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The Bermuda Triangle: Myth or Mystery?, 2004.
Discusses the different theories about the Bermuda Triangle and the disappearances that have occurred there.
1,380 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper discusses some of the strange disappearances that have taken place in the geographic area known as the Bermuda Triangle and explores the different theories that have been asserted to explain these disappearances.
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"A variety of grim nicknames have been used to describe this area of the Atlantic Ocean over the past forty years, such as: the Devil?s Triangle, the Hoodoo Sea and the Limbo of the Lost. The most commonly used name, the Bermuda Triangle, was coined by researcher and author Vincent Gaddis in 1964 in his article, ?The Deadly Bermuda Triangle?."
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The Bermuda Triangle, 2002.
A discussion surrounding the mystery of the feared Bermuda Triangle.
4,085 words (approx. 16.3 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 110.95
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This paper presents a geographical explanation of the Bermuda Triangle. It then examines the history of this mystery and mentions several disasters or unexplained events that have happened in the skies and waters of this area. The paper also discusses the literature available on these mysteries and the form of documentation.
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"The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the Caribbean believed to contain some mystery which causes ships and planes to disappear at a higher rate than in other regions of the globe. The idea of a Bermuda Triangle is of relatively recent origin, though researchers have identified many disappearances from the area dating back centuries. The greatest part of the mystery is the question of whether there is a mystery at all, for many scientists state that the rate of disappearances in the region is no any higher than in other similar areas and that there is no reason for the speculation about everything from satanic influences to extraterrestrials in the area. Both sides of the question will be considered here."
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Bermuda Triangle, 2005.
A discussion on whether the Bermuda Triangle can be considered a 'triangle of death' or a gateway to new life.
3,478 words (approx. 13.9 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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This paper aims to prove that the disappearance of all ships and planes over the Bermuda Triangle immediately suggests the presence of paranormal activities. Thus, it is impossible for anything, or anybody, that has ever crossed the Triangle to disappear without leaving any trace behind without there being some paranormal dimension to the question. After convincing the non-scientist reader that the activities that have occurred within the Triangle are paranormal, it seeks to convince them of scientific evidence that argues the Triangle to be a gateway to a different world.
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"Since the disappearance of Flight 19, more than 100 ships and planes crossing the Bermuda Triangle, an area of sea close to the Bermuda Islands in the Pacific, have met with a similar fate, without a single body or a piece of wreckage ever being found (Berlitz 1). In 26 years, 1000 people crossed the Triangle and all vanished (Berlitz 1). As a result, very thorough studies and researches have been carried out into the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, in the hope of finding a scientific answer to the disappearances of all those who have ever crossed the Bermuda Triangle."
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Bermuda Triangle, 1994.
An argument that the disappearances of ships and planes in the Atlantic Ocean region are not caused by paranormal interference.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 47.95
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"The area of the Atlantic Ocean designated The Bermuda Triangle is so named because one of its corner points is the island of Bermuda. The Devil's Triangle, a popular alternative name for the area, has been examined extensively by journalists and filmmakers seeking either an insight into paranormal happenings attributed to the region or in need of a quick story to legitimize tax deduction expenses claimed for vacation trips to the locale. In either event, the stories abound. By the same token, the proliferation of stories means that Bermuda Triangle mysteries represent a small cottage industry wherein fact and fabrication are often inextricably melded. Are there natural explanations for the many ships and planes lost in the Bermuda Triangle, or are paranormal activities in evidence here? This paper will refute the claims to paranormal interference in human..."
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Japan's Dragon Triangle, 2008.
An analysis of how one might go about solving the mysteries of Japan's Golden Triangle.
1,412 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper examines the claims that sea vessels have been recorded missing in Japan's Dragon Triangle for more than 3000 years and how a series of unexplainable events, which are beyond the powers of us mere mortals to create, has led to the development of sensational theories, some of which have even found their way into the folk lore of the Japanese people. The paper then uses the formula presented in Theodre Schick and Lewis Vaughn's book, "How to Think about Weird Things", to try to shed some light on this phenomena. The paper claims that by using the tool provided by Schick and Vaughn, we might derive some logical conclusions and help clear the myths relating to such mysteries.
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State the Claim
Examine the Evidence for the Claim
Consider Alternative Hypothesis
Rate, According to the Criteria of Adequacy, Each Hypothesis
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"Stating the claim is inevitable, as without stating any claim it would be impossible to examine its relevance and credibility. So it is absolutely necessary to state the claim clearly and specifically. Claims which are vague tend to mislead people and draw them away from the real purpose. In our case, of the dragon triangle, it is claimed that: Ships/ Sea vessels have been recorded missing in the triangle for more than 3000 years, huge unexpected waves, seaquakes, whirlpools and sudden change in climate, malfunction of navigational equipments such as compass deviation, non-function of radios and loss of control of vessels so on and so forth."
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Mysteries of the World, 2001.
A look at three of the mysteries of the world - Loch Ness, Big Foot and the Bermuda Triangle.
