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- 10161: Online Addiction
- ... the Internet is accessed by millions of people from the young to the old. The reasons range from gathering information on a topic, to checking E-mail, to chatting with people from all across the world. The Internet is used in business and in homes. It serves almost any purpose imaginable. The Internet can be used as an information source, a learning tool, even for entertainment purposes. Surfing the Internet is one of the most popular pastimes around the world exceeded, some think only by music. Getting On-line and surfing around even for a couple of hours is common. Normally this is just an occasional thing, but for some it becomes an obsession. These ...
- 10162: Karen Louise Erdrich
- ... Native American studies department was created. Headed up by anthropologist Michael Dorris, the class allowed Louise to research her own ancestry which later inspired her novels. Louise wanted to expand her knowledge of the real world, so she took up a wide range of jobs including working as a lifeguard, waitress, poetry teacher at prisons and construction flag signaler. She was also an editor for the Circle which was a Boston ... he moved away, the two kept in touch, sending their work back and forth with letters. In 1980 they both moved to New Hampshire and began collaborating on short stories. When their short story “The World’s Greatest Fisherman” won five thousand dollars they decided to expand it into a novel, Love Medicine. A year later they were married. In 1984, Love Medicine was published with an impressive debut. Louise once ...
- 10163: The Future of Religion
- ... and religion. One reason why followers believe in a religion is because that particular religion gives its believers comfort that everything will be for the best (even after death), because everything that happens in this world is an expression of the intentions of a higher being. This comfort comes from the belief that if you worship this higher being you will be protected from the evils of this world (or the afterlife). "And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be ...
- 10164: Buddhism
- ... s father was said to have been told his son's destiny for greatness, either as an emperor or as a religious leader. Therefore Gautama's father decided to isolate his son from the outside world, where he might "see how the other half lived" and maybe even be tempted to belong to a different religion. Since the complete seclusion as Gautama's father had wished was impossible and Gautama was ... is to attain Nirvana. Nirvana is ¹"selfannihilation or the extinguishing of all traces of desire, which represents final enlightment and which releases a person from the cycle of rebirth". There are many monasteries in the world, in some of them in countries such as Burma, Thailand, and Ceylon, almost every young male spends at least a few weeks of his life within a monastery. Typically at the age of four the ...
- 10165: Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and Anne Bradstreet: Relationships With Others
- ... faults with people, and that is he trusts people too much. He has too much faith in people and whether that is because of his deist ways, and how he looks at things in the world,and through reason. His trust in people and things often leads him into small troubles. His drunken friend Collins borrowed much money from Franklin promising to pay it back. Of course, it was never payed ... I need no more, Farewell, my pelf, farewell my store.”(p. 133) She knows that all the things that she really needs are in heaven and that can’t be taken away from her. “The world no longer let me love, My hope and treasure lies above.” (p.134) Somewhat of a problem with Bradstreet is her attactment with some of her aquaintances. She is really attached to her granddaughter for ...
- 10166: CRANBERRIES
- CRANBERRIES A Report on Cranberry Growing and Northland Cranberries INC. Northland Cranberries, Inc. is the world's largest grower of cranberries, it has 2,841 acres in production and 20,000 acres of support land. Northland operates 20 growing properties in the central and northern parts of Wisconsin and 4 in ... cranberry company in the United States. Northland just completed a $5.0 million juice concentrating plant, they are positioned to market cranberry concentrate and other value-added cranberry products to trade to consumers around the world. The company is also making a line of juice blends. There will be six flavors: Cranberry Apple, Cranberry Raspberry, Cranberry Grape, Cranberry Strawberry, Cranberry Cherry, and Cranberry Peach. They also markets the Northland Ò brand ...
- 10167: Fear
- ... Our fears may be sudden like when your kid brother jumps out behind you and yells ‘boo’. People’s fears can be built up over a long period of time, for example, during the cold war millions of people thought that at any moment they would be attacked by the Russians, so they built bomb shelters because of that fear. Some of our fears come straight from our imagination. They may ... wake. I wear my seat belt for protection, and sometimes I look in my closet before I go to bed. It’s the larger planet-wide fears that we collectively hold our breathes for, of war, of starvation, of toxic pollutants, of disease and other events. We fear for the uncertainty of our loved ones or the loss of a loved one, an ancient fear yet new to every generation. Still ...
- 10168: Robert Frost and Mother Nature
- ... more so than what is usually seen. Frost had a love-hate relationship with Mother Nature. He loved the peaceful quite days when he was alone with nature, but he knew that in the outside world it was chaotic and crumbling to pieces. He saw nature as beautiful and full of hope, yet also random and chaotic. One piece in which he writes about the beauty of the earth is "Two ... then finds a tragic death in their lives. Why must the moth die? Why is nature so cruel? Frost questions how nature can be so beautiful, yet so crazy at the same time. If the world is not guided in the right direction, we are stuck in hatred, but if it is, then we are surrounded by evil - a scary situation. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," is about the ...
- 10169: The Art Of Italy And Northern Europe From 1300 To 1520
- The Art of Italy and Northern Europe from 1300 to 1520 The years between 1300 to 1520, commonly known as the Renaissance, was an era of extraordinarily advanced achievements made in the art world. Techniques that began to be utilized at this period of time made the artworks surpass those of any other preceding movement. "A word of caution is necessary when speaking of a 'rebirth' of the spirit ... was a development and singling out of ideas that were popular during the Middle Ages. "Most particularly it was the trend toward an increased awareness of the natural environment, an acute observation of the visible world, and a fascination with what the human eye could see, the mind comprehended, and the human heart could feel (Fleming, 313)." The technique of northern artists was to interpret what they had seen exactly as ...
- 10170: An Understanding of Coles’s Essay Through Susan Bordo’s Terms
- ... t worry about what society thinks that they also could be happy with themselves, even when they are standing face to face with advertisers. Usable knowledge is only helpful when used beneficially to interpret the world around us. I found a completely different way to explain sections of Coles’s essay just by using Bordo’s terms representation and usable knowledge. The two terms even intertwine that in a way states that unless you use your knowledge of the world around you, then the representation of ads or photographs will appear to be appealing and true. This is how I first viewed the photographs in Coles’s essay and the ads in Bordo’s essay ...
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