Miscellaneous
Couldn't find what you were looking for in the site's sections? Take a look, it might be here.
11,203 Essays on Miscellaneous. Documents 6,511 - 6,540
-
Mys Political Roots Essay
Nathan Newton Date: 03/14/06 Pd. 2 CIVICS Political Roots Essay Pg. 125 Political Roots My political attitudes are more set towards liberal. Because when it comes to racial issues and paying back past mistakes, i dont think that we should have to. Now im not bein racist what so ever its just that our mistake was close to a couple hundred years ago, and its not like anyone that was a slave or discriminated against
Rating:Essay Length: 586 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: May 31, 2010 -
Myself
i'm japanese/american though rumor has it, the postman was korean. i'm an import model for shibaura, hinomoto and mitsubishi-satoh farm tractors. i was fired on 'the apprentice' and i wasn't even a contestant. i've been there, that's why i'm here. my cup is half-empty on some days and half-full on others. i only have one oar in the water. i ride and spur the pale pony of the apocalypse. death doesn't follow me but neurosis
Rating:Essay Length: 419 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: November 30, 2009 -
Myself
My life is very difficult to explain but I am going to tell it to you easy. I was born March 27th 1991. I was like a basketball when I was born so my mom says. I was also a very bad and spoiled child for I was very jealous of my sister getting all the attention. I used to run around screaming just so I could get all eyes on me and not on
Rating:Essay Length: 580 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: January 16, 2010 -
Myself as a Writer
"Myself as a writer." I don't consider myself a very good writer. I write when I am made to or when I have something that I need to say that I can't just tell someone. I keep a diary. Usually my diary is just a record of what I have done that day. It's not so much about my feelings. I don't really like talking about my feelings, usually because most of the time I
Rating:Essay Length: 1,361 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: January 5, 2010 -
Myspace - a Place to Advertise Sex?
MySpace a Place to Advertise Sex? In the Article "MySpace Isn't for Advertisers, It's for Sex" by Pesach Lattin he states that he and parents feel all users on MySpace are all vulnerable targets to get raped, that MySpace is a "sex-finder" website that is unsafe for children and that the website is a perfect trap to catch kids at parties and they feel that classifying yourself as a gay or a lesbian is bad.
Rating:Essay Length: 696 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: November 30, 2009 -
Mystic in the Theater Eleonora Duse
Mystic in the Theater Eleonora Duse One of the great opportunities that Performance Ensemble provides for us is the chance to be innovative. To experiment with our own creativity in unusual ways. This is one of the many things that Eleonora Duse was famous for. She was the first modern actress. Instead of seeing acting as some mere form of entertainment she saw acting as a great force capable of making people "aware of the
Rating:Essay Length: 591 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: May 14, 2010 -
Mythical Realms
In the land of Keldrin, many moons ago, a demon of enormous power was born. This demon, spawned from the pits of hell itself, began to wreak havoc on the world, as we know it. Arkemn, the lord of the magic realm, and his protectors went after this hideous demon. After years of fighting, despite Arkemn's best efforts, the demon could not be beaten. More demons were summoned through the gates from the underworld. Arkemn
Rating:Essay Length: 476 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: December 1, 2009 -
Mythology
In the assignment the students are required to write an essay describing their current understanding of myth. In this paper they are asked to answer three specific questions. These questions include: (a) if there are any particular cultures that they associate with the notion of myth, (b) identify any myths in which they might be familiar with, and (c) do they believe that myth and mythology has had an effect on their personal or professional
Rating:Essay Length: 314 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: January 4, 2010 -
Mythology
The siege of Troy was caused ultimately by the conflict between the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. At the marriage banquet of Peleus and Thetis, the goddess of discord, Eris appeared and threw an apple engraved with the words "to the fairest". She did this because she was upset that she had not been invited. Zeus sent the three goddesses who claimed the apple to be judges by prince Paris of Troy. Each bribed him:
Rating:Essay Length: 878 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: January 15, 2010 -
Mythology
Dionysus and Demeter are the two great gods of the earth. Dionysus was the God of Wine and Demeter was the Goddess of Corn. These two are like no other gods or goddesses because they actually helped the human race, while the others had nothing to do with humans. Demeter brought a good harvest year after year, so humans had something to eat. Dionysus' gift to the human race was the grape for wine. Together
Rating:Essay Length: 556 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: April 8, 2010 -