778 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 2 sources, $ 27.95
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A short paper which briefly describes the background to these myths, how they first came about and what their current status is today. It examines what type of person believes in these myths and asks whether these will ever be solved.
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" Mystery and the study of the unknown has always fascinated people. The search for truth in the "inconceivable" has led to many controversies. Some believe in the "supernatural", while others simply do not. Both types of people obviously have their own reasoning for believing or disbelieving in it. There are numerous world famous mysteries that are still controversial and remain "unsolved" to this day. Some of these mysteries include the Loch Ness monster, the Abominable Snowman, and Big Foot."
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The Devil's Triangle, 2004.
A look at the mystery surrounding the Devil's Triangle, a triangular area of ocean located off the southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida.
1,215 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper is about the Devil's Triangle, a mysterious triangle of ocean associated with the disappearances of many ships, planes, and small boats. The paper describes records showing that over 1,000 vessels have inexplicably been lost in this area of ocean and highlights some of the more recent ships and planes that have disappeared there. The paper also looks at the the explanation given by scientists for these disappearances and points out that none of these explanations fully accounts for all the losses.
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"Some scientists believe that violent, unexpected storms or downward air currents destroyed the ships and planes. Swift ocean currents may then have swept the wreckage far from where the craft disappeared. Hurricanes, extreme storms, and violent seas are considered the main killers in this area of the world, but it remains unexplained how over the past 100 years, more than 1000 ships have vanished without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle. Each incident occurred without any warnings, distress calls, or even leaving signs of ship wreckage. Berlitz (1974) has reported that since 1945, over 100 ships and aircraft all carrying over 1,000 people have mysteriously disappeared while traveling within the area of the Triangle. His writings include reports of strangely spinning compasses and unexplained electrical failures aboard ships and planes crossing the triangle. Those who have traveled through this part of the Atlantic have noted great waterspouts and baffling stretches of ?white water?. This activity can be documented as far back as Christopher Columbus in the late 16th century."
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"The Big Bow Mystery" - A Locked Room Puzzle., 2002.
An analysis of Israel Zangwill's mystery novel "The Big Bow Mystery".
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, $ 62.95
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This paper dissects Israel Zangwill's mystery novel The Big Bow Mystery and analyzes it in terms of other mystery-novel standards: logical consistency, character evenness, and distraction (e.g. "red herrings"). It concludes that although the novel also functions as a critique of Victorian society, the novel itself has great worth as a mystery due to its supreme internal consistency, hard to achieve in the "locked room" subgenre.
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"Pride and Prejudice": A Mystery Novel, 1996.
An analysis of the element of mystery in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice".
1,958 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper reviews Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice" with an emphasis on how the element of mystery in it serves to give depth and development to the characters. It examines how the related mysteries of "Pride and Prejudice" are the Wickham-Darcy relationship and the "mystery of character." It is no mystery from the beginning that Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy are fated to be together, the mystery is their feelings and motivations and their characters, as they evolve and are revealed throughout the novel. It shows how, like many a mystery novelist, Austen leaves ample clues from which the reader could discern that all is not what it seems, which seem obvious only on a second reading.
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"There are two central and intertwined mysteries in the novel: the traditional mystery of Wickham?s relationship to Darcy, and the more subtle mystery of Darcy?s (and Elizabeth?s) true character. The author?s treatment of the Wickham mystery is not that of the conventional mystery story, as a modern reader might understand it. The clues Austen gives are not material to the direct verification of one side?s or the other?s story, but to the respectability and trustworthiness of Wickham and Darcy. We are not given, for example, accounts of Wickham?s behavior in London while he is pretending to study law. It is only through an understanding of the two men?s characters that we discover the truth of their relationship."
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?The Mystery of Edwin Drood?, 2002.
Discusses the mystery element in Charles Dickens' novel.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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One of the mysteries of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is the question that lies at the heart of all mysteries ? Whodunnit? But there is another, at least as compelling question at the heart of this mystery, which is: How did author Charles Dickens intend for this novel to end? And, why does this unfinished novel read so very much like a finished novel? The paper shows that despite the fact that the story is often performed by theater companies that allow the audience to guess what the intended ending might have been ? thus emphasizing the unfinished nature of the book ? the novel itself seems oddly complete. This paper proposes one possible solution to the unfinished novel ? one that is consonant with the tone and intent of what Dickens himself wrote.
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"This improvised ending takes up where Dickens laid down his pen and assumes ? as do many of the proposed endings to this novel ? that Edwin is not really dead. To understand why this is the logical solution, we must go back in time to John Jasper?s Christmas Eve party. During this party, Neville finds his antagonism toward Edwin diminishing because of Edwin?s own friendliness and disarming openness to Neville. They are also drawn together by the fact that each of them believes that there is something peculiar about Jasper: Their increasing distrust of him draws the two of them together."
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Mystery Literature, 2004.
This paper reviews two children?s mysteries: ?The Shore Road Mystery? from Franklin W. Dixon's Hardy Boys series and ?Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog? from Donald J. Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown series.
