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Legalized Gambling Excise Taxes
1,168 wordsThe squeeze is on. Demand for government to decrease it's reliance on sales, property, and income taxes as sources of revenue is continuing to rise, leaving policy makers scrambling for new, less painful sources of revenue. Also going up are the costs of providing public services, entitlement programs, and conducting the other various functions of government. This upward spiral requires that they simultaneously look for better, cheaper, and more effective spending strategies. It is no wonder tha...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Cognitive Behavioral
1,003 words... eople with OCD report that the symptoms can come and go on their own. Individuals with OCD may have substance-abuse problems, sometimes as a result of attempts to self-medicate. Specific treatment for the substance abuse is usually also needed. After a proper diagnosis, there are many treatments available for patients suffering from OCD. However, before any treatment is administered, the patient and family are educated about OCD and its treatment as a medical illness. First of all, there are...
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Lucid Dreams Dream World
1,082 wordsHere we are in agreement with FREUD that dreams are the "royal road" to the unconscious. But this is of little help when, in the orthodox psychoanalytic sense, normal dreams are experienced with a hazy consciousness and the absence of an ability to act. Or after waking when we report to a biased psychotherapist about our even more hazy and distorted observations and the associations connected to them. In order to gain insight into our psychological problems and resolve them, it is much more impo...
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Army Of The Potomac Cemetery Ridge
820 wordsGettysburg was the turning point in the American Civil War. More importantly Gettysburg was the climatic clash between the two major American cultures of their time: the North and the South. The victory on Gettysburg was brought by three different aspects within these three days: Buford's defense, Pickett's charge, and the defense of Lil' Round top. A climax of a conflict between two cultures with such vastly different ideals that they could not coexist in "one nation, under God, indivisible, wi...
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Low Wage Economic Growth
840 wordsThe North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is the largest trading block in the world with over a million customers with a combined annual gross domestic product GDP over $ 8 trillion dollars. The combined countries and the United States, Canada and Mexico. The most important benefit was to be the people of these countries. Some others are. 2. Oppositions. Arguments against NAFTA range from environment to wages and compensation for blue collar American work force. Some cities say that Americ...
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Green And Orange Combined With The Nature Station
1,139 wordsIt is never pleasant to wait in the cold for however long it takes for the train to arrive at the public transit stations, otherwise known in Boston as the T, during the winter. Nor is the thought of waiting during an intolerable heat wave in July to catch the subway across to the different communities of Boston. Honestly, there is never a time where I would call it enjoyable to sit inside of the MBTA. That was until I began to notice some of the art around me. I would have to say that the first...
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Works Of Art Political And Religious
1,142 words... ion of each was supposed to represent. Was it the past, present and future? Who was this man and whom is he supposed to represent? His features appeared to be of a black man. Is he representative of a passenger, who looks around him as he waits or leaves the station? Is this sculpture someone who I would see as I waited, as another face in the crowd? These were some of the questions the group I had collected along my way asked one another. The representation of the community within the sculp...
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E G Closely Related
1,071 wordsAlmost 60 years ago the first antibiotics were developed, and they were created at a time when previously untreatable infections such as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, and syphilis could be almost miraculously cured. Infections like these could be a death sentence, and until recently they many be just that again. Microbes are learning the ability to fight of these antibiotics and become resistant to them. They are gaining resistance through a number of different ways, and science is in a race to keep ...
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Mccormick Harvesting Machine Mccormick Harvesting Machine Company Time
623 wordsThe mechanical reaper. A time-saving invention which allowed farmers to more than double their crop size while at the same time spurring other innovations in farm machinery. This reaper, which combined all the steps that earlier harvesting machines had performed separately, was the brilliant innovation of a man, a man named Cyrus Hall McCormick. Born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, Cyrus was son to a man who's imagination also boggled with new inventions. As a child, Cyrus experimented with diff...
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Sodium Chloride Earth Crust
745 wordsSodium has an atomic number of 11 and a mass of about 23 g. It is a silvery white-metallic element classified under the alkali metals. Sodium has been known since early times and was used by the people of Mesopotamia and Egypt to make glasses. Sodium is the sixth most common element found on the earth. It is usually not found in nature but more often in compounds such as salt (NaCl). Sodium conducts heat and electricity easily. Without this element life could not exist. Each compound is used for...
