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The term education can mean many things. An education is the collective knowledge a person has, but what does an education mean? Although an education can be paid for, no one can physically give you an education, so it is not a gift. There are societal situations where an education is a necessity, but not many globally. Education is a tool...
Fascination of Motorcycles Imagine riding a hundred miles per hour. The wind in your hair, freedom of the open road stretching out in front of you, and a loud rumble below you. You quickly look down to check your actual speed, and when you reestablish a line of sight with the road a huge bug flies in your mouth. You quickly think about s...
Pizza is a type of bread and dish that has existed since time immemorial in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine. By 997 the term had appeared in Medieval Latin,[citation needed] and in 16th century Naples a Galette flatbread was referred to as a pizza.[citation needed] A dish of the poor people, it was sold in the street and was not considered...
Most americans are not alcoholics. Most of us do not smoke marijuana to get high. LSD trips went out of style along with the flower children of the sixties. Nevertheless, many Americans are walking and driving around with their minds slightly out of kilter. In its attempt to cope with the modern life, the human mind seems to have evolved so...
L'Architecture Plusieurs de pluies passes avait pratiquement d'truit ce ancien village, mais quelques avait survivre pendant ce long temps. Puis maintenant on peut l''tudie leurs ruines et apprendre a pro pose de leur maisons, ziggourats, leur architecture. L'architecture m'sopotamien n''tait pas maintenir bien au cause des briques de bo...
Slang in America For hundreds of years, English has been continuously changing. Words that were unacceptable 100 years ago are now commonplace. English has always had a trademark of being a comfortable language, the language of the common people (MacNeil 143). Change in the grammar and diction of a language is natural, and English is always con...
A major transition in the modern energy age began in the 1970s, when the big nation's industry started to grow up rapidly. The use of oil was very important and overnight, oil prices shot through the roof, and the trend of ever-cheaper, ever-more-plentiful energy sources were in need. Another player on the modern energy stage is nuclear power. An...
Who has that right to make them? The Internet is an international network of interconnected computers. It is the outgrowth of what began in 1969 as a military program called "ARPANET," which was designed to enable computers operated by the military, defense contractors, and universities conducting defense-related research to communicate with one an...
ard Rodriguez and Octavio Paz, I have come across several realizations. Who am I? Should I be a part of a nation and a 'system' that does not value me, or should I be a part of a nation that does not acknowledge my existence? The United States as a nation does not value me, and M'xico does not even know that I exist. These are difficult mat...
Education is defined as acquiring skills. There are many different ways to be educated and many subjects that can be studied. School is not the only place or setting in which we can learn or get educated. We usually receive information by seeing, touching, and hearing, but it''s useless unless we think about it. Otto Friedrich states ''Education te...
uch? 'Cogito, ergo sum' ('I think, therefore I am.'), Descartes famous basis for his philosophy of Cartesianism, is also compelling evidence towards the defense of one of the most famous of the early Greek teachers, Socrates. In order to be, one must think. Socrates was a seeker of truth, and the highest knowledge is knowing what is best for ones...
The following bulletin was prepared from Grocery Industry Committee on Solid Waste October 24, 1991 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Solid waste composting is an important component of an integrated solution for solid waste management. Composting can divert organic, compostable materials, not otherwise recycled, from the solid waste stream and convert them into...
A Case Study in Diversity: India and Romania The WWW of most URL's (Uniform/Universal Resource Locator's) literally translated, means the WORLD WIDE WEB. As such, one would think that it would be easy to find information and sites from virtually any point in the world. To some extent, this is the case -- but it can be very difficult. As a...
Bridging the gap between cross-cultural communication Building effective communication skills and relationships within a single culture is often challenging. Bridging the gap between different cultures makes building communication skills and relationships even more difficult. I will discuss some of the challenges of cross-cultural communication...
