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Papers on Miscellaneous Topics
The Third Millennium - Threat
Number of words: 622 | Number of pages: 3.... Dr Arpad Pusztai research found that genetically modified potatoes damaged rats, stunting their growth and attacking their body's defences. Dr Pusztai was sacked from his job at the Rowett Research Institute for his research and for declaring that he thought the public was being used as “guinea pigs" by the food industry. Through his research government the world over have been forced to become aware of the dangers of GM food. I think that GM foods may be used to wipe out hunger in the next millennium, but for the moment caution of the unknown is advised.
There have been promising developments for both working and .....
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Billiards
Number of words: 837 | Number of pages: 4.... similar to billiards, such as shuffleboard, and
the same equipment - stick and balls. One of the most important tools to
playing any game of this type is the table. In the fourteenth century, the
length of the tables was much longer than today becuase they were used instead
of playing outside. Today the sized of the tables varies all over the worl.
The dimensions range anywhere from nine by four and a half feet to ten by five
feet (“Billiards,” Colliers).
Another tool used to play the game is the cue stick. The cue srick
weighs in a range of twelve to twenty-two ounces, and the straighter the cue,
the better. At the en .....
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Reebok International
Number of words: 1790 | Number of pages: 7.... Massachusetts 02072, U.S.A.
II. Financial and Statistical Information
Reebok International Ltd. has had a good financial period supporting the fact that future prospects and financial outlook do seem rewarding. Reebok International Ltd. currently has three subdivisions: the Reebok ® brand, Rockport ®, and the Greg Norman ® collection. The Reebok brand, the largest of the three, focuses their products on athletic sports, fitness, and casual footwear,
apparel, and equipment products. Rockport's product line consists of dress wear and shoes. The company is also the North American licensee for Ralph Lauren footwear, which laun .....
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How The KKK, Anarchists, Phreaks Compare To Big Brother
Number of words: 1696 | Number of pages: 7.... Klan people haven't gotten out of the idea the black people
and other foreigners are evil, which they call, "alien outsiders". These
"outsiders" are "all non-Protestants, aliens, liberals, trade unionists and
striking workers". (Microsoft Encarta 1995) Their traditions have been
pasted down from generation to generation since 1865. Lately, Klansmen
have been running for office and other government jobs like that. Although
the Ku Klux Klan and the Brotherhood have nothing really outstandingly in
common, they are both considered evil by their society which are the U.S.
government and the Party. The Ku Klux Klan is not .....
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The Real World Of Technology B
Number of words: 1186 | Number of pages: 5.... we live” (Franklin, p.1) and that this house is continually changing and being renovated. There is very little human activity outside of the house, and all in habitants are affected by the “design of the house, by the division of its space, by the location of its doors and walls.” (p.1). Franklin claims that; rarely does society step outside of the house to live, when compared with generations past. The goal for leaving the house is not to enter the natural environment, because in Franklin’s terms “environment essentially means what is around us… that constructed, manufactured, built envir .....
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Hume
Number of words: 1888 | Number of pages: 7.... back to life. This would be a miraculous event because such an experience has not yet been commonly observed. In which case, his philosophical view of a miracle would be true. critiques and discredits the belief in a miracle merely because it goes against the laws of nature. defines the laws of nature to be what has been “uniformly” observed by mankind, such as the laws of identity and gravity. He views society as being far to liberal in what they consider to be a miracle. He gives the reader four ideas to support his philosophy in defining a true miracle, or the belief in a miracle. These points leads us to believe that ther .....
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Nature 3
Number of words: 905 | Number of pages: 4.... attacked. He wrecked the ship. The panicked crew was scattered around the boat. IN the end nature prevailed because moby dick scared the crew. But it was the humans who got the last word when they killed he gigantic whale.
Frigid cold winters are another one of nature’s forces. Back in the times of the Indians, and before modern day housing people had to survive in the cold. Many times people lived on mountaintops or alongside a river. When winter hit its strongest it was hard to live. These people used techniques such as making fires and eating wild fruit and killing animals as way of survival. As in the classic story Rain .....
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Are Fit Women Feminine
Number of words: 1591 | Number of pages: 6.... hard and tight skin tissue, well-developed muscles, and strong bones. All of these features lead to a more shapely body and an upright posture. Keeping in mind the definitions of ‘fit' and ‘feminine' I will now explore Lenskyj's ‘commercialized fit' and my distinction between ‘being fit' and ‘looking fit'.
Helen Lenskyj's article Women, Sport, and Sexuality explores the commercialization of the ‘fit' body. She traces the image of the physically fit woman as it transforms from the 1960's to the 1990's. The 1960's ideal of the sedentary and decorative woman was replaced in the 1980's by an active and physically fit woman .....
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On The Jews And Their Lies
Number of words: 5249 | Number of pages: 20.... the Jews, nor to learn from them how they interpret or understand
Scripture; I know all of that very well already. Much less do I propose to
convert the Jews, for that is impossible. Those two excellent men, Lyra and
Burgensis, together with others, truthfully described the Jews' vile
interpretation for us two hundred and one hundred years ago respectively.
Indeed they refuted it thoroughly. However, this was no help at all to the
Jews, and they have grown steadily worse.
They have failed to learn any lesson from the terrible distress
that has been theirs for over fourteen hundred years in exile. Nor can they
obtain any .....
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Plus (computer Program)
Number of words: 4066 | Number of pages: 15.... explicit placement of data and threads.
Sather and the ICSI Sather compiler have a very unrestrictive license aimed at encouraging contribution to the public library without precluding the use of Sather for proprietary projects.
This chapter will provide a basic introduction for new users, pointing to sources of information about the language and the compiler. It also contains a summary of Sather features - for those familiar with another object-oriented language, this section provides an overview of the key features of Sather.
1.1 Acknowledgements
This text has its roots in the Sather 1.1 specification, the Eclectic tut .....
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