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Ben R Finney Polynesian Outliers A Computer Simulation Sharp
1,751 wordsAndrew Sharp claims in his Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific published in 1956 that the Pacific Islanders did not possess the necessary navigational and sailing technology to deliberately navigate the distances between islands of the Pacific when colonizing these islands. He claims colonization was random and accidental. However, more recent studies from 1972 on of Pacific navigation suggest deliberate navigation and colonization was possible and did take place. These studies have been supported b...
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The Political Career Of Richard Nixon
1,226 words... tes' relationship with communist countries around the globe as he became the first US president to visit the city of Moscow on May 20, 1972. He met with the Soviet leader Brezhnev and signed the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) treaty (Aitken, 1993, 438). As the presidential election of 1972 came close, Nixon was almost guaranteed of re-election, as his visits to Beijing and Moscow won him great popularity back home. The American economy had also been improving steadily under the Nixon...
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American Psychological Association Televised Violence
2,638 wordsWhen children are taught how to tie their shoes, it is because of how their parents showed them. When children are taught how to do math problems it is because how their teachers show them. With all of the role models how does television effect our children? Many adults feel that because they watched television when they were young and they have not been negatively affected then their children should not be affected as well. What we must first realize is that television today is different than t...
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Socio Economic Status Alcohol Related Problems
4,421 wordsIntroduction The focus of this paper is alcoholism. The aspects that will be examined in the following pages are the biology of alcoholism, and the genetic basis determining that alcoholism is a hereditary disease. Clarification of the phases of alcoholism as well as possible explanations of the nature of the disease will be offered. Examination of studies concerning biological markers associated with alcoholism and advanced animal testing will allow further understanding of alcoholism and relat...
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Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights Act
4,307 wordsFormer Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, who built his political career on segregation and spent a tormented retirement arguing that he was not a racist in his heart, died Sunday night at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery. He was 79 and lived in Montgomery, Ala. Wallace died of respiratory and cardiac arrest at 9: 49 p. m. , said Dana Beverly, a spokeswoman for Jackson Hospital in Montgomery. Wallace had been in declining health since being shot in his 1972 presidential campaign by a 21 -year-old ...
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American Psychological Association Televised Violence
2,696 wordsIMPACT OF TELEVISION Untitled IMPACT OF TELEVISION VIOLENCE IN RELATION TO JUVENILE DELINQUENCYTABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Effects Of Television The Beginning Correlational Experiments Field Experiments Cause And Effects On Types Of ChildrenConclusionReferences 113568 When children are taught how to tie their shoes, it is because of how their parents showed them. When children are taught how to do math problems it is because how their teachers show them. With all of the role models how does t...
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