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Mentoring for Business

In five pages the increasing trend of business mentoring is traced back to former practice examples to demonstrate it is not a rec...

Overview of Blackfoot Mythology

the creation of the world (Peardon, 2001). The term "legend" is applied to accounts which are told as true (Peardon, 2001). The ...

Prescription Rates and Side Effects of Antidepressants

treatment as well. Peter Jensen, a professor of child psychiatry at Columbia University reports that "pediatricians and family pra...

Concept of White Flight and the Houston Area

means (2002). He also goes on to say that the white flight that actually is still occurring, is not at a greater level, but proba...

Poverty in the United States as a Social Problem: Causes, Theories, and Proposed Remedies

percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...

Deviance Across Cultures: Girl Gangs Around the World

feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate" exploded in a small town outside Naples (Israely, 2002, p. 32). The le...

Comparative Analysis of Organized Crime in Japan, China, Russia, and Mexico

the don (also known as Godfather) at the top of the hierarchy, with sottocapos (underbosses), and caporegimes (soldiers) below. I...

Organized Crime in America

of organized crime is contained within legitimate businesses including small-scale trucking, automobile sales, and bakeries, and l...

Literature Review on Absenteeism

do not exceed 3 percent of the school years (Romero and Lee, 2007). Risk Factors for absenteeism Researchers have noted that the...

Racism and Discrimination in Asia

has been made of black slavery, but the same sort of attention is not given to the Asians who suffer in silence. The Chinese who l...

Woman and Global Work

countries like this, sends a large portion of her salary home to support her children, as well as to pay the nanny who looks after...

Society's Obsession With Celebrity

reported elsewhere, or the writer personally knows the content is true based on news broadcasts or other knowledge the writer has....

Burns - Transformational Leadership

few of the many theories will be discussed here. The theories describe how an individual can use the inherent strategies to become...

The Use of Sex in Marketing

message, the way it is deconstructed and the impact on the purchase decision needs to be considered. The use of a single advertis...

Analysis of an Essay by Isaac Asimov

by Friedrich August Kekule in regards to figuring out the complex structure of organic molecules. This problem was to discern how ...

Global Warming and the Environment in General

the mean temperature of the planet has been rising, and "human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean glob...

Measures to Reduce the Risk of Terrorism in the Finance and Accounting Sector

inevitably requires money laundering to take place. To consider the way that measures that are found within the accounting and fi...

Slavery in Two Worlds

slaves from Africa were sold mostly in the Americas. Wolf first discusses who bought these slaves and why, and then answers the q...

The Real Reason for the Mac versus PC Rivalry

as Coke and Pepsi. The taste tests that used to be conducted years ago have a lot of similarities to the Mac versus PC phenomenon ...

Levin's View of the Future in Anna Karenina

are made. Levin believed that the sacred nature of all living things demanded that mankind re-vision the current belief to see ...

The Relationship among Race, Ethnicity and Binge Drinking

to their ethnicity and/or race. As detailed in a study by the University of Michigan, binge drinking is defined as the...

The Long Term Potential of Groupon and other Group Buying Web Sites for Businesses

The writer looks at the rise of the online group buying discount site in order to assess whether the concerns expressed regarding ...

The Nature of Divorce

When looking at various phenomena in society, there are often individual and social factors at work. This paper looks at both and...

The Clock, a Cultural View

This essay pertains to a Vincente Minneli film from 1945, "The Clock," which starred his wife, Judy Garland. The writer discusses ...

Violence against Women: The Sociological Perspective

looked at the use of sexualized violent imagery in advertisements and came to the conclusion that the use of such images impacted ...

The Vancouver Riots of 2011 - A Hobbesian Perspective

with one another and with figures of authority in order to maximize the best interests of each individual. When left without a cen...

World Statistics on Child Labor

came from the "1991 trade liberalization" experience in India which generated losses in tariff protection for employers and brough...

Processes and Threads in Operating Systems

a procedure in execution, the entity to which processors are assigned" and so on (Muhammad, 2011). All things considered, the most...

Civilization Collapses and Transformations

Toynebee (1935, p5) describes breakdowns in civilizations as failures of those civilizations to ascend from the stage of primitive...

Economic Frustration and Frustration-Agression Theory

As this suggests, the experience of being an American immigrant often includes "traumatic confrontation" with authority figures (P...