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ABRAHAM MASLOW
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1100.... full potential. Maslow stated that a healthy development is only possible if a society "offers all necessary raw materials and then gets out of the way and stands aside to let the … organism itself utter its wishes and demands and make its choices"(Ryckman pp. 435). If an environment is restrictive and minimizes personal choice the individual may develop in neurotic ways. In addition to this Maslow created what he called a hierarchy of human needs. These needs are called deficiency (basic) needs and growth (meta) needs. Simply, individuals basic needs must be satisfie .....
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Amish Business Relations
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 547.... best quality products, a proud Amish tradition.
Of course, the Amish did not choose this newly found way of life, they were forced in by greater urbanization and the diminished availability and affordability of farmland. They would rather stay and go into small business than move to a more rural state. One of the most known societies is in the town of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. There is an estimated 1,000 Amish businesses in the Amish community. Within these 1,000 businesses one third of them were newly formed within the last five years. Some of these businesses have grow .....
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Nuclear Weapons: Other Options
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 530.... allows more people to move in off the streets. If home
cannot be built, existing shelters could use food and medical aid. Shelters
for the homeless are in bad shape and need the extra money to clean up the
area.
Many people talk about a drug-free America, including Georg Bush.
Although he wants drug trafficking to stop, he does not allocate enough
funds to accomplish the task. When production of useless weapons are
stopped, the new income can be use to further the police force. More
police stations, officers, and detectives are needed now. Many
investigations at .....
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Billiards
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 837.... of shuffle board. As the game got
more popular, as it is today, the sticks got narrower and easier to use
(Billiards, http).
A few games today are similar to billiards, such as shuffleboard, and
the same equipment - stick and balls. One of the most important tools to
playing any game of this type is the table. In the fourteenth century, the
length of the tables was much longer than today becuase they were used instead
of playing outside. Today the sized of the tables varies all over the worl.
The dimensions range anywhere from nine by four and a half feet to ten by fiv .....
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Storytelling
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 566.... The Woman Warrior is a story about the life of Maxine Hong Kingston. It is
easy to see her identity from those memorable occurrences that she mentions
throughout her book, especially the stories her mother told her. The story of
"Fa Mu Lan", for example, teaches women to strive to be the best they can be.
It is a story about a woman warrior who takes place of her father in battle and
returns in victory as a heroine. It evidently shows that her mother tells this
story with her sincerest hopes and passions for her. Her mother wishes her to
become more than what it was ho .....
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The Queer Use Of Women In Borg
Number of pages: 21 | Number of words: 5691.... or pleasure. Sex in Borges' fiction, by means of an objectified female body,[4] is nothing more than a maneuver that gives definition and dynamism to the interaction between men.
In opposition to the traditional critical standpoint that male-male interaction in Borgesian fiction is merely homosocial and, therefore, purely nonsexual, a closer inspection of Borges' work reveals the clear but playfully veiled presence of homoerotic desire. My purpose here is to analyze two stories, "El muerto" and "La intrusa," to expose the way in which the homosocial element of Borges' f .....
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The Cherokee Indians
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 971.... for themselves was Ani-yun-wiya which means, "real people."
Villages were placed along rivers and streams so they could take
advantage of the rich black soil for farming. Corn was their main source of
food, along with wild plants and roots that were common to their homeland.
They used spears, traps, and fishing lines with hooks to catch many
different kinds of fish. They also used an interesting method of poisoning
an area of water to kill the fish and gather them up as they floated to the
surface.
The Cherokees were also skilled hunters. They hunted large animals, .....
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The Egyptian Pyramids
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 581.... to provide a body for the spirits to dwell in a mummified corpse or a statue in the case that the body was destroyed.
These sacred pyramids for the pharaohs were built in all types of shapes. Common in all pyramids is a central location that is high in elevation. This “high point” represents the stepping stone to the heavens.
Usually there would be a Mastaba in the tomb it was known to be as a squarish mound faced with brick or stone above the burial Chamber that’s deep underground and linked to a mound by a shaft. Inside the Mastaba for the Ka there would be a cubicle o .....
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