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  • Age-Drinking

    Age-Drinking

    At the age of 18, an American is an adult. At the age of 18, an American man or woman can take a full-time job, they can rent an apartment, they can join a union, they can do all the stuff on the Internet that you're supposed to be 18 to do. they can take that union card and get a job brewing beer, making wine, or distilling liquor, they can purchase and carry an

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    Essay Length: 3,578 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Jack
  • The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age marked the starting point of what is known as the American Industrial Revolution. During this time many new inventions came about along with new industries. The two main reasons why more new industries started were because there was an increase of natural resources and population. Population increase meant a larger workforce. There were two kinds of businessmen in the industry. Robber Barons were businessmen who were often criticized on they way they

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    Essay Length: 834 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Exercise and Aging - a Qualitative Correlation

    Exercise and Aging - a Qualitative Correlation

    EXERCISE AND AGING: A Qualitative Correlation In 1523 the Spanish explorer and conquistador Ponce de Leon went searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth. What he discovered was Florida; not quite the quick-fix of a magical substance flowing from a fountain but a nice place for frozen northeastern residents to go for recreation in the winter. The idea of mythical youth is still very much alive in our culture and most noticeable in the advertising

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    Essay Length: 2,929 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • Hypothesis: Social Class Determines How Asian Teenagers (aged 15-17) Do in Gcse Rather Than Culture

    Hypothesis: Social Class Determines How Asian Teenagers (aged 15-17) Do in Gcse Rather Than Culture

    Hypothesis: Social class determines how “Asian teenagers (aged 15-17) do in GCSE rather than culture. Culture is hard to define and operationalise between different “Asian” groups. In test after test, nationally, Chinese and Indian students show superior performance in mathematics and other subjects compared with their Pakistani, Bangladeshi (also “Asian”) and non-Asian counterparts. In 2003, according to National Statistics, 71% of boys and 79% of girls achieved 5+A*-C GCSE/GNVQs. These statistics were significantly higher than

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    Essay Length: 3,794 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Jessica
  • How the Information Age Has Changed the Information Systems Industry

    How the Information Age Has Changed the Information Systems Industry

    The Information Age has changed the Information Systems industry by creating software that makes most tasks that would normally require expert knowledge user friendly, allowing complex tasks to be done automatically, and it also allows many businesses and organizations to communicate over great distances simultaneously. To understand how the Information Age has changed this industry, one must understand exactly what the Information Age is. The Information Age refers to the period where information quickly became

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    Essay Length: 337 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Mikki
  • American Beauty - Dealing with Age

    American Beauty - Dealing with Age

    American Beauty As we get older, we tend to look for ways of making ourselves look and feel younger, whether it is a change in our day to day lives or maybe just making a new purchase. I believe that the film American Beauty is an example of what people may do to achieve this result. The film, American Beauty has won many awards for its magnificence. I have chosen to focus on this

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    Essay Length: 934 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Jon
  • Drinking Age

    Drinking Age

    Drinking Age Do you drink? Are you over the age of twenty-one? Well I am a nineteen year old and this is the reason I think the drinking age should be changed to the age of eighteen. My main points that I believe are the armed forces, voting, the court system, and the other countries. My first reason that I think the drinking age should be changed to the age of eighteen because, at the

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    Essay Length: 655 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Monika
  • Effects of Industrial Age on Wildlife

    Effects of Industrial Age on Wildlife

    Effects of Industrial age on wildlife Lab # 1 06/18/05 As humans continue to advance in technology and increase in population it seems to have possible negative effect on the echo system. I am looking at two specific species, The Ivory-billed woodpecker ( Campephilus principalis), believed to already be extinct until resent sightings, (James Owen for National Geographic News April 28, 2005) and Coyotes (Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News June 7, 2005) Animals are

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    Essay Length: 450 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Jazz Age

    Jazz Age

    Americans, in the years following the end of World War I found themselves in an era, where the people simply wished to detach themselves from the troubles of Europeans and the rest of the world. During the years of the Twenties, the economy was prosperous, there was widespread social reform, new aspects of culture were established, and people found better ways to improve their lifestyle and enjoy life. The 1920's exemplified the changing attitudes of

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    Essay Length: 2,639 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Stenly
  • The Conceptual Age

    The Conceptual Age

    The Conceptual Age Society has gone through stages, each one spurred by the want or need of improving life. At the beginning of time, society was based on hunting and gathering and then it advanced to the agricultural age. Then we moved into the industrial age, and recently, the information age. But now we are heading into a new stage, the Conceptual age. To adjust to and prosper in this age, people will need to

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    Essay Length: 1,535 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Middle Ages to Renaissance

    Middle Ages to Renaissance

    Middle Ages to Renaissance The Middle Ages and the Renaissance have their vast differences and similarities. They are both key elements to having music in today's world. They are very important to understand where music came from. Starting with the Middle Ages, they covered almost one thousand years. That being from the year 476 to the year 1450. During this time the Christian church and the state were the centers of authority during this time.

