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Body Modification as a Way to Express Individuality

against parents or to be a part of a group. Some may just follow friends, but others get gang tattoos that acknowledge them as a p...

Models, Miniatures, and the Battle for Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back

Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...

Forensic Science in the Twenty-First Century

security surrounding physical evidence is just as important as the security surrounding the criminals themselves from a forensic p...

Abnormal Psychology: Amnesia

take place, which is within two distinct systems. One system is referred to as "declarative memory" and this system records "names...

The Ethics of Forensic Investigation

2001). Scientists may have qualms against being a part of the use of such tactics (Barnett, 2001). In the context of forensic sci...

Philosophy of Nursing and Future Plans

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek

characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...

Multifractal Models in Forecasting Volatility

of differing influences has been seen is in the financial market and the way stocks or share prices behave. While some theories ha...

Eugenics: Science and Pseudoscience

This 4 page paper discusses several points having to do with genetics, evaluates them from the standpoint of science and pseudosci...

Science Instruction and Safety Issues

and materials are stored properly and that any potentially hazardous materials were not inadvertently left out in the classroom (E...

The ‘Biology’ of Cloning: Its Importance and Potential Impacts

Today, plant research scientists accomplish cloning through the manipulation of a limited number of vectors. The Ti plasmid (a pl...

Philosophy And Science: Primary Differences

itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand (Harris, 2004). Why, then, would this be drawn into question ...

Proper Nutrition And Good Health: Culinary Cause And Effect

being; changing the way people eat by introducing them to more bioavailable food sources is but one of many aspects inherent to cu...

Observations in History, Nationalism, and Military Strategy and Technology

measuring stick against which all the answers to all the questions could be compared to see if they measured up. Not only was sci...

Teaching : Art Or Science

what this person means by control. Teachers are never going to have complete control over their classrooms. There are just too man...

Ethics

are a small minority (we hope). It is important for scientists to not get so intent on proving one thing or another that they vi...

Is Walking Beneficial for Human Health?

day. Rather than scheduling in daily walks, they try to increase their ordinary walking in the course of doing their daily tasks. ...

Book Report on Arthur C. Clarke’s 2061: Odyssey Three

the Great Wall. There, Heywood Floyds monolith is happily reunited with astronaut and scientist David Bowman and the supercompute...

A cirtical evaluation of What the Bleep do we Know

then go on to say that the same principle should be applied in ones personal life: "when you break free of your assumptions about ...

Genetic Influence on Elite Athletic Performance

of the test in making an educated guess as to a childs athletic future when a child is below age 9 (Lite). In other words, the tes...

Science as the Foundation of Today’s World

cosmology in the 1600s. It seemed quite logical to Aristotle that the sun revolves around the earth, because that is what seems to...

Political Views on National Infrastructure, Space Exploration, 2008 Political Candidates, and Foreign Policy

despite the value infrastructure holds in this country in terms of the quality of life, industry, and national security. Ob...

Tattoo Removal and Societal Approval

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

The Impact of Napoleon on the Art and Science of War

the art and science of war, and also in operational art as he was capable of planning and executing campaigns which achieved "stra...

2 Questions/Review of a Speech

impact if it was Powerpoint versus a movie clip? No, a Powerpoint presentation would not have had the emotional impact of the m...

EVE Online/Authority in an Online Community

travel through a universe made up of over five thousand solar systems. The developers of the game look to the player community for...

Forensics Ballistics

the commission of the crime, they will run ballistics tests as well. The distinctive marks called "striations form the bedrock of...

Sci-Fi Films: Radiation Monsters and Homestick Aliens

(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...

Changing a Personal Behavior

friend or family member in order to make this identification. It has been noted frequently in empirical literature that there ha...

The Intention Of The Holy Ghost ……

the creation of the universe. Genesis says that at first the earth was covered by water. Scientists claimed, even at that time, th...