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- 3401: Men And Women
- ... can be said that the Jones men are concerned with their outward appearance, but our concern doesn't stand in the way of an extra hours sleep every morning. If I have a bad hair day, a hat takes care of it and if I haven't worn a certain shirt yet this week, then it is perfectly fine as long as it still smells alright. My mother and sisters are ... do? I'm artistic and understand the value of something looking nice, but I would have killed two birds with one stone by lightening the color to help reflect light and brighten the room. I'd have spent the time and money installing a ceiling fan or track lights. The Jones men and the Jones women all live together very happily. Even though our views on what is important may be ...
- 3402: Mardi Gras
- ... major aspect that distinguishes Mardi Gras in New Orleans from carnival in Guyana. Guyanese people do not take off their clothes for a string of pearl, or a coconut. Carnival in Guyana is a one-day event, celebrating Guyana’s independence from the British. On this day people dress in bright colorful costumes and dance in the street. I remember the first time I went to the carnival. I was about seven years old when my mom took the whole family to ... to my dismay, I didn’t get a coconut. Instead, I got a spear from one of the Zulu warriors, and a picture of me begging for a coconut was in the newspaper the next day. Even though everything that I might have mentioned above seems negative, I still had a ball at Mardi Gras. Enjoying Mardi Gras as a participant and an observer was very exciting for me. I ...
- 3403: October Sky
- ... town, as well as to become a rocket scientist, urged him to go to college. When Homer was younger, he knew that if he didn't go to college off of a football scholarship, he'd be a coal-miner like most of the other men in his town. Vowing never to go down into the mines, he went off to college off of desire of working with rockets as well ... rocket's landing. After failing to find the rocket in a nearby stream, Homer suddenly remembered one variable in his experiment he forgot to add-wind. Just as he said, "If there was wind that day, it would have been blowing northeast. Then the rocket would have landed…. there," he used the formula correctly and even spent a couple days without sleep to figure it out. October Sky is based on ...
- 3404: Organizational Skills
- ... and a major consolidation took place in the drugstore industry, merging these two entities and forming what is now the CVS Corporation. CVS was not finished with building its empire and in 1997 acquired Revco D.S., which had nearly 2600 stores in 17 states, mainly the Midwest and Southeast. The next year, bought Arbor Drugs with 200 stores in Michigan. CVS paid a combined total of $5.2 billion to ... base and provides the benefits of an ongoing relationship with a team of industry experts. In addition, a strategic alliance with Rite Aid in 1999 allows customers to order prescription drugs on-line for same day pick-up at a conveniently located Rite Aid drugstore. Potential benefits perceived from this alliance include increased traffic at the website with Rite Aid customers using their services, pharmacy benefits coverage provided by the insurance ...
- 3405: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- ... incorporated into the individual¡¦s daily routine. (Internet 2) For such a behavior to be considered a disorder, these obsessions and compulsions must cause marked distress, be time consuming, (take more than an hour per day), or significantly interfere with the individual¡¦s normal routine, job and social activities i.e. relationships with others. (Internet 2) People with OCD show a range of insights into the senselessness of their obsessions. Often ... I always had to say ¡¥thank you¡¦ to everybody after everything I said. I would walk all the way back to the store to say ¡¥thank you¡¦. I bothered people terribly. ON the telephone, I¡¦d call people back. ¡¥Did I say thank you? If I didn¡¦t say thank you, thank you¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K . ¡§Today for the first time in probably a year, I actually ...
- 3406: Oakland Community College
- ... the local market. The needs of the local market are (a) easier and faster registration process; (b) adult community education- courses that will be useful for local business operations; (c) easier access to library materials; (d) easier access to purchase books; (e) accessible days and times for offered courses. Some of these needs are addressed by OCC but need improvement or expansion and others need to be addressed. OCC can also ... telephone' is easier but disadvantage for individuals who are trying to get into courses which fill up faster than the others and their last names begin with alphabets which fall during later times of the day. Making it accessible via Internet can make registration easier and faster. Most population now have access to the net either at home or at work and would be able to register for chosen classes earlier ...
- 3407: Online Business
- ... are then usually directly joined to other computer users at there own will for a small connection fee per month. The connection conveniently includes unlimited access to millions of web sites twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Since the Internet can be accessed by millions of people all time, it would be a great incentive for businesses. The Internet can help businesses in number of extraordinary ways. First ... found, there could be many documents, pictures, small movie flicks, and unique question and answer sections available. All of this can be gathered in the convenience of a person's home, twenty-four hours a day. A business can be very pleased with the amount of information they can readily have available to publish to the entire world. If the consumers are satisfied with a particular product with all the public ... browsers feel very comfortable. If that does not bring connivance to the users, the twenty-four hour service of availability should accommodate them even more. Some consumers could say they would rather stay home all day and do all of their business with the Internet. Well, today all that is possible. No driving around from store to store and no negotiating with pesky salesmen would greatly help some. Technology today ...
- 3408: Is The Idea Of Doctrinal Devel
- ... doctrine in the early nineteenth century was seen by catholic theologians as being one of pure, unsullied teaching that had been handed down by the church from the time of the Fathers to the present day. There may have been changes of language, but the concepts behind them remained immutable. The reformation scholars looked upon doctrine as having started off good and pure, but then being corrupted by the church. They ... early church. For him, it was important to see doctrine in its historical context, and to understand why it was developed and by whom. He ceased to see the Protestant church as being the modern day equivalent of the early church, or to see it as ‘historical Christianity’. The problem that Newman faced was that the current doctrine of the time as propounded by Bossuet was that the church had had ... reason to suppose that Christianity shouldn’t be able to change the paradigm that it uses, while retaining a faith in the ‘abiding truth of Christianity.’ Perhaps what people from Newman down to the present day have seen and accepted is that there is an inescapable need for doctrine to change, as thought processes, world views and experience change down the ages. What people have differed, though, is in to ...
- 3409: Is There Hope For The Psychopa
- ... the required therapy.The therapist has to focus on enhancing strength and channeling the sensation of seeking actions on people into more positive socially responsible behaviors, and to teach practical ways in dealing with every day frustration. Medications are not recommended in the treatment of sociopaths, but drugs can diminish the violent episodes. People with Anti-Social Personality Disorder may also have Attention Deficit\ Hyperactivity Disorder for which stimulants are used ... then, all we can do is hope and try to determine and diagnose patients early so that they can get help. References Hales, Dianne. (1995). Caring for the Mind. New York: Bantam Books. Hare Ph.D., Robert. (1994). Predators: The disturbing world of psychopaths around us. Psychology Today, 27(1), 54. Myers, Mark. (1998). Progression from conduct disorder to antisocial personality disorder following treatment for adolescent substance abuse. The American Journal ...
- 3410: Intelligent Design As A Theory
- ... that the origin of information is best sought in intelligent causes. Intelligent design thereby becomes a theory for detecting and measuring information, explaining its origin, and tracing its flow. BIOSKETCH: Bill Dembski has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Bill has done post-doctoral work at MIT, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Princeton, Cambridge, and Notre Dame. He ... reductive explanation has strictly limited applicability within science. In particular, this mode of analysis is utterly incapable of making headway with CSI. CSI demands an intelligent cause. Natural causes will not do. REFERENCES Barrow, John D. and Frank J. Tipler. 1986. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Behe, Michael. 1996. Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. New York: The Free Press. Bohm, David. 1993. The ...
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