Miscellaneous Essays
Sneakers The movie
Sneakers - The movie �The world isn�t run by weapons any more or energy or money. It�s run by little ones and zeroes � little bits of data. It�s all just electrons� There�s a war out there old friend, a World War. And it�s not about who�s got the most bullets. It�s about who controls the information; what we see and hear, how we work, what we think. It�s all about the information.� In the movie sneakers cosmo makes this statement signifying that who occupy�s t...
Snoring annoying or dangereous
Snoring annoying or dangereous Snoring: Annoying or Dangerous Throughout the entire world a person's habits have thoroughly irritated another's. These habits are may annoy one person more than another, or not annoy another altoget-her. With such a highly varied and intensely personal list of annoying habits available, it appears difficult to choose the worst. However, one habit is so annoying that at times it is life threatening. This irritating and dangerous habit is, snoring. Th...
Ski
Ski SKIING Do you like to be out in the snow, get some fresh air, and have fun at the same time well then skiing is the way to go. Skiing is a fun and exciting way to enjoy the winter months and it also is gives you an exercise while you are taking on the slopes. Even if you are not a very good skier at first, you can practice on smaller hills and work up to the larger hills and become an expert. The main things you need to know to get started are what kind of boots and skies to get, h...
Slang in america
Slang in america Slang in America For hundreds of years, English has been continuously changing. Words that were unacceptable 100 years ago are now commonplace. English has always had a trademark of being a comfortable language, the language of the common people (MacNeil 143). Change in the grammar and diction of a language is natural, and English is always confronted with changes. Among them are the use of slang, clipped word endings, and new dialects. Some Conservatives do not like changes...
Sleep deprivation and business
Sleep deprivation and business In this age of increased technology and globalization enormous stress is being placed upon the business traveler. In order to stay competitive, business executives must commit to brutal schedules and frequent travels. Increasingly, business travelers are relying upon air travel as their primary form of transportation. This constant movement through different time zones is exhausting and can lead to jet lag. “Technically called circadian dysrythmia, jet la...
Sleep deprivation
Sleep deprivation Plan: The federal government will provide local school districts with incentives to change the starting time of the secondary schools to a time that fits with adolescents’ biological need to sleep. Harms: SLEEP DEPRIVATION LOWERS THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS. A. The vast majority of adolescents suffer from sleep deprivation. Mart Carkadon (Prof., Psychiatry, Brown U. Med. Center Jan. 99, 352 “The problem of inade...
Sleepy days are over
Sleepy days are over... SLEEPY DAYS ARE OVER "I have a dream…" said Martin Luther King Jr. But why was he able to have a dream? It is probably because he was able to get enough sleep, unlike the high-schoolers of today. Almost every high-schooler in the United States would agree, we need more sleep. At my high school on Southern Whidbey Island, school starts at the unbearable early time of 7:30 am. That is just too early to start school. Most high schoolers don't even wake ...
Small business setup
Small business setup PLANNING FOR SUCCSESS Planning is a key factor in the success of any business, and conversely, the failure to plan adequately is one of the fastest routes to business failure. There are many considerations that an entrepreneur must decide such as: type of business, legal structure, permits and licenses, market planning, business plan, location, organization management planning, business telephone line, mission statement, and a business checking account. There are...
Sin is Ignorance Socratic de
Sin is Ignorance - Socratic de Sin is ignorance. This is well known Socratic definition of sin which, like everthing Socratic, is an opinion always worthy of attention. The difficulty with the Socratic definition is that it leaves undetermined how ignorance itself is to be more precisely understood, the question of its origin, ect. That is to say. even if sin be ignorance(or what Christianity would perhaps prefer to call stupidity), which in one sense cannot be denied we have to ask, is t...
Single sex education
Single sex education Single Sex Education? Why would anyone want to go to an all girls' school? This is a question I have often pondered. Can you imagine school without the obnoxious comments from boys, football games, and gossiping about boys? This doesn't sound like a lot of fun, does it? You girls may think about this and decide there are no advantages to an all girls' school, but in reality, all girls' schools have many. Believe it or not, having b...
Sinking of the titanic
Sinking of the titanic The sinking of the Titanic There have been many maritime disasters. The number of people affected by the disasters usually is the significance. The most significant disasters usually stay in peoples' minds forever, even though they were not directly involved. The Titanic was a luxury liner, considered to be an unsinkable ship. Yet on April 14, 1912 the ship sank, killing 1,500 people. The sinking of the Titanic continues to amaze people, because of ...
Sir Rich Arkwright
Sir Rich Arkwright Sir Rich Arkwright was born on December 23, 1732 at Preston in the county of Lancaster. His first profession was a barber in Bolron-le-moors in 1760. Soon afterward he traveled throught the country buying human hair. At that time he had a valuable chemical secret for dying the hair to make wigs out of. Arkwright's hair was commented to be the finest hair in the country. In 1761, Richard Arkwright married Margaret Biggins, and this marriage brought him to an aquaitance w...
