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Impact Of Car-Related Air Pollution

The manufacturing industry has long been blamed for human impact upon ecological and biological systems, inasmuch as consumerism h...

Changes in Higher Education Due to the Internet

the graduates of these universities and is designed to deliver courses former students can take to "continue their education after...

The Health Insurance Crisis

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

Evolution of the Nation

In addition, "[M]ost of the major railroads failed" (Panic of 1873, 2005). While the public tended to blame the government, the c...

Current Perspectives/Math and Science Education

NAS emphasizes developing outstanding science and math teachers in grades K-12 (Gordon, 2007). Research has also been instigated...

Free Radicals and Antioxidants

radicals are present in excessive numbers, "damage to cells and tissues can occur" (Free radicals). Free radicals cause the damage...

"I Had Seen Castles"

terrible sense of foreboding when Joe says that his father came home early from the university: "It was his face ... On any other ...

An Exploration of Tsunamis

caused by seismic activity, by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (Regulatory Intelligence Data, 1998). Tsunamis can also be caus...

Streptococcus Pyogenes

type of bacterium that causes illness in newborn babies, pregnant women, the elderly, and adults with other illnesses, such as dia...

Avian Influenza

high in addition to this there will also be an economic cost. In the US alone it is estimated a serous pandemic could be equal to ...

Reading Whybrow: America's Illness

Adam Smith and his ideas of economics. Smiths theory of economics "is firmly grounded in the biology of human behavior" (Whybrow)....

The First Persian Gulf War

to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...

Tsunami: The Physics and Possible Prevention

combat future threats is to study the phenomenon. NOAA and FEMA got together to create a possible scenario to examine the potentia...

Types of Bowel Obstructions and Treatment Options

obstruction that affects the blood vessels and a pseudo obstruction is a byproduct of cancer or another debilitating physical illn...

Medical Jargon as a Communication Barrier

Bagley looks at the problem as rather simplistic and uses the example that it is just as easy to say that word kidney as it is to ...

Fear And Anxiety In Children

for anxiety" (The Childrens Center for OCD and Anxiety, 2006; also see National Center for Health and Wellness, 2006). There are m...

The High Price of Gas in the Third Quarter of 2006

out that while oil prices are rising, the oil companies are profiting a great deal (Noe, 2006). An article appearing on the ABC N...

Financial Challenges for Multinational Companies

financial stakeholders" (Lloyds, 2006). This is a god summary of many of the challenges that a company in the international enviro...

Katrina Refugees and Rising Crime in Houston

more than 100,000 of New Orleanss displaced residents flocked into town in late August and early September" (Gelinas, 2006). The m...

The Fall of King Arthur and His Kingdom

mean and tear down a kingdom. At least, it goes along with the logic of story-telling where there are ironic twists, villains and...

Cell Phones and Cancer: Examining Sources of Information

that has been devoted to it over the years, we still do not know what causes cancer. We know what cancer is and in most situation...

Schizophrenia

been great strides made in the treatment of the disease, enabling many patients to live full lives (Mueser and McGurk 2036). What ...

Jesus & Worship, Romans 12, Etc.

Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...

Asthma and How to Live With It

through counseling or psychotherapy has been found to be effective in reducing the asthmatic symptoms. However, for the m...

Masculinity Crisis in The Color Purple by Alice Walker, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

supervision of impoverished farm tenant Edward Covey, who had established a notorious reputation as being a "nigger breaker," youn...

Brain Changes Relating to Alzheimer's Disease

such as Lewy body disease, whereas others are of the opinion that all subtypes are variants of the same standard form of the condi...

Slavery in Colonial America and Racism

Europeans were conquerors. They wanted land and they needed slaves to build the country economically. It is also interesting to no...

Overview of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

tendons in the passageway becomes irritated and swell (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2006). The result...

An Analysis of Regulations Regarding EMTALA

must comply or face fines or the loss of government program participation. Although this law is seemingly matter of fact, it is qu...

Data on U.S. Poverty

1970, 20.5 percent of poor Americans lived in the suburbs, in 2000, that had expanded to 35.9 percent and in 2004, the ratio incre...