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  • Controlling the Youth

    Controlling the Youth

    Cecil Beaton once said “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” People are slaves to the society they live in. They conform unconsciously to the norms of their society, never questioning the views of those who have more authority or popularity. This is how we have been brought up. I don’t care

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Gun Control

    Gun Control

    Guns, to many people are considered to be bad things. In actuality the gun has never killed anyone, but it has been the person pulling the trigger. Our right to own guns separates us from an oppressive government. Many people also believe that if gun control laws were put into place than there would be less crime. This is completely absurd, because statistics have proven that where there is gun control there is more

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Vika
  • Drug Abuse in Teenagers

    Drug Abuse in Teenagers

    Drug Abuse in Teenagers Teenage drug abuse exists in the United States and worldwide. Drug abuse is costly to our society as a whole but is especially to our youth. One of the best ways to combat the drug use among teenagers is to begin prevention efforts before young teen start using drugs. In addition, effective programs are required to a combined effort from the schools, the community, and most important from our own family.

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Top
  • Seepage Control in Earthen Dams

    Seepage Control in Earthen Dams

    Most dams in active use today exhibit seepage of one form or another. The location, rate of flow, and turbidity (clear or murky) are the critical factors when evaluating the seriousness of seepage from a dam. Seepage is the continuous movement of water from the upstream face of the dam toward its downstream face, and is a major minor problem when it comes to the life span of dams and embankments. It is a major

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Gun Control

    Gun Control

    Over half of America’s households own a firearm, which does not include, the number of Americans that own firearms illegally. Although new technology for weaponry has advanced over the years such as, fingerprint recognition, and computerized sensors on the grip of the firearm also prevent anyone but the owner of the weapon to fire it. The critics of this new technology say “Some might believe that their weapon is now childproof and could leave

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    Essay Length: 332 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Products, Services, and Prices in the Free Market Economy

    Products, Services, and Prices in the Free Market Economy

    Products, Services, and Prices in the Free Market Economy MBA/501 Dr. Ellen Szarleta-Instructor September 02, 2006 Products, Services, and Prices in the Free Market Economy Introduction Wabtec Corporation which is formally known as Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies manufacturers braking equipment and other parts for locomotives, freight cars, and passenger railcars. For the fiscal year ending December 2005 the company generated revenues of $1 Billion dollars, an increase 25.8% of over the previous fiscal year

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Why Hackers Do the Things They Do? - Causal Argument

    Why Hackers Do the Things They Do? - Causal Argument

    Why Hackers Do The Things They Do? Hackers. You know them as gangly kids with radiation tans caused by too many late nights in front of a computer screen. Evil beings who have the power to wipe out your credit rating, cancel your cable TV, raise your insurance premiums, and raid your social security pension. Individuals who always avert their eyes and mumble under their breath about black helicopters and CIA transmissions. Paranoid, social deviants

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • High Blood Pressure Can Be Controlled Through Healthy Eating

    High Blood Pressure Can Be Controlled Through Healthy Eating

    As blood flows through the body, it exerts stress on blood vessel walls; creating an effect known as blood pressure. Blood pressure is measured by “the force in the arteries when the heart beats (systolic pressure) and when the heart is at rest (diastolic pressure)” (American Heart Association [AHA], 2008, para. 1). An average healthy adult’s blood pressure has a measurement of 120 over 80 or less (AHA, 2008, para. 3). “High blood pressure (also

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Controlling Reproduction - Using Reproductive Hormones to Alter Human Fertility

    Controlling Reproduction - Using Reproductive Hormones to Alter Human Fertility

    Controlling Reproduction – Using reproductive hormones to alter human fertility. Fertility is the capability to produce offspring therefore infertility is the incapability to produce offspring. Infertility can arise in both males and females and can be acquired through inheritance or psychological problems. In men infertility can come by failing to gain or maintain an erection, a low sperm count or vas deferens; a blockage or structural defect which can obstruct sperm movement. In women it

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Legalize Drugs

    Legalize Drugs

    The question of whether to legalize drugs or not is a very controversial and important issue. Drugs affect so many areas of society. "The U.S. population has an extremely high rate of alcohol and drug abuse" (Grolier). Several groups have formed and spoken out regarding their position. "Speaking Out Against Drug Legalization is the first step in helping to deliver the credible, consistent message about the risks and costs of the legalization of drugs to

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Jon
  • Theories of Deviance Applied to Drug Use

    Theories of Deviance Applied to Drug Use

    Theories of Deviance Applied to Drug Use Since the dawn of society there have been people whose behavior differed from the rest of society. There are many different theories and perspectives on why people do things like abuse drugs, and although we my never have all the answers, sociology still help us to understand the problem better. In order to understand the theories of deviance, and apply them to drug use in our society one

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Argument of Hegemony

    Argument of Hegemony

    Question: In his development of the concept of hegemony, Gramsci is concerned to investigate, among other things, how a dominant class wins free consent of a subordinate class. Using his analysis, write an essay on how patriarchy might establish hegemony. Use no more than two religious traditions to provide concrete illustrations of your argument. In order to understand Gramsci and the concept of hegemony, one has to look briefly at the work of Karl Marx.

