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High School Football and H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights

above understandable within the socio-cultural context of the town. Bissinger explains how Odessa, in 1988, when he was doing his ...

Gods and Monsters and Its Message Regarding Society and Culture

sex, and they can be both works of sexuality, and still be considered works of art. Heterosexual women may paint women who are cle...

"Cancer Alley" and Environmental Justice

This paper describes the case made against Shell Oil Company by the residents of "Cancer Alley," a stretch of the Mississippi with...

Cause and Effect Essay on College Attendance

employer that a potential employee is able to develop a goal -- and to stick to it; which is an important attribute in any job....

Negative Effects of Alcohol

engage in behavior that puts them and others at risk. In addition, one can see that many binge drinkers may well be...

Feminism of the Sixties and Nursing

determine their relationships with others, as well as pull people of similar interests and often similar personalities together an...

Social Work Practice and Theory

In addition, she makes the point that when considering any social phenomenon, there will invariably be a diversity of interpretati...

Social Problems, Social Conflict and “Humanistic Theories

This paper examines social problems' causes and effects from a theoretical perspective in five pages....

American Population Impact of Immigration

to fully examine the impact of immigration both on this country and society as a whole. Without this understanding, it is impossi...

Children and the Psychosocial Effects of Television Violence

to real-world violence, and thereby less empathetic to the pain and suffering of others (Chidley 37). Observations of teenagers re...

A Discussion of the Greenhouse Effect and Ozone Depletion

A 6 page overview of the greenhouse effect and ozone depletion. Four sources are cited....

Comic Effects in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Court are called Algernon" (Wilde 76). Here, Wilde is clearly poking fun at the aristocracys preoccupation with names and appeara...

Alcoholism's Social and Psychological Effects

In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...

Outsourcing Decision Making

to note that only non-core activities should be contracted out. Core services, that is, the fundamental service of the business s...

Cyborg or Quality of Life?

consume, the higher ones status is judged to be. Symbolic interactionism is a theory about human behavior, but it is also a...

Business Decision Research, Z Tests and T Tests

The alternative hypothesis is the opposite, then, that there is a difference between these two populations based on regionality. ...

Issues in Rayna Rapp's Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

handicapped or physically handicapped child and would terminate the pregnancy, or that having been forewarned, they would be forea...

Psychological Test Sales and Internet Auctions: Ethical Considerations for Dealing With Obsolete or Unwanted Test Materials

the use of psychological assessment techniques by unqualified persons and should themselves not base clinical decisions on obsolet...

High Performance Work Systems

the organizations income and employee pay. Research on these companies is very positive. Results that have been observed include...

Burlington Northern Railway: Fair Settlement In Genetic Testing Lawsuit?

- employees were predisposed to carpal tunnel is both grand and far-reaching; that they did so without knowledge of or written con...

The Problem of High Staff Turnover Rates of Nurses in Primary Healthcare in Saudi Arabia

great importance placed on issues such as maternity services, which are seen as lower priorities in most developing countries (WHO...

History of Intelligence Assessment

IQ testing has a very long and complex history. Dozens of theorists have offered their opinions; many conducted research on these ...

Standardized Testing In Kindergarten

being used in todays state accountability programs-mandated standardized achievement tests-are causing educational harm, perhaps i...

China's Role in the International Steel Industry

and put them to sound business use meant to be the only ones doing so. Business people did not recognize the value of competition...

Violent Song Lyrics/Teen Aggression

the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...

Fishman: "The Wal-Mart Effect"

other retailers, began to ask why deodorants, which were already packaged, were then packaged a second time, in a paperboard box (...

Article Analysis/Effects of Parenting

half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises...

Causes and Effects of the Mexican-American War

north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...

Security Analysis Questions

any qualitative facts about the organization at all. Some of the metrics can be moving average, "support and resistance, advance/...