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  • Vulnerable Population Paper - Premature Infants

    Vulnerable Population Paper - Premature Infants

    Vulnerable Population Paper – Premature Infants University of Phoenix Vulnerable Population Paper – Premature Infants The word “vulnerability” stems from the Latin vulnerare, which means, “to wound”. (Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary, 1995) In a clinical setting, the term vulnerable can be applied to many different kinds of patients. The purpose of this paper is to address a vulnerable population within a community. The vulnerable population this author chose to focus on will be that of

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Vying for a Title

    Vying for a Title

    Vying for a Title The contenders have been primped and manicured by their masters and are ready to be placed on display. The subjects with the wealthiest owners attend top-notch obedience schools where they are trained in the art of acting and appearing in a way uncharacteristic to their nature. They are rewarded with special treats when they work hard during training. The skills learned in these unique schools are not useful anywhere else, but

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Wage Disparities

    Wage Disparities

    The incidence of the tax in Tinytown could possibly have an effect on other people in the metropolitan area. For example if there is corporate income tax that is placed in Tinytown then the owners of the company could relocate outside of Tinytown. The metropolitan income tax could also have a positive and negative effect. The income tax that is placed on the people help generates revenue for the local government and improves infrastructure and

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Janna
  • Wage Payment Model for Human Guinea Pigs

    Wage Payment Model for Human Guinea Pigs

    Wage Payment Model for Human Guinea Pigs What would you do if you were asked to get paid to spend the entire week lying down on a comfortable bed for human clinical trial? There will be medications to take and occasional checkups that might be disturbing, but considering the good pay, some might think it is worth the pain. Many of the research subjects, who are often called “guinea pigs,” participate in the human clinical

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    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Wake up (argument )

    Wake up (argument )

    Wake-up I grew up on the corner of Ocean Ave. and Dorchester Ave., where all the older kids sat by the stoop that provide a gust of breeze during the summer. As the little ones on the block cool off form the open fire hydrant. Brooklyn, New York, Flatbush to be specific is the topic of the composition. Flatbush is a place where people pray to God so long that they soon become an Atheist.

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Wal-Mart Ethics

    Wal-Mart Ethics

    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is currently entangled in a legal battle that will decide if the company has engaged willfully in gender-based discrimination. Underlying causes, organizational culture and ethical issues will be examined in determining how the largest private employer in the United States could have fallen prey to unfair labor practices. “In 1999, women constituted 72% of Wal-Mart’s hourly employees, but only 33% of its managerial employees” (Bhatnagar, 2004). This fact and many others are

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Wal-Mart: Welcome to the Machine

    Wal-Mart: Welcome to the Machine

    Wal-Mart: Welcome to the Machine Wal-Mart, Wally World, The Wal-Mart, the name doesn’t change what it is: A corporate machine that has made a significant and horrendous impact on the global economy. Although they have been very compliant with the Better Business Bureau and handled all customer dissatisfactions with the most professional tactics available (BBB reliability reports), they just don’t quite contribute to the progressive global economy that everyone wants to see. They have been

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: David
  • Walk First, Then Run

    Walk First, Then Run

    Walk First, Then Run “Daddy, why can’t little Jay walk yet?” Jay’s older brother Christopher asked. “Well Chris, Jay is still very young. He is just learning to crawl. As he gets stronger he will crawl faster and faster. Eventually, with a little help, he will stand on his own. It is at that time that Jay will learn how to walk.” “Then will he run?” Chris asked. “Not quite.” Dad said. “Jay will need

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Artur
  • Walking Your Walk

    Walking Your Walk

    Walking your Walk The book mentions that ethics is about behavior. This means that for something to be a part of your ethical beliefs, you must be willing to act accordingly if put the situation. If you are not willing to act on something that you say is your ethical and moral belief, is it really a part of your ethics. I do not think that a person can believe something and contradict the beliefs

