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l | After a major exposure by media outlets of these classified operations, the government spearheaded a bill that would allow ‘retroactive immunity’ of any private corporations, specifically Verizon and AT&T in this case, that complied or aided the government in illegal activities. This bill was proposed as necessary for ... | 23 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
l | Since this time it’s been widely accepted worldwide that nothing positive has stemmed from these atrocities, barring a one single exception: the critically acclaimed major motion picture Swing Kids, a charming story of a rebellious group of German teenagers in the 1940s who fight off the pressure to become Hitler Youth... | 23 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
l | Chances are, they’re the same, so the victim will be none the wiser.
Once you’re in, let your imagination run wild. Usernames, passwords, personal emails, bank accounts, PayPal accounts, eBay accounts, Netflix accounts, subscription websites, social networks, all of their digital content is available at your fingertip... | 23 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Hitler is alive in Burma, the sign says.
Ellen Page, star of Juno, stands alone on a street corner with a piece of cardboard held above her head, the unsettling message scribbled with Sharpie onto her sign. Burma, also known as Myanmar, is a Southeastern Asian country ruled by a tyrannical militant junta who came int... | 23 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
l | There’s a lot of crappy books available, but that doesn’t mean it’s socially responsible to demonize the entire catalog of published literature.* If we go out on a limb to accept that the entire concept of television is directly correlated to its programming, it still doesn’t represent a damnable offense to personal gr... | 23 | English | male | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ii | I wrote down so many of the things in my life that were so difficult to say in that journal; it gave me an outlet for my emotions, rendering my thoughts into words. My interpersonal communication improved as I gained the ability to use metacognitive techniques to improve my work ethic and persevere.
What is so spe... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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From the time we are children most of us are told that there is something out there that is bigger than we are, bigger than we can comprehend. Some of us are sent to Sunday school to learn about it, while others go to Temple, or search within themselves for the answers. Many of us readily accept the religions that... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ii | Also, sexism against women was not as severe as racism against the Native American and Black population, nor was it met with such a violent protest as many Blacks suffered.
I believe that women have prospered more so than African and Native Americans, and that Native Americans have also prospered the least. I feel t... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ii | He does not feel entirely powerless, as he accepts the challenges that face him and realizes that he will be able to overcome these obstacles with the help of his son and niece, should he need to rely on others.
All in all, Mr. D.W. seems to face his life with dignity, grace, and perseverance mixed in with a randy att... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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In public school, I felt as if I were a complete outcast, alone and unable to reach out to anyone around me; others made fun of me because I was poor, because I didn’t dress right, because I was different from them. I became cynical towards the world, and found myself completely apathetic toward schoolwork, having ... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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I remember the night Marta was admitted to the rehabilitation facility. She came in screaming like tires on pavement. She yelled that she didn’t belong, that they had her by mistake, and that she needed to go home. The nurses put her into my room, haphazardly heaving her onto the bed adjacent to my own despite her... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Snow White is another classic Disney princess that undergoes the same defeating stereotypes assigned to women in children’s films. When her wicked stepmother finds out that the mirror on the wall proclaims the young princess, Snow White, to be fairer than she, the stepmother sends Snow White into the woods with a hu... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ii | The news came from my mother, who had received a call from an aunt. I doubled over when I heard it. The news may have been ten months coming but it was still something too difficult to truly feel. No one sent a letter of condolence, except for my gay Uncle Frank, whom everyone in my father’s religiously fundamental f... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ii | Many people who are homeless can sustain themselves thanks to charities that give free meals and food stamps, but often they lack the infrastructure to assist them in changing their position. Our interview with Eric, a man who was once homeless in Gainesville, made us aware that the homeless cannot get jobs unless th... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ii | The numbers of women going to institutions of higher learning were still pretty small, but by the end of the nineteenth century women’s literacy matched if not outnumbered the literacy rates of their White male counterparts. Around the turn of the twentieth century, women began attending higher institutions of learni... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ii | The first Native American boarding school prototype was actually in a prison in St. Augustine run by a man named Pratt. Pratt believed that he could take Native American prisoners and teach them to be more cultured, at least to White, Anglo-Saxon standards. This new schooling form would come to replace the Native Am... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ii | Because money was tight, D.W. had a rough childhood but said that good family values were an important thing that his mother focused on.
