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Dreams Life
Number of words: 2381 - Number of pages: 9.... means by which we form and evaluate our survival strategies. Other sleep studies have shown that dreams and dreaming are essential to our mental health ( Howell 105). Together these sudies emphasize the psychological importance of dreams and dreaming. They show how our consciousness maintains its delicate balance. Ken Howell suggests why consciousness is like a scale balancing one side against another and how dreaming is related : On one side of this mental scale our consciousness weighs its conscious experiences. On the opposite side of our mental scale our consciousness weighs its subconsc .....
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Web Radio
Number of words: 950 - Number of pages: 4.... that works with Web browsers then decompresses and assembles these packets at the user’s computer and automatically plays them back as they are received. Streaming systems typically use a buffering system that stores an extra few seconds worth of data to prevent Internet "hiccups" from disrupting the steady flow of audio – not unlike the shock-protection systems on portable compact disc players. (O’Malley 64)
As reported in 1995, listening to broadcasts on your computer is akin to dialing in a tinny transistor radio on the fringes of reception area – even wit .....
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The Inherent Need For Governme
Number of words: 1280 - Number of pages: 5.... forces rely heavily on intelligence and secrecy in performing a number of operations in everything from weapons research to the actual waging and fighting of a war. The information utilized by a nation's defense organizations is necessarily kept private and classified in order to maintain a clear advantage over potential enemies. This information may be in the form of weapons research and development, espionage and reconnaissance information, or in government plans of foreign action to name a few. All of these types of information are necessarily withheld from the public eye to retain and ad .....
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The Inherent Ignorance In Yout
Number of words: 982 - Number of pages: 4.... At one point he goes so far as to say, “Rare, friend! I think that I cannot do better than be your disciple.” (p. 12) In doing this, Socrates builds up Euthyphro’s confidence, giving him the assuredness to match wits with Socrates.
Socrates’ next step is to discredit anything Euthyphro says. Socrates does this by challenging Euthyphro’s beliefs and opinions, thereby challenging his very morals. “… is your knowledge of religion and things pious and impious so very exact, that, supposing the circumstances to be as you state them, you are not .....
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Hackers Misunderstood
Number of words: 2096 - Number of pages: 8.... hunger for knowledge. The word impossible or access denied does not exist in a hacker’s vocabulary. They can access anything and everything that is kept in a computer. Particularly when a price has been placed on knowledge and information. Why should only a select few have leisure of knowing what the rest of the public does not? Knowledge is and should always remain free. A hacker will share his knowledge, encourage it to be reproduced and distributed.
Hacking is a skill that takes years and years and tons of practice to achieve. A hacker’s qualifications are based on quali .....
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Middle Adulthood 2
Number of words: 578 - Number of pages: 3.... meets intimacy and family needs in that she has a positive, loving relationship with all of her four children. She struggles, though, with intimacy between herself and her husband of thirty years. She finds him immature and in the "dark ages" because he consistently ignores her requests to pay attention to her needs. "For many, the transition to middle adulthood involves a drastic chance of life such as divorce, an affair…." (Furr, 127) Lynn, however, does not see herself as doing either of these things because of the way she values her marriage vows.
"Fulfilling transition choices i .....
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Virtue Based Ethical Systems
Number of words: 673 - Number of pages: 3.... of old, the notions of right and wrong where drawn from cultural views on God. In modern days, ethics has been detached itself from it’s theological roots and has lost it’s original appeal, thus calling for a better system to reject this model and guide it’s followers onto a better path. Critics also dislike how action-based ethical systems overemphasize autonomy and neglect the communal context of ethics. Pojman states, “It is in communities that such virtues as loyalty, natural affection, spontaneous sympathy, and shared concerns arise and sustain the group. It .....
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The Curtain
Number of words: 886 - Number of pages: 4.... too small to start on it's journey, but it's strength is increasing. It can now stir and move ever so slightly in the heart. The bearer can feel it even more inside. It is now the beginning of spring.
More time passes and soon it is almost summer. By this time the seed is mature and ready to start its journey to happiness. The body, heart, and mind have ripened and have been able to provide the seed with sufficient amounts of nurturing over a sufficient amount of time. The seed is almost ready to crack open and show itself to the entire world.
After breaking through its solid shell, the s .....
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Gods Grandeur 2
Number of words: 1544 - Number of pages: 6.... faithful when God does not appear to be apparent in every day life. Hopkins realizes this, but compels the reader to take a closer look at the splendor of God which surrounds us every day, “The world is charged with the grandeur of God” (Hopkins). Everything around is full of God’s glory, but one needs to realize that, “God’s glory is hidden except to the inquiring eye or on special occasions” (MacKenzie, 1981, p. 63). This is represented by the comparison of God’s glory to the shaking of gold foil. Gold foil when viewed from only one angle appear .....
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