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Pride -- (war Essay) --
Number of Words: 783 / Number of Pages: 3
... we slept in our assumed safety and woke us with gunfire. I was on my feet in an instant reaching for my 9mm pistol and barking out orders. It was then, in the middle of the rubble that I had realized my folly. A huge metal door lay open, the hole in the ground that it had been capping gaped open, ready to either claim a hapless soldier or belch the enemy back up. My orders did nothing we had been infiltrated by a larger, stronger, and better-equipped force. I screamed for my men to surrender hoping this opposing commander would give us mercy in the light of the Geneva Convention.
In my mind I fit ...
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Web Page Critiques
Number of Words: 331 / Number of Pages: 2
... much of the page you have opened. It quickly plays a short movie including sound to keep you interested before loading the rest of the page. The site includes fun stuff like a game, a movie clip (Most Valuable Primate), and CCM commercials. There is a seperate frame at the top of the page for a very nice flash powered navigation bar. Once you choose a line of products you can view the different products using the built in scroll bar. The design is excellent but I think they could use a little more real information about their products and some real photos of their products instead of drawings. ...
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Essay - Effects Of Dam Building
Number of Words: 1215 / Number of Pages: 5
... created to
collect or hold water for periods of time when there is a surplus supply.
The water is then used when there is a lack of supply. For example many
small dams impound water in the spring, for use in the summer dry months.
Storage dams also supply a water supply, or an improved habitat for fish
and wildlife; they may store water for hydroelectricity as well.
A diversion dam is a generation of a commonly constructed dam which is
built to provide sufficient water pressure for pushing water into ditches,
canals or other systems. These dams, which are normally shorter than
storage dams are use ...
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Oakland Community College
Number of Words: 868 / Number of Pages: 4
... their courses to accommodate curricula which are pre-requisites for universities and advertising the same in local universities.
Creating Customer Focus throughout Business
Technology
Registration in OCC is by telephone or by person. 'By person' is very taxing for working individuals who are unable to register on time due to time restraints. 'By telephone' is easier but disadvantage for individuals who are trying to get into courses which fill up faster than the others and their last names begin with alphabets which fall during later times of the day. Making it accessible via Internet can make re ...
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City Engineer And Director Of Public Works
Number of Words: 705 / Number of Pages: 3
... assumes no responsibility for the disposal plant, but continues to advise Chris without James's knowledge. During the winter, heavy storms occur in the city. It becomes clear to those involved that if the plant's waste water is not released into the local river, the ponds will overflow and dump all of the waste into the river. Under state law, this condition must be reported to the State Water Pollution Control Authority.
In the Code of Ethics it states that: "Engineers, in the fulfillment of their professional duties, shall hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public in the performa ...
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Sufism
Number of Words: 1339 / Number of Pages: 5
... God can be reached only through personal experience.
The original Sufis, though they seem far from the orthodox views, maintained a very close tie with original Islamic doctrine. Their differences were considerable, but the link with orthodoxy was “guaranteed by their acceptance of the law and ritual practices of Islam.”
The Sufis believe that a person’s soul abides with God before it ever inhabits the body of man. This connection is the reason for all Sufi practice. Their rituals and ceremonies are an attempt to reconnect their soul with God, its original keeper. This pursu ...
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Love 2
Number of Words: 1037 / Number of Pages: 4
... grow tired of it and leave him.More reasons why couples separate, addictions often result in ugly breakups. Whether it is an addiction to drugs, sex, gambling, or whatever, hardly anyone would be willing to take that on an everyday basis. Most people would agree that it is not pretty to see someone throw their life away on addictions. It is simply not attractive and thus, not many people would want to be with someone with an extreme problem like that. An unfortunate reason for a breakup, physical disabilities, also occurs at times. This can range from a paralyzing accident to impotence and inferti ...
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Social Heirarchy
Number of Words: 1728 / Number of Pages: 7
... not of their status. Sam struggles to gain equality with those of the more popular crowd within the school. By showing both types of crowds, it expands the viewing audience because everyone can relate to either on of the two crowds.
Walking down the hallway of Kennedy High School, one can easily spot out who the members of each of the two crowds are just by their appearance. Anyone who is blonde, beautiful, and looks as though she can be a model for the cover of a magazine can easily be a candidate for the popular crowd. What verifies the status of being apart of the "in" crowd is being a member of t ...
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The Good Death -
Number of Words: 2271 / Number of Pages: 9
... Terrorism has become out of hand. “Terrorism has become the accepted model for the modern use of force, with terrorists them selves often enjoying more moral credibility than the democratic stated they are trying to bring down (McGurn, William, pg.91).” By allowing the terrorist to become more popular than their government it creates a even more hectic situation. This needs to change or the terrorists acts will only increase.
Terrorism is a strategy used because it has no rules. This makes it vary useful due to it having no restrictions at all. “Whereas nuclear weapons are means ...
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To What Extent Does The Nature Of Language Illuminate Our Understanding Of The Relation Between Knowledge Of Ourselves And Knowledge Of Others?
Number of Words: 1367 / Number of Pages: 5
... of
consensus in most cases to ensure that our thoughts are to a great extent
communicable. This essay will concentrate on two aspects of language. Firstly
that it gives our own thoughts and those of others a certain degree of
portability and secondly that because it has a firm (though not rigid) set of
rules governing the relationships between symbols it allows what would otherwise
be internal concepts that could not be generalised, to be made explicit,
examined in detail and compared.
If we did not have language we would be able to surmise very little about other
humans around us. Non-verbal commu ...
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