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  • Beautiful Child Book Review

    Beautiful Child Book Review

    Beautiful Child When I picked Beautiful Child off the bookshelf, I was expecting something a little different. I was prepared to read another run-of-the-mill book about child abuse, neglect, and the difficulties in saving one child from a horrific home life. However, I decided to read this book, even though it didn’t look very interesting; after all, I was taught not to judge a book by its cover. Sitting down to read later that night,

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Edward
  • Low Funding Equals Low Success

    Low Funding Equals Low Success

    Low Funding Equals Low Success Should a child’s wealth determine whether or not he or she can get a quality education? Funding for public schools is an enormous issue that affects many people. A major issue is unequal funding throughout the country. There are various reasons for these differences, from the governmental level to the lack of public support. There is a need to re-work the current formula used by states to determine how school

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    Essay Length: 864 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Kevin
  • The Sacred Books in Hinduism and Buddhism

    The Sacred Books in Hinduism and Buddhism

    Sacred Books, in my opinion, are the most important things that can preserve the knowledge of religion. When transmitted orally certain interpretations may occur, especially when translated into different languages. India was a mother of many religions, particularly Hinduism and Buddhism. Hinduism “has no one identifiable founder, no strong organizational structure to defend it and spread its influence, nor any creed to define and stabilize its beliefs; and in a way that seems to defy

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    Essay Length: 1,588 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Steve
  • Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Book Reports

    Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Book Reports

    Ruby Pena 7D Summaries Opinion Rikki-tikki-tavi This story is about a mongoose named Rikki-tikki-tavi who goes home with a boy. These snakes named Nag and Nagaina watch Rikki kill one of their snake friends and get worried that they are next. One night Rikki finds Nag in the bathroom and then kills him but Nagaina thinks that it was humans that killed Nag. Nagaina set out to kill the humans but Rikki was ahead of

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • History of Communication

    History of Communication

    Since the beginning of time, people have had the need to communicate with one and other. The most common type of communication is speech, but you could not talk to someone who lived 20 miles away. Then written language was developed, people marked symbols on paper, stone, or whatever was available. Then hundreds of years passed, and people who wanted to share their ideas with people had to do allot of writing, until someone

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Janna
  • Pit and Pendulum Movie Vs Book

    Pit and Pendulum Movie Vs Book

    After reading the story and watching the movie of “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allen Poe, it was easy to spot the many similarities and differences between the two. The story was written by Edgar Allen Poe but the movie was written but someone else even though it was based on Poe’s story. The movie focuses on giving more information about the characters than Poe’s story. Similarities with the movie and the story

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: David
  • Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: Book II

    Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: Book II

    he subject of ethics is a complicated one. To deal with it successfully one needs maturity of judgment and familiarity with a wide range of relevant facts. The results of ethical inquiry cannot be established with the same degree of certainty that is possible in the more exact sciences. Nevertheless, reliable results can be obtained and these can be most helpful in guiding one toward a more adequate understanding of what it means to live

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Janna
  • Nickel and Dimed: Book Review

    Nickel and Dimed: Book Review

    Can someone really live and prosper in American receiving minimal income? Can someone create a good lifestyle for themselves on just six to seven dollars an hour? In Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover to find out if it is indeed possible. Giving herself only $1,000 she leaves the lifestyle that she has come accustomed too and goes to join all the people living the low class way of life. Before setting out, she

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Jon
  • Viruses, Trojan Horses and Worms Can Be the Cause of Damage to a Computer System – Are People Who Generate Them Breaking the Law? Use Examples or Case Studies from the Press or Text Books to Explain Your Answer

    Viruses, Trojan Horses and Worms Can Be the Cause of Damage to a Computer System – Are People Who Generate Them Breaking the Law? Use Examples or Case Studies from the Press or Text Books to Explain Your Answer

    Introduction: First of all we would like to know what exactly are virus, Trojan horse and worms. Viruses, worms, and Trojans are malicious programs which enter to your computer without your permission and knowing that can cause damage, information losses, privacies leak to your computer .They can also slow down the Internet connections, and they might even use your computer to spread themselves to your friends, family, co-workers, and the rest of the internet. The

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Importance of Oral Communications

    The Importance of Oral Communications

    The importance of Oral Communications Walking into a corporate office with a suit and tie as your attire. You hold a high school diploma as well as a college degree. Your rйsumй is flawless and your criminal record is spotless. You enter the CEOs office and you are just what he is looking for. After the interview the CEO tells you thanks but you did have what he was looking for. You wonder why,

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Communication Skills

    Communication Skills

    My Communication Skills Improving my communication skills has been a work in progress starting back in the early years of my life. I have always been my own worse critic. Usually beating myself down through interpersonal communication. Now as an adult I have made great improvements but still have trouble dealing with perception and self-image. Not being raised in an environment of positive reinforcement and poor communication in the workplace I have made it

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    Essay Length: 741 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: regina
  • Communicating in Forums

    Communicating in Forums

    He could have avoided making the mistakes by going over his response first before he posted it. Whenever I am done with a certain assignment I proof read it and ask my wife or a family member if they could proof read it for me before I post it. Whenever a person proof reads your work of course they are going to give feedback. I take whatever feedback I get and use that to better

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Book Review Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

    Book Review Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

    Book Review Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun By: Wes Roberts Roberts starts the book out with his Author’s notes here he describes how he came about the topic of the book and where he got his information. He then moves on the preface where he explains a little about leadership and how it is incorporated throughout the book in relation to Attila the Hun. The next part of the book Roberts calls the introduction.