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Italian Renaissance Middle Class
1,233 wordsThe Renaissance was the period from 1350 - 1600. The Renaissance began first in the city-states of Italy for many reasons. Although most of Europe had become a big economic crisis during the late Middle Ages, Italy managed to avoid everything and their towns remained important centers of Mediterranean trade and boost their production of textiles and luxury goods. Town life was bigger in Italy than in other parts of Europe. Therefore, most Italians could easily discard feudalism and other medieva...
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Twain Huck Finn Compared To The Movie
862 wordsThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic novel about a young boy who struggles to save and free himself from captivity, responsibility, and social injustice. Along his river to freedom, he aids and befriends a runaway slave named Jim. The two travel down the Mississippi, hoping to reach Cairo successfully. However, along the way they run into many obstacles that interrupt their journey. By solving these difficult tasks, they learn life lessons important to survival. The read...
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Nitrous Oxide Liquid Nitrogen
551 wordsNitrogen was isolated by the British physician Daniel Rutherford in 1772 and recognized as an elemental gas by the French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier about 1776. Properties Nitrogen is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, nontoxic gas. It can be condensed into a colorless liquid, which can in turn be compressed into a colorless, crystalline solid. Nitrogen exists in two natural forms of isotopes, and four radioactive isotopes have been artificially prepared. Nitrogen melts at - 210. 01 C (- 3...
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Stem Cell Research Vitro Fertilization
1,113 words... the health of the mother can be proven (United 148 - 55). Many speculate that Roe v. Wade will be overturned within the next fifty years, and possibly sooner. The laws may be changed to allow abortions completely, or to forbid them completely. Stem cells will definitely play a part in this decision. It is possible that the action of using fetuses to save lives can make abortions seem less evil. To terminate one life to save others is a decision that the world must make, and not make lightly....
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The French New Wave Of Early 1960s
1,753 wordsThe French New Wave of the early 1960 s In 1959 - early 1960 five directors released debut feature length films that are widely regarded as heralding the start of the French nouvelle vague or French New Wave. Claude Chabrols Le Beau Serge (The Good Serge, 1959) and Les Cousins (The Cousins, 1959) were released, along with Francois Truffaut's Les Quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows, 1959), Jean-Luc Godard's A bout de souffle (Breathless, 1960) and Alain Resnais Hiroshima mon amour (Hiroshima my lov...
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Diversity Of Instruments Andres Segovia Guitar
626 wordsHistory of the Guitar Throughout its centuries-old history, the guitar has alternately experienced times of extreme popularity and cultural obscurity. Through the diversity of instruments that now belong to the guitar family and through the diversity of musical styles played upon the guitar, its existence has now been secured. The guitar originated in Persia about four thousand years ago. Historians think that a resonating body such as a tortoise shell combined with the plucking of the hunting b...
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Consumption Of Alcohol Alcoholic Beverages
813 wordsIn Australia The Drinking Of Alcoholic Beverages In Australia The Drinking Of Alcoholic Beverages Is Legally And Socially Accepted In Australia the drinking of alcoholic beverages is legally and socially accepted, however excessive drinking has now become a major health &# 038; social problem. Discuss Alcohol abuse is a social problem that has largely increased over the years due to the increasing number of adolescents being introduced to this substance either by there parents, brothers and sist...
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Power Supply R R
1,665 wordsInvestigating The Factors Which Affect The Resistance Investigating The Factors Which Affect The Resistance Of A Wire Background KnowledgeRESISTANCEElectrons move more easily through some conductors when a potential difference is applied. Resistance is determined by how good or bad a conductor a material is. A good conductor has a low resistance while a poor conductor has a high resistance. THE OHM Resistance is defined by: R = V/I? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?...
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Performing Arts Film Festival
1,157 wordsChina, Korea, and Japan have been historically close for centuries, thus accounting for their numerous common artistic traditions. From pre-Christian times until the 8 th and 9 th century AD, the great trade routes crossed from the Middle East through Central Asia into China. Hinduism, Buddhism, some knowledge of ancient Greek, and much knowledge of Indian arts entered into China, and thence in time into Korea and Japan. Perhaps before Christ, the Central Asian art of manipulating hand puppets w...
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Darkness And Light Physical Beauty
978 wordsShe Walks in Beauty George Gordon Noel Byron's poem titled, She Walks in Beauty, plainly put, is a love poem about a beautiful woman and all of her features. The poem follows a basic iambic tetrameter with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable that allows for a rhythm to be set by the reader and can be clearly seen when one looks at a line: She walks / in beau / ty like / the night. T. S. Eliot, an American poet criticizes Byron's work by stating the poem, needs to be read very...
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