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By employing the most modern mining techniques and methods, the economic viability and feasibility of American mining could be protected and protracted for the foreseeable future. Alyson Warhurst and Ligia Noronha (2000) explain that using “state-of-the-art-processing technologies [and] new production methods with p... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e | Even after this change in American interests hostility remained in Mexico against the United States and remained until the Second World War.
Other major disputes happened after the rivalry period as described by Diehl and Goerts, most notably the incursion of American troops into Mexico in response to border raids by... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e | Today the Puget Sound region firmly has power over the entirety of the State of Washington. And as in the first conflict, it wishes to retain its power. The borders which we see today in Washington were not made with Eastern Washington in mind, indeed they were made for giving the Puget Sound region a maximum of pow... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e | The Sioux have been romanticized as well within American culture, with Sioux such as Sitting Bull joining traveling shows like Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and films made surrounding the history of the United States military and the Sioux such as Little Big Man. Other Sioux would become popular like Sitting Bull with... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e | Diehl and Goerts do not go into detail on the parameters set in their study of enduring rivalries, but certainly they did not take into account the fall of the Díaz regime in Mexico and the near decade of turmoil which it brought. Americans had a renewed resentment of Mexicans following the 1910 Revolution, which man... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e | What most people do not know, however, is that the “coastal Pacific Northwest [has] become increasingly intertwined with the inland region providing significant support to the coast.” Mainly agricultural Eastern Washington provides support to the coastal regions, by giving them “hydroelectric power, aluminum producti... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e | Neihardt continues in his letter saying that “this book would be not only the story of your life, but the story of the life of your people” (Neihardt 212). It seems that Neihardt not only had an interest of telling the story of Black Elk but taking the story of the life which Black Elk lived in his early years before... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e | The majority of Neihardt’s writing was poetry published after the publication of Black Elk Speaks (nde. Black Elk Speaks would become the most widely read work written by Neihardt, but only many years after its original publication. John Neihardt would become Poet Laureate of Nebraska and the Praries in 1921 (Nebra... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e | Not only does the U.S. Treasury get nothing, Congress has granted miners a tax break worth an estimated $823 million.”
Modern mining corporations are subject to policies which were enacted nearly 135 years ago, at a time when the United States looked toward economic development to unite a nation that had been grippe... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg | I have trouble imagining a scenario where he could introduce conclusive evidence in either case because, just like objective value, either example would still include the disagreement involved in his original argument which makes them require consistency. His most likely response would be to utilize the same strategy ... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg | It is for this reason that I find the argument from disagreement, or in Mackie’s case the argument from relativity, irrelevant.
In Wuthering Heights, many characters shift their feelings toward one another; relationships often transform from love into hatred and vice versa. Heathcliff is an interesting case becaus... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg | This is also the line of argument that he implements to account for disagreement; the best explanation for disagreement would be that there are no objective moral values, they are instead relative to ones culture. Due to this line of thought for any consistency to be established it must then follow that for culture to ... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg |
Victorian novels are characterized by their overwhelming attention to detail and their focus on the aristocracy of the period. Two novels that are considered Victorian but stray away form this tradition are Oliver Twist and Wuthering Heights. Both novels employ an element of mystery and a flare for the bizarre, aty... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg | So now every night he would silently watch as his robed twin would stumble over the cliffs like a hermit grown mad from loneliness now giddy from the sensation of the wind flowing over him with a smile on his face to match. Not once had Max stayed asleep long enough to watch the inevitable collision at the bottom of t... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg | For Black entertainers both performance art (music, dancing, and the like) and the role of the performer were changed forever by Jazz and the Blues. Sammy Davis Jr., who worked through the transition from “spectacle to respectable” and during his career furthered that shift, is an example of the culmination of that cha... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg | This is a costly oversight on Mackie’s part and the resultant disagreement can not be accounted for by the realm of non-moral fact. The moral heretic in most cases would be someone who has developed an individual moral code separate from the conventional one. A cereal killer would be the easiest example here but due... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg | But simply because of the fact that this man contributed something that no one else will ever be able to duplicate or to fill the gap now that he’s missing. Out of sheer and total respect, just a few bars of Mr. Nat ‘King’ Cole.” Another thing that Sammy did was play himself on stage, outside of his impersonations. T... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg | It would seem that vengeance was the only thing he had to live for and as it became a futile expression of hate, his life became just the same. This lead to his yearning for peace and as he could not find it in his life, he sought it out in the ground, next to his only love.