Mythology: An Overview
Mythology: An Overview Though there are many different definitions for myth, the basic idea is that myths are stories that have been passed down in a traditional way, over many generations about divine beings and heroes, and they are linked to spiritual and/or religious life of a society. Myths are used to explain the universe and society beginnings (creation myths and founding myths), unexplainable natural phenomena, and anything else we can't explain in a simple
Rating:Essay Length: 959 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: February 8, 2010 -
Myths and Patterns
Myths and Patterns My uncle was telling me about a dream that he had; he was sleeping and someone broke into the house and started to kill everyone in the house (He said there were a lot of people in the house for some reason). He woke up to confront this problem and grabbed a gun to shoot these intruders with, but when he started to shoot the gun turned into a snake. A dream
Rating:Essay Length: 495 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: January 19, 2010 -
N" Word Essay
The "N" word makes me uncomfortable. If I heard someone say the "N" word who I respected I would no longer have the same respect for them. I myself would never use the "N" word. Although, when I hear it on the radio or in a movie it doesn't bother me. When I play Socom I may hear the "N" word 50 times in a two hour playing period. It is usually said between friends
Rating:Essay Length: 320 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: February 1, 2010 -
Naacp
Tha NAACP interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and to ensure African Americans their constitutional rights. The NAACP was created in 1909 by an interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans, especially in the wake of the 1908 Springfield (Illinois) Race Riot. Some
Rating:Essay Length: 330 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: February 19, 2010 -
Nacirema
The Nacirema are a society obsessed with the presservation and maintenance of their bodies. They have many body rituals, some thats are conducted in private, others that require the assistance of certain knowlegable medicine men. After reading about this tribe I was shocked at how much they focused on their appearance. "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" was actually written about Americans. Horace Miner chose not to directly reveal this, in order to demonstrate people' ethnocentric
Rating:Essay Length: 307 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: December 20, 2009 -
Nantucket Nectars Case Study Review
Tom Scott and Tom First were entrepreneurs and for about 9 years worked tirelessly performing many of the core operational activities required to manage their company. When the time came for them to decide on how to grow their company, my decision to negotiate an agreement to sell all or a portion of the company stock would have been based on 1) raise capital to support the business’s strategic plan, 2) align new management to
Rating:Essay Length: 291 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: January 3, 2010 -
Napoleon Dynamite
The clip you just saw is from the popular movie "Napoleon Dynamite." Many of you have probably seen it before but I bet you never thought about any of it as being factual, did you? Well, even though the description was a bit off, ligers really do exist. According to Encyclopedia Americana, ligers are a hybrid cross between a male lion and a female tiger (also known as a tigress). It is nearly impossible for
Rating:Essay Length: 733 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: November 27, 2009 -
Napster
Napster In 1998 a university dropout, Shawn Fenning, nicknamed napster, spent days without sleep in his uncle's office producing a new music-swapping programme now known as napster. Napster is an MP3 file sharing programme that lets you connect to millions of other users world-wide and swap music with them for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, even Napster itself as a programme is FREE and is available to ANYONE with a PC and the Internet. Napster spreads all types
Rating:Essay Length: 335 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: January 22, 2010 -
Napster
Sean Fanning, the creator of Napster, had no idea of the effects when he jumpstarted Napster in 1998. Hundreds of thousands of songs were being exchanged by the blink of an eye, minute after minute, millions by the hour. This had the record companies and artists heads spinning with no solution for the matter in sight. From the greed stricken record industry executives to the teenagers downloading the latest Limp Bizkit track, it seemed as
Rating:Essay Length: 992 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: March 12, 2010 -
Napster Vs. Music
Napster is an online trading program that allows users to look into another persons hard-drive in order to trade music. "Napster and similar software provides users with a method of searching thousands of other users computers to share thousands of high quality music, music that is stored in the compressed .mp3 format."(Internet). Music of the popular artist is traded through the Internet at no cost. In other words instead of having to pay market price
Rating:Essay Length: 531 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: January 17, 2010 -
Napster: Information Superhighway Robbery?
