Essays Tagged: "Target"

Sharks

its on either side of it's head. Slowly gaining speed, the shadyfigures unmoving eyes fixed on it's target, a lost harbor seal pup. As the distance betweenthe predator and it's prey grew closer, the j ...

(8 pages) 146 0 4.4 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

Hackers hacking the net

t to break into these protected areas. In the modern age of computers, banks are no longer the main target of extracting lucrative amounts of money illegally. In this day and age, computers hold an ab ...

(5 pages) 308 0 3.9 Aug/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

A Black Cloud - thoughts about hatred

. He took his hatredout on the Jews, forcing them into concentration camps. Another group that is a target ofhatred are the blacks. The Ku Klux Klan, otherwise known as the KKK, possess intensehatred ...

(2 pages) 77 0 3.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Anti-terrirosm legislation and legal theorists

iminationJohn H. Ely's argument has to do with the political process being obstructed and laws that target certain minorities. He argues that the law itself doesn't matter, unless a minority group has ... has been restricted in representation in the political process (Ely 56) or where a certain group is targeted (Ely 55). Ely argues that not all battles need to have a constitutional violation to be hea ...

(15 pages) 283 2 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Marajuana

nsmust reconsider our country's priorities and attachmore importance to combating violent crime thantargeting marijuana smokers.Marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers at least$7.5 billion annually. Thi ... ast$7.5 billion annually. This is an enormous waste ofscarce federal dollars that should be used to targetviolent crime.Marijuana prohibition makes no exception for themedical use of marijuana. The te ...

(2 pages) 93 0 3.9 Mar/2002

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

Societies Scapegoat

in the forefront ofvirtually every home in the civilized world, it's nowonder that it's the easiest target for criticism.It's elementary to blame the tube for a child'sbehavior; it's a quick and easil ...

(6 pages) 91 0 4.4 Mar/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Monoclonal Antibodies as Therapeutic Agents

are referred to as a Fab (Fragment for Antigen Binding) and function by recognising the antibody's target or antigen (antibody generating molecule). The stem of the Y is known as the Fc portion of th ... where a series of blood proteins bind to the Fc and subsequently elicit destruction of the invading target. An important factor in the efficacy of antibody therapeutics is that the Fc portion also pro ...

(8 pages) 101 0 4.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

A Critical Analysis of the National Numeracy Strategy. This essay examines the national numeracy strategy, which is in place in schools in the uk.

The National Numeracy Strategy was implemented in September 1999, setting a target for 75% of all pupils reaching at least level four in mathematics by 2002. This essay will fo ... average'. 11.Primary Maths and Science (January 2000)Some critics argue that due to the Strategy's targets, teachers will concentrate on the higher-achievers and the less able will fall further and f ... ted the previous year's big rise to 72%, which is just three points below the Government's national target for year 6 pupils by 2002. 14.www.ofsted.fov.uk/about/press/nr2000-74.htm (04.01.01)This does ...

(9 pages) 226 1 4.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

The Causes of World War 1

otorcade through Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Archduke was chosen as a target because Serbians feared that after his ascension to the throne, he would continue the persecu ...

(11 pages) 460 1 3.9 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

My First Murder

remember vividly the pride Ifelt in my steady aim, the rifle-sights barely moving from the tiny target I had chosen, andthen the crushing suffocation which replaced pride as soon as I squeezed ...

(4 pages) 65 0 3.0 Oct/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Black Like Me-Lower Class Citizens

Lower- Class CitizensThe black community in the United States of America has always been the target of prejudice from the whites. The Constitution of America states all men should have equal ri ...

(4 pages) 61 0 4.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

The Death Of Balder

hurting Balder. Thinking him invincible, the godsenjoyed themselves thereafter by using Balder as a target forknife-throwing and archery.The malicious trickster Loki, who was jealous of Balder, change ...

(2 pages) 29 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

The Internet, Past, Present, and Future

nd controlled? Any central authority, any network central citadel,would be an obvious and immediate target for an enemy missile. The center of the network would be the very first place to be destroyed ...

(5 pages) 154 0 4.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

How the internet got started

d controlled ? Any central authority,any network central citadel, would be an obvious and immediate target for man enemymissle. Thecenter of the network would be the very first place to go.RAND mulled ...

(3 pages) 64 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Toil and Trouble. Speaks of the US welfare

ggling families make it through the year while they got back on their feet. What it has become is a target for gluttonous mothers and others who have no values. Many mothers who are on welfare have be ...

(3 pages) 97 0 2.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Andrew Jackson and his road to Presidency

d the hatred of others, as no other President had before. He was also the first President to be the target of an assassin, a madman- Richard Lawrence who thought he was heir to the British throne. For ...

(6 pages) 87 0 3.9 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

"Of mice and men" by Steinbeck, a novel which explores the burdens of responsibility as much as it awards.

hat serve as a frustration or nuisance. An ideal example of this would be Curley when he decides to target Lennie as a'frustration' and subsequently attacks him with no real valid reason apart from je ...

(4 pages) 49 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

Roots of Nazism

d minds are especially vulnerable to propaganda and irrational thought, which made them the easiest target for Dr. Goebells' job of brainwashing all the easier and more in-depth. From a very early age ... les of violent or racial ideas.High school and teen-aged people were by far the most influenced and targeted group by Dr. Goebells. Physics and chemistry labs in school dealt solely with preparations ...

(5 pages) 58 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

Gun Control (an issue that effects us all)

n extremely dangerous factor in our lives. Ifused improperly, a gun could be lethal to not only the target, but the user as well. Theavailability of guns has sky rocketed in the past decade or so, and ... rs items and valuable guns that had never been fired. They complain thathistorians, collectors and, target shooters are not happy. They claim the recklessdestruction of historical artifacts is inexcus ...

(10 pages) 432 0 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

An in depth analysis of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

e people continue about their daily lives.It was about 8:11 a.m., when the Enola Gay approached her target. She climbed to about 31,000 feet and finished the settings on "Little Boy", the atomic bomb ... Mr. Stimson, to use [the atomic bomb] so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children"(Mark p. 323-324). In these diary entries it seems that military p ...

(9 pages) 389 5 4.4 Jul/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues