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  • Hard Times

    Hard Times

    Hard Time To be young is to be mischievous. There has probably never been a time in history when young people did not occasionally steal, damage property, runaway from home or school, assault other people, or act disrespectful to adults. Within the past three decades, judicial decisions, legislative amendments, and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from a nominally rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled-down-class criminal court for young people. Webster's Dictionary describes

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    Essay Length: 532 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 6, 2010
  • News Is It Prime Time Or All The Time?

    News Is It Prime Time Or All The Time?

    News Is it prime time or all the time? Media influence has become a social mainstay in contemporary society. Not only do newspapers, radio, television and magazines strive to inform and entertain, but they also hold a significant power over what people believe. Since its inception, the standard of media presence was long a tool of integrity and fairness. Newspersons and entertainers may have embellished here and there in order to put more flavor into

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    Essay Length: 1,177 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2010
  • African Time Concept

    African Time Concept

    After reading the chapters from African Religions and Philosophies by Mbiti I discovered that Africans have a totally different perception of time than Westerners. In traditional African culture time is a chain of events. Once made, it belongs to zamani. Westerners want to have trains running on schedule and fly to the moon. Africans have different aims in life. Time and reality end now, the future is unreal. There is no future yet. It still

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    Essay Length: 604 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2010
  • End Times

    End Times

    The bible tells us that in the end time, many natural disasters will occur. In Mathew 24:7 it says, “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.” The recent earthquake that hit China fulfills that prophesy. It’s not only the natural disasters that are a very clear sign, but war as well. For years our world has witnessed war between the United States

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    Essay Length: 289 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2010
  • Is Time Real

    Is Time Real

    Is Time Real The aspects of time that we can understand are only based on what we can perceive, observe, and calculate. Every day we look at our watches or clocks. We plan our day around different times of the day. Time tells us when to eat, when to sleep, and how long to do things for. Is time real? To answer this question, let me explain what time is first. Time is defined as

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    Essay Length: 560 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2010
  • Democracy Through Time

    Democracy Through Time

    Democracy Through Time Democracy as a concept has changed and evolved through the years. Lao-Tzu, a Chinese philosopher, advised a form of government that had many democratic values to his emperor. His work, Tao-te Ching, was written in the sixth century B.C. before the term democracy was even coined. Some time later, in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., the Greeks gave this idea a name and put it into effect. In the work The

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    Essay Length: 1,329 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2010
  • Lab Report - Time Perception In An Altered State Of Consciousness

    Lab Report - Time Perception In An Altered State Of Consciousness

    Abstract This study explored the question of whether people who say they are skilled at relaxation report a deeper level of relaxation than people who say they are not so skilled. Undergraduate psychology students (37 males and 127 females, mean age 20 years) followed one of three different sets of instructions that detailed how they were to relax, and after doing so for a period of time, completed a survey where they rated on a

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    Essay Length: 1,141 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2010
  • Keep The Hard Times Rolling

    Keep The Hard Times Rolling

    On September 11, 2001, the unthinkable happened. Terrorist attacked the former invincible United States. There were many rumors going about during America's recovery. One of the most controversial was that the U>S may have helped to create the forces behind the 9/11 bombings. So the only question left to ask is, did the United States have anything to do with the 9/11 bombing? One writer provides evidence of the United States playing a role in

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    Essay Length: 700 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2010
  • Time

    Time

    How much is your time worth is an article written in the Wall Street Journal. This article talks about how businesses weigh the option on outsourcing work and how this philosophy is being applied in the household. In business the drive for higher profit has always made way for changes in the way they operate. Businesses are constantly rethinking how to make every aspect of there company more efficient. With the cost of American salaries

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    Essay Length: 305 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2010
  • The Effect Of Primary And Secondary Colors On Our Perception Time - The Stroop Effect

    The Effect Of Primary And Secondary Colors On Our Perception Time - The Stroop Effect

    TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Introduction Background Research 3 Rationale 4 Aim 4 Hypothesis 4 Methodology Method and design 6 Variables 6 Participants 6 Apparatus 7 Procedure 7 Controls 8 Results Summary table 9 Commentary on summary table 9 Additional Graphical description of Results 10 Descriptive Statistics Comments 11 Relationship to the Hypothesis 11 Discussion Validity 12 Improving validity 13 Reliability 13 Improving reliability 14 Implications of the study 14 Generalisation of findings 15 Application to

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    Essay Length: 5,463 Words / 22 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2010
  • Multiculturalism As Lived Experience Enriches Our Lives. But Multiculturalism As A Political Ideology Has Helped Create A Tribal Britain With No Political Or Moral Centre. (Kenan Malik, The Times ,16th. July, 2005).

    Multiculturalism As Lived Experience Enriches Our Lives. But Multiculturalism As A Political Ideology Has Helped Create A Tribal Britain With No Political Or Moral Centre. (Kenan Malik, The Times ,16th. July, 2005).

    Multiculturalism as lived experience enriches our lives. But multiculturalism as a political ideology has helped create a tribal Britain with no political or moral centre. (Kenan Malik, The Times ,16th. July, 2005). Discuss. More and more people “live in an environment that transcends national borders” and there is a very apparent “growing international environment” (Milich and Peck, 1998, pg vii). On an international scale, as well as in Britain, there has been an increase in

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    Submitted: November 17, 2010
  • Davinci - The Man Before His Time.

    Davinci - The Man Before His Time.

    Leonardo da Vinci Ð'- The Man Before His Time "Leonardo Da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while others were all still asleep" (Freud 72). When the name Leonardo da Vinci comes to mind, society tends to quickly think of The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper or the Baptism of Christ. In actuality, Leonardo da Vinci was not only an artist; he has been accredited as being known as

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    Essay Length: 1,769 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2010
  • How Far Is Shylock A Character For Whom We Can Feel Sympathy? How Would A Contemporary Audience'S Response To Him Differ From That Of An Audience In Shakespeare'S Time?

    How Far Is Shylock A Character For Whom We Can Feel Sympathy? How Would A Contemporary Audience'S Response To Him Differ From That Of An Audience In Shakespeare'S Time?

    Throughout William Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice, there is a strong theme of prejudice. Portia has to deal with prejudice against her sex, the Prince of Morocco has to deal with prejudice against his race but the character that is most discriminated against is Shylock. He is hated for being a Jew and a money-lender, but Shakespeare has not made Shylock a character easy to sympathise with. He appears to be mean and cruel

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    Essay Length: 2,815 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2010
  • Time

    Time

    Time? Time travel is no longer regarded as strictly science fiction. For years the concept of time travel has been the topic of science fiction novels and movies, and has been pondered by great scientists throughout history. Einstein's theories of general and special relativity can be used to actually prove that time travel is possible. Government research experiments have yielded experimental data that conclusively illustrate that fast moving aircraft have traveled into the future. This

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    Essay Length: 2,332 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2010
  • Change Over Time 1492-1750

    Change Over Time 1492-1750

    Change Over Time Essay The social and Economic transformations that occurred in the Atlantic world as a result of new contacts among Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1492 to 10 increased and decreased populations of the Atlantic world due to the slave trade and flourishing economy. Also in the Americas, European colonists stopped mining for silver, and moved on to agriculture. Due to the new contacts within the Atlantic world, economies flourished as

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    Essay Length: 520 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2010
  • Wealth In Ancient Modern Times

    Wealth In Ancient Modern Times

    WEALTH IN ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES Wealth in Ancient to Modern Times Monica LaPorta University of Phoenix HUM/100 Professor Kevin Ballard Wealth in Ancient to Modern Times In ancient China, it was very easy to tell the rich from the poor. The wealthiest had the finest clothes and dressed themselves in them from head to toe. The rich wore silk to show their status. Members of the royal family and high-ranking officials themselves wore jade,