Sweat soaks the shirt resting between Max’... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg | How she refused to let go, allowing herself to be cut by the window repeatedly, showed the passion with which she aspired to return into the house; a passion that rivaled madness, spirit or not. Heathcliff’s reaction to Lockwood’s account of the ghost reveals his own involvement and his turmoil concerning this spirit. ... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg | The emotions and feelings invoked by the action are indifferent and have no affect on the action being good or bad; if an action be intended by nature then that action is intrinsically good whether it be preferred (things that would be referred to as good, in a common sense of the word, such as pleasure) or avoided (t... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg | In its most extreme application, I believe this would even include disagreement within the self. As a whole this line of reasoning does not service his claim that there are no objective moral values and in fact leads to a more difficult assertion about disagreement in general.
The possibility of disagreement within re... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg | At one time he raved and blasphemed; and at another howled and tore his hair. Venerable men of his own persuasion had come to pray beside him, but he had driven them away with curses.”
(Dickens, 430)
We often find our protagonist stumbling into this half-awake dreamlike awareness becau... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
gg | He isn’t eating or drinking and he is seeing Catherine’s face in everything, wherever he looks, whoever he looks at, becomes Catherine. The ghost is what has driven his madness to begin affecting him physically and it plays a similar role for the reader. Without the ghost the reader has no physical representation of ... | 21 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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German colonial rule has been noted by various observers for its brutality, notably with respect to the genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama in German South West Africa. Of course nothing so broad as an entire colonial empire can be accounted for by such a simple description. The German colonial empire was as varied i... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Steinmetz shows that colonial policy was heavily influenced by European attitudes towards native populations. In South West Africa several distinct forms of native policy were enacted during various periods of colonial rule and with respect to different native groups.
The foundation for European attitudes was laid d... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | In the north the FNLA began a major offensive, their ranks bolstered by hired western mercenaries and Zairian soldiers and artillery. The CIA and China also provided the FNLA with generous military aid in the form of money and arms. The MPLA continued to receive arms shipments from the Soviet Union and in May recruite... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | Portuguese Angola and Mozambique were seen as potential solutions to South Africa’s economic and security problems, and South Africa had worked with the Portuguese colonial government in the past. With both territories possessing large settler populations, friendly post-colonial régimes could be set up with South Afric... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | The commitment to fighting communism and the US’s previous relationship with Holden Roberto trumped the opinions of the dissenters and the US continued to support the FNLA.
US weapons, foreign mercenaries, and Zairian and South African forces were unable to defeat the MPLA with their Cuban and Soviet allies and Ameri... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | Further south in the central highlands, the primary commercial crop was cotton, and British and Portuguese cotton plantations displaced the native Ovimbundu. Unlike the Bakongo farmers of the north who largely stayed together and settled in Zaire, the Ovimbundu dispersed in all directions, some remained in the area to ... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | To supply their favored nationalist movements with weapons, the Soviet Union and United States together had spent more than $1 billion.
With the MPLA now in control of the government, UNITA continued to fight guerilla warfare in the Angolan bush, although with only limited support from the US and South Africa where ne... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | This economic power soon became political, and by the nineteenth century the Afro-Portuguese dominated the areas of the central highlands closer to the coast, presiding over several semi-autonomous kingdoms (reinos) centered on the coastal ports of Luanda and Benguela. These reinos were under the technical sovereignty ... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | According to a British diplomat serving in Angola in 1902, “nobody regarded the contract laborers as anything other than slaves.”
Claims of racial tolerance aside, the Portuguese set up social, political, and economic hierarchies based on race throughout their reign over Angola. These distinctions and inequalities, a... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | Initial relations between Portugal and Kongo were respectful, with both sides exchanging ambassadors and gifts. Within twenty years members of the Kongo royal family, including the king, had adopted Catholicism and encouraged Portuguese missionaries to spread the faith among the people.