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Janna
  • Walmart

    Walmart

    http://laplaza.org/~totem/econ.html Retail Business, Jobs, Taxes and Prices in Taos Support your friends and neighbors and local businesses. Say NO to an SS Wal-Mart! Since Wal-Mart came to Taos, the number of retail businesses decreased from 438 to 231. In the last five years alone, retail jobs decreased from 3156 to 1500. (US census, pub 1/2003) Those closed businesses and the lost jobs supported community members, their children, their employees, and the stores in which they

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Walmart

    Walmart

    Wal Mart Case Study It opened in 1962 by Sam Walton, Wal-Mart has become the largest retailer in the United States, and with over 3,300 stores Wal-Mart continues to be successful. Under his successor, CEO David Glass, the small discount store chain started in Arkansas has become one of the largest corporations in the world. David Glass lays out the philosophy: “we approach this new and exciting decade of the 90’s much as we did

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Walmart

    Walmart

    Have you ever heard anyone say what is Wal-Mart? No, or at least I have not. It is one of the most successful business’s world wide, and it continues to integrate itself into people’s lives everywhere. Everyone likes the low cost and convenience of the “One stop shop”. However, no one ever brings up the fact that Wal-Mart is having a detrimental effect to not only our economy, but to our communities within the

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Max
  • Walmart Case Study

    Walmart Case Study

    In 1945, Sam Walton opened his first variety store and in 1962, he opened his first Wal-Mart Discount City in Rogers, Arkansas. Now, Wal-Mart is expected to exceed “$200 billion a year in sales by 2002 (with current figures of) more than 100 million shoppers a week…(and as of 1999) it became the first (private-sector) company in the world to have more than one million employees.” Why? One reason is that Wal-Mart has continued “to

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    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Jon
  • Walmart Swot Analysis

    Walmart Swot Analysis

    Strengths. Wal-Mart is a powerful retail brand. It has a reputation for value for money, convenience and a wide range of products all in one store. Wal-Mart has grown substantially over recent years, and has experienced global expansion (for example its purchase of the United Kingdom based retailer ASDA). The company has a core competence involving its use of information technology to support its international logistics system. For example, it can see how individual products

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Walmart Vs Target

    Walmart Vs Target

    Wal-Mart vs. Target Shopping is an integral part of our everyday lives. Every person, in some way or another, must shop at some point. There are many places out there at which you can choose to shop. Two of the leading and most important companies out there today are Wal-Mart and Target. Each company has many positive and negative characteristics about them. But if you are to compare them based on these characteristics, you

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Janna
  • Want to Lose Weight?

    Want to Lose Weight?

    Want to lose weight? Want to lose weight? Drink this or maybe you would rather take a pill. In this day and age there is a different diet created daily. It is no surprise then, that most people become discouraged after repeatedly failing at diets that don’t back up what they say. Amongst all these diets it can become difficult to know which diets really works. Two of the most popular brands are South Beach

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Victor
  • War

    War

    War War is a major issue no matter where you go. Whether you are in America or in France there is always talk about war. Arguments are found in newspapers, magazines, and on television. Anti-war opinions run as high as pro-war opinions and often people are divided by their view on the subject. Justice often is compromised because of these arguments while feelings are often put to the test. Some say war separates a nation

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    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Top
  • War

    War

    War is a controversial topic, with roots stemming deep into questions such as; what causes war? When is war justified? And one that has bewildered even the greatest minds of today, Can war be positive and productive? I think that war can be positive and productive because; I think violence can be used to decrease violence; It boosts the national economy, and brings nations together. In many cases around the world war is a

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    Essay Length: 506 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Tasha
  • War

    War

    War can be defined as a struggle of an individual or group to uphold their beliefs or current position. This struggle becomes a problem to society when it involves violence, infringement of human rights, discrimination or innocent bystanders. Unfortunately, these are the same elements that are used to provide justifications for wars. Whether the purpose given to society is true or merely a petty excuse used by respective leaders to salvage what is left

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Fonta
  • War

    War

    President George W. Bush administration is under the scope of the public eye in the US and the world. In the past weeks, the scandal of treatment of prisoners in the war in Iraq has shocked the world. Many dispicting pictures have surface of American troops abusing and humiliating Iraq prisoners. In this research paper. I will present and describe the issues at hand and how this the scandal will affect public administration. The US

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    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: Vika
  • War & Humanity: Where Do We Go from Here?

