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Miscellaneous Issues Term Papers and Reports |
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America's Zoos: Entertainment To Conservation
2253 Words - 9 Pages.... and the atmosphere is
sterile. The animals do not appear very happy in this closed-in environment.
Just who are these anxious animals? They are the common everyday animals any
child could name: the bears, the tigers, the elephants and the monkeys. What
about the rest of the world's unique creatures? Hundreds of species are
endanger of becoming extinct, and conservation is in need. Extinction is a
permanent issue. The treatment of all our animals and their rights is important
as well. As concern for the world's animals becomes more prominent in the news,
our zoos rise up to meet the challenge. Animal's rights and their treatment,
regardless of species, have been broug ....
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Mysteries 2
1730 Words - 7 Pages.... that there is more to the world than meets the eye. Behind the outward material appearance of things there is sensed something inward, immaterial, and probably invisible."(Cavendish 1) Apparitions of things have been seen all over the world. The definition of apparition, as given by Richard Cavendish, is "the supernormal manifestation of people, animals, objects, and spirits." (Cavendish 25) In the ancient folklore of England and Europe, glowing ghosts of little boys who have been murdered by their mothers appear. This particular apparition portends ill luck and a violent death. The name "radiant boys" could have possibly originated in German folklore with the word "k ....
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Architecture In 1975 Focused M
1166 Words - 5 Pages.... More specifically, two particular themes were evident, recycling and the use of natural energy.
Some may ask why the sudden interest in the environment? The answer is simple; looking back a couple of years an energy crisis crippled the nation in October of 1973. People not only did this to aid nature, moreover people wanted to be more independent in case future energy crises should arise.
In addition to just reusing old building materials, recycling was executed on a large scale by renovating old buildings instead of knocking them down and building from scratch. Besides recycling, steps were taken in the creative and high-tech arenas to permit the use of natural energy. As ....
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Honesty
1850 Words - 7 Pages.... youth population would choose the latter option, and therefore taking advantage of the young trainee’s mistake by gaining extra food and a whole handful of spare change.
Below is the definition of ‘’ from the Macquarie Encyclopaedic Dictionary:
“Honest:
1. Honourable in principles, intentions and actions; upright, as in an honest person
2. Showing uprightness and fairness, as in an honest method
3. Acquired fairly, as in honest money
4. Open; sincere, as in an honest face
5. Genuine or unadulterated, as in honest commodities
6. Truthful; creditable; candid”
Therefore, one can, by reading the definition above, assume the definition of ‘honest’ to be fa ....
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The Role Of The Front Office
341 Words - 2 Pages.... desk agent should
not announce an arriving guest's room number. Guest's may be further proteceted
if the front office prohibits staff members frrom providing guest information to
callers or visitors. Generally, front desk agent should not mention guest room
numbers. People calling guest's at the hotel should be directly connected to
the appropriate guestroom without being informed of the room number. Conversely,
someone asking for a specific room number over the telephone should never be
connected until the caller identifies whom he or she is calling and the hotel
employee verifies the identity of the person in the room requested. A person
inquiring at the front desk ....
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Record Industry
609 Words - 3 Pages.... us all through
radio and TV so intensely that we need not buy the record. And when it
is no longer broadcasted no one remembers it.
Attempts to change this and promote more quality, depth and
originality in music have not been very successful. The whole
entertainment business is ruled by trends and, quality seems to have
gone out of style
To simply lower the price of a CD is a commonly suggested solution,
naturally advocated by the buyers. But no business favors such a remedy.
Not only since it reduces their income but also because it sends out the
wrong signals to people. It gives the impression that the product is
worth less and that the customers have been ....
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How Media Influences Women
1082 Words - 4 Pages.... everywhere. Look in any magazine, Watch TV, see billboards, everywhere you turn we see young, beautiful people. Youth is synonymous with beauty so little wonder why when you read this bumper sticker “few women admit their age, few men act it” a lot of women won’t divulge their age. To do so would be to admit they are perhaps older than they look or if we were to know their real age we might say something (hopefully to ourselves) like “jeez, she looks a lot older than that!”
The media is really the one at work that shapes a lot of our attitudes and beliefs. They might not necessarily be healthy attitudes and beliefs but they are the ones that have been shoved ....
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Philosophy
473 Words - 2 Pages.... stored and utilized by the logical focus of the mind. Knowledge is measured in volume, not necessarily value. Take the popular game show Jeopardy: a man manages to out-do his opponents by successfully accessing a larger volume of information. What the contestant is doing is simply recalling information that he acquired through the course of his studies. He need not use any type of psychological or philosophical insight; merely he needs to be able to maintain a strong memory. Still, we marvel at the man’s intellect, viewing him as a highly intelligent person, simply because he can remember things. Knowledge, therefore, can be acquired by anyone who wishes to wo ....
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