Essays Tagged: "two and a half"

The Odd Couple, by Neil Simmon

n the Centennial High School auditorium. The Centennial High School Drama Department performed this two and a half hour play. The level of performance for this play was amateur and the tickets were so ... performance for this play was amateur and the tickets were sold for five dollars apiece. There were two intermissions where the audience was able to stretch their legs and get something to eat or drin ...

(3 pages) 34 0 4.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Moblizing America Describes how the united stated mobleized its military, economy, and propoganda durring WWI

s to say the least). Nine million men signed up for the draft as soon as it became active, and over two and a half million men would be drafted into the military before the war ended. Although the dra ...

(4 pages) 64 0 4.7 Feb/2003

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

The Increasing Lack of Privacy in the Workplace.

tivity and profits. Most companies cannot imagine surviving without email (Hayday) and local area networks, however it is this same technology that diminishes the productivity of many employees. Resea ... esearch shows that an average employee in the U.S. spends almost an hour (Rosencrance) and close to two and a half hours in the UK (Reuters) a day on the Internet, during work hours. In addition to de ...

(3 pages) 274 2 4.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Egypt in 2528 B.C.

s are the simplest tools we use. Besides the tools, I lifted millions of limestone that weigh about two-and-a-half tons each. Layer by layer the pyramid grew. The top stone was added and the whole str ...

(1 pages) 23 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

"A New England Girlhood Outlined from Memory" By Lucy Larcom.

tobiography offers glimpses of the early years of the American industrial and social development.Two of her memories strike me. As soon as the children were thought capable of learning their lette ... le of learning their letters they were sent off to school. It was not uncommon to learn lessons at two and three, with the sole purpose of getting them off their mother's hands. Lucy was an exceptio ...

(2 pages) 50 1 2.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Television Essay This essay is a argument against the watching of telivision by our children, and the backfalls of television on our children's lives and health.

hildren's television time. The average child watches three to four hours of T. V. a day and another two and a half hours more on the television watching movies or playing video games, for a total of s ...

(8 pages) 461 5 3.8 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

TITANIC - A historical information essay.

atellites are taken for granted by our society. But we tend to forget the immense effort that these two technologies require to operate to their maximum potential. Until recently, the technology did n ... til recently, the technology did not exist to locate, photograph, and explore this ship that rested two and a half miles down on the ocean floor.Shortly before the Titanic was built, White Star Lines ...

(10 pages) 105 1 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

IDine Network- New Company that is the leading provider of dining reward programs.

Executive SummaryFounded in 1984 as Transmedia Network Inc, iDine Network, Inc (IRN) is the leading provider of dining reward programs. It administer ... nd hotels in the United States in which customers can earn all these rewards. iDine also has almost two and a half million people enrolled in their programs with at least one dining transaction.In our ... follow, and the possible results of our plan and recommendations.Company DescriptioniDine Rewards Network Inc. and its subsidiaries market and administer loyalty and reward programs which offer saving ...

(29 pages) 211 0 4.4 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

A summary of Naomi Klein's Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate

N: Vintage.Through personal and deep rooted ideals, Naomi Klein provides a chronological account on two and a half years of various protests and speeches all over the world that revolve around the iss ... sentation of an intricate process of thousands of people tying their destinies together through a network of "hubs and spokes"(p.11) simply by sharing ideas and telling stories about how economic domi ...

(2 pages) 29 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be Analysis

This poem falls into two major thought groups:*Keats expresses his fear of dying young in the first thought unit, lines 1 ... es 9-12).*Keats resolves his fears by asserting the unimportance of love and fame in the concluding two and a half lines of this sonnet.The first quatrain (four lines) emphasizes both how fertile his ... en" at the beginning of each quatrain and by the shortening of the third quatrain. Keats attributes two qualities to love: (1) it has the ability to transform the world for the lovers ("faery power"), ...

(2 pages) 4854 0 2.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Narritive Essay - The Will to Win/Martial Arts Story

gym. I, on the other hand, had not put in the amount of work that most competitors normally would. Two and a half weeks prior to the tournament, I was not in the best shape that I could be, and not i ... passed I noticed significant improvements in speed and power, and I was eventually in decent form. Two days before the 4th of July, I flew out to Orlando to attend the competition.The venue was h ...

(2 pages) 48 1 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Harry Potter Book vs Film

being based upon. Movies such as the Harry Potter series and the Lord of the Rings trilogy are the two that are getting the most criticism and attention. Bringing films like Harry Potter and the Sorc ... otter and the Sorcerer's Stone to the big screen present the problem of condensing the novel into a two and a half hour film without losing any elements of the book. Although Chris Columbus, the produ ...

(6 pages) 91 4 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Tobacco War

rs, chewing tobacco and snuff. According to the World Health Organisations, tobacco kills more than two and a half million people prematurely every year. The industry that sells these products has bee ...

(8 pages) 174 0 4.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Where we come from...an essay describing the first multi-cellular organism.

he years pondered the thought and honestly couldn't figure it out.After the beginning of the earth, two and a half billion years later, the first organism began to from. They were just one-celled and ...

(2 pages) 18 0 4.0 May/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Childrens Literature Analysis

e older brother Peter, who is in the Fourth grade, interacts with his younger brother Fudge, who is two and a half. Peter is often aggravated by his younger brothers behavior especially when Fudge ate ... h. For instance, number 1 has a picture of a frog with a hole in one eye, number 2 has a picture of two parrots with two holes, one on each parrot, and number 3 has three jellyfish with three holes on ...

(4 pages) 46 0 5.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

True Addicts

out of them and walked from one closed neighborhood store to another in South Philadelphia for over two and a half hours before finally finding an open convenience store on Broad street. The fact that ... on of the holiday was secondary to my craving for nicotine. Too many times to remember I'd dress at two or three o'clock in the morning to obtain them. Fornothing else ever have I considered making su ...

(2 pages) 30 1 5.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Supreme Court's Supreme Controversies.

m different walks of life. In most instances revolving around the Government's attempt to merge the two, Reverend Barry W. Lynn is one of several people fighting to uphold the basis of the First Amend ... ber 11th tragedy in 2001, Roy Moore, a presiding Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, had erected a two-and-a-half ton monument depicting the Ten Commandments in the Judicial Building during the summe ...

(3 pages) 42 0 0.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Homeland Security

From the time America won it's freedom back a little more than two and a half centuries ago, America has run into many problems. Some being natural disasters and s ... d the D.H.S. through the Office of Homeland Security. Unbelievably, the D.H.S. was formed by twenty-two seperate agencies; Depts. of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, ...

(2 pages) 167 0 2.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

The Contribution of Stephen Hawking

s career he was diagnosed with ALS, supposedly a fatal disease, at a young age and given only about two and a half years to live. However, he lives to this date and he is best known for his research t ... tcome of the research through a scientific theory. First of all, for Hawking "theory has to satisfy two requirements: It must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of model th ...

(4 pages) 32 0 3.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Lessons Learned at University of Phoenix

There are a lot of positive and a few negative things that I have gained and valued through out my two and a half years working on my BS in Information Technology.My positive aspects that I have enco ... ng on my BS in Information Technology.My positive aspects that I have encountered was meeting and networking with different people in my field. You never know when you're going to cross paths with the ...

(5 pages) 134 0 0.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education