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  • The Amish

    The Amish

    The Amish The Amish culture began in 1770 in Europe and immigrated to the United States in 1817, with the most important aspect of their way of life being their religion. The Amish religion defines who they are and why they choose to live apart from the dominant culture in society as we know it. The Amish separate themselves from an every day natural culture that most Americans find strange such as, they do

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Amish: A Shocking Story

    The Amish: A Shocking Story

    The Amish: A Shocking Story Two hundred years ago electricity had not been discovered, the automobile was nearly one hundred years away, and the quickest mode of transportation was still horseback. In 1800 the Amish thrived on their farms, located mainly in the Midwest, in places such as Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and even Pennsylvania. They kept mainly to themselves, venturing out of their close knit communities only occasionally, and then, only for a short time.

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    Submitted: June 4, 2010 By: regina
  • The Anatomy of Abuse

    The Anatomy of Abuse

    The Anatomy of Abuse While this paper cannot be a definitive guide to the nature of the abuser, the victims relationship with the abuser and societies part in encouraging gender bias, I hope it will add to the pool of knowledge. It is my hope that, at least in a small way, this paper will be an aid towards helping us all understand the nature of domestic abuse and those who perpetrate or encourage it.

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Answer to Natural Childbirth

    The Answer to Natural Childbirth

    The Answer To Natural Childbirth Featured Article by Dr. Martyn P. Williams Subscribe To Our E-Zine E-Mail Address: Title (RN/LPN,CNA, etc): Country (optional): Support our Sponsor Many therapists are aware of the use of hypnosis for childbirth and for the removal of pain along with the production of analgesia/anaesthesia by stimulation of Endorphins, but this is mostly unreliable, in most cases only gaining a heightened pain threshold. Not many have heard of the use of

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Art of Advertising: Selling Products Through Film

    The Art of Advertising: Selling Products Through Film

    The Art of Advertising: Selling Products through Film When thinking randomly about ads on television or at the theatres, as long as it is presented in some form of film, a few successful ones voluntarily emerge in our minds. Whether they have conquered their places in our memory by means of violence, comedy or any other possible way is a subjective matter. The unquestionable truth is that all of these vending tools have auspiciously achieved

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    Submitted: April 20, 2010 By: Jack
  • The Art of Fallacies

    The Art of Fallacies

    Brent Johnson Ms. Lori Stoltz English 117.18 4/7/05 The Art of Fallacies A fallacy is defined as a false notion; a statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference. Fallacies can often be labeled as highly deceptive. For this reason, fallacies are often used in advertising to bait viewers into specific products. There are quite a few different types of fallacies for example, begging the question, attacking the person etc. With each

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Art of Grilling

    The Art of Grilling

    The Art of Grilling After coming home from a long day of going to classes and studying there is one thing that I especially look forward to. Some people may want to go grab a beer or turn on the T.V and lounge around, but my vision of a perfect evening is one spent in front of a grill, cooking whatever it is I’ve chosen for dinner. I’m not sure why I like to

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Art of Spam

    The Art of Spam

    This one was pretty clever: ============================== Hello our potential customer We would like to introduce our new-born sites www.carderplanet.org www.mazafaka.cc www.brandhost.ru www.mazafaka.ru where you can shop around most wanted and needed items in your life. Our weapon section has wide range of hard-to-find machine guns, silencers, armour-piercing ammos and others. First of all, let's check our 3 top-selling items: 1. Russian surface-to-air missile SA-14 "Gremlin" (upgraded analog of SS-16 "Strela") from our supplies in Kazakhstan.

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Mikki
  • The Ashley Treatment

    The Ashley Treatment

    The Ashley Treatment Ashley is a nine-year-old girl with the mental age of a three-month-old. Her condition means she will never walk, talk or even roll over. She is totally helpless without the devotion and care of her parents. In 2004 her parents decided to medically intervene with puberty. Along with hormone doses to limit her growth, Ashley's parents also decided on surgery to block breast growth and had her uterus and appendix removed. I

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Fatih
  • The Aspects of Interview and Interrogation

    The Aspects of Interview and Interrogation

    The Aspects of Interview and Interrogation There are many aspects that make up a successful interview or interrogation. An investigator does not become a skilled interviewer or interrogator over night. Training and experience are vital to becoming skilled at interviewing and interrogation. Experience is the best teacher, conducting interviews and interrogations is the only way to become more skilled. In this paper I will explain all the aspects that make up a successful interview.

