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- 23631: An Essay On Romance And Love
- ... assigned this topic to write about, I immediately thought of Eros. The ancient Greek word that describes the romantic side of love. Philos and Agape are really more spiritual in nature, but Eros, now that's a physical love. I envision Eros as the sweaty fumbling in the back of old Chevrolets, and the firelit evenings where everything seems to go just right and the sex is perfect, And even in ... a relative thing. The fact is that romance, or Eros, is different things to different people. To me, romance is a fleeting thing. It is a step towards a better thing, towards love that isn't physical. Romance epitomizes the best and worst of love. It is a thing that I at once desire and despise. I suppose that I will eventually get ensnared in it's web, I can only hope that the nectar that it feeds me will be sweet enough to offset the acrid aftertaste of the inadequacy of romance as a substitute for the real love that ...
- 23632: Animal Farm - Compared To The
- ... would always listen to Napoleon. Other animals were the worker class type citizens. The types of citizens range from hard working to selfish and lazy. Molly, for instance, only cared about her ribbons, and wasn’t much of a thinker. All she wanted to do was eat sugar, and look pretty. Benjamin was a critic who always said “I’ve seen that before” and “It’ll never work.” The cat was just plain lazy, and was always disappearing whenever work had to be done. The ducks were weak and did not get much done. Then there were other donkey’s which worked much harder and never thought of their own needs. The pigeons acted as message carriers spreading propaganda between farms, spreading Napoleon’s words from farm to farm, or in the actual Russian Revolution, country to country. Although all these animals are very different, they all shared one common trait. They were all weak. They all let ...
- 23633: Bats
- ... animals or humans. Well, enough with the facts. I think that should get you ready for the rest of my essay. Austin, Texas Congress Ave. Bridge A Bit Of History....... When Engineers reconstructed downtown Austin's Congress Bridge in 1980, they had no idea that the new crevices beneath the bridge would make an ideal bat roost. Although bats had lived in Austin for years, it was headline news when they ... colony eradicated. About that time, Bat Conservation International (BCI) stepped in and told Austinites the surprising truth: that bats are gentle and incredibly sophisticated animals, that bat-watchers have nothing to fear if they don't try to handle the bats, and that on the nightly flights out from under the bridge, Austin bats eat 10,000 to 30,000 pounds of insects, including mosquitoes and numerous agricultural pests. As the ... largest urban bat colony in North America. With up to 1.5 million bats spiraling into the summer sunset, Austin now has one of the most unusual and fascinating tourist attractions anywhere! Congress Avenue Bridge's bats are mostly Mexican free-tails (Tadarida brasiliensis). These bats migrate each spring from central Mexico. Most of the colony is female, and early June each one gives birth to a single baby bat. ...
- 23634: Personal Identity
- Personal Identity 8th March, 1997 Dear Diary Today in class we had a brief discussion of what personal identity is. I didn't get a chance to speak out my thoughts and opinions so I felt like to share it with you. Personal identity is what I see myself as, positively or negatively. It could be argued but ... the combination, result of many factors. Like the majority of our physical appearances is already destined since the moment of our conception, of course, there are also other factors such as nutrition and environment. Everyone's personal identity should be changing everyday, every moment by the building up of their intelligence and experiences. In the earlier stage, our personal identity is solely from our parents. This includes: heredity, culture background and ... fit into a group. When getting into the middle age, the biggest influences will probably come from your work, religion and friends still. As you can see friend plays a very big part in everyone's life. Personal identity plays a major part in my quest for self-knowledge, but its up to me to choose my own identity. God created all men equally, but it is up to us ...
- 23635: Biography Of Frank Zappa
- ... times as many records. Frank was the one of 3 children (Carl, Candy, & Bobby) born in Baltimore, Maryland. Frank was a curious child and learned about music at a young age. At this moment Frank's talent began to build. He first started his interest in drums at the age of 12. Going to summer school in Monterey to learn orchestral percussion. At the age of 13 he made his first ... Frank graduated from high school, but the thing was that when he graduated he left with 20 units less than the rest of the students. They let him graduate because the teachers said they didn't want to see him there next year. His finished his first recording with Don Van Vliet (friend from school) called Lost in a Whirlpool. Frank married Kay Sherman in 1959, the same year he wrote ... A couple months after he got married he formed a garage band called Boogie Men, and as fast as this band was created it ended. The reason to them breaking up was that they weren't making any money, so he joined another group Joe Perrino and the Mellotones. By the time he was 21 he made his first record release "The Masters: Break Time / 16 Ton". As years progressed ...
