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Modern Torture
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2888.... fully function as contributing members of the community.
Torture is a slow process that is designed to render its victim helpless, dependent and devoid of all human qualities. Torture destroys the sense of self; it confuses right and wrong; any belief in the stability of the world is taken away; "truth" becomes a word without meaning. Methods of torture are limited only by the fiendish fantasies of those whose business it is to break others down. Physical methods include beating, electric shock (especially to the genitals), stretching (as on a rack), asphyxiation techniques .....
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The Evolution Of Professional
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1547.... received news of his nomination to presidency in 1860 he was wrestling. Carnivals and county fairs of the post Civil War era are the roots of what we know now as professional wrestling. Wrestlers with bizarre costumes, names, and false biographies would wrestle. They would have exhibition matches and would take any challenge from any townsmen who wanted to prove how big and bad he could be. Carneys detested to lose, so if the local man seemed as if he was going to beat the champion, he was tricked and lead towards a curtain backdrop at one side of the ring where another ca .....
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Epic Theatres
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1074.... the audience must not allow itself to become emotionally
involved in the story. Rather they should, through a series of anti-
illusive devices, feel alienated from it. The effect of this deliberate
exclusion makes it difficult for the audience to empathise with the
characters and their predicament. Thus, they could study the play's
social or political message and not the actual events being performed on
stage. This process is called Verfremdungseffekt, or the alienation effect,
where instead of identifying with the characters, the audience is reminded
that they are watchin .....
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Casinos
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1220.... Atlantic City were devoting 318 million dollars to promotional food and drinks. Also in Atlantic City, over 900 of the 2100 small businesses there closed and the number of local restaurants was reduced from 243 to 146. Richard Byron, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, describes gambling expenditures as Money Extracted From Other Consumer Spending. When come into a small community such as Atlantic City or Biloxi the people living in that community start to go there for entertainment instead of movie theaters, restaurants and other places they used to go to b .....
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Our Declining Education System
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2277.... with other countries that do, but the findings nevertheless
reflect the need for change. Our education system at this time is regulated by
states which implement their own curriculum, set their own goals and have their
own requirements for teacher preparation. Combined with this is the fact that
we have lowered our expectations in these areas, thus we are not providing an
equal or quality education to all students across the country. The commission
findings generated recommendations to improve the content of education and raise
the standards of student achievement, partic .....
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Carl Gustav Jung
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2766.... class used to give him fainting spells (neurosis) and his father worried that Jung wouldn't make a good living because of his spells. After Carl found out about his father's concern, the faints suddenly stopped, and Carl became much more studious. He had to decide his profession. His choices included archeology, history, medicine, and philosophy. He decided to go into medicine, partly because of his grandfather. Carl went to the University of Basel and had to decide then what field of medicine he was going to go into. After reading a book on psychiatry, he decided that this was .....
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Efficient Market Hypothesis An
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2757.... behaviour. Good examples for monitoring costs are auditing costs. To protect themselves of huge monitoring costs principals are bearing the costs to agents. An example can be given in lending: A high-risk company has high monitoring costs, which leads to a high interest rate. Another example would be the reputation of the manager: Has he got a bad reputation, than his salary would be lower than usual. Agents try to reduce monitoring costs by installing mechanisms to guarantee that they will behave in the interest of the principal or by proposing to compensate principals .....
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Inhalants
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 569.... effects of inhalant use are many. Almost all the abused products offer effects similar to those of anesthetics, which are slowing down the body functions. Depending upon the dosage, the user may feel a slight stimulation, less inhibition, or lose consciousness altogether. There is also something called Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome. This means that the user can die after one inhalant use or after many. Immediate effects offer are nausea, sneezing, coughing, nosebleeds, feeling/looking tired, bad breath, lack of coordination, and loss of appetite. There is considerable .....
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