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    Essay Length: 826 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2010
  • A Time To Kill

    A Time To Kill

    Some of the most important decisions in our lives are based on the values that our families and surrounding community impose on us. To make a difficult decision, especially about someone else’s future we have to put ourselves in the other persons shoe’s. I believe in the movie “A Time to Kill” , Jake the lawyer’s closing argument would have allowed me to put myself in the shoes of the father of the girl that

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    Essay Length: 436 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2010
  • Life Altering Times

    Life Altering Times

    Life Altering Times It was in January when it all started, I was in my second semester of my freshmen year of college. As far as I knew, I had a new physician, and all I had to do was go in to meet him and go for my yearly physical. He introduced himself to me as Dr. Fanti. He talked to me a little bit and proceeded to start my physical. As I was

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    Essay Length: 1,216 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2010
  • Law Codes Of Ancient Times

    Law Codes Of Ancient Times

    In this essay I will discuss the Law Codes of Hammurabi, the Twelve Tables, and the Burgundian. In each of the three law codes I will analyze three different aspects. While analyzing these parts I will give the strengths and weaknesses of each. I feel these aspects are of great importance in creating a sound and just society. The first I will look at is flexibility. With this I will talk about how easily the

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    Essay Length: 1,406 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2010
  • In The Time Of The Butterfly

    In The Time Of The Butterfly

    Weekly Assignment 1. It was difficult to find out who was the narrator of In The Time Of The Butterflies was, seeing as how the book kept switching from the viewpoints of each of the Mirabal sisters. Although the Mirabal sisters spoke firsthand of what happened, it seemed as if we were being told how they felt, but not from the directly from the sister. Finally, I thought back to the very beginning of

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    Submitted: November 30, 2010
  • Time Travel

    Time Travel

    Time travel Presented to: Dr. Magd Kahl Presented by : Sherif Ehab Mohamed El Garhy Abdel-Aziz selim Kholoud tarek Astronomer Carl Sagan had it right when he said that time is "resistant to simple definition." Lots of us think we know what time is, but it is hard to define. You can not literally see or touch time, but you can see its effects. The evidence that we are moving through time is found in

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    Submitted: December 1, 2010
  • Time Capsule Paper

    Time Capsule Paper

    Time Capsule Paper In my Humanities pursuit I have been task with being a cultural anthropologist in search of hidden time capsules from both The Renaissance and Age of Baroque periods. It has been rumored that there are artifacts from both periods such as art, music, architecture, philosphy, and literature that lie within these capsules. I hope to be able to unlock some of the myteries of these periods once we descover the were abouts

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    Submitted: December 1, 2010
  • The Time Machine

    The Time Machine

    Chapters 1 and 2 Summary The Time Traveller is in his home, speaking to a group of men that includes the narrator. He is lecturing on the fourth dimension. He tells them that a cube exists not only in space, but also in time. Time is the fourth dimension. Many of them are skeptical. The Time Traveller claims that one should be able to move about in the fourth dimension just as one can move

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    Submitted: December 1, 2010
  • Times V. Hill

    Times V. Hill

    Times, Inc. v Hill The appellee alleged that Life Magazine, which is owned by Time, reported that a play falsely portrait a sequence of events involving his family*. The article was featured in Life in February of 1955 and made reference to an ordeal of the James Hill family, who were held in their own home by three escaped convicts. There was a book published by Joseph Hayes based on these events and later a

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    Essay Length: 370 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2010
  • Tough Times

    Tough Times

    A tough time is something that all of us has or will experience. It doesn't feel good during tough times. It seems like everything is not the way you want it during the tough times. Nobody likes to have to go through a tough time. A tough time can be somebody dying, a bad test, a fight, being sick, or being grounded. I have experienced some difficult times, but I got over them after a

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    Essay Length: 517 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2010

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