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  • Child Abuse

    Child Abuse

    Child abuse is one of the biggest problems facing America today. Children whose parents abuse them often turn to a life of crime, or suffer physical or mental scars. In severe cases the child may even die. In Saint Louis a boy was attacked by a pack of dogs, after he had finished playing basketball at the local court. If his mother had reported him missing he may have been found in time to rescue

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    Essay Length: 1,624 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • Animal Testing: Pros and Cons

    Animal Testing: Pros and Cons

    Animal Testing Introduction The application of animals to test a large number of products from household compounds and cosmetics to Pharmaceutical products has been considered to be a normal strategy for many years. Laboratory animals are generally used in three primary fields: biomedical research, product security evaluation and education. (Animal Experiments) It has been estimated that approximately, 20 million animals are being used for testing and are killed annually; about 15 million of them are

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    Essay Length: 3,549 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • Alcoholism Research Paper

    Alcoholism Research Paper

    Alcoholism Research Paper One out of thirteen adults are considered to be an alcoholic or suffer from a drinking problem. Today, fourteen million Americans suffer from a disease that is caused by a combination of physiological, psychological, social, and genetic factors. Alcoholism is a developmental disease that progresses slowly over a number of years and is based on both the physical and emotional dependency on alcohol. In many cases it leads to brain damage and/or

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    Essay Length: 1,371 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • Aboriginal's and Racism in Australia

    Aboriginal's and Racism in Australia

    Australian society is made up of a wide variety of groups. These groups of people have different cultural traditions and economic and social background. The success of the communication and interacting of these groups depends largely on the attitudes, values, and behaviour of people towards different groups. Racism is probably the first form of discrimination we think of. It is the belief that some races of people are inferior to other ‘races'. Racism usually involves

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    Essay Length: 1,074 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • Psychological Effects of Color

    Psychological Effects of Color

    Color affects every moment of our lives although our color choices are mostly unconscious. Color has a great emotional impact on a person that comes out via the clothes we chose to wear, decorations to fill our homes, personality, foods we choose to eat and many more ways. It is possible to introduce colors to different areas of daily life to give off more energy, soothing affects, stimulate appetites and sexual motivation or even give

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    Essay Length: 1,895 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • Pro - Animal Testing and Experimentation Essay

    Pro - Animal Testing and Experimentation Essay

    Pro - Animal Testing and Experimentation Essay Animal testing and experimenting has been practiced ever since the fifteenth century, although it did not become widespread until the 1800's. Ever since that people realized animals had feelings and could feel pain, people have started debating over the issue of animal testing, and it soon became a highly controversial topic. Many people argues that it is unmoral to test products of any kind on animals, while scientists

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    Essay Length: 677 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • Negative Effects of Marijuana

    Negative Effects of Marijuana

    Negative Effects of Marijuana (Essay with Outline) A drug is described by Webster's New World Dictionary as, "any chemical agent that effects body processes." Is marijuana good or bad? Does it have more positive short-term effects than bad? What about the long-term effects? Is there really something that smokers have to be in fear of? By examining both sides of this controversy, we can decide if marijuana has more positive or negative effects. Marijuana is

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    Essay Length: 1,590 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • Colon Cancer Essay

    Colon Cancer Essay

    Colon Cancer Cancer is considered a genetic disease. Cancer is a group of abnormal cells, known as a tumor, that grow uncontrollably.' Cancerous tumors invade and destroy surrounding tissue. Cancer is named according to the type of organ tissue from which it develops. Nearly eight million people, worldwide, get different types of cancer every year. Colon cancer is the second most common cancer death in the United States. Colon cancer, also known as colorectal cancer,

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    Essay Length: 843 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Flood in Genesis 6-9 Analyzed

    The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Flood in Genesis 6-9 Analyzed

    The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Flood in Genesis 6-9 Compared and Contrasted In The Epic of Gilgamesh and in the Bible's The Flood in Genesis, a great flood overwhelms the earth. These two stories each tell about a righteous hero who is told by the deities that a massive flood will overtake the earth. In both stories vessels are built for protection against the global flood so that life will be sustained. The Gilgamesh

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    Essay Length: 896 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • Pre-Marital Sex: Why Not?

