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The Baby Boom in America

differently dependent upon their year of birth. By many accounts, early boomers were born between 1946 and 1955, where late boomer...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

"Cancer Alley" and Environmental Justice

This paper describes the case made against Shell Oil Company by the residents of "Cancer Alley," a stretch of the Mississippi with...

Cause and Effect Essay on College Attendance

employer that a potential employee is able to develop a goal -- and to stick to it; which is an important attribute in any job....

Negative Effects of Alcohol

engage in behavior that puts them and others at risk. In addition, one can see that many binge drinkers may well be...

A Discussion of the Greenhouse Effect and Ozone Depletion

A 6 page overview of the greenhouse effect and ozone depletion. Four sources are cited....

Children and the Psychosocial Effects of Television Violence

to real-world violence, and thereby less empathetic to the pain and suffering of others (Chidley 37). Observations of teenagers re...

Alcoholism's Social and Psychological Effects

In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...

Outsourcing Decision Making

to note that only non-core activities should be contracted out. Core services, that is, the fundamental service of the business s...

Comic Effects in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Court are called Algernon" (Wilde 76). Here, Wilde is clearly poking fun at the aristocracys preoccupation with names and appeara...

Feminism of the Sixties and Nursing

determine their relationships with others, as well as pull people of similar interests and often similar personalities together an...

Social Work Practice and Theory

In addition, she makes the point that when considering any social phenomenon, there will invariably be a diversity of interpretati...

Social Problems, Social Conflict and “Humanistic Theories

This paper examines social problems' causes and effects from a theoretical perspective in five pages....

American Population Impact of Immigration

to fully examine the impact of immigration both on this country and society as a whole. Without this understanding, it is impossi...

Business Decision Research, Z Tests and T Tests

The alternative hypothesis is the opposite, then, that there is a difference between these two populations based on regionality. ...

Issues in Rayna Rapp's Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

handicapped or physically handicapped child and would terminate the pregnancy, or that having been forewarned, they would be forea...

Psychological Test Sales and Internet Auctions: Ethical Considerations for Dealing With Obsolete or Unwanted Test Materials

the use of psychological assessment techniques by unqualified persons and should themselves not base clinical decisions on obsolet...

Cyborg or Quality of Life?

consume, the higher ones status is judged to be. Symbolic interactionism is a theory about human behavior, but it is also a...

High Performance Work Systems

the organizations income and employee pay. Research on these companies is very positive. Results that have been observed include...

The Problem of High Staff Turnover Rates of Nurses in Primary Healthcare in Saudi Arabia

great importance placed on issues such as maternity services, which are seen as lower priorities in most developing countries (WHO...

Standardized Testing In Kindergarten

being used in todays state accountability programs-mandated standardized achievement tests-are causing educational harm, perhaps i...

Burlington Northern Railway: Fair Settlement In Genetic Testing Lawsuit?

- employees were predisposed to carpal tunnel is both grand and far-reaching; that they did so without knowledge of or written con...

History of Intelligence Assessment

IQ testing has a very long and complex history. Dozens of theorists have offered their opinions; many conducted research on these ...

China's Role in the International Steel Industry

and put them to sound business use meant to be the only ones doing so. Business people did not recognize the value of competition...

Violent Song Lyrics/Teen Aggression

the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...

Fishman: "The Wal-Mart Effect"

other retailers, began to ask why deodorants, which were already packaged, were then packaged a second time, in a paperboard box (...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

The Effect of War

Another loss of life associated with war is the loss of wildlife and the destruction of nature. War creates battlefields that rese...

Mold in the Home

years ago," and since then, these studies have replicated often enough and with the same results to make denying this connection n...