However, this relationship soo... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | In the 1990s Zaire served as the main supporter of UNITA, as South African and American support for the organization dwindled. In 1997 a coup supported in part by the Angolan government overthrew Mobutu, and Zaire was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Without the aggressive Mobutu régime as a neighborhood, ... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Lacking strong domestic backing, the MPLA looked abroad for military and economic support. Its leftist revolutionary agenda naturally aligned the MPLA with communist nations and the Soviet Union and Cuba became the movement’s strongest allies, with the Soviets providing material aid, money, and weapons and the Cubans ... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | Increasing antagonism with the US meant that Cuba was also looking to foil American plans abroad, and the Angolan crisis was a perfect opportunity for Cuba to use its strong military to embarrass the US. Fidel Castro initially acted unilaterally and without notifying the Soviets on his intentions in Angola. However, Cu... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | This new system created even more divisions in Angolan society by separating the population into groups, which actively competed with one another. The old Afro-Portuguese families, who often identified economically and culturally with the white settlers, saw their historical privileges taken away and became increasingl... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | The Cold War brought the global struggle between the West and communism to Angola and many other African countries also going through the decolonization process, but nowhere did foreign intervention reach such a large scale or involve so many different parties as in post-colonial Angola. While the United States, China,... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | Just as most other European countries were beginning to exit or disengage from their African colonies, Portugal dug in, strengthening its connections with and increasing its presence on the continent. Angola was used as a repository for Portugal’s underemployed and impoverished excess population, and settlers continued... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | German colonies like Togo and Kamerun with more tropical climates had even smaller European communities.
The large settler population shaped South West Africa’s development and had a direct effect on the employment opportunities for educated natives. Middle and lower level positions in colonial administration and other... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | The FNLA soldiers [were] slathering animals.”
Though consistently armed by the US and China and supported by troops and artillery from Mobutu’s Zaire, the FNLA was not able to maintain military success against the Cuban-backed MPLA and ceased to be a major force in Angolan politics after 1976,
The União Nacional pa... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | The precolonial conceptions of the Nama and Ovaherero formed the basis for early colonial policy. Both the Nama and Ovaherero were generally viewed as uncivilized. The groups were constantly at war with one another and the Germans made agreements with various groups at different times. The Landeshauptmann (state captai... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | In Angola however, black Africans never made up less than 95% of the population, so the demographic situation there (and in the other Portuguese colonies) was never the same as it was in Brazil. Furthermore, the claim that racial mixing equates to racial egalitarianism is problematic, as there are significant racial in... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | Having previously served as the foreign minister with the FNLA, Savimbi left the organization for a number of reasons and formed UNITA out of the Ovimbundu of the south. Though ostensibly an independence movement, UNITA seldom fought the Portuguese and was mostly engaged against the MPLA. Some allege that UNITA was giv... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | The Ovaherero who survived the war were largely rounded up and put in concentration camps, where they went through a process of cultural assimilation to fulfill their roles as a proletariat of labor to support the white population. Though education was disrupted during the war, enrollment surpassed prewar levels by 19... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
qq | European perceptions of the Samoan were not unanimously positive, but the idea of the Samoan noble savage had more support than that of the Witbooi noble savage, as colonial discourse on the Nama was largely mixed and often negative. White settlement was also of a much smaller scale in Samoa, in part due to its tropica... | 22 | English | male | College | Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
k | If I had the chance to go back to the summer before my freshman year and tell myself to get a bike, I would do it. And as the campus expands, I would urge every able-bodied new student to invest in a bicycle. I will not be around to experience life in this town once the school begins to get truly huge, but I can guess ... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | I watched the bear until it gave up and walked away. The next day, an entire Jaguar club came through. An unbroken stream of Jaguars of all ages and types passed by, driving down the only road. After what seemed like hours, the last stragglers came, like the wounded or sick following after a stampede. These are only a ... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
