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401 K Plan 000 Per Year
1,467 words
... 7). Caps on accounts. A $ 4, 000 limit exists
on every IRA that is established for a couple.
However, a new account can be established every
year. In order to have a traditional IRA, one also
must make under $ 61, 000 per year, and under $
161, 000 per year for the Roth IRA. Mutual funds
are yet another investment strategy for starting a
retirement fund. The definition of a mutual fund
is "a corporation which manages a diversified
portfolio of investments for its shareholders"
("mutual" 389)...
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Martin Luther King African Americans
684 words
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was a magnificent
man. He was a disciple for justice, an apostle for
peace. He was a man with a grand dream. He dreamed
of a society where every man was treated equally,
despite the color of his skin. Reverend King
dedicated his life to improving the quality of
living for African-Americans. He heroically and
serenely led the Civil Rights Movement. Doctor
Kings philosophy was nonviolence. Although he and
his followers were called derogatory names,
sprayed with fire...
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John F Kennedy Commander In Chief
1,195 words
The President of the United States- this title has
come to earn so much honor, as it is considered
the most powerful elected official in the world
(World Book). Some of Americas most distinguished
men were once presidents, and we recall such great
names as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. This
prestigious position is not something one is just
handed, and when one does obtain it, it is very
hard work. In this paper, I will help illustrate
the role of...
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Blood Alcohol Level Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
876 words
Hazing is an initiation process involving
harassment. This action could, or may,
intentionally or unintentionally endanger a
student's admission to an organization.
Unfortunately hazing has been a common practice
across college campuses. Many agree that hazing
has no place on campus and should be eliminated.
Plain and simple, hazing can be dangerous! Not
only does it kill innocent people, it mocks,
embarrasses and tortures them. This causes
physical, mental, and emotional harm or distress.
There...
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Friends And Family Speed Limit
833 words
Choices are part of everyday life. The choices
that you make have a great effect on your outcome
in life. Whether the decision is big or small, you
should always be cautious and learn valuable
lessons from each choice that you make. One must
encounter choices that have to be made everyday.
You may not even be aware of the choices that you
make because of the unimportance of it to you at
the time. The are decisions that you must make at
work, school, home, and even the city that you
live in play ...
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17 Th Century Rate Of Change
937 words
To Use Calculus, or Not to Use Calculus? In the
past, if you have studied Algebra and
Trigonometry, then your knowledge has prepared you
to master the next step: calculus. Calculus is
complicated, but not quite as bad as everyone
thinks. It is the study of changing quantities.
Take for example, the curve as a path of a rocket.
A tangent line at any point on the orbit displays
the direction that the rocket is flying at that
point. If gravity disappears, the rocket would
move off on the tangent li...
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Ice Skating Target Market
495 words
1. EVALUATE THE PRESENT MARKETING STRATEGIES:
Currently, OKeefes owner Manuel Gray has
successfully established a market segment with the
ice hockey players. However, he wishes to
diversify his operation with the introduction of
public skating, much like the format of
rollerskating rinks. He has tried to implement
these skating sessions with little success. He has
the most success with Saturday and Sunday
sessions. Attendance drops during warmer months
however. The 200 he gets in the winter turn...
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American Medical Association Violence On Television
1,317 words
Television is a pervasive and complex part of
childrens lives, there are many factors that
affect how much and what they view. Television is
more and more becoming a curriculum. Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH) pools evidence from over 2,
500 studies within the last decade on over 100,
000 subjects from several nations to show that the
compiled evidence of television's influence on
behavior is so "overwhelming" that there is a
consensus in the research community that "violence
on television doe...
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Miles An Hour Police Officers
1,233 words
Imagine being a police officer doing your daily
routine job. You are in a patrol car on the
highway, watching the cars and trucks drive by.
You are also looking for speeders to warn them to
be more careful and maybe youll ticket them. It
has been a very boring day for you, since you have
only been called on your radio once, and it was
for an accident (fender bender). Almost at the end
of your shift, a blue car drives by going ninety
miles an hour, but you know the speed limit is
only fifty-five ...
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Six Rules To Successful Writing
714 words
Orwell's six rules to successful writing What
questions does an author ask himself when he sits
down to write? George Orwell's views on politics
and the English language explains what should be
going through your mind as you write. You should
be thinking six questions as you write and when
you finish and read it over you should be editing
with six more questions in order to be successful.
Orwell follows his own rules closely as seen in
1984. These rules have made him a successful
writer in our t...