When asked about how his step-father and he got along, D.W. gave a long, stern look that said everything, and asked, “Does that answer your question?” His brother and he had a long-... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ii | We may have to wait and be patient, but we hope that as people become more aware of the situation that they feel more compelled to join the effort.
While White males attributed to much of the educated class during the colonization and into the beginning of the nineteenth century, during the nineteenth century ma... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ii | I don’t know what it was called, but underneath the wound was what appeared to be new, fresh skin. It was the weirdest thing; I was so intrigued by this discovery. Anyway, we cut the new sponge to fit the wound and placed it on top of the wound. Then the doctor placed the special VAC film over the top of the wound and... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ii | Though I could not put it into words, I felt a peace that I had longed for envelop me. The light is sometimes much harder to see in the dark when looking with your eyes closed, but mine were open now. I understood then what I should have known all along: if I could not see him he could still see me.
My day began ... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ii | The rest of the money was spent on “Wine, women, and song,” said D.W. He did mention that he was sad he’d wasted a vast majority of the large sum of money he made, but said he didn’t fully regret blowing the cash as he had a great time doing it.
After he left the military, D.W. held a multitude of different jobs, som... | 24 | English | female | Bachelors Degree | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
r | “‘And do you, Mariam jan, accept this man as your husband?’ Mariam stayed quiet. Throats were cleared….’Yes,’ she said shakily.” Even though Mariam is scared and does not want to marry Rasheed, she finds it in her to say yes when asked, pulling her strength from inside.
“‘Well, then, as of tomorrow morning I expect you... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
r | Now you know what you’ve given me in this marriage. Bad food, and nothing else.’” This act of utter abuse is almost horrifying. Being forced to eat rocks off of the definitely unsanitary road and then breaking teeth from the hardness of the rocks is amazingly cruel and certainly an evil act, if not worse than evil.
“T... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
r | At this point in time, girls were allowed to choose their own husbands rather than have parents assign them. By her finding love, it shows extreme hope because she’ll be able to have a really happy life.
Plasmids, enzymes, and gel electrophoresis were all things used in this project. The purpose was to use all of the... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
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The mother and daughter cried, but when the daughter’s tears fell on her father, the woods turned green and plants sprung up everywhere. Then vines appeared and hovered over the father. They sprinkled a sparkling powder on him, and he took in a short breath, awakening from his death!
But instead of being happy, he ... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
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I approach a corner in the hallway as the door to a classroom in front of me opens and a girl steps out. She is wearing a form fitting black shirt with comfortable yet tight dark jeans and black tennis shoes, showing off her great figure amazingly. Her long, dark brown hair is very obviously natural and trails behind... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
r | When I joined him, I shut the door quietly behind me and walked to the white plastic railing at the end of the balcony. We stood in silence for a bit and I took in the scene. The moon was shining brilliantly, as if the sun was within feet of its surface. Each star wished to boast their sparkles and twinkled with an ene... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
r | Each tube was then flicked and spun in a microcentrifuge to mix the ingredients and bring them all together at the base of the tube. Next, the tubes were incubated at 37°C for 1 hour. While the tubes were incubating, 0.5 g of agarose were added to 50 mL of TAE buffer, which is a 1% mixture, to create an agarose gel. Th... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
r | ‘I can’t,’ she croaked…His hand was on her right breast now, squeezing it hard through the blouse, and she could hear him breathing deeply through the nose.” This quote doubles for discrimination because Mariam isn’t listened to. Even though she protests against Rasheed’s advances, he ignores her and doesn’t care. He j... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
r | She had been wearing heels, and they only made the fall worse as they first caused the woman to twist her ankle, then fracture her leg. It was a small fracture, but still painful and definitely worrisome. The daughter waited while they treated her mother, now more at peace. As she waited, she got bored so she began wan... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
r | I peruse my closet, viewing my cornucopia of choices – black or black. I grab a pair of jeans and a shirt at random and throw them on. I spot the hair brush, then pick it up and run it quickly through my moderately long hair. As I pass the mirror in the hall way, I stop and look myself over. I happened to pick a fancy... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
r |
She had always felt like she needed something. It was this desire that refused to be fulfilled. It started when she was about 14, just getting into a teenage life. And it was still there 3 years later, at the age of 17. By now, she had determined she wanted someone rather than thing. Yet, she had felt no interest in ... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
r | Hours had passed and it came time for me to go when he caught me by surprise. His arms wrapped around me and he begged, his voice sounding as if it were filled with tears, “Kyrie, please don’t leave me.” The request almost broke my heart, and I most certainly did not want to leave, but I had a home and parents to get t... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
r | The sound got closer to her car and she began to feel more glad she had decided to pull over. It sounded like a chase. It was. The car they were chasing shot out of a turn behind her and swerving the car around the street, tried to miss her. He was going to fast. She didn't even see him. His car hit her back side and l... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
r | Yet as I was running, they caught sight of me and yelled out, ‘If you do not marry Princess Centara tomorrow, you shall not be a part of this family!’ I kept running though, and now I am without my loved ones. I am forever to be miserable. I cannot even see thy fair maiden, but just hear thy beautiful voice.
