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Injury and Safety Impacts of Bicycle Helmet Laws

enter emergency departments as a result of bicycle accidents (Business Wire, 1997). Over sixty percent of those individuals who d...

Historical Overview of Voodooism

African for Spirit(Corbett). "Vodou is tolerant. It receives. It honors and respects us all as though we were gifts. It tells us t...

House of Representatives and Proportionality

other house. Thus it is of a complicated nature; and this complication, I trust, will be found to exclude the evils of absolute co...

Are Cesarean Section Rates Too High?

physicians to their patients for cesarean procedures, rather than risk incurring suit by allowing a woman to go through the vagina...

An Architectural View of Centre Georges Pompidou

capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...

Education for the Deaf

part of its grammar and utilizes space to impart nuances of meaning. For example, the word "look," can be changed to mean "grace, ...

College Sports and Gambling

of the athletes (Sports Wagering, 2003). The NCAA argues that sports wagering of any kind "demeans the competition and competitor...

Twenty First Century Gun Control

gun control is that the existence, or presence, of guns in a private citizens home leads to more violence. Statistics have often i...

The Language of Black America: African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

Teaching Reading

explained the bottom up model: "the reader first identifies features of letters; links these features together to recognize letter...

Pyramide du Louvre by I.M. Pei

controversial as the actual building. (An adjective often preceding his name is "iconic.") For one thing, the idea that an America...

Reproductive Technology and Identity

to be inferior (Chesterton, 1922). The idea behind this premise was to protect the American "identity" which in many ways was stil...

Roles of Tobacco Scientists

In his book, Question of Intent (which basically blows the lid sky-high off the shenanigans in the tobacco industry), author David...

Competing Visions of Thomas Morton and William Bradford in 'The May Pole of Merry Mount' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...

Mystery Sonata in G Minor by Bach

J.S. Bach, such as pulsating basses and galant-sounding melodic lines (Baxendale, 2001). This has caused one critic to assert that...

An Overview of American Sign Language

In 1994, estimates suggest that upwards of 500,000 deaf Americans incorporated ASL into their daily communications, while many oth...

Social Issues in Education

and in the end, they will be accepted to prestigious universities that are much less accessible to the poor or middle class. This ...

Issues Leading Up to the Compromise of 1850 and Political Leadership During the Civil War (Abraham Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis)

by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...

The Enola Gay Exhibition

or at least appear as they would if they were in operating condition. There should also be flight suits, goggles, oxygen masks, si...

Inclusion - Costs And Outcomes

goals included the words "all students and all students meeting the goals, including those with disabilities (Walker and Ovington,...

Seat Belts on School Busses

fact that school busses are not equipped with seat belts, they are considered to be the safest vehicles on the road (Stoner, 1985)...

The Family Guy (Ethics Analysis)

censor themselves, from including offensive material? What is okay to air in the name of comedy? To some extent, The Family Guy cr...

“Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”

twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...

Leave Handicapped Spaces for the Handicapped

business or job, or "going outside the home alone to shop or visit a doctors office?" (2005 disability status reports: Texas). D...

The Vioxx Story

their advertisements towards physicians was misleading and then, in April of 2002, Merck had to slap a warning label on the box (T...

The Social Effects of Bionics

("bionics," 1996). The pacemaker is something that many are used to hearing about. However, there are many other examples such as ...

Nuclear Power: An Environmental Necessity

Interestingly, while the public practically unquestionably relies on hydrocarbon based fuels they often view alternative energy so...

The Welfare States in the UK

crime rates were rising and inflation was rife (Slack, 1990). The main aims were to reduce the extreme levels of poverty, but many...

Paul's Epistle To The Galatians

was required that they continue with this practice (NIV 1780). There are at least two explanations of their belief: first, they re...

An Argument for a National Identification Card

what those horrors represented. This complacency is perhaps one of our greatest weaknesses. We must remind ourselves and those t...