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I have been a student here at University Park for about two and a half years now, or four and a half semesters. For many, including myself, getting around on campus can be a problem. My freshman year I was placed in an East Halls dorm room; pretty much the furthest eastward limit of campus, not counting the stadium an... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | What makes us different? I wear different clothes, look different, have a different kind of body, listen to different music and do different things with my time. These aren't differences, actually. They're really similarities. Everyone wears clothes, looks different from everyone else, etc. The differences are more tha... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | Federal law remains the same, so the DEA sometimes raids these clubs. This cannot be ethical. Consider Amy, a college student in Sacramento. Amy was born with a condition that causes her severe discomfort and often powerful nausea and stomach pain. For long periods of time, Amy can't keep down a meal without cannabis. ... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | George Washington, being a farmer, grew hemp, including two smokable varieties. Growing hemp was encouraged by the government to help the country flourish. Hemp use declined in the late eighteenth century, however, because processing hemp by hand requires a lot of work. Today it is illegal to grow any type of hemp in t... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | Ugh, that idiot can't really be wearing that same stupid hat he's had on every day this year, can he? Yes, he can. But that's no reason to go home and beat your wife. Besides, that will only create more relationship stress. Yes, sheer contempt stress is real. Rarely, it is automatic, but often when stress builds to a c... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | Here Vonnegut combines appeals to Ethos and Pathos: in an audience of young Americans, or for that matter any audience, most people can relate to an experience of peer pressure; Vonnegut has a right to make this conjecture about “the most powerful force in the universe” because he had witnessed firsthand the results of... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | What satisfies me in a movie is the way the movie draws you in and makes you a part of it, and at the same time makes itself a part of you. When a movie is really good, it makes this look effortless. However, one's satisfaction with a movie depends on one's taste in movies. Some people like horror movies and some don't... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | He gives a brief but detailed history of her life, describing her as a gallant and pretty little woman, then explains that he mentions her in this article on obscenity because she was his friend, and told him that, though the dirty words he used in his books did not astonish her, the words should not be published. Riah... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | It's true that marijuana use can exacerbate latent or existing mental disorders, but this is rare. Often, marijuana can do just the opposite and help people to recover from emotional problems. There is no evidence that marijuana causes schizophrenia. Another health issue is the carcinogens in the smoke. Firstly, these ... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | They ditched the air conditioner in the side of the road and found a dollar store where they bought some cookie sheets and duct tape. Then they taped the cookie sheets to the roof to keep the rain out. They did not care that they were destroying the truck because it was their truck, and not a rental. You see, a used mo... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | Headache and loss of perception of time are common. Caffeine can add to this stressor's positive effects, but in the long run can also contribute to its negative effects. The typical sleep deprived person is rarely all there, as their minds tend to wander or just space out.
Cannabis should be freely available to al... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | However, if one is in a situation where the danger is not real, but only perceived, then the stress response can be problematic. Some people neurotically imagine danger everywhere, but most people at least have an unnecessary stress response in situations involving public speaking or during awkward social situations. W... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | Having established that these are not legitimate reasons why she would have been anti-obscenity, he then presents his idea of the legitimate reason that she was. He suggests that she would have sensed it as an attack on her power to intimidate. She would have wanted people to remain quiet about things like “the suffer... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | Our campus is best described as 'sprawling.' Much of the student body comes from suburban areas, and so is used to suburban sprawl, but what they need to realize is that this kind of unchecked development is the reason why our planet is getting warmer at an alarming rate. Every individual has an impact on the world aro... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | It seems obvious, but if pot was legal, it would be easier to get and much cheaper. These are two of the biggest reasons smoking pot causes problems for people – by being a drain on their money and sometimes exposing them to toxic chemicals. Many adolescent kids are drawn to marijuana use because it is something they a... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | When you think about it, it almost seems like the school doesn't care about the comfort or convenience of its students, but rather about being big, flashy, and impressive. Just look at the dorms the freshmen are forced to live in. They fit two people into a concrete box almost eerily similar to a prison cell, most of t... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
k | Donna Summers playing over the PA, a rainbow of different colored lights, i felt like a goddess. It's never like it was that night anymore. Today's music, nothing but clicks and whistles blasted at high volume, you can't be heard over it, and the drag queens have no class anyway.
Afterwards, at the bar, i'm scoping ou... | 23 | English | male | Some College | Unemployed | N,N,N,N,N |
o | From Freud and Jung’s psychoanalytic theories to the behavioral interpretations of Skinner and Rodgers, the different schools of psychological thought strive to explain the perplexing and all too often contradictory motives behind human behavior–unfortunately, often with negligible concrete results. In fact, in the wo... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o | Many people with EDS are unable to work, cannot enjoy formerly pleasurable pursuits such as sports and hobbies and lack the energy for even a normal intimate relationship with a spouse or significant other. Depression in people with EDS is common.