The leav... | 17 | English | female | Some college | null | N,N,N,N,N |
cc | I found that my favorite element, however, belonged to the tile on the right: here, I was beginning to wonder if those semi-circular shapes which already began to overlap could extend across the entire composition when shapes were placed side by side. Therefore, that became my next task.
In this tiling, I tiled the ci... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | The use of wild, exotic cats in The Dream is the artist’s way to show his desire to be set apart from the artists of his past, and the artists of his time, though he did mimic many academic and avant-garde techniques in gaining his recognition. Ultimately, however, it can easily be argued that the cats here reflect “Ro... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | The next logical step for this exercise was to determine ways that these individual circles could work together to be a finished tiling. Because circles cannot sit next to one another and tile exactly, I explored various ways to make each tile fit in a cohesive manner.
As finished works, I believed that the symmetr... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | When the shape of coffins themselves was altered sometime in the 17th dynasty from their traditional rectangular shape to the form of the human body, the jars remained linked in design by also changing. (“Canopic,” Internet) Though still cylindrical, they became narrower at the base than at the top, creating the illu... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | The aforementioned trends are broad enough, and for the most part logical enough, that they apply to a very large number of websites today. When one analyzes sites more closely, however, it becomes apparent that there already is a growing split in design between sites whose purpose is to generate revenue, also known as... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | Green has been shown to help increase reading speed and comprehension because it is the easiest color for the human eye to process; it helps make small areas to appear much more spacious as well (Kuchinsky). Orange is the best color to draw attention to something, but it also makes objects appear less expensive or soph... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | In his early career, Rousseau struggled to find the acceptance he longed for as an artist in the modern era. According to The Banquet Years: The Origins of Avant-Garde in France, Rousseau’s first public opening of his work took place in 1885, in which two of his paintings were slashed with knives by spectators and late... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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A few decades before the Surrealist artists began painting their dreamlike works, the artist Henri Rousseau was carefully crafting his own dreams, literally and figuratively. The Dream, a 1910 painting by the famous Post-Impressionist artist, represents not only a woman in awe at the wonders of the land she visits wit... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | In this way, perhaps his shift to pursue jungle scenes as in The Dream was because he discovered a niche market eager to purchase or praise his work: for the first time, this decision to switch to jungle-scene painting earned him the satisfaction of acceptance as an artist.
The destruction of perspective, or perhaps th... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | Both women’s legs are crossed at the ankle with their weight supported on their right arm, tucked underneath. One can easily argue that this mimicry is no coincidence. Rousseau had become so familiar with rejection and ridicule by 1910, and Vallotton was “one of the first to write a favorable article on Rousseau” aroun... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | It would appear that the design choices these artists are making now will illustrate what we can expect for the future, both in what trends will continue for the future and what will be replaced or altered.
Because the sheer number of websites on the Internet today is so large, one could argue that the process of categ... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | By 1995, the National Science Foundation started charging fees to register domains, excluding only educational and governmental websites (Moschovitis 39). Because of the ability of anyone to buy an address, this event marks the rapid expansion and commercialization of the Internet. Advertisers quickly embraced this ide... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | In terms of usability, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has found that the way type is arranged is also important, depending on the nature of the content: “longer line lengths usually will elicit faster reading speed, but users tend to prefer shorter line lengths” (44). Therefore, one can pull up a hand... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | Regardless of what type of granite they used, the Egyptians knew the various flecks of color would too illustrate all of the facets of life.
During the First Intermediate Period of Egyptian history, the lids of canopic jars are changed from the traditional flat tops to sculpted forms of human heads. (Ellison) Addition... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | In order to truly appreciate the trends, one must understand the roots of the Internet and certain elements of contemporary design as an art form. From then, one can break down each design element common to all pages, and predict the future of website design in its smallest pieces and in its entirety.
