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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Percent Of The Respondents
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... exponents were given a list of 16 problems
identified in previous relationship studies and
asked to CHECK ONLY ONE which was the MOST
frequent problem they had experienced in their
current or most recent relationship. It is clear
that communication topped the list for both casual
and involved daters. Lack of commitment was the
second most frequently reported problem by casual
daters. While casual daters were struggling with
commitment issues, the second most frequent
problem reported by invo...
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Sri Lanka Rainy Season
2,012 words
Gliricidia was first used in Mexico to provide
shade for cacao plantations. It is from this use
that the Aztecs labeled the tree "Madre de Cacao"
(Mother of cacao). Later, in the 18 th Century,
Gliricidia was brought to Sri Lanka to provide
shade for coffee plantations. Today, the tree's
long leafy branches are used to shade vanilla and
tea crops as well. The tree is also known in
Spanish as "Palo de Hierrro" (Tree of Iron) which
eludes to Gliricidia's hard, heavy wood. This
makes it ideal for f...
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White Collar Workers Racial Discrimination
1,347 words
Job stress has proven to be a difficult issue for
the workplaces and the labor movement to tackle.
Unlike physical or chemical hazards, there is not
an obvious tangible hazardous agent. This issue
has also been preempted by corporate stress
management, health promotion, or employee
assistance programs, which explain stress as a
purely personal reaction, and often treat the
symptoms, not the causes, of job stress. The
occupational stress field also has been plagued by
a variety of definitions and...
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Critically Evaluate Marginal And Absorption Costing
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3. 1 Introduction The key issue between absorption
costing and marginal costing is how the costs of a
business's input resources are best organised and
presented so as to identify individual product /
service and total business profit. The choice of
costing system may be influenced by the costing
method. Specific order costing methods will
frequently deploy full absorption costing. One
reason for this is that the pricing of each unique
piece of work will invariably make reference to
the total co...
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Christian Science Monitor Low Self Esteem
1,783 words
The problem we are facing today with violence in
the schools is a major concern with communities
everywhere. Juvenile homicide is twice as common
today as it was in the mid 1980 's. It isn't the
brain that the kids are born with that has changed
in half a generation; what has changed though is
the easy access to guns and the glorification of
revenge in real life and in entertainment. Crime
in and around schools is threatening the well
being of students, as well as the staff and
surrounding commu...
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Oklahoma City Bombing Traumatic Stress
1,396 words
Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence
against persons or property to intimidate or
coerce a government, the civilian population, or
any segment thereof, in furtherance of political
or social objectives. -- FBI Definition On Tuesday
September 11 th, 2001 our Nation was forever
changed. Following the single largest terrorist
attack ever experienced by this country, thousands
are dead or missing, tens of thousands of people
in this country know someone who was killed or
injured, and ma...
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Job Satisfaction Dependent Variables
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Scenario 1 The Effect of parent help in classrooms
on childrens reading ability Introduction With the
increase of educational methods and technologies
in American regular primary classrooms, there has
been an increase in the variety of instructional
methods applicable to address academic
performance. Hence, the teachers nowadays have
access to plenty of methods formulated from a
research basis able to affect children's
performance in class (Alberto & Troutman, 1999).
The observational study was ...
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Of Gulf War Veterans
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder of Gulf War
Veterans Military personnel involved in service in
the Gulf War have a greater prevalence of
self-reported and medically detected medical and
psychiatric conditions than those serving
elsewhere in the military during the same time.
Deviations from normal psychiatric conditions
varied significantly from cognitive dysfunction
and symptoms of alcohol abuse to post-traumatic
stress disorder. Public awareness of
post-traumatic stress disorder has increased f...
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Divorced Children Vs Married Parents Part 1
1,903 words
Divorced parents' children vs. Married parents
children Each year, more than 1 million children
experience the divorce of their parents. In 1995,
less than 60 % of US children were living with
both biologic parents, almost 25 % were living
with their mother only, approximately 4 % were
living with their father only, and the rest were
living with step - families, adoptive families, or
foster families (including other relatives). It is
estimated that there are 500 000 new divorced
fathers each yea...
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Child Abuse Prevention First Degree Murder
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Child Abuse Laws David A. delpezzso ABSTRACT Child
abuse is a social problem that affects millions of
children each year. Not only does child abuse have
multiple societal repercussions, but also
individual repercussions that produce lifelong
scars. There are many forms of child abuse;
sexual, physical, verbal, and emotional. Some of
the facts presented in this paper will be painful
to absorb. That does not change the fact that
these problems must be addressed. It has been
reported that one out o...
