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The Very First Wonder Of The World - The Great Pyramid
Number of Words: 562 / Number of Pages: 3
... mountains of Wyoming. From the top almost five hundred feet in the air above the base, it commands a view of the surrounding and desolate Egyptian desert. The base of the Great Pyramid covers thirteen and one-half acres, approximately seven square city blocks.
What was it that has attracted this man like a magnet? What was the force that drew these men to the great pyramid? What did these men find, to their own satisfaction, that could have affected this strange and dramatic change in their life patterns? What unexplained force surrounds the Great Pyramid and, acts like a giant cosmic ...
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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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Serial Killers 2
Number of Words: 4729 / Number of Pages: 18
... attack is over, their mission is complete. The mass killer's victims may not be chosen for any other reason than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"A serial murder occurs when one or more individuals commit a second murder and/or subsequent murder; is relationship-less ; is at a different time and has no apparent connection to the initial murders ; and is usually committed in a different geographical location. Further, the motive is not for material gain and is believed to be for the murderer’s desire to have power over it’s victims. Victims may have a symbolic value and a ...
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Observing Persuasion In The Ne
Number of Words: 4597 / Number of Pages: 17
... context of social psychology.
As this paper is an exposition of the presence of persuasion in the New Age (contrary to its assumed freedom), it is also necessary, in the interest of fairness, to make some fundamental distinctions, with respect to the possibility of illusory correlations being formed from the conclusions of this paper:
1. if the New Age does indeed use elements of persuasion, it is not necessarily cult-like, any more than is the average Christian denomination, whether evangelical or mainstream. Persuasion is basically a human phenomena, and thus it inevitably appears — to some degre ...
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Physical Fitness
Number of Words: 594 / Number of Pages: 3
... to keep our bones, teeth and skin healthy. They also play a role in blood pressure, heart regulation and muscle regulation. Calcium is a vital mineral because 99% of all the calcium in our bodies is found in our bones. Iron is also a essential mineral. It aids in the production of hemoglobin, myoglobin some enzymes. Magnesium, copper, phosphorus and potassium are all examples of minerals.
Proteins can be found in many foods but are more abundant in meat, fish, eggs, milk and diary products. Proteins are needed in the building of and restoration of body tissues. Proteins are not normally stored o ...
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Sex Education -- 2
Number of Words: 1530 / Number of Pages: 6
... solution. Sex education is flawed in that it is ineffective when it comes to lowering teenage pregnancies and STDs because sex education programs leave out important information, teachers who teach it are unqualified, and because teenagers are more greatly affected by their parents, peers, and popular media than by their teachers.
There is a myth that sex education provides teenagers with good and important information. Sex education supposedly gives students the means to make responsible and wise decisions. Pamela DeCarlo, from the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, is a firm believer in sex ...
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Does Science Explain All?
Number of Words: 1574 / Number of Pages: 6
... one really believes the magician has
supernatural powers, except for maybe a handful of children in the audience who
still have faith in Santa Clause.
Science does seem to explain all. It has enabled humans to fly, cure
incurable diseases, explore the depths of the oceans, stave off death, walk on
the moon and wipe out entire civilizations with the push of a button. It is
becoming more and more widespread in that people are putting their faith in
science above that in the gods. What parent wouldn't rather bring their sick
child to a doctor than have faith in the healing power of some mystical enti ...
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Living With Parents Vs. Living
Number of Words: 346 / Number of Pages: 2
... vase in the corner with the strange mouthpiece. And you can clean the house under your own standards of cleanliness, not your mom’s.
The new freedom comes with a greater responsibility as well. Living alone, you’llbe facing the combined wrath of the dirty dishes, the laundry, and all kinds of new bills to pay. And you can’t ask your parents for financial assistance, it will only prove to them thatyou can’t make it out on your own.
While moving out on your own is a big step for most young people, it is also alearning experience that willl help them to realize just what it t ...
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Scandinavian Mythology
Number of Words: 1512 / Number of Pages: 6
... of a man.
He was given the name Ymir. As the frost continued to thaw another form was
created. This form became a cow called Audhumbla. From her teats flowed
four rivers of milk and it was upon this that Ymir was
fed. While he fed, Ymir slept, and while he slept a male and female frost
giant grew from his armpits and one leg fathered a six headed troll with
the other leg.
Audhumbla lived by licking the ice-blocks that were salty, and by
the evening of the first day there appeared a man's hair where she licked.
On the second day, a man's head appeared, and by the third day the whole
man was ...
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Bartleby And Civil Disobedience
Number of Words: 562 / Number of Pages: 3
... work. He simply asks Bartleby to do easy tasks such as, “when those papers are all copied, I will compare them with you”, or, “just step around the Post Office, won’t you? And see if there is anything for me” (Melville 116). The boss, who is also the narrator, never requests Bartleby to perform any difficult chores. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s interpretation of an unjust law is, “a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself” (Jacobus 159). The injustice described here by King a ...
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