- 23636: Industrial Revolution In Diffe
- ... shows how revolutionary they were. This was the first time in history the working and middle classes disputed over conditions, and wages. This relationship is still very common, and very important. If the workers don’t complain, then they will not work as hard because of their feeling of resentment towards their bosses. And vice-versa, if the bosses don’t try to lower wages, then they will have to make up for it with higher prices, and then the consumer suffers. The protest towards bosses led to the formation of unions, which are still a ... of a nation, not only the economy. It affected the relationships between classes, and also the relationships between countries. The most important part is how all of these concepts are very much applicable to today’s economy, which is why the Industrial Revolution was such an important period of time in the history of the world.
- 23637: Gender 2
- ... tend to be more interdependent, less aggressive, more sharing, more imitation of relationship and intimate discussion, more charitable, more empathetic, more likely to smile, more sensitive, and more skilled at expressing emotions non-verbally. Let s face it males, women are the super humans. One of the positive key advantages of a male is their assertiveness and high self-esteem. The women on the other hand are more extroverted and tender ... with mental rotation though. Studies show that males are more likely to take and successfully complete higher level math and science courses. Through the differences and similarities that both males and females share or don t share, whatever the case may be, one may attempt to find a common bridge. They shouldn t try! Scientists have studied the genes, behavior, and other distinctive qualities in male and female gender and have found great difference as well as slight, if any, similarities. Which brings up a popular question: ...
- 23638: Breast Implants
- ... many risks involved, there are many disorders that are possible, and there are illnesses that you could catch after the operation. According to Marian Segal, many of the women who have had breast implants don’t exactly what is in there body. Silicone contains organic compounds, which have the physical properties of oils,resins or rubber, and which are more stable when exposed to heat and oxygen thanordinary organic substances. This ... of the following. If fabrication of the device involves curing of polymeric components by chemical crosslinking, then data establishing should be provided. This may be done by a various methods, for example: Measurement of Young’s modulus at low strain, as this is approximately proportional to crosslink density. Measurement of equilibrium swelling of the polymeric component by a good solvent. Determination of the amount of unreached crosslinker from its concentration in ... well as nausea, vomiting and fever. Infection, hemotoma are also possible. (collection of blood that causes: swelling pain and brushing.) Also very dangerous is the skin necrosis- when the tissue dies and blood flow doesn’t get to the skin. This can be caused by smoking, cortisone like drugs, implant that are too large for the available space (Segal 4). Autoimmune-like disorders are disorders which--signs include joint pain ...
- 23639: Biography Of Karl Marx
- ... the oldest surviving boy of nine children. (Perhaps this is where his theory on equality of resources began. Competing with eight brothers and sisters for attention would have seen an unequal distribution of the parent s resources to the children) His mother, born Henrietta Pressburg, was from Holland. Both parents were Jewish and were descended from a long line of rabbis, but, a year or so before Karl was born, his ... was baptized when he was six years old. Even though Karl was baptized as a youth he still faced discrimination because of his Jewish background. (Marx may have seen from this discrimination that religion wasn t necessary and was the opium of the masses) In October 1835 Marx matriculated at the University of Bonn. The courses he attended were exclusively in the humanities, in subjects such as Greek and Roman mythology ... 1850 to 1954 living in poverty his family lived on bread and potatoes and two of his children died. His son Guido was "a sacrifice to bourgeois misery," and a daughter Franziska, for whom Marx s wife rushed about frantically trying to borrow money for a coffin. (Marx was experiencing life as the lowest class, which conflicted with his experiences of the continent of Europe where he had lived a ...
- 23640: The River Rouge Manufacturing Complex
- ... plant reaffirms that fact. The photo was taken in 1930 and you can see by the photo the plant is very impressive. The caption that accompanies the picture gives an actual figure of the Rouge's square footage, the total is 6,952,484 square feet. Before the Rouge plant Ford's main manufacturing plant was Highland Park. The Rouge and Highland Park were similar in the way of utilizing the assembly line to produce the Ford product. Many collections of photos were found of the assembly line at Highland. One collection shows the final mating of the model T, which is similar to the final mating of the model A . Also the one day production of the Highland Park plant, which was dwarfed by the Rouge one day production total. The next collection ...
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