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Gun Control In America
1,392 wordsOn March 24, 1998, firing from the woods overlooking their school, 13 -year-old Andrew Golden and 11 -year-old Mitchell Johnson shot and killed four middle school students and a teacher and injured ten other students in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The two boys had a semiautomatic M- 1 carbine with a large ammunition magazine, two other rifles, seven handguns and more than 500 rounds of ammunition which they took from the home of one of the boys grandfather, who had a large arsenal of weapons left unsec...
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Pension Plan 5 Years
433 wordsIn corporate America, the majority of workers have been introduced to pension plans. A pension plan can be defined as a payment, not wages, made regularly to a person (or family) who has fulfilled certain conditions of service and reached a certain age. A new retirement plan is becoming popular throughout US companies. The plan may be beneficial to new employees, but the plan may not help the old employees. A few years ago, the traditional (defined benefit plan) was popular with many US companie...
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Patient Care Legal Status
1,023 wordsI choose dental assisting because I have always wanted to work in a Health profession. I enjoy working with people and I like the team atmosphere approach of a dental office. Dental assisting is becoming an exciting career as dental laws are changing and the role of the assistant is increasing in regards to patient care. There are also many jobs available for dental assistants and also a wide variety of options. Dental assistants can choose to work in private practices, insurance companies, fede...
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Second Hand Smoke Billion Dollars
1,298 words... makes a lot of money and jobs for our economy. But there are also bad aspects for keeping tobacco around. Tobacco is a health hazard and nicotine which is found in tobacco is an addictive drug. There are about 419, 000 tobacco-related deaths a year and out of that 9, 000 deaths are caused by second-hand smoke. Tobacco cost the society 50 billion to 88 billion dollars a year due to smoking-related healthcare. So, there are some benefits to a healthier society if tobacco was stripped from are ...
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Why America Should Adopt A Flat Tax System
1,909 wordsOur society today has strived to become accustomed to our present tax system, but some just cannot come to terms with it. The current tax code is unfair to those who are single, work for under $ 50, 000 dollars per year, or have large families. The high tax percentages and low exemptions make it difficult for the average worker to prosper and get ahead in todays world. The tax system also discourages citizens from saving and investing their earnings, ultimately pulling down the American economy....
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Gross Domestic Product Southern And Eastern
1,894 wordsGreat Britain is made up of three countries, England, Scotland and Wales. It is an island off the coast of northwest of Europe. Britain is part of the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland. The capital is London. Relief There are many different landscapes in Britain, from high mountains to rolling hill sand valleys. Places like Wales, the Lake District and northwest Scotland have high mountains and steep slopes made out of solid rocks. This landscape was made millions of years ago durin...
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Supreme Court Ruled Life Without Parole
1,972 wordsPOSITION PAPER (Death penalty) Is capital punishment just? The death penalty is a controversial issue for most people. Supporters claim that it eliminates repeat offenders, deters potential murderers and is the ultimate retribution. Opponents denounce it as murder, say that it does not cause deterrence but rather promotes violence and claim that it introduces the chance of an innocent person being executed. Due to the arguments presented by both sides and because of my own personal beliefs, the ...
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American Democratic Education Is Wasteful
1,009 wordsI am not anti-patriotic. I am an educational realist who has taught English for thirty-four years in public schools. I know from experience that American democratic education is a costly, wasteful enterprise. Educational philosophers, bureaucratic administrators and school board members will proudly tell the public that our American educational system is democratic, based on our noble form of government prescribed by Thomas Jefferson. The rhetoric sounds mighty good, doesnt it? So good that it w...
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Moral And Ethical Year Of Life
1,331 wordsSince the first vaccine in 1796 for smallpox, made by Edward Jenner, modern science has managed to create vaccines to give us immunity to many deadly diseases. Vaccines have reduced many diseases and have even eradicated others. However, currently there is evidence that not all vaccines are beneficial and that some may actually be harmful. In this essay, I will discuss about what a vaccine is and how they work. I will also discuss the pros and cons of vaccinations, and show some of the advantage...
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Hewlett Packard Million Units
2,626 words... nd climbed sharply to $ 35 million daily at the close of 1999. In early 2000, visits to Dells Web site for information and order placement were approaching 2. 5 million weekly, about 20 times more that the number of phone calls to sales representatives. In early 2000, about 43 percent of Dells sales were Web-enabled and the percentage was increasing. Dell in Europe In fiscal year 1999, $ 6. 6 billion of Dells $ 18. 2 billion in sales came from foreign customers. Europe, where resellers were ...
