Miscellaneous Essays
Hospitable Framwork
Hospitable Framwork Time Is Money Ohio's Flexicore Building Systems make short work of hotel construction When an amusement park operator decided to construct a new hotel to meet increased business, it faced challenges ranging from winter month delivery to a site with limited access. The solution came from Dayton, Ohio-based Flexicore Systems, Inc., a company specializing in precast hollow core products. "The most challenging aspect of constructing the Breakers Tower entailed loca...
Hospital Care
Hospital Care Critical Care Hospital - Case Study _ By: Diane M Incident for Discussion: Critical Care Hospital Critical Care Hospital has planned to purchase a CATSCAN within the next six months. Though not mentioned in the text, the cost of the equipment will be at least several hundred thousand dollars, and could even exceed one million dollars. Additionally, major renovations are required to the radiology department where the equipment will be housed. Unfortunately, the constru...
Hot Springs National Park
Hot Springs National Park Hot Springs National Park Hot Springs National Park is an unusual geographical mix�a highly developed park in a small city surrounded by low-lying mountains with abundant flowers and animals. Hot Springs Reservation was set aside on April 20, 1832, by the Federal Government to protect the 47 hot springs flowing from the southwestern slope of Hot Springs Mountain, at a temperature of 143� F, for future generations. The name was changed to Hot Springs Nationa...
How Free Do We Want to Be
How Free Do We Want to Be HOW FREE DO WE WANT TO BE? Just think of the fun we could have if we did not have to follow any rules and regulations. You could go into a shop,fill your basket with all types of fancy goods and leave without paying for them. If you drive, then there would be no need to worry about getting stopped for speeding or dangerous driving. If you are at school you could forget all about learning and play games all day long. It does sound like a good life but would...
How GPS works
How GPS works HOW GPS WORKS The GPS consists of three main segments: space, control, and user. Satellites, which are launched into specific orbits and monitored by ground station, transmit information in form of radio signals. Ground stations update the information from satellites and send update signals back to satellites. Users with GPS receivers can decode satellite signals to find helpful information such as a location in a desert. Space Segment The spac...
How Not To Choose Friends
How Not To Choose Friends Honesty, loyalty, compassion, and fairness are all examples of qualities people look for when choosing friends. The look for these qualities in order to sort 'real' friends from those considered acquaintances. But what is one deems another a 'friend', and their choice proves itself to have been faulty? People should never allow a friend to remain a friend if the are not trustworthy, dependable, or if they are manipulative. True friends are never, or sho...
Homophobia Fear or Hate
Homophobia Fear or Hate Homophobia, the fear, dislike or hatred of lesbians and gay men, is becoming a big problem in America today. Most people that have homophobia are uneducated about what goes on in the gay community. Since homophobes, persons who exhibit homophobia, are uneducated. They discriminate against people they don't even know. The criterion for homophobia is changing rapidly to hatred or discrimination aginst people of a specific sexual orientation. America has learned to ...
Homosexuality
Homosexuality In today�s society, there exists a myriad of issues which, when discussed, tend to raise the temperature of the citizens� proverbial blood. There are a handful of topics that always seem to escalate this temperature to the boiling point among individuals who earnestly participate in discussion, debate and argument. Some examples of such delicate subjects are the death penalty, abortion, and euthanasia. An issue that has in recent years, begun to command the intensity of the...
Honesty
Honesty Essay on Honesty Imagine this: You are at a MacDonald�s drive through. You have ordered only one cheese burger, but when you drive up to the collection window, the young trainee hands you a big bag filled with food and a handful of change. There are two options, do you, A; tell the young trainee that you only ordered a cheese burger, (which costed you only $1.90) and give back to him the big bag of food and handful of change? Or do you, B; say thank you to the young train...
Hope lives where death seems t
Hope lives where death seems t Hope Lives Where Death Seems to Dwell "East Texas E.M.S." "I need an ambulance!" "O.K., Ma'am, what's the problem?" "A man's been shot! Get here fast!" "Alright, now. Slow a little. What's the location?" In the call received above, practical training was working in unison with academic skills. Normally, this was not an injury in which the victim would survive to speak. Don Elbert had taught me most everything I knew. Before the...
Hopes and dreams
Hopes and dreams Imagine waking up one morning on the sound of the birds whistling. Walking out side looking at the blue sky, while the cool breeze blowing through your hair. Sitting on the grass with the flowers surrounding you filling the air with its beautiful aroma. Suddenly the whistling turns into a loud harsh sound. The sky turns gray and becomes darker as time passes by. You find your self viciously thrown in a center of people suffering from illness and poverty. They all hold t...
Horse slaughter
Horse slaughter The Slaughter of America's Horses Any one who has wanted to travel to Europe or Asia, or go on a cross-country trip should follow along with one of many horses at local auctions. That�s right, the symbols of the Wild West get to travel where most Americans will never go in their lifetime. However, its recommended that traveling and housing accommodation be booked separated from the horses. One morning they get on a trailer, a week or two later they are on plates as de...
