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Long Term Long Run
796 words
The Care And Feeding Of Your Investment Philosophy
If you are making a list of tasks you should
accomplish in 1988, here's one to add to the list:
Establish a well-balanced investment plan that
suits your personal financial needs and goals.
Every investor from the newest to the most
experienced needs to develop or redefine an
investment philosophy. The cornerstone of that
philosophy should be a realistic attitude toward
risk and return, especially in today's volatile
financial markets. What is y...
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Type Of Government Lord Of The Flies
634 words
The novel, Lord of the Flies, was written by
William Golding. William Golding was born on
September 19, 1911. His literary ambitions began
at the young age of seven. He received his
Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University in 1935.
His novels explore characters and situations. In
Lord of the Flies, it is a time of war. A group of
English schoolboys are on a plane, when they are
attacked and they have to evacuate their aircraft.
They find themselves on a remote island, somewhere
in the Pacific Oce...
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60 Km H Speed A Vehicle Driving
507 words
It is a familiar scene during prime-time
television: A young woman is shown driving a red
Mitsubishi Eclipse down a country road at very
high speed. The woman is -on her way to her
grandparents' home, and the car is going so fast
that it makes the house rumble when she arrives.
Meanwhile, the announcer declares: "It's
uncommonly fast, and fun to drive, and it makes
quite an entrance. " The steady stream of
advertisements like these, which continue to
promote dangerous driving behavior despite en...
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The Effects Of Media Violence On Children
1,017 words
THE EFFECTS OF MEDIA VIOLNCE ON CHILDREN On April
20 1999 two boys by the names of Dylan Klebold and
Eric Harris walked into their High school in the
little town of Combine Colorado and opened fire on
their fellow classmates. Some say it was the
parents others say just pure teen adolescence, I
say it was the media. In the 1950 's Television
was first introduced to America, only ten percent
of the families owned a one television in their
home, by 1960 that number increased to a mere 90 %
of the p...
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Affirmative Action Programs Civil Rights Movement
543 words
During the Civil Rights Movement there was many
successes and some failures. The Civil Rights
Movement consists of many different things. The
one event that I believe has failed is some ways
is Affirmative Action. Affirmative action programs
promote equal representation of minority groups in
the American workplace and public schools. It
seeks to remedy the effects of discrimination of
specific groups through the force of laws and
regulations. In practice, affirmative action can
be passive effort...
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France And Russia Status Quo
1,542 words
In exploring the origins of the First World War,
many diverse theories have been argued to whom is
primarily responsible for the commencement of
World War I. Lenin indicted imperialism as the
principal cause of the war. Woodrow Wilson saw the
culprit in secret diplomacy. Wilhelm II blamed an
anti-German conspiracy led by the English. Sir
Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary quoted
in his memoirs that the primary factor leading to
war was the arms race. In the drafting of the
Versailles tre...
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Juvenile Justice Juvenile Offenders
1,336 words
The post world-war II era saw an unprecedented
rate of growth for America. The birth of Corporate
America gave people an opportunity to move out of
the cities and into kinder, more picturesque
suburbs. Women were entering the workforce in
greater numbers. With two income families,
Americans had more money to spend on luxuries such
as boats, vacations and hobbies as they never had
before. This was the beginning of a time when
living was good, the quality of life was high, and
everyone seemed happ...
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Violent Crimes Death Penalty
891 words
People in Tolna county has been recently shocked
by a crime committee by three teenagers. They beat
their companion to death. They planned the murder,
lured the victim to a desolate place where there
was no mercy. They kicked, battered the poor boy
with a stick, then with a shovel, afterwards they
dragged him into a cellar and began to strangle
him with a string. They tortured him for more than
a half an hour before he died. The victim often
had boasted of his parents' wealthy situation,
consequ...
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World Health Organization Philip Morris
652 words
Tobacco Loss at Home Is a Gain Overseas Under the
stress of battling US regulators, the internal
tobacco industry mindset is getting easier to see.
It realizes it has lost the battle for America's
hearts and minds. It knows the public holds Big
Tobacco in low esteem and expects it to make as
few concessions to our health as possible. So why
do tobacco corporations bother to continue the
charade and keep putting their case before an
unreceptive public? Big Tobacco has turned up the
volume on dome...
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Environmental Conditions Environmental Factors
860 words
The behavior children exhibit is influenced by
environmental conditions, however to a lesser
extent than the biological factors that influence
behavior, unless the child is severely abused. The
environmental factors have a limited impact when
it comes to how a certain individual will behave
when faced with certain conditions. Children may
be taught how to react in certain situations, but
just because they see a violent movie or play a
violent video game they are not going to go to
school armed t...
