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nts. Industry uses it in a wide variety of products, and all living things are based on carbon. Without carbon, life would be impossible! Yet carbon makes up less than 0. 03 percent of the earths crust. Pure carbon exists in nature in the form of diamonds, and in graphite. Both forms are pure carbon…

When many people study history and learn the mistakes from the past, it would be easier to able to understand the present. Nevertheless, it is not enough to simply study the events that have transpired. By changing the unfavorable events that led to despair and continuing the benefits to society, one can understand why they…

There he stands atop the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial, in the nations capital, at a podium, speaking to the world. The crowds faces full of hope. Ears opened wide and clear, for the Dr. is speaking today. He is speaking from the heart and telling the nation that he has a DREAM. Dr. King…

Situational AnalysisIn 1975 Ruth M. Owades joined The Avion Group where she became the Director of Marketing. The Avion Group consisted of seven mail order companies, which had all been acquired after achieving good individual success. These companies had flourished within Avion, which had had spectacular growth. While working with these companies she found out…

Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, a Zen master? The Tin Man an enlightenment seeker? Follow the Yellow Brick Road a mantra? Joey Greens, The Zen of Oz, is a witty, whimsical, and surprisingly insightful introduction to Eastern Philosophy via one of the worlds most beloved movies. It delivers universal truths in a charming,…

What history is to a nation, memory is to the individual. Both serve to locate us, to tell us who we are by reminding us of what we have been and done. And both, as Kazuo Ishiguro suggests, are open to selection, repression and revision. The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro’s third novel, examines the…

Mr. Tambourine ManChorusHey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for meIm not sleepy and there is no place Im going toHey, Mr. Tambourine man, play a song for meIm the jingle jangle morning Ill come following youThough I know the evenings empire has returned into sandVanished from my handLeft me blindly here to stand but…

The Neoplatonic DoctrineAs defined by Funk and Wagnals, Neoplatonism is a type of idealistic monism in which the ultimate reality of the universe is held to be an infinite, unknowable, perfect One. From this one emanates nous (pure intelligence), whence in turn is derived the world soul, the creative activity of which engenders the lesser…

Despite the many purposes it seems to serve, Stonehenge is still the embodiment of mystery for most of the world. Some believe that its purpose was to be used as an astronomical observatory. Others think that it was used as a religious meeting center for the Druids. However, no one has been able to prove…

That the United States was in a time of disrupted trade, economic distress andshaky foreign alliances, demonstrates that war with either France or Englandwas inevitable, however, the United States was able to detain the war fromRelations between the United States and Great Britain had been strainedafter the United States won its independence in 1783, but…