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  • Americas Next Top Model Research Assignment

    Americas Next Top Model Research Assignment

    AMERICAS NEXT TOP MODEL RESEACH ASSIGNMENT The show that I choose to do my research assignment on was Americas Next Top Model, a reality show on UPN. This is like the third season of the show I believe, and basically, what the concept is that there are 12 girls, ranging in age from 18 to mid 20’s. There are six Caucasian women, four African-Americans, and two Hispanics in the cast. They are all shipped off

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    Essay Length: 1,294 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Action Potential Propagation

    Action Potential Propagation

    Ions Involved in Action Potential Propagation Essay. Nerve and muscle functions involve electrical conduction. However, nerves and muscle are not like electrical wires. Nerve and muscle cells are poor conductors of classical electrical current flow; such current dies out within a few millimeters. Signal transport (Action Potentials), does travel from one end of a nerve to the other. There is no diminishment of the signal, independent of the length of the cell (unlike a wire),

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    Essay Length: 421 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Anna
  • Stem Cell Research

    Stem Cell Research

    Stem Cell Research Can you imagine a world where there are no ailments like aids or diabetes. Well, what if this world was possible but the government was stopping the research for these types of advances. The type of research I am talking about isn't cloning as some of you might be thinking. Actually, it is called embryo stem cell research. Hopefully I will be able to give you a better understanding of why this

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    Essay Length: 1,020 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Implementation Plan Research Worksheet: Friar Tucker

    Implementation Plan Research Worksheet: Friar Tucker

     Print - Close Window  Running head: IMPLEMENTATION PLAN RESEARCH WORKSHEET: FRIAR TUCKER Implementation Plan Research Worksheet: Friar Tucker University of Phoenix MBA 590/Strategic Implementation and Alignment Doug Hocking June 19, 2006 Friar Tucker Implementation Plan Research Worksheet In order to help Friar Tucker with its implementation planning process, you will need to look at how companies in other industries have dealt with similar issues. Topic A: Best Practices in Project Implementation Instructions for

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    Essay Length: 4,367 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Janna
  • Marketing Research

    Marketing Research

    INTRODUCTION Redefining marketing research The board of directors of American Marketing Association (AMA) has approved the following new definition of marketing research on August 2004. �’Marketing research is the function that links the consumer, customer, and public to the marketer through information--information used to identify and define marketing opportunities and problems; generate, refine, and evaluate marketing actions; monitor marketing performance; and improve understanding of marketing as a process. Marketing research specifies the information required to

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    Essay Length: 2,791 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Jack
  • Affirmative Action Should Be Changed or Ended All Together

    Affirmative Action Should Be Changed or Ended All Together

    Affirmative action should be changed or ended altogether In the late Sixties, Martin Luther King Jr. fought hard for equal rights. Before he was assassinated in 1968, he made a speech about his vision of human equality. “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (King) The Sixties were

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    Essay Length: 870 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Top
  • Ability to Make Critical Judgments About Biomedical Research Projects

    Ability to Make Critical Judgments About Biomedical Research Projects

    Ability to make critical judgments about biomedical research projects. For the past eight years, I have been involved with biomedical research projects in academia and at the National Institutes of Health. As a Visiting Fellow at the Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, I have conducted numerous experiments in neurobiology, which requires a strict understanding of procedural accuracy and the ability to apply crucial judgment in all phases of experimentation. For example in 2000, I conducted experiments

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    Essay Length: 342 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Action or Drama: Gender Differences in a Video Store

    Action or Drama: Gender Differences in a Video Store

    Hayes 1 Abstract The difference between male and females was examined in five investigations in a large, well known video store chain. Different genders were looked at in groups of all male or all female, single men and single women, and then groups of mixed gender. Differences between the two were measured in actions, words, and attitudes. The findings were in sync with what society generalizes so broadly as: men and women differ in

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    Essay Length: 2,324 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Monika
  • Call to Action - Regulate Use of Cell Phones on the Road

    Call to Action - Regulate Use of Cell Phones on the Road

    A Call to Action: Regulate Use of Cell Phones on the Road When a cell phone goes off in a classroom or at a concert, we are irritated, but at least our lives are not endangered. When we are on the road, however, irresponsible cell phone users are more than irritating: They are putting our lives at risk. Many of us have witnessed drivers so distracted by dialing and chatting that they resemble drunk drivers,

