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Legalization Of Marijuana Violent Crimes
1,115 wordsIn 1978 the state legislator of New Mexico made a law allowing physicians to prescribe marijuana to patients suffering from nausea caused by chemotherapy, much of this due to the efforts of a cancer patient by the name of Lynn Pierson. The Federal government modified the law to make it comply with IND regulations requiring a research program. The FDA also demanded many studies and required the doctors to fill out many pages of forms for every patient and documenting their progress, slowing the p...
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Difficult To Determine Possession Of Marijuana
1,224 words... state is itself an underestimate. The extent is difficult to determine because of the illegal nature of the trade; however, it is substantial. Emergency room mentions of marijuana and hashish have also increased dramatically, from 3, 818 in 1985 to an estimated 8, 200 in 1988 (NNICC, 1989). Note that there is a very high degree of concomitance associated with these figures. More than 80 % of the mentions are in combination with other drugs (NIDA, 1988). Without a reliable count of the number...
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Women And Men Social Responsibility
1,669 words... one's judgment and other people's will which tends to make us a helpless mob, mere sheep, instead of wise free, strong individuals. " Gilman's most explicit discussions of education and its impact on women were presented in The Man-Made World, Herland, and Concerning Children. In The Man-Made World, Gilman analyzed the anglocentric nature of society and strove to "point out what are masculine traits as distinct from human ones, and what has been the effect on our human life of the unbridled ...
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Lack Of Communication Third Stanza
781 wordsParents often have the desire to give to their children no matter how much pain it brings to themselves. In Robert Hayden's poem Those Winter Sundays, the father does whatever is necessary to make his family comfortable. In the early morning he awakens to a cold house and rises to prepare a fire that will warm the house for the rest of the family. As the son grows older and matures, he realizes that he should have praised his father for the many sacrifices he has made in the past. Hayden uses im...
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Millions Of Dollars Equally Important
807 wordsIn the past, the effect on the environment and its living creatures wasn't a top issue when building military bases. Unquestionably, it has been a concern though. Since flying first became a reality, documented safety reports go back as far as eighty-eighty years. As a result of not making it a number one priority, today we have problems with environmental organizations under the Endangered Species Act and millions of dollars are spent on scientific systems and even more lost to accidents and fi...
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Human Resource Department Training And Development
1,266 words... at other branches and then prizes such as vouchers, holidays, cars, etc. Delegation Delegation is also a key issue in management styles, in order for a manager at Thornton's to delegate successfully, they must achieve the following: . Identify a suitable person for the task. Prepare the person, explain task clearly make sure employees understand task and leave room in task for initiative. Make sure the subordinate has the necessary skills and experience to achieve the task successfully. Keep...
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Gun Control And Violence
1,145 wordsAbstract An ever-growing problem of violence faces Americans. Our streets became a battleground where the elderly are beaten for their social security checks, terrified women viciously attacked and raped, teen-age gangsters shoot it out for a patch of turf to sell their illegal drugs, and innocent children caught daily in the crossfire of drive-by shootings die. Society cannot ignore the damage that these criminals do to our society, and people must take actions to stop these horrors. Gun Contro...
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Richard M Nixon White House
1,040 words... ness contributors). Despite Nixon's efforts 'to bring us together, ' the war contributed to the strained relationship between the Nixon administration, the press, and the Republican Party. Nixon ran for reelection as an overwhelming favorite. Vietnam had been largely defused as an issue, although fighting continued through election day. New diplomatic discussions with China and Russia had appealed to the public's desire for peace. Inflation had lessened temporarily. The Democratic presidenti...
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Booker T Washington Separate But Equal
1,047 wordsAffirmative Action? Affirmative Action has been frivolously debated throughout the past 135 years. Citizens of the United States question whether the government should grant certain advantages to races that have endured bigotry in the past. This plan goes by the name of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action is a federally subsidized program that encourages universities and other educational institutions, to accept a greater number of minority students. Throughout the years, Affirmative Action a...
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Women As A Minority Group
1,269 wordsWomen have been discriminated against since the beginning of time, as early as the first people, Adam and Eve. Eve was called the evil one, who ate fruit from the tree of knowledge. Once she had the knowledge to know right from wrong, she chose to do wrong and give the fruit to Adam. Examples like these can be shown all over history books, in stories, tales and legends across the entire world. Women have been subordinate to men in virtually all societies throughout history. The ideology that one...