    Pre-Marital Sex: Why Not?

    Pre-Marital Sex: Why Not? Pre-Marital sex is a big issue when it comes to teenagers. Not only is it questioned by Pentecostal teens but it is also questioned by worldly teens. Everyone wants to know "Why not?" I think that we should take the time now to just further analyze this question. Instead of asking the question "Why not?", let's ask the question "Why?". Why exactly should we have premarital sex. There is one main

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    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • Analysis of Plato's "the Allegory of the Cave"

    Analysis of Plato's "the Allegory of the Cave"

    Analysis of Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave" The moist air of the cave hovers in a homeostatic manner around the manТs conditioned skin. He sits, staring at the flat, cold surface of rock in front of him. Nothing that he sees surprises him. He just stares blankly at the recurrent shadows dancing in a dull glow. He is motionlessly caught in a state of a calm, content trance. The cold chains around his neck

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    Essay Length: 1,243 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • Aristotle on Tragedy - the Nature of Tragedy

    Aristotle on Tragedy - the Nature of Tragedy

    The Nature of Tragedy: In the century after Sophocles, the philosopher Aristotle analyzed tragedy. His definition: Tragedy then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions. Aristotle identified six

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    Essay Length: 1,040 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • Human Resource Management: Selecting and Appraising Your Future Staff

    Human Resource Management: Selecting and Appraising Your Future Staff

    Human Resource Management: Selecting and Appraising Your Future Staff The process of staff recruitment and selection is becoming increasingly complex and its integration into organizational and Human Resource (HR) strategies means that the successful outcome of these processes is vital for job performance and organizational success. The intricacy of matching the right applicant to the right job is a perpetual activity for management and HR practitioners considering the organization's economic, social and political contexts. This

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    Essay Length: 2,799 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2008 By: Fonta
  • Ups Marketing Plan

    Ups Marketing Plan

    Advanced Marketing Management Marketing plan for United Parcel Service Mission Statement: "End-to-end global supply chain provider." Executive Summary: The company analysis shows that UPS is actually positioned as a domestic (U.S.) ground shipping company, instead of being the primary coordinator of the flow of goods, information and funds throughout the entire supply chain on an international basis, as UPS perceives themselves. UPS is the follower in the overnight (express) deliveries segment. Therefore the marketing plan

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    Essay Length: 2,237 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2008 By: Fonta
  • Suzuki Motor Company Market Strategy Analysis

    Suzuki Motor Company Market Strategy Analysis

    Analysis of marketing strategy of Suzuki Motor Company, Ltd. (Suzuki) Company Background: Michio Suzuki founded Suzuki Loom Works, a privately owned loom manufacturing company, in 1909 in Hamamatsu, Japan. In 1952, the company began manufacturing and marketing a 2-cycle, 36 cubic centimeter (cc) motorcycle, which became so popular that in 1954 the company introduced a second motorcycle and changed its name to Suzuki Motor Company, Ltd. (Suzuki).In 1985, American Suzuki opened its automotive division and

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    Essay Length: 3,163 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2008 By: Fonta
  • Nike Marketing Strategies and Current Company Status

    Nike Marketing Strategies and Current Company Status

    Who would have imagined it? After years on top, Nike suddenly looks like a world-class marathoner who, in midrace, questions whether he's got what it takes to keep on running. Nike's symptoms of distress: a global glut of shoes, flat sales in key markets, and declining profits. Moreover, the global brand champ that captured its own winning corporate mindset with the "Just do it" ad slogan has a new pitch, "I can"--to which investors seem

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    Submitted: December 5, 2008 By: Fonta
  • Mercedes Benz: Competitive Forces, Competitive Strategy

