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- 2351: Decriminalize Marijuana for the Good of America
- Decriminalize Marijuana for the Good of America Currently, drugs remain high on the lists of concerns of Americans and are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over ... country, on the contrary it is causing great harm. It's time to try something new. When most people imagine the legalization of marijuana, they fear a marijuana free-for-all with everybody constantly getting high. Legalization would be a burdensome task for the U.S. Government. In fact, the legal process would include a law passed by Congress allowing the government to control the content, quality, and distribution of marijuana ... What science and real experience tells us is that marijuana tends to substitute for much harder drugs like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin (Hagar 1). Another misconception is that marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol. Extremely high doses of cannibinoids cause death. Extremely high doses is the key word here. Scientists have concluded that the ratio of cannibinoids needed to get a person intoxicated (stoned) relative to the amount necessary to ...
- 2352: Sonic Corporation
- ... the fifth largest chain in the fast-food industry, servicing in the hamburger segment, behind McDonald's, Burger King, Hardee's, and Wendy's. Sonic has and is still carrying the tradition of being a high-quality franchise-based organization in the Sunbelt states. The following case will be broke down into five different stages beginning with early strategies, problems, new strategies, a ratio analysis, and a recommendation. EARLY STRATEGIES UNDER ... 3) it had to provide visible evidence of working by improving profit for the owners.” MARKET STUDIES To get this marketing program under way the team identified several marketing studies: (1) Sonic customers were of high frequency visiting on average twice a week; (2) there was a trend moving more and more to take-out orders opposed to eat-in orders; (3) Sonic had fresh high-quality products after the customer ordered; (4) the unique use of carhops set Sonic aside from the competition since most competitors served over the counter or through drive-by windows. REACHING OUT A co- ...
- 2353: Katherine Mansfield
- ... Beauchamp to Harold and Annie Dyer Beauchamp on October 14, 1888. The Beauchamp family called New Zealand their home. "A Sea Voyage", written by the young Kathleen Beauchamp, won first-place at the Karori Village School, the grammar school she first attended (Nathan 1). This accomplishment encouraged young Beauchamp to continue on writing. After attending grammar school, Kathleen went on to attend Miss Swainson's Secondary School. During this time, she is acquainted with Maata Mahupuka, a native Maori. Her interest in Mahupuka later grew into a brief love affair with ...
- 2354: What Are Five Factors Which Contribute To The Failure Of New Restaurants?
- ... Failure: Business that ceased operation following assignment or bankruptcy; ceased operation after foreclosure or attaching; voluntary withdrawal leaving unpaid debts. It is a common assumption in the restaurant industry that restaurants fail at an exceedingly high rate, the highest failure rates in the U. S. economy. In researching this topic, statistics numbers and percentages fly around routinely. All give somewhat the same concept; in the starting years, most restaurants fail. The ... causes restaurants to fail. Given the information that restaurants are most likely to fail than succeed, it is always difficult and often impossible to interest bankers in making loans to entrepreneurs who operate in a high risk industry. Even when loans for restaurants are available, restaurateurs often must pay higher interest rates or provide more extensive collateral requirements to secure these “high risk” loans than might be required for another “less risky” venture. (Mullen& Woods 61) It is not difficult for a restaurant to fail when it has poorly planned financially. Many times restaurateurs fail to ...
- 2355: Fuji Xerox
- ... inexpensive diazo type of copier. The diazo copier was very difficult to operate and produced poor quality copies. Xerox’s copier would be the first copier in Japan that was easy to use and produced high quality copies. Therefore, Japan was a high potential market for Xerox’s copiers. Even though the Japanese government was liberating relations with foreign countries, they were still very concerned about the issues of preventing foreign control of resources and extracting foreign know ... losses from sharing technology under a local licensing agreement, RX decided to form a joint venture with a local partner. By establishing the joint venture, RX would be able to pass all government requirements, avoid high trade tariff, and gain access to this lucrative Japanese market. Learning Effect Fuji Photo Film had been trying to diversify their business away from silver-based photography and had begun experimenting with xerography prior ...
- 2356: Divorce Rhtorical Analysis
- ... divorce upon the child. These are: 1) Place children with whichever parent remarries unless there is a marked incompatibility between that parent and the child. 2) Children under twelve should not be sent to boarding school. 3) If children must be shuffled between two families, then one household should be established as home and the other as a place to visit. 4) Do not give children under twelve a choice regarding ... families that are emotionally scarred and unable to have normal relationships once they reach adulthood. He targets the actual divorce as the cause of these problems. Rhona Mahony is a visiting scholar from Stanford Law School. She is writing this article as a rebuttal to the general perception that divorce is the cause of most behavioral and emotional problems in today’s youth. As an example of higher learning and a ... study of children from divorced families. In Mahony’s article she argues that “ there could be several reasons [that] … children of divorced parents have more emotional and behavioral problems, and also do less well in school than children who live with both of their biological parents”(Mahony, 2). By using strategies such as research and stating logical facts, Mahony gives the viewer a better understanding of the psychological issues children ...
