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Sophistic Movement
Number of Words: 544 / Number of Pages: 2
... you that what he had to say about Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus and the other sophists was by no means benevolent, and according to G.B. Kerferd, nor was it a completely factual description of them. Unfortunately, since these innacurate depictions are all we have left, the generations that were to come accepted Plato’s hostile opinion of the sophists and it is for this reason that the word sophist is now found to be synonomous with the words bigot and know-it-all. Modern scholars have recently been trying to dispell the myths about the sophists, which is exactly what G.B. Kerferd attempts to ...
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Infant Immortality
Number of Words: 1477 / Number of Pages: 6
... (HHS), the US infant mortality rate in 1987 was higher than in 23 other countries
or territories, including most of Western Europe, Hong
Kong, and Singapore. The US infant mortality rate was
about 20 percent higher than Norway’s, nearly 50 percent
higher than in the Netherlands, and 200 percent higher
than Japan’s (Eberstadt et al., 1991). The United States
has not always fared so poorly in this international ranking.
In the early 1950’s it ranked sixth best (Anderson et al.,
1987).
The Select Committee on Hunger held a Congressional
hearing on infant mortality in the U ...
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How To Clean The Bathroom
Number of Words: 997 / Number of Pages: 4
... spray down the glass and again use the sponge to loosen any build up. Use the squeegee to take off the majority of the cleaner off and a glass rag to wipe any marks left. Make sure to look at the glass from all directions to be sure you didn’t leave any marks. Polish the shower head and knobs so they shine. Now scrub floor well and wipe dry as you get out of the shower. Spay and wipe the outside of the glass and the shower is done.
The next step is to get into the tub. The bathtub usually has more soap sum
because of the water sitting, so be prepared to scrub. Run your sponge under the water ...
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Program Of Excellence
Number of Words: 555 / Number of Pages: 3
... The regroups the Men’s National Team, the Women’s National Team, the Men’s National Junior Team, the Men’s National Under 18 Team and the Men’s Regional Under 17 Teams.
By participating in the players are exposed to high calibre coaching and training methods designed to better prepare our national teams to compete against the top teams in the world.
The has created a process through which potential candidates for regional and national teams participating in International competitions can be selected. To achieve the objectives of the Program the collective resource ...
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Automobile Motorsports Around The World
Number of Words: 669 / Number of Pages: 3
... to be some of the best handling cars in the world, typified by the company Porsche. Using somewhat lighter cars, they can corner at
frighteningly high speeds. It often takes a very professional, and brave,
driver to extract anything near full potential from them. The V6 is the engine of choice here, with turbocharging being the number one choice for forced induction. Superchargers and nitrous are not typically found on German cars, though they have been known to be installed. The V6's are usually of an all-aluminum construction, and have long been aircooled, though that has recently changed to waterc ...
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Gangs
Number of Words: 690 / Number of Pages: 3
... is complemented by an unprecedented growth in youth living with little or no adult supervision. For decades mostly adults drove violent crime, with kids involved mostly in property crime. What has been changing is that juveniles are becoming much more involved in violent offenses, with the use of weapons.
Authorities describe the youth gang as a "violent and insidious new form of organized crime", heavily armed with sophisticated weapons, gangs are involved in drug trafficking, witness intimidation, extortion, and bloody territorial wars. In some cases they are traveling out of state to spr ...
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Muhammad's 23 Years Of Prophetic Ministry
Number of Words: 871 / Number of Pages: 4
... a fight. On that day, Muhammad ordered the murder of 10 people living in Mecca. Muhammad said "God forbid killing in Mecca, except for this one day." Sarh was one of the people Muhammad ordered to be murdered. His crime? He had left Islam, and he constituted a threat to the credibility of the Qur'an and the prophethood of Muhammad. No wonder then that Muhammad wanted him dead.
"'To me it has been revealed', when naught has been revealed to him" refers to `Abdallah Ibn Sa`d Ibn Abi Sarh, who used to write for God's messenger. The verse (23:12) that says, "We created man of an extraction of clay" ...
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How To Rejuvenate A Mature Bus
Number of Words: 2365 / Number of Pages: 9
... measures although their work was seen as controversial by Drury but is now considered of key importance to manufacturing industries aiming to become world class. This essay aims to discuss the ways in which new management accounting techniques can bring life into mature businesses, in particular those using non-financial measures.
Most companies still use the same cost accounting and management control systems that were developed decades ago in a competitive environment drastically different from today. These systems have major drawbacks described below:
„h They distort product costs i.e. ...
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Automobile Racing
Number of Words: 1029 / Number of Pages: 4
... vehicle construction; four major types of racing cars are now built.
Pure racing machines, such as those used in Grand PrixFormula 1 and in Indycar,
are built for power and endurance at speeds of more than 320 km/h (200 MPH). In
the past stock cars used to be production automobiles modified for track racing,
but are built now solely for the purpose of racing. Sports cars used for racing,
such as rallies, may be either rebuilt production vehicles or pure racing
machines. Drag racers are cars built to accelerate rapidly to high speeds over
very short straight tracks, or drag strips, generally abou ...
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Borders
Number of Words: 1016 / Number of Pages: 4
... upon or even shattered in Central America.
While many of us may point fingers it is indeed our very own United States government which has not respected the political present in this part of the world. We have stepped into territory in this area that we have no business being involved with. Under our government’s supervision, the CIA carried out a coup in Guatemala in which it installed a self-perpetuation pro-American gang of military criminals who have held power for almost forty years. Their reproductive mechanism has been murder of hundreds of thousands of Guatemalams. After this unnecessary ...
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