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Discussion of Harley Davidson

In six pages this paper examines the company in an overview of its fiscal statistics, demographic changes, competition, new market...

Children of Parents Who Are Incarcerated

In four pages this essay considers the more than 1.5 million children whose parents are presently incarcerated and examines statis...

U.S. Crime

publication from the University of Maryland, the authors note that one of the reasons for discrepancies in crime statistics is tha...

Has Any Progress Been Made Regarding Violence Against Women Around the Globe?

reforms. History reflects patriarchy According to feminist scholar Merlin Stone (1976) for thousands of...

Should Schools Allow Spanking?

Once a staple along with eraser dust and gym class, corporal punishment has fallen into disfavor in public schools. This paper exa...

Small Business and Global eCommerce

In five pages statistics and examples are provided in a consideration of electronic commerce and its growth due to globalization. ...

Sales Forces and Internet Effects

In seven pages the impact of ecommerce or Internet sales on a physical sales force is evaluated with the inclusion of relevant sta...

Business Administration Overview

combine to form the big picture, a portrait of a strong and solid business administration. II. Component One - Overall Management...

Working Parents and Creative Benefits

In fourteen pages this essay describes the rewards of balancing work and family life with research on benefits that are family fri...

Nursing Homes Centered on Clients

The most recent trend in nursing home care is client-centered treatment. This paper examines statistics in elder care, with almost...

Child Labor Practices in Asia

child population) as opposed to 80 million in Africa (40 percent of the total African child population) and 17.5 million in Latin ...

Native Americans and the Effects of Diabetes

The American Diabetes Association (2003) reports that individuals with diabetes are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease a...

Analysis of Costs of Decubitus Ulcers in Elder Care Facilities

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

South Africa and Tuberculosis

significant need for labour in this industry; this contributed to the massive expansion in respect to the urban African populatio...

Adult Literacy and Early Development of Language

In fourteen pages early literacy and language development are considered in terms of adult literacy, the policy of Welfare to Work...

U.S. Immigration

poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...

Elementary Students and Alternative Assessments

are nothing more than a type of achievement test which primarily measures knowledge of standard English and exposure to the cultur...

Overview of the Florida Department of Children and Families

to be done to improve various perceived problems. Unfortunately, it must be said, that from what one can tell, the report is very ...

Discussing Rockefeller Drug Laws

the twentieth century, extremists outlawed alcohol, but that was something that just never worked. People would drink anyway and t...

An Overview of Ronald Reagan's 1980 Climb to the Presidency

In this four page paper the writer ourlines the key elements that propelled Ronald Reagan to the U.S. presidency. Details are pro...

Paranoia and Schizophrenia

p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...

African Americans in the Legal Profession

to increase number of African American lawyers and judges," 2008). This is true even though the African American population is sli...

Medical Coders

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...

Accountants and Auditors

of Labor Statistics, 2007). The education needed for such a career can be relatively simple, such as taking courses to get a cer...

The Problem of Poverty: A Look at Santa Rosa, Florida

11.9%(2004) ("Santa Rosa County," 2008). * There is less poverty in Santa Rosa County than in Florida overall. * Yet, clos...

Implications of X26 Tasers in Excited Delirium Deaths

this case reveals how X26 Tasers are being implicated in deaths attributed to excited delirium. Is this implication justified? F...

Procrastination and GPA

health when deadlines are far off" (Chu and Choi, 2005, p. 245). On the other hand, the Tice and Baumeister study also reported th...

Primary Crime Data Sources: Compare/Contrast

rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...

Driving While Under the Influence of Alcohol

This research paper offers an overview of drunk driving accidence statistics, a brief description of penalties and a discussion of...