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Is Affirmative Action in College Admissions Effective?
Is Affirmative Action in College Admissions Effective? Introduction/Statement of Problem: Allan Bakke, a white student, applied to The Medical School of the University of California in both 1973 and 1974, but was denied each time. In his place, minority students with lower GPA's and test scores were admitted due to an affirmative action program with the school. This program set aside 16% of its entering classes for minorities, reducing the admission of eligible white
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Effects of Television
EFFECTS OF TELEVISION Television has been in our lives for a long time. It is a controversial topic whether television is good for people or not. The good side of television is giving information. However, when you think about the bad sides of television, you will see that they are much more than the good this good side. They include making people asocial, causing them to have bad habits and breaking the moral values of
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The Effect of an Earthquake
The Effects of an Earthquake According to USGS at http://earthquakes.usgs.gov/learning/faq.php, an earthquake can cause many effects to the earth's surface that we may not realize. Ground shaking, which is the vibration and the shaking of the earth that we are all familiar with, is one of the most noticeable effects of an earthquake. The shaking is caused by two types of waves, body waves and surface waves. Body waves are waves which travel through the
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Effects of Smoking on the Unborn
The Effects of Smoking on the Unborn There are many risk factors concerning the effects of smoking and the unborn. Medical evidence has established that smoking during pregnancy increases the risks of miscarriage, growth retardation, premature birth, low birth weight, and sometimes even death of the newborn. In April 1995, there was a published study of the effects of smoking during pregnancy that was conducted by the Journal of Family Practice. The study showed that
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Mozart Effect
In 1993 Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky reported that 36 college students increased their mean spatial-reasoning scores the equivalent of 8 to 9 IQ points on portions of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale after listening to ten minutes of Mozart’s sonata for two piano parts in D major rather then listening to relaxation instruction or sitting in silence (Steele, 1999). The Stanford-Binet intelligence scale is a standardized test that assesses intelligence and cognitive abilities in children and
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Effective Communication Between Men and Women
Effective Communication between Men and Women Many men and women find it quite difficult to understand exactly what their mates want. With this new boom of self-help books this is no longer a problem. Whether it is bad communication or dealing with petty arguments, there is a book out there for you and your partner. Although not all of the author's agree and there are many critics of these works, they do offer helpful insight
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What Makes an Effective Leader in Today’s World?
Today's world is fraught with a multitude of complications and problems ranging from terrorism, which is set to wipe out scores of people, to environmental decay, which threatens to cause grave danger to the world itself in general. To handle such problems as amicably as possible, every country needs an effective leader. There are many qualities that define an effective leader and my essay will be about these qualities. One of the most important qualities
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Creating and Managing Effective Teams
Creating and Managing Effective TeamsOrganizations of today’s society have reorganized their work environment to be able to compete more effectively and efficiently in the modern business world. Pressure on organizations for high-performance in competitive markets has placed a premium on teamwork. Teams are more flexible and receptive to changing events in the modern business world than traditional permanent groups. According to Effective team vital for success in workplace (2007) “There are significant benefits to be
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Capitalism’s Effect on Deviant Behavior
So far we have discussed many theories that try to help us understand and explain why crime occurs. In their article, Lynch and Groves advocate the approach known as radical criminology. Radical criminologists believe crime is linked to a society’s political and economic conditions especially in capitalist cultures like the United States (p. 372). Deriving their position from Marx, radicals believe that four conditions relate to occurrence of crime: a) capitalism is based on inequalities
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Negative Effects of Technologie
CONTENT Our basic objective is to examine the scientific developments through history and how they affect human life and society. To meet that objective we will first develop tools to analyze the relationship between science and the increasingly complex decisions we have to make regarding the way we apply science for human welfare. If we have learned anything at all about the uses of science in the second half of this century, it is that
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Effect of Homosexual Parenting
Something I Will Never Forget In my life I have been through many changes and many obstacles. There have been times in my life where I’ve had to cry myself to sleep to ease the pain. However, the one thing that had the most dramatic effect on my life was the birth of my child. It was March 30, 2005 at 5:21 a.m. when my bundle of joy entered this world. She was the
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The Effect of Geography on Greek History
How did geography affect Greek history? In what ways was Greek civilization molded by the land, the sea, and the weather of the Mediterranean area? To answer this question I looked at a relief map of Ancient Greece. I saw how easily the land could be divided into city-states. Thinking about the geography of Greece; there is hardly a place where you cannot see the sea, and hardly a place where you can grow anything
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The Role of the Economy and Its Effects on Women’s Roles in Austen’s Novels
"The role of the economy and its effects on women's roles is introduced from the very first lines of the novel. Austen says, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife...[and]...he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other" (Austen 1) of the daughters of the neighborhood. Economy and financial matters is an appropriate way to begin