In a world of ra... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | Some or these contained vegetal motifs and some frame inscriptions on a ground of vegetation, but the main impression is of almost dizzying geometric pattern on every surface. With just straight lines, circles, and a basic understanding of spatial relationships between the shapes, these artists were able to create incr... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | Within his tomb as well as others of the time period there are “niches that, in size and position, correspond to later canopic usage.” (Ellison) It is interesting to note, however, that King Snefru’s wife, Hetepheres, had been buried with an actual chest that almost certainly contained some of her internal organs in fo... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
cc | Advertisers took advantage of the advanced coding capabilities to direct their products or services towards online audiences in a much more direct way. Though pop-up windows, movie clips that start automatically, or interactive banner advertisements, businesses consistently used website design as the tool to communicat... | 22 | English | male | Bachelor's | Web/Graphic Designer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ww | As the baby suddenly discovers the ability to move around, the protagonist bestows a new name on his brother: Doodle. After all, nobody would expect much from a child with a name such as that. He says that it “…was probably the kindest thing I ever did for him.” He is being protective. He is telling the world that Dood... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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I was expecting my day to be fairly average when I woke up. Tuesdays are a dime a dozen; nothing special before or after the work day. So I slapped my alarm off like normal, yawned, and sort of fell out of bed. I pulled myself to the shower, enjoying the rush of heat on my tired face. Steam sneaked out through the cra... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ww | He also states that “blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction”, which is foreshadowing. He is subtly letting the reader know that Doodle’s condition will be his destruction, with his own body eventually turning against him and destroying him. The description of the setting is magnificent. Not only does the nar... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ww | It is relatively simple to assign an arbitrary real number value to a complex program, which makes binary strings easy to adapt to genetic algorithms.
Genetic algorithms work with a predefined search space to evolve the most efficient solution for problems that would take far too long to compute by hand. In terms of c... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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The completed program performed in accordance with the expected results. After multiple generations, anims did grow to be more adapted to their environments in terms of utilizing movement efficiently, hunting other anims, and selecting a safe environment. Growth was measured in terms of increased overall energy after... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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There is a bond between brothers; an unbreakable, irrevocable bond. Within that bond lie many emotions: love, pride, jealousy, and cruelty, just to name a few. Brothers understand one another, far more than anyone else with that kind of bond, and they can only see themselves when looking at their brother. It is when ... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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It’s a Saturday evening. Everybody at school is still buzzing about the exciting win that the football team had over their rivals last night. As people prepare to head out for their Saturday dates and parties, eighty people are slipping into uniforms, about to head out onto a different field of competition. While the... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ww | With so much innovative technology being developed in and around Stanford, the CS department plays a major role in all of these inventions, and the department even benefits from it. It is located near Silicon Valley, which is where the modern industry of computing began. Besides their CS program, Stanford also boasts a... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ww | It has a good campus and liberal arts program, but its astounding failure to dredge up even a rudimentary Computer Science department hurts its chances terribly. Next is UNC. Admittedly, it has an excellent program in Computer Science, but it also lacks a good liberal arts program. I find the architecture distasteful, ... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ww | The fact that he is even alive is a miraculous blessing in and of itself. Doodle’s probable rationale is that the world has given everything he has ever needed or wanted, and that he needs nothing else from it. This contrasts with his older brother, who seeks only to make Doodle better. This is ostensibly for Doodle’s ... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ww | Extracurricular activities include sports, music, and clubs. At Clemson, the sports teams are a big bonus for me, and not just because I am an avid supporter of the Tigers. Their football and basketball programs are consistently nationally ranked, with the basketball team competing in the NCAA Tournament consistently i... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ww | Perpetuation of an organism’s genetic line is imperative, and the ability to evolve is a species’ greatest asset in the competitive world of predation. To simplify an explanation of evolution, consider the following scenario: A population of organisms lives in a single environment, free from the fear of predation by st... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ww | This class was given the public functions Move(), Hunt(), Eat(), and Think()- all of type string- and a static constant of type char called ANIM_CHAR. This was represented by an “O”, and it acted as each anim’s avatar in the virtual environment. This class was also given the private functions Move_GA(), Hunt_GA(), and ... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ww | Organisms would have the abilities to move, eat, hunt, and think. These functions would be optimized by genetic algorithms.
To create this simulation, there were several steps. The first was to decide upon a programming language. The C++ programming language was chosen for its versatility and large pool of tutorial re... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ww | Obviously, with all of the requirements that must be met for a successful college experience, one cannot be too selective in deciding upon the college they will attend. Each college has its own unique style, as well as academic focus and extracurricular involvement; no two colleges are the same, though many colleges of... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ww | Many colleges have a specialization, be it liberal arts, sciences, mathematics, or the humanities. However, looking past the specialization, I will also be discussing the presence of a Computer Science (specifically Computer Security) program or a Writing program, as well as the reputation of these programs. These are ... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
ww | Also, I believe it would be easier to connect with my fellow students if we shared a common faith. Stanford is a private school, and it has no religious affiliation. Students from across the globe are all welcome at Stanford. Indeed, many of the finest students there are foreign exchange students.
The student body, th... | 16 | English | male | High School | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | He assembles teams of friends to help quarantine families of the sick and care for those who have fallen ill. He works day and night, day after day. He works with such feverish commitment that his friend Tarrou asks him about his motivation. He tells Rieux, “‘your victories will never be lasting; that’s all.’ Rieux’s f... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | The idea behind each Dhutanga was that it would help monks shed their worldly attachments, meditate more easily, and acquire enlightenment more easily. The Dhutangas were not a part of mainstream Buddhist life—the forest monks began practicing them to aid in their asceticism. In this way, traditional Buddhism was again... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | The only way in which he was documented to have strayed at all from Buddha’s teachings was that his interpretation of the Dhamma was always slightly tinged with his Hindu background. However, since he sent out missionaries to convert new Buddhist territory, this tinged belief did not play much of a role in Asoka’s effe... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | Institutions like the theater, restaurants, and even the church completely crumble. All of the values society seemed to cherish go out the window. In addition, many images bring the Holocaust to mind. For instance, the foreboding walls of Oran reflect the notion of Fortress Europe. Residents are trapped inside. Escape ... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | Finally, that the path to overcoming suffering is the Noble Eightfold Path, which consists of right beliefs, intention, speech, action, job, effect, awareness, and mental state. Finally, there are ten fetters which bar people from enlightenment: self belief, doubt, clinging to rituals, lust for sensuous pleasures, ill ... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | Then, in the seventeenth century, the Dutch arrived and took over Sri Lanka. They too were against Buddhism. In the late eighteenth century, the British came and kicked the Dutch out—but as the Kandyan convention shows, the British were not hostile to Buddhism. The two hostile colonial groups were the Portuguese and th... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | This was primarily a phenomenon among the lay community, as the colonial rulers had silenced the monks. This interesting phenomenon accounts for much of religious syncretism in Theravada Buddhism. Amongst the lay community, this period saw many different tweaks in classic doctrinal Buddhism, which differed from region ... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Sometime in the fifth or sixth century BCE, a prince who would one day be called Buddha was born. Over the course of his life, he renounced the world and became enlightened, and his teachings led to the formation of Buddhism—the most orthodox sect of which is known as Theravada Buddhism. The religion is around twent... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | He never wonders if people will consider him a hero—he never even considers himself to be a hero. He narrates his own story, but does so anonymously, to stress the fact that he is not bragging. He recruits a team to help him, rather than try to take on the whole plague himself—a foolish act which could obviously end on... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | Though Brook Farm was founded on educational tenets, Hawthorne was overwhelmed by the workload, and his vicious invectives against the community did not convey the objective conditions at Brook Farm, but rather the extreme negative side of Brook Farm—which Hawthorne needed to see before he could allow himself to leave.... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | They changed the doctrinal philosophy of Buddhism—as a result of Dharmapala.
Vidyalankara did not change the doctrinal fundamentals of Buddhism, but they did go against some of what the Buddha taught. The Buddha taught that monks should have no involvement with politics. This subject has recently been a topic of extrem... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | At the very end of the novel, Rieux finds himself being drawn into a crowd of jubilant citizens, celebrating the defeat of the plague. He distances himself from the crowd and in so doing, he observes that it is only those who depended on love to get through the plague who celebrate. He considers their desires to be “l... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | The Thudong monks clearly were closer to self-mortification than indulgence in sensuous pleasures, and therefore not following exactly the middle path. They practiced corpse meditation and always followed some number of the Dhutangas, further demonstrating their tendency towards self-mortification. This certainly came ... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | His intentions for the Theravada Buddhist community (or at least the Sinhala component of it) were certainly good, but the effects his philosophy brought about devastated the small island nation. In any event, it is difficult to find a figure in Theravada Buddhism, short of Buddha himself, who had a greater impact on h... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
q | In addition, benign and hostile forces were equally likely to invoke change in doctrinal concepts. Finally, external forces tended to affect both the lay and monastic community fairly drastically, while internal forces had no clear tendency towards either the lay or monastic communities.
