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Atlantis: We Will Never Know
Number of Words: 1000 / Number of Pages: 4
... prehistoric Athenians, because when the rulers of Atlantis threatened to invade all of Europe and Asia the Athenians, on behalf of all Greeks, defeated the Atlanteans to avoid enslavement.
The works of Plato opened the floodgates to endless speculation on whether the continent described was fact or fiction. Atlantis has since been placed in Spain, Mongolia, Palestine, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden, Greenland and Yucatan. Every nook and cranny of the globe has been hypothesized; mountain peaks, desert lands, the ocean floor and even the barren wasteland of Antarctica have been mentioned in ...
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Responces To Hunger
Number of Words: 919 / Number of Pages: 4
... but by making the others watch and cheer, the Japanese were able to use these kinds of atrocities to classically condition a very large audience to associate pleasure with human death and suffering. Immediately afterwards, the soldiers who had been spectators were treated to sake, the best meal they had in months, and so-called comfort girls. The result? They learned to associate committing violent acts with pleasure.
There are also some clear-cut examples of classical conditioning established by the media today. Our culture watches vivid pictures of human suffering and death, and we learn to asso ...
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Stereotypes- Definitional Essa
Number of Words: 768 / Number of Pages: 3
... In the home, women have certain household chores, that have been naturally assigned to them: washing dishes, laundry, dusting and cleaning, and taking care of the kids just to name a few. These chores and household duties have been deemed a woman’s job since the beginning of time; the man would go out and hunt dinner and it would be the woman’s duty to cook and prepare dinner. So, after all these years, it is still assumed that the same duties have carried through generations. It is a stereotype that cooking, cleaning, and raising children are women’s work.
The most common stereo ...
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My Personal View Of Mathematics
Number of Words: 299 / Number of Pages: 2
... Gorsline’s. Math may save me from a fuel consumption problem. Even early in my career. To get my licenses I am going to have to manage my hours. So, as anyone can see math is all around us. Math is in everything we do, in every day.
Where would the world be without math? Would my career still be the same? To answer these questions, we must take a look at the historical advancement of math. We must also look at its effects on mankind. Before the invention of counting devices, such as the abacus, we were limited to fingers and toes. When we needed more units, we lined up neighbors. Then there was a rev ...
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Middle Adulthood
Number of Words: 845 / Number of Pages: 4
... is a drop in bone mass, due to the slow depletion of estrogen. Menopause is fast approaching, followed up with all the negative health complications that follow this phase. This is the beginning of a slowness of our psychomotor performance. Our reaction time to specific situations is not as quick, and our physical stamina is not as strong as it used to be.
All these developments affect how men and women feel about themselves. Particularly women, begin to interpret these changes in a negative way. Some view themselves as sexually unattractive. Men, on the other hand, don’t seem to be as concer ...
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Excellence In Education
Number of Words: 2799 / Number of Pages: 11
... Ebel states in the beginning of his article, that he does not assume schools should be social research agencies, recreational facilities, adjustment centers, or custodial institutions. (3). While he does not deny that our nation is currently wrestling with a dreary array of social ailments, he does argue that the answer to such problems can or should lie within the jurisdiction of our schools.
In discussing education’s mission to provide useful knowledge, Ebel defines what he means by the word knowledge: “It is an integrated structure of relationships among concepts and propositionsR ...
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White Bay Power Station
Number of Words: 2463 / Number of Pages: 9
... for the traction current for the Sydney’s tramways, the railway and tram workshop and part of city’s lighting load and other government departments (eg sewerage, swing bridges e.t.c.).
White Bay Power Station came into existence in 1913. At this stage the buildings had been completed but most of the plant has yet to be established. In 1925 the proposed electrification of Suburban Railways heralded an increase in demand to be placed on the system. White Bay was extended with new installations and was changed to the British standards in terms of the electric power supply norms.
The site has no ...
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Stress Management
Number of Words: 2106 / Number of Pages: 8
... The demands on police officers to show greater restraint has been increasing over the years and has increased the effects of stress on police work. Today’s police officer is now more than ever in the public eye. He now must think about consequences before his actions in every situation.
If we take a quick overview of police work and look at the research we can see what are some of the biggest stresses. Having your partner killed in the line of duty, lack of support by the department and bosses, shift work and disruption of family time/ family rituals and the daily grind of dealing with the s ...
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Psychological Stress
Number of Words: 1817 / Number of Pages: 7
... or inadequacies, bad relationships, deaths, and loneliness. Self-defeating thoughts are a
way in which we almost deliberately block attainment of our needs. If in our heads, we have this preconceived
notion that we are incapable of obtaining something that we want or that others could not possibly love us, we
create a self-fulfilling prophecy. I used the word "deliberately" in describing self-doubt because we have the
ability to change these misinformed thoughts.
Major life changes whether it be positive or negative can lead to very stressful situations. In
our society, many people fall in ...
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Existence Of God Benedict De S
Number of Words: 2006 / Number of Pages: 8
... anything in common with anything else. Since there can not be anything in common with God, there is no external cause that can act on God; That is there is no external cause that can prevent God's infinite existence.
Furthermore, since God is a supremely perfect being his own nature can not contradict his existence. This part of proof is easier understood when one considers more closely the fact that God is not caused by any external forces. Things that were caused externally owe the qualities that they posses solely to their cause. For example, if there is a critical disease in the bloodline of ...
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