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Slaves In Rome: Low Level Servants Or Overlooked Mental Force?
Number of Words: 921 / Number of Pages: 4
... handle 10,000 slaves a day in its market" (Spielvogal 118).
The treatment of Roman slaves is hard to generalize. Stories of kind treatment and even times slaves would fight to defend their owners are numerous. Then there are those cases of horrendous treatment towards slaves, torture, abuse, hard labor. These treatments drove several slaves to runaway and even revolt and kill their masters. "Slaves were branded, beaten, fed inadequately, worked in chains, and housed at night in underground prisons. It took three years to crush a revolt of 70,000 slaves, and took an army of 17,000 Roman men to s ...
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Homosexuality
Number of Words: 1847 / Number of Pages: 7
... one term creates the false impression of a uniform "gay" or "lesbian" condition and culture. It obscures the reality that what we are studying is a complex set of variable mental, emotional, and behavioral states that are caused by differing proportions of numerous influences. Indeed, one of the chief characteristics of the gay lifestyle is its efflorescence of styles and types of sexuality. Thus many of the more careful researchers in the field, usually nonactivist, refer to ''homosexucll~ties.''
The belief that is "genetic" tends to translate into a more positive attitude toward it. Gay activists ...
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Skaters And Stereotypes
Number of Words: 1544 / Number of Pages: 6
... school and actually graduated. The reason I say this is because most people like Kelly (surfers knowing they are going to go professional) never graduate high school. Kelly grew up in Florida all his life. He was a local hero in central Florida, because everyone knew he was destined to make it as a professional surfer (Tee Interview). From 1992 thru 1994 Kelly placed first in the Maui Pro, second in the Maui Masters, and third place in the Rip Curl Pro, the Chiemesee Pipe Masters, and the Gotcha Lacanau Pro (Solano1). In 1995 he, from surfing alone, made 57,750 dollars (Solano1). Kelly won four wo ...
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Race Relations In The United States
Number of Words: 1289 / Number of Pages: 5
... released in early June showed that 74% of the
black respondents said they were satisfied with the way things were going
in their personal lives and also with their standard of living. Among
whites, levels of acceptance and tolerance are unprecedented. For example,
93% of whites, a higher percentage than of blacks, said they were willing
to vote for a black candidate for President.
So why would Clinton be calling for racial healing in a time when “
a curious new element” of peace “seems to have descended over America’s
roiling racial landscape?” Not everything is as perfect as it seems.
Unemployme ...
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Gender Inbalances In School
Number of Words: 492 / Number of Pages: 2
... from entering.
I don’t believe that it is a “fruitless” effort to engage in a way that would promote women in these fields. Since I have been in college I have change my major 3 times. Most of my friends have also. So it is not the case that women have made up their mind by the time that they enter college and it can’t be changed. It may not be the individual teacher’s responsibility to encourage female scientists but the weight does fall in the college’s administrative office. The dean of these colleges should take the inceptive and start the process of encouragement.
It is possible that women ...
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INTERNET USERS TURN ADDICTS
Number of Words: 580 / Number of Pages: 3
... day to prove to
fellow students that they can do without getting online; only, to stay up
all night in a chat room online. Or businesspeople who stay after office
hours to supposedly get a late report done; only, to stay online until
the security guy's ready to lock up the building. Or husbands who stay
offline all day, only to get online for hours after their family members
are asleep. These users are addicts but portray themselves otherwise in
the presence of people.
Next, are "the I-only-use-it-when-I-have-to-users." These users
make convenient excuses to use the Internet. Mothers who clai ...
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Harmful Effects Of Body Piercing On Everyday Life
Number of Words: 454 / Number of Pages: 2
... opposite also holds true for those who would be rejected from a group because of the piercing.
Last, and most importantly body piercing may affect your job. There have been controversies over facial piercing in fast food restaurants. Also, if you are taking an interview and you have a visible piercing the interviewer may feel intimidated or think negatively toward you. The company may have a policy against piercing. They may make you seem immature or irresponsible. Some people feel they are a form of self-mutilation. Therefore, the employer and/or interviewer may think the applicant has no r ...
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A Civil Rebuttal
Number of Words: 766 / Number of Pages: 3
... to correct me if I am incorrect (morally
or politically) but are we not all philosophers ourselves? As a baker's
vocation is to bake, a philosopher's vocation is to think. Is it not that we
all think? I was deeply saddened at your comments in the oppression and
restriction to what I may or may not strive to think. As a pacifist and non-
sadist, I call what you believe in as ‘ingraining or indoctrination', whereas
our own society may call it ‘brainwashing'. Our human nature gives us freedom,
as does the Constitution. It guarantees us the right to “life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness” ...
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Affirmative Action Policies
Number of Words: 327 / Number of Pages: 2
... millions of these workers now have a job and all the joys of unfair use-long ,a hard, arduous work under very low wages, under very dangerous conditions.--While millions of i=once better paid american workers have either unemployment and poverty, or jobs with much lower wages.
Affirmative action, if successfully implemented would tend to raise the level of wages and employment among minorites and women. That means, it would aslo benefit white male workers. Naturally, there have never been strong support for affirmative action from employers. Employers never support policies that tend to lower t ...
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Why Athletes Are Good Role Models
Number of Words: 1481 / Number of Pages: 6
... first, but you would get tired of it afterwards. That is why the media never
covers anything like this. We all know that they really don't care about
anything else except for a hot topic. The truth really does not mean anything
to them. This we notice in all the cases that the media jumps to wrongful
conclusions, such as the Richard Jewel case and the Olympic bombing and the TWA
flight 800 that blew up over New York. The media jumped to numerous conclusions
that had us lost. Do you think these people worry about what fund raiser
Michael Jordan attended and about what Shaquille O'Neal did on Tha ...
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