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Bred
  • Managerial Finance Drug Industry

    Managerial Finance Drug Industry

    ROE = Net Income /Shareholder’s Equity Managerial Finance Spring 2008 January 11, 2008 Rico Spencer Financial Ratio and Analysis of Walgreens Company and Rite Aid Corporation 2005, 2006, 2007 1. Introduction Needless to say, a large percentage of the drugstore industry sales are driven by prescription sales. As the number of aging increases, the necessity for more drugstores will also increase. The drugstore industry has become increasingly competitive over the past decade. Not only do

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Boarder Control

    Boarder Control

    Immigration Control Immigration in America has become a major problem now and days. Immigration from other countries is becoming more and more popular due to the demand of coming to America and starting a new life making more money than in there own country. Immigration-border control has been slacking which is allowing more and more illegal immigrants in our country. Not only allowing more and more illegal immigrants but are also allowing terrorist, drug runners,

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Mike
  • States' Arguments Against a Central Government

    States' Arguments Against a Central Government

    This four-page undergraduate paper discusses the opposition that American leaders encountered after the Revolution, as a result of deciding to form a central government. The states feared that such a government would suppress them and would interfere with their internal affairs. Consequently, heated debates and uprisings characterize this period, which started with the framing of Articles in 1777 and ended with the final adoption of the United States constitution in 1787. STATES’ ARGUMENTS AGAINST A

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Another Abortion Paper - Birth Control or Legal Murder?

    Another Abortion Paper - Birth Control or Legal Murder?

    Another Abortion Paper Birth Control or Legal Murder? Approximately 1.6 million murders are committed legally each year. With the exception of laws in few states, the mutilated bodies of the victims are thrown into dumpsters like pieces of rotten meat. While these victims lay waiting in the infested dumpsters to be hauled off to a landfill, the murderers are in their offices waiting for their next patient--the accomplice to the murder. This is the murder

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: David
  • Oxycontin: Drug of Miracle or Menace?

    Oxycontin: Drug of Miracle or Menace?

    Oxycontin: Drug of Miracle or Menace? In December of 1995 something was introduced in the medical field that, along with turning the field around, would cause more controversy and bickering than any previous drug. OxyContin, also known as OC’s, Oxy’s and Hillbilly Heroin, is a potentially powerful painkiller that is normally used for terminally ill patients in extreme pain, such as cancer patients. OxyContin: Is it a savior or killer? The recent deaths from the

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Monika
  • Why Volumes, Prices, and Margins Vary over the Product Life Cycle?

    Why Volumes, Prices, and Margins Vary over the Product Life Cycle?

    Why do volumes, prices, and margins vary over the product life cycle? Can you provide an example? The same factors that are the key to reaching maximum market potential Awareness, Availability, Ability to Use, Benefit Deficiency, and Affordability. Take the release of both Apples’ iPod and iPhone, both of these products had great pre-release awareness, during the pre-release a lot of people learned from reading press releases and other media how to use them.

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    Essay Length: 440 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Drug Abuse

    Drug Abuse

    The illegal or harmful use of drugs is a major threat to the world and to future generations. Drugs are substances that are becoming more common in our communities as each day goes by. The demand for drugs is also increasing daily. People need to act and play a part in the combating of drugs starting in their own homes. Every individual needs to be aware of the consequences of drug abuse and to help

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Edward
  • Against the Legalization of Drugs

    Against the Legalization of Drugs

    Drug legalization or decriminalization is opposed by a vast majority of Americans and people around the world. Leaders in drug prevention, education, treatment, and law enforcement adamantly oppose it, as do many political leaders. However, pro-drug advocacy groups, who support the permissive use of illicit drugs are making headlines. The legalization of drugs would make harmful and addictive substances affordable, available, convenient, and marketable. It would expand the use of drugs. It would remove the

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Flaning in a Price War

    Flaning in a Price War

    Flanking in a Price War Article Main Points Summary The article begins by giving a brief analysis of a study that was conducted in Quebec in the early 1980's involving the grocery industry. It discusses a point of time before the leader in market share, Steinberg, Inc., initiated a price war. One of the authors of the article, Roger J Calantone, was involved in an experiment with one of the smaller grocery chains, IGA. The

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: regina
  • Drugs in Sport

    Drugs in Sport

    ABSTRACT The use of performance enhancing drugs is a form of cheating that is quite widespread and common in today’s modern sports. Doping in sport refers to the use of prohibited substances that may give an athlete an artificially improvement in their natural ability over other competitors. The fundamental principals of fair play and sporting ethics are violated. Highly skilled athletes are not rewarded for hard work but instead those associated with banned substances are

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Steve
  • Due Process Versus Crime Control

    Due Process Versus Crime Control

    In our democratic society both public policing and private security are very important entities. Both entities seem very alike from the outside looking in but their roles and responsibilities are very distinguished. Public policing can be defined as, “The arrangements made in all civilized countries to ensure that the inhabitants keep the peace and obey the law” (Schmalleger, 1995). The primary objective is prevention of crime. Most of their work could be considered a peacekeeping

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Victor
  • Low Pricing Strategy

    Low Pricing Strategy

    Executive Summary The IKEA Group, one of the world’s top furniture retailers, has emerged as the fastest-growing furniture retailer in the US. To become one of the leading furniture retailers in such huge and promising market, it has set an ambitious goal to have 50 stores around the US by 2013. IKEA has 4 branches in Los Angeles alone. From 1997 to 2001, the revenues of IKEA doubled from $66 million to $1.27 billion in

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Mike
  • Teen Drug Addiction

    Teen Drug Addiction

    Teen Drug Addiction We all heard and read a lot about drug abuse. Although there are many organizations in the whole world trying to fight with this problem, the amount of dependent is increasing every year. In my native country, in Belarus, it became the biggest social problem because it started to affect teenagers. This problem is discussing very often in the schools and colleges. People are trying to figure out the causes of this

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Vika