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Federal Trade Commission Parental Consent
989 words
When children go online they have entered a
massive store full of information, products and
services. Children are anxious consumers, and
represent a huge and concentrated portion of the
marketplace. According to Children in Cyber Space:
A Privacy Resource Guide, the Internet provides
children with a chance to enjoy daring games,
visit lands over seas, and communicate with
individuals their own age, but portions of the
Cyber World can be toxic to children. (Children in
Cyberspace: A Privacy Reso...
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Abuse Of Power Fraternities And Sororities
1,899 words
When most people hear the term hazing it conjures
up images of fraternities. In reality however,
hazing occurs in many arenas including
fraternities, sororities, the military, athletic
teams, and student organizations at both high
school and college levels. In fact, hazing
incidents are dramatically different from the
humorous images many people associate with the
term. Hazing, by definition is any action or
situation which does not contribute to the
positive development of a person by causing m...
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Business And Christian Ethics
1,632 words
Your behavior towards other s is a matter of
making choices: whether to be friendly or
unfriendly; whether to tell the truth or to lie;
whether to be generous or greedy; whether to study
in order to pass an exam or to spend valuable
study time watching television and then cheat to
pass it. These, and all other questions about how
people act toward themselves and one another are
dealt with in a field of study called ethics.
Ethics is a code of conduct and values that are
accepted by society as be...
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Physical Education In High Schools
1,073 words
My philosophy of physical education in the
secondary setting deals with students becoming
physically fit. Also, students learn how to
communicate with others, especially in a team
setting. My philosophy also holds in it different
teaching methods. Methods that physical education
teachers can use to get the most out of their
students. With this philosophy of physical
education I plan to use it toward becoming a good
teacher. The major reason for having physical
education in secondary schools is t...
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Al Gore George W
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DISCLAIMER: If you are planning to vote for Al
Gore in November, good for you. Don't let what I'm
about to say change your mind because I've been
told by all the experts that if you do change your
mind based on what I'm about to say, George W.
Bush might win the election and I certainly
couldn't live with myself if that connoisseur of
pharmaceuticals (the kind you snort up your nose
or the kind you inject on death row) won, in part,
because of a letter I spit out over the Internet.
So let's revi...
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Affirmative Action Plans Harpercollins Publishers
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... campaign to have fifteen million Americans
wear "armbands" on 22 January 1985, "one for every
legal abortion" since 1973. Falwell's
anti-abortion outburst epitomized Reaganism's
orientation: "We can no longer passively and
quietly wait for the Supreme Court to change their
mind or for Congress to pass a law. " Extremism on
the right was no vice, moderation no virtue. Or,
as Hitler explained in Mein Kamph, "The very first
essential for success is a perpetually constant
and regular employment ...
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Role Of Women Position Of Women
1,095 words
Considering the traditional role of women, going
back to the Vedic Age, it is seen that the Rig
Vedic Age women were the copartners in life and in
pleasure and hazards. The position of women was
high. In the later Vedic Ages however the position
of women deteriorated. They became minimally the
vehicles of bearing sons and had to obey her
authoritarian and dominating husband, regard him
as her master and serve him faithfully. According
to Srinivas, the traditional role of a Hindu wife
was precise...
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Athenian Democracy City States
613 words
Mountains, valleys, and water isolate Greece.
Hundreds of islands are scattered along its coast.
As a result of this type of geography, Greece
could never become a large unified empire, so
instead, small city-states were created. A
city-state was known as a "polis." A polis was
made up of a two different parts; the lower ground
was the main city, which was housed within a large
wall. The upper ground was the hilltop acropolis.
These acropolis' were used as military posts, and
for religious pract...
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African American Men Prostate Cancer
737 words
Senior Capstone Project Mod 3 (1) The goal of
Prostate Outreach Project for African American Men
is to increase the level of prostate cancer
awareness among Black males, who are encouraged to
think of it as something that is defined by both:
hereditary factors and lifestyle. The Projects
other goal is to collect and classify data,
related to prostate cancer, among underserved
minority groups, such as Black Americans. This
data is being used in scientific research, which
is conducted for the purp...
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Made And Not Born People Of The Community Good
455 words
In building a society of freedom, trust and unity
there must be communication between people of the
society. To make the ultimate stable community
they must share the same aspects towards the
agreements of their shared lifestyles. This shared
aspect is called Good Citizenship. The big
question is, what does Good Citizenship really
mean? I will now define the word Good Citizenship.
