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  • Driving Age

    Driving Age

    Many teens are getting in accidents because they are not familiar with the challenges of driving. By the age of 19, young adults will understand the responsibilities of driving and develop faster reactions. Therefore, the driving age should not remain at 16, but should be raised to 19. If teenagers were to drive at the young age of 16, they should learn to drive and think responsibly. A lot of teens tend to think driving

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    Essay Length: 395 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Monika
  • Pre-Pregnancy Drinking: How Drink Size Affects Risk Assessment

    Pre-Pregnancy Drinking: How Drink Size Affects Risk Assessment

    Pre-pregnancy drinking: How drink size affects risk assessment One of the leading causes of mental retardation in the United States is fetal alcohol syndrome or FAS. Alcohol is the most commonly abused substance by pregnant women because it's legal and socially acceptable. A greater majority of young women are not aware of the complications that are involved with pregnancy. They see pregnancy as a way of bringing a life into the world but do not

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    Essay Length: 909 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Coming of Age in Samoa

    Coming of Age in Samoa

    Coming of Age in Somoa Margaret Mead’s “Coming of Age in Samoa”, which was actually her doctoral dissertation, was compiled in a period of six months starting in 1925. Through it, people were given a look at a society not affected by the problems of 20th century industrial America. She illustrated a picture of a society where love was available for the asking and crime was dealt with by exchanging a few mats. This book

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    Essay Length: 1,702 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Mike
  • How to Be a Ceo in the Information Age

    How to Be a Ceo in the Information Age

    The authors describe seven types of CEOs, their behaviors and attitudes toward IT, and explain why all but one are decidedly unfit to lead companies in the Information Age. Only the "believer CEO" is ready to play a constructive role in his or her company’s use of information technology. Believers understand that IT enables strategic advantage and demonstrate such beliefs in their daily actions. Believers are involved in IT decision making and are proactive in

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    Essay Length: 404 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: July
  • Age of Beauty? or Two?

    Age of Beauty? or Two?

    An Age of Beauty? Or Two? Imagine this. There’s a war going on and you are on the front lines. You stand at attention and are expected to use your gun the second any enemy crosses that line. Enemies could strike at any minute, while all you can do is wait. After being away from home for a year, you return to flags waving and community praise. Your friends want to go out and celebrate

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    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Vika
  • Religious Reform in the Middle Ages

    Religious Reform in the Middle Ages

    Religious Reformation in the Middle Ages Throughout the middle ages, religion underwent much criticism and controversy. In a time where Catholicism reigned as the sole religion, ideas arose that opposed this strict faith. These ideas spawned the Protestant reform and changed religion throughout Europe. It not only changed religious practices and the path to God, but also initiated political repercussions. These results were all in search of an answer to the question to which everyone

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    Essay Length: 536 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Drinking

    Drinking

    The average American begins drinking at 15 years old, despite the fact that the legal drinking age in the United States is 21 years old. Underage alcohol use is more likely to kill young people than all illicit drugs combined. I believe that raising the drinking age to 25 years old can save many young lives. Affects of Adolescent Drinking Adolescent drinking affects a child’s mind, body and future. Adolescence is the between childhood and

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Top
  • The Monk - a Rebellious offspring of the Age of Reason

    The Monk - a Rebellious offspring of the Age of Reason

    The Monk: A Rebellious Offspring of the Age of Reason Understanding the Gothic novel can be accomplished by obtaining a familiarity of the Augustan point of view, which helps to develop a reference point for comparing and contrasting the origin of Gothic literature. The thinking that was being questioned by the Gothic novel was Augustanism; and without some understanding of Augustan principles and their role in eighteenth-century thought it is difficult to understand the purposes

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: regina
  • The End of "the Age of Reason"

    The End of "the Age of Reason"

    The end of “The Age of Reason” In the late 18th century, America was coming to a standstill in religious belief, by the 1790’s an estimated 10% of the non-Indian population of America were members of a formal church. Before and after the American Revolution, works of literature like Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”, and Benjamin Franklin’s “The Way to Wealth” began to form a national train of thought among the early Americans. These views were

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    Essay Length: 745 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Disease in the Middle Ages

    Disease in the Middle Ages

    Disease in the Middle Ages There were more than 13 different diseases and illnesses ranging from rashes and boils to Leprosy and the Plague in the lifetime of the middle ages. As more people came into communities the more the diseases formed and spread around. Also these were part of an everyday life for men and women in that time period. Usually when people think of the Middle Ages they automatically think of the Plague,

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    Essay Length: 265 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Edward
  • Through Rose Colored Glasses: How the Victorian Age Shifted the Focus of Hamlet

    Through Rose Colored Glasses: How the Victorian Age Shifted the Focus of Hamlet

    19th century critic William Hazlitt praised Hamlet by saying that, "The whole play is an exact transcript of what might be supposed to have taken pace at the court of Denmark, at the remote period of the time fixed upon." (Hazlitt 164-169) Though it is clearly a testament to the realism of Shakespeare's tragedy, there is something strange and confusing in Hazlitt's analysis. To put it plainly, Hamlet is most definitely not a realistic play.

