Essays Tagged: "recent times"

Factual Proposition: Consuming marijuana is detrimental to one's health.

for early anti- marijuana laws , continue to appear in reports today. The most important studies of recent times took place in the 1970's in Greece, Costa Rica and Jamaica. These tests reported on the ... brain cells. A. Claim: Use of marijuana does not cause memory loss. 1. Grounds: In a recent study rhesus monkeys were exposed to the equivalent of 4-5 joints per day for an entire year ...

(6 pages) 246 1 4.1 Nov/1995

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Olympic Games

eks they are supposed to replace the rancor of international conflict with friendly competition. In recent times, however, that lofty ideal has not always been attained.The earliest reliable date that ...

(5 pages) 166 0 4.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Chromium

and oxygen. Chromite is a common ratherordinary black mineral that no one really noticed until more recent times.Nearly all the world's supply of chromite comes from Zimbabwe, Russia,Turkey, South Afr ...

(2 pages) 39 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Fantasy's integral role in the creation of a killer

an entire city or even nation. Jack the Ripper did it bykilling and murdering five prostitutes. In recent times it has been peoplelike Charles Manson and the Boston Strangler, who assaulted and murde ...

(5 pages) 120 0 3.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

College Application Essay for Computer Science Major. I wrote it and used it, got accepted to the 3 schools I sent it too, now someone else can use it too!

College Essay for Computer ScienceThe realm of computer science has excelled in recent times to become a cornerstone of the human environment. As we see the changes in technology w ...

(1 pages) 386 4 4.2 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

In cold blood:death penalty

ianscould be put to death for disclosing the location of sacred burialsites(Flanders3). However, in recent times opponents have shown the death penalty to beracist, barbaric, and in violation with the ...

(5 pages) 198 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Euthanasia is legally, morally and ethically unacceptable. Discuss. Foundation in nursing essay for Law/Ethics Module

lato suggesting that any physician who attempted such an action should be punished by death.In more recent times involuntary euthanasia was used in Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1945 to remove the "un ...

(10 pages) 672 1 3.0 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Lesbian Poetry. Empasizes on Sappho

s who wrote of homosexual love were in fact honored during their life, while others of them in more recent times have risked their careers as writers because they or their material were lesbian.Sappho ... s that love between two women was not persecuted as harshly in Sappho's time as it has been in more recent times (Cantarella 81). She has become synonymous with homosexual woman-love to the extent tha ...

(10 pages) 126 1 4.1 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

A Time To Kill

ianscould be put to death for disclosing the location of sacred burialsites(Flanders3). However, in recent times opponents have shown the death penalty to beracist, barbaric, and in violation with the ... ianscould be put to death for disclosing the location of sacred burialsites(Flanders3). However, in recent times opponents have shown the death penalty to beracist, barbaric, and in violation with the ...

(10 pages) 113 0 3.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

A Time To Kill

ianscould be put to death for disclosing the location of sacred burialsites(Flanders3). However, in recent times opponents have shown the death penalty to beracist, barbaric, and in violation with the ... ianscould be put to death for disclosing the location of sacred burialsites(Flanders3). However, in recent times opponents have shown the death penalty to beracist, barbaric, and in violation with the ...

(10 pages) 107 0 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

THIS ESSAY DEBATES ABOUT EUTHANASIA.THE PROS AND CONS ARE DISCUSSED IN SIMPLE AND CLEAR TERMS.

ere are stories where soldiers have made pacts with each other to be killed if they were wounded.In recent times, there has been a lot of publicity as more and more people are beginning to debate that ...

(3 pages) 239 4 3.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia

CREATIVE WRITING ESSAY,(DEFINITION OF A WORD) FOR ENGLISH 112.

viewing Cool in February of 2003. I had no idea of what to expect. I had heard somuch about Cool in recent times, however, when it came down to it, I really had nounderstanding of the truths surroundi ...

(8 pages) 246 1 4.1 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Analysis of the song "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" also known as "The Angry American" by Toby Keith

Tragedy is one of the most influential inspirations for art, including songwriting. In recent times, many artists responded to their feelings toward the destruction of the Twin Towers on ...

(4 pages) 81 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Title: "A photographic Essay." Describes the common misconceptions of goth society today and attempts to clear up exactly what the community is all about.

lso used to describe a person who is somewhat barbaric, rude, or a non-conformist. However, in more recent times it has come to define an alternative sub-culture of society. A culture that is vastly m ... ut there views, ideas, thoughts, and artwork. This goth is obviously proud of her artwork.Sadly, in recent years, many teenagers and young adults have come to believe the media's statements concerning ...

(3 pages) 63 1 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

El Greco's "View Of Toledo".

York City on Saturday, March 29th, I was able to look at paintings that dated from centuries old to recent times. One particular painting that was appealing to me was in room number twenty-nine. The p ...

(5 pages) 138 0 3.6 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Compulsory Voting.

Compulsory VotingAs of recent times, not only has the conception of United States as the internationalvanguard of democracy ... arranted. Such questions about the legitimacy ofthe American government arise partly as a result of recent statistics depicting the traditionallylow rate of voter participation in national elections.T ...

(14 pages) 194 4 2.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Cultural identity in Scotland.

Executive summaryIn recent times, people in Scotland have started to show a greater appreciation of and interest in thei ... Every year, overseas tourism shows growth, while tourism within the UK has deeply declined, because recent targeted campaigns gave more weight to overseas tourism. Moreover, UK residents will prefer g ... of the few industries that is seen to have a potential for growth in both rural and urban Scotland. Recent forecasts for the European Union predict that it will be one of the top three growth sectors ...

(9 pages) 113 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

The ways in which human beings can conserve the environment.

s.Nature has been kind to its inhabitants: providing us with plentiful resources. Howeverman has in recent times, drained these resources, not out of necessity but out of greed.Healthy forests are cri ...

(2 pages) 67 2 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Reverse Discrimination

In recent times, Affirmative Action has implemented policies of reverse discrimination to help oppresse ...

(3 pages) 115 0 4.6 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

The state of the Global Music industry from a Sociological Perspective.

have greatly influenced the content and functioning of music and other entertainment industries in recent times. Technologies such as the MPEG-3 (mp3) codec, new digital walkmans such as the very pop ... ulated and internet search engines such as google have been known to be censored, however not until recently the youth in China have been finding ways to break free of these political hegemonic shackl ...

(8 pages) 191 0 3.4 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays