1976 births Essays

  • Personal Narrative Fiction

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    He was staring at me with those eyes. “What the hell do you want, Joey? Haven’t you done enough?” I pleaded at my boyfriend. His eyes were burning through me. “Honestly, Joey, you can go fuck yourself. You broke my heart, you fucking asshole! I have nothing more to say to you.” I turned to walk away, but he grabbed my hand. “Julien.” He paused after he said my name. He was about to say something when I cut him off. “No, you cheating, lying, bastard! I never want to see you again!!!” I tried

  • What is the Risk of Social Media In the Classroom?

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    There are places and content offline that is inappropriate to students and so it is online. This has been a major concern for educators and the society as a whole. However this does not deter the increased use of technology including social media in the classroom. Social media tools have become a part of people’s lives so it is easy to integrate it in the classroom, (Brooks, 2014). However, there are many risks associated with integrating social media tools in the classroom just as there are risks

  • An Evaluation of the Article: Why Looks Are the Last Bastion of Discrimination

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    In today’s job market, there are many reasons an individual could be turned down for employment. According to Deborah Rhodes, author of “Why looks are the last bastion of discrimination”, appearance should not be one of them. Rhodes is a law professor at Stanford and holder of numerous titles for her outstanding work in legal matters. She is also the author and co-author of over 250 articles (Directory). In this article, she addresses an issue with profound impact on today’s society. She proposes

  • Blue Ocean Strategies for Five Products

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    The goal of this paper is to provide ‘Blue Ocean Strategies’ for five different products using the tools and techniques described in Kim and Mauborgne’s 2005 book “Blue Ocean Strategy.” Product #1: Corn Due to increasing health consciousness, mass produced genetically engineered corn is facing a lot of noncustomers including international export markets such as China and France (Bloomberg News, 2014, June 11, Deike, J., 2014, Mar, 17) and hence the blue ocean strategy for a corn farmer would be to:

  • The Cost Of Artificial Intelligence

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    unsuccessfully be able to solve. Artificial Intelligence is the correct pathway to take, if you are considering to use it on mundane tasks. It would definitely make everybody's life easier. You don't have to use your brain as much, like you used it at school. The intelligence of AI will absolutely help the society to evolve, and to also make it so much stronger than it already is. It would provide a faster way to solve problems that humans can't solve. Artificial Intelligence may be really helpful

  • Shifting the Medical Gaze: Towards a Feminist Ethic of Childbirth

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    The term "reproductive rights" has become synonymous with abortion rights, birth control access, and issues surrounding reproductive technologies, yet the struggle for a woman's right to choose when and how to become pregnant often overshadows a woman's right to choose where and how to give birth. The lack of feminist discourse and activism surrounding issues of childbirth may attest to the hegemony in the modern American birth ritual of increasing medical intervention from obstetricians in hospital

  • Birth Of Nazism

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    BIRTH OF NAZISM "Until the German people understand that one can conduct politics only when one has the support of power—and again power. Only so is reconstruction possible… It is not an economic question which faces the German people, it is a political question—how shall the nation’s determination be recovered?" (Bullock, 1962) Adolf Hitler posed this question to the German people in 1923. The face of post World War I Germany was truly battered, in all senses of the word

  • What Is Nadia Comaneci Essay

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    Everyone today knows Nadia Comaneci as the first female gymnast to earn a perfect score at the 1976 Olympics games in Montreal, Canada, but that was just one of her many unique accomplishments. Throughout her gymnastics career she claimed 16 gold medals and went to the Olympics two times, got first in 1976, and won second in 1980. Nadia Comaneci was born in Onesti, Romania, on November 12, 1961.When she was six years old, she was playing around outside at school, and Bela Karolyi spotted her and

  • The Effect of Natural Disaster on a Society

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    disaster on a society is the loss of human life. In certain types of natural disasters large number of casualties may not occur, nevertheless in the scenario of a far-reaching flood and earthquake, the death toll could be immense. It is estimated that the 1976 Tangshan earthquake caused more than 750 thousand deaths, making it rank the first among all earthquakes in the 20th century (BBC, Year unknown, internet). This figure indicates a correlation between population density and higher casualties. Furthermore

  • Gymnastics

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    sports. I like the way the athletes bodies move. They are all so flexible and interesting to look at. I wanted to be just like those athletes, or at least let my children be like them. This was my dream. Growing up in the city of Washington, DC in 1976, I used to sit on my parents’ bedroom floor, watching TV. I decided to turn the channel one day to the Olympics. I noticed that there were these girls, who were doing some amazing flips. I’d never seen anything like it before. I knew nothing about