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Break Even Analysis Wellness Program
891 words... s potential customers include all businesses that offer their employees some type of medical benefits, are experiencing escalating health care costs, and wish to more effectively manage their costs. Corporate Fitness, however, segments its services for individual organizations. Corporate Fitness will work with senior management to develop mission statements and provide incentive plans, and with employees to design personalized health and fitness programs. The targeted customers are corporate...
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Air Traffic Control Billions Of Dollars
1,691 wordsWhy should terrorism command our exceptional attention? That the 9 / 11 terrorists maliciously attacked the symbolic and actual seats of our economic and military power (WTC/Wall Street and the Pentagon) should concern us if we truly think that future attacks might destroy our society. But who believes that? Government responses seem directed mostly at stopping future similar attacks... which returns us full circle to the question: why should that have become our primary national goal, at the sa...
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Air Traffic Control War On Terrorism
2,221 words... letters lacking return addresses; urgent mall was embargoed; and for weeks the national dialog centered on one of the least hazards we face. An NPR radio host asked the Postmaster General if the whole U. S. Postal System might be shut down, despite expert opinion that -- in a world faced with diabetes, salmonella poisoning, and AIDS -- anthrax will remain (even as a biological weapon) a bit player as a cause of death. Its sole potency is in the context of terrorism: if, by mulling lethal pow...
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York City Rental Housing
2,655 words/ 5, 8 New York Citys rent stabilization system In the following essay I am going to examine New York Citys rent stabilization system and make a statement that the abolishment of the given rent stabilization system would have mostly beneficial effects on the NY community as a whole. I will state that rent stabilization act of NY in fact benefits the rich (mostly affluent individuals in lower and mid-Manhattan districts) and is of no use to the majority middle-income and minority lower income NY ...
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Coral Reefs Fringing Reefs
4,088 wordsCoral reefs are arguably the worlds most beautiful habitats. Coral reefs have been called the rainforests of the oceans, because of the rich diversity of life they support. Scientists have not yet finished counting the thousands of different species of plants and animals that use or live in the coral reef. There are three types of coral reefs: fringing reefs, barrier reefs, and atolls. Fringing reefs are located close to shore, separated from land by only shallow water. Barrier reefs lie farther...
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Waste Disposal Pollution Prevention
4,660 words. ISO 14001 is a management standard, it is not a performance or product standard. The underlying purpose of ISO 14001 is that companies will improve their environmental performance by implementing ISO 14001, but there are no standards for performance or the level of improvement. It is a process for managing company activities that impact the environment. The Environmental Management System contains the following elements: ? An environmental policy supported by top management. ? Identification o...
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World Trade Organization Afl Cio
3,054 wordsGranting Normal Trade Status To China Chris Palmer Foreign Policy Dr. Wells April 4, 2000 Whether to grant China with normal trade status as it enters the WTO (World Trade Organization) thus eliminating congressional review status under the Jackson-Vanik amendments to the 1974 trade statute, is an important issue when considering the validity and repercussions that granting normal trade status would do to US-Chinese relations. It took three United States Presidents, two Chinese leaders and dozen...
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Cattle Ranching Shifting Cultivation
2,234 wordsname = Shiv Sudan email = publish = yes subject = Science title = Rainforest Destruction papers = Introduction With the increase of rainforest destruction that is taking place, it could take ten years for the rainforests to be destroyed for good. If we dont restrain or take action towards the destruction there is no telling what will happen to the world. Most scientists have predicted that at the rate that we are going at there will be no rainforests left by the year 2050. Long ago, rainforest w...
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Wildlife Habitat National Forest
3,391 wordsIts a promising tool, this idea of prescribed burning to devel forests and help restore ecosystem health. But its risky business, too, and smoke clouds public acceptance. I THOUGHT FIRE SEASON HAD ENDED. BUT THE SCENT OF PINE SMOKE IN MY NOSTRILS LATE LAST OCTOBER TOLD ME SOMETHING DIFFERENT. Deep in Oregon's ponderosa paradise on Wine National Forest, my wife Maurine and I had just finished flagging a new interpretive trail as Forest volunteers. As we drove a remote road just east of Crater Lak...
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University Of Chicago East And The West
2,445 wordsThe nation network of railroads laid from 1848 through the Civil War, and the steam powered locomotives that traversed them, supplied Chicago with vast new markets, resources, and people who quickly transformed it from a quiet Frontier village into a highly populated industrial powerhouse. The Chicago of 1830 was hardly a city at all. Fort Dearborn located near the fork of what is now the Chicago River was bogged down with mud and tormented by disease and Indian wars. By the 1833 when the city w...
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