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Christian Morality
Number of Words: 1105 / Number of Pages: 5
... understand the abstractions of morality. They use religion to
rationalize the subconscious forces which cause sin rather
than overcome them.
What is often not accepted about morality is its objective
origins, it's social significance and the related human
responsibilities. While some of it is obvious and cannot be
denied, it is not in the theology. For example, big ...
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Communication Inluence And Cha
Number of Words: 648 / Number of Pages: 3
... is a direct effect of communication. I say this because what one person says to another will always have an influence be it negative or positive. Some positive examples of influence are speeches given by some of the great men of our country's past. Men like Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln,
and John F. Kennedy have had a powerful impact with their speeches. Speeches like Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation", King's " I have a dream" and J.F.K's "We Choose to go to the Moon" have influenced people in many ways.
There have also been some negative speeches like those of the KKK and occult tea ...
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Engines 2
Number of Words: 851 / Number of Pages: 4
... and it was heated until steam was formed. The pressure that was made from the steam made the piston rise fitting in the cylinder, and after it was raised the heat was removed from the bottom of the cylinder. As the cylinder cooled, the steam condensed and the air pressure on the top of the piston pushed the piston down.
The main parts of an Otto-cycle engine and a diesel engine are the same. Their combustion chamber has cylinders that are closed at one end and in which a close-fitting piston slides. The outside of the piston is connected to a crankshaft by a connecting rod. The crankshaft change ...
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Landfills
Number of Words: 1507 / Number of Pages: 6
... 3-4].
Fresh Kills (Kills is from the Dutch word for creek) was originally a tidal marsh. In 1948, New York City planner Robert Moses developed a highly praised project to deposit municipal garbage in the swamp until the level of the land was above sea level. A study of the area predicted the marsh would be filled by the year 1968. He then planned to develop the area, building houses and attracting light industry. Mayor Impelliteri issued a report titled "The Fresh Kills Landfill Project" in 1951. The report stated, in part, that the enterprise "cannot fail to affect constructively a wide area around i ...
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Sammy Sosa Vs. Mark McGwire
Number of Words: 689 / Number of Pages: 3
... his overall slugging percentage will pretty much stay the same.
The numbers of hits that McGwire and Sosa have have been pretty close to the number they should have in this point of their careers. McGwire has 1,388 hits in 1,576 games and Sosa has 1,280 hits in 1,289 games. If Sosa were in the league the same amount of time that McGwire has been, Sosa would have probably had more hits. Sosa has only played in 1,289 games as where McGwire has only played in 1,576 games. Sosa has a 99 percent chance of getting a hit each game, however McGwire has only an 88 percent chance of getting a hit each game. ...
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The Scarlet Letter
Number of Words: 502 / Number of Pages: 2
... nice. More often than not, she shows her intelligence and free thought, a trait of the Romantics. One of Pearl's favorite activities is playing with flowers and trees. (The reader will recall that anything affiliated with the forest was evil to Puritans. To Hawthorne, however, the forest was beautiful and natural.) "And she was gentler here [the forest] than in the grassy- margined streets of the settlement, or in her mother's cottage. The flowers appeared to know it"(194) Pearl fit in with natural things. Also, Pearl is always effervescent and joyous, which is definitely a negative to the Puritans. ...
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Basketball And Its History
Number of Words: 2508 / Number of Pages: 10
... 3 m (about 10 ft)
above the playing surface. Each basket is about 46 cm (about 18 in) in
diameter and consists of a horizontal hoop, or metal ring, from which a
fringe of wide-meshed white netting is hung. The regulation basketball is
an inflated, leather- or nylon-covered sphere that weighs from 567 to 624 g
(20 to 22 oz) and has a circumference of about 76 cm (about 30 in).
History
Basketball was invented in December 1891 by the Canadian clergyman,
educator, and physician James Naismith. Naismith introduced the game when
we was an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association Training ...
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Plato's Argument For A Just Life
Number of Words: 1680 / Number of Pages: 7
... in the fact that
the only reason that we desire to drink is that we anticipate the result of our
thirst being quenched. Our appetites see no further consequences than the
immediate fulfillment of our desires; they do not contemplate the results of the
actions we take to fulfill our desires.
For this reason, Plato believes that we must separate the soul based on how it
reacts to desires. There must be a part of the soul, Plato reasons, that
contemplates the end result of our actions and makes decisions based on a higher
reasoning than desire. So we see two distinct parts of the soul. The first is ...
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The Advancement Of War
Number of Words: 386 / Number of Pages: 2
... politico-social systems. Loss of war threatened loss of everything, even freedom of individual conscience. World War II, which produced the cynical aggression and inhuman behavior of the aggressors, also left the legacy of the acts of the victims' aggressions.
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not revolutionary events. One major justification of the events was the argument that they simply accomplished more efficiently what was already being done by hundreds of bombers carrying highly explosive bombs. However, after these bombings the trend toward nuclear war was accelerated ...
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Firearms
Number of Words: 1208 / Number of Pages: 5
... extraction of fired shells. In the first case, after you’re done shooting, you have to take out every single shell using some sharp object to push on it from the front holes of the chamber. In the second case, the revolver usually opens up, “breaking into two pieces” and you pull out every single shell, or the chamber is shifted left and emptied by pushing on the special rod in the front (i.e. “Colt” or “Smith-Wesson”). Revolvers are also divided into manual and automatic ones. In the manual revolver you have to draw back the firing lever each time to make a shot, in automatic it moves ba ...
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