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A New Day On Wall Street. The
Number of Words: 744 / Number of Pages: 3
... by reducing trading costs and developing user friendly platforms for investors. The Brokerage industry is one driven by quality customer service and high profits. Investors want to maximize there investments at a reduced cost but still receive the highest level of service and information available. In the past investors were restricted by the amount of control they had over their investments, brokers made recommendation, pushes, and did the actual purchasing. Today with the addition of the PC and online capabilities investors can choose what, where and when they invest. By utilizing online resourc ...
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How To Avoid Road Rage
Number of Words: 727 / Number of Pages: 3
... the middle finger or curse at them if we were face to face with them, so why would we do so if we are in a car?
Second of all you want to use your change lanes signal whenever you are about to do so. That could trigger most people if they get cut off, you want to give the person or persons in the other lanes as much time as possible to anticipate you moving in front of them.
Next, if you see someone that is tailgating you in your mirror move the right lane, if you are in the fast lane, so that they can pass you and you are not going to get hit by the person, and also do not tailgate others. Ninety p ...
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Can One Perceive Or Confirm The Existence Of An Idea Or Object That Is External To Him Mainly - God?
Number of Words: 668 / Number of Pages: 3
... will have an effect is only if it stems from a
legitimate cause. A stone, for example, cannot be perceived accurately if there
isn't an initial idea preceding with equal or superior properties in one's
intellect. The mind generates ideas and develops reality through previous
schema or beliefs as Descartes states:
"And although an idea may give rise to another idea, this
regress cannot, nevertheless, be infinite;we must in the
end reach a first idea, the cause of which is, as it were,
the archetype in which all the reality that is found
objec ...
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The Maori Of New Zealand
Number of Words: 542 / Number of Pages: 2
... to accomplish their task. This
gave the Aborigine absolutely no respect from the English, and almost to this
day are they treated as inferiors, by the English. This was not the case with
the neighboring Maori's.
As stated before, the English eventually found their way to the south,
where the beautiful island lay untouched by foreign hands. They also found that
the island had a native populace just as Australia had had. But one thing was
very different from these natives. The English, thinking that this island was
also theirs for the taking, met heavy resistance from the Maori. Many an English
life wa ...
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Using Nuclear Power
Number of Words: 2298 / Number of Pages: 9
... sickness , mutations , cancer and eventually death to those exposed to high levels of radiation . Government declared that nuclear power is safe and efficient . Also have big Oil corporations who have a lot of money invested in nuclear power and want to see as many plants as possible put into and kept in operation . The truth is that accidents do happen at nuclear power plants and at other facilities all the time . An accident at a nuclear power plant has the potential to be much more devastating than an accident at a coal or gas plant because of the radiation that could be released . An ...
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Hockey
Number of Words: 1067 / Number of Pages: 4
... by French explorers who watched the Indians' ball-and-stick games.
Although the original game called for nine men on each side, the number of team players involved could vary from one community to another. Soon a committee met in Montreal to establish regulations for seven-man teams. The positions agreed upon were goalkeeper, two defensemen, three forwards, and a rover who alternated between offense and defense. The National Association, formed in 1909, eliminated the rover, which meant that east-west championship games alternated between the six- and seven-man styles for a time. Until the mid-19 ...
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The Differences Between, I Feel Certain; I Am Certain; It Is Certain
Number of Words: 1202 / Number of Pages: 5
... This is demonstrated both by the lack of conviction (therefore implying willingness to consider opposing views) and by asserting the proposition as a personal belief (Knowledge based upon subjectivity or intuition is often that which through cultural sensitivity is left unchallenged).
The emotive nature of the proposition, in which a state of mind is expressed, implies that the individual holds this as personal knowledge, applying to themselves, but not necessarily to others..
Plato in the Theatatus rejects the theory that knowledge can be based purely on belief or a subjective state of m ...
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Give Labeling A Chance
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... The government should make stricter laws on the labeling of goods that contain chemicals which could be potentially hazardous to one's health.
First, "corporations are trying to mislead consumers into believing household pesticides are harmless," according to Marion Moses, M.D. of the Pesticide Education Center in San Francisco ("Latest Organic"). Raid, a product produced by S.C. Johnson Corporation, which is used to kill roaches, ants, and flies, has inscribed on the side of its container "MADE WITH PYRETHRINS: PYRETHRIN INSECTICIDE IS MADE FROM FLOWERS" (18). That fact is very reassuring in ...
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Philosophy
Number of Words: 473 / Number of Pages: 2
... or philosophical insight; merely he needs to be able to maintain a strong memory. Still, we marvel at the man’s intellect, viewing him as a highly intelligent person, simply because he can remember things. Knowledge, therefore, can be acquired by anyone who wishes to work to contain volumes of information.
Wisdom, however, is not as easily obtained as knowledge. Wisdom is the ability of the mind to scrutinize knowledge. Wisdom is what scholars, thinkers, and philosophers possess. When an individual can question and examine aspects of himself and his world, and in turn develop answers, then ...
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The War On Tobacco
Number of Words: 1785 / Number of Pages: 7
... our older generations are enduring painful, inevitable deaths. The tobacco companies have been arguing for years that no studies have been done within their company about the correlation of cigarette smoking and lung cancer and that they are ignorant on that matter. They have been keeping things from us for years while studies outside the tobacco companies had been done to help prove that smoking is harmful in the short and long runs to one¹s health. There was a memo written in 1963 marked ³strictly private and confidential² which stated,² moreover, nicotine is addictive... We are then in ...
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