Searching Essays

  • Online Databases: Course Analysis

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    some databases they would search using several lines to get very specific, and on other data bases they were unable to search that specifically because that option was just not available. I always thought that all databases had a standard way of searching and that every database allowed people to search items in a set standard way that was the same for all search engines. The third thing I learned, which I believe is the most important an applicable to me, is that I should not use all my keywords

  • Chapter Eight Summary Of Chapter 8

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    The most important information from chapter eight is the process of gathering information from the Internet. The textbook claimed that “searching the web can be interesting, entertaining, frustrating, addicting, and educational”. This is because Internet information is available for us to access in an instant, but what comes from those searches might not be relevant or useful. The criteria that the textbook offered include asking for authority, publishing body, currency, and purpose. With authority

  • Mental Preparedness: Officer Roles During A Building Search

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    lack of blood flow to the extremities. Your ability to focus will decay. You must remain in control and have confidence in yourself. Always expect to find someone when you are searching a building. Officer roles during a building search Depending on the amount of officers available to search a building, before searching the building, Officers must choose who will be a contact officer and who will be a cover officer. Communication

  • Suspensions For High School Research Paper

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    First, many people and teachers say suspending students is a good thing, but sometimes couldn’t there be a better option? Although suspending students could be a good solution to a problem for a couple of days there could be a misunderstanding and a child could be punished without anybody knowing the story. School suspensions should be abolished for most occasions and other options should come into play to help the students, teachers and parents figure out the problem and the solution. If teachers

  • The Radical Political Philosophy Of Thomas Jefferson

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    While trying to gather resources for the bibliography, I employed various search terms and databases to find my sources and experienced problems along the way. To begin the process, I first tried to narrow down the three sources I wanted to use. I used Wake Tech’s libguides, specifically the academic search complete, the history reference center, and credo reference. To find “The Radical Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson,” I logged onto academic search complete and was directed to Ebsco host

  • Internal Conflict In Grendel

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    In the novel Grendel by John Gardner, Grendel’s largest internal conflict is whether or not he can overcome his predestined status of monster. Throughout the course of the story Grendel is influenced by both sides, human and beast, through the dragon and the Shaper. Although Grendel initially wants to align himself with the humans, no matter how he tries to communicate with them as an equal they will not accept his company, causing him to become lonely and angry. Grendel’s anger turns to violence

  • Essay On Searching For Summer

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    Searching for Summer by Joan Aiken, is a tale of a dim-light world, due to the drop of an atomic bomb. People are on the hunt for a glistening of sunlight all through the lands, though none have any luck. People in this world take so many luxuries for granted, and this story peeks into the idea of this. In this futuristic novel, Tom and Lily, which are two newlyweds, that are going on the search to feel the warmth of the sun on their pale faces, run across a man greedy for the sun, then a blind man

  • Setting In 'Searching For Summer And The Interlopers'

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    characters. The first story is Saki’s “The Interlopers”, in which Georg Znaeyn and Ulrich Von Gradwitz are involved in a decade long feud over a forest. One night they are trying to kill each other, but a storm gets in their way. In the second story, “Searching for Summer” by Joan Aiken, the sun cannot be seen after the nuclear war, so Tom and Lily go looking for the sun. Another example is “The Californian’s Tale” by Mark Twain, in which a traveler is crossing an abandoned Californian

  • Definition Essay On Book Searching

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    Something that I think about a lot is searching for books. Not necessarily finding a book to read, but the process of searching for one in a bookstore, online, in the library, or any other place one may go to find a book. The amount of variety and uncertainty that I observe in people when they go to search for a book is fascinating. It seems to me that most people don’t know what they are searching for when they go book hunting; and those that do know what they are looking for rarely leave with what

  • Searching For Bobby Character Analysis

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    Searching for Bobby Fischer: In the movie “Searching for Bobby Fischer” the main character, Josh W. turns out to be a great chess player. At the beginning, Josh sees a man playing chess at Washington square and teaches himself to play. His father realizes how good of a chess player he is, tries to find opponents for him to go against and a teacher to help him. Bruise, his new teacher, says that Josh could be the next Bobby Fischer. Josh enters a tournament and wins and goes on to win all of his next

