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- 3961: I.q Test
- ... everywhere. Advertising is a powerful force in our culture due to the exposure. The decided presence of these images in effect shapes the image of women today. It is very unfortunate that the media influences American society to the point that it defines the "ideal woman". The "ideal woman" is defined as someone that is thin, young, and beautiful. Today it seems as if being thin is the only way to go. There is a wealth of businesses that depend upon the American desire to be thin to survive. Exercise and diet companies are a perfect example. In order to create a market for their product they attempt to make women feel imperfect about their own bodies through ...
- 3962: Gambling 2
- ... 1931, and in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which legalized casino gambling in 1978. In the early 1990s such gambling, with certain limitations, was legalized in South Dakota and several other states and on some Native American reservations. In 1991 gambling on Mississippi riverboats was revived in Iowa. The most famous European gambling resort, the casino of Monte Carlo, provides the principality of Monaco with much of its revenue. The lottery, a ... most Canadian provinces. Gross revenue from state and local lotteries in the United States in 1990 exceeded $20 billion. Although many Native Americans regard their reservation lands as a key to the survival of Native American culture, most reservations are still underdeveloped, and their inhabitants among the poorest of the nation's poor. During the 1980s, the Reagan administration encouraged the reservations to adopt a policy of self-help and private ...
- 3963: Exporting Purell Hand Sanitize
- ... Share Purell Instant Hand Sanitizer is a portable hand washing solution that cleanses hands without the need for soap and water. In 1997, GOJO Industries entered Purell Instant Hand Sanitizer into retail sale, and the American public embraced the product. However, as large US Competitors have entered the hand sanitizer industry, which is now worth over $400 million every year, Purell s market share is diminishing. Although still the market leader ... carry in the pockets or purses wherever they may travel (insert picture here). Having been available since the early 1980s in health care locations worldwide, GOJO tested the product in the retail realm, and the American public embraced it. Competitive Analysis Today, hand sanitizers are a $400 million per year industry, and the competition in the US for its market has increased significantly as the products popularity has grown. Although still ...
- 3964: Exploring The Career Of A Comp
- ... might like to attend, and write for copies of their catalogs, admission requirements, housing, financial aid, and other information. Most schools require students to submit their results on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or the American College Test (ACT). These tests are offered at a limited number of locations several times each year. Students need to arrange to take them in advance. In addition to these standardized tests of academic achievement ... Computer Programming Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance. Chicago: J.G. Ferguson Publishing Co, 1997 ed. Eberts, Majorie. Careers For Computer Buffs & Other Technological Types. Chicago: NTC Publishing Co, 1994 Fisher, Helen S. Encyclopedia of American Salaries and Wages. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997 Kling, Julie Lepick. Opportunities in Computer Science Careers. Chicago: NTC Publishing Co, 1991 Schmidt, Peggy. Careers Without College-Computers. Princeton: Peterson s, 1992 Smith, Preston. Data Eight Systems ...
- 3965: Equality In Choice Of Marriage
- ... couples that wed plan to have children; shall we not allow them to marry either? Most people say that would be ludicrous. The opposition to gay marriage stems ultimately from a deep-seated homophobia in American culture. While many do not realize it exits, it is a very real part of a gay persons life, just as racism is in a black persons life. It is there and has far more serious consequences for American society than most Americans realize, not just for gay people, but also for society. Do we want to take prejudice and hatred with us into the centuries to come? Hatred is not a family value ...
- 3966: Entertainment And News
- ... getting the viewer to watch their news program. Manheim claims that the media is not as diverse as it claims to be. He states, though for competitive purposes they might have us believe otherwise, most American news organizations have a great deal in common with one another they define news itself in essentially the same terms (Manheim, 1991). Manheim argues that the media entertains the viewer rather than giving them information ... what they want. Television news is in the convenient position of being able to influence people when they are most vulnerable. A photograph from the first moon landing, transmitted electronically back to earth, shows the American flag planted on the moon s surface. Lets say it was taken in a cave in Kentucky where the conditions where set to give the illusion that the flag was planted on the moon (Roshkill ...
- 3967: Engineering
- ... computers began in the 19th century by British mathematician Charles Babbage (Eadie 3). Babbage designed, but did not build, a mechanical digital device capable of processing information as a modern computer does (4). In 1930 American scientist Vannevar Bush built a mechanically operated device, called a differential analyzer (4). It was the first general-purpose analog computer. Analog computers will be discussed later in this paper. The first information-processing digital computer actually built was the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, or Mark I computer (4). Completed in 1944, this electromechanical device was designed by American engineer Howard Aiken (5). In 1946 the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC, was put into operation (5). Using thousands of electron tubes, it was the first electronic digital computer. In the late 1950s ...
- 3968: Endangered Species In Canada
- ... creatures that shared our planet. Human activities have driven many species to the verge of extinction, but there have been some encouraging examples of how society can save endangered animals. One of these is the American bison, or buffalo. The buffalo once was the symbol of the American wilderness. These huge animals roamed the plains, grazing in enormous herds. There were 30 million buffalo in the West in the 1860's. But, by 1883, hunters had killed all but 1,00 of them ...
- 3969: Ebonics
- ... the inner city blacks in our country is looked upon as a problem. To those in charge, there is no more room for growth. It is apparent that there are many types of dialect within American English. The coexisting of two or more languages, either serving together in the same area or servicing different areas, is as old as language itself (Pei 106). This has happened throughout time and appears to ... do away with this type of talk to get America speaking the same dialect. Standard English is the language for those in power. To those with this power it is improper to have loose speech. American children learn family traditions, which includes culture and language. They also learn Standard English in schools to successfully survive amongst the powerful. If power were to shift hands, there is no doubt language would also ...
- 3970: El Inconformismo Femenino En L
- ... Rutgers University Press, 1993 Gallardo Colσn Julia, Kanellas Nicolαs ed. Biografical Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the United States. New York, New York. Greenwood Press, 1989. Rivera, Carmen. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 145 Modern American Fiction Writers. Washington, DC. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, Gale research Inc. 1994 Fernandez Olmos, Margarite. Spanish American Women Writers A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book. New York, New York. Greenwood Press, 1990.
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