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Element That Is Always Changing Fire And Water Parmenides
776 words
Heraclitus argued there was a single divine law of
the universe, which rules and guides the cosmos.
This is the Logos. He said that the logos both
underlies and governs change. Heraclitus compares
the logos to fire an element that is always
changing yet always the same. For example he said,
"The sun is new each day. " (Curd Pg. 38 88) His
view was that "all things are derived from a
single arche or starting point and that as now
constituted all things are organized within a
single world structur...
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British Prime Minister Head Of State
1,500 words
... overturned and needs not be explained, and
moreover, can be used a bargaining counter with
Congress to ensure success for Presidential
legislation. It would appear that the constitution
has limited the power of the President and
strengthened Congressional power, but when looked
at more closely, the President has become known as
the Chief Legislator, according to Johnson, for
his extensive use of the State of the Union
address to forward his proposals for legislation
and make it known to Cong...
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Special Interest Groups Members Of Congress
1,101 words
Section three of the book, State and Local
Government 1999 - 2000, discusses the role of
political parties, interest groups, and political
action committees in state and local governments.
Recently there has been evidence that political
party affiliation is becoming less of a factor in
voters' decisions on Election Day. In 1956, only
28 % of voters who identified themselves as either
Democrats or Republicans voted for candidates of
the opposing party. In 1980, however, that number
increased to 5...
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Boston Bedford St Freedom Of Speech
1,132 words
Americans Must Give Up TV Violence For the Kids,
Or Else To the unsuspecting eye, this nations
response and reaction to the rise in number of
violent acts committed by teenagers could be
described as appropriately overwhelming, but when
examined more closely, does America really care?
When examined in a general sense, violence has
declined overall in the US but has risen among
teens (Hunt 651). Who is to blame and how are we
trying to prevent youth crime and teen
promiscuity? A New York Times po...
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Gun Control Activists Law Abiding Citizens
1,225 words
Constitutional Law Gun Control Paper Gun control
is undoubtedly an issue that most Americans have
been exposed to. In 1989, guns killed 11, 832
Americans. The National Rifle Association (NRA)
members believe that it is their constitutional
right to own guns, stating that guns are not the
root of the crime problem in the United States.
Gun control activists like the members of the
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) argue that
guns are responsible for the majority of violent
crimes that take pl...
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Amount Of Violent Amount Of Violence
1,187 words
Monkey see, monkey do has become a well-known
saying in todays modern, media warped society, but
is it correct? What has the world come to these
days? It often seems like everywhere one looks,
violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the
streets, back alleys, school, and even at home.
The last of these, our homes, is a major source of
violence. In many peoples' living rooms there sits
an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed.
It is the television, and the people who view it
are often p...
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Races And Cultures Cultures And Races Race
791 words
I've had my own share of relationships and
experienced the ups and downs. Yet it never did it
occur to me that the cause for such experiences
would be because of what my boyfriend and I were
born with: our races. Being biracial myself,
(Japanese and Filipino) I have come across many
different aspects of both cultures. My mom is
Filipino, and my dad is Japanese. They may be
different in race but their love for each other is
all the same. Initially, it was not that easy. The
Japanese did invade th...
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Schools And Libraries Research Council
504 words
Over the last several years many attempts have
been made to put a limit on what can be viewed on
the Internet. In 1996, it was the Communications
Decency Act and in 1999 the Child Online
Protection Act. Both were shot down because they
were said to violate the first amendment right to
free speech. Should the government have the right
to limit what children view on the Internet? The
government does this in places like schools and
libraries. Filtering the Internet has become
commonplace in most sc...
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Percent Of The Time Bill Of Rights
870 words
New Yorkers may be covered by one of the nation's
most comprehensive health consumer protection laws
-- but insurers routinely flout it, according to a
report released yesterday by New York City Public
Advocate Mark Green. Posing as prospective
clients, Green's investigators called 12 of the
region's health maintenance organizations,
including some of the largest on Long Island and
in Queens, to get information about their
complaint records, lists of covered prescription
drugs and medical proced...
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Animal Rights Activists Pet Owners
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ISSUE: For the most part, we would not be able to
live very comfortably without them. The question
of what is considered proper treatment of animals
has been highly debated by groups looking at both
the moral and ethical issues of the situation.
What exactly is our proper role with regard to
non-human creatures? Do they have any rights, or
may we do as we please with them? These are
questions that politicians all over the world have
been arguing about for many years, and still is as
controversia...
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