Risk Taking
.... than the odds of failure. Another
definition of acceptable risk might be a risk that does not harm one's future.
We might also say that the only acceptable risk is one where the aggregate
happiness is increased, thus increasing the moral good of the risk, an idea
which is based on John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism. Finally, we might define a
morally good risk in a Kantian way by saying that the only acceptable risk is
one which is rationally thought out (Thomas, lecture).
Now that we have several .....
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Storytelling
.... mistakes throughout
her life along with best hopes and wishes.
The Woman Warrior is a story about the life of Maxine Hong Kingston. It is
easy to see her identity from those memorable occurrences that she mentions
throughout her book, especially the stories her mother told her. The story of
"Fa Mu Lan", for example, teaches women to strive to be the best they can be.
It is a story about a woman warrior who takes place of her father in battle and
returns in victory as a heroine. It evidently sho .....
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The Kalapalo Indians
.... of Kalapalo life because of the
integration of the many different and culturally diverse groups in the Upper
Xingu Basin. So, many of systems of kinship classification, marriage practices,
ceremonial organizations, status allocation, and religious beliefs are
consistent with cultural rules and social practices and not with the original
system. Many of the modern local groups can only reconstruct their own history
which is in limited detail, these systems can’t be isolated completely from the
existing .....
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Volvo The Collectable Classic
.... had some revisions, like
a bigger engine the 90hp 1.8 liter. This car had natty trip in new colors which
for years it was in contempt. By 1966 the company was only making one model,
the PV544. The company didn't have any technical advances in the car which
probably kept the car and the company alive. To some the car was a very well
build sports car.
I know that in this cars day it was an amazing little car that was
capable of a lot for a family car. A restorer said that the only way to kill
the c .....
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Individual Organization Behavior
.... 3 Individual Organizational Behavior
The NY Army National Guard. I. This organization's history goes back around 300
years, to the time of the “Minutemen”. The brave men and women that fought to
gain our independence here in the state of NY. The NY Army National guard is
under the control of the Governor of NY. But in Wartime this organization
becomes Federalize and under the Command of our Commander in Chief. The
President of the United States. I am the Commander fo .....
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Crabs For The Crabber
.... Boater's World. The gloves have special rubber tips that help reduce the
pain if a crab pinches you. The overalls will protect your clothes from getting
drenched and muddy. The last thing that you should never leave the dock without
is plenty of liquids to drink. I recommend Gatorade or water, but no soft
drinks. It is very hot on the boat and fluids are a necessity so that you do no
dehydrate.
Before you can start crabbing, you need certain materials. The most
important is a commercial licens .....
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How The KKK, Anarchists, Phreaks Compare To Big Brother
.... that they can rip off. As you will later see, this organization and
our government strongly resemble 1984's government and the Brotherhood.
The Ku Klux Klan people haven't gotten out of the idea the black people
and other foreigners are evil, which they call, "alien outsiders". These
"outsiders" are "all non-Protestants, aliens, liberals, trade unionists and
striking workers". (Microsoft Encarta 1995) Their traditions have been
pasted down from generation to generation since 1865. Lately, Klansme .....
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Swahili
.... descendants of interracial marriages but in this
case it was the Persians who came to the coast. Shirazi is derived from the
Persian word Shiraz, the capital of faz in Persia. The Swahili and Shirazi
people have almost indistinguishable from each other. They are mainly traders
and small businessmen. Trade was increasing. The material attractions of East
Africa were ivory, rhino horn, turtle shell, and slaves.
The three most important dialects of Swahili are Kiunguja, spoken on
Zanzibar and in othe .....
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Castles
.... of stone called ashlar.
(MacDonald, p.8) There was usually a walkway along the top of the walls so
guards could keep watch. Some castle walls had spaces at the top called
embrassures, which allowed archers to shoot with the protection of the wall.
These openings also permitted stones or boiling water to be thrown down on the
enemy. (Encyclopedia Americana, p.790). Towers were built along castle walls
at regular intervals to strengthen them and provide area for castle workers or
visitors.
Moats oft .....
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Normadic Herding-Sami
.... 3,8 for the Finns, partly as a
consequence of the high birth-rate and partly due to the close ties prevailing
between the members of the family. There is a Sami Parliament spanning these
borders, which participates in the global indigenous peoples' movement at UN.
Reindeer has always been an important resource of food, clothing, tools
and other products to the Sami. They are milked at different stages of their
nomad's seasonal migration. The meat, fresh or preserved, is excellent, not
least because .....
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Sustainable Development
.... meet these three divisions.
In Chile, none of these divisions is being met. Economically speaking, almost
40% of the population is poor and as a result many make a living directly from
the land clearing forests. In the IVth region of Chile, forest regions are
being depleted at an amazing rate. This depletion of the forest in this region
results in two main things, one, people must spend increasing amounts of energy
traveling to the site of present cutting and two, the removal of the trees over
ti .....
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The Maori Of New Zealand
.... exile or prison colony. The lack of resistance from the
natives made it relatively easy for the English to accomplish their task. This
gave the Aborigine absolutely no respect from the English, and almost to this
day are they treated as inferiors, by the English. This was not the case with
the neighboring Maori's.
As stated before, the English eventually found their way to the south,
where the beautiful island lay untouched by foreign hands. They also found that
the island had a native populace just as Au .....
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A Method To Memory
.... that she was doing this all along and didn't even know it. I
then explained another short term memory method known as chunking. She cringed
and thought I was talking about the keg party the other night, but I explained
that chunking involves taking a large number or word and breaking it down into
smaller pieces that could be remembered easier. I also told her that she could
chunk together the first letters of a phrase to make it more accessible to her
memory retrieval system. I gave her the example o .....
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Analysis Of The Free-Throw Shot
.... through the rim at the same time if
placed together. Also the rim is ten feet high from the floor, meaning you have
to make sure win shooting the ball, that the angle is higher than ten feet at
its peak so then on its decent to the basket it will have a chance to go in. If
you don't get it higher than ten feet it has no chance to go in.
When you start talking all these angle's and trajectories, you can begin to
understand why some people are accurate and some are not. Shooting free-throws
is not a .....
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Food Processing
.... the seal did not leak. This became the turning point in food
preservation history. Fifty years following the discovery by Nicolas Appert,
another breakthrough had developed. Another Frenchman, named Louis Pasteur,
noted the relationship between microorganisms and food spoilage. This
breakthrough increased the dependability of the food canning process. As the
years passed new techniques assuring food preservation would come and go,
opening new doors to further research.
Farmers grow fruits and vegetables a .....
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