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- 1811: Marco Polo
- ... families, faculty of schools, and residents of the areas. However, their are many possible ways we can stop all this violence in schools. Almost three-fourths of the United States teens are afraid of violent crime amongst their peers(Apfel 23). Violence in schools has become a big problem in todays society. With all the people being injured or killed in schools by guns and other weapons, more and more people ... kids can sneak in weapons to school. In 1990 congress made it a felony to bring a gun within one-thousand feet of any school under the Gun-Free School Zones provision of the 1990 crime prevention package. This law wont help very much because of the fact that students can sneak in weapons through bathroom windows, or an unguarded entrance during recess(Glazer 6). So their isnt really a ...
- 1812: The Effects of Teenage Alcoholism
- ... are becoming alcohol dependent. Some are getting drunk every weekend, some drinking every day. There are many serious side effects to teenage alcohol abuse which often result in long term physical and mental problems, increasing crime, accidents and suicide among todays youth. Alcohol can cause serious damage to every cell in the body and causes many long term effects on the human body. It causes various health problems among young ... crashes involving alcohol.[Liquor Ads]Its your ability to judge distance and your vision, making it harder to react to dangers while driving. Drunk drivers account for half of all fatal accidents each year. Crime is a major result of alcohol consumption. Alcohol numbs the brain so you are unable to tell the difference between right and wrong. It blocks the part of the brain that exercises good judgment, and ...
- 1813: Managing Information Systems
- ... designed to make networks within offices possible using a technology called Ethernet. Throughout the eighties the newly designed internet was mainly used by science foundations, colleges, and the government as they worked together with growing computer and telephone companies to help advance the technology. It wasn t until the early nineties when the Internet started to look the way it does now, with the first Internet society and the founding of ... three types of networks in use today. Internet, Intranet and the extranet. Most people are aware of and use the first I will talk about, the Internet. The internet is a series of computers and computer networks that are linked together through one large, what is often called superhighway, in which users can look at almost any information that they are given access to in their own home or office. There ...
- 1814: Homosexuals: A Suspect Class?
- ... the Constitution did not "extend a fundamental right to homosexuals to engage in acts of consensual sodomy." In a concurring opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger, quoting an old English statute, describes homosexuality as: "The infamous crime against nature" as an offense of "deeper malignity" than rape, a heinous act "the very mention of which is a disgrace to human nature" and "a crime not fit to be named" . . . To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching. Since the Court found that private ...
- 1815: Abortion: Complicated Issue With Moral, Political, Ethical, Religious and Economic Factors
- ... because it would remind her of the rape or its father. And when a child is unloved or neglected it is known that that child is more likely to get addicted to drugs, turn to crime , or join gangs. Doing all these things in the long run ends up costing the public more. We would pay for it living in jail or its rehabilitation or losing people to murder. Some mothers ... child. So mothers who have children young 90% of the time end up on welfare and ruin their futures. While their children are brought up in substandard living would be more susceptible to drugs and crime. I personally am for the right to choose. However I think that abortion is an awful procedure and should be avoided in anyway possible and for it to be a last resort. I think that ...
- 1816: Finding A Job
- ... that cessna had just begun. It was like nowhere I had worked before, they actually encouraged you to take courses to make you more marketable, offering many during working hours. I took advantage of the computer classes that they offered, and went to every one that I could schedule to attend. Within 10 months I had bid on a job in the product scheduling department, and thanks to the computer courses I had taken met the minimum requirements for the job. The opportunity for learning in this field is continual, I learn something different almost every day.
- 1817: Charles Wang
- ... Charles Wang stands out as a high-tech chief who respects but is not thunderstruck by the network of networks' business implications" (Kerber 1). Charles Wang has a theory of zero-based thinking. He runs Computer Associates International Inc. A business applications and systems management software company founded in 1976 with headquarters located in Islandia, NY. In 1997, the revenues were an amazing total of $4.04 billion. To improve his company, he uses some techniques he developed himself. For instance, he trains each of his own executives, he moves managers often, and every April he changes his entire company, Computer Associates International Inc. to create a more diverse environment. Not only do these processes make everybody strive harder towards excellence, but it also creates an environment in which everyone wants to work. Employees don't ...
- 1818: Mein Ghetto: Black Racism And Louis Farrakhan
- ... repent of their evils to our people before asking our people to forgive? What does this tell you about who he really represents? Does he really represent Christ, or does he represent originator of organized crime on this earth? Who represents Christ: Pope John Paul II or the Honorable Louis Farrakhan?" (Louis Farrakhan: What Does He Stand For?) Sexism also contributes towards his doctrine. He gives his low opinion of the ... drugs dealers, prisoners - the Nation of Islam has extended to them a hand. Farrakhan has crisscrossed the country with a "Stop the Killing Campaign," a grassroots effort to end gang violence and black-on-black crime." This helps us to understand how the grassroots that support Farrakhan's racist platform was gained. (Alexander, P. 188) Oddly, Farrakhan has been supportive of groups such as the black Action Defense Committee, and its ...
- 1819: Forensic Pathology
- ... the cause of death in homicide cases, cases of suspicious death where there is doubt of natural death, accident, murder, or suicide, and in mass disasters. The medical examiners office may be called upon a crime scene by request of police or homicide detectives. The medical examiners office usually sends a field examiner to the scene of a crime. At the scene many preliminary examinations are used to aid in determination of cause of death. Some of these include the following: pronounce victim(s) dead, look for external injuries, stage of rigor mortis, take ...
- 1820: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus And Mutations
- ... al.--tracked the evolution of the so-called V3 segment of a protein in the outer envelop of HIV for several years. V3 is a major target for antibodies and is highly variable. As the computer simulation predicted, viral samples obtained within a few weeks after patients become infected were alike in the V3 region. But during subsequent years, the region diversified, thus causing a rapid increase in the amount of ... presented by Nowak is extremely difficult to verify with clinical tests alone, largely because the diversified interactions between the virus and the immune system are impossible to monitor in detail. Consequently, Nowak turned to a computer simulation in which an initially homogeneous viral population evolved in response to immunologic pressure. He reasoned that if the mathematical model produced the known patterns of HIV progression, he could conclude the evolutionary scenario had ...
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