    Mercedes Benz: Competitive Forces, Competitive Strategy

    Mercedez Benz Ayodele Samaiye Hawaii Pacific University Abstract The intensity of competition in an industry is neither a matter of coincidence nor bad luck. Rather, competition in an industry is ill rooted in its underlying economic structure and goes well beyond the behavior of current competitors. The state of competition in an industry depends on five basic competitive forces i.e. entry, threat of substitution, bargaining power of buyers, bargaining power of suppliers, and rivalry among

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    Essay Length: 819 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2008 By: Fonta
  • The Many Causes of the Great Depression

    The Many Causes of the Great Depression

    The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which spread to virtually all of the industrialized world. The depression began in late 1929 and lasted for about a decade. Many factors played a role in bringing about the depression; however, the main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the greatly unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920's, and the extensive stock market speculation that took place

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    Essay Length: 3,606 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2008 By: Fonta
  • The Colonies by 1763: A New Society?

    The Colonies by 1763: A New Society?

    Between the settlement at Jamestown in 1607 and the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the most important change that occurred in the colonies was the emergence of a society quite different from that in England. Changes in religion, economics, politics and social structure illustrate this Americanization of the transplanted Europeans. By 1763, although some colonies still maintained established churches, other colonies had accomplished a virtual revolution for religious toleration and separation of church and state.

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    Essay Length: 473 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2008 By: Fonta
  • The Cold War

    The Cold War

    In the post World War II era, a war arose between the Soviet Union and the United States, but in reality there was never really any documented fighting between the two nations, thus spawning the catch phrase "Cold War." Even though both countries were ready to go to war at the blink of an eye and almost did, the powers-that-be never got the nerve to authorize a nuclear war that would have made World War

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    Essay Length: 2,285 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2008 By: Fonta
  • The Black Panther Party

    The Black Panther Party

    Who really are the Black Panthers? I believe the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was a great asset to their community during the 1960's. What was the Black Panther Party for Self Defense? They were a group of revolutionists who believed their "destinies should be taken into their own hands," they eventually set up community programs to help the populace. I also Believe that the Panthers are legends who inspire many people all over

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    Essay Length: 670 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2008 By: Fatih
  • The Attack of Pearl Harbor

    The Attack of Pearl Harbor

    Hawaii's Pearl Harbor is one of the most well known military installations in the world. On December 7, 1941 Japanese fighter planes attacked the United States Naval base Pearl Harbor killing more than 2300 Americans. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had conceived the surprise attack. Commander Mitsuo Fuchida led the striking force of 353 Japanese aircraft. There had been no formal declaration of war. There were approximately 100 ships of the United States navy present that morning,

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    Essay Length: 1,437 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2008 By: Fatih
  • The 1950's

    The 1950's

    The Fifties During the 1950's, a sense of uniformity was obvious in American society. Conformity was common, as young and old people followed group norms rather then their own individuality. Though men and women had been forced into new employment patterns during World War II, once the war was over, traditional rules were reaffirmed. Men were expected to be the breadwinners, and women's proper place was at home. The United States experienced phenomenal economic growth.

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    Essay Length: 1,554 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2008 By: Fatih
  • Reconstruction in the South, Civil War Aftermath

    Reconstruction in the South, Civil War Aftermath

    This essay will describe the events that occurred following the Civil War in a period known as Reconstruction. In the South, during this period of time many people suffered from the great amount of property damage done to such things as farms, factories, railroads and several other things that citizens depended on to keep their economy strong. Some of these economic hardships included destruction of the credit system and worthless Confederate money. Though statistics in

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    Essay Length: 941 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2008 By: Mikki
  • Edmund Burke

    Edmund Burke

    This paper views the significance and role that Edmund Burke ascribed to religion in his political philosophy and how this emphasis on religion allowed him to foresee the future events. While analyzing his writings – the "Reflections on the Revolution in France", "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful", "A Letter to the Noble Lord", and the quotations by other authors as well as his biography, the focus of this paper has been kept

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    Essay Length: 8,479 Words / 34 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2008 By: Mikki

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