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- 10721: Oil in America
- Oil in America America has many problems with it's environment. The facts are clear that most corporations won't take the blame for them. These companies try to find ways out by stating that they are not the ones responsible for these problems. They try to protect themselves from the mistakes they made in ... oil industry and the country. The facts are clear that there have been disasters in the oil field industry in the past ten years and they stand out in history. The article "Myths We Wouldn't Miss", by the Mobil Corporation, states that there hasn't been a major off shore oil disaster in past years. That may be true and it tries to get Mobil out of a jam ...
- 10722: Power Does Not Come From a Gun
- ... we deserve is to murder. It is only those with no faith in their dreams, or belief in themselves who could make such a statement. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." A leader in the Black community and the recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, King's accomplishment of attaining civil rights for Blacks was a great one, but the road to achievement was long and full of sacrifices. It was a time when Blacks had no rights and most of ...
- 10723: Plagiarism
- ... Web, or even take a trip to the library. Often, they found what they are looking for, and before they know it, they start copying it, maybe a couple of word, few sentence, other people¡¦s idea, or they even copy the whole thing. People often want to take things they like, it is part of human nature. But there are a big different between wanting to than actually taking it without permission, this kind of action is called plagiarism. Plagiarism is defined as an act of stealing or using another writer¡¦s ideas or words without that writer¡¦s permission or giving that writer credit for those ideas or words. It doesn¡¦t matter whether you copied an entire article or you just copied a sentence, without proper citation to show another writer¡¦ ...
- 10724: Robert Frost: Biography and Review
- ... of the world. Thought his younger days may have not been filled with other children having fun and such, Frost made the best of what he enjoyed. At the young age of only eleven Frost’s father passed away. Soon after his death the family left California to settle in Massachusetts. As young Frost grew-up he attended high school in that state, later would enter Dartmouth College, but would remain ... operate a farm in Derry, New Hampshire that his grandfather had purchase for him with the condition he live there for a minimum of ten years. He would also take a teaching position at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy to receive another form of income. Frost would not stay there long, as he felt the need to once again move. In 1912, when Frost was nearly forty he sold the farm and ... to The Independent, a New York literary journal. This was his first step in the long line of success that he would encounter. Only a year after Frost arrived in England his book “A Boy’s Will” was accepted and published. With the help of favorable reviews on both sided of the Atlantic a American publisher published his book. The Henry Holt and Company became Frosts primary American Publisher. From ...
- 10725: Fifth Business - Internal Battles of Dustan Ramsey
- ... village with a population, which hardly exceeded eight hundred, including those farmers who lived on the outskirts. Within his village there were among five different denominations, and it was understood that each looked after it’s own, unless a situation go to big and then outside help might be called in. Although many did not exhort their religion it was known by all who was of what denomination and what they stood for. Dunstans up bringing had an immense impact on his life style. To a certain degree, religion isolated people within the community from one another, however Dunstan’s mother had a tenderness display and was always open armed to anyone, despite their denomination. This influenced Dunstan’s disposition because he was raised to accept people for who they were, not merely for what they were, and despite his strict Presbyterian up bringing, Dunstan valued everyone equally and didn’t belittle anyone ...
- 10726: The Values of an Educated Person
- ... call educated in our society? The graduates and successful or the humble and intelligent? What are the qualities in an educated person? Socrates’ definition is someone who uses their intelligence wisely and someone who doesn’t take their success over the edge, as well as those who keep their pleasure under control. What are the qualities in an educated person? An educated person can have many qualities. Mother Theresa had her ... of many qualities a person can have. A very educated person for example was Mother Theresa. She was educated in Socrates definition of education. She had her won nature and intelligence from birth. Mother Theresa’s education was her teachings. She was wise, her character helped many, and she sacrificed her life for others. The ways Mother Theresa sacrificed her life was by not getting married and giving up almost everything ... the words that are being said in this quote by Socrates. Who would we call educated, the graduates and successful or the humble and intelligent? Many say education comes only in school. I think that’s wrong. Going to school will give you knowledge and yes education, but the education doesn’t only come from school, it comes from you. Everyone is educated in his or her own way. Someone ...
- 10727: Strong Shadows
- ... from a home without much love from their family members, or they had something major missing in their life that could have caused a great amount of stress not normally experienced in an average person’s life. All of them were uneducated and careless leading us to believe that Dr. Zuger was trying to show that education and responsibility are the best ways to prevent one’s contraction of this disease. Some of them got HIV from reckless lifestyles such as drug use involving needle sharing to prostitution while others got it merely by having sex with casual partners. The decision to ... He is a very nice and willing patient and does not want to burden others with his problems. This shortcoming was very hard to decide on because he was such a good person. Cynthia Wilson’s human frailty was that she needs help and that she is uneducated. She thinks that they should just be able to fix her problem without a problem and without delay. She seems to be ...
- 10728: Education vs. Corrections
- ... today are going to be adults tomarrow. What kind of adults do we want? Adults that are well educated and expected to succeed or adults that are expected to fill prison cells. If students aren’t taught properly they will grow up thinking that they are not capable of succeeding in life. Which will result in underachieving and hoplessness. Thus could result in criminal activity. The education system should be one ... Clinton vetoed several bills that congress came up with. They submitted a $792 billion tax cut bill to the white house that planned to “pay for their pet projects at the expense of our children’s education.” Clinton said the republican bill could mean layoffs for some five thousand teacher that were hired to reduce class sizes. However, Gray Davis’ notes the availability of $6.7 billion for k-12 school ... numbers show that there is money that can easily be put into the education system. Another reason why our education system needs to be in improved is because there are many problems with the nation’s school facilities and technology that are being ignored. According to a profile of school conditions by the state of California 71% of California’s schools have at least one inadequate building feature. Some examples ...
- 10729: Slavey Then And Now
- ... If you were to look it up in a dictionary it would say that a slave is “one who is owned and forced into service by another,” this was the definition given in the Webster’s Dictionary. But then again if you were to look it up in the Oxford Dictionary the definition given here is of one who is an “obsessive devotee.” On the whole slavery can have different meanings ... of plantations and people being forced to work the land and being mistreated. But what do you say to a little child who comes up to you and asks you want slavery is? In today’s society we can take the word slavery and put it to the modern days. Would one say that slavery only existed years ago when plantation owners would buy people to force them to do hard labor and mistreat them, or would one mention about the slavery that goes on in today’s society? What about the people who are forced to do hard labor like many years ago? Many people do not realize it but indeed we do have modern-day slavery. What is today’s ...
- 10730: The New World
- ... this not only shown towards us blacks, but also to some of the whites themselves"(Documents Set,45). As societies and communities were forming the Old World, diseases took over the New World. Indians hadn’t been exposed to the new diseases and were dying quickly from a number of them. Diseases such as smallpox, measles, pneumonia, and malaria were extremely destructive" (Out Of Many,35). These diseases took out many ... was booming. They had "gold, silver, corn, potatoes, beans, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco, and cotton all in their new world" (Out Of Many,37). Europeans needed more land for crops but the Indians said "we won’t sell our land" (WTUD,87). The selling of land was all new to the Indians they didn’t understand that once the land was sold, they couldn’t hunt, fish, of grow crops on it. Indians believed that land is not a commodity to be shared. There shouldn’t be exclusive rights ...
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