Dragons
.... legend they do not have wings. The five toed dragons are a symbol of power. The Chinese dragon is often depicted as either being red or gold, although other colors are found. The Chinese term for the dragons is “Lung”. There are four major categories of Lung.
1.Tien-Lung, The Celestial Dragon, who protects the place of Gods.
2.Shen-Lung, The Spiritual Dragon, who controls wind and rain.
3.Ti-lung, The Earth Dragon , which controls rivers, and water on the earth.
4.Fut’s-Lung, The Underworld .....
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Basketball
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Basketball is played on a specially designed floor called a court. The court contains many different lines and boundaries. You can score more or less points from some of these lines. You can also go out of bounds if you cross some of these lines. The court is a rather large floor with one goal at each end of the court.
There are many different ways to play basketball. The traditional way that most people play is five - on - five. Five - on - five is played by two oppo .....
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Landfills - Fact Is More Ominous Than Fiction
.... to Maine. At that height, the mound will constitute a hazard to air traffic at Newark airport [Rathje 3-4]. Fresh Kills (Kills is from the Dutch word for creek) was originally a tidal marsh.
In 1948, New York City planner Robert Moses developed a highly praised project to deposit municipal garbage in the swamp until the level of the land was above sea level. A study of the area predicted the marsh would be filled by the year 1968. He then planned to develop the area, building houses and attracting li .....
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Donnellan On Attribution And Reference Idiolects
.... definite descriptions that he will call the attributive use and the referential use. A speaker exercising the attributive use of definite descriptions asserts something about “whoever or whatever is the so-and-so”, whereas a speaker using a definite description referentially enables his audience to choose or decide whom or whatever he is talking about and asserts something in lieu of that person or thing.
...To assert something about whatever or whoever fits that description; but in the referential u .....
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Tourism
.... would probably not be so negative about it. The American Dream that influences their society speaks for the strength of the individual. That is, if you really want to be rich, you can be, as long as you're not afraid of working hard. So, people obviously like being tourists, and the even more obvious reasons for that can be the need for something different to occur in ones life, not always being stuck in the same old tracks, over and over again. Or, that we need to relax, which you apparently can't do at .....
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Penguins And Their Eyes
.... inefficient and generally out of place. In fact the reverse is true. During a recent stay on the Falkland Islands, a Canadian researcher discovered that penguins are able to recognize individuals and navigate the rocky terrain on which they live quite well. Long of body and short of leg, they probably poke their heads forward as an aid to balance. And as for looking at the ground, they're merely-like us-keeping an eye on where they're going.
The human eye is adapted for aerial vision, which is why .....
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Plato's Symposium: The First Three
.... save for a few mistakes that were probably due to his nervous state. He used multiple examples to help justify his point, yet never gave very helpful ones to prove his point. Because of this, he didn’t have very much to say correctly about society in general, considering the fact that the few generalities he made were incorrect.
However, the issues discussed by Pausanias and Eryximachus were quite interesting. Pausanias used similar methods to Phaedras, except he dissected Phaedras’s argument using .....
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Plato Vs. Marx: Philosophical Arguments
.... epistemological differences. Their views on what knowledge was and how one came to understand were very different. For Plato, grasping the forms or ideas of something was gaining true knowledge. He believed that if one could understand the ideas or the true definition of something, they then had true knowledge of it. This type of knowledge comes from a world of being, where everything is something because it is forever unchanging. It always is that specific thing. On the other hand, Marx thought that .....
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The Study Of Psychology
.... emphasized the use of reasoning as a way to find knowledge. On the other hand, Aristotle emphasized that what we can see and touch is the only route to reality and truth. Aristotle was an empiricist. Both theorists believe in direct observation of the environment. There are three perspectives of psychology: Structuralism, functionalism, and pragmatism.
Psychology has strict ethical guidelines. The utilization of human participants and animals have standard polices of conducting experiments. T .....
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Landfills
.... to Maine. At that height, the mound will constitute a hazard to air traffic at Newark airport [Rathje 3-4].
Fresh Kills (Kills is from the Dutch word for creek) was originally a tidal marsh. In 1948, New York City planner Robert Moses developed a highly praised project to deposit municipal garbage in the swamp until the level of the land was above sea level. A study of the area predicted the marsh would be filled by the year 1968. He then planned to develop the area, building houses and attracting lig .....
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Rugby
.... the entire team lines up again, and the ball is snapped to the quarterback. The short pause in-between each down may not seem significant, but it definitely takes its toll on the excitement.
In rugby, however, the primary rule is that you can only advance the ball by running with, kicking, or passing it. With passing, though, you can only pass the ball backwards or directly to your side, never forward. Like football, you score by running the ball into the endzone or by kicking it t .....
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Golf And Its Environment
.... cars, lawn mowers or weed eaters that make much more noise than the equipment used by the course itself.
The destruction of natural resources is the worst excuse a person could use to say that the golf course is bad for the environment. Golf is one of the best sports for the environment. A majority of the time it uses natural resources and occasionally improves its landscape. A golf course can make an open field of tall grass into a lush, green, tree-lined maze.
The idea of destroying animal hab .....
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The International Space Station
.... launchings, aimed to be completed in the year 2004, at the cost of forty billion dollars in American money. Once fully assembled the International Space Station will consist of more than one-hundred different sections with a mass of 455,865 kilograms or 456 tons. It will measure 108.6 meters by 79.9 meters, which is equivalent in size to an American football field, including the end zones!
When completed the International Space Station (ISS) will be able to carry a crew of up seven astronauts i .....
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The Yeti
.... Many people today believe the Yeti is on the verge of becoming extinct because fewer sightings are being reported.
There have been numerous expeditions to the Himalayan Mountains aimed at either capturing or photographing it. All attempts have failed but a great deal of fact and fiction about the legend did turn up.
The main evidence of its existance is footprints, sightings, and scalps or hair. Sir Edmund Hillary believed the first footprints were found in the 1890's. Others sources give 1832 a .....
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"The Beats Generation
.... on through Burroughs on to Allen Ginsberg and a friend named Jack Kerouac. Ginsberg, hearing Huncke use the word in the original street slang usage, felt that the word meant “exhausted, at the bottom the world, looking up or out, sleepless, wide-eyes, perceptive, rejected b society, on your own, streetwise.”
Kerouac was completely captivated by the mood and tone of the word ‘beat.’ He insisted that the word possessed a deeper quality and meant something spiritual and mysterious. That kind of beatness .....
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