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Editorial Essay
Number of Words: 356 / Number of Pages: 2
... parents find out that you smoke they won't be very happy, they will probably ground you
to your room for the rest of your life. You get a record that is kept on file on the police
station, so when you get older and you want to get a job they will look at that and they
might not give you the job, they might give it to a guy who has nothing on his record.
That was our paper about smoking, I hope you thoght it over about smoking. Just
don't smoke or you could be a victim of all of those bad things that we talked about.
Everything that I said was true so just don't smoke. ...
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The Game Of Basketball
Number of Words: 3633 / Number of Pages: 14
... can vary in other ways, such as in the radius of the circle situated at the center of the court, in the size of the backboard, and in the distance of the 3-point line (from beyond which a score counts for 3 points) from the basket. For example, the 3-point line in high school and college games is 19 ft 9 in (6 m) from the basket, while in international play it is 21 ft 6 in (6.6 m) and in professional play it is 22 ft (6.7 m). In all variations of the game, the backboards, originally used to prevent spectators from interfering with play, are connected to cast-iron rims, or baskets, that are 18 in ...
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Phonology And The Dutch Stress
Number of Words: 1433 / Number of Pages: 6
... syllable. This means that antepenultimate stress (third syllable from right side of the word) only occurs in words with an open syllable next to it (an open penultimate syllable). Therefore, the Dutch stress system depends on the character of the second to last (penultimate) syllable.
Data: ANT PEN FIN
-VV-VV Pánama pyjáma chocolá
-VV-VC báriton célebes pelotón
-VC-VV agénda frikandéau
-VC-VC Gibráltar bombardón
-ViVj-VV andíjvie
Thirdly, schwa syllables ae never stressed:
Data: a) –CVX-C@(C) b) -CVV-@(C )
móde, saláde, mir ákel, Azië, Bélgië ...
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Survival In A Net Based Societ
Number of Words: 699 / Number of Pages: 3
... they know what is 'right'.
The 90's will be known as the age of the internet, a period when communication has been revolutionalised, a period when all the information we have collected over the years has finally become available to the common person. E-mail allows almost instantaneous communication, chat rooms provide forums for discussion and debate, web sites provide information about just about every topic under the sun, from what you can do with soap bubbles to ground breaking research in nuclear physics. The bottomline: information, pure and unadulterated. Human beings suddenly have the fre ...
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The Queer Use Of Women In Borg
Number of Words: 5691 / Number of Pages: 21
... than a maneuver that gives definition and dynamism to the interaction between men.
In opposition to the traditional critical standpoint that male-male interaction in Borgesian fiction is merely homosocial and, therefore, purely nonsexual, a closer inspection of Borges' work reveals the clear but playfully veiled presence of homoerotic desire. My purpose here is to analyze two stories, "El muerto" and "La intrusa," to expose the way in which the homosocial element of Borges' fictional world slides across the continuum[5] towards the homosexual side when men in each story make use of a communal woman ...
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The Man And Legend
Number of Words: 1218 / Number of Pages: 5
... to achieve equality I believe that a greater effort must be given by those in the majority, since the majority has control over many more things than minorities. West agrees when he states that every major institution in American society-churches, universities, courts, academies of science, governments, economies, newspapers, magazines, television, film, and others-attempted to exclude black people from the human family in the name of white supramissit ideology,” say West. This being the case I can understand why we have trouble moving forward towards equality. Above all, I believe that viole ...
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Greek And Roman Architecture
Number of Words: 2068 / Number of Pages: 8
... and
decorations to their temples. The Romans also made what became the very common
round, domed temple. The main temple of a Roman city was the capitolium. The
Pantheon, the famous temple in Rome, was a sample for some of the modern day
cathedrals and churches.
The Classical Period Temples became much larger and more elaborate.
Parthenon, one of the most famous structures ever, was created during that
period. The Greeks held many religious festivals in honour of their gods. The
purpose of festivals was to please the gods and convince them to grant the
people's wishes. Such as making the crop ...
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Virtue Based Ethical Systems
Number of Words: 673 / Number of Pages: 3
... from cultural views on God. In modern days, ethics has been detached itself from it’s theological roots and has lost it’s original appeal, thus calling for a better system to reject this model and guide it’s followers onto a better path. Critics also dislike how action-based ethical systems overemphasize autonomy and neglect the communal context of ethics. Pojman states, “It is in communities that such virtues as loyalty, natural affection, spontaneous sympathy, and shared concerns arise and sustain the group. It is out of this primary loyalty that the proper dispositions ...
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Stolen Dreams
Number of Words: 966 / Number of Pages: 4
... for a month a at a time. Some of them never get to see their parents. Many of them have been bonded to the company because their family had to borrow money. Because of this they have become enslaved a the debt with the accumulating interest never seems to be paid.
The abuses these children have to endure are unbeleivable. They are beaten for any reason, in fact a beating is the norm rather than unusual. Some are branded the same way we brand our cows. They are branded so that they vcan be identified as belonging to that factory. They are often kept under lock and key when they do finish their w ...
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Economics
Number of Words: 1194 / Number of Pages: 5
... of free promotion for the others in the market. According to the zero sum game, the lose that Coca Cola is making right now is directly proportional to the profits the other firms are making in the respected market. Coca Cola will need to take further actions to restore their brand name that they have established throughout all these years. This will significantly influences their total added costs. A strong brand has very few goods substitutes and it is very difficult for competitors to challenge the supremacy of the brand. This health scandal might have opened the doors fro new competitors. ...
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