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    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Atkins’s Diet

    The Atkins’s Diet

    The Atkins’s Diet In a society where ones’ pants size measures their self worth, it is no wonder why “fad diets,” have taken over in the struggle to lose weight. Over the past few decades, Hollywood has painted an unattainable image of the “perfect body.” Although many celebrities physical appearance may appear healthy, the measures taken to obtain their body, can cause numerous health risks. It seems as though, every time people turn on their

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Australian Legend and Feminism

    The Australian Legend and Feminism

    The Australian Legend And Feminism Until recent years it has been believed that there are two sexes, being male and female, and with these there are two genders, with these being masculinity and feminity. It may also be argued that sex is biology determined where as gender is socially and culturally constructed as studies of societies, both present and past, have shown that there is no relationship between social roles and biological sex (Abercrombie, Hill

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The Awakening

    The Awakening

    THE AWAKENING Throughout our lives, we all face challenges that force us to cope with everyday life and eventually change us, for the better or worse. It is in how we deal with these things that form our characters. Issues in life such as a divorce, a war, a job promotion or any little detail causes a reaction and we all react differently depending on how well adjusted we are with ourselves and our

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Jack
  • The Awakening - Virginia Swift

    The Awakening - Virginia Swift

    The Awakening A time comes in your life when you finally get it... When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out - ENOUGH!! Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on. And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your tears and

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Balancing Act

    The Balancing Act

    As Richard Burton noted, rights of freedom and of privacy should be treated with equality. In Douglas v Hello! it was held that no presumptive priority was given to freedom of expression under article 10 where it was in conflict with privacy under article 8. The States as well as the Court must indeed take care not to give one of the rights total priority over the other, unless it is made clear that one

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The Bangladesh Garment Industry: Challenges of the 21st Century

    The Bangladesh Garment Industry: Challenges of the 21st Century

    The Bangladesh Garment Industry: Challenges of the 21st century Introduction Readymade Garment (RMG) Industry occupies a dominant position in the export-manufacturing sector of Bangladesh. The advent of the RMG sector happened during the early 80s in Bangladesh. Since then, due to supportive policies of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB), this industry has experienced a significant growth. In 1988, the export-oriented RMG sector overtook the traditionally dominant jute sector in terms of gross export accruals. And

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Jack
  • The Banking Concept of Education

    The Banking Concept of Education

    “You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.” -Gallileo Galilei (1564-1642) The Audacity of Hope: The Banking Concept of Education In Freire’s essay, The Banking Concept of Education, he advances the idea that the inherent objective of the “banking concept” is to educate the poor and illiterate to remain “oppressed”; he implies that this is accomplished in part by “narrative” teaching methods, and the lack of

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    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: Wendy
  • The Banning of Handguns

    The Banning of Handguns

    The banning of handguns can ultimately be a good thing in regards to lowering the count of handguns in circulation but can also be harmful when ideas such as less people being able to protect themselves against criminals. When the idea of the banning of handguns comes into play, it is expected for there to be both negatives and positives to the theory. What we must ultimately find out is which would be more likely

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    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The Benefits of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy When Used with Children and Adolescents

    The Benefits of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy When Used with Children and Adolescents

    The benefits of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy when used with children and adolescents “People don’t just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can’t do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has, and I hope that REBT teaches

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Victor
  • The Bilderbergers - Paper Money & Paper Tigers

    The Bilderbergers - Paper Money & Paper Tigers

    The last shall be first and the first shall be last Jesus of Nazareth Nobel Laureate Buckminster Fuller’s introduction to his Critical Path is titled, Twilight of the World’s Power Structures. Published in 1981, Fuller’s book predicted the end of the world’s power structures during a process where humanity would undergo a crisis of unprecedented proportions. In 1991, the Soviet Union and communism collapsed and now with the severe contraction in credit markets, capitalism is

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Tasha
  • The Birth and Development of Scandinavian Languages

