Papers on Miscellaneous Topics
Law Enforcement
Words: 1673 - Pages: 7.... and they are trained to carry and use weapons(76). Police officers go to work each day not knowing what to expect. Each day is different and new and different things are occurring all the time. One day a police officer may be having a shoot out with an armed bank robber, the next day the police officer may be looking for a possum in the bushes outside the local post office, for fear that it may have rabies and try and bite someone. Each day is different and surprising to each individual officer(Knudson).
According to the book, Opportunities in and Criminal Justice Careers, The Peelion Act of 150 years ago set forth principals that .....
Download This Paper
|
Comparitive Essay Between Perc
Words: 1233 - Pages: 5.... of sovereignty”. In Percy’s view, someone who is a “simple tourist” goes along with what the expert’s comment on. They stay on the “beaten track”. When he describes the “beaten track” he means the road that everyone follows put forth by experts. People follow the “beaten track” knowing what lies ahead of them, and thinking that it is the best way to go. Experts take away the “sovereignty” of humankind because they take away any surprise or challenge of a learning experience. Du Bois views the “beaten track” though, as the best way to learn. The educational system that he strongly recommends is a pa .....
Download This Paper
|
Aristotle Defination Of Friendship
Words: 615 - Pages: 3.... in a society is to promote goodness between all parties involved in it.
As previously mentioned, Aristotle has identified three different types of friendships. The first is friendship based on utility. This is a friendship in which both parties become involved with each other for their own personal benefit. An example would be a working relationship with an individual. These are people who do not spend much time together, possibly because they do not like each other, and therefore feel no need to associate with one another unless they are mutually useful. They take pleasure from each other’s company just for their own sake. Ar .....
Download This Paper
|
Fibonacci Numbers
Words: 566 - Pages: 3.... the Hindu-Arabic place-valued decimal system and the use of Arabic
numerals into Europe. This book, though, was somewhat contraversial because it
contradicted and even proved some of the foremost Roman and Grecian
Mathematicians of the time to be false. He published many famous mathematical
books. Some of them were Practica geometriae in 1220 and Liber quadratorum in
1225.
The Fibonacci sequence is also used in the Pascal trianle. The sum of
each diagnal row is a fibonacci number. They are also in the right sequence:
1,1,2,5,8.........
Fibonacci sequence has been a big factor in many patterns of things in
nature. O .....
Download This Paper
|
Put Me In, Coach...!
Words: 834 - Pages: 4.... roster must play at least one inning of the game, or loss by forfeiture will result.
As in both sports, the umpire's judgements are official. Parents think they have the last say with coaches. Wrong! A coach cannot please everyone. Few of the parents will complain of their child having certain disadvantages. Among all types of criticism a coach faces, the one heard the most is that their child has not been getting enough playing time. In baseball, there are nine positions on the playing field. Softball has an additional player, the rover. The parents seldom realize that if the coach has fourteen players on the team, and only nine .....
Download This Paper
|
Love Is Like...the Universe
Words: 524 - Pages: 2.... little by little over time until you start looking at the entire picture.
In addition, in the galaxy, the constellation’s positions and appearance change as time goes by, and just like the cosmos, love changes as well. For example, while old stars die, new stars are created. This is like losing the "old feelings" a person used to have. Yet at the same time, new affection develops. Furthermore, changes in the galaxy are very subtle; in the identical fashion, love matures in a delicate, but in a very precise way. It takes a very long time for the universe to change the way it looks from Earth's point of view; as a result, in our li .....
Download This Paper
|
Scuba Diving
Words: 867 - Pages: 4.... tight. Attach your octopus to the B.C. Then Pick up the
pressure gauge and point it away from the body, and others. Turn the
handle on the tank, to supply the regulator and gauges with air pressure.
The gauges are pointed away from the body to avoid injury if the gauge were
to malfunction. Listen for any leaks, and read the gauge and make sure
that it is some what close to the pressure that was put in to the tank.
Last you need to inflate the B.C.,and purge the regulator to make sure that
they work properly. The gear is now ready to be used.
Scuba gear is very affordable. Scuba gear can be purchased new for
as little as $299. Fo .....
Download This Paper
|
VIOLENCE IN TELEVISION, MOVIES, AND VIDEO GAMES:The Wrong Ex
Words: 786 - Pages: 3.... This happens when people are misinformed on the issue. This essay will explore the causes for these assumptions about violence in television, movies, and video games. As well, it will properly inform people on the facts about violent crimes that are supposedly related to television, movies, and video games. When a violent crime is committed by a youth, the crime is often blamed on the television that the youth watched or the movies the youth saw or the video game the youth just played. Many people will start thinking that this is true, based on that it seems like a plausible explanation. People will start trying to censor violent images .....
Download This Paper
|
Teenagers On After-school Jobs
Words: 493 - Pages: 2.... parents for money all the time. By having a job a teenager can save up for college, to buy a car, to buy a stereo, etc. Teenagers feel ‘free’ when they have a job: they can spend their own money on whatever they want without feeling guilty. In addition to helping his family, having a job at an early age can help for future jobs.
When many people apply for an important job, the employer will most likely choose the person who has the most working experience. People who have had a job since their teenage years will know how to deal with the stress and the work better than new people. They will be able to cope with job-related probl .....
Download This Paper
|
Adoption And Identity Formatio
Words: 2010 - Pages: 8.... maladjustment (Benson et al., 1998). This is to say that a child who is adopted at one-week of age will have a better chance of “normal” adjustment than a child who is adopted at the age of ten. This may be due in part to the probability that an infant will learn how to trust, where as a ten-year-old may have more difficulty with this task, depending on his history. Eric Erickson, a developmental theorist, discusses trust issues in his theory of development. The first of Erickson’s stages of development is Trust v. Mistrust. A child who experiences neglect or abuse can have this stage of development severely damaged. .....
Download This Paper
|
Navigate:
« prev
183
184
185
186
187
next »
|
|
Members |
|
|
|