Sit ups, what are you doing wr
Sit-ups, what are you doing wr When you do sit-ups, you are using your abdominal muscles. Lots of people do sit-ups, and think they are exercising or losing weight, especiallu when they feel sore in their stomache. They don't realize that they are doing sit-ups wrong, and could be hurting themselves, instead of helping. If you do sit-ups with your legs extended, rather than with your knees bent, you will be strenthening your hip flexor muscles more than your stomache muscles (most ba...
Skeptical views on noahs ark
Skeptical views on noahs ark Skeptical view of the flood myth As skeptics have long been aware, there was no global flood in the last 5000 years, a boatload of animals did not ground on so-called Mount Ararat or on any mountain, and the world's animals are not descended from two or seven pairs of each species that lived during the third millennium BC. Nor is there any archaeological proof that a man survived a flood by being on a boat loaded with animals, food, and drinking water. The N...
Signs of the zodiac
Signs of the zodiac SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC What zone of the zodiac was the sun in when you were born? For centuries people have studied the effect of the sun and other celestial bodies in shaping the personalities of individuals. Many people believe that it is possible to achieve a better understanding of individuals by knowing what sign of the zodiac they were born under. Aquarius the Water Bearer (January 21 to February 19) Aquarians are always analysing situations, friends, an...
Silent Spring
Silent Spring The following quote �The sedge is withr�d from the lake, And no birds sing,� (Keats) seems like a very simple sentence with no meaning to it. However, after reading Chapter 6 of Silent Spring , I realized how loaded the comment is with meaning. The quote is describing humans and how humans treat the plants here on earth. The quote describes a scene where humans continue to destroy plants because they feel that they are in the way or that the plants are not appea...
Silly old bear
Silly old bear “Silly Old Bear!” Almost every child and adult has heard this phrase before which comes from the Winne the Pooh series written by A.A. Milne. In this series of books written about Winnie the Pooh, the “silly old bear,” his friends, and their adventures together in the Hundred Acre Wood Forest, Milne captures the “incomparably and enduringly, the frolic and indolence, the sweetness and foolishness, of animals which are also people(Discovering Au...
Sim city forever
Sim city forever Amongst the shelves that are packed with the latest computer software, sits a genre of games, that does not get the recognition that it deserves. Simulation games. These games do not give the player level after level of mind-boggling graphics, blood and gore, or even the feeling of accomplishment. Their one purpose is to give the control to the player, that they would normally not get in their everyday lives. By definition a simulation game is a game where the player mus...
Simpsons 4
Simpsons 4 The American animation The Simpsons is now in its 10th season as a show in its own right. It was created by Matt Groening as shorts for the Tracy Ullman Show and was bought by the Fox Network, which began screening it as half-hour shows in 1989. Initially its success was restricted to the 9-16 year old age group, and for animation there is nothing remarkable about this. Its success grew quickly and it is now popular in many countries with many different audiences. "In the 1990s we...
Simpsons vs wells
Simpsons vs wells The advent of new technology has been a source of trepidation throughout history. Just as with any change, fear is often the pervasive response to new technology and developments, especially amongst those who do not fully comprehend the changes. It seems, however, that people ignorant of the true meaning and extent of technology are the most likely to place unwarranted faith in its abilities. Technology becomes an authority—one that is difficult to question or rebel a...
Siberian husky
Siberian husky Siberian Huskies are thought to have come from Siberia when there was a land bridge between Alaska and Siberia. The Siberian Husky has some very unusual characteristics. Some of the characteristics are behavioral and some are physical. Overall the Siberian Husky is a beautiful, trustworthy and loyal companion to its master and family. Some of the Siberian Huskies unusual physical traits can be found in their eyes. The Siberian Husky can have blue e...
Sibling rivalry
Sibling rivalry Relationship “Children are the essence of the family life but can become the driving destructive force that splits or divides them up” (Dr Barbara Wallace, 1995). Recently it has been realised that siblings have an enormous impact on one another not just through early childhood but long into the lifespan. Previously it was thought that parents were the main influence in early childhood changing to peers for early adulthood and old age, only now has the full...
Sickle Cell Anemia
Sickle Cell Anemia The problem is that sickle cell anemia affects about 72,000 Americans in the United States. Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease in which the body is unable to produce normal hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein. Abnormal hemoglobin can morph cells that can become lodged in narrow blood vessels, blocking oxygen from reaching organs and tissues. The effects of sickle cell anemia are bouts of extreme pain, infectious, fever, jaundice, stroke, slow growth, organ, a...
Siddhartha the buddha
Siddhartha the buddha Why do we exist? What is the aim of the human kind? What is the meaning of life? Those are the questions every person thinks of at some point in it’s life. World religions try to give answers to these questions. Art and science give us some interpretations of the meaning of life as well. Ever since humanity exists, individuals tried to capture their thoughts and ideas about life. Hesse’s book “Siddharta” is one of the most successful trials o...
Side mounting
Side mounting Hoover, Pierce (1999) " Tanks on the Side," Sport Diver, vol. 7, no. 5, October, p. 26 While diving, especially in caverns, divers encounter very narrow horizontal openings which they must pass in order to continue in the cave system. Unhooking the tank from the B.C. and pushing it a head of you is not always the safest way to go through an opening where you don't quite fit. There is a new system that allows divers to carry tanks with them and not effect their hand...