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Legalization Of Marijuana Medicinal Purposes
1,578 wordsWhen Olympic officials decided to give snowboarder Ross Rebagliati his gold medal back, the cheers drowned out the boos. It was a minor scandal involving a minor sport, but it spoke volumes about the world's shifting relationship with its favorite illicit drug. Marijuana. A decade ago, Rebagliati would have been ostracized regardless of whether cannabis was on the list of his sport's banned substances. What's changed today is that our attitudes towards illegal drugs are becoming more sophisticat...
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Cell Phones Ban The Bans
974 wordsA young girl riding in her mothers car is killed when a driver, talking on his cell phone, runs a stop sign in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Further south in a suburb of Camden, New Jersey, a driver ploughs through a group of pedestrians. An elderly couple dies as a result of his efforts to retrieve a dropped cigarette. In western Ohio, a driver causes serious injury to a father and son on their way home from a fishing expedition. The offending driver was changing stations on his radio and unkno...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
1,286 wordsAttention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a problem that affects 5 % to 10 % of all children. ADD affect more children than any other childhood problems except asthma. It is estimated to be the largest single cause for first referrals to child guidance clinics throughout the country, making up as many as 40 % of those cases. Many ADD cases are not diagnosed because the problem most often does not show in the doctors office. Current estimates suggest that approximately 50 to 65 % of the children with A...
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24 Hours A Day Chapter 1
2,149 words... e that the law is foolish, the law is uncaring and cold, money sent into the vast coldness and blackness of space and the indirect application of space money to defensive and offensive militaristic operations should be sent across the big rivers (in the airplanes that do not fly beyond our dying ozone layer) dividing our land masses and dividing our people the first step is to change the governments use of money... but how? tomorrow a closed door, a dark room awakened by rotation of light sw...
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Fingers To The Buttons Test The Player Distraction
875 wordsThus the situation of characters within videogames shows an example of distraction, the test-space and its tactile appropriation through habituation. Initially, the player encounters the characters or objects in an optical, contemplative sense. An unfamiliar videogame is prone to prompt such thoughts: Can I jump this chasm? Am I strong enough to overcome that enemy? A player at this stage will likely look for representational cues to choose a course of action. As the player becomes habituated an...
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Des Nt Example F
1,954 wordsCritique Essay: The Myth of The Ergodic Videogame, by James Newman James Newman wrote an interesting paper concerning the issue of videogames. The paper is called The myth of the ergodic videogame and it expresses the authors attitudes towards the development of the game industry within the conceptual frameworks of the whole e-commerce industry. This paper can actually be classified as descriptive essay with the elements of explanation in it. Academics have recently begun to devote much-needed a...
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Nonverbal Communication Baseball Team
1,720 wordsTo the True Meaning The theme of this paper is to dissect the first fight scene; in the movie Bull Durham, between Crash Davis; who is played by Kevin Costner; and Nuke LaLoosh; who is played by Tim Robbins. The fight takes place in a bar scene between these two men who have never met before. The reason for the fight is that Crash Davis is talking to a women by the name of Annie Savoy who is sitting at one of the tables. Nuke already believes that Annie is going to be with him all season long, b...
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York Holt Rinehart Long Term Memory
1,914 wordsIn a monthly marketing meeting, the marketing manager wants 5 of his staffs to conduct a research on market share on 5 different areas. Each staff is assigned a territory. The manager rejects, one month later in the same meeting, one of the 5 reports because the research is on the wrong territory. If we assume the ability of all staffs is the same, then it is obviously a communication breakdown that causes the wrong research was conducted. The consequence of misunderstanding may be costly to a c...
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Long Term Memory Nonverbal Communication
1,423 wordsIs Anybody Listening, I Mean Really Listening? I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway. Often when a misunderstanding occurs, it is attributed to a lack of communication, which most of the time implies that whoever was delivering the message did not do an effective job. But what about the other side, the listener? Listening is important. It is the communication skill most often used in human interaction. Between 45 and 55...
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Sexual Dysfunction Sexual Arousal
2,600 wordsThe Role Of Self Focus As AThe Role Of Self Focus As A Function Of Significance In Sexual Dysfunction Introduction It is a popular belief that being physically attractive is of greater importance for women than for men in today? s society, particularly in attracting the opposite sex. Several studies have found support for this difference in the context of dating and mate selection. In an early study, Strauss (1946) asked what traits would be most critical in a marriage partner and found that mal...
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Studying For An Exam Studying For An Examination Study
550 wordsStudying for an Examination Many students think reading and studying for an examination are the same thing; and because of this misunderstanding, students do not know how to study for an examination. Reading is the act of rendering texts aloud or a public or private recitation of a written material. Whereas studying is actually concentrating, understanding, and reviewing what has been read. First of all, where to study for an examination is just as important as studying for an exam. If you find ...
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