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  • Does Art Imitate Life or Does Life Imitate Art?

    Does Art Imitate Life or Does Life Imitate Art?

    Two of the greatest philosophers disagreed on a debate that still in going on today. Does art influence life or does life influence art. Plato believed art imitated life; and Aristotle believed that life imitated art. For Plato, life is spent in balance and if that balance is interrupted life wouldn’t be perfect. Reason helps keep a person in balance, therefore he stated that if emotions took over reason would be deleted and an imbalance

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Mike
  • A Day in the Life of a Medieval Peasant Western Civilization

    A Day in the Life of a Medieval Peasant Western Civilization

    Holly Miller November 2, 2005 A Day in the Life of A Medieval Peasant Western Civilization Daily life for us peasants is generally pretty hard. I get up each morning at dawn, eat a quick breakfast of homemade bread and ale and then I'm off to the fields for a full day of work. We have to plant, tend, and harvest at least one good crop a year or we will starve in the winter.

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    Essay Length: 777 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Top
  • Pro-Life Abortion

    Pro-Life Abortion

    Abortion is an extremely controversial issue and one that many people can have very strong feelings for on both sides of the debate. Those who support abortion rights argue that it is a woman’s choice what to do with her body. Although, the unborn baby inside a woman is still a person living, and terminating that pregnancy is the same thing as murder. No one should have the choice to commit murder. Abortion is honestly

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    Essay Length: 1,497 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Yan
  • Dorm Life at Its Best

    Dorm Life at Its Best

    Dorm Life at its Best The perception people have of dorms in general is definitely not what dorms are really like. Here at Valdosta State, dorm life would be more compared to life in jail. The living environment isn’t the greatest in dorms. Living on campus in a dorm is supposed to be homey, like your home away from home, but that is not the case. Dorm rooms are very small, and it’s hard living

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Edward
  • Life

    Life

    what is the meaning of life? Some may say that there is something out there but they dont know what yet and that we are only here to prove ourselves and experience certain things to ready us for the next world, but its true to say that everyone is searching for sumthing to forefill the desire that money and other material objects dont fill. Intelligent design is a belief that certain features of the universe

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    Essay Length: 379 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Fatih
  • My Life

    My Life

    To be given the chance to play little league was one of the greatest times of my life. I played little league for four years, and every year I made the all-star team. My best friend and I played on every regular season team and every all-star team together. The final game of our career was unforgettable. It had been 4 years of great enjoyment with my best friend, Cody Smith. We always clowned around

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    Essay Length: 1,876 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Andrew
  • My Life in O-Town

    My Life in O-Town

    My life in Orlando This is the story of how my life was when I was in Orlando. Trust me not everything in life is beautiful as we all think. Well this is a very complicated, weird and sad story. But I can’t change what happened to me in Orlando even if I’d wished for it. So this is the story of my life in the O-town aka Orlando. I arrived in the O-town on

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    Essay Length: 580 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Tommy
  • How Successful Were Progressive Reforms During the Period 1890-1915 with Respect to the Following? Industrial Conditions, Urban Life, and Politics

    How Successful Were Progressive Reforms During the Period 1890-1915 with Respect to the Following? Industrial Conditions, Urban Life, and Politics

    Between 1890 and 1915, progressive reforms swept the nation, with some leading to improvements for society. Although some of these reforms led to radical behavior, either for the reform or against it, most were civil. The areas of most concern for the reforms were industrial conditions, urban life, and politics. Industrial conditions were atrocious during the early 1900’s. There were many difficult aspects to being a factory worker. The first was unfair wages. Workers could

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    Essay Length: 519 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Janna
  • The Day My Life Changed

    The Day My Life Changed

    The Day My Life Changed I stepped through the door to my grandmother and grandfather's home without even aknock. My grandpa looked up from the television he was watching, from his cozy comer chair.He had a head of snowy white hair gleaming in the room. Over his broad body, hung a navy bluedress shirt and a fuzzy cardigan sweater. He wore slacks, held up awkwardly by a belt, allowinghis small potbelly to hang over it.

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    Essay Length: 1,468 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Life and Contributions of A.V. Feigenbaum

    Life and Contributions of A.V. Feigenbaum

    Armand V. Feigenbaum – Life and Contributions Armand Feigenbaum was born in 1922. Feigenbaum was the first to define a systems engineering approach to quality. Feigenbaum’s concept of total quality control, known today as total quality management (TQM), combines management methods and economic theory with organizational principles. Feigenbaum’s career initiated his significant contributions to total quality management. He began his career with General Electric (GE) in 1937 as an apprentice toolmaker and management intern with

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Janna
  • Careers and Work Life Balance at Compucan - Marketing Plan

    Careers and Work Life Balance at Compucan - Marketing Plan

    CAREERS AND WORK LIFE BALANCE AT COMPUCAN Student No. 2482529 Ausrimas Zlabys Tutor: Stephanie Gharner 1.1 INTRODUCTION Life has become more and more challenging and a rise in working families, people are finding that the needs between work and outside work-life are conflicting. The labour market are looking for more flexible working hours due to working famillies, which have lead to employees working shorter shifts, day shifts, night shifts and have time off for maternity

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    Essay Length: 1,752 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Nick Leeson’s Double Life

    Nick Leeson’s Double Life

    Nick Leeson’s Double Life In 1999, director/screenwriter James Drearden released the movie Rogue Trader, which encapsulates the true life of futures trader Nick Leeson and his role in the downfall of Barings Bank. Ewan McGregor stars at Nick Leeson, an ambitious young British stock trader while Anna Friel plays his wife Lisa. Drearden’s focus is on Leeson’s activities at the Singapore Stock Exchange but he also constructs a love story subplot that adds little to

