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Health Care and Poverty in Urban America

This formula, at 1994s standards, placed the poverty line at $14,800 for a family of four, no matter if they were in the urban Nor...

Reforming Welfare and 1996's Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act

In ten pages this paper examines the future problems of employment within the context of welfare reform and The Personal Responsib...

An Exploration of The Unities

it. A well constructed plot, therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to these principles" (Aristotle 7-8)....

An Article on Disadvantaged Children Critiqued

families without active phone numbers were mailed surveys. The results indicated, even after controlling multiple variables, suc...

GE Goes for Social Responsibility

as environmentalism to the way in which corporate governance may be taking place, to issues such as human rights and broader issue...

A Personal Informational Self Analysis

each of the six areas of life: family and home; spiritual and ethical; social and cultural; financial and career; physical and hea...

Energy At The Crossroads by Vaclav Smil

of coal, gas, renewable energy sources and nuclear power. By contrast, however, one who is aware of the damaging impact these res...

Balkans and Burgeoning Business

on the local environment as well as that of Europe in general. One highly positive feature of emerging business in the enti...

Analysis of Mervyn's LLC

(Wikipedia, 2006) for $1.2 billion (Yahoo! Finance, 2005). It is now a privately held company, which makes obtaining any significa...

Future Business Leaders and Competences

to others (Veccio, 1998). Historical evidence shows us that over time there has been a shift in the competences and style of lea...

Films and Product Placement

placing countless products in thousands of movies. If you give it any consideration, you will be able to think of quite a few exa...

Douglas McGregor's The Human Side of Enterprise and Leadership

be regarded as the bible of modern leadership theory, The Human Side of Enterprise. The central theme of this work involves the u...

Intermarriage Between Christians and Jews

fifty years (Sander 27). However, other sources indicate that the rate of intermarriage is on the rise. The 2000 National Jewish P...

Defining Terrorism

TERRORIST ACTIONS AND THE STRUCTURE OF TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS Terrorists have the same social and psychological motivations of a...

Customer Service Problems and Solutions

business owner or manager and heard the above complaints, I would try to either make changes in the way in which things are done, ...

3 Questions on Investment

high. If we look at the position over the period of the devaluation the price would have been set with an assumed value of 200 f...

Accounting Profession and How to Be an Accountant

versatile in that they perform all types of general and specific functions, and may work virtually anywhere (Accountants and Audit...

March of 1988 Kurdish Halabja Massacre

in the alleys, in homes, in their own beds (Atroushi, 2006). Kaveh Golestan, an Iranian photographer, described the scene: "It w...

Hotel Management and the Job of a General Manager

or directors, sales and marketing managers, front office managers, assistant managers, special events managers, human resource ma...

Overview of Data Mining

Classification is a way of assigning new information to categories that already exist (Whiting, 1997). Clustering, similar to cla...

A SWOT Analysis and Case Study of Eli Lilly and Co.

"laid the foundation for the Lilly tradition" of concentrating first on the quality of existing products and only then expanding t...

Apple Computer's Leadership Problems

the negative performance he put forth in 2002 (Salkever, 2004). This was a bad year economically for all. It was shortly after th...

Accurate History Model of the Historical Materialism Developed by Karl Marx

everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have ...

Evaluating the Perdue Company Chicken Manufacturer

Marketing mix is aligned with product, price, place and promotion, and is something to which Perdue has obviously paid much attent...

Writing the Future and the Accurate Jules Verne

In four pages this paper examines the accuracy of Jules Verne's technological predictions in such works as Paris in the Twenty Fir...

Community-Familial Themes in Works by Morrison, Sapphire, Kincaid and D'aguair

This 3 page paper discusses the way in which four authors treat the issues of language, rape, education and incest at the family l...

Dark Future in the Science Fiction Novel Neuromancer by William Gibson

In nine pages this paper examines how technology can lead society into a dark dystopia in an analysis of William Gibson's Neuroman...

Book Review of Distress by Greg Egan

In five pages this paper discusses the science fiction text in terms of present and future technological and scientific parallels....

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

In a paper containing five pages the continued relevance of Toffler's 1970 text is considered in terms of the changes civilization...

Cautionary Warnings in 1984 by George Orwell

In ten pages the symbolism, characters, and setting featured in Orwell's futuristic novel are examined in support of the argument ...