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The Effects of Gambling on Society
As gambling becomes more and more prevalent in today’s society, one must look at the positive and negative aspects of the construction of casinos and other gambling establishments. While casinos have been shown to benefit local economies by creating jobs and generating tax revenues, they also lead to many social problems such as increased suicide, crime, accident, and high-school drop out rates. For example, in Indiana, a study shows its ten riverboat casinos are to
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The Greenhouse Effect and Our Planet
The Greenhouse Effect and Our Planet The Greenhouse Effect is what makes the earth habitable. Without water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other trace gases, too much heat would escape and the earth would probably be too cold to sustain life. The situation would resemble that on Mars, where there is little carbon dioxide and no water vapor. Although the increase in carbon dioxide shows no evidence that the earth will melt, there is a buildup
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Discuss the Effects of Social Change on a Company’s Personnel Policies. Illustrate Some Aspects of Your Answer with Reference to a Company You Are Familiar With
Discuss the effects of social change on a company’s personnel policies. Illustrate some aspects of your answer with reference to a company you are familiar with. Index Introduction p. 3 Main Body 3 Notion of teleworking 4 The benefits 5 A company example 5 Conclusions 7 Bibliography 8 Introduction We have entered an essential new phase in the ongoing information technology revolution. Telecommunications, computation, and new satellite technology, are coming together with a speed and
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Halo: The Fall of Reach
Reader’s Log Chapter 1: The story is set in the year 2517. The first scene is on a ship in Slipspace, which appears to be some sort of third dimension in which starships can travel at near the speed of light. Lt. Keyes wakes up out of cryosleep and discusses an upcoming military project with a civilian named Dr. Catherine Halsey who is an important scientist in the UNSC, or the United Nations Space Command.
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Cigarette Taxing - the Effect on Our Society
Cigarette Taxing: The Effect on our Society Cigarette smoking is said to be the most over-practiced addiction in the world. So, why do people continue to use them? Well, there are many reasons as to why, some of which can not be answered, but one reason is because the tax on cigarettes are too low and are still affordable for people to buy. Taxing cigarette's would not only increase the prices to an extreme level
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5 Characteristics of an Effective Volunteer
Five Characteristics of an Effective Volunteer This Saturday I saw how our class helped people through the Hurricane Relief food drive and how people from the community volunteered some of their Saturday to help. As I watched all of these wonderful things occur I could see five characteristics that stood out to me in every volunteer. Confidence- trusting firmly; positive; bold Each person that came out on Saturday had a positive attitude that they could
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Effects of the Holocaust
The Holocaust was a tragic point in history which many people believe never happened. Others who survived it thought it should never have been. Not only did this affect the people who lived through it, it also affected everyone who was connected to those fortunate individuals who survived. The survivors were lucky to have made it but there are times when their memories and flashbacks have made them wish they were the ones who
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The Indian Act and Its Effect on Modern Society
The Indian Act and its Effect on Modern Society The Indian Act is one of the most outdated and irrelevant pieces of legislature ever written. In 1876, the Crown consolidated all existing laws pertaining to Indians, and called this new document the Indian Act. They did not solicit input from Aboriginal people and in fact, at that time, Aboriginal people were not even allowed to vote for or against the politicians who were creating this
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Environmental Effects of Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the Gulf Coast on August 29, but first touched down in Florida a few days earlier. In Florida the storm was only a Category 1 and caused minimal damage to people and the environment. However, the well documented damage caused in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana was one of the greatest natural disasters to ever strike the United States. While much of the Gulf Coast was adversely affected by the hurricane,
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How Excessive Internet Use Increasingly Inflicts Negative Effects on Our Society
How excessive Internet use increasingly inflicts negative effects on our society "An estimated 147 million people worldwide accessed the Internet at least once a week from their businesses and home--more than double the 61 million who browsed the Net in 1996, according to a recent report by Computer Industry Almanac." The current estimated statistics show that there are over 63 million home internet users, and with the growing importance of the Internet in everyday
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Birth Order and the Effect on Your Personality
Birth order and the effect it has on your personality Some parents often wonder, what, if any, effect birth order will have on their children’s personalities. Genetic factors and other influences play a significannot role, but the birth order within the family plays a larger role in determining the personality of children. Countless academic studies say your place in the family is such a strong factor in developing your personality that it can have a
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Halo:the Flood
Edward Mai #22 01/21/05 HALO:The Flood By William C. Dietz Today I am going to tell you about a great book I read lately. It is called HALO:The Flood. The Flood is based on the award-winning Xbox game, Halo. This book was interesting because it tells the story through several different perspectives. Some of the perspectives include: the super-soldier, Master Chief, an alien, another alien, a sergeant, and a few soldiers. Although some new character
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