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Steve
  • Effective Communication Between Men and Women

    Effective Communication Between Men and Women

    Effective Communication between Men and Women Many men and women find it quite difficult to understand exactly what their mates want. With this new boom of self-help books this is no longer a problem. Whether it is bad communication or dealing with petty arguments, there is a book out there for you and your partner. Although not all of the author's agree and there are many critics of these works, they do offer helpful insight

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Janna
  • Book Review of "heart of the Warrior" by Catarina Blomberg

    Book Review of "heart of the Warrior" by Catarina Blomberg

    This is my review on "The Heart of the Warrior," written by Catharina Blomberg. In this review I intend to go through each chapter pointing out what the chapter discussed and what I learned from reading this book. I chose this book because it seemed interesting and something that was worthwhile for the time I spent reading it. This book seems to take a more in depth look at what we have touched on

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Vika
  • Music as a Controversial Medium of Communication

    Music as a Controversial Medium of Communication

    Music as a Controversial Medium of Communication Society has perfected the ability to make a connection between multiple things. Through association many are able to trigger thoughts or ideas that are somehow related to the initial statement or idea that was presented. Music is a prime example of how society has directly connected subcultures to the capitalist world. There are soundtracks that trigger movies, theme songs that remind people of television shows, there are even

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Artur
  • Computers Taking over Books Response to Anne Prolux

    Computers Taking over Books Response to Anne Prolux

    Visal Gallapaththi Ms. Gray ENG3U1 March 7th 2008 Flipping The Screen Half a century ago, people used books for everything related to education. In fact, the human’s best source of knowledge and education was the book. If you wanted to look up a recipe, you opened a book. If you wanted to learn how to fix the radio on your car you opened a book called the manual. If you wanted to know Black beard’s

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Problem Solutions: Global Communications

    Problem Solutions: Global Communications

    Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Problem Solution: Global Communications Problem Solution: Global Communications Global Communications is under tremendous pressure to keep up with its competitors in the telecommunications industry, and its falling stock prices reflect this problem. The company is under a lot of pressure from stockholders to rectify this problem. The bottom line is that Global Communications must rise to the occasion and put themselves in a more strategic position by offering its

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Anna
  • Book of Wisdom and Moral Values

    Book of Wisdom and Moral Values

    God teaches us many valuable moral lessons in the book of Wisdom, and the book of Sirach. We learn in the teachings many moral values that are still a part of society today, including giving to the poor, and worshipping false idols. These issues were very relevant in the early society as God warned of them in the bible, and in today's world, despite the changing physical nature, essentially the same problems exist. The problems

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Family, a System Important to Personal Developing, Need Positive Communication

    Family, a System Important to Personal Developing, Need Positive Communication

    Family, a system important to personal developing, need positive communication Zhang, Dongqing Introduction Family is important to adolescentsЎЇ personality building and future developing. Because of population control policy, most of family consists one child and two adults. And we are the first generation after this nation guideline executed, growing up with problems and conflicts to our parents, we pay an increasing number of attention on dealing with the relationship between parents and us. Memorizing my

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Justice in Book I of the Republic

    Justice in Book I of the Republic

    The Republic of Plato begins in a similar fashion that many other Platonic dialogues begin, with that of a question. The conversation between Socrates and the aged Cephalus becomes a philosophical discussion of what advantages money has brought to Cephalus' life. Cephalus replies that money has allowed him "to tell the truth and pay one's debts" (331 b). Nevertheless, Socrates believes this does not portray an accurate description of what justice is. The rest of

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Jon
  • The Day of Communism

    The Day of Communism

    This book is for people who already know a good deal about what they're reading. The first paragraph sets up some of the basic confusions for those not yet in the know: "Once upon a time, in a faraway part of Europe, behind seven mountains and seven rivers, there was a beautiful country called Yugoslavia. "Its people belonged to six nations, and they were of three different religions and spoke three different languages. They were

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Gap Analysis Global Communications Final Report

    Gap Analysis Global Communications Final Report

    Gap Analysis: Global Communications Foundations of Problem-Based Learning Gap Analysis: Global Communications The dynamics associated with the Global Communications environment centers on a lack of organizational communications with the various stakeholders. Elements that affect the organization are conflict continuums (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2004, p. 487), deficits in organizational commitment concerning job security (McShane & Von Glinow, 2004 p. 128), and organization politics (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2004, p. 5) that propagate distrust among stakeholders. Situation

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Mikki
  • John Stuart Mill’s Book on Liberty

    John Stuart Mill’s Book on Liberty

    Who’s Right Or Wrong As an American in today’s society we have many privileges and rights that we use in order to control our lives. As in John Stuart Mill’s, book On Liberty he describes his purpose of intemperance on people and their opinions. “…it is fit to take some notice of those who say that the free expression of all opinions should be permitted, on condition that the manner be temperate, and do

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Book Review “whatever Happened to the Real America?”

    Book Review “whatever Happened to the Real America?”

    Chapter 1 (What Happened to the Real America? An Introduction), In this chapter Dr. Gosine uses the interaction theory. He tells you why he is writing his book and what it is going to be about. He states “My primary concern in it is to compare traditional America with modern America and ascertain what went wrong, if anything, especially in the recent past.” A lot of social thinkers along with Dr. Gosine agree that

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Anna