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Puerto Rican El Barrio
1,368 wordsCities exist for many reasons and the diversity of urban form and function can be traced to the complex roles that cities perform. Cities serve as centers of storage, commerce, and industry. The agricultural surplus from the surrounding country hinterland is processed and distributed within the city. Urban areas have also developed around marketplaces, where imported goods from distant places could be exchanged for the local products. Throughout history, cities have been founded at the intersect...
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Twelve Months Purchase Price
1,700 wordsIn 1994, the National Association of Attorneys General conducted a nationwide survey that placed problems with automobiles as the number one consumer complaint. "Somewhere between 2 - 30 % of all new domestic and foreign vehicles sold each year have substantial performance or safety problems that cannot be readily repaired. " State lemon laws provide consumers with courses of action they can take when they have purchased a defective automobile, motor home, or motorcycle. If a vehicle fails to co...
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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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Ford Motor Company Winter Months
2,349 words... he Edsel, the importance of a target market is extremely high. "Loss of a targeted marketing focus usually means a loss in sales" (Gallagher). Ford has a different car targeted towards different age groups, personalities, genders and economic standing and more. The Ford Mustang, for example, is targeted mainly at the middle aged. This is exhibited by its slogan of "it is what it was and more" This implies that the targeted consumer would be old enough to remember what the mustang was when it...
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Time And Money Direct Mail
2,594 words... necessary changes. Then I'll print the book one final time and again check for errors. Finally, I'll have another person make a last check for me. Having another person make a final check of the book can be beneficial. They will look at the book with a fresh view and catch errors that you may have overlooked. One of the most important parts of editing is to check the book's facts, and its completeness. You must make certain that the book contains no factual errors and that it adequately cove...
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Gun Control Laws Assault Weapons
1,776 wordsThe Gun Control issue has sparked major controversy in America today. People who support gun control feel that guns are the reason for the soaring crime rate in our country. I disagree with the supporters of gun control. I feel that because of the black market, violent criminals being released from prison early, and the need to ensure personal safety, stricter gun control will have very little impact on violent crime in America. I believe that gun control works in theory, but not in real life. S...
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Fur Bearing Animals Endangered Species Conservation Furs
1,672 wordsThe fur Industry is an area of commerce that encompasses farming or trapping certain fur bearing animals, processing their skins for sale to manufacturers of fur garments and marketing finished garments to retail outlets. The term fur refers to any animal skin or part that has hair, fleece, or fur fibers attached, either in a raw or processed state. Skins of fur bearing animals are also called peltries or pelts. From earliest times, fur has been a prized commodity. Exploration in the New World m...
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Racial And Ethnic Puerto Ricans
1,130 wordsRacial And Ethnic Issues in Philippe Bourgois In Search of Respect Philippe Bourgois book In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio was published in 1995, and discussed his experiences of authors living in El Barrio (East Harlem). In 1985 the writer moved to this district of New York City with the purpose of studying the impact of imposed racial segregation and economic marginalization on the inner city Puerto Rican population (intro pg. 1). An interesting new insight into the street cult...
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Company Elko Computers B 2 B Site
550 wordsB 2 B is working with distributors, vendors and other businesses. There are two groups of B 2 B sites: the verticals and horizontals. Verticals are created for particular industry, such as retail. They contain industry news, discussions, articles. Horizontals are sites providing materials, products, goods, or services which are not for the specific industry. They may provide travel, transportation services, office equipment, or maintenance and operating supplies. These sites work as intermediate...
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Horse Dealers Daughter Young Women
680 wordsCompare two stories having similar themes. Explain what you believe the theme to be and how it can be compared in the two different plots. Alice Walkers Everyday Use and D. H. Lawrence's The Horse Dealers Daughter are the two stories with different plots. In the first one, the narrator is a black woman who is a single mother and has two daughters. One of her daughters, Maggie, is only a shadow of her beautiful and educated sister. The second story is about a young woman, Mabel, who is constantly...
