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    Lesson from Titanic

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    Report: Lessons from the Titanic Adapted from Causes and Effects of the Rapid Sinking of the Titanic by Vicki Bassett (http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/uer/bassett.html) Date: 12 January 2012 Word count: 2802 Abstract This article discusses the material failures and design flaws that contributed to the rapid sinking of the Titanic‚ which collided with a massive iceberg in 1912 while on her maiden voyage from England to the United States. There were 2200 passengers

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    Lessons from “FEARLESS

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    Lessons from “FEARLESS” the Adam Brown Story. 1. We all have strengths and weaknesses. 2. Choose your friends wisely! 3. To overcome your weaknesses‚ you must first accept the fact that you have one and not be in denial‚ and deal with that fact first. 4. When you’re wrong own up to it! Talk is cheap. Back up your apology with action that says you realize what you did was wrong and you know it. Don’t keep making the same mistake over and over. Ask for foregiveness. 5. You must give it

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    The Amish Culture

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    The Amish Culture The Amish are a fascinating people. They live surrounded by cities full of technology. Yet they live without automobiles‚ electricity‚ and most modern comforts that are taken for granted by many. Donald Kraybill asks the question “How is it that a tradition-laden people who spurn electricity‚ computers‚ automobiles‚ and higher education are not merely surviving but are‚ in fact‚ thriving in the midst of modern life?” Though they do not have all of the technology that we

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    Lessons From Nature

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    Lessons from Nature Scientists are always trying to find more effective ways of making high performance materials with minimum consumption of energy and resources‚ minimum waste production and‚ of course‚ maximum functionality. In other words‚ they are trying to make materials that are economically viable‚ environmentally friendly and versatile. Living organisms are examples of design that consume the least amount of energy and materials. They are designed strictly for function‚ yet they excel

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    Amish Essay

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    The old order Amish are an Anabaptist culture. This means the Amish believed in adult baptism instead of infant baptism like many other religions. According to Greska‚ there was a book found in many Amish homes describing how hundreds of Amish were brutally executed for their religious beliefs. Around 1693 the Amish separated themselves from the Mennonites because the Mennonites believed in shunning excommunicated members of the church. After the separation‚ the Amish traveled throughout many German

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    Ethnography of Amish

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    Ethnography of the Amish Jason Fawks Mentor: Dr. Charles Jarvis Module 3A Ethnographic Paper July 2012 Introduction With the modernization of a large part of the world during the 20th century‚ almost all people‚ except for third world countries‚ have moved from an agrarian society to an industrialized one. There is one group of people‚ known as the Amish‚ who for religious and faith

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    recent decades that there is increasing appreciation of his service and sacrifice in uplifting the masses. Jotirao Phule was born in 1827. His father‚ Govindrao was a vegetable-vendor at Poona. Originally Jotirao’s family known as Gorhays‚ came from Katgun‚ a village in the Satara district of Maharashtra‚ His grandfather Shetiba Gorhay settled down in Poona. Since Jotirao’s father and two uncles served as florists under the last of the Peshwas‚ they came to be known as `Phule’. Jotirao’s mother

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    The Amish Subculture

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    Crime and Justice through eyes of the Amish 200 miles away from New York lays another world – one that is frozen in time. Home for a people whose lives have barely changed since their forefathers settled there over 300 years ago. Since then the Amish community has spread across 28 states and has more than one hundred an eighty thousand members. Worlds apart from mainstream culture‚ the Amish is oppose to many aspects of modern world‚ e.g. use of modern technology such as computers or cars. Even

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    Amish Culture Essay

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    It is fact that the Amish culture is dominated by males‚ men are seen as more important than women; males traditionally being the leaders of the community. Men in the Amish culture are heads of the church‚ head of their family‚ are held responsible for the decisions and welfare of their family and are passed down family farms from generation to generation. In the Amish culture‚ females are expected to traditionally accept their role to marry and be a farmwife‚ when Amish women marry they are agreeing

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    Amish Culture

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    The Amish‚ without their electricity‚ cars‚ and television appear to be a static culture‚ never changing. This is just an illusion. The Amish are a self-motivated culture which is‚ through market forces and other means‚ continually interacting with the enormously tempting culture of America. The Amish have not only survived as a gemeinschaft type of society‚ but has grown and flourished while surrounded by a culture that would seem to be so detrimental to its basic ideals. The Amish‚ through population

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