  • Medicine - Midwives and Doctors Must Work Together

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    Midwife.  Independent midwives or "direct entry" midwives attend births at home rather than in hospitals or birth centers.  These midwifes are trained at independent midwifery schools or through apprenticeship. CNMs are registered nurses and trained and regulated as a part of the nursing profession.  Independent midwives are legal in some states, illegal in others although direct-entry or independent midwives are the primary home-birth attendants in the United States. Archie Brodsky, senior research

  • Prohibition and the Birth of Organized Crime

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    Prohibition in the United States was a measure designed to reduce drinking by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took away license to do business from the brewers, distillers, vintners, and the wholesale and retail sellers of alcoholic beverages. The leaders of the prohibition movement were alarmed at the drinking behavior of Americans, and they were concerned that there was a culture of drink

  • Teen Pregnancy

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    though American teenagers are no more sexually active than teenagers are in Canada or Europe. Recent statistics concerning the teen birthrates are alarming. About 560,000 teenage girls give birth each year. Almost one-sixth of all births in the United States are to teenage women. Eight in ten of these births resulted from unintended pregnancies. By the age of eighteen, one out of four teenage girls will have become pregnant. Although the onset of pregnancy may occur in any teenager, some teens are

  • Son Jara

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    Sugulun Konde, the ugly maid. Sugulun Konde called "the Konde woman the ugly maid, mother of Son-Jara, traveling with the Taraweres, who trade her for Nakana Taliba. Saman Berete "the Berete woman" gives birth to Dankaran Tuman just before Sugulun Konde births Son-Jara. News of Son-Jara's birth reaches Fata Magan first and he declares him heir, though Tuman is the elder by a few hours. Son-Jara (also called Biribiriba, Nare Magan Konate, Sugulun's Ma'an, King of Nyani): born with hair all over body

  • The Tibetan Genocide

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    sterilization due to Chinese birth policies. Through all of these crimes against humanity, China repeatedly commits acts of genocide as established by the United Nations. A precise definition of genocide was instituted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948. It states that genocide occurs when, “one group kills members of another group, causes serious bodily or mental harm, inflicts conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction, prevents births within the group, and

  • Native American Genocide

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    Genocide b. causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c. deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d. imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e. forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. (Destexhe). In this paper, I will argue that the act of genocide as here defined, has been committed by the United States of America, upon the tribes and cultures

  • An Interesting Story about Twins

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    These twins each descended from the symmetrical splitting of a single fertilized egg into cells that contain the identical sequence of billions of even tinier DNA molecules. They occur about once every 250 births, which makes them about a third as common in America as fraternal twins, who descend from two separately fertilized eggs and are no more similar genetically than other siblings. Identical twins are far more familiar than, say, septuplets, but there is still something a little eerie about

  • Euclid and the Birth of Euclidean Geometry

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    Euclid and the Birth of Euclidean Geometry The ancient Greeks have contributed much to the development of the Western World as we know it today. The Greeks questioned all and yearned for the answers to many of life’s questions. Their society revolved around learning, which allowed them to devote the majority of their time to enlightenment. In answering their questions, they developed systematic activities such as philosophy, psychology, astronomy, mathematics, and a great deal more. Socrates (469-399

  • Stereotypes, Stereotyping and Teen Pregnancy

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    increasing yearly. According to the March of Dimes, teenage birth rates have decreased steadily in the country since 1991. Teenage birth rates in the United States remain relatively high compared to the more developed countries. According to the March of Dimes, "nearly thirteen percent of all births in the United States were teens ages fifteen to nineteen. Almost one million teenagers become pregnant each year and about 485,000 give birth (Teenage 1). Babies, as well as the teenage mothers

  • Comparing the Role of the Ghost in Morrison's Beloved and Kingston's No Name Woman

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    and ultimately reversing it. The patriarchal repression of Chinese women is illustrated by Kingston's story of No Name Woman, whose adulterous pregnancy is punished when the villagers raid the family home. Cast out by her humiliated family, she births the baby and then drowns herself and her child. Her family exile her from memory by acting as if "she had never been born" (3) -- indeed, when the narrator's mother tells the story, she prefaces it with a strict injunction to secrecy so as not to