- 2357: Calamitatum Of The Individual
- ... war." (p. 58, ll. 7-9). This is remarkable for the son of a soldier to make such a choice - even renouncing his inheritance - and pursue only intellectual advancement. Leaving home, he traveled off to school in Paris. He was welcomed for a short while, but soon found disfavor with his teacher Champeaux, the grand master of dialectic at the time, by refuting his arguments and proving himself several times to ... his individuality. One of his intellectual rank finds it hard to conform to others' standards, and naturally becomes a spectacle when showing his skills. This early conflict caused Abelard to leave and start his own school. Unfortunately, he could not maintain it and had to return home. Years later he was teaching in Paris again, he tells us how pupils flocked to him from every country in Europe, a statement which ... present calling, but I did not wholly abandon the instruction of the profane arts in which I was better practiced." (P. 77, l.31) - "This aroused the envy and hatred of the other heads of school against me." (P.78, l.5) It would seem that Abelard's extreme individuality led him into trouble no matter where he turned, or what endeavour he undertook. When he did apply himself to ...
- 2358: Affirmative Action
- ... that some groups of people because of their sex, color, or origin, need special rules to advance in our society, affirmative action only increases discrimination. Those people who are denied employment or education at the school of their choice because a certain number of minorities must be admitted, are undeniably hostile towards the groups that they see as "taking their jobs." If we continue to stress the color lines of the ... Court faced its first challenge to an affirmative action policy based on equal protection grounds was in The University of California at Davis v. Bakke. The facts of the case are as follows: The medical school of U.C. Davis established an affirmative action program that reserved 16 of its 100 spaces for minority applicants. In 1973 and 1974, Allan Bakke was denied admission. Though meeting the standards of admission for ... applicants and his Medical College Admissions Test scores were well above the minority average. The Regents freely admitted that, had Allan Bakke been a minority, he most certainly would have gained admission to the Medical School. When Bakke filed suit, the state court held that program unconstitutional given its classification based on race. The school appealed and the California Supreme Court held that the program offended the Equal Protection Clause ...
- 2359: Net Censorship
- ... researchers said they found more then 900,000 sexually explicit images and text files online, but neglected to point out that most came from privately owned adult bulletin boards with no connection to the Internet.[School Library Journal, October, 1995, EBSCO-CD] After hitting the newsstands, the magazine quickly found its way to the floor of the U.S. Senate. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) asked to have the entire article ... the Protection of Children from Computer Pornography Act of 1995. "There is a flood of vile pornography," Grassley told fellow senators, "and we must act to stem this growing tide, because . . . it incites perverted minds."[School Library Journal, October, 1995, EBSCO-CD] In a seven week period the Smithsonian Institution’s web site gathered a total of 1.9 million visits, and in a seven day time during June, Playboy took ... space in which to explore the forbidden and taboo. It offers the possibility for genuine, unembarrassed conversations about accurate as well as fantasy images of sex," said Carlin Meyer, a professor at New York Law School.27 "It is clearly a violation of free speech and it’s a violation of the rights of adults to communicate with each other," House speaker Newt Gingrich shared.28 In a Time/CNN ...
- 2360: John Adams
- ... son of a president to become president. He had an impressive political background that began at the age of fourteen. He was an intelligent and industrious individual. He was a man of strong character and high principles. By all account, his presidency should have been a huge success, yet it wasn't. John Quincy Adams' presidency was frustrating and judged a failure because of the scandal, attached to his election, the ... internal affairs of an American nation or further European colonization of territory in the Western Hemisphere." There was no doubt that Adams was a deserving candidate for the presidential election of 1824. He had held high diplomatic positions and displayed both aptitude and ability. "He wanted to be President, but although Adams was the most distinguished member of the Monroe Cabinet, his successes were somewhat neutralized by his lack of friends ... they did their jobs. Even though they were intent on ruining his presidency, Adams would not remove them from office as long as they did their jobs. "Adams' chief blunders was simply his fair and high-minded treatment of his political enemies. The era of the "spoil-system" did not reward political integrity of the sort that refused to kick men out of office merely because they were performing their ...
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