Holiday on Mackinaw Island
Holiday on Mackinaw Island Audience: Vacation Takers, Recommended for Over 20 Years Old Although Mackinaw Island is very small, it is very beautiful and has lots of exciting activities, such as bicycling, horseback riding, buggy riding, and fudge shopping. Mackinaw Island is located in the upper part of Michigan between Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. It makes a perfect place for a quick getaway. The tourist season runs from mid-May to mid-October. The Island, being only 8.2 ...
Home shopping
Home shopping Conventional Shopping in Malaysia Shopping is an activities that cannot be avoid from every Malaysian in nowadays society. Every weekend or public holiday, we will go shopping with family or friends. So, we noticed that shopping is already become a necessary event in our life. Since we do shopping frequently, don�t we feel that always shopping become tedious and may just give us tons of problem when we forgot to do so? In fact, this type of problems do arise in Malaysia ...
Homeless 2
Homeless 2 Outcast of Society As the world population grows exponentially, people are finding it harder to maintain a job and a place to live. Many must face the harsh reality of having to live on the streets. Others are fortunate enough to find shelter with family or friends. Nonetheless society is being forced to figure out what to do with these homeless people. Some believe it is society's problem to take care of these homeless people. Others believe they are responsible for thei...
Homeless What has been done to
Homeless What has been done to Homeless: What has been done to decrease the problem? One of the largest growing concerns in Toronto is the constantly increasing number of citizens who are finding themselves living on the streets. With the decrease in the number of available jobs, the population of homeless people has literally boomed. My questions are not as simple to answer as they may appear. Why is a large portion of our community forced to live on the streets? Wh...
Homeless
Homeless Outcast of Society As the world population grows exponentially, people are finding it harder to maintain a job and a place to live. Many must face the harsh reality of having to live on the streets. Others are fortunate enough to find shelter with family or friends. Nonetheless society is being forced to figure out what to do with these homeless people. Some believe it is society's problem to take care of these homeless people. Others believe they are responsible for their ...
Homeopathy and women
Homeopathy and women Homeopathy and Women Over the course of the past several decades feminist scholars, in company with medical historians, have developed a sophisticated framework for identifying the ways in which Western medicine, as a system of social control, tends to reproduce and legitimate the construction of gender in the wider society. Wielded by physicians holding positions of power, the notion that "anatomy is destiny" can become a potent ideological weapon, labelling action...
History of the Original Teddy
History of the Original Teddy Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, then to rank with those poor spirits who niether suffer much nor enjoy much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. [sic] The creation of the original teddy bear which is regarded as the perennial toy of the twentieth century complies with this philosophy. Firstly, though, what denotes a toy? The most common defen...
History of the hot dog
History of the hot dog History of the Hot Dog Sausage is one of the oldest forms of processed food, having been mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as far back as the 9th Century B.C. Fraunken-au-main, Germany, is traditionally credited with orginating the frankfurter. However, this claim is disputed by those who believe that the popular sausage-known as a "dachshund" or "little-dog" sausage-was created in the late 1600's by Johann Georghehner, a butcher, living in Coburg, Germany. Reportedl...
Hobbes and Sovereignty
Hobbes and Sovereignty HOBBES AND SOVEREIGNTY All throughout history, man has struggled to try to understand society, and looked for a way in which to improve it. This has invoked many philosophers to contemplate the formation and legitimacy of government. One such philosopher was Thomas Hobbes, who went into great depth and detail on this subject of politics, in his incredible works The Leviathan. In this piece of literature, Hobbes describes a natural world that is void of any form...
Hobbes philosophy
Hobbes philosophy Born during a period of medieval philosophy, Thomas Hobbes developed a new way of thinking. He perfected his moral and political theories in his controversial book Leviathan, written in 1651. In his introduction, Hobbes describes the state of nature as an organism analogous to a large person (p.42). He advises that people should look into themselves to see the nature of humanity. In his quote, � The passions that incline men to peace, are fear of death; desire of such thi...
Hockey
Hockey .vs. Football Hockey .vs. Football (Comparative Essay) Football and hockey are two sports, which are similar in objective, but very different in their rules and guidelines. In each of these major sports there are rules and guidelines that the players must follow. The topics that will be covered are the weight differences between the players in football and hockey, the use of Creatine Monohydrate, and last the equipment restrictions. This first paragraph will discuss the weight...
Hockey
Hockey The fastest of all team sports, ice hockey has been described as a combination of "blood, sweat, and beauty." Stiffer penalties have not discouraged the players from using their basic equipment of sticks and skates as weapons, and this brutality has diminished the abstract beauty of the sport. Even though the game consists of a lot of fighting it is still the greatest sport ever made. Even without the violence, ice hockey is a rugged game that demands strong conditioned athletes...
Hindu scriptures
Hindu scriptures Hindu Scriptures are classified into: Shruti (meaning "heard"), Smriti (meaning "remembered"), and Nyaya (meaning "logic"). These classifications are based on the origin of the Scripture. Shruti scripture is thought of as something which was heard directly from God, while Smriti scripture refers to what was written down and remembered. Shruti is considered more authoritative since it was obtained straight from God. The Vedas are shruti. The rest of Hindu scripture is k...