
... into water knots around the tie off points and attach a carabineer and lock it to the webbing from the rope. Where you attach the carabineer to the rope you should also tie a figure eight knot in the rope. Once you have tied everything up you must then go ahead and test the ropes to make sure they will not slip.
Now that everything is safe and secure you must deploy the rope down to the ground. Before you throw the rope you must yell “rope” to let anyone below know what is coming down. Next put on your harness, and the person who is not going to repel down the rope should go ahead and go dow ...
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El Inconformismo Femenino En L
Number of Words: 1736 / Number of Pages: 7
... un manisfiesto de los derechos de la mujer y del inconformismo femenino que eventualmente lleva a la mujer a rechazar la realidad. Analizare y demonstrare por medio de este ensayo, los papeles que le toca jugar (a la mujer) en esta sociedad, la corrupcion moral y social que le rodea y su reacción ante todo esto resultando en un trágico final.
Maria de los Angeles Fernandez hija de el alcalde de San Juan, Don Fabiano Fernandez es la protagonista de esta novela. Ella aspira ser bailarina. En cambio la sociedad en que ella víve, tiene otros planes para su vida. El colegio Católico, en el cual Maria d ...
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Guerilla Warfare
Number of Words: 667 / Number of Pages: 3
... allied regular armies.
The tactics of guerillas are those of harassment. Striking swiftly and unexpectedly, they raid enemy supply depots and installations, ambush patrols and supply convoys, and cut communication lines, hoping thereby to disrupt enemy activities and to capture equipment and supplies for their own use. Because of their mobility, the dispersal of their forces into small groups, and their ability to disappear among the civilian population, guerrillas are extremely difficult to capture.
Guerrilla warfare has figured prominently in the history of North and South America, from the slave rev ...
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Aristotle On Friendship
Number of Words: 615 / Number of Pages: 3
... parties become involved with each other for their own personal
benefit. An example would be a working relationship with an individual. These
are people who do not spend much time together, possibly because they do not
like each other, and therefore feel no need to associate with one another unless
they are mutually useful. They take pleasure from each other's company just for
their own sake. Aristotle uses the elderly and foreigners as examples of
friendships based on utility.
The second type of friendship is a friendship based on pleasure. This
friendship is made between two people that wish to ...
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Five Universe Creation Myths
Number of Words: 270 / Number of Pages: 1
... brought the universe to its present state. He or she
brought light from darkness, produced sea and land to make the Earth, and
populated it with plant and animal life.
Differences are easy to spot too. Different landscapes being developed
are e mphasized by groups of people living in different regions. The
Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin mention creation of forests, streams, and
lakes, while The Pelasgian Myth mentions Mount Olympus and the Teutonic
myth mentions the Northern Sea.
From the way the stories are written, one can guess at the way that the
cultures think and live. The Wisconsin ...
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Athena
Number of Words: 1236 / Number of Pages: 5
... Athena's colorful personality. Here is how "The Gift of Athena"
goes:
Long, long ago, when this old world was a very young place, and when the few
people there were had just begun to live together in groups for their own
protection, the great gods selected the places for humans to build the cities.
They looked down upon the earth, through the clouds that shrouded their home on
the very peak of the high mountain called Olympus, and they chose the sites they
thought would provide everything mortals needed to live and prosper. Now, each
god and goddess was eager to have a great city built in his or h ...
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How To Play Beer Pong
Number of Words: 726 / Number of Pages: 3
... make great beer pong tables. Lastly, beer pong requires massive amounts of beer. Usually this beer costs very little money and tastes like garbage. Busch Light and Milwaukee's Best fall in that category.
The rules of beer pong portray the simplicity of the game. The game requires four players, two on each team. Each team stands on one side of the rectangular table. Both teams assemble a pyramid of ten cups at their respective end of the table. The teams place the last two cups on the edges of the table even with the first cup in the pyramid. Each team will defend their cups against the opposing te ...
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Allen Ginsberg : Howl
Number of Words: 2787 / Number of Pages: 11
... would later join him as fathers of a literary/social movement known as the Beat Generation. Ginsberg's subject matter focused on the activities of his social circle and included such things as drug use and homosexual sex. These topics hadn't been written about so openly, without some sort of literary masking before. Ginsberg's far-ranging, wildly expressive style greatly impacted the evolution of modern literature. His literary odyssey created a vast legacy of poetry and the publication of many books of poetry and prose. Perhaps most notable, "Howl," was published in 1956 by Lawrence Ferlinghett ...
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