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- 11331: Bamn By All Means Neccessary
- ... s okay because she gave ten points and after all it's her opinion. On the other hand, Yippies wants the freedom of doing nothing. That's a big difference. The difference is that the world could live without having beauty contests but it can't live without people doing nothing. There were many things people of democratic country did to protest for their rights and desired freedom. The author of ... because they feel rejected and useless by losing the Beauty Pageant. Therefore, it hurt those forty-nine women's feelings. For example, the one that wins goes to different tours and places all over the world; those who loses to became Miss America, when they went back to their states, they don't get that much respect and sometimes called losers. For that reason, when their feelings are hurt, then they ... that's okay because she gave ten points and after all it's her opinion. On the other hand, Yippies wants the freedom of doing nothing. After this discussion, I don't see how the world could live without having beauty contests but it can't live without people doing nothing. We, the people, the humans are bonded to work. That's our life.
- 11332: A Consumers Buyer Behaviour Is
- ... the welfare of different socioeconomic groups. Researchers use the data in a variety of studies, including those that focus on the spending behavior of different family types, trends in expenditures on various expenditure components including new types of goods and services, gift-giving behavior, consumption studies, and historical spending trends. An important use of the survey by BLS is for the periodic revision of the Bureau's Consumer Price Index (CPI). Survey results are used to select new market baskets of goods and services for the CPI, to determine the relative importance of CPI components, and to derive new cost weights for the market baskets.
- 11333: Student Preparedness
- ... secondary education. Private schools take pride in the fact that they can provide a better education than public schools and that they prepare their students with the tools they need to survive in the university world. It is also important to note that this case has not yet been decided in favor of Jonathan and that Jonathan should be given a chance to prove himself. The fact that this action against ... not matter much to people, it is the post-secondary piece of paper that counts. Well obviously one needs a proper high school education in order to be able to survive in the post-secondary world. We as a society need to be concerned with the lack of student preparedness. These students lacking basic skills are going to run the future world. We need to nip this problem through the use of projects such as the one introduced in Virginia. As we enter the millenium, we need to understand that investments in our future are crucial. ...
- 11334: Denial
- ... condition may help postpone death. It is true that overwhelming anxiety can hamper coping, and that screening out anxiety-provoking stimuli can help prevent this kind of paralysis. In general, it must be observed, the world is full of terrifying possibilities that we could never completely comprehend (1998). Denial is the refusal to believe or accept the reality that certain events have happened, are happening, or will happen. To accept the ... addictions. Addicts are often the last to recognize their disease, pursuing their addictions into mental illness, the degeneration of health, and ultimately death. Sadly, many addicts continue to act out on their addictions while their world collapses around them blaming everything but the addiction for their problems (USDHHS, 1994) Denial is one of the reasons that recovery from addictions is seldom effective if the chemically dependent person is forced into treatment ... expand into a group denial, most immediately, perhaps, to the family system. Family members play along with the addict's behavior, assume the addict's guilt, and maintain a secretive united front with the outside world (McCracken, 1998). Step One of Alcoholics Anonymous deals with working through our denial, allowing us to accept our powerlessness over addictions and the chaos and unmanageability they bring into our lives. This is just ...
- 11335: Submarines
- ... that was powered by a crank that you had to turn by hand. When you turned the crank that would make the propeller spin so you would move. They tested out, The Turtle in the New York harbor, but it failed. That was the first time that a submarine was used to attack another submarine. The third submarine was built is by a man named Robert Fulton; he was an American ... more powerful, it was cheaper to operate, and the fumes were less dangerous than gasoline. After the invention of this diesel submarine all the submarines were diesel until the development of the nuclear submarine. During World War 1 (1914-1918) Germany had a very deadly submarine. The submarine's name was the, U-9. It sank three British cruisers in about an hour. The German submarines were called, Unterseeboote, or they ...
- 11336: Drugs And Alcohol
- ... and alcohol have been a major problem in our society. Not only has the drug problem increased but drug related problems are on the rise. There is no crime that kills more teenagers in the world then alcohol does. These substances affect the body in many ways, including the exchange of information within the brain, is slowed. Using drugs increases the risk of injury. Car crashes, falls, burns, drowning, and suicide ... by children that cannot afford to buy drug, they are usually inhaled straight from the bag or container the substance is in. Users say they are detached from the surroundings and in their own little world when on these drugs. The effects caused by these drugs are visual hallucinations, severe mood swings, loss of sense of smell, and nose bleeds. More serious effects can be abnormal heartbeat, slower breathing, loss of ... use of these substances occurs over long period of time, these effects can become serious and even life threatening. Adults, teachers, parents, media, and friends all have a big impact on how kids see the world. Teachers, and parents must take the responsibility and time, to guide, teach, and inform kids on drugs. Kids with more awareness about drugs are less likely to do them. I can say for sure ...
- 11337: Cults 2
- Cults As the new millennium approaches the number of doomsday cults that exist is expected to increase. Because of the approaching new millennium, these cults will predict many cataclysmic events. Many people feel that cults are nothing more than a nontraditional religion, but a distinction can be made. Cults are much more than just upstart religions. They ... no easily identifiable "type" of person who joins cults. Langone says that the main reason that these people turn to cults is that they were unable to deal conventionally with some stress. Cults are nothing new, but as the clock slowly moves toward the year 2000, their popularity is expected to grow with anticipation of some cataclysmic event. While some are simply self-help organizations, others are destructive and dangerous ...
- 11338: Aids Report
- AIDS...Are You Afraid? This week when school starts, September 5th, a new child is enrolling. The school will not give out her name but they will give out more personal things for example, she is HIV infected. I was sad for the girl but i was also ... the kids at Windam Tech. Another reason is that i would enjoy letting this girl to be finally let in for once, and this would also be good for the community. How AIDS entered this world is uncertain ,people have their theories; AIDS came from monkeys, the government nfected people with the virus to control the population, and African Americans brought the virus from Africa. This is only the beginning, people ...
- 11339: Behind The Scenes
- ... motorcycle. Dodging tabloid photographers she was simply trying to preserve some privacy by holding back the media intrusion. In the sixteen years since her marriage, she became not only the most famous woman in the world, but the only personality who consistently sold big in the global marketplace (Alter, Dying 39). Instead of three or four photographers trailing a celebrity, it could, in her case, be thirty each hoping for that ... seems to be to serve as a theater of war between the sexes. Strategy is what gets executed in court and on TV. Espionage is the Globe supermarket tabloid setting up Frank Gifford at a New York Hotel. The front is a Mary Albert press conference (Alter, In the Time 32). Are we all entertaining ourselves into a stupor? The gulf between what intrigues us and what directly affects us is ...
- 11340: Sex Education --
- Sex Education is Ineffective Perhaps one of the most controversial issues arising today is that of sex education in America's public school system. In today's world, where information travels at the speed of light and mass media is part of our everyday lives, teenagers are more exposed to this world than ever before. In this country, teens have access to television, newspapers, and of course, internet. Sometimes, teenagers can misinterpret what they see in the media regarding sex and make unwise decisions, such as having ... television, is pervasive, and the depiction of sex and violence is ubiquitous at virtually all hours of the day" (Rosoff 33). It is impossible to compare teenage pregnancy rates of two different regions of the world when the teenagers in question are living in completely different societies. With the media comes peer pressure. If something is believed by popular culture to be "hip" and "cool," then teens are more likely ...
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