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- 271: Women And Society's "Glass Walls"
- ... bias and sexual attacks. Since in the early part of a woman's life, education plays a major role, the fact that most university activities relate to male students, may cause many women to loose interest in education and extracurricular activities. The Sadkers imply that financial distribution of resources points to male dominance because the male-oriented activities and clubs receive a substantially larger portion of the university funding. The interest in male sports and profit made by the university allow male athletics to acquire nearly half of the university funding. Extended funding allows the fields of male athletics to be more "luxurious" with options for its members; thus, much interest is lost in female athletics by females. A loss of interest from the females creates indifference to female athletics by society, thus contributing to university views that see female athletics as unworthy and pointless ...
- 272: Cause and Effect of Speeding
- ... most common ways that people break the law. When people break the law there are unpleasant consequences. A speeding ticket is an effective form of discipline: paying for a ticket, traffic school, and higher insurance rates. Paying for a speeding ticket is an unpleasant experience. A ticket can be outrageously expensive depending on how fast you were speeding. Some states charge ten to twenty dollars per mile an hour over the ... have never taken if given the chance. The unpleasantness associated with a speeding ticket is almost finished when you have completed the course. A reoccurring reminder of a previous mistake is evident in higher insurance rates. Most insurance companies feel that speeding tickets make someone a higher risk. So, to offset the risk they raise the premium. Which means it is more expensive to obtain insurance. If the insurance company decides to raise your rates by only ten dollars it can have a lasting effect. When the ticket falls off your driving the record, usually in three to five years, you have spent more than one thousand dollars more ...
- 273: The Theories of Hobbes and Locke
- ... may bring to mind the alternatives of government and show us why we have a system to provide organization, authority, and protection. Hobbes first points out that we always do what is in our best interest, whether it be killing an intruder, lying in order to gain an advantage over another person, or worse, all of which add up to a state of continual war, fear, and chaos. Similarly, in the sense that we do what is in our best interest, Hobbes says that at one point in time we decided to voluntarily and mutually transfer our rights to another person or group in an attempt to get out of that miserable state of war. Hobbes ... at all." This makes sense that, without something for people to fear if they go against the laws, they will naturally infringe on the rights of others simply because it may be in their best interest. Hobbes saw government as a single governing body, made up of the power given to it by the masses; a "Leviathan," or giant sea monster that gains it's power from the sea of ...
- 274: To Speed Or Not To Speed
- ... most common ways that people break the law. When people break the law there are unappetizing consequences. A speeding ticket is an effective form of discipline: paying for a ticket, traffic school, and higher insurance rates. Paying for a speeding ticket is an unpleasant experience. A ticket can be outrageously expensive depending on how fast you were speeding. Some states charge ten to twenty dollars per mile an hour over the ... have never taken if given the chance. The unpleasantness associated with a speeding ticket is almost finished when you have completed the course. A reoccurring reminder of a previous mistake is evident in higher insurance rates. Most insurance companies feel that speeding tickets make someone a higher risk. So, to offset the risk they raise the premium. Which means it is more expensive to obtain insurance. If the insurance company decides to raise your rates by only ten dollars it can have a lasting effect. When the ticket falls off your driving, the record, usually in three to five years, you have spent more than one thousand dollars more ...
- 275: Teenage Sex
- ... Costs of Adolescent Childbearing, researchers note, "During her first 12 years of parenthood, the average adolescent mother receives income and food stamps valued at just over $17,000 annually " Recent declines in pregnancy and birth rates, however, are encouraging. The rates keep dropping and are showing no signs of increase, yet. The rate of pregnancies has dropped from a peak of 117 for every 1,000 young women ages 15 to 19 in 1990, to 101 ... about 1 in 4 sexually experienced teens-acquire an STD (Guttmacher, 1998). The more common sexually transmitted diseases include HIV (caused by the AIDS virus), herpes, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and genital warts. Teens have higher rates of contracting gonorrhea than do sexually active men and women aged 20 to 44. Chlamydia is more common among teens than among older men and women; in some settings, 10-29% of sexually active ...