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Adolf Hitler Nazi Regime
612 wordsThe Nazi Olympics Richard D. Mandell Theme: Many events of The Nazi Olympics surround this sporting festival to make it one of the controversial events in sport history. Not only does Mandell cover the 1936 Olympic Games themselves but he gives insight to the history of the modern games, participation by the United States, the role of the games in the Nazi propaganda efforts and portrays heroes and key figures. Mandell wrote about the intersection of sport and politics and how world leaders set ...
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Means Of Production Communist Society
1,068 words... personal but a social power. Making property public then, as the communist wants to do, is not changing the private to the social; it is only modifying its already inherent social character. Returning to the condition of the wage laborer, Marx argues that 'the average price of wage labor is the minimum wage, i. e. the quantum of the means of subsistence which is the absolutely requisite to keep the laborer in bare existence as a laborer' (97). The proletariat, then, is absolutely dependent o...
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Socialist Market Economy Reform And Opening China's
401 wordsWu said that although China hopes to solve this problem as soon as possible, it is prepared for new difficulties and obstacles it will face in the entry process. No matter what the outcome, she said, China will not stop but rather speed up its reform and opening drive. She noted that China's position on entering WTO is firm and clear, and China's entry will be not only beneficial to China but also to all members of WTO and the development of the world economy. Wu said that China asked to join th...
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Social Learning Theory Skills And Abilities
914 wordsI have carried out a single case study of a branch of Safeway in Scotland. My aim is to identify the value of coaching and training to style of coaching used and analyse if it is being implemented and if so if it is improving performance within the staff. Another goal is to find possible solutions to revealed problems and suggest the ways of solving them. 2. Literature review and current knowledge Training is a learning experience in that it seeks a relatively permanent change in an individual t...
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Oriented Policing Community Policing
865 wordsCommunity policing produces improved relations between people and their police as a welcome by-product of delivering high-quality decentralized and personalized police service to the community at the grass roots level. To summarize, community orientated policing is a matter of giving people what they deserve. The innocent deserve the highest level of protection we can provide, they have the right to feel secure and that feeling may be as important as actually being secure. The guilty on the othe...
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Pre Fire Chicago Union Stock Yards City
776 wordsThe exact particulars of the great Chicago Fire are unknown besides the fact that it started about 9 p. m. on Sunday, October 8, 1871. There have been persistent theories that the 1871 Fire was caused by a comet. The latest comet theory was proposed by physicist Robert Wood. He attributed the blazes to a fragment from Bills comet. He stated that for large fires, all on the shores of Lake Michigan, took place on the same day. But none of the comet theories has been accepted. Only regional weather...
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Franco Prussian War South German States
1,267 wordsFranco-Prussian War, war in 1870 - 1871 lost by France to the German states under the leadership of Prussia. The underlying causes of the conflict were the determination of the Prussian statesman Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck to unify Germany under Prussian control and, as a step toward this goal, to eliminate French influence over Germany. On the other hand, Napoleon III, emperor of France from 1852 to 1870, sought to regain both in France and abroad the prestige lost as a result of n...
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Water Supply Human Population
1,173 wordsThe article being discussed was entitled Tapped Out and was written by Peter Gleick. It focuses on the depleting supply of our Earths freshwater resources. How it effects the human population, and how the problem will develop in years to come. The question being asked is will we be able to sustain enough freshwater to satisfy all the worlds needs? And what will we do about the present lack of clean freshwater in many underdeveloped countries all around the world. The reason why is quite obvious....
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Title Ix Athletic Departments
1,150 wordsGender Equality In College Sports? An on going issue facing education today is the growing controversial topic of gender equality in sports participation and its so call quota for achieving equality. The most notable action that has taken place as women continue to strive towards equality in the athletic realm is what is known as, Title IX. The basic ideas underlying Title IX are that if an institution sponsors an athletics program, it must provide equal athletic opportunities for members of bot...
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Church At Ariccia Saint Peter Bernini
642 wordsGiovanni Lorenzo Bernini was one of the, if not the most, important artistic talents of the Italian baroque. He was born in 1598 and died in 1680, shortly after his 82 nd birthday. Bernini along with Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer, Poussin, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Vel zquez made Italy, for three centuries, the light of the Western world. Bernini was thelist of the three dimensional artists in Italy. Bernini was not only a sculptor. He was extremely gifted as an architect, painter, draftsman, designer of...
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