2,160 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper explains that the Hardy Boys, in 1964, in ?The Shore Road Mystery" are mere boys who can think like crafty adults, can go out and challenge crooks and thieves, and find a farmhouse to call for help with just old-fashioned land-based phones. The author points out that a young man learns that hard work and perseverance plus brainpower and the use of good instincts lead to success, even for kids. The paper relates that ?Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog? leaves the reader wondering how a seemingly normal kid named Encyclopedia Brown could come up with this kind of skullduggery and carry it off.
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"The irony here is that Chet is on a research mission seeking information about car thieves, a felony crime that any kid could think about, but few could actually follow through. Still, he can?t keep his hands out of the cake Aunt Gertrude gave him to deliver. A reader learns here that young men are always young men in most predictable respects (in this case, Chet is tempted by chocolate cake, and can?t keep his hands off the cake notwithstanding the promise to deliver it); but in other areas, Chet is acting more like being a criminal investigator than a green-behind-the-ears / snot-nosed kid who can?t keep his fingers out of a chocolate cake."
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Mystery Religions, 2004.
This paper examines how the mystery religions have influenced Christianity.
2,260 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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In this article, the writer discusses how the mystery religions influenced the religion of Christianity. The writer explores a number of the ancient mystery religions. The secret rituals of these mystery religions as well as their similarities are discussed. Most importantly, the writer examines the impact of these religions on Christianity and discusses why they are no longer practiced.
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"By the end of the first century small communities of Christians could be found in many of places in the Greco-Roman world. According to Jeffrey Sheler, writing for U.S. News World Report as the movement expanded during the second and third centuries, it proved to be anything but simple to deliver a consistent message. The early Christian church was torn by persecution and internal division as Christians struggled to understand and apply the meaning of Jesus' life, death and resurrection in the religious ... "
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Edgar Allan Poe?s ?Mystery Man?, 2002.
An examination of the mysteries surrounding Edgar Allan Poe's strange graveyard character in ?Mystery Man?.
2,405 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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This paper examines the mysterious visitor who pays tribute to Edgar Allan Poe at his grave in Westminster Churchyard in Baltimore, Maryland.
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"Within the weathered brick walls of Westminster Churchyard, at the corner of Fayette and Greene Streets in Baltimore, Maryland, a cold marble shrine marks the final resting place of a tormented soul. 1 In life, he was haunted by torturing memories--memories of wrong and injustice and imputed dishonor and from a sense of some strange, impending doom. In death, his memory endures in the hearts of those who still honor his great literary genius as a poet who eternally searched for supernal beauty in a world filled with poverty and abandonment and produced some of the world's finest tales of the macabre and the supernatural"".
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The Pascal's Triangle, 2004.
This paper discusses the life of Blaise Pascal and Pascal's Triangle.
1,210 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 41.95
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This paper explains that the mathematical formula known as "Pascal's Triangle" was simultaneously discovered centuries before Pascal by the Chinese and the Persians; it was even mentioned by Omar Khayyam centuries before Pascal. Pascal, however, one of the world's most famous mathematicians, was the first "modern" mathematician to realize the true potential of the formula and apply it. The author points out that Pascal's Triangle contributed to the understanding of probabilities, which led to the development of "average gain" or "probable gain" formulas that are still used extensively in business and industry. The paper relates that there is one problem with Pascal's formula: as the numbers increase, the triangle takes much longer to solve, and the formula becomes ungainly, but mathematicians have learned to cope with the formula and have created alternates that let them work with the numbers more effectively. Formula included.
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"The mathematical formula known as "Pascal's Triangle" has long been attributed to the great mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal, who lived in France during the 17th century. Pascal only lived to be thirty-nine years old, but during his lifetime, he made significant achievements in mathematics and philosophy, and may be most well known for the mathematical formula of Pascal's Triangle, which he did not invent, but has long received credit for inventing. Pascal was a bright child, who created the first known type of automatic calculator at the age of nineteen, and invented the modern-day barometer before he turned thirty-one."
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The Rhetorical Triangle, 2008.
This paper explains the application of the rhetorical triangle in the writing of argumentative essays.
840 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 29.95
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The paper discusses the function and significance of the rhetorical triangle's three elements: ethos, logos and pathos. The paper also shows how a well-rounded argument is not possible unless each of these components is in place. Moreover, the paper emphasizes how if a writer is not mindful of the rhetorical triangle, his or her efforts to influence others is usually doomed to failure.
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"The Rhetorical Triangle or Aristotelian Triad is often misunderstood by students for no other reason than they are not used to applying it when writing argumentative essays. Be that as it may, it is important to understand how to use the Rhetorical Triangle and each of its component parts for no other reason than that, if you cannot, someone who is arguing against you might be able to do so - and that could lead to their ideas, and not yours, gaining pre-eminence. To start with, the Rhetorical Triangle has three parts - the ethos, the logos, and the pathos. The first element is basically how the writer presents him or herself: does he or she engage in "cheapshots?" Is the writer well-informed and balanced in his/her assessment of the topic? Is there an effort to establish a "common ground" with the reader? "
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