- 276: Sponsors and Sports
- ... not watched as much as other collegiate sports. A positive effect that sponsors have on Major League Baseball is that they are trying to help restore baseball as the national pastime. Baseball needs to regain interest with the public and sponsors are coming up with new and exciting ideas. More players are being endorsed and commercials are reaching out to the youth who play the sport. Money being spent by various ... money than other teams. As in basketball, collegiate football is seeing a surge in popularity because of sponsorship of various activities. A positive effect that sponsors have on the NFL is that like in basketball, interest is growing. Companies use different ways to show their football ties hoping to create interest in their product. A negative effect is that some companies are trying to get too much control. The situation with Nike and the Cowboys is under review. It can lead to a terrible downfall ...
- 277: The Investment Industry
- ... capitalize on it. Also, more information gives people the perception that they are able to make an increased number of higher quality investment decisions. Finally, the entrance of banks into the industry has increased public interest. First of all, banks carry a great deal of trust which is extremely important to the average investor. Second, banks are higher profile marketers so they reach a larger number of people. In addition, the ... the product readily available and easily accessible. Banks also have a large existing customer base to which they can market products, and influence investing. Overall, banks have increased the demand for investment services by creating interest and awareness to people who would otherwise not give extensive consideration to investments. Critical Success Factors The investment industry is very volatile in that the upward trend in today's market does not guarantee the ... Line (discount broker) or TD-Evergreen (full service) account. In essence, the industry has a large number of indirect employees acting as agents for their services. This creates awareness, and helps boost demand. A growing interest in the industry in terms of education can only help strengthen the industry. In the past year, 21500 students took Canadian Securities Institute programs, this number being 53% higher than the previous year (Fine: ...
- 278: Overview of Video On Demand Systems
- ... MPEG 1 a 50 to 1 ratio is typical. MPEG-1 can encode images at up to 4k X 4k X 60 frames/sec. MPEG-2 was optimized for digital compression of TV and supports rates up to 16K X 16K X 30 frames/sec, but 1920 x 1080 x 30 frames/sec is considered broadcast quality (MPEG-2, Hewlet Packard pub. 5963-7511E). MPEG-2 offers a more efficient means ... Approximate the system usage profile by estimating the amounts of image, video and text handling that will be required. 2. Convert the amount of images, video and text to be processed into average effective data rates. Raw data transferred directly to an archive ( our video server) and near real- time processed imagery should be estimated separately. The bandwidth requirements can be combined later if needed. 3. Adjust calculated rate for growth ... be implemented for larger (1000+) systems. ATM provides the highest BW and probably the most expensive network solution. ATM provides the proper class of service for video on demand applications. ATM connections running at OC3 rates (155Mbps) are currently priced at approx. $300-$500. ATM is not a "shared" topology. BW is not dependent on the number of users. In fact, as the number of users on an ATM net ...
- 279: Violent Crimes Involving Guns
- ... 18 studies of the effects of gun availability among potential victims and criminals found that the overall effect on criminal violence was zero.(4) In one study, researchers found no significant differences in total robbery rates between cities where guns were widely available and cities where they were not; in cities with fewer firearms, armed robbers simply used other weapons.(5)The best available evidence, based on at least eight national ... used about as often for defensive as for criminal purposes.6 The experience of other nations also provides little support for the notion that guns cause crime.(7) Switzerland has one of the lowest murder rates in the world, and it requires all able-bodied males between the ages of 20 and 50 to have a military-issued automatic weapon, ammunition and other equipment in their dwellings. (8) Israel, which has an extremely low crime rate but is vulnerable to enemies including terrorists, depends on the defensive value of widespread civilian gun possession. Denmark and Finland also have high rates of gun ownership and low crime rates. The experience of these countries shows that widespread gun possession is compatible with low crime rates. How many violent crimes involving guns are committed each year? FBI ...
- 280: Speeding Tickets As A Form Of Discipline
- ... most common ways that people break the law. When people break the law there are unappetizing consequences. A speeding ticket is an effective form of discipline: paying for a ticket, traffic school, and higher insurance rates. Paying for a speeding ticket is an unpleasant experience. A ticket can be outrageously expensive depending on how fast you were speeding. Some states charge ten to twenty dollars per mile an hour over the ... have never taken if given the chance. The unpleasantness associated with a speeding ticket is almost finished when you have completed the course. A reoccurring reminder of a previous mistake is evident in higher insurance rates. Most insurance companies feel that speeding tickets make someone a higher risk. So, to offset the risk they raise the premium. Which means it is more expensive to obtain insurance. If the insurance company decides to raise your rates by only ten dollars it can have a lasting effect. When the ticket falls off your driving, the record, usually in three to five years, you have spent more than one thousand dollars more ...
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