Good Citizenship comes from within the persons own
morals toward the laws of society. I will first
give you the defi...
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American Bar Association Thurgood Marshall
818 words
Upon the Declaration of Independence, a plan of
confederation was offered to be prepared for the
colonies. This plan, known as The Articles of
Confederation, established a league of friendship
among the states rather than a national
government. The most significant fact about the
created government was its weakness, it could not
enforce even the limited powers it had. In James
Madison's words, in his Federalist Paper # 10
complaints are everywhere heard that our
governments are too unstable. The...
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Males And Females Gender Inequality
1,896 words
When studying " gender, " the first task
is to clearly define what it is not. Gender simply
can not be defined by ones anatomy. In other
words, gender is not categorized as male or
female. Stating this fact is of the utmost
importance, because most people would define
gender in such a way. In fact, some dictionaries
actually define gender as " See sex. "
So now that I have withdrawn that determinant, I
must conclude that gender is something which is
determined socially. Unfor...
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Michael
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I Genetics My Dearest Susan, I don? t know how to
write what I am about to write. There is no easy
way to do this. I am not one to be able to put his
feelings down on paper. You know that. I am sure
you know what this is about. We have not been able
to go more than 10 minutes together without
bringing it up. I feel as if I need a break from
the arguing. So I decided to write this letter.
Rather than yell and get distraught, I? ll let you
read exactly how I feel and you can write me back,
in resp...
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Federal Trade Commission Parental Consent
1,014 words
Protecting A Child? s Privacy When children go
online they have entered a massive store full of
information, products and services. Children are
anxious consumers, and represent a huge and
concentrated portion of the marketplace. According
to Children in Cyber Space: A Privacy Resource
Guide, the Internet provides children with a
chance to enjoy daring games, visit lands over
seas, and communicate with individuals their own
age, but portions of the Cyber World can be toxic
to children. (Children...
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Hazing Activities Higher Education
1,357 words
Hazing: Is it really necessary? Having never been
or wanting to be in a fraternity. I haven? t
figured out why they choose such ridiculous hazing
rituals who would want to be ridiculed,
humiliated, and / or physically abused by someone
who will later be your? brother? . Lives have been
taken many times by these hazing rituals and
fraternities still continue to hurt people. If
these people are supposed to be your friends, who
needs enemies? Hazing has been around for many
years and without knowin...
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Randomly Assigned Head Start
321 words
The highest rates of oppositional defiant disorder
(ODD) and conduct disorder (CD) are found in
low-income welfare families. The Head Start
program is for the? continued enhancement of
services for poor children ages zero to five, and
their families. ? The parents of the children in
the Head Start program are rarely examined. Head
Start instead focuses on the academic performance
of the involved children. The article, ?
Preventing Conduct Problems in Head Start
Children: Strengthening Parenting ...
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Van Der Bad Influence
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High School Athletics: Good or Bad Influence? ? In
America we have laws, laws against killing, laws
against stealing, and its excepted that as a
member of American society you will live by these
laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another
society, which has its own set of laws. Football
is a way of life. ? This excerpt taken from the
beginning of Varsity Blues, which premiered in
1998, shows the way of life for high school
football players. In this movie, Jon Moon played
by James Van Der Beek ...
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Positive And Negative Aspects Womens Basketball
1,519 words
The Effects of the Media on the sport of
Basketball A Canadian professor as a means of
recreation invented basketball, which is now
considered a universal sport. The introduction of
this sport to the rest of the world started in the
late nineteenth century as a form of recreation.
Universities began incorporating this new
recreational game into their sporting activities
and were considered a male oriented sport. Women
were not recognized at the time as basketball
players even if they had an inte...
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Schools And Libraries Freedom Of Expression
1,095 words
You make the decision Whenever a new kind of
information technology is born, there is always
been somebody on hand to try to censor it. Because
the Internet is new and wide open, it has become
the current central target for politicians over
issues of censorship. When our country was born,
the first public document over which patriots shed
their blood declared the need for our liberty, our
freedom in our new nation. Later, when our
founding fathers decided to specify certain rights
in our new Con...
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Middle Class Women Social And Political
1,379 words
Jane Addams is recognized as a social and
political pioneer for women in America. In her
biography, which later revealed her experiences in
Hull House, she demonstrates her altruistic
personality, which nurtured the poor and pushed
for social reforms. Although many of Addams ideas
were considered radical for her time, she provided
women with a socially acceptable way to
participate in both political and social change.
She defied the prototypical middle class women by
integrating the line that se...
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