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Prince William Sound Exxon Valdez
874 wordsThe Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: 10 Years Later The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: 10 Years Later Four minutes after midnight on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound. Eleven million gallons of North Slope oil spewed into one of the most bountiful marine ecosystems in the world, killing birds, marine mammals, fish, and devastating the ecosystem. (Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Could It Happen Again? , 2000, May 10) Exxon claims the Sound has recovered, but envi...
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World War Ii U S Army
1,266 wordsGeneral Douglas MacArthur was born on Jan. 26, 1880 at Little Rock Barracks, Arkansas. He died April 5, 1964 in Washington, D. C. He was the general who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II, administered postwar Japan during the Allied occupation that followed, and led United Nations forces during the first nine months of the Korean War. MacArthur was the third son of Arthur MacArthur, Jr. , later the army's senior ranking officer, and Mary Hardy MacArthur, an ambitious woman ...
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Parent Child Relationship Marijuana Usage
1,200 words... - 0. 22 Mother Similarity-Youth - 0. 33 Mother Emulation-Youth - 0. 37 Father Emulation-Youth - 0. 20 +p 0. 1; p 0. 05; p 0. 01; p 0. 001. This table consists of only the scales significantly related to the adolescent marijuana usage with the exception of father AIDS. From the table above, we see that the greater the fathers marijuana usage the more frequent his child will use marijuana. A close parent-child mutual attachment, the more admiration, affection, warmth, and child-center ness the...
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Authority Figures College Students
514 wordsThe Milgram experiment is one of Psychology's most controversial experiments. The study examines to what extend individuals obey an authority figure, and how far they will go, even if they believe their actions are harming another individual. This experiment found that sixty-two percent of subjects tested would obey authority even to the point of taking another individuals life. The question currently under investigation is if this experiment were conducted at Oklahoma State University during pr...
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Acts Of Violence Televised Violence
1,981 wordsThe other day while I was in a local McDonalds, I noticed a disturbing scene. A father and two young boys were waiting in line to get an early lunch. The younger of the two boys lay dozing off, while the other more energetic ran around, playing with things as most five years olds do. The young boy walking around saw a toy that was claimed to be included in the infamous Happy Meal. He pleaded quietly with his father, who told him that he would get whatever toy came with the meal. Unsatisfied, the...
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Group Of People Cross Sectional
1,130 wordsThe word survey comes from the Middle English survey or the French surveyor, "to look or to see." In research it means the collection of data from multiple respondents. Survey research refers to asking questions and the collection of data. Survey research is versatile. Although it does not make laboratory experimentation completely obsolete, survey research is very useful and beneficial. There are three main survey designs: cross-sectional, panel and trend. The cross sectional survey design samp...
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Violence On Tv Leonard Eron
1,300 wordsA major topic of conversation nowadays is whether or not violence on television causes children to behave more violently. Shortly after I began to research this topic, I realized that it is not a clear cut issue. Evidence can be easily found to support each position. In the following essay I will examine the different positions that can ba taken on this topic and try ro form my own view on the affect violent TV has on children. The first position I will examine is the one in which it is believed...
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Five Fingers Big Brother
1,156 wordsSomeone has always been there to tell you what to do in life. As a young child, you were told to behave properly and not to eat too many sweets. As you grew older and older, it seemed as if the responsibilities became greater and greater in number. Even as an adult, there was always an officious boss telling you what to do. There was always some higher force that bound your actions. Authority was the major theme in the novel 1984, by George Orwell. Authority was also a profound factor in Stanley...
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Business And Christian Ethics
1,632 wordsYour behavior towards other s is a matter of making choices: whether to be friendly or unfriendly; whether to tell the truth or to lie; whether to be generous or greedy; whether to study in order to pass an exam or to spend valuable study time watching television and then cheat to pass it. These, and all other questions about how people act toward themselves and one another are dealt with in a field of study called ethics. Ethics is a code of conduct and values that are accepted by society as be...
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Child Abuse And Neglect Make A Difference
829 wordsOur nations is at war with a crime that has existed over the years and yet, we are still not gaining substantial ground in winning. That war is abuse toward our nations youth. Millions of children each year are being struck, violated, or put into any unspeakable situations that a child should go through. Every act of violence leaves a permanent scare in a childs life and in some cases, those scares never have a chance to form because they are brutally murdered for whatever brutal act was infring...
