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Doctor's in France say they have performed the world's first partial face implant.  Forging into a risky medical frontier with the surgery which was performed on a 38 year old woman.  The 38 year old women was disfigured by a dog, she had a nose, lips, and chin grafted onto her face from a brain dead donor who's family gave ...

This semester has been a great one for me!  I am an elementary education major and i have been able to begin taking some of my intro classes.  This semester i took Intro to Education and Intro to Educational Technology, these have been two of my favorite classes i have taking thus far in college.  For intro to ed. we had to observe ...

I ran across this article when reading my local newspaper and found it very pleasing.  The UN presented a cheap laptop at the world summit held in tunis, tunisia.  The laptop design was produced by MIT media, now they are seeking out a company to actually build more of them at a apporximate cost of $110.00, at least five companies have ...

My paper addresses the social injustice of on campus parking security.  Throughout the month of October and on through November, numerous cars have been vandalized or broken into on campus.  I have found though that this is a reoccuring problem.  I did extenisive research and found info on the police department website and the ...

A Carolina Panthers cheerleader and another woman claiming to be her teammate were arrested for a nightclub incident after they had sex in a restroom stall early Sunday, police said.  One was charged with battery, the other disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.  The incident at Channelside began about 11 hours before the Panthers ...

Chapter 15 in writing arguments talks about proposal arguments.  Proposal aruguments are a call to action.  The audience is asked to make a decision and then act on it.  Proposal arguments are sometimes called should or ought arguments because those helping verbs express the obligation to act.  There are two kinds of proposal ...

A primer on conspiracy law covered about the first hour of the government's closing argument Monday morning in the terror-support trial of Sami Al-Arian and three other men.  First, jurors got a reminder of what the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the group the men are accused of helping to operate and finance, is all about.  Prosecutors ...

The project we are currently working on i have found to be alot easier then the last and more interesting.  I have gained a whole new perspective on the topic i chose which is abortion.  In my paper i am arguing for restrictions to be placed on abortion instead of banning it all together.  I think for the sake of womens rights ...

When is FEMA ever going to learn how to respond to Hurricanes.  Although we have not been directly impacted by any hurricanes in the Tampa Bay area i feel the pain of those that have.  It has covered the news after every hurricane that FEMA's response has been bad.  You would think that FEMA would be better prepared for the ...

Chapter 10 in the Penquin Handbook: Writing to Persuade is a great source for the project we are starting.  The first section of the chapter covers Finding an arguable topic.  If you think long enough on a particuarly topic you can come up with an argument.  You can argue about various topics.  Some topics are better when it ...