People with EDS frequently also suffer from a condition called “micro... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o | An important distinction between the two, however, is that those with hypersomnia tend to awaken from these naps unrefreshed and disoriented, while narcoleptics typically will wake up feeling rested, if only for a few hours.
Idiopathic hypersomnia rarely causes cataplexy, sleep paralysis or hallucinations and most... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o |
At first easily confused for a “conventional” sort, the “Casual chic” personality is someone who tends to dress appropriately for every occasion and always looks stylish and well-put together. The difference between this person and the conventional dresser, however, is that a “chic” dresser adds small but important p... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o | Never mind that they are running a race that they are doomed to lose; after all, no human being yet has escaped their ultimate demise, or the slow desiccation that preceded it. The desire to remain-or at least to appear- youthful and healthy is an obsession that millions of Americans share and demonstrate b... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o | While considered quite difficult because of the enormous amount of mental discipline required to achieve its goal of pure enlightenment using mind control alone, Raja yoga is in some ways less demanding than the Hatha yoga with which most Westerners are familiar, because Raja yoga does not involve postures or a need fo... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o | . Staying in the moment frees us from longing. Staying in the moment allows us to experience life's great losses without fear.
For the next few days, make a mental note to stay in the moment. Whenever you feel yourself wandering into that place in your mind where painful memories linger, or remembering the happi... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o | Nevertheless, it is a good idea to occasionally step back and look at ourselves as others see us; hopefully we can learn something from the process as well.
Journaling about personal trauma and painful memories can be immensely healing. The physical act of writing is a form of release in itself; putting a painf... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o |
Other causes of central apnea include neurologic disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gherigs disease or ALS) polio, or brain infections and brain tumors. Central apnea can also occur in healthy individualssleeping at very high altitudes.
A recently recognized cause of excessiv... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o | Introduce yourself and your children. Find out who is living alone and might need help in the event of a disaster-natural or otherwise. Check to see which households have young children or elderly persons living in them-anyone who might be vulnerable if they were suddenly alone for an extended period. Make it known th... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o |
Fifteen years ago I became suddenly and unexpectedly disabled by an illness I never knew existed.
I was a nurse at the time. I had chosen my profession out of a deeply entrenched need for the safety and security I didn't have as a child. "You'll always be able to find work; people will always get sick." was... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o |
This simple fact has amazing and diverse implications for almost every facet of life in the United States and, for that matter, virtually all developed countries. (In China, for example, the number of people over age sixty is expected to reach 585 million by the year 2050.) Nowhere is this impact being felt more than ... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o | Phytosterols, you may recall, are plant compounds that bind to cholesterol in the blood stream and carry it to the liver, where it is excreted in bile and other compounds. One of these supplements, “Vasacor” is a combination of natural ingredients that help your body naturally decrease the levels of LDL, while also pro... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o |
I'm feeling extraordinarily tired right now, and wondering why I decide, so often, to start a project when it is so late in the day. I suppose you could say it is because I'm a night-owl, although I believe that is probably an oversimplification of a more complex psychological rationale.
It could be simply that I t... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o | Therefore, it is usually recommended that those who choose this path with the help and guidance of an experienced teacher, or Guru.
The fourth and last traditional yoga path, which is often practiced in combination with either Hatha or Raja yoga, is Bhakti or “Devotional Yoga”. Bhatki yoga focuses on the breath, chan... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
o | However, the amount of circulating cholesterol seems to be more closely related to the total intake of dietary fat than to the intake of cholesterol itself. In particular, diets high in animal fats seem to increase total cholesterol in humans. Major dietary sources of cholesterol include beef, pork, poultry, shrimp, eg... | 60 | English | female | BS | Retired RN | N,N,N,N,N |
dd | He says that “[a]mong the broken fragments of the last five minutes at table I remember the candles being lit [by Daisy] again, pointlessly,” which symbolically depicts that although perhaps Daisy tried to revive her marriage with Tom, it was a lost cause from the beginning (Fitzgerald 15).
However,... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
dd | That was confusing, because it seems as though the best for the kids would be the best decision overall. The needs of her kids seem to come to the forefront of what is most important to her, so the idea that what she considers the best course of action may not be the best for them bitterly ironic.