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Max
  • The Future of Life

    The Future of Life

    The Future of Life In the book The Future of Life, Edward O. Wilson tells us environmentalism is a large-scale lesson in sacrifice. Some people will think when humans protecting the environment, they always need to give up something. When humans need to protect an endangered species, some people will lose their money, jobs and even their home. People will think the Earth's gain is human's lost and stop to protect the environment. However, they

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    Essay Length: 894 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Life of a Star

    The Life of a Star

    The Life of a Star One night while little Jimmy was out camping with his father, he asked his father how a star is made? And his father said there are high-mass stars, intermediate-mass stars, and low-mass stars. The life cycles of stars follow three general patterns each associated with a range of initial mass. Much like human beings stars have a life cycle, they go threw birth, evolution, and death. And little Jimmy said

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Jessica
  • A Day in the Life of a Bipolar Man

    A Day in the Life of a Bipolar Man

    A Day in the Life of a Bipolar Man For the past three years I have suffered from a psychological disorder named, bipolar 2 disorder . Bipolar disorder is a condition that causes extreme shifts in mood, energy, and functioning (Santrock 412). I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder three years ago. The disorder typically emerges in adolescence or early adulthood and affects people throughout their lifespan. Although traditionally thought of as an adult disorder, there

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Panopticon in My Life

    The Panopticon in My Life

    The Panopticon in My Life Principles of the Panopticon can appear just about everywhere in our everyday life. The Panopticon itself is a simple system of centralized visualization. The basis of the original Panopticon was a circular prison system with a tower sitting in the middle that had a full, unobstructed view of all the prison cells. I can apply this idea to many situations in my life varying from computer use to my college

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Life of John F. Kennedy

    The Life of John F. Kennedy

    The Life of John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917, the second of nine children. He was a US statesman and our 35th president. He came from a family with a history of good politics. As an infant he lived in a comfortable but modest frame house in that suburb of Boston. As the family got larger and the father's income and fortune increased, the Kennedys moved

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Last of the Mohicans: Life, Race, and Human Relations

    The Last of the Mohicans: Life, Race, and Human Relations

    The major theme of Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans in relation to the allegoric nature of the novel's climax and to its denouement is the lesson of revenge. The antagonist of the novel, Magua, was a former soldier in Munro's army. During that time his taste for whisky, or “firewater”, causes him to be punished by a brutal horsewhipping and he looses his dignity. This dent to the pride of Magua sets him

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    Essay Length: 1,607 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Jon
  • Genus Loves Company: The Life of Ray Charles

    Genus Loves Company: The Life of Ray Charles

    Genus Loves Company: The Life of Ray Charles Musician Ray Charles is generally considered a musical genius, and is so in many fields. He has enormous success in jazz, blues, soul music, country and western, and cross over pop. Acknowledged as an expert vocalist, pianist, saxophonist, and all around-entertainer, Charles first burst into popular attention in the 1950s as the virtual inventor of soul music. Ray Charles once defined soul music, “[soul music] is

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    Essay Length: 980 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Systems Development Life Cycle Explained

    Systems Development Life Cycle Explained

    Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Explained Defined simply at Dictionary.com, a Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is: Any logical process used by a systems analyst to develop an information system, including requirements, validation, training, and user ownership. An SDLC should result in a high quality system that meets or exceeds customer expectations, within time and cost estimates, works effectively and efficiently in the current and planned Information Technology infrastructure, and is cheap to maintain and

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    Essay Length: 840 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Wendy
  • A Friend Who Changed My Life

    A Friend Who Changed My Life

    A Friend Who Changed My Life A year into my high school career, I met a person who to this day has had a large effect on me, my personality, and my outlook on life. It was only after her recent departure from South Africa that I realized exactly what a big part of my life she was, and now I understand how it feels to lose a wonderful person, and an amazing friend. Early

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Artur
  • Artificial Life

    Artificial Life

    Artificial Life and Intelligence Websites: http://www.humanoidrobots.org/humanoids2005/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25394-2005Mar10.html http://www.humanoid.waseda.ac.jp/Humanoids200 One of the most interesting topics of our time is that of artificial life and artificial intelligence. In other words, non-human man-made intelligence. I will examine in particular humanoid intelligence. Most scientists today agree that walking; talking humanoid robots with social intelligence will be commonplace in the future, raising new challenges for humankind. One of the the most well known scientist who are working on humanoids

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Fonta
  • English 11 - Life or Liberty?

    English 11 - Life or Liberty?

    Megann Heilman English 11 Period 2 Life or Liberty? The freedom of what we do with our lives effects us everyday. It effects the way we look, what we say, and how we pursue what we want to do. Life without this freedom would be a dull and glooming day for each of us. We wouldn’t have the power to say what we feel, do what we need to do, and be who we want

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Jessica
  • In This Life What Is Success to You?

    In This Life What Is Success to You?

    In this Life What is Success to You? Success is a very important thing to me. To me success is having the job that I want, earning the money I need, having a family that I can easily support, and having a good education for myself. If and when I achieve these goals I will be successful. There are many other things that people would say led to success, but they may not be the

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Max
  • Goals for Life at the University of Phoenix online

    Goals for Life at the University of Phoenix online

    "Goals for Life at the University Of Phoenix Online" “Eric, I am not sure this program is right for you. Perhaps you should take some time to do a little soul searching”. These were the last words I ever heard from my percussion instructor at East Carolina University in 1989. Shortly after that conversation, I left college for good. Leaving college for good, ended when I enrolled at the University of Phoenix. This paper will

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    Essay Length: 901 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Jack

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