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    Essay Length: 1,404 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Research on Robert Olen Butler

    Research on Robert Olen Butler

    Research on Robert Olen Butler The majority of published literature in the US derived from the Vietnam War primarily has a base focus on effects the war experience had on Americans, and on the American culture and psyche. However, Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning, “A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain,” as well as many other critically acclaimed publications has been recognized for “breaking the mold” of traditional war writers by

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    Essay Length: 967 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: David
  • Jc Penney Marketing Research Outline

    Jc Penney Marketing Research Outline

    J.C. PENNEY COMPANY, INC J. C. Penney Company, Inc. Is one of America’s largest department store, drugstore, catalog and e-commerce retailers. Providing merchandise and services through department stores, catalogs, and the Internet. Their targeted customers are “Modern Spenders” and “Starting Outs”, who shop for apparel, accessories, and home furnishings through the centers where JCPenney is located and through the convenience of catalog and the Internet. Starting Outs · Less than 35 years of age

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    Essay Length: 405 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • Labor Market Research: Correctional officers

    Labor Market Research: Correctional officers

    Labor Market Research: Correctional Officers There has been an ongoing shortage of corrections officers around the nation. There are several factors that influence the supply and demand for correctional officers. The first factor for the shortage is recruitment, meaning that it is hard to find qualified personnel to fill vacant positions. Along with unqualified personnel, you have training issues, where there is not enough training facilities or funding to train new officers. Other factors deal

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    Essay Length: 718 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action

    “The �under representation’ of any racial group, it was decided, was evidence of discrimination”(Guernsey). Affirmative action did not start out as a reverse discrimination towards white males, but it was meant to help everybody, but failed nearly completely after a time of which it was affected. The original concept of affirmative action excluded any mention of preference. “Launched during the late 1960s by the administration of President Richard M. Nixon, affirmative action programs call for

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    Essay Length: 1,701 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Janna
  • Research Article Synopsis on Crime and Propensity

    Research Article Synopsis on Crime and Propensity

    1. What are the main findings in the literature review presented in the Introduction? (15) The main findings in the literature review presented in the Introduction are that reports from these studies are contradictory in that some report a weak deterrent effect for those least likely to commit crime, whereas some a strong effect. The literature review found that there are three basic but conflicting answers to the question “Does the threat of punishment differ

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Monika
  • Examine the Practical and the Morale Constraints upon Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.

    Examine the Practical and the Morale Constraints upon Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.

    Jewish resistance throughout the holocaust has caused much debate among academics historians, and even governments. Historians conclude that resistance was practical and morally constrained throughout the Second World War, for a variety of reasons. Historians such as Rab Bennett, Michael Marrus, Richard L Rubenstein, and John K Roth all have written in detail about the constraints placed upon Jewish resistance throughout this period. Each of these explanations will be examined throughout this paper. Furthermore, this

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    Essay Length: 1,771 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Jack
  • A Researcher, Stanley Milgram, Wondered How Far Individuals Would Go in Following Commands. in 1974 He Set up a Series of Experiments. Describe the Research Methods Used, Together with the Findings.

    A Researcher, Stanley Milgram, Wondered How Far Individuals Would Go in Following Commands. in 1974 He Set up a Series of Experiments. Describe the Research Methods Used, Together with the Findings.

    A researcher, Stanley Milgram, wondered how far individuals would go in following commands. In 1974 he set up a series of experiments. Describe the research methods used, together with the findings. In 1974 Stanley Milgram conducted the classic study of obedience to authority. The study looked into how far individuals would be willing to go, and were asked could they deliver increasingly devastating electric shocks to a fellow human being, as they were requested to

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    Essay Length: 1,087 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: July
  • Proposal for a Research Grant on Type 2 Diabetes

    Proposal for a Research Grant on Type 2 Diabetes

    Running Head: Type II Diabetes Proposal for a Research Grant on Type II Diabetes One of the most serious (and misunderstood) diseases that affects our country today is type II diabetes. While many people may not understand exactly what type II diabetes is, it is actually quite simple: “Type II diabetes is a chronic condition that affects the way your body metabolizes sugar (glucose)- your body’s main source of fuel” (Mayo Clinic, 2006). Type

