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- 2081: Teenage Parenthood
- ... these assumptions generally are opposed to any full or partial legalization of marijuana. Supporters of marijuana s continued prohibition argue that the drug is easily abused and can lead to numerous physical and psychological harms. Short-term health effects-according to the NIDA (National Institute of Drug Abuse)-of the drug listed in this paper include memory loss, distorted perception, problems with learning and coordination, an increased heart rate, and anxiety ... not an analgesic. For example, users frequently have toothaches which are not relieved with their marijuana smoking; they require the standard pain killers. Marijuana is not helpful in fighting other kinds of pain either. In short, all the medical uses for marijuana, including asthma, seizures, multiple sclerosis, muscle spasms, etc., are really just excuses to get high. Some users may be under the delusion they are being helped, but marijuana users ...
- 2082: Stress In Relation To Police W
- ... its officers and often creates stress unwittingly. Orders and regulations tend to sound oppressive in their pronouncements when they don't need to. Poor communication causes chiefs and officers as much grief as anything. In short, the organization needs to remove its own problems before pointing at individual officers and putting all the blame on them creating stress. If we take a quick overview of police work and look at the ... blood pressure variations, gastrointestinal disorders, cancer, pain, depression, muscular discomfort, strokes and a host of nervous system related problems (Adams 401). For the police officer, biological consequences can represent more long-term concerns, but the short-term results are the most profound. Stress of the magnitude that affects an officer s reaction time (increase or decrease) can seriously inhibit their ability to perform a vital action. An unrealistic increase could result ...
- 2083: Something Wicked This Way Come
- ... from the Bible, one of the most translated, most commented upon and most printed books in world history. His title as "one of the founders of Scholasticism" refers to the last sentence of a very short tractate on the holy trinity, which reads, "As far as you are able, join faith to reason." [Scholasticism] This short sentence in time was to become the formal foundation of Scholasticism. St. Anselm was known as "the Father of Scholasticism".[Vaughan 32] He was the great champion of sound philosophy and of orthodoxy. Born in ...
- 2084: Smart Cards
- ... clear that although the price of individual cards and readers is not hugely expensive, the overall cost due to the inclusion of thousands of students into the system in likely to be high in the short term. Even in the longer term, there is the added necessity of ongoing maintenance and technical support which again will serve as a drain on resources. There is also the risk that the system provider ... as mentioned, the lack of universality in standards will not help. It will also be costly, time consuming and disruptive to train staff in using the new system, and mistakes could be made in the short term as staff adjust. Staff costs will also be incurred in teaching thousands of students how to use the technology and also in long term helpdesk facilities. 4. Implementation Strategies Next I will turn to ...
- 2085: Spanish Labor Systems And Indi
- In the US it is very common to still hear of the poor way African Americans were treated in the early part of this nations History. We hear stories of black slaves working 18 hour days picking cotton and the trauma of slaves being beaten for disobeying their masters. For many African American families, it seems, that was the way of life not long ... claiming to save these indigenous people by teaching them the ways of Christ but many of the Articles in Colonial Spanish America, Struggle & Survival, and The Limits of Racial Domination prove otherwise. Through letters, personal stories, and other documents these books present accounts that tell about the labor system used in this area. They tell of the Spanish labor systems such as the encomiendos and later rapartamientos and how these operations ...
- 2086: Socratic Method
- ... more like moral formation. Our parents may be courageous and just, but we cannot take up where they left off; rather we must go through the whole experience of acquiring virtue as they did. No short cuts. We ourselves must do it from the bottom up. It is as basic and unchanging as human nature. There may be short cuts to "know how" and technical skills, but not to wisdom.
- 2087: Record Industry
- ... is less from the heart than it used to be only ten years ago. It is mostly a purely commercial product to be used up and thrown away. A lot of modern music has a short but intense life span. People are not prepared to pay as much for a 'disposable' product as they are for a 'reusable'. The hit song of the week is fed to us all through radio ... so much more included on a CD than just music. A computer with a CD-ROM drive, which is becoming quite common, allows us to read several different kinds of information off a CD. A short interview with the artist or 'behind the scenes' features can be included as so called 'Quicktime movies'. Lyric sheets, discographies, extensive biographies and even sheet music can also be added easily. Text files have such ...
- 2088: Psalm 23
- ... there is in the word of God. No portion in writing of any time or of any work has been so widely circulated. Much has been written about this psalm, although its six verses are short and simple. I appears that the author, David, wrote this when he was an adult. You do not have the fantasies of a green, inexperienced boy but the mature reflections of a ripe experienced man ... of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me" (Psalms 23:4), reminds us all that we are only on this earth for a short while. David also saw that God provided protection and guidance with his use of the words "rod" and "staff." He then expresses his overwhelming faith in God when he says, "You prepare a table before ...
- 2089: Phonology And The Dutch Stress
- ... diphtings are not extrametrical. Quantity sensitivity: In languages where the parameter Quantity sensitivity is active, stress rules take into account the internal strucure of a rhyme. Quantity sensitive languages usually contrast syllables with long and short vowels and, optionally open and closed vowels. Because Dutch vowels are obligatorily long in open syllables, vowel length does not correspond to weight. Dutch rhymes consist, in their most minimal form of either a) a long vowel (VV), which forms an open (light) syllable b) a short (lax) vowel followed by a coda consonant (VC) which forms a closed, heavy syllable. c) a rhyme consisting of a diphtong, which makes the syllable heavy. d) a syllable ending with VXC, which makes the ...
- 2090: Philosophy Of Quality
- ... Japanese industry into the forefront of world industry. Deming stresses that the most important part of quality is the role of management. Deming also emphasizes on achieving long term goals through cultural transformation rather then short term needs. Deming s findings can be viewed best through his System of Profound Knowledge, and his 14 Points of Management. While Deming was continually expanding his research, Philip B. Crosby entered the forefront of ... of each product by the consumer. Another key point in which the men disagree is goal setting. Deming focuses his ideas mainly on long-term goals, where on the contrary, Crosby and Juran state that short-term goals are equally important. After extensively reading the works and ideas by there three experts, it is obvious to see why the have been so successful. Quality is a very important part of the ...
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