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    Essay Length: 585 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: regina
  • James Agee and Walker Evans Entitled Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

    James Agee and Walker Evans Entitled Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

    Throughout reading the essay by James Agee and Walker Evans entitled Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, my eye was drawn away from the essay and I began thinking about a couple of different ideas when reading one particular excerpt. In the paragraph it was stated: “Above all else: in God’s name don’t think of it as Art. Every fury on earth has been absorbed in time, as art, or as religion, or as authority

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    Essay Length: 2,271 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Women in the Middle Ages

    Women in the Middle Ages

    The medieval woman was allowed a larger measure of freedom and status than the usual image we have of the Middle Ages. Women were allowed to own property and inherit from their family. Some women were employed and some were in charge of businesses. Among the upper class, women were as educated as their male counterparts. In Europe, women were allowed to inherit property from both their fathers and their husbands. In most cases, whatever

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    Essay Length: 1,014 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • Keep Drinking Age at 21

    Keep Drinking Age at 21

    DRINKING AGE DEBATE Should the drinking age be lowered to 18 years old, when one is considered an adult, and assumes adult privileges and penalties, or should the drinking age remain at 21 years old, since people are more mature and therefore, can be safe and responsible with alcohol? I believe that the drinking age should remain at 21 years old because lowering the legal drinking age would not be in the best interest of

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Age of Innocence

    The Age of Innocence

    he Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton, contains many flat, static characters representing Old New York society. At the apex of that society is Mr. and Mrs. Henry van der Luyden. As the narrator describes, their appearances are rare, but yet these few appearances provide more than enough information for the reader to "know" the characters. This information comes from several sources. The first is the narrator, when most of Old New York society is

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    Essay Length: 826 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Legal Drinking Age

    Legal Drinking Age

    Legal Drinking Age In the U.S., when you reach 18 years of age, you are legally an adult. Your new rights allow you to vote, join the military, obtain a marriage permit, sign legally binding contracts and many others except purchase and consume alcohol. Many feel this is the best reason for lowering the drinking age. I want to take a different approach at the issue; I think the legal drinking age should be lowered

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    Essay Length: 1,492 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Steve
  • The Role of Agriculture in the Middle Ages

    The Role of Agriculture in the Middle Ages

    The Role of Agriculture in the Middle Ages In the middle ages the peasants of the manor labored in the fields and produced the crops. They had a system that worked for them, but it was not sufficient enough and they needed to find a way to produce more crops more efficiently. They used a system call the open field system which allowed a number of households to work on a single field. They did

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Bred
  • Yin Yang in This Day & Age

    Yin Yang in This Day & Age

    Yin Yang In This Day & Age The influence of Chinese Culture especially in the western world in these modern times is quite strong, whether it be anything from western movies, to various courses in TCM, Chinese language or even the martial arts, you cannot deny the impact that China has made on the world. One part of Chinese culture which is reflected in much of its culture from philosophy to even preparing food is

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    Essay Length: 457 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Does Watching Tv at an Early Age Cause Attentional Problems?

    Does Watching Tv at an Early Age Cause Attentional Problems?

    Does watching TV at an early age cause attentional problems? The article I read discussed the results of a developmental research study conducted by Dr. Dimitri Christakis. The article explains that Dr. Christakis, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital in Seattle and a professor at the University of Washington, believes that television viewing at early ages, when the brain triples in size, may be harmful to a child’s development. In 2004 Christakis helped conduct a study

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    Essay Length: 1,059 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Coming of Age in Mississippi

    Coming of Age in Mississippi

    To overcome her family's impoverished living conditions, Anne begins working at a very young age. In Chapter 9, this is the reason Anne decides to work for Mrs. Burke after Linda Mae moves away. Anne does not want to work for the racist Mrs. Burke, but she cannot afford to leave work (even for a week) and Mrs. Burke is offering her a job to start immediately. This shows her desire and dedication to

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    Essay Length: 265 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Doctors in the Middle Ages

    Doctors in the Middle Ages

    Health, hygiene, and well being had a very important role in the Middle Ages. If doctors didn't know about health, hygiene, and well being in the Middle Ages, then people would have never survived. In the Middle Ages the primary doctors were women. Some of the healers were called physicians. Nuns and servants helped ill elderly, priests, and surgeons. They were very important because they were the only ones who knew about health, hygiene, and

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Vika
  • Life’s Influence on Death, in Art: The Middle Ages

    Life’s Influence on Death, in Art: The Middle Ages

    LIFE'S INFLUENCE ON DEATH, IN ART: THE MIDDLE AGES 25 million Europeans died in just under five years between 1347 and 1352 due to the epic plague known as the Black Death. The great plague swept over Europe, ravaging cities causing widespread hysteria and death. One thirdthe population of Europe died. Simply mentioning the bubonic plague sends shivers down ones spine as it was one of the deadliest epidemics in history. It was originally transmitted

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • Age of Revolutions

    Age of Revolutions

    The time period from 1688 and 1830, known appropriately as the Age of Revolutions, harbored progressive change and political upheaval intertwined across Europe and the New World. Detailing the causes and effects of the Glorious Revolution, the American Revolution, the Latin American Revolutions, and the French Revolution, they are all comparable in their push for human rights, freedom from oppression, initial social, political and economic strife and the establishment of progressive new government. The Glorious

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Coming of Age in Mississippi - Anne Moody

    Coming of Age in Mississippi - Anne Moody

    Anne Moody learned about the importance of race early in her life. Having been born and raised in an impoverished black family from the South, she experienced first-hand the disparity in the lives of Whites and Blacks. The story begins with Anne as a four-year-old child watching her parents work everyday for Mr. Carter, a white plantation owner. She witnessed several black farmers living in rotten, two-room wooden shacks. It was most likely evident

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    Essay Length: 772 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Comparison of Middle Ages Music and Present Day Music

    Comparison of Middle Ages Music and Present Day Music

    Stephanie Stout Music 111-Booth Comparison Paper M/W 9am Comparison of Anon: Alleuluia: Vidimus Stellam and Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz The two pieces of music Alleulia and Clint Eastwood Both come from different eras. Both are very different in style but also have some similarities. Anon:Alleulia:Vidimus Stellam is from the Middle Ages time period. It is a Gregorian Chant based on sacred religion. It is sung at Latin masses in the Roman Catholic Church. The chant

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    Essay Length: 584 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Stenly

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