Papers on Miscellaneous Topics
School Prayer
Words: 743 - Pages: 3.... in school goes against the basis in which our country was formed upon. America came into being because colonists wanted religious freedom. Our founding fathers carefully wrote the constitution to grant the freedom of separation of church and state. A prayer created and supported by a government violate the very essence of the spirit in which the US was formed. (Haas35) Therefore, having a prayer in school would be unconstitutional. “A radical amendment would attack the heart and soul of the bill of rights which safeguards the rights of the individual from tyranny of the individual.” (Jasper96) Teachers are public employees, paid by .....
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Trade Commission
Words: 541 - Pages: 2.... and economic changes. Therefore, it would seem reasonable to conduct a survey that would target key areas, such as any overlapping of the guidelines with federal, state, and local laws, the integrity of industry self-regulation in a new era of economic and technological advances, and whether or not the guidelines have imposed undue cost to both the industry and the public.
Few would argue with the points of the original guidelines, whether it is monitoring misleading claims in advertising, or monitoring the quality of the products themselves. Despite economic and technological advances that have taken place in the industry since 1969, the .....
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Conformity And Obedience
Words: 937 - Pages: 4.... you stand out and, therefore, groups have the ability to influence our thoughts and actions in ways that are consistent with the groups’. Lessing’s essay helps set the context to understand the experiments that social psychologists Solomon Asch, Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo conducted to explain .
Solomon Asch’s experiment in “Opinions and Social Pressure” studied a subject’s ability to yield to social pressure when placed within a group of strangers. His research helped illustrate how groups encourage conformity. During a typical experiment, members of the group were asked by the experimenter to claim two obvious misma .....
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Pre-paid Calling Cards
Words: 1228 - Pages: 5.... coins from a local telephone company pay phone. However, like many new consumer products, prepaid phone cards are not trouble free.
Prepaid phone cards originated in Europe in the late 1970's as a method of reducing vandalism of pay phones and are widely used overseas. In the United States, prepaid phone cards hit the market in the early 1990's, mainly as promotional items. The direct marketing of such cards to consumers is recent, but has grown at a staggering rate.
Today prepaid phone cards are produced by hundreds of companies, ranging from major telephone companies and credit card issuers to extremely small start up businesses. The .....
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Transportation And Community D
Words: 680 - Pages: 3.... The end result has meant more pollution, traffic congestion, wasted energy, urban sprawl, residential segregation, and social disruption.
All communities have not received the same benefits from transportation advancements and investments. Some of the governmental policies in housing, land use, environment, and transportation may have even contributed to and exacerbated social inequities. Some communities accrue benefits from transportation development projects, while other communities bear a disproportionate burden and pay cost in diminished health. Generally, benefits are more dispersed, while costs or burdens are more localized. Havi .....
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Pkt
Words: 1329 - Pages: 5.... preferring effective demand as the major influence on income distribution.1
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MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS
In 1930s, Harrodfs work on growth dynamics was the first development of post-Keynesian economic which distinct from Keynesian analysis. The prevailing theory in economics was static rather than dynamic. Harrodsf argued what was needed is a body of theory to explain what caused the observable movement of the economic system to change overtime. The Harrod-Domar formula, in which the growth rate as the dependent variable, is determined by the propensity to save and the incremental capital/output ra .....
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Until All The Men Are Back
Words: 1213 - Pages: 5.... than becoming stuck within the quagmire of Vietnam investigations again. The majority attitude is to remember them in a past tense manner, a manner of “out of sight, out of mind.”
The POW/MIA personnel took an oath upon entry into the armed forces, which the United States government needs to reciprocate. Within the context of this oath are phrases such as “I am prepared to give my life in [my country’s] defense.” There are sworn words such as “I will never forget that I am an American and dedicated to the principles which made my country free.” The men and women falling under the aforementioned .....
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Existentialist View Of Human Condition
Words: 428 - Pages: 2.... with any more good or evil than the next.
By the decisions we make in life we create ourselves. Next the second view,
what man chooses for himself he chooses for everyone else. This is a view I
really believe in. Everything we do in life effects someone else, whether we no
it or not. Every time we drive our car. Every time we eat something, spend
money, go for a jog someone else is effected. For an example: a man goes to the
store and buys a stereo.
First of all the clerk the clerk is effected because they have to check you out,
so you have taken some of their time. The store is effected because they are
minus one radio from their sto .....
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Body Movement
Words: 1293 - Pages: 5.... imagine that that you are watching through a window as someone does a presentation to a group of people in a room. You can't actually hear the presenter's voice, but he or she seems to be speaking clearly, is making eye contact with various people in the room, is emphasizing points using appropriate hand gestures, appears to be in command of the material, and exudes enthusiasm. Without even hearing what they are actually saying, your impression will be one of competence, sincerity; even leadership on the part of this presenter, and you will have made these determinations on the basis of body language alone.
On the other hand, imagine th .....
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"HOME TECH": The Inner Workings
Words: 1224 - Pages: 5.... Water flows through the bowl refill tube into the overflow pipe
to replenish the trap sealing water. As the water level in the tank nears
the top of the overflow pipe, the float closes the inlet valve, completing
the cycle.
From the oldest of gadgets in the bathroom, let's turn to one of the
newest, the toothpaste pump. Sick and tired of toothpaste squeezed all
over your sink and faucets? Does your spouse never ever roll down the
tube and continually squeezes it in the middle? Then the toothpaste pump
is for you!
When you press the button it pushes an internal, grooved rod down the tube.
Near the bottom of the rod is a piston, suppo .....
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