What’s the difference between myths and theories? Well that’s an easy question to answer isn’t it; myths involve fiction while theories involve facts‚ we should not make any parallels between science and superstition. There‚ we’ve answered the question‚ or have we? Although many people will agree that myth and theory are two totally different things‚ I would debate that the line between the two is much thinner than one would think. In fact in some cases the line is inexistent and myths make up theory
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Understanding wood Trees are in essence‚ plants that can be harvested. If most plants have a fairly short rotation time‚ measured in week or months‚ depending in what kind of soil they are growing or in which type of climate‚ trees are a bit more permanent. What we mostly use from a tree‚ it’s its trunk. Of course there are oils and resins‚ but wood would be by far the ‘ingredient’ we use the most from a tree. That trunk‚ stays upright for years and it gives the tree the possibility to constantly
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What is the difference between a Democracy and a Republic? Almost ALL of the social problems in this country are derived from the fact that Americans don’t even know what kind of government they have! If you are like most people‚ you think that the United States is a democracy. If you do‚ then you are wrong! Recite the pledge of allegiance. Notice that it says "...and to the republic for which it stands." Now open your copy of the constitution to Article IV‚ Section 4. (You do have a copy
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Historically‚ rich and powerful individuals with more authority have control of labeling what is not normal and what is deviant. Social norms‚ like laws‚ are created by the rich and powerful to protect their interest; so that they can socially construct deviance and crime to their advantage. The article Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women by Ayres Boswell and Joan Spade personifies this process. Specifically‚ Boswell and Spade analyze
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What is the difference between WAV and MP3? WAV is sound digitally sampled at a fixed rate and word size‚ e.g. 44 kHz 16-bit. The higher the sampling rate‚ the better high notes like cymbals will be reproduced. The highest frequency that can be encoded is half the sampling frequency. MP3 is a lossy compression format that can get up to 20x compression compared to WAV. The bitrate can be variable or fixed. Unless a low quality compression is selected‚ most people cannot tell the difference
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Initially faced with disgust and contempt by the indigenous peoples they conquered‚ the Amorites of ancient Mesopotamia were nonetheless able to bring about extraordinary societal change to the land between two rivers. Unbeknownst to themselves‚ the Amorites set the model for future land-hungry nomadic groups to follow. Notably‚ the Mongolians in the 13th century followed in the steps of the Amorites to realize a comparable demographic shift. Although both Amorites and Mongols alike were able to
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There is quite a few differences between the book and movie The Outsiders. The book is written by S.E. Hinton. We have been reading the outsiders and we were wondering which was better the movie or the book. The book and movie are both easy to relate to because Ponyboy is our age and most of the characters are young. I think the three characters are Sodapop‚Ponyboy‚and Two bit. In the book I pictured them as these tough looking kids but when I saw the movie they actually don’t look as tough as
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could attend the Athenian Popular Assembly and could vote as long as they showed up. As for public officers‚ a citizen with a certain level of wealth and is at least 30 years old could service for the community. Between the two systems of government‚ you can see some areas that are similar. The biggest was that both the Spartans and the Athenians did not have a single individual as ruler. The Spartans having two kings that came from separate royal families‚ and the Athenians had their democracy
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Phil McGraw once said “There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.” In both stories ‘Araby’ by James Joyce and‚ ‘A&P’ by John Updike‚ two very diverse young men feel they are in love with a girl whom they know very little about‚ and who do not notice them in a romantic way‚ then later in the stories they grasp insight that they do not love these girls. On thus journey of coming to realization that it is not love but infatuation‚ both young men face a series of struggles
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The Zeffirelli and Luhrmann versions of William Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ are similar in several ways. One way that they’re similar is at the beginning of Act I‚ scene i‚ Samson and Gregory are at the public place in Verona are talking. When they see the servants to the Montague’s walk by the Capulets servants‚ one of them bite their thumb at them. Another thing that is similar is when they draw their swords in the Zeffirelli version. In the Luhrmann version‚ they have guns that
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