... speeding or dangerous driving. If you are at school you could forget all about learning and play games all day long. It does sound like a good life but would such a system work in reality? If you spend any time thinking about it then you must come to the conclusion that life would be more difficult without rules rather than easier. For example, imagine there were no rules regulating what side of the road you drive on, you decide for yourself when you wake up in the morning. Would you take a chance driving down a motorway in such a society when someone could be coming straight at you at 70 mph? How long would shops stay open if we were not obliged to pay for our goo ...
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... run around in the front line and fire their guns. Warfare is now totally dependent on sophisticated computer technology in numerous different areas. Examples are the navigation of a submarine and intelligent long-range missiles. What most people associates with computers and war may be various simulation and action games. This is big business for software developers and merchandisers all over the world. As in all businesses money is the most important criteria for the big companies so they have no morale problems with making warfare into entertainment as long as it's selling. The same goes for the film industry, but at least some war films also describe the pain and ...
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... what goes on around them. The best way to do that is through life experience not through TV. For example if a student saw drug use on TV he/she would have no idea about drugs until they experiment with the drug, or see the effects of drugs on someone in real life. Teenagers are at a point where they can distinguish reality from fiction. Schools should focus on giving teenagers more projects about life. For example marriage projects that are not real. This way they can experience life more realistically. Adults can watch whatever they want. At this point they know right from wrong, what’s real and what’s fiction. They should know what’s appro ...
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... which stated practical methods for manufacturing paper from wood and vegetable pulps. Soon many publishing processes were developed and the paper industry no longer had to depend on rags and linen and this made mass production possible. There were two main kinds of pulping processes used in the 18th century and they were, mechanical or groundwood pulping and chemical pulping. Mechanical pulping contains certain wood components and therefore, it is not suitable for paper in which high whiteness and permanence are required. Mechanical pulp was first made in Germany in the 1840's, but was not used much until 1870. Chemical wood pulp is used when high whiteness, ...
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... work to satisfy each echelon of needs, and further, how as all lesser needs are met, the individual may refocus his/her concentration to ascend the hierarchy towards self-actualization. According to Maslow’s pyramid, the basest of human needs are physiological, in particular homeostasis and appetite. These necessities must be met before human consciousness can progress to the next level of concentration. Maslow’s theory gains support upon examining the breakdown of how the brain functions. Carter (1998) explains that the lateral and ventromedial hypothalamic nuclei are largely responsible for controlling when one feels hungry. While the lat ...
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... I was not familiar with, but after analyzing many topics I still had the urge to learn more about . I figure, if I write on a subject I find interesting I should get a decent grade. is a very important and vast field in psychology. The more we are able to understand the psychology of children, the better we may understand why people turn out the way they do. Hopefully in doing so, we may have a clearer understanding of what has negative effects on child development. Therefore, we can revolve around the negative and focus more on the positive. Resulting in a better future for everybody. Content: Both Plato and Aristotle wrote about children. Plato believed that ...
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... across something that was new to everyone…transporting information from one computer to another. This breakthrough in technology lead to the greatest invention known to man. However when the Internet was discovered it wasn't perfect. It was slow and it didn't seem to be that big of a deal, but steps were made in the right direction to perfect such a thing. Now days we have networks, modems, servers and much more to provide us easy, quick access to almost everything. However now days its gotten out of hand there are pedophiles who display child porn on the internet, there are companies that allow you to buy their product over the internet which can be then s ...
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... with this life threatening disease is increasing at an alarming rate. The Rice Counseling Center defines anorexia as “an emotional disorder characterized by an intense fear of becoming obese, lack of self-esteem and distorted body image which results in self-induced starvation”. In accordance with information given by the Counseling Center at the University of Lawson 2 Virginia, the development of this disease generally begins at the age of 11 or 18. Significantly, these ages coincide with new phases of a girl’s life, the commencement and ending of adolescence. Recent estimates suggest that out of every 200 American girls between this age span, ...
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... time as anyone can remember, the human body was a very beautiful thing. "A body of a man had glory, as well as his mind, that both needed discipline, and by that such discipline men best honored Zeus." From time to time the Greeks held ceremonies of Games in honor of their god Zeus. They held these ceremonies for the areas in which they took place. These places were, Pythian, Isthmian, Nemeam, and of course, Olympian. The Olympian games go back to the time of the first people to live in the valley of Alpheas River. There in Elis, in the western Peloponnesus was Olympia, "the fairest spot in Greece." This land was filled with beauty and snowcapped mountains. Th ...
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... proletariat." In a society such as ours, in which the rich are too few and the poor too many, the Marxist-Jacobinist approach has a ringing appeal. With the term proletariat, one simply substitutes the poor. By "expropriating the expropriators," or eradicating the rich, equality is achieved with one bold stroke. The trouble with this formulation, however, is that the dictator- proletariat is itself dictated upon by an all-powerful Party, while even among the poor there is a hierarchy of classes, beginning with the "advanced" proletariat, followed by the peasantry, the intellectuals and the petite bourgeoise. Moreover, there is a contemptible class, the lumpenpr ...
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