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  • The New Age of Communication

    The New Age of Communication

    The new age of communication The year is 1987, a young man by the name of Vincent Williams is involved in a car accident on an old highway in the middle of the desert, and he has no way to call for help. The driver of the car he hit is trapped in the smoldering metal which was previously an automobile. There is nothing young Vincent can do to save the driver. He has

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: regina
  • Important Developments in the Humanities During the Early,high and Late Middle Ages

    Important Developments in the Humanities During the Early,high and Late Middle Ages

    Important Developments in the Humanities During the Early,High and Late Middle Ages The study of humanities allows us to explore the ways in which the changing concepts of nature and the individual differ in each historical period and helps us to characterize the important developments of each period. Examining specific works of the Middle Ages enables us to describe our views of the changes that occur and helps to explain how and why the concepts

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    Essay Length: 908 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Yan
  • Law in the Middle Ages

    Law in the Middle Ages

    Law In The Middle Ages Ever wonder how life in the Middle Ages was? Whether its modes of punishment, the court system, Churches, or even medieval justice that played an important role for peasants, nobles, knights, and many more of the important people of the Middle Ages? During the middle ages there were laws people lived by and if broken they would either go to court or battle to survive. There is a variety

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    Essay Length: 1,080 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Anna
  • Age of Modernism

    Age of Modernism

    Intro In the late nineteenth and twentieth century there was a departure from the traditional art forms. Rather than represent what is real, artists were presenting abstractions. Technological innovations influenced the arts. Artists represented electric light in paintings with images of light in buildings. With the development of the camera, photography became a fine art. Industrialism During the early years of the twentieth century, America went through a period of social and economic change. The

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    Essay Length: 1,228 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Jack
  • Byzantine Golden Age

    Byzantine Golden Age

    As the barbarians were conquering Western Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire, otherwise known as the Byzantine Empire, was beginning to undergo another golden age. A golden age is characterized by peace, prosperity, advances in leaning and technology, flourishing arts or literature, and impressive architectural achievements. The Byzantine Empire went into a golden age because they had a good government, a good military and thriving culture. Byzantine government, controlled by Justinian from 527 to 565,

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • Soap Opera's: Treasure Your Children, Because They’ll Change Bodies, Change Faces, and Grow up Three Times Their Age in a Year

    Soap Opera's: Treasure Your Children, Because They’ll Change Bodies, Change Faces, and Grow up Three Times Their Age in a Year

    Soap Opera’s: Treasure your children, because they'll change bodies, change faces, and grow up three times their age in a year Soap Opera’s "... tell the truth and show society as it really is..." (Geraghty 13). The soap opera is the most popular form of television programming in the world, and shows just how devious people are in spreading rumors and lies. The phenomenon evolved from the radio soap operas of the 1930s and 40s,

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    Essay Length: 350 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Bred
  • Drinking Age Should Not Be Reduced

    Drinking Age Should Not Be Reduced

    Drinking Age should not be reduced The legal drinking age in the United States is twenty one, and I believe that this is a logical, fair age and should not be reduced. The use of alcoholic beverages is a privilege not a right. There are so many statistics that show drinking to be bad to begin with, but there are many more statistics that show why the drinking age of twenty one should not be

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Mike
  • Raising Driving Age

    Raising Driving Age

    Sara Ziegler Basic Public Speaking November 28, 2006 Topic: Increasing the driving age to 18 Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that making the driving age 18 is a safer requirement for young teens. Thesis: Changing the driving age to 18 will reduce driving fatalities and accidents, make our system more efficient (similar to Germany’s laws in driving), and reduce our gas and insurance prices. Introduction A week before my 16th birthday after hours of

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    Essay Length: 820 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Wendy
  • The Paleolithic Age

    The Paleolithic Age

    The Paleolithic Age The notion that Paleolithic man was a cave man is preposterous. They were physically the same us people today, we are now and were than Homo sapiens. Society than was fairly complex, people lived in communities, they had art and music, they also believed in more than just the physical plane of existence in which they lived, even made tools. The common place location of a community was in valleys in France.

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    Essay Length: 1,385 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Ages in History

    Ages in History

    Civilization has evolved from close to nothing. It started with the Paleolithic Age and then the Neolithic Age. The Paleolithic Age consisted of the hunters and gathers while the Neolithic Age consisted of the food growing cultures. With the hunting and gathering culture the males did the hunting while the females gathered fruits, vegetables, grains, and raised the children. By not cooperating with food gathering and the hunting part of life you were most likely

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Max
  • Cliques/groups, Scapegoats, and Exclusion: The High Society of New York in The Age of Innocence

    Cliques/groups, Scapegoats, and Exclusion: The High Society of New York in The Age of Innocence

    In the current time, there are all kinds of groups/cliques. There are: the jocks, the nerds, and the goths in high school, and the upper class, the middle class, and the poor in society. Each of these groups has their own set of customs/rules that are followed. None of these rules are written. They are just understood. If an outsider comes to a clique and doesn’t follow their rules, the group excludes them. If a

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Tommy
  • The Age Discrimination in Employment Act

    The Age Discrimination in Employment Act

    The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), signed and enacted in 1967, aims to protect individuals forty or older from discriminatory practices based on age in the workplace. Private employers with 20 or more employers are subject to the provisions of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Labor organizations, employment agencies, and federal, state, and local governments must also follow the guidelines of the ADEA. The essential purpose of the ADEA is to eliminate

