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Donkey
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1423.... opening of the CPR. It opened up new trade routes previously unknown to the isolated British Columbians. This increase in demand for lumber forced logging camps to look for new methods to log as much forest in the quickest amount of time possible. Carter, the boss-logger, money hungry man that he was, got his loggers
only to fell trees that were close to shore. As Grainger explains, "In those days good timber was plentiful- good timber, on sea-coast slopes, that could be felled and shot right down to water- hand-loggers' timber." Most boss-loggers of the early 1900's were .....
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Bartleby And Civil Disobedienc
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 562.... unjust work. He simply asks Bartleby to do easy tasks such as, “when those papers are all copied, I will compare them with you”, or, “just step around the Post Office, won’t you? And see if there is anything for me” (Melville 116). The boss, who is also the narrator, never requests Bartleby to perform any difficult chores. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s interpretation of an unjust law is, “a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself” (Jacobus 159). The injustice described here by King also does not match .....
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The Death And Dying Beliefs Of Australian Aborigines
Number of pages: 13 | Number of words: 3499.... tribes
and taught them how to live. He gave them the laws that are handed down from
father to son, founded the initiation ceremonies and made the bull-roarer, the
sound of which imitates his voice. It is Daramulun that gives the medicine men
their powers. When a man dies, it is Daramulun who cares for his spirit. This
belief was witnessed before the intervention of Christian missionaries. It is
also used only in the most secret initiations of which women know nothing and
are very central to the archaic and genuine religious and social traditions.
Therefore it is doubtfu .....
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Chinese Architecture
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 769.... which is different from us.
Wood to the Chinese respectes life, and “life” is the main thing in Chinese
culture. This feature has been preserved up to the present. Builders
would apply a lacquer to the wood to preserve it. These lacquers were made
in bold colors, and this became one of the key ways to identify Chinese
architecture. The highly varied color found on a traditional Chinese
building have a symbolic meaning to the Chinese culture. People would
paint dragons, flowers, birds, and landscapes on these buildings. These are
called murals that are painted onto the buil .....
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Is It Dangerous To Think Too M
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1113.... Instead of letting the laws govern their lives, he was attempting to show his pupils ways of rationalizing their own world. God originally gave mankind free will so that we would not become a bunch of robots walking around doing his bidding, and yet this is what traditions were doing. The customs of early Athens were limiting on what a person could or could not believe. Socrates believed independent thought in itself could never be bad. It is what one does with this knowledge that determines its worth. Socrates believed that “self-knowledge” is different from the "knowle .....
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Dealing With Difficult People
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1175.... a customer always has a return. It never fails that someone has to return. This customer wanted to return a pair of jeans without a receipt or tags. It is hard to explain to a customer our policy if she doesn't want to listen. I told her the policy was that if she wanted to return something she would have to have a receipt or the tags. She wanted me to call management since she knew someone that worked there. I call the operator and ask to see if there were any managers available. The operator told me that there was no one available until noon. I knew after I hung up .....
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Donkey
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1423.... opening of the CPR. It opened up new trade routes previously unknown to the isolated British Columbians. This increase in demand for lumber forced logging camps to look for new methods to log as much forest in the quickest amount of time possible. Carter, the boss-logger, money hungry man that he was, got his loggers
only to fell trees that were close to shore. As Grainger explains, "In those days good timber was plentiful- good timber, on sea-coast slopes, that could be felled and shot right down to water- hand-loggers' timber." Most boss-loggers of the early 1900's were .....
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Psychological Stress
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1817.... All of the little things that frustrate us include waiting in lines or
traffic, sense of failure or inadequacies, bad relationships, deaths, and loneliness. Self-defeating thoughts are a
way in which we almost deliberately block attainment of our needs. If in our heads, we have this preconceived
notion that we are incapable of obtaining something that we want or that others could not possibly love us, we
create a self-fulfilling prophecy. I used the word "deliberately" in describing self-doubt because we have the
ability to change these misinformed thoughts.
Major .....
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