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Brain Stem Drug Abuse
423 wordsDRUG Drug Abuse Swinsick 1 DRUG ABUSE The term drug abuse is most often referred to as the use of a drug that causes physical or mental harm to the user or impairs the bodies functions (Drug Abuse 279). The information in this paper will help inform the reader on the sale, effects, and types of illegal drugs. Drugs, crime, and children play a huge part on today s society. The drug enforcement is getting longer, so the drug dealers and gang members are not willing to do their own dirty work. Adol...
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Horse Dealers Daughter Good Man Is Hard
1,373 wordsSome consider the most important aspect of the nuclear family is that of the relationship a child possesses with his parents. True, although, without this relationship, a child can still turn out to be a well-behaved child. However, in turn, they can also develop a defiant nature against their elders. Likewise, there are many other aspects that concern these relationships. For instance, there is the neglect that a child can receive from his parents, or that having a dominant mentor. Though these...
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Gun Control Legislation Gun Laws
1,174 wordsPresent Day Gun Control In the wake of the deadly rampage at Columbine High School, Americans are demanding major change. They want school shootings to end. They are tired of hearing about the thousands of gun deaths each year. The demand for action, reflected in the polls for years, is finally being heard in Washington. (? Hot Buttons? ) President Bill Clinton addressed the need for more gun control policies in his State of the Union Address at the beginning of the year. He proposed many ideas ...
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Gun Control Laws National Rifle Association
2,018 wordsThe Second Amendment to the Constitution states that, A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and the definition of gun control is; government regulation of possession and use of firearms by private citizens. At first sight this seems like a contradiction in terms, but before any opinions are formed, lets look at both sides of the issue. This amendment has been around since 1791, and there ha...
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Millions Of Dollars Police Corruption
727 wordsHistory of Police Corruption in the United States The challenges facing the Chicago Police Department today are not new, nor are they unique to this city. The problem reaches back as far as the establishment of the first organized police forces in the United States. Corruption has taken many forms and has continued to plague the police departments of nearly every major city. Police corruption may change form over time, but its roots are firmly planted in American history. In The Development of t...
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El Barrio Puerto Ricans
1,436 wordsSearch for Respect In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio was published in 1995. It is a straight forward, insiders look at life in the East Harlem neighborhood known as, El Barrio. Philippe Bourgois moved his family into El Barrio in 1985 to study the impact of imposed racial segregation and economic marginalization, on the inner city Puerto Rican population (intro pg. 1). He first went there to look at the entire (untaxed) underground economy, from baby sitting, off-track betting, to...
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Freedom Of Expression Day To Day Life
2,162 wordsJohn Stuart Mill was one of the great Utilitarian philosophers of the nineteenth century, along with his father, James Mill and Jeremy Bentham. They set out the original strands of utilitarianism and Mill was able to adapt it and smooth away some of its rough edges, coming as he did after his father and Bentham's major works expounding the new philosophy. Mill was influential both with the governments of the day and beyond, with his profound debates on individuality and liberty still having rele...
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Medicinal Marijuana Consumer Reports
1,429 wordsMedical Marijuana Marijuana (cannabis) is a mixture of leaves, stems, and flowering tops of the Indian hemp plant Cannabis sativa. [ 4 ] Marijuana is thought by many to be harmful, but it has been proven in fact to be helpful for some people with certain illnesses. [ 4 ] When I first started looking into medical marijuana as my research subject, I was curious to see what people my age actually thought about marijuana. I asked twenty of my peers, ranging in age from seventeen to twenty-two, What ...
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Dollars A Year Effects Of The Drug
1,546 wordsMarijuana has been illegal for almost sixty years and at no time have we successfully rid the country of this drug. Right know marijuana is the third most popular recreational drug, the first two being cigarettes and alcohol (Working 1). This proves that prohibition doesn t work and people know the difference between drugs that are really bad for them and drugs that aren t that bad if used in moderation Our government is spending millions a year on a fight that will never be won, maybe it is tim...
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Pre Owned Car Kind Of Car Good
725 wordsProcess Essay People everyday, are suckered into paying too much for their cars. They are also getting conned into buying inferior cars that turn out to be lemons. These cars usually end up braking down shortly after they were bought. Purchasing a pre-owned car can be a difficult and complicated experience. There are several steps that have to be carried out before the car can be purchased. It is important to find a reputable car dealership. It is also a good idea to what kind of car you are loo...
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