  • Rita Arditti's Searching For Life

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    The readings for today consisted of the first three chapters of Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina by Rita Arditti and the article “Female Combatants and the Perpetration of Violence: Wartime Rape in the Sierra Leone Civil War” by Dara Kay Cohen. Both readings deal with atrocities of war, although from very different perspectives. In Searching for Life, we are introduced to the results of the instillation of a rightist regime in Argentina

  • Craigslist Quito: Searching For Property In Ecuador

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    Searching for Property in Ecuador To search for property in Ecuador, a good place to begin is online. The ubiquitous internet can render many choices for you, and there are a few good web sites where you can browse property in Ecuador. The great thing about these sites is that they publish both private and agency listings, so once you have narrowed down your choices, you can simply get in touch with the owner or the real estate agency so you can visit the property and then make your decision.

  • The Pros And Cons Of Border Searching

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    Some of the challenges face by the U.S Customs and borders protection agents attempting to secure the border is dealing with drug smugglers and the drug cartels they work for. This is in my opinion their biggest challenge because the drug cartel have come up with so many different ways to bring drug across the border from using people called mules so swallow the drugs and bring them across and putting them in all areas of car/trucks to bring into the U.S. like the wheel wells, inside the doors, seats

  • Persuasive Essay On Searching At Schools

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    Searches at Schools Schooling has changed from when you were taught in a single-room with one teacher. Our schools are no longer a safe place to learn. Other elements like illegal street drugs, knives, other sharp objects, and guns are entering our schools. Children along with teachers are being hurt at schools. Every time the news has a story about children being hurt or killed at school parents got upset. There have been so many stories about different schools nationwide where students and

  • Searching The Silver Trial Summary

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    The Ripper In “Searching the Silver Trial: Charles Van Onselen, Joe Silver, and Jack the Ripper” an article published in 2007 in Australasian Psychiatry, Robert Kaplan discusses the possibility of Joe Silver being Jack the Ripper with supporting evidence. Onselen’s investigation of the numerous brutal murders in Whitechapel, London, and Johannesburg supports that committed by the same murderer. Focused to Silver’s behaviors, suspicious profile of Silver, and evidence from criminal records. On the

  • Personal Narrative: Searching For Prim

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    I am currently trying to fall asleep in this cold and very uncomfortable tree. I can hear the pack of careers beneath me searching for a new prey. I 'm not worrying because I have my bow and they are too unskilled to climb this tree. I 'm glad I have the experience from hunting with you and my dad. I don 't know what I would have done without the skills you taught me. This has been hard but I promised Prim that I will try my hardest. I’m not going to give up, I can’t. I need to win for Prim, my mom

  • The Importance Of Searching In Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha

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    Have you found what you are searching for in life? Do you wish to find that? Some people let searching for themselves get in the way of enjoying life. For example, in the story ‘Siddhartha’ by Hermann Hesse, the main character Siddhartha lets searching for himself get in the way of what is important in his life which is his friends and family. Too much searching in life can get in the way of what you are looking for in life. Also, the simplest truths can be found right in front of you without a

  • Critical Analysis Of Searching For The Irresistible By Tomlinson

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    According to the Phi Delta Kappa article, “Searching for the Irresistible,” written by authors, Hilary Dack and Carol Ann Tomlinson, “Student engagement doesn't just happen. As much as teachers would like it if their own fascination with content were contagious for every student, it doesn't work that way. Engagement must be planned for. A teacher discovers what's engaging in the content and designs curriculum so students discover it too. The authors profile one teacher who searches for the irresistible

  • The Pros And Cons Of Seaward Searching

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    Around the world, oil organizations like Shell, pump oil from the world's outside layer, utilizing seaward oil stages as a part of our seas. There are roughly 241 stages or apparatuses in U.S. waters alone starting from 2015, and thousands more around the world. Seaward oil boring is a practice that is utilized everywhere throughout the world, to concentrate oil from the earth for worldwide utilization. In any case, such a lot of penetrating, pumping, refining, and dispatching of oil influences our

  • Searching For Love In Nicholas Sparks's The Wedding

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    spending time at home, not being a good husband and, not showing his love for his wife Jane. In this journal I will be explaining how Rennie is searching for the truth about what happened to her close friend Susan Reddick. Next, I will be giving examples of how Wilson was searching for loving in The Wedding. Lastly, I will be explaining how Jane was searching for