All in all,... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
dd | James Truslow Adams, in The Epic of America, defined the American dream as “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement” (415). However, arguably the most important aspect of true happiness is... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
dd | This helped their overall appeal, because they would draw less typical metal listeners in with songs such as “Shoot Me Again,” and as a result they would listen to the rest of the album, and grow to understand the musical brilliance of heavier songs like “St. Anger.” Bands with goals like Metallica’s are t... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
dd | At first glance the father may seem abusive, but it could also be seen as the father just playing with his son, but due to the fact that he’s intoxicated is just being a little sloppy.
Allen Ginsberg’s writing is often composed of a great deal of social commentary; he made his poetry a means of giving his insi... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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However, Daisy is clear about the fact that although she once loved Gatsby, she loves Tom now, and the other characters are equally conscious of this fact. Nick is clearly aware of it, saying “Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusio... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Mrs. S seemed able to accept her death remarkably fast. She said that she always thought she’d be a wreck of depression, but that she realized it was just something that she had to accept and move on from. She told her family, and that was that. It seems as though she moved through the stages all at once. Howev... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
dd | Other bands, such as Dr. Acula, have taken elements from techno and injected them into their music. However though, these groups still stay true to the dark, visceral, expressive qualities of metal. Dr. Acula even remains true to the gothic elements, taking the name Dracula and changing it only slightly to... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
dd | Nathaniel Hawthorne does this in The Scarlet Letter through his many reincarnations of the letter “A,” specifically at the very beginning of the story, in Pearl’s name, and in Arthur Dimmesdale’s name. He begins the novel with the letter “A” to symbolize the story starting with adultery, and he juxta... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
dd | Eventually they reached a point where they were completely pioneering a new plain of music that had previously gone undiscovered. Though some say that Black Sabbath lost their thunder after Ozzy Osbourne went solo, they are still among the forefathers of heavy metal and can still be considered the pioneers of the ge... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
dd | Examining the very beginning of the story, Pearl’s name, and Arthur’s name shows that the letter “A” has a great deal of significance to the story beyond the life of Hester Prynne.
The fact that the book begins with the letter “a” is Hawthorne’s way of saying that the whole reason that the story begins... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
dd | She was completely head-over-heels in love with Hamlet, but was pulled away from him by Polonius, among others. From this point on she becomes a pawn of yet another scheme against Hamlet. Polonius uses her to find out if Hamlet is mad as a result of his love for her or not. He decides that she will talk to him whi... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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The classification of Popular Music has grown over the past 100 years to include so many genres that it is difficult to definitively list them all. Complicating matters, most if not all genres—rap, rock, country, jazz, folk, just to name a few—have spawned multiple sub and sub-sub genres within thei... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
dd | Songs like this made people realize the entire range of emotions that could be expressed by music and led to the beginnings of metal through bands such as Black Sabbath and Mötorhead.
Although the metal movement started in the UK, it spread to the US very quickly and had a major impact there. One could say that me... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
pp | This sort of passive monitoring of your reputation should be in everyone’s online reputation management toolbox.
According to Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online, the reason that Facebook smears can be so damaging to an online reputation is that Facebook ranks highly in search engines. Thi... | 25 | English | male | BA | Copywriter | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
pp | Whether or not the FBI is having trouble catching criminals who conduct their illicit business over the Internet, the Internet Wiretapping laws need a complete overhaul to ensure privacy protection, not an expansion, which will further limit personal information privacy.
A new survey reports that the average American ... | 25 | English | male | BA | Copywriter | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
pp | The stated goal of the Waldorf Method is to produce individuals able to create meaning in their own lives.
The Waldorf educational system was created nearly a hundred years ago by Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian philosopher and scientist. Steiner was familiar with a philosophy known as anthroposophy, the idea that children... | 25 | English | male | BA | Copywriter | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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We are not aware of these stages while we sleep. When we wake, we often do not remember our dreams. We rely on machines like the electroencephalograph (EEG) to offer scientists clues about the stages of sleep.
Prior to the Internet, financial accounts were kept at a local branch. Identification like a driver’s licens... | 25 | English | male | BA | Copywriter | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
pp | Parents looking for direct instruction materials and programs should look into the Hooked on Phonics series and other related products.
Critics argue that direct instruction is nothing but canned teaching with little room for the personalization of lesson plans. To these critics, schools that require direct instructio... | 25 | English | male | BA | Copywriter | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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