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Teens And The Price They Pay To Look Good
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 635.... hospital and research institute. Tanning beds surround your body with UV light. These beds emit two to three times the amount of UV light that reaches the earth outdoors. UV light has been linked to serious cases of malignant melanoma, and even to the weakening of the immune system.
I understand that people like to look nice and want to improve their looks, but there are safer ways than these tanning machines. The average 15-30 minutes spent in a tanning bed equates to an entire day spent at the beach. "If the tan color is that important to a person," Dr. Siegle suggest .....
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Dangerous Driving And The Effects On Youth
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1975.... article involves the day
of Mr. Park's conviction, the reaction of the girls' parents and also the
reaction of Mr. Park's mother.
The problem of dangerous driving as viewed from a theoretical standpoint
can easily be identified with the social control theory. The control theory
questions not what motivates individuals and society in general to indulge in
societal deviant behaviour but rather examines what is within the structure of a
society that causes individuals to conform to social laws. A social control
theorist would argue that it is social pressures that prevent peop .....
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Sexual Harrassment In The Military
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 683.... the military than the women. Women have been viewed as outsiders in a male environment. Discrimination and harassment occurs for women because we are entering an all male dominated area. Some areas are still restricted because of it. For example: serving in direct combat capacities such as armor, infantry, and special forces-branches from which much of the senior leadership is drawn. "In 1994, the annual Navywide Personnel Survey included questions on women's role for the first time. Some 65 percent of officers and almost 50 percent of enlisted respondents said they d .....
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Native Culture Prior To Contact With Europeans
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1009.... were the Indians of the Pacific coast and mountains, the Plains Indians, those of the St. Lawrence Valley, and finally a large group known as the Indians of the Northeast Woodlands.
The Northern tribes of the Woodland Indians, west of the Hudson Bay, spoke Athabaskan tongue. However the main group is termed Algonquins of the Ottawa -- St. Lawrence region, Micmac of the Maritimes, Montagnais of Québec and Cree and Ojibwa of Northern Ontario and Manitoba. They were above all, nomad hunters, moving over their tribal hunting grounds in search of animals that would supply them .....
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Violence On Television
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 528.... presented without punishment, viewers are more likely to learn the lesson that violence is successful.
The negative consequences of violence are not often portrayed in violent programming. Most violent portrayals do not show the victim experiencing any serious physical harm or pain at the time violence occurs. For example, 47% of all violent interactions show no harm to victims, and 58% show no pain. Even less frequent is the depiction of any long-term consequences of violence. In fact, only 16% of all the programs studied portray the long-term negative consequences of vi .....
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How Can We Help The Homeless And Should We?: Searching For A Solution
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1068.... would try harder and somehow do
wh at he wanted. We tried to leave as soon as possible.
But then I began reading these essays about the homeless and it started
to change my mind. The essay "Virginia's Trap" by Peter Marin especially
effected me because of the way it portrays the young woman that has nothing
going for her and almost everything against her. I though about this and decided
I had misunderstood the whole plight of this population and thought there must
be a better way to help these unfortunate people. How should we help the
homeless and should we try even though .....
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Other Minds
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2498.... it aims to
produce sceptical theories or it aims to refute them. And sceptics tend
towards extremity in their doubts. It must be stated here and now that
there are not, and never can be, any theories that prove demonstratively
that other minds exist, or that I know others’ mental states. This is not
what should be aimed at in attempting to solve the problem. As Austin puts
it "To suppose that the question ‘How do I know that Tom is angry?’ is
meant to mean ‘How do I introspect Tom’s feelings?’ is simply barking up
the wrong gum-tree."
Most philosophers agree that their th .....
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Racism In Colleges
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2697.... were
selected and several black units were formed. Once the North had defeated the
South in the war, the slaves were freed from bondage, however, that did not mean
that they would be free from the terrible prejudice that still permeated the
country.
Schools sprang up in all black areas but were not given the public
funding that they needed and deserved. They were usually only one room and very
dirty. They were given the oldest and most worn out books and equipment that
were available. There weren't even many teachers who were qualified and were
willing to teach at an .....
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