Dragons
.... dragons is “Lung”. There are four major categories of Lung.
1.Tien-Lung, The Celestial Dragon, who protects the place of Gods.
2.Shen-Lung, The Spiritual Dragon, who controls wind and rain.
3.Ti-lung, The Earth Dragon , which controls rivers, and water on the earth.
4.Fut’s-Lung, The Underworld Dragon, which guards precious metals and gems.
Names of some Chinese Dragons:
Ryu ~ {Japanese} A dragon able to live in the air, in water, and on land. It was considered one of the four sacred creatures of the Orient. Ryu symbolizes rain and storms
European Dragons
These dragons are found in many notible medie .....
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Basketball
.... lines. You can also go out of bounds if you cross some of these lines. The court is a rather large floor with one goal at each end of the court.
There are many different ways to play basketball. The traditional way that most people play is five - on - five. Five - on - five is played by two opposing teams in which each team has five players on the court during play. The five players are broken down by there coaches into different positions. There are two shooting guards, two power forwards, and one center. Each position plays a specific role on the team.
Basketball contains a variety of rules and reg .....
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Landfills - Fact Is More Ominous Than Fiction
.... 1948, New York City planner Robert Moses developed a highly praised project to deposit municipal garbage in the swamp until the level of the land was above sea level. A study of the area predicted the marsh would be filled by the year 1968. He then planned to develop the area, building houses and attracting light industry. Mayor Impelliteri issued a report titled "The Fresh Kills Landfill Project" in 1951. The report stated, in part, that the enterprise "cannot fail to affect constructively a wide area around it." The report ended by stating, "It is at once practical and idealistic" [Rathje 4]. One must appreciate the irony in the .....
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Donnellan On Attribution And Reference Idiolects
.... the so-and-so”, whereas a speaker using a definite description referentially enables his audience to choose or decide whom or whatever he is talking about and asserts something in lieu of that person or thing.
...To assert something about whatever or whoever fits that description; but in the referential use the definite description is merely one tool for doing a certain job-calling attention to a person or thing- and in general any other device for doing the same job, another description or a name, would do as well.”
In illustrating this distinction, Donnellan considers a single sentence for his example, “Smiths murderer is .....
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Tourism
.... you're not afraid of working hard. So, people obviously like being tourists, and the even more obvious reasons for that can be the need for something different to occur in ones life, not always being stuck in the same old tracks, over and over again. Or, that we need to relax, which you apparently can't do at home, only abroad. One classic reason for tourism is of course that it is a social benefit; You'll get a lot of attention from people back home both before and after the journey, which indeed can be just as much, if not more of a pleasure then the holiday itself.
Tourism, according to the Department of National Heritage, .....
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Penguins And Their Eyes
.... navigate the rocky terrain on which they live quite well. Long of body and short of leg, they probably poke their heads forward as an aid to balance. And as for looking at the ground, they're merely-like us-keeping an eye on where they're going.
The human eye is adapted for aerial vision, which is why scuba divers-or even you and I in the local swimming pool-must wear goggles or a face mask to re-introduce air in front of our eyes in order to see clearly.
Among vertebrates in general, the bird eye is frequently described as the most efficient. Its superior quality, combined with the fact that a large number of birds-co .....
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Plato's Symposium: The First Three
.... have very much to say correctly about society in general, considering the fact that the few generalities he made were incorrect.
However, the issues discussed by Pausanias and Eryximachus were quite interesting. Pausanias used similar methods to Phaedras, except he dissected Phaedras’s argument using logic and giving an example for each circumstance presented. These examples were those of applying the argument into society, a very effective method. At the same time, it was commenting on the nature of society overall, critiquing and analyzing it along with the façade of love, so to speak. In doing so, this put his argume .....
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Plato Vs. Marx: Philosophical Arguments
.... believed that if one could understand the ideas or the true definition of something, they then had true knowledge of it. This type of knowledge comes from a world of being, where everything is something because it is forever unchanging. It always is that specific thing. On the other hand, Marx thought that true knowledge originated from the world of becoming. To understand and gain knowledge according to Marx, one had to study things and experience them first hand in the real, physical world.
According to Plato, the rulers or kings in the ideal state are philosophers. A true philosopher, who must be a special kind of person .....
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The Study Of Psychology
.... Both theorists believe in direct observation of the environment. There are three perspectives of psychology: Structuralism, functionalism, and pragmatism.
Psychology has strict ethical guidelines. The utilization of human participants and animals have standard polices of conducting experiments. The policy requires both informal consent and debriefing. This is to insure no torture or intentional harm is due to the experimented subject.
20th century psychology is divided into many areas of study. Behaviorism is the belief that psychology only deals with behavior. Gestalt psychology is the notion that the whole diffe .....
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Landfills
.... New York City planner Robert Moses developed a highly praised project to deposit municipal garbage in the swamp until the level of the land was above sea level. A study of the area predicted the marsh would be filled by the year 1968. He then planned to develop the area, building houses and attracting light industry. Mayor Impelliteri issued a report titled "The Fresh Kills Landfill Project" in 1951. The report stated, in part, that the enterprise "cannot fail to affect constructively a wide area around it." The report ended by stating, "It is at once practical and idealistic" [Rathje 4]. One must appreciate the irony in the f .....
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Rugby
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In rugby, however, the primary rule is that you can only advance the ball by running with, kicking, or passing it. With passing, though, you can only pass the ball backwards or directly to your side, never forward. Like football, you score by running the ball into the endzone or by kicking it through the uprights. Also, you must touch the ball to the ground for it to count, and it is worth five points. When kicking, the ball can be kicked from anywhere spontaneously. If it passes through the uprights, it is worth three points, as in football.
The equipment for the two sports is widely different, wit .....
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Golf And Its Environment
.... golf course is bad for the environment. Golf is one of the best sports for the environment. A majority of the time it uses natural resources and occasionally improves its landscape. A golf course can make an open field of tall grass into a lush, green, tree-lined maze.
The idea of destroying animal habitat could be a good argument but most of the time you see more animals come to the course or to the surrounding area because of its peacefulness and beauty. Animal rights activists are still arguing that it is still destroying the habitat of some the native animals. Because of this courses are now putting in protected areas .....
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