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College Enrollment for a Black American Student

1980s, combined with crisis in the public education system led to plummeting rates of African American college enrollment in the e...

Programmer Bill Blizzard's Performance Evaluation

less satisfactory results than does the performance evaluation. Kniggendorf (1998) reports that many "supervisors resist the use ...

Juvenile Gangs and Sociocultural Forces

understand that theirs is a life of devastating poverty and extreme hardship, a life which bears little resemblance to that most o...

Failing Grades and Learning Disabilities

category was first formulated in 1977. The phrase, "All student will learn to read by third grade" has become a rallying point in ...

Arguing Against the Sanctioning of Gay Parenting

reason why gay parenting is wrong is that it sets up identity issues. That is not to suggest that it sets up gender identity or co...

Smoking and Why People Do It

But some people may begin smoking because they found it helped alleviate stress, made them feel they could concentrate better, and...

Adoption of the Bill of Rights into the U.S. Constitution

government the ability to restrict inherent rights, so no list of those rights was necessary" (Mount, 2005). Many people worried t...

Migraine Triggers and the Scientific Method

these processes are useful in everything from helping a friend that seems upset to perfecting cooking strategies. Consider, for e...

Developing Countries and Foreign Direct Investment

to be a situation where both side benefit. Direct investment is seen as a way of increasing the wealth of a country as well as a...

Implications for the Classroom with Regard to Limited English Proficiency Students

with high expectations and are more likely to exert a significant effort in learning the English language, once those individuals ...

Occidental College Transfer Decision

are particularly important in my chosen occupation. Communication skills play a large role in business even from the time an appl...

Tragic Elements of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

him. He is a man who holds to the laws of his people, he is strong and courageous, and he is fairly well defined. But events take ...

Community Sport Promotion Supported

with each other. Certainly community sport cannot solve all of societys problems, but it is a proven route to enhancing com...

Capital Punishment in Islam

Satanic Verses spoke against Islam and because Rushdie was raised Muslim, he became one of the most visible and obvious choices fo...

U.S. Schools and Segregation

be found in the suburbs as well (The Economist, 2003). Schools that were once mostly white are not mostly Latino or Black (The Eco...

Asian Immigrants to the U.S. After World War II

been prohibited from becoming citizens in the U.S. thanks to age-old biases and prejudices (Asian American History, 2004). Howeve...

2004 Presidential Election

preferred candidate for African-Americans at eighty-eight percent. In fact, other than the White vote, Kerry won out over Bush in...

Anthony J. Bell's 'Levels and Loops: the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience'

possibilities that we have lying in store for us in the future as a diagnosis of the present. Bell concludes that:...

1847 Mexico and US War

reason for the war and Texas, "In the 1820s and 1830s, Mexico, newly independent from Spain, needed settlers in the under-populate...

Food Aid to North Korea

subject to those in power. This does not mean there are not staff inside the country for the different aid agencies, but that even...

Tools of Business Communication

results attributable to the successful project; how much the project itself will cost; how the organization will produce the good,...

Critically Examining the Vietnam War

In a paper consisting of seven pages the reasons for the war, LBJ's escalation, and the Vietnamese perceptions of the conflict are...

Housing in Boston

In essence, the state is offering to take low-income residents and build homes for them where those with greater financial resourc...

2004 US Presidential Election and the Loss of John Kerry

the election, something that caused people to wonder whether or not Kerry was hiding something. John Kerrys wife would also make...

Failure of Acquisitions and Mergers

the acquisition of additional or superior skills or technology (Pilloff, 1996). The efficiency gain may come due to managem...

LAS' Computerized Dispatch System Failure

the human elements when assessing risk and the critical success factors. By looking at how these critical success and failu...

A John Kerry Presidential Campaign Assessment

speech. Of course, the American military involvement in Iraq remains a lightning rod of controversy and conflicting opinions. Al...

Student Interest in the Nursing Profession

just need a positive touch from another human being. The student investigating the relationship of nursing contribution to patien...

Minorities in the Legal Field

chances than those in the privileged classes. Thus, it is more likely than not that those who have greater power and means in soci...

Organ Donations and Ethical Complications

must be deemed brain dead in order for organs to be taken out. One author notes that, "Brain death and organ transplantation ar...