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How To Use Commas
Number of Words: 218 / Number of Pages: 1
... off a dependent clause (a phrase
which can't stand alone as a sentence).
Examples:
Wrong- But, she did get it done on time.
Right- But, to be fair, she did get it done on time.
* Between a month and year in a date: NOT November, 1990, The comma stops two
sets of numerals from running into one another. WRIGHT November 20, 1990.
* Some style guides call for omitting the comma after very short dependent
clauses at the beginning of a sentence: NOT “On Saturday, the office is closed.”
WRIGHT “On Saturday the office is closed.” But do use a comma after long
dependent causes: “Because the entir ...
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The Cyclops: An Unusual People
Number of Words: 409 / Number of Pages: 2
... king,
freed them after Cronos had imprisoned them (31). The Cyclopes were very good
smiths (12). They forged thunderbolts for Zeus because he freed them (Schmidt
74). A war was in the midst so the Cyclopes made armor and weapons for the gods
of Olympus (Evslin 39). Even though the Cyclopes performed all of these good
deeds the people still disliked them so much that they were forced to return to
their smithy in the middle of a volcano for eternity (71). The Cyclopes lives
were filled with helpfulness to others, but they were still shunned and hated.
The Cyclopes were basically good people, but th ...
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Telvesion
Number of Words: 549 / Number of Pages: 2
... one way relationships “ with the television, they fail to fully develop their communication and social skills. This further intensifies the decline of the family relationships.
Author also point out television undermines the family. Most parents are now relying on outside sources such as television, schools and certain summer camps to educated their children about life. Relying on these sources, parent have lost sight of the most important way to express love. Time spent with their children talking and sharing is replaced by time spent in front of the television.
But, for most part, author ...
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The Origin Of Humanity
Number of Words: 373 / Number of Pages: 2
... and placed along a timeline. The time periods
show slight differences in bone structure showing what is hypothesized to
be the human evolving.
Evolving from what though? The theory of evolution states that
creatures change overtime to suit their surroundings. This is called
environmental adaptation. The more a creature can adapt to it's
environment the greater chance it has of living and show an increase in
population called survival of the fittest. A theory developed by a
scientist nammed Charles Darwin who had conducted extensive research into
the environmental adaptions of animals, for example the ...
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Resident Physician Stress And
Number of Words: 1328 / Number of Pages: 5
... demand occurs in residency. Residents become teachers for peers, attending physicians, and medical students. The reasoning is that teaching often educates the teacher better than books or lectures. In many programs, residents provide substantial portions of medical student education during student's clinical years. Residents serve as on-site physicians, sometimes spending nights in the hospital "on call" for routine and emergency situations and for the admission and stabilization of patients. Traditionally, an on call assignment lasted about thirty-six consecutive hours in the hospital, an ...
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The Code Of Hammurabi
Number of Words: 1460 / Number of Pages: 6
... positivism, along with man's ability to distinguish between the
spheres of the secular and vernacular. To prove these points, I also
intend to explore Hammurabi's codification of natural law, and Socrates'
interpretation of the state of legal positivism in ancient Greece.
Although misguided, the ancient Egyptians systemically subscribed
their lives to divine authority and law. This is due to their culture's
unique co-habitation of secular life and vernacular authority. The source
of authority in Egypt, pharaoh god-kings, were the embodiment of human body
and divine spirit, hence, no disti ...
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Marijuana 3
Number of Words: 1442 / Number of Pages: 6
... days after a smoking session. However, in heavy chronic users, traces can sometimes be detected for weeks after they have stopped using marijuana.
There are many reasons why some children and young teens start smoking marijuana. Most young people smoke marijuana because their friends or brothers and sisters use marijuana and pressure them to try it. Some young people use it because they see older people in the family using it. Others may think it's cool to use marijuana because they hear songs about it and see it on TV and in movies. Some teens may feel they need marijuana and other drugs to help them ...
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Women In Management
Number of Words: 1050 / Number of Pages: 4
... time.
Receiving a promotion is an event to be celebrated. Employees promoted to the role of manager are confronted with a new set of responsibilities and yet, too often, these employees lack management training and development skills. Consequently, new supervisors are faced with a difficult rite of passage - learning through trial and error. "To ensure the smooth transition from employee to manager, the virtue of continuous learning must be integrated into the corporate culture of any organization," says Andrew Schwartz, president of A.E. Schwartz & Associates, Watertown, Mass., a comprehensive manage ...
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Gambling
Number of Words: 657 / Number of Pages: 3
... through chance situations and the
outcome of such events as hunts, wars, and games of chance; instruments
of divination frequently included objects used in gambling.
As people gradually acquired knowledge of the nature of their
environment and interpreted it in terms of cause and effect, their attitude
toward gambling changed. Games of chance became pastimes, but the
ancient belief that a lucky gambler was favored by the gods persisted.
Among the upper classes of the peoples of antiquity, gambling was
frequently associated with extravagance and licentiousness. During the
Middle Ages, in ...
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Anorexia
Number of Words: 1205 / Number of Pages: 5
... takes ordinary, often very beautiful people and drives them to starvation for no apparent reason whatsoever. They do not even seem to realize the extreme danger that comes with not eating a balanced diet. These young people lose so much
weight that it makes them extremely fragile and sometimes causes death.
Death was very near to a girl named Patti, who suffered through for more than two years. She ate nothing but two cream-filled cookies a day for more than seven weeks. The first cookie was breakfast and lunch, and the second was for her main meal. When she decided that these two cookies ...
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