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  • Of Paradise and Power Review

    Of Paradise and Power Review

    Of paradise and power, America and Europe in the new world order Robert Kagan, published in 2003 by Alfred A.Knopf ed. It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world.(p.3) Europe is turning away from power, or put it a little differently, it is moving beyond power into a self-contained world of laws and rules and transnational negotiation and

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Power That Corrupts

    Power That Corrupts

    Power That Corrupts The power of language is indisputable. Being unable to ‘fit in’ because you cannot communicate effectively with the dominant discourse puts you at an enormous disadvantage. Those who know how to use the dominant discourse effectively and to their own advantage will be more powerful. People use their knowledge of the power, inherent in the mastery of discourses, to manipulate others. Many texts show evidence of this. In fact, some texts actively

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Yan
  • Lord Loss Book Report

    Lord Loss Book Report

    Lord Loss Lord Loss was written by Darren Shan. It was published by Little Brown and Company in October 2005. Choosing this book came down to the captivating graphics and title on the cover of the book. This book tells a story a horrifically traumatized young man, Grubbs Grady, who after witnessing the brutal murder of his parents and older sister, learns of a haunting family secret and is forced to face the same terrifying

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    Essay Length: 476 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Victor
  • Beautiful Child Book Review

    Beautiful Child Book Review

    Beautiful Child When I picked Beautiful Child off the bookshelf, I was expecting something a little different. I was prepared to read another run-of-the-mill book about child abuse, neglect, and the difficulties in saving one child from a horrific home life. However, I decided to read this book, even though it didn’t look very interesting; after all, I was taught not to judge a book by its cover. Sitting down to read later that night,

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Edward
  • Hitler’s Rise to Power

    Hitler’s Rise to Power

    Hitler Essay Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1989 in Braunau, Austria. His rise to power became extremely respected and well known. Coming from a lower class root, Adolf Hitler had a unique ability to appeal to the struggling working class. Hitler was not the type expected to obtain great power or become a conqueror. Germany's failing economy and his fiery personality brought one of the worlds most notorious men to supreme authority. Hitler's

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Victor
  • The Sacred Books in Hinduism and Buddhism

    The Sacred Books in Hinduism and Buddhism

    Sacred Books, in my opinion, are the most important things that can preserve the knowledge of religion. When transmitted orally certain interpretations may occur, especially when translated into different languages. India was a mother of many religions, particularly Hinduism and Buddhism. Hinduism “has no one identifiable founder, no strong organizational structure to defend it and spread its influence, nor any creed to define and stabilize its beliefs; and in a way that seems to defy

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Steve
  • Race & Ethnicity Discrimination

    Race & Ethnicity Discrimination

    Aaron Ramos 10/16/07 Race & Ethnicity In 1880, two years before the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, fewer than 200 Japanese lived in the United States. From 1899 to 1903, another 60,000 entered the United States, largely because of the acute labor shortage in California. The exclusion of the Chinese had left many menial and unskilled jobs without takers. The Japanese population at this time was concentrated largely on the Pacific Coast, with the

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Anna
  • America as Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power?

    America as Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power?

    America as Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power? Jim Garrison Jim Garrison’s book addresses a poignant theme faced by American culture today. Garrison explains that America must tread carefully in the present as to avoid crossing the fine line of acting as a “global leader” and acting as a “rogue power.” To begin with, I found it necessary to look up the word ‘rogue,’ which dictionary.com defines as “vicious and solitary,” clearly a negative term.

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Book Reports

    Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Book Reports

    Ruby Pena 7D Summaries Opinion Rikki-tikki-tavi This story is about a mongoose named Rikki-tikki-tavi who goes home with a boy. These snakes named Nag and Nagaina watch Rikki kill one of their snake friends and get worried that they are next. One night Rikki finds Nag in the bathroom and then kills him but Nagaina thinks that it was humans that killed Nag. Nagaina set out to kill the humans but Rikki was ahead of

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Is Sport an Area of Neighborhood Social Life Where Performance Counts and Race or Ethnicity Is Irrelevant?

    Is Sport an Area of Neighborhood Social Life Where Performance Counts and Race or Ethnicity Is Irrelevant?

    Topic: Structured Inequality: Neighborhood Sport and Race/Ethnicity Research Question: Is sport an area of neighborhood social life where performance counts and race or ethnicity is irrelevant? Neighborhoods in the United States are often segregated by race and have racial tensions. However, sport provides some opportunity for integration. Based on my reading for this assignment here is what seemed to be important points. Home neighborhoods matter more than sport in some instances, regardless of talent.

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: regina
  • Solar Power

    Solar Power

    About 47 per cent of the energy that the sun releases to the earth actually reaches the ground. About a third is reflected directly back into space by the atmosphere. The time in which solar energy is available, is also the time we least need it least - daytime. Because the sun's energy cannot be stored for use another time, we need to convert the suns energy into an energy that can be stored. One

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Project Plan for Whitbread World Sailboat Race

    Project Plan for Whitbread World Sailboat Race

    University of Phoenix Terry Norris January 20, 2008 Project Plan for Whitbread World Sailboat Race This paper analyzes the Whitbread World Sailboat Race case scenario presented in chapter 9 in the Gray and Larson text, Project Management: the Managerial Process. The Whitbread World Sailboat Race is a nine month round the world race. Bjorn Ericksen has been chosen by his country to head up the project of getting a boat and a team ready for

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Janna
  • Pit and Pendulum Movie Vs Book