    The Birth and Development of Scandinavian Languages

    The birth and development of Scandinavian languages The Scandinavian languages of this paper are Swedish and Norwegian. Island, Denmark Finland and Baltic states have words that are similar but because of influence from neighbouring countries or no influence their languages have developed differently than Norwegian and Swedish. A Norwegian can understand Danish and speak own language when communicating. However a Norwegian understands a Swede better. This is because of the Danish connection to Germanic land

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: July
  • The Black Experience

    The Black Experience

    The Black Experience What will be written? And what ultimately will be said? Of who I am, my works, my accomplishments, my inventions, my many gifts to mankind, and of my very own experience? Will I become a no face, absent from the mirrors of time? Erased from the temples of a man’s memory? Or will the axiom of “Who I Am”, “What I Am, and “All that I stand for”, firm with honor and

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Blue Wall of Silence

    The Blue Wall of Silence

    The Blue Wall Essay #4 The Blue Wall is a code of silence among police officers. It symbolizes police officers failure to report incidents of police misconduct that they observe and the unwillingness of officers to testify against each other. Many police departments are like a fraternity or brotherhood where police officers are committed to protecting each other, right or wrong. This wall of silence is re-enforced in New York by a 48-hour rule that

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Steve
  • The Boeing Crew Meeting

    The Boeing Crew Meeting

    At the Boeing crew meeting, the dynamics and interaction between the people involved are truly amazing. With the variety of personalities, differences in work ethics and beliefs, and the diversity of their lives, the airplanes are still being built and are the best in the world. There is the Supervisor, a positive person, quick in wit, able to sidetrack even the smartest employee. The Brown-Noser, sits on the edge of the seat, waits to

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    Submitted: May 12, 2010 By: July
  • The Boy Mayor

    The Boy Mayor

    Five days before the election, Hillsdale mayoral candidate Michael Sessions wound up in the emergency room with bronchitis. He'd spent too many nights knocking on doors in the cold, trying to convince residents to write his name on the ballot when they voted. "I tried to tell him to wear his coat," said his mother, Lorri Sessions. "But he wouldn't." Michael Sessions won Tuesday's election anyway, and at 18, became Hillsdale's youngest mayor ever, sending

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The Brain on Drugs

    The Brain on Drugs

    Recreational drugs can be classified as a simple cup of coffee all the way down to Meth or Heroin. Recreational drug use consists of abusing psychoactive drugs for reasons other than medical or spiritual reasons. Twenty percent of people with a mental illness have a co-occurring drug abuse problem. Recreational drug use directly relates to mental health, and the psychological well-being of people. People who use drugs recreationally have a higher chance of developing mental

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    Submitted: May 21, 2016 By: tigermask27
  • The Breast Cancer Information Gap

    The Breast Cancer Information Gap

    This article is about the risks of breast implants and breast cancer. The author believes that people making decisions to have breast reconstruction need to be well informed before they make the choice. The risks of breast implants include pain, breakage, leakage, and links to many other diseases. There are two types of breast implants. There are saline and silicone. Both of them have outer silicone shells but one is filled with saline and

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Jon
  • The British Constitution and Judicial Independence

    The British Constitution and Judicial Independence

    The British Constitution and Judicial Independence One of the basic principles of the British Constitution is judicial independence . Simply explained, this means that judges, in making their decisions, must not be influenced or coerced by outside forces (History Learning Site). This independence is assured by several safeguards which include fiscal autonomy, independent selection, and security of tenure. The purpose of these is to ensure that judges will render fair and impartial decisions without fear

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Top
  • The Burdens They Carried

    The Burdens They Carried

    July 13, 2007 The Burdens They Carried In Tim O' Brian's, The Things They Carried, he talks about the Vietnam War and its effects on the country. Tim O' Brian uses the psychological approach to tell the sorrows of war. The things that they carried had all represented a part of each soldier. The story is better understood because the reader can discover the background of the story and each of the characters personality. The

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    Submitted: June 8, 2010 By: Janna
  • The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

    On April 16, 2007, a 23-year-old student from Virginia Tech shot and killed 32 fellow students and teachers on a rampage that made U.S. history. The weapons of his choice were a Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol and a Walther P22 semi-automatic pistol that he purchased legally from gun dealers. He then later purchased 10-round magazines from gun accessory dealers on eBay. This may not seem important but, the shooter was diagnosed as mentally ill

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Top
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