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Womens Basketball Physical Characteristics
1,456 words
Epidemiology of Varsity Sports Varsity sports is
in many schools as important as academics,
especially in the United States. These schools
rely a great deal on the success of their teams
for financial stability and enrollment interest.
The athletes as well take their sport very
seriously, if only for the sake of their pride. It
therefore follows that each team strives to be the
very best, and only 100 % effort is enough.
Unfortunately, when competition climaxes, more
often than not injuries resu...
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Law Enforcement Agencies 100 000 Population
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Crime In the United States Introduction: Our
report is on Crime in the United States. Crime is
a major problem all over the world, but we are
focusing on the crime problem right here in our
own country. We have listed some different
statistics, problems, and solutions. FBI Crime
Statistics: Final 1995 crime statistics showed
that 13. 9 million Crime Index offenses were
reported to law enforcement across the Nation. The
1995 total represents a rate of 5, 278 offenses
for every 100, 000 United Sta...
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Ovarian Cancer Oral Contraceptives
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Of all gynecologic malignancies, ovarian cancer
continues to have the highest mortality and is the
most difficult to diagnose. In the United States
female population, ovarian cancer ranks fifth in
absolute mortality among cancer related deaths
(13, 000 /yr). In most reported cases, ovarian
cancer, when first diagnosed is in stages III or
IV in about 60 to 70 % of patients which further
complicates treatment of the disease (Barber, 3).
Early detection in ovarian cancer is hampered by
the lack of ...
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Marijuana Cigarettes Nineteenth Century
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HISTORY OF WEED Marijuana in the New World By:
Erica Marijuana in the New World The first
definite record of the marijuana plant in the New
World dates from 1545 AD, when the Spaniards
introduced it into Chile. It has been suggested,
however, that African slaves familiar with
marijuana as an intoxicant and medicine brought
the seeds with them to Brazil even earlier in the
sixteenth century. There is no record that the
Pilgrims brought marijuana with them to Plymouth
but the Jamestown settlers di...
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Human Rights Abuses Costa Rica
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In attempting to establish the current state of
development in Latin America, historical
chronology serves as the foundation necessary for
a comprehensively logical position. Latin American
development has evolved in distinct phases, which
lead to the present day standings of the politics
and peoples throughout the region. The culmination
of distinct historical attributes: conquest,
colonialism, mercantilism, capitalism,
industrialism, and globalism, serve as the
developmental path from the past...
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Mad Cow Disease European Union
1,659 words
Mad Cow Disease There are two new diseases in a
growing line to plague humankind. Bovine
Spongiform Encenphalopathy and its human form,
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, better known as mad cow
disease, are new kinds of diseases that appear to
be unstoppable. Mad Cow disease is caused by a
mutated chain of proteins in a strand of DNA.
Because it is neither a virus nor a bacterium, the
protein chain has been named a prion. What happens
is still unknown, but the theory is that an animal
ingests a mutated...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Crime Scene
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America, the land of the free, the land of the
just. It is here, where people from all over the
world can come for refuge from tyranny. Here,
people are not judged by their color, but by who
they are. Too bad it isnt true, for what you are
about to read will contradict everything that
America is supposed to be. Mumia Abu Jamal, a
former Philadelphia journalist, was put through an
unfair and biased trial, then convicted of
murdering a Philadelphia cop in 1982, and has been
on death row since. And...
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Play An Important Role Nucleic Acid
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Abstract/Keywords: Bacterial 65279; NatureS
Smallest Syringe: 65279; Abstract/Keywords:
Bacterial viruses play an important role in the
development of molecular biology. Thousands of
different phages have been isolated and almost
every one is uniquely suited to the investigation
of a different biochemical or genetic event. With
the experiments of dHerelle, Twort and the Phage
group, the understanding of phages processes have
grown throughout this century. Because of the many
differences exi...
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Low Self Esteem Drugs And Alcohol
1,715 words
The problem we are facing today with violence in
the schools is a major concern with communities
everywhere. Juvenile homicide is twice as common
today as it was in the mid 1980 s. It isnt the
brain that the kids are born with that has changed
in half a generation; what has changed though is
the easy access to guns and the glorification of
revenge in real life and in entertainment. Crime
in and around schools is threatening the well
being of students, as well as the staff and
surrounding communi...
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Bodily Harm Racial Ethnic
6,149 words
Georgia, Colorado, Virginia, Oregon, Michigan, and
Tennessee are the sites in which some of the most
viscous school crimes have occurred. In this day
and age it seems as if school isnt a safe haven
for Americas children anymore. School shootings
are on the rise more than ever in todays society
with kids as young as 9 years old committing these
gruesome crimes against their classmates and
instructors. To see this type of action among kids
is heartbreaking and sad. People wonder what makes
a child...
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