    Pit and Pendulum Movie Vs Book

    After reading the story and watching the movie of “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allen Poe, it was easy to spot the many similarities and differences between the two. The story was written by Edgar Allen Poe but the movie was written but someone else even though it was based on Poe’s story. The movie focuses on giving more information about the characters than Poe’s story. Similarities with the movie and the story

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: David
  • Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: Book II

    Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: Book II

    he subject of ethics is a complicated one. To deal with it successfully one needs maturity of judgment and familiarity with a wide range of relevant facts. The results of ethical inquiry cannot be established with the same degree of certainty that is possible in the more exact sciences. Nevertheless, reliable results can be obtained and these can be most helpful in guiding one toward a more adequate understanding of what it means to live

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Janna
  • Nickel and Dimed: Book Review

    Nickel and Dimed: Book Review

    Can someone really live and prosper in American receiving minimal income? Can someone create a good lifestyle for themselves on just six to seven dollars an hour? In Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover to find out if it is indeed possible. Giving herself only $1,000 she leaves the lifestyle that she has come accustomed too and goes to join all the people living the low class way of life. Before setting out, she

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Jon
  • Viruses, Trojan Horses and Worms Can Be the Cause of Damage to a Computer System – Are People Who Generate Them Breaking the Law? Use Examples or Case Studies from the Press or Text Books to Explain Your Answer

    Viruses, Trojan Horses and Worms Can Be the Cause of Damage to a Computer System – Are People Who Generate Them Breaking the Law? Use Examples or Case Studies from the Press or Text Books to Explain Your Answer

    Introduction: First of all we would like to know what exactly are virus, Trojan horse and worms. Viruses, worms, and Trojans are malicious programs which enter to your computer without your permission and knowing that can cause damage, information losses, privacies leak to your computer .They can also slow down the Internet connections, and they might even use your computer to spread themselves to your friends, family, co-workers, and the rest of the internet. The

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Anna
  • Online Race Courses

    Online Race Courses

    Online Race Courses Many people take college classes online as opposed to going to class twice a week. For many this is very convenient and provides a way to manage their busy lives while still going to school. Although online classes can be very informative and provide the same information as the student would receive in the classroom, some online classes should not be taught over the internet. Such classes that should not be taught

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Book Review Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

    Book Review Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

    Book Review Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun By: Wes Roberts Roberts starts the book out with his Author’s notes here he describes how he came about the topic of the book and where he got his information. He then moves on the preface where he explains a little about leadership and how it is incorporated throughout the book in relation to Attila the Hun. The next part of the book Roberts calls the introduction.

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Steve
  • Book Review of "heart of the Warrior" by Catarina Blomberg

    Book Review of "heart of the Warrior" by Catarina Blomberg

    This is my review on "The Heart of the Warrior," written by Catharina Blomberg. In this review I intend to go through each chapter pointing out what the chapter discussed and what I learned from reading this book. I chose this book because it seemed interesting and something that was worthwhile for the time I spent reading it. This book seems to take a more in depth look at what we have touched on

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Vika
  • Computers Taking over Books Response to Anne Prolux

    Computers Taking over Books Response to Anne Prolux

    Visal Gallapaththi Ms. Gray ENG3U1 March 7th 2008 Flipping The Screen Half a century ago, people used books for everything related to education. In fact, the human’s best source of knowledge and education was the book. If you wanted to look up a recipe, you opened a book. If you wanted to learn how to fix the radio on your car you opened a book called the manual. If you wanted to know Black beard’s

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Paralegal and Power

    Paralegal and Power

    Chapter 1: The Professional Paralegal What is a paralegal ? Definition: A paralegal, or legal assistant is “ a person qualified by education, training, or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency, or entity who performs specifically by delegated substances legal work for which a lawyer is responsible. What do Paralegals Do? The primary function of paralegals is to assist attorneys in preparing for hearings ,trails, meetings

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Monika
  • Book of Wisdom and Moral Values

    Book of Wisdom and Moral Values

    God teaches us many valuable moral lessons in the book of Wisdom, and the book of Sirach. We learn in the teachings many moral values that are still a part of society today, including giving to the poor, and worshipping false idols. These issues were very relevant in the early society as God warned of them in the bible, and in today's world, despite the changing physical nature, essentially the same problems exist. The problems

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Justice in Book I of the Republic

    Justice in Book I of the Republic

    The Republic of Plato begins in a similar fashion that many other Platonic dialogues begin, with that of a question. The conversation between Socrates and the aged Cephalus becomes a philosophical discussion of what advantages money has brought to Cephalus' life. Cephalus replies that money has allowed him "to tell the truth and pay one's debts" (331 b). Nevertheless, Socrates believes this does not portray an accurate description of what justice is. The rest of

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Jon
  • John Stuart Mill’s Book on Liberty

    John Stuart Mill’s Book on Liberty

    Who’s Right Or Wrong As an American in today’s society we have many privileges and rights that we use in order to control our lives. As in John Stuart Mill’s, book On Liberty he describes his purpose of intemperance on people and their opinions. “…it is fit to take some notice of those who say that the free expression of all opinions should be permitted, on condition that the manner be temperate, and do

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Book Review “whatever Happened to the Real America?”

    Book Review “whatever Happened to the Real America?”

    Chapter 1 (What Happened to the Real America? An Introduction), In this chapter Dr. Gosine uses the interaction theory. He tells you why he is writing his book and what it is going to be about. He states “My primary concern in it is to compare traditional America with modern America and ascertain what went wrong, if anything, especially in the recent past.” A lot of social thinkers along with Dr. Gosine agree that

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Anna