    War & Humanity: Where Do We Go from Here?

    WAR AND HUMANITY: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?. There is an average of twenty ongoing wars in the world at any given time. Some are internal civil wars, others are between nations. But the purpose of this thesis is not to report warfare, but the act of it. This includes the evolution of conventional and nuclear warfare, the potential effect of a nuclear war and why it is necessary for nations to fight war.

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Kevin
  • War -- What Is It Good For?

    War -- What Is It Good For?

    Is war really ever justified? All different kinds of people, in all different corners of the world have different opinions on this controversial issue. Many people think that war is never justified, many think that war is always justified, and there are some people who think that it completely depends on the situation of the battle. This situation is not a new one, it has not become easier to understand over time, and will never

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Bred
  • War and Bush

    War and Bush

    War and Bush War has taken place all over the world. It is brutal at times even necessary, and the United States of America has seen its own share of wars. Since September 11, 2001, the President of the United States has launched a war on terrorism, and currently we are still at war. The War on Terrorism has been one of the most important battles our country has ever had and overall it

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Tommy
  • War by Merriam-Webster

    War by Merriam-Webster

    War is defined by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary as, “a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations.” War is literally as old as life, although it did not always involve nations or man-made weapons of violence. As far back as the time that the first creatures were walking the earth, they were fighting over territory for survival. Along the evolutionary road, humans joined in the never-ending struggle that is war

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • War in Iraq

    War in Iraq

    The Bush administration has listed a number of reasons for going to war with Iraq. The biggest and most common is that Saddam possesses weapons of mass destruction, including biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. Of course before his capture, Hussein has long claimed that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction (CNN, 2.8.03). We clearly can't take Iraq's word for it. In Bush's declaration of war speech, he changed the long-standing reference to "weapons

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • War in Iraq

    War in Iraq

    War in Iraq Picture this, you, in a 3rd world country, no friends no family for thousands of miles, hungry, not feeling so well, tired, exhausted and being forced to fight thousands of people who want you out of there country? Fun? I wouldn’t think so… This is a reality for thousands of American Soldiers stationed in Iraq and maybe your reality if the draft is reinstated. Now, picture this. You’re watching the news, they

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Anna
  • War in Iraq

    War in Iraq

    War in Iraq Right now in America today there is a big up cry about the war in Iraq. In recent polls provided by CNN states that the nation is split on the feelings about this war. A little less than half of America supports President G. W. Bush's plans for Iraq. While the other half of America, does not want our troops over there. I personally strongly and verbally agree with and trust President

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: July
  • War in Iraq

    War in Iraq

    What is a war? Is it putting an end to a problem or is it more than that? Can it be justifiable? How is victory defined? These are all questions that many Americans are increasingly asking themselves and others as the war in Iraq continues for more than two years. September 11, 2001. The Twin Towers in New York City were attacked. In October of 2003, the Bush administration accused Saddam Hussein of having

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Wendy
  • War in Iraq and Just War Theory

    War in Iraq and Just War Theory

    • Just cause: In my opinion, the United States had no right to go into Iraq based solely on a theory that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. According to the Just War Theory, war is permissible only to confront “a real and certain danger," to protect innocent life, to preserve conditions necessary for decent human existence and to secure basic human rights. • Competent authority: Just War Theory states that “War must be declared

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Janna
  • War on Cancer

    War on Cancer

    The fight towards winning the war on cancer is a national priority. Cancer is now the number two killer in the United States, and takes nearly 550,000 lives each year. In the article, “Losing the War on Cancer,” from the Cancer Prevention Coalition, by Ralph W. Moss, the efforts made since 1971 when President Nixon launched America’s war on cancer is discussed at length. Nixon allocated billons of dollars towards funding resources to find a

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    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Vika
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