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Violence On Tv Violent Behavior
627 wordsEnglish 111, Section 06 23 October 1999 TV: The Other Parent Is it parents fault or childrens that they sit hours in front their big glowing box mesmerized, and learning violent behavior as a means of relating to others. The truth about television violence and children has been shown. Studies have been carried out and all the results point to the same conclusion: Violence on Television affects the behavior of children who are watching it. In fact, violence on TV causes children to be increasingl...
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Anti Psychotic Drugs Neurodegenerative Diseases
1,169 words1. Memory Mechanism Found At Nerve Cell Connections In The Brain Date published: May 19, 2000 2. Drug Psychotherapy Combo Found Highly Effective in Depression Study Date published: May 24, 2000 3. Suckling Behavior of Newborn Rats Can Be Manipulated Through Use of Scents, Date published: May 29, 2000 4. Study Opens Doors to Significant Changes in Medications for Schizophrenia Date published: June 16, 2000 5. New Scientific Theory May Change How Treatments for Inherited Neurodegenerative Disease ...
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Tay Sachs Genetic Disorder
590 wordsThe genetic disorder I have looked at in this scientific statement is Tay-Sachs disease or TSD, a serious, inherited fatal brain disorder. The disease is named after Warren Tay, a British ophthalmologist who first described the disease in 1881 and a New York neurologist, Bernard Sachs; who first described the cellular changes and the genetic nature of the disease in 1887. This rare hereditary disease is caused by a genetic mutation that leaves the body unable to produce an enzyme; a protein that...
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Reading This Book Watching Television
655 wordsI have just read Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman states that the age of typography has been replaced by the age of television. This has changed the way we look at the world and the way we think, which in turn has almost made us less intelligent. Postman speaks his opinions freely, and really gives the reader a new perspective on media, and the effect it has on society. To often we think nothing of what we see and read in the media, but after reading this book you see things a lot d...
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Biological Warfare Agents Women And Children
1,480 wordsThesis: Biological Warfare is morally and inhumanely wrong, It is the wrongful killing of men, women, and children. It should be stopped no matter what the circumstances are. I. Introduction into the bad effects of biological warfare through some examples. a. Example of single affect of biological warfare b. Example of a country using Biological Warfare II. Definition of Biological Warfare a. Biological Warfare Agents i. Micro-Organisms ii. Toxins b. History of biological warfare i. Definition i...
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Greater Risk Study Suggests
735 wordsEcstasy: Are Women More Susceptible To Brain Damage? The rave scene. Its becoming a popular way to kick-back for high school and college kids. Everyone is doing it at parties. Unfortunately, this party isnt all fun and games. Drugs are prevalent at raves. Ecstasy, one of the most popular drugs abused there is like the tiny insects that arent widely feared, but can be deadly. It looks small and innocent, but its more harmful than you may think. Ecstasy is actually C 11 H 15 NO 2, which means. New...
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Potentially Harmful Drug Abuse
1,089 words... out running a test on it. Ecstasy testing kits are portable and discreet testing kits which are quick, easy to use, relatively simple, and inexpensive products which allow people to test unknown pills to help determine their contents. Because the quality of street ecstasy is notoriously poor, having the ability to at least narrow down the possible contents can help reduce the risks associated with the use of street ecstasy. They are important because they can test if a pill contains Ecstasy/...
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Nuclear Chain Reaction Atomic Bomb
1,065 wordsBackground of the Atomic Bomb It was during the Second World War that the United States became a world power, thanks in a large part to its monopoly on atomic weapons. The atomic bomb is a weapon with great explosive power that results form the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission of the nuclei of such heavy elements as plutonium or uranium. This new destructive force wrecked havoc on two Japanese cities and caused the end of World War II. It also saved thousands of American l...
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Term Papers Pirated Software
1,228 wordsNo one denies that the Internet is the most useful tool for research, business, and education, yet the Internet is the subject of a topic that is as controversial as the legalities of abortion or homosexual rights: ethics and the Internet. Many racy, illegal, and controversial materials are available on the Internet such as pornography and pirated software; on the other hand, many educational tools are on-line as well. This brings a need for a case of ethics in the Internet realm. A definition o...
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Teen Suicide Year Olds
344 wordsEvery year Suicide Teen Suicide Every year thousands of teens die in the United States, not from cancer or car accidents, but by their own hand; they make the choice that they want to die, and they take their own life. Statistics conducted in 1996 reveal that every 42 seconds a teenager attempts suicide and every 16. 9 minutes a teenager completes it. Many people think that the matter is not factual, and they try to sweep teen suicide under the carpet. Yet it is all true. Suicide is the fastest ...
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