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Well Rounded Education The first day of class for a college student is like drawing cards in a poker game. Just as the cards that one receives determines their outcome in poker, the types of professors a student gets on the first day will determine the success of their year. The difference between a helpful and a harmful professor can easi...
Grace Palley has said, 'All fiction is a lie, but at the heart of that lie is a truth.' This quote directly applies to Issac Asimov's, Foundation. Science Fiction deals with events that did happened, may have happened, or have not yet happened to a certain degree. Foundation has symbolic revelation of corrupt power and the quest for the truth....
Outrage, controversy, beliefs, and disbelief, who knows? With countless renditions and rewritings of the bible, with 170 forms of religion known to man, who is to say what really happened during the last days of Christ. Who knows what went through the mind of any one human being, at any given time? The film 'The Last Temptation of Christ' by Mar...
Two hundred and fifty miles north of the busy streets of Los Angeles, in Inyo County, lay the serene Owens Valley. The Owens Valley is a vast terrain that is bounded by the towering Sierra Nevada mountain range at one end and the barren Death Valley desert at its other end. As the snowfall from the peaks of the Sierra Nevadas annually transforms...
* Honourable Judges, Revered Teachers, Seniors and friends, good evening to all of you. * I Manasi Manaswini feel privileged in getting this opportunity to speak a few words before you all. * Today's topic of debate is "Girls are better students than boys". Before going to the topic proper I will like to tell you all something. * In the Vedic er...
"A land rich in beauty. " This is how a considerable number of people view today's Asian culture. A region with a booming economy, and a scenic view at every tur4n. It truly is a beautiful place, a beautiful place blocked from the view of factory workers by the soot covered windows of our modern day sweatshops. For them, " a land rich in be...
The Idatarod Picture this: You are going to travel over one thousand miles across Alaska---by car? by train? by plane? NO!! You are travelling by dogsled - your only companions on this journey will be eleven to fourteen of the most honest, loyal and strong dogs that you can find. For over six grueling months, you...
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was born on December 9, 1906 in New York City. She died on January 1, 1992. Rear Admiral Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer. She also developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. She con...
The explosion of the Challenger spacecraft is the greatest tragedy in the history of NASA. It is also one of the most heated engineering ethical debates available for analysis. The question of whether or not the astronauts had the proper information to consent the launch is one of the main aspects of the debate. When looking at this case...
- has stuck many people across the world. Many people have died because of the lack of food, clothing, and money. has raised the rate of crime due to the lack of essential items they need for survival. It also has caused hunger across the world. Lastly, poverty has caused much death due to the lack of medicine and unsanitary living condit...
What is a hero? Does one have to have superpowers, special abilities or incredible talent to be considered one? Well, some of us seem to think so. Then there is the everyday teacher or local figure that is considered a hero to selected individuals in their community. To me a hero has to have a few selected qualities, and I haven't met anyone who...
Flying Dreams To Fly Has Been a Dream On a bright sunny day with the sky as clear as crystal glass, you peer out into the open sky to the land down below. The door opens in front of you the wind rushes into the aircraft. You step out falling freely away as if you were a bird soaring on the winds of time. You peer back to the air...
The institution called a university, or many times a community college, is an institution that should welcome anyone who is willing to make the effort to face the challenges that it brings. As William A. Henry III writes, ?In the real world, though, mostly people go to college to make money?(The Museum of Clear Ideals, 146). I point out that there...
A Study in Contrast: The views of Catherine Barkley and Brett Ashley in their perspective classes During the early 1900?s, after the death of Queen Victoria, the European world went through a great change under the influence of the Free Women?s movement and WWI. It was a time of great confusion, women were faced with choices unheard of b...