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George W Bush Al Gore
584 words
On October 3 rd and on October 11 th I witnessed
the presidential debates on television. For the
most part the debates appeared to be a close match
between the candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush
but certain tactics, styles and organizational
patterns gave one opponent a slight edge on the
other. On October 3 rd Vice President Al Gore came
out with an aggressive style that is unusual to
him but in my opinion proved to be affective. Gore
used many hand gestures to emphasize is points.
Gore also...
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Teddy Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt
929 words
In the defining moments of our class lectures with
Dr. Rader he stated that, political realism can
act as the theoretical glue that holds together
all competing models and islands of theory. He
defined the four organizing concepts which
Machiavelli developed as his theory of political
realism. These include power, security,
self-interest, and human nature. In the first half
of the 1900 s Hans Morganthau, a University of
Chicago political scientist revamped and updated
Machiaqvellis theory in his...
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Gender Roles And Macbeth
1,019 words
... there is questioning of gender attributes and
roles, there is often a level of violence that
follows soon after. When Macduff receives word
that his wife and young son have been slain, he
begins to grieve openly. Malcolm, who had recently
made an alliance with Macduff, offhandedly
comments that Macduff should handle the situation
in a manly way. This is a cynical attack on his
character, and questions of his masculinity.
Macduff explains to Malcolm that he feels deep
sorrow for the death of ...
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Acts Of Violence Television Shows
1,224 words
Brainwashing Americas Youth Over many years of
research, studies have found that the television
violence has increased. Certain role model type
characters initiate most of these violent
behaviors. These are usually very aggressive
incidents and they very often include humor. The
average American preschooler who watches mostly
cartoons is exposed to over 500 high-risk
portrayals of violence each year (De Gaetano).
Youth violence has been growing throughout the
years. Some effects noticeable in ch...
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Low Self Esteem High Self Esteem
1,360 words
Body of Essay: Evaluation of the Communication in
the Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club film
contained a wide variety of communication. Within
this essay, the various types of communication and
behaviors within the film will be discussed. Key
terms will be pointed out and highlighted, as well
as described in relation to the examples extracted
from the film. To begin with the film started out
with a communication climate that was both tense
and without verbal communication. This was mainly
due to...
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Violence On Television Effects Of Violence
1,008 words
A few months ago when visiting a friend, I was
disturbed to see her eight-year old sister making
one of her Barbie dolls, in her Barbie Ferrari,
run over another Barbie. When I asked why she was
making her doll hurt the other doll she replied,
Because its funny. The Coyote gets run over all
the time, its funny. I then explained to her that
when cars hit people, many times the get hurt very
badly. Before one can understand how harmful
cartoon violence can be to children, one must
understand how e...
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Foster Dulles Cold War
1,257 words
Hist. 5240 james martel H. W. Brands claims that,
the burden of responsibility for the cold war
rested on the United States, the more powerful of
the two countries, and the one with less to fear
from the other. (The Devil We Knew: Americans and
the Cold War, 1993) This statement stems from the
idea that America had no evidential basis for a
foreign policy that called for a containment of
Soviet expansion. Brands is claiming that the US
had less to fear because an aggressive foreign
force did not...
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Mentally Retarded Baseball Bat
2,027 words
Bernard Lefkowitz? s Our Guys raises a lot of
issues, all of which have been discussed
throughout this semester. Just a few pages into
the book, words had already begun to jump out at
me, capturing my attention. ? The kids in Newark,
black and brown, speaking Spanglish, hoods over
their heads, wheeling their stolen cars over to
the local chop shop they were aliens in America.
Strange, forever separate and separated from the
American ideal. But these Glen Ridge kids, they
were pure gold, every mo...
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Health And Fitness Athletic Prowess
1,683 words
Masculinity is a topic that has been debated in
our society extensively, through research as well
as in informal settings. Many wonder what it means
to be masculine, and if we can really assign a
definition to such a term. After all, shouldnt
ones own perception determine what is masculine.
This would be ideal in our society, but
unfortunately, it isnt. Masculinity has certain
characteristics assigned to it by our culture. In
this paper I will explore masculinity and
demonstrate how certain beli...
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Year Old Boy Violence On Television
1,432 words
Effects of Television on Violence What has the
world come to these days? It often seems like
everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly
head. We see it in the streets, back alleys,
school, and even at home. The last of these is a
major source of violence. In many peoples living
rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often
goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the
children who view it are often pulled into its
realistic world of violence scenes with sometimes
devastating results. Muc...
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