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Jon
  • Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

    Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

    Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi is a narrated autobiography depicting what it was like to grow up in the South as a poor African American female. Her autobiography takes us through her life journey beginning with her at the age of four all the way through to her adult years and her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. The book is divided into four periods: Childhood, High School, College and The Movement. Each

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Mike
  • Breavement Amond Different Ages

    Breavement Amond Different Ages

    #4 Breavement amond different ages Breavement is handeled differently in different generations. Weather it is a kid that has a terminal illness or an elderly person who is diagnosed with a terminal illness, each breave differently. Breavement deals with not just someone clsoe dying but, someone themselvs who is diagnosed with a life threatening illness. Kids are more affair of death than adults are. Kids do not underdstand death like adults. In one of our

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The Alcohol Drinking Age

    The Alcohol Drinking Age

    On this assignment I chose to write about an article that was written by Steve Chapman. The article is about the affect of raising the legal drinking age from 18 to 21. Im going to explain the article, but im also looking at the type of argument that Steve Chapman chose in order to connect to the type of audience he intended to reach. Reading the article, it seems that Steve Chapman chose to give

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: David
  • Issues Involving the Drinking Age

    Issues Involving the Drinking Age

    Issues Involving the Drinking Age What is the correct age to set for the buying and consumption of alcohol? For many years this issue has brought forth controversies all over our nation. Many people argue that young, irresponsible adults cannot handle consuming alcohol therefore it should be raised. Other people argue that no matter how many times the drinking age is raised underage people will still find ways to acquire alcohol. Regardless of what the

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Machine Age Comic

    The Machine Age Comic

    “The Machine Age Comic” was about Bob Hope who died a couple of weeks ago at age 100. He was the voice of the American people in the twentieth century. He worked hard at inventing disposable jokes, one liners, and he was always looking for the perfect gag. Many critics were doubtful of him. James Agee said, “Bob Hope is a good radio comedian, with a pleasing presence, but not much more.” He wasn’t in

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Vika
  • Drinking Age

    Drinking Age

    Drinking Age The age of drinking has been an issue in our country for a long time and there are many regards on why the age is set at 21. The federal government should not impose a drinking age of 21. The drinking age should be lowered to the age of 18 for the following reasons; one, most people between the age of 18-20 are drinking alcohol already, and two, you should have the right

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Mike
  • An Impression for the Ages

    An Impression for the Ages

    An Impression for the Ages The younger generations of children today have heard their elders talk about how society has changed. And this quite frankly this is an irrefutable fact. The entire way we live today is vastly different then it was as little as twenty years ago thanks to continual technological innovations. Computers have helped our society become filled with information that is up to the minute, especially when it comes to the media.

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Victor
  • Raising the Friving Age to 18

    Raising the Friving Age to 18

    Devin Luce Essay 2 Draft 1 English 109.02/ 11:00-12:20 Adena 120 April 27, 2005 McDonald’s Gone Country McDonald’s, the most successful and well-known fast food chain in the world. One of which is located in Coshocton, Ohio. Most McDonalds’ consist of three main colors blue, yellow, and red. McDonald’s has different themes among their many restaurants. However, the main goal is to stick with the main colors throughout the restaurant. In the Coshocton restaurant there

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Drama of the Middle Ages

    Drama of the Middle Ages

    DRAMA OF THE MIDDLE AGES THROUGH practically a thousand years while the European theater was "dark" the Christian Church was unable to stamp out completely the festive element among the common people that manifested itself particularly at the spring planting time and the harvest season. It is probable, had not the church itself responded to the primitive desire of people to "act out" the stories of their lives, that secular drama would have sprung up

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Janna
  • Aging

    Aging

    Aging in Today’s 2 In today’s fast paced world that we all live in, our society is starting to quickly slow down the aging process and increase the longevity process. Everywhere that we go, and every sign that we read, and every bumper sticker that we see, and the majority of our commercials on television and radio are all informing us how we can look younger and live longer. We are getting older with time

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Driving Age

    Driving Age

    Mathew M Volpe Mr. Bohn Research & Technology April 27, 2005 The Driving Age "Many teens are interested in being able to drive at a younger age, but it is still unclear if they are able to handle it. If the legal driving age is lowered, are we endangering the lives of teen drivers, as well as the passengers with them?" (Think Quest) I believe most people want to drive as soon as they can.

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: David
  • Competition Rises in the Day of the Electronics' Age

    Competition Rises in the Day of the Electronics' Age

    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/technology/techspecial1/02barbaro.html?ex=1140325200&en=c9bf359ca63f2e6b&ei=5070 Competition Rises In The Day Of The Electronics’ Age This is an article about how electronic retail stores are competing for the customers to make them the number one store. It discusses how there are those cheaper stores that have some good brands but not the best. Then there are those that specialize in just that and have the best. The author’s limited subject is about how these stores treat and want to bring

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Aging in America

    Aging in America

    We all will one day face the reality of growing older. There are many aspects of this change that will affect us in a large way. According to the Merck Manual of Health and Aging, 1.5% of Americans are 85 or older. This research states that the number of people 100 years or older could rise from 1 out of 5,578 in the year 2000, to 1 out of 472 in the year 2050. It

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Mike

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