Theravada Buddhism is not immun... | 19 | English | male | Some College | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
jj | As we see it happened again in 2000; and it didn't just occur twice. The election of 1876 between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, is one of the most debated and controversial elections to have ever taken place. As the day came to an end, Samuel J. Tilden held the popular vote at 4,300,590 ... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
jj | Within each party there is an elected President and the Bundestag has the responsibility to elect a Federal Chancellor of Germany (a position currently held by Angela Merkel, the first female Chancellor of Germany.) A chancellor can be recalled by the parliament if they feel that he or she is not doing a proper job, t... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
jj | Though his iron-fist rule was the source of his downfall, when he was assassinated not by Roman forces but by Germanic. Still, he gave a voice to the people which showed that they could stand shield-to-shield with the Roman forces and have a chance at victory. As the Visigoths, came down towards the borderlands after f... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
jj | Due to its smaller size, it was jokingly known as Bundesdorf during that period, which literally meant “Federal Village.” (Time Magazine, 1964)
The core areas of the country would be the city-states of Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen as well as Bavaria for its unique foods, dress (such as the Lederhosen and Dirndl), inter... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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The oldest areas and regions are known as Stem Duchies, Stammesherzogtümer. These included Saxony in the north. With Bullungers, Lusatia, Meissen, Merseburg and Thuringia to its east. To the west were Lower Lorraine which is in modern day Netherlands, and Upper Lorraine which is part of Belgium now. In the center sto... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
jj | In October of 2010, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made the shocking statement that multiculturalism in Germany had “utterly failed.” and that there should be immediate action to stop the flow of Turkish immigrants entering the country. The Chancellor claimed that these groups could not happily work together for the b... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
jj | The Empire went up and down through the ages, and gradually began to lose large amounts of land as new Empires started to gain power.
In 1870 Germany saw the threats of these other nations growing around them. With the French on their border, the English looking down on them, the Russians making a name for themselves... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
jj | Though we have to look a bit of a distance back in history to see it, but us historians knew that this was far from the first time this had occurred.
As we gaze back in history, we come across one of the most controversial elections that makes the Gore and Bush dispute look like a minor hassle. The year w... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Grover Cleveland would regain his Presidency in 1892. Following in the steps of Andrew Jackson who defeated Quincy Adams twice, but only won the Presidency from him once; Grover Cleveland went on again to win the popular vote against Benjamin Harrison. This time, however, Cleveland also carried far more states a... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
jj | While the Berlin Wall is nothing more than a memorial, the political systems set up on either side of it have stuck strongly into the hearts of many. While ignoring the problems with the Stasi , many yearn for the days of a Soviet run Germany. (Barkin, 2009) The costs of living, the rights to work, the benefits granted... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Other key geographic places in Germany include der Schwarzwald, a wooded mountain region in Baden-Württemberg and the various peaks as well as the protective power of the alps in the upper German area that makes up the southern border. Though from the early days when Julius showed that he could bridge the Rhine quick... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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The Germany of today is considered a strong force, a united country with its own blend of culture from within the shadows of the alps in München, all the way to Baltic sea city of Kiel. The same culture can be felt from Köln on the river Rhine, through the centre of Germany to the Saxon city of Dresden located on the... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
jj | The Romans did not see them as a threat, a mistake made too often in their history, and let them be.
Ozment (2005, pg 18) goes on to describe how a Germanic tribe known as the Cimbri, crossed into Roman territory – modern day Austria – in 113 BC in search for food and land to live on. A Roman army confronted the tri... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
jj | People in Kiel might think that some customs of München are strange, but they are not opposed to heading down to Bavaria, strapping on some lederhosen and enjoying the festivities every September. This is what makes Germany special. It still has its “tribal” roots which were planted in the ancient days, and now respect... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
jj |
The purpose of this historiographical report is to take a look at the affects of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Operation Mongoose and other attempted coups by the United States to discover their impact on Cuba. It will look at how it positively affected the Caribbean island country a... | 23 | English | male | Associates | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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