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Greed
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 776.... they did not take it from anyone else. Vanderbilt got rich by making travel and shipping faster, cheaper, and more luxurious. He built bigger, faster, and more efficient ships. He served food on his ships, which the customers liked and he lowered his costs. He lowered the New York to Hartford fare from $8 to $1. Rockefeller made his fortunes selling oil. He also lowered his costs, making fuel affordable for the working-class people. The working-class people, who use to go to bed after sunset, could now afford fuel for their lanterns. The people, who worked an average 10-12 .....
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Aging As A Mental Issue
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 735.... they aged. This type of negative thinking does not have any future. People tend to give up on their daily exercise and they sometimes forget about their healthy eating. In their mind, a light went off, meaning their prime is over, it is time to switch to a more laid back lifestyle. It is time to think about the retirement plans and forget about those exercises, they will only make you tired. What is the point of a healthy diet at this age? A slim posture becomes something of the past very quickly. In one’s mind, attractiveness does not matter anymore. Being married, and ha .....
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Violence In Sports
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 430.... Trying to stop the violence is almost like trying to declare world peace.
There will always be someone who either picks a fight or builds an underground
organization. Football, hockey, soccer, and all those other violent sports will
be practiced until the end of the world. Another reason why I don't want these
sports to be cut is because when you practice a sport like football it helps you
release all that frustration and energy you have inside. By releasing all that
pressure it helps you relax for a period of time. Getting rid of popular sports
like hockey or football coul .....
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LOUIS RIEL
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 586.... government. It was obvious since he formed his own
government. Riel would have been an asset to the
Canadian government.
In 1884, Gabriel Dumont rode to Montana and asked
Riel to defend the Métis once again. Riel returned to help
the natives once more. Riel was risking capture when he
returned. This was a very noble act on his part. Instead of
staying nice and safe in Montana, Riel gave up his safety
for the Métis. Riel decided to try an unviolent approach
this time instead of starting an all out rebellion. Riel and
the Métis drew up a petition and presented it t .....
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Children And Video Games
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1499.... hand-eye coordination and attention to detail. Video Game Use by Children Recent studies of television watching by children has included measures of the time children spend playing video games. In 1967, the average sixth-grader watched 2.8 hours of television per day. Data from 1983 indicated that sixth-graders watched 4.7 hours of television per day, and spent some additional time playing video games. A recent study (Funk, 1993) examined video game playing among 357 seventh and eighth grade students. The adolescents were asked to identify their preference among five categ .....
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“Newton Or Leibniz, Who Should Get The Credit?”
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 852.... and integral calculus. It should be noted that he discovered calculus years roughly 8 years before Leibniz discovered them. He used his differentiation methods and sought to unify many separate techniques developed earlier to solve seemingly irrelevant problems like finding the area, tangents and the maxima and minima of functions. He wrote his De Methiodis et Fluxionum in 1671but was never published until 1736. Newton also discussed the converse problem and calculated areas by antidifferentiation wherein he laid the first clear statement regarding the Fundamental .....
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The History Of Greek Theater
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2430.... suffering brought knowledge of worldly matters and of the individual. Aristotle attempted to explain how an audience could observe tragic events and still have a pleasurable
experience. Aristotle, by searching the works of writers of Greek tragedy, Aeschulus, Euripides and Sophocles (whose Oedipus Rex he considered the finest of all Greek tragedies), arrived at his
definition of tragedy. This explanation has a profound influence for more than twenty centuries on those writing tragedies, most significantly Shakespeare. Aristotle’s analysis of tragedy began with
a des .....
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Ouija Boards
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 638.... think the fingers of the questioner influence the pointer.
There are basic guidelines that should be followed for using Ouija
boards. If any of you are willing to try one you should check out some of the
safe things to do to protect yourself or anyone else from possible harm. As many
people improvise a ouija board as a game, it is always best to protect yourself.
Where there is no protection from 'evil forces' extremely frightening things can
occur. Sinister messages can be spelt out, claimed to come from the devil. As to
prove that no one person is purposely pushing the .....
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