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Friend
Number of words: 424 - Number of pages: 2.... have accidents. Even stray Ferrets generally understand the concept when shown the box and will use it regularly. Ferrets do have claws, and owners must make provision for this. A tall scratching post in a favorite Ferret area of the house will usually keep the Ferret content to leave the furniture alone. As a last resort, of course, Ferrets can be declawed.
Lastly, one of the most attractive features of Ferrets as housepets is their ease of care. Ferrets do not have to be walked. They get plenty of exercise in the house as they play, and they do their business in the litter box. Cleaning a .....
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Pascals Wager
Number of words: 1411 - Number of pages: 6.... (Cottingham, 1997, p. 256) Pascal says "the prize here is an infinite or infinitely happy life, one chance of winning against a finite number of chances of losing.... This leaves only one choice open, in any game that involves infinity, where there is not an infinite number of chances of losing to set against the chances of winning. There is nothing to ponder- you must stake everything"( Pascal,1995, no.418) His wager can basically be summed up as:
If God REALLY exists, and we believe (= bet that God exists), we have an infinite gain (heaven).
If God REALLY exists, and we don't bel .....
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Theory Of Human Development
Number of words: 3344 - Number of pages: 13.... and learned behaviors, may make it seem like a person's actions were predetermined. For example, if a starving people were put into positions where they could either eat a Subway turkey round placed in front of them or just sit there and stare and stare at it, common sense shows that these people would eat. However, it is possible that one person, like an anorexic, would just sit and stare at the sandwich. For that reason, it can be assumed that human beings do have free will, however the choices made are greatly impacted and seemingly determined by inherited basic needs, environment, and l .....
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Jesus Of Montreal
Number of words: 489 - Number of pages: 2.... of the central ideas that the actors in the movie established. René announces to the audience that "the messiah was born from a Roman soldier". Contrary to what the church states, Jesus being born from God's soul, the movie emphasizes that he was more a human than a God. The same type oof contreversy is established when the actors narrate the beginning of Jesus' life. They expose the fact that Mary is an unwed mother. This is a factor that the church want to cover up. The church uses the marriage between Joseph and Mary to correct the fautlt and at the same time legitimize this sacrem .....
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Third World Concept
Number of words: 955 - Number of pages: 4.... Development Issues. This report stated that the 'rich developed' countries were located in the 'north', and that the 'poor undeveloped' or 'developing' countries were located in the 'south'. However, in this report the 'North/South' divide used in the Brandt Report will not be used, instead the use of the phrase 'Third World' will be used in its place. The phrase originally derives from France ('Tiers Monde') in the 1950's to describe the peasantry (the 'Third Estate') in pre-Revolutionary 1789 France. By the end of the 1960's however this concept was used to help describe the di .....
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Halloween
Number of words: 339 - Number of pages: 2.... in touch with
their feelings, and allowed them to express themselves and their desires
more freely.
Finally, Halloween is the best holiday of the year, because
television stations play all the good horror movies. Horror movies tend to
let people experience a long missed and long needed sense of fear, which
consists of things like a racing of the heart, an increase of the senses,
and an adrenaline rush response. This helps people to realize their own
mortality, and to experience the long dead adrenaline rush response that
reminds modern humans of their links to primitive man, and the ties .....
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Rave Culture
Number of words: 1396 - Number of pages: 6.... from social pressures. Because of this, many ravers (person who attends these parties) are dressed differently then people you would normally see. Bright colors, clothing with different textures and feel, and generally clothes that is very comfortable to dance with. A sense of unity is formed between the partygoers, they attempt to form a community of sorts through there individuality. People feel free to go up to strangers and start up conversations. They also become very comfortable with everyone around them and try to share this feeling with others. This is a very important part of th .....
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Education In Developing Countr
Number of words: 1143 - Number of pages: 5.... Bank and the IMF has demanded an increase in education spending as part of its relief effort to some of these developing countries. It is up to the countries themselves to spend their budgets on more important things like education, rather than the military.
South-East Asia
In the article "South-East Asia's learning difficulties" published by The Economist on August 16, 1997. It defined the problem facing Thailand at that time. Thailand has been successful during the 1990's with economic growth provided by its cheap labor. These labor-intensive industries are responsible for produci .....
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Five Universe Creation Myths
Number of words: 270 - Number of pages: 1.... He or she
brought light from darkness, produced sea and land to make the Earth, and
populated it with plant and animal life.
Differences are easy to spot too. Different landscapes being developed
are e mphasized by groups of people living in different regions. The
Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin mention creation of forests, streams, and
lakes, while The Pelasgian Myth mentions Mount Olympus and the Teutonic
myth mentions the Northern Sea.
From the way the stories are written, one can guess at the way that the
cultures think and live. The Wisconsin Indians seem to think simply,
talki .....
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Berkley
Number of words: 2541 - Number of pages: 10.... things were composed of material substance, the basic framework
for the materialist position. The main figure who believed that material
substance did not exist is George Berkeley. In truth, it is the
immaterialist position that seems the most logical when placed under close
scrutiny.
The initial groundwork for Berkeley's position is the truism that the
materialist is a skeptic. In the writing of his three dialogues, Berkeley
develops two characters: Hylas (the materialist) and Philonous (Berkeley
himself). Philonous draws upon one central supposition of the materialist
to f .....
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