Sean Fanning had no idea of the amount of turmoil that the creation of Napster would cause. Full-length songs were being exchanged in a matter of minutes, and neither the artists nor the record companies were seeing a cent of it. With the widespread popularity of Internet file sharing the music population was divided. People either saw the program as a Godsend that would save them from wallet gouging CD prices or a new-aged form
Rating:Essay Length: 1,793 Words / 8 PagesSubmitted: November 26, 2009 -
Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy is a sleeping disorder distinguished by overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sleep attacks. The disorder makes it difficult for you to stay awake for long periods of time, in spite of any situation. As many as 200,000 Americans have the disease, but only about 50,000 are diagnosed, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke. According to the (NIHDS) narcolepsy causes its victims to experience serious problems in their professional and personal lives.
Rating:Essay Length: 288 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: January 6, 2010 -
Narrative
I walk to my 9 o'clock class; it is my first day at Michigan State. This doesn't seem real, I am a student/athlete at Michigan State and going to my first class that relates to my major. All of my friends from high school have branched off and gone their separate ways. My friends I have made for the past 4 years are mostly down in Florida while I'm in Michigan. My four best friends
Rating:Essay Length: 1,300 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: November 21, 2009 -
Narrative Essay
Deon’s Black Eye Travis was walking in the school building looking for his girl, Alicia. He went past the Math class, he saw Mr. Freeman and the principal making out he got disgusted and walked faster. While passing by the English class he decided to take a peek and see if she was in there. When he opened the door he saw nothing out of the ordinary but he started hearing people laughing. So he
Rating:Essay Length: 1,001 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: February 8, 2010 -
Narrative on Car Accident
Car Accident "A car is not the only thing that can be recalled by its maker." (Unknown) I used to be the kind of person who thought nothing could ever hurt me, until a normal morning turned into a disaster, which made me realize that life can be taken abruptly. My significant event is my car accident. After waving goodbye to my parents, I was off to school on a beautiful spring morning. It was
Rating:Essay Length: 405 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: November 22, 2009 -
Narrative Paper
In a far away jungle on the island of Tiki lived a young girl named Tropical Radiance. Everyone in the jungle thought of her as a goddess because of her amazing beauty. She had long dark curly hair that she wore in a ponytail. Her skin was as smooth as silk and she wore the same rainbow-colored dress made from dyed flamingo feathers everyday. Everyone admired and loved Tropical Radiance. Pear Illusion, Violet Dazzle, Berry
Rating:Essay Length: 643 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: December 6, 2009 -
Narrative Paper
When I was younger, it never really mattered that I was different, but now that I'm twelve and have sat in this office on so many different occasions, and watched the different couples look at me, and then be told what was wrong with me, I knew this couple, too, would not stay for long. They would look sadly at me with pity in their eyes as they shuffled past me looking heart broken, and
Rating:Essay Length: 259 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: March 22, 2010 -
Narrative Personal Essay - 21st July
My birthday fell on the 21st of July, but it was only the 18th. My parents were out of town, so this had to be the weekend I threw a huge birthday bash. I made up flyers, 50 of them, and my neighbors didn't seem to mind too much, so things seemed to be set. I took the 16th and 17th off of work so I could get anything of value safely locked away in
Rating:Essay Length: 658 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: November 16, 2009 -
Narrative Structures
Unit 1 - Narrative Structures V for Vendetta V for Vendetta (V4V) is the first film by director James McTeigue and was released in 2005. V4V is set in a very near futuristic London which is now under control by a very strict & fascist government which controls what the public believes through their materialised media network. One night, London is rocked by a bombing of the crown court followed soon by a mysterious character
Rating:Essay Length: 325 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: April 1, 2010 -
Naruto
Naruto (NARUTO - ナルト -, Naruto?) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto with an anime adaptation. The main character, Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive, unpredictable adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in the village acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all. Kishimoto first authored a one-shot of Naruto in the August 1997 issue of Akamaru Jump.[1] The plot
Rating:Essay Length: 322 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: April 5, 2010