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Telepathy
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2689.... must be understood in perspective. The main means of communication can be described using feelings, sensations and images. It is the brain of the receiver that learns to associate, possibly even with words, with a particular sensation and feeling and imagery introduced into an interaction (3). It can take years to adapt to , it does not happen just like that. Along the way many experiences appear common to those who adapt to in some way. The experiences are highly individual due to the fact that the human brain in everyone is individual and distinct as a human fingerprin .....
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The National Tobacco Agreement
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 821.... out, it was found that 42% of Americans were
purchasing this product. Just last year, forty states sued tobacco
companies demanding compensation for the money they lost through taxes and
various other costs because of the tobacco industry. Instead of dealing
with all forty states separately, the states and the tobacco companies came
to a compromise and decided it would be in the best interest of everyone if
they settled out of court.
There are five major points of this settlement that both parties
have signed and agreed to. The tobacco companies will have to pay $368
billi .....
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The History Of Greek Culture
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1032.... the civilized world and recorded the manners and customs of elder nations.
About 450 BC, a group of philosophers, the Sophists, became prominent. They were groups of teachers, and scholars of theories of knowledge. They invented what is known in literature as rhetoric, or the art of composing and delivering persuasive speeches. The Sophist movement contributed to the rise of prose over poetry in Athens, as shown with the attached pictures.
The ancient Greeks did not establish one unified country. Instead they established city-states, each called a polis, which w .....
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Human Nature As Competitive
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 456.... they were planning on spending. Every person thinks their companion should value them and when the person undervalues them, they will do whatever it takes to be as valued as they would like to be.
There are three principle causes of quarrel in the nature of man. They are competition, diffidence (or distrust), and glory. In human nature, competition is for gain, diffidence is for safety, and glory is for reputation. It is the competitive human nature that renders people apt to invade and destroy one another. The reading gives and example of a man who arms himself when taki .....
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The Igbo
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 500.... of certain clans instigated the reproduction of generations of "headhunters." Motivated not by material but by social considerations. The young men's were to expected to return home with trophies of human heads after wars that were usually provoked for the purpose of proving they were brave men, deserving of the exalted title of great warriors and has the right to join a club. Those men who could not accomplish this feat were treated as cowards; they were laughed at and denied certain rights and privileges. Headhunting was to prove that they are great warriors.
Igbo people ar .....
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Halloween
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 339.... alcohol has also been known to bring people more in touch with
their feelings, and allowed them to express themselves and their desires
more freely.
Finally, Halloween is the best holiday of the year, because
television stations play all the good horror movies. Horror movies tend to
let people experience a long missed and long needed sense of fear, which
consists of things like a racing of the heart, an increase of the senses,
and an adrenaline rush response. This helps people to realize their own
mortality, and to experience the long dead adrenaline rush response that
rem .....
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Abortion
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 760.... ethics.
I attended Catholic Schools for most of my life, and had Catholic beliefs and ideas
rammed down my throat for so long, that for a while I decided what ever The Church
believes, I am going to believe the exact opposite. So for many years I believed in
abortion, and thought of it as no big deal, and thought that if I was ever placed in a
situation that abortion was an option, that I would just go ahead and do it, but now that
has changed. I took a morality class my junior year of high school, and one day we
watched a movie on abortion, and it had some really graphic .....
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Courtship Violence
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1045.... are emotional harm, feelings of victimization, and fear of further violence (Barnett, Miller-Perrin, Perrin 164).
The most popular explanation for dating violence is that it is a learned behavior acquired in the family origin. Witnessing parents’ marital aggression or being the victim of harsh corporal punishment may greatly increase the chances that a child will grow up to use violence in a dating relationship (Simons 468).
There is a substantial body of evidence suggesting that violence in the family is a risk factor for the perpetration of partner abuse. Men who witnes .....
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