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- 23991: Aggression In Play
- Aggression in play. Adults may think that play is something that is fun and shouldn’t be taken seriously. Children often take it seriously. They may concentrate on something for quite a long time and practice it over and over again. Play is a developmental process for children and has important ... for them. For example some activities may help to develop muscles and concentration while others may help develop social skills and to act towards each other. Aggression is something that is present in most children’s play in different levels. There are a number of definitions of aggression. Psychologists refer to, hostile aggression, which is aggression that is intended to hurt someone or damage something. It can be verbal or physical ... This type of aggression is not used to hurt the other child. Piaget would say that the child was acting in an egocentric way. Meaning that the child is thinking only of itself and doesn’t recognise the needs and wants of others. Some children soon learn how to use hostile aggression. They start to tease and call names. Social and developmental psychologists have studied the origins of aggression and ...
- 23992: Should This Business Update To Windows 2000 From Windows 98
- ... the business world and others who are running large networks of computers. It has a lot of things going for it, but just because it has some advantages over Windows NT and Windows 98 doesn¡¦t mean everyone should try it. My purpose here is not to evaluate the software but to counsel caution before you undertake a major operating systems update. Even though Microsoft did a good job testing thousands ... machines, make the change in stages running the old operating system during the transition. First of all, the first thing is to determine that Windows 2000 is compatible with your machines. According to Windows 2000¡¦s description, ¡§you need, at minimum, a PC with a 133-MHz Pentium-compatible CPU, 64 megabytes of RAM and one gigabyte of disk space. It is better with a faster CPU (300 MHz or better ... database software probably will be OK, but some specialized programs, games and multimedia applications may not be compatible. If you are familiar with Windows 98, you¡¦ll feel pretty comfortable with the new operating system¡¦s look and feel. Nevertheless, there is always something to learn. If employees will be using your new operating system, you may need to train before they are comfortable with it. I recommend that most ...
- 23993: A Convention Of Society
- ... the “norm” of their society. These conventions are general agreements on social behaviour; they have a strong force within society. This is stated by Frye in his speech “The educated imagination” he expresses that, “There’s clearly a strong force making toward conformity in society, so strong that it seems to have something to do with the stability of society itself.” (35) We conform to please others this is what creates “stability” within society. However if people don’t conform to the “norm” they are often cast out of it, unless they conform to different socially acceptable conventions, such as becoming a nun. Make-up is one of the strongest conventions of this society ... not be fair. One can not partially conform. Many things are not black and white but conformity may not be, it does not have a grey area. You conform like the others or you don’t. There may not be a grey area but there may be a fence, when you’re not sure what you think or feel. There is a transition stage when people have to explore both ...
- 23994: The Hobbit
- ... Their Biblo finds three trolls grumbling about food. Biblo decides to live up to title of burglar and attempts to pick one of the trolls’ pockets. However they quickly capture him. The dwarfs see what's going on and try to save Biblo but all of them except Thorin are caught. Thorin formulates a plan to free them but fails. Gandalf returns and occupies the trolls till dawn, and then they ... the Lonely Mountain. On the mountain they heard a thrush drop a snail to the rocks. Recalling what Beorn told them about the thrush and sunlight, they quickly found the hidden back entrance to Smaug's lair. Biblo puts on his ring and goes to confront the dragon. It is there he notices that in Smaugs' underbelly there is a place that is not covered by his iron like scales. After ... way Biblo changed from a tea drinking *censored* to an iron-fighting adventurer. I would highly recommend this book for children of all ages as well as adults. It has something about it that won’t let you put it down, it is a very good novel.
- 23995: The Popularity of Tattooing
- ... Europeans left the Tongans started their own monarchy, in other words a single ruler governed them. Thanks once again to the Europeans another great injustice was done to certain group of people. If it wasn’t for a French explorer by the name of Dumont dUrville and a few others we would know next to nothing about the art of tattooing in Tonga. Apparently dUrville demonstrated a picture of a Tongan man’s tattoo. Tattoos in Tonga were done with tools made out of bone or shell. One of the tools was heated with a flammable oil that came form a certain type of nut called “Candlenut.” Unlike here in the United States tattooing in Tonga was long and painful. This took a long, long time and was a symbol of someone’s manhood. In the article a man of Tongan and Hawaiian roots named Aisea Toetuu was interviewed. Tracy Allen, the author of this asked him many questions of his hobby, which was tattooing. When asked ...