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    Essay Length: 1,428 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Edward
  • Computer Security in an Information Age

    Computer Security in an Information Age

    Computer Security in the Information Age Ronald T. Hill Cameron University Computer Security in the Information Age Computers; they are a part of or in millions of homes; they are an intricate part of just about every if not all successful businesses, the government, and the military. Computers have become common place in today’s society and the lives of the people who live in it. They have crossed every national, racial, cultural, educational, and

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Max
  • The Agamemnon: Family Feud for the Ages

    The Agamemnon: Family Feud for the Ages

    The House of Atreus is one of the finest examples of uncontrollable fate in all of ancient literature. The lineage of Atreus is steeped in the spilling of family blood starting with Tantalus and continuing with Agamemnon. However it is Atreus who is responsible for the curse on the family, since he was the one who tricked Thyestes into eating his children. It was this one event that caused the continuation of family bloodshed

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Jack
  • Sports Drink Sponsorship

    Sports Drink Sponsorship

    Sports Drink Sponsorship Promotion plan To: whom it may concern; Kick A** Sports drink Co. From: Taylor LaRocque, V.P. Ad and Promotional Affairs; Xtreme Advertising Co. It has came to my conclusion that your company was in search of a fairly new and emerging sport to sponsor for your new sports drink line. I have decided to help you to choose a sport and develop a promotional plan. A sport that is on the rise,

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Aging and Productivity Among Economists

    Aging and Productivity Among Economists

    Abstract--Economists' productivity over their careers and as measured by publication in leading journals declines very sharply with age. There is no difference by age in the probability that an article submitted to a leading journal will be accepted. Rates of declining productivity are no greater among the very top publishers than among others, and the probability of acceptance is increasingly related to the author's quality rather than the author's age. It is well known that

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    Essay Length: 2,079 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Kevin
  • A New Age of Discrimination

    A New Age of Discrimination

    A New Age of Discrimination Many upcoming high school graduates have aspirations of continuing his or her education at a major university. In order to become accepted into a college of one’s choice, he or she must dedicate time and efforts to obtain the grades required. People have been taught that through hard work and dedication comes the reward of a better future. Although this seems to be the ideal and just situation, our

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Jon
  • The Crucible - the Dark Age of Puritarian Society

    The Crucible - the Dark Age of Puritarian Society

    The play begins with the initial reports of witchcraft and witchcraft-related afflictions, like in the cases of Betty Parris and Ruth Putnam. It sets the stage for the build up of the plot, which delves deeper into the Salem Witch Trials that resulted in numerous convictions and executions of Salem residents. What is interesting about The Crucible is the development of the "love" or lust of Abigail Williams for John Proctor, which took place prior

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    Essay Length: 1,826 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Mike
  • Aargument Paper Should Student Be Given the Right to Dropout at Any Age?

    Aargument Paper Should Student Be Given the Right to Dropout at Any Age?

    Today students of the United States have the option of legally dropping out of school at the age sixteen. Dropping out is the route of leaving school or an educational program prematurely. This process is interpreted in several ways; to give up and lacking hope or to depart and pursue a means of living an individual believes will profit their well being. Today studies show numerous statistics concerning the future for those who choose

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    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Victor
  • Manorialism (mid-Evil Ages)

    Manorialism (mid-Evil Ages)

    Rome did not, contrary to common belief, suddenly collapse - it had been doing so for quite some time, accelerated by the invasion of the teutonic tribes - but from a commonly accepted standpoint Rome collapsed in 476 AD. In its collapse, almost all of the eastern [Western] empire fell along with any attempt to restore it, while some of the elements from the western empire never really faded. The structure of tribes that took

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    Essay Length: 1,990 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: David
  • Underage Drinking

    Underage Drinking

    In the United States, you are legally considered an adult at the age of eighteen. The United States government will allow you to purchase cigarettes, buy a car, sign a legal contract, vote for the next president, get married, buy a house, and much more. The U.S. government is even able to send you off to war, and have you potentially die for your country, yet you are prohibited to consume any alcohol. The

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    Essay Length: 1,169 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: July
  • The Age of Innocence: A Time Left Behind

    The Age of Innocence: A Time Left Behind

    In Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence we are taken back to an era of the wealthy New York elite. The elite and rich were the people who ran the city, the people who decided what was wrong and what was right, and if you were not a wealthy and known person in New York City, then you were nobody. Only the richest and most elite were allowed to be apart of the close nit

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Janna
  • Age Discrimination

    Age Discrimination

    A former manager of a securities brokerage firm, who alleged he was demoted because of his age and fired when he complained, was awarded $765,000 in damages by arbitrators.26 Another example of a suit filed for age discrimination includes the case of a 16-employee machine shop in a Western state. According to the firm's owner, one of its employees-a man approaching retirement age-volunteered in front of witnesses to be laid off if layoffs became necessary.

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    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Feudal Ages in Japan and Europe

    The Feudal Ages in Japan and Europe

    The Feudal Ages in Japan and Europe In the past, feudalism has been used successfully as a political system for governing a country. Two of the largest and most well known Feudal Ages have been that of Europe (1150-1600) and Japan (800-1350). Although both civilizations were quite similar during these periods of time, Japan's civilization clearly is superior in many ways. When compared, the role of religion, the weaponry and armor, and the warrior codes

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    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Age of Indusrtialism

    Age of Indusrtialism

    The time period that we are calling the Age of Industrialization occurred in the 1700s and 1800s. During this time period, innovations and changes occurred in agriculture, technology, and communication. The first advancements began in Great Britain and soon they spread throughout the world. The rural areas of Great Britain transformed between 1760 and 1830. The farmers were accustomed to a daily routine. Their activities revolved around farming. The farmers used traditional methods that were

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    Essay Length: 1,080 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: David
  • Age Discrimination in the Workforce

    Age Discrimination in the Workforce

    In today’s culture, people believe that the younger generation is more flexible, vibrant, enthusiastic, and willing to work longer hours. American society believes that the younger generation should be taking over the workforce and the older generation should be retiring. Our society does not realize that they are discriminating against the elderly by not letting them work because of their age. There is a law that was passed in 1967 called the Age Discrimination Employment

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    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Mikki

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