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    Essay Length: 322 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Yan
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action is a moral and political dilemma which seems to divide Americans more than it unites them. Affirmative action was intended to promote access to education or employment and is aimed at minority groups. However, those in the majority become the ones who are being discriminated against. Those who agree with affirmative action see it as a type of program designed to undo the racism of our forefathers and reverse the effects of both

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    Essay Length: 254 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Artur
  • Southwest Airlines: Culture, Values, and Operating Practices

    Southwest Airlines: Culture, Values, and Operating Practices

    Southwest Airlines: Culture, Values, and Operating Practices Evaluation of the company’s position and strategy: Southwest Airlines is one of the air-travel industry’s great success stories. For most companies, such rapid growth will cause problems: legions of frontline employees taking up the mantle of decision making from core executives and, inevitably, stumbling. A clear and precise strategic principle can help counteract this shortage of experience. In Southwest’s case, employees have consistently made trade-offs in keeping with

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    Essay Length: 1,259 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Steve
  • Define the Terms Affirmative Actions, Sexual Harassment, and Glass Ceiling. How Are They Important in Today's World of Business?

    Define the Terms Affirmative Actions, Sexual Harassment, and Glass Ceiling. How Are They Important in Today's World of Business?

    AFFIRMATIVE ACTION An “Affirmative Action” refers to methods aimed at increasing the numbers of people from specific social groups in employment, education, business, government, and other sectors. These groups usually consist of women and such minorities as African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, disabled people, and Vietnam veterans. Thus, affirmative action is intended to improve and benefit groups that are thought to have undergone discrimination. Different affirmative-action programs have different features. Some seek

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    Essay Length: 1,407 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • Trace the Development of Strategic Human Resource Management from the Resource Based View of the Firm. How Does the Resource Based View of the Firm Facilitate and Inhibit the Actual Practice of Strategic Human Resource Management.

    Trace the Development of Strategic Human Resource Management from the Resource Based View of the Firm. How Does the Resource Based View of the Firm Facilitate and Inhibit the Actual Practice of Strategic Human Resource Management.

    Today, human resources are seen as “the available talents and energies of people who are available to an organization as potential contributors to the creation and realization of the organization's mission, vision, strategy and goals” (Jackson and Schuler, 2000, p. 37).There exist two models that seek to describe what strategy is and how an organization should develop such strategy. The first model known as the Industrial Organization (I/O) model is based on the assumption that

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    Essay Length: 1,507 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action

    What can be done about the majority of higher paying jobs going to the white males, and the issue of racial/sexual discrimination in both the workplace and in education? To this, the government already has its so-called solution… affirmative action. Affirmative action forces businesses and colleges to hire a certain number of minorities including women, so as to fill a government assessed quota. The solution is not to get even with the white males by

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    Essay Length: 615 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Court Reporting Research Paper

    Court Reporting Research Paper

    Court Reporting Throughout History Court Reporting dates all the way back to 1600 B.C. Court Reporters still play an important part in society today, just as they did hundreds of years ago. They help with everything from correctly transcribing testimony to the closed captioning on television. Yet, court reporting is a job that requires lots of dedication, time, and money. The cost of court reporting school today for a three-year program cost about $16,381 with

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    Essay Length: 1,340 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Alzheimer's Disease: Fundamental Research Paves the Way for Therapeutics

    Alzheimer's Disease: Fundamental Research Paves the Way for Therapeutics

    Alzheimer’s disease: fundamental research paves the way for therapeutics. Introduction: biotechnology’s ambitious goals Until recently, the discovery of a successful drug wasn’t actually the logical end point of the elucidation of a disease process. Rather, it was dependent on major doses of luck and coincidences. One speaks of �serendipity’: �the effect by which you accidentally discover something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely’. A world-famous example is Fleming’s discovery of penicillin as a

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    Essay Length: 7,543 Words / 31 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: July
  • Environment Quality Research and Development About Air Pollution

    Environment Quality Research and Development About Air Pollution

    Environment Quality Research and Development About Air Pollution A hundred years ago, a book about air pollution would have attracted very few readers. Those that did read it would have felt that it was just about as important as a book about air traffic control, abortion, or pill. Today when the word pollution is mentioned, almost everyone from the child in kindergarten to the octogenarian appreciates that we are talking about a problem affecting all

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Tommy

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