- 23996: The Capitalist Future: A Consequence of Calvinist Annunciation
- ... of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life." (175) As a result, the ascetic 'see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil' value lost its importance. In John Wesley's words : "wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion." (175) In essence, the "form of [the Calvinist] religion remained" but the "spiri t [continues to] swiftly vanish away." (175) The Calvinist values have now "faded into the self absorbed luxury of the wealthy." (19) Calvinism had become rationalized into a tradition and the original religious doctrines began to ... Constant competition among firms who strugg le to stay in and benefit from the system has given Capitalism the "character of [a] sport." (182) It is now a self sustaining system guided by Adam Smith's invisible hand, no longer needing any religious motivations. Are we to live in this "mechanized petrification" (182) forever? Weber reasons that there is no way we can know about the future. "No one knows ...
- 23997: Vertebrate Adaptions For Terrestrial Life
- ... the water is needed to dilute the urea (or NH3 if we did excrete it in that form), in order to make it less toxic. Birds excrete ammonia in the form of uric acid, that’s what they’re always dropping on our heads. Those mangy little rats with wings… have you ever wondered why we let those little pests run free in the cities, but we wont let dogs and cats free, even though most people consider the birds more of a nuisance? I didn’t think so, anyways: A third adaptation to terrestrial life is internal fertilization. In aquatic animals, many eggs are laid, usually allowing the water, and chance to fertilize the eggs. We can’t do this on land, because the eggs and sperm would dry out, and would stay in the same place, unless they could walk (he he he). To solve this problem, we have developed a ...
- 23998: Falstaff
- Romanticism, as stated in the American Heritage Electronic Dictionary is, "An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions." Falstaff is the ideal romantic character. In an article written by Harry T. Baker titled, "The Two Falstaffs" Baker writes against all the critics who claim that the Falstaff from Henry IV parts I and II is a different character then the Falstaff in The Merry Wives of ... that the Classical character, Prince Hal, stands for and believes.. He refuses to take life seriously. He believes that "War is as much of a joke to him as a drinking bout at the Boar's Head." He uses people solely for his own purposes, either for money or for food and drink. He is rude and crude to all those around him and is one of the best liars ...
- 23999: The Giver: The Setting
- ... his family dealing with society. Many things have changed in the future, for one everyone sees in black and white the laws of the society are very different, and much more strict. If you don't abide by the rules you get released. Another thing that happens in this book is all of the children, when they turn twelve have a ceremony were they are given a role in society that ... all see in black and white, and they all have strict codes by which they must abide by. This effects the characters,in the way that the people in the town know everything about what's happening, and everyone pretty much gets along with every one else. Also since everyone sees in black and white there isn't much difference in the appearance of one and other The setting has increased my knowledge of the specific time and place. It takes sometime in the future because of the way people see things ...
- 24000: Al Gore For President
- ... that divorce and other factors have broken up too many family units, therefore causing problems when it comes to raising children. Many single parents are struggling to work and raise their children. Some parents can’t afford childcare and healthcare for their children. In order to reduce these problems, gore has decided that he wants to put care giving, support groups in many small communities. As well as after school childcare ... to nearest emergency room when hurt, right to choice of provider, and the right to appeal any decisions of a healthcare plan. Al Gore is tired of seeing so many underage smokers, and he doesn’t think that the law enforces underage smoking well enough. He thinks that we should make it harder to advertise tobacco to children and to better enforce the illegal selling of tobacco products to any one ... without proper identification. He wants to fight to reduce teen smoking, yet while he still tries to protect the people working in tobacco fields. Gore says that tobacco is the greatest threat to a teenager’s health. His anti-tobacco laws will hopefully reduce smoking by anyone by almost forty-two percent over a five-year period. In conclusion, Al Gore seems like he makes good points on important issues. ...
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