Open Mind Essays and Term Papers
Women And Body ImageEleven million women in the United States suffer from eating disorders- either self-induced semi-starvation (anorexia nervosa) or a cycle of bingeing and purging with laxatives, self-induced vomiting, or excessive exercise (bulimia nervosa) (Dunn, 1992). Many eating disorder specialists agree that ...
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America Expansion Of 1700sUnited States Expansionism: 1790s- 1860s
The major American aspiration during the 1790s through the 1860s was westward expansion. Americans looked to the western lands as an opportunity for large amounts of free land, for growth of industry, and manifest destiny. This hunger for more wealth and ...
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Legalization Of DrugsIt is clear that most of the serious problems the public associates with illegal drug use are, in reality, caused directly or indirectly by drug prohibition. Let's assume the war on drugs is given up as the misguided enterprise it is. What will happen? The day after legalization goes into effect, ...
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Kovic's "Born On The Fourth Of July"This was an extremely powerful book. Ron Kovic is very able to get his
point accross to the reader. He brings you throughout his life showing you, no.
. . showing cannot describe the feeling adequately enough. He puts you into his
life, when he goes through the trenches, you go with him. When ...
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VirusesIt's the weekend, you have nothing to do so you decide to play around on your computer. You turn it on and then start up, you start calling people with your modem, connecting to another world, with people just like you at a button press away. This is all fine but what happens when you start ...
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Being A MorticianThe word mortician brings what images to mind? The career of a
mortician is surprisingly different than it is portraied in movies and books.
is a very rewarding job both personal as well as psychological
to those with the temperament, training and discipline required to do the job
properly. In ...
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Cognitive Artifacts & Windows 95The article on Cognitive Artifacts by David A. Norman deals with the
theories and principles of artifacts as they relate to the user during execution
and completion of tasks. These principles and theories that Norman speaks about
may be applied to any graphical user interface, however I have ...
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Creative Writing: The Missed Fly BallIt was only a fly ball, but I missed it. I missed a fly ball in the final
baseball game my 3rd grade year . It was a beautiful day, a few clouds covering
the extremely blue summer sky. It was very hot. I remember this because of the
tremendous amount of sweat that would run down my face while ...
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DemianHermann Hesse's novel, , is the story of a young man trying to find his place between the two realms of good and evil. Right from the beginning of the novel Hesse introduces the reader to Emil, of whom the novel is based around. The reader sees how Emil's "good" world of peace, love and ...
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The Shining: SummaryStephen King's The Shining is a story about a family, the Torrances who stay at Overlook Hotel for the winter season. The father, Jack Torrance takes his family (wife, Wendy and son, Danny) up to this remote hotel to work as a caretaker for the off season. Jack is a recovering alcoholic who was ...
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Indians, Contact, And Colonialism In The Deep SouthIn the essay, , Joel W. Martin addresses the advantages to re-thinking and establishing our ideas about the history of Indians. In Martin’ opinion, in light of our postcolonial discoveries and altered ways of viewing our historical involvement with the Indians, we might come to many new ...
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A Modern Day Odysseus"I wanted to strengthen democracy, to ensure that Americans could
protect their privacy." Philip R. Zimmermann, a modern day hero, started
with one powerful goal - to create easy to use, publicly available e-mail
encryption software. With patience, strong will, and the idea that privacy
is a ...
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HackersIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What is the Computer Underground? . . . . . . . . 11
Topography of the Computer Underground . . . . . . 20
Hacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Phreaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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America And Affirmative ActionAffirmative action has been the subject of increasing debate and tension
in American society. However, the debate over affirmative action has become
ensnared in rhetoric that pits equality of opportunity against the equality of
results. The debate has been more emotional than intellectual, and ...
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America And Affirmative ActionAffirmative action has been the subject of increasing debate and tension in American society. However, the debate over affirmative action has become ensnared in rhetoric that pits equality of opportunity against the equality of results. The debate has been more emotional than intellectual, and ...
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How To Play AssholeTo all you incoming college freshman that don’t want to make a fool of yourself at college parties, learn this drinking game. Perhaps the King of all drinking games, Asshole is a true American classic. Asshole is a game that tests one’s ability to concentrate, as well as one’s threshold for ...
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Analysis Of The Chosen By ChaiThe Chosen by Chaim Potok is set in the 1940's neighborhood of Brooklyn in Williamsburg. Two boys who live a few blocks from each other but in totally different environments forge a unique relationship. Reuven Malter, the son of an Orthodox Jewish scholar, and Danny Saunders, the brilliant son ...
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The Puritan Society In N. Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"In the introductory sketch to Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel the "The Scarlet
Letter", the reader is informed that one of the author's ancestors
persecuted the Quakers harshly. The latter's son was a high judge in the
Salem witch trials, put into literary form in Arthur Miller's "The
Crucible" ...
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The Crucible“I am a good girl. I’m proper” (1057). Abigail Williams said these words in defense of her actions. Is she good and proper? In by Arthur Miller, Abigail lied about other characters, saying that they were witches and had sold their souls to Satan. This was not the start, but it was a very ...
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PiercingsIn this essay I hope to persuade my mom to let me get my tongue pierced by proving that tongue piercing is both safe and sane.
"Tongue piercing is a relatively simple procedure if the technician has the knowledge and the correct tools" (Monahan, Roger 1). Piercing is not dangerous as long as you ...
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