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  • The Bystander Effect

    The Bystander Effect

    There is one question that has undoubtedly crossed the minds of most Americans at one time in their life, and continues to plague the country. Should I help or should I just walk away? What I am referring to is something psychologists have named the Bystander Effect. According to the Penguin Dictionary of Psychology, the bystander effect is defined as such: the more people present when help is needed, the less likely any of them

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Effects of Alcohol on the Body

    The Effects of Alcohol on the Body

    The effects of alcohol on the body Alcohol is one of many dangerous substances that effects our bodies. The effects of this drug can be very harmful. Alcohol is a potent non-prescription drug sold to anyone over the national legal drinking age, 21. Unlike other deadly drugs it is easy to access. This makes it easy to over-consume and create a tragic accident, even death. It can damage a person not only physically but also

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    Essay Length: 1,742 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Effects of Crude Oil Prices

    Effects of Crude Oil Prices

    Executive Summary What affect does the price of oil and gas have on the economy? How does this affect the daily lives of the entire population? The preceding questions are the basis for the enclosed report. The primary objective of this report is to give a few reasons as to what causes prices of oil and prices of gas to rise. Among these reasons, speculation of things that may or may not happen, like a

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    Essay Length: 5,023 Words / 21 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Edward
  • Gambling

    Gambling

    Gambling, in the United States, is more than a $ billion per year industry. This number is only attributed to the legal aspect of wagering and does not include the illegal areas of the money making. There are several billion dollars being wagered illegally throughout the country each year with bookmakers, illegal casinos, and Internet gaming. The most common forms of legal gambling in the United States include table games (poker, blackjack, craps, and roulette),

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    Essay Length: 558 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Mike
  • How Belief Systems Effect Politics

    How Belief Systems Effect Politics

    The belief systems of the modern world have helped determine the policies and politics of nations around the world. For centuries before, and almost definitely for decades after now, there will be disputed between people and countries on account of their faith. Religions have started wars, ended them, impacted, and persuaded people. Needless to say, beliefs are very influential on the world today. People of different faiths don’t only fight over their basic beliefs and

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    Essay Length: 543 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Top
  • Music and Its Effects on Life

    Music and Its Effects on Life

    The effects that music has on life are unimagineable. Music has been widely recommended as a technique to enhance the psychophysical state of participants in sport and exercise. However, there is scant scientific evidence to clarify its proposed benefits The purpose of this paper was to present the conceptual framework underlying the psychophysical effects of music, to discuss published findings since the review of Lucaccini and Kreit (1972), and to consider limitations in previous research.

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    Essay Length: 441 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: David
  • Ageing and Its Effect on Language

    Ageing and Its Effect on Language

    The dramatic increase during the 20th century in the number of people reaching old age has helped to continue a long tradition of research into the effects of ageing on human cognition. In the past the plurality of humans departed, by current standards, early in life with sound mind. While the modern individual is no longer troubled with small pox or polio, he is however, in a race between death and mental deterioration. To live

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Jack
  • Effects of Diabetes

    Effects of Diabetes

    We live in a toxic environment. Much of what we consume is simply not good for our bodies-it builds up and eventually damages our health. Antioxidant vitamins-vitamins C and E, and beta carotene-may be what we need to "clean up" our systems. Excess sugar in the bloodstream can have very serious side effects. The extra sugar impedes blood flow, causing wounds to heal more slowly and infections to become more virulent. Just how this excess

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    Essay Length: 435 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • How Did the Iraqi War Effect the Presidential Election?

    How Did the Iraqi War Effect the Presidential Election?

    How did the Iraqi War effect the Presidential election? After September 11, President Bush and his administration, associated the Iraqi regime with terrorism, and said Iraq had the capacity to produce Weapons of Mass Destruction, which could be used by terrorists to threaten the United States. Therefore, encouraging the U.S. citizens to support Bush and reelect him as President because he would take action by sending troops to Iraq, to find Saddam and other terrorists,

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    Essay Length: 675 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Wendy
  • The Effect of the Internet on Modern Society

    The Effect of the Internet on Modern Society

    The Effect of the Internet on Modern Society In this day and age, the Internet is the new resource tool for the masses. It has changed the way we live in society and the way people interact with each other. As more and more people log on the Internet, it has undoubtedly changed the way people think and feel about each other and the world around us. When we begin to look at the ways

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Urbanization and Its Effect on Third World Living Conditions

    Urbanization and Its Effect on Third World Living Conditions

    Urbanization and its effect on third world living conditions Urbanization is the spreading of cities into less populated agricultural areas. Most people would not think that this is necessarily a problem. They would say that it is good that the “developing countries” were becoming more developed. With urbanization comes factories and more jobs, so the people can make more money and be happier. Right? The problem is that these people must sacrifice their traditional

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    Essay Length: 1,286 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Photography in Advertising and Its Effects on Society

    Photography in Advertising and Its Effects on Society

    Memory has been and always will be associated with images. As early as 1896, leading psychologists were arguing that memory was nothing more than a continuous exchange of images. (Bergson) Later models of memory describe it as more of an image text; a combination of space and time, and image and word. (Yates) Although image certainly is not the only component of memory, it is undoubtedly an integral and essential part of memory’s composition. Photography

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • An Experiment to Investigate the Effects of the Centroid Bias on the Judgment of the Inclination and Separation

    An Experiment to Investigate the Effects of the Centroid Bias on the Judgment of the Inclination and Separation

    An Experiment to Investigate the Effects of the Centroid Bias on the Judgment of the Inclination and Separation. Abstract The aim of this investigation was to observe how a red dot in a cluster of blue dots would affect the way one perceived the inclination and separation of lines between the two red dots. The research hypothesis was the varying distance would affect the error judgment. The design used to test this hypothesis was experimentation.

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Effectiveness of Art Therapy and Guided Imagery in Reducing the Stress of 3rd Year and 4th Year Bs Psychology Students Sy 2006-2007

    The Effectiveness of Art Therapy and Guided Imagery in Reducing the Stress of 3rd Year and 4th Year Bs Psychology Students Sy 2006-2007

    Chapter I The Problem and Its Background Introduction Stress is considered as one of the main reasons for the majority of school problems nowadays. The most frequent cause of stress in school is concern about academic performance and everything that goes with it, such as studying for exams, meeting the deadlines, maintaining average or excellent class standing, and getting high grades. In accomplishing all these, the student must exert a lot of effort. He must

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Psychological Effects of War

    Psychological Effects of War

    As we have seen throughout this unit, war is not like what we saw on myonegoodreason.com. It is killing, dying, blood, and mental effects that will live with you until the day you die. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque portrays, not only does war leave physical scars, but it leaves mental scars as well. Many people associate war with blown off limbs, and bombs, and blood, that definitely has a

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Vika
  • The History of Lsd and Its Effects on the American Counterculture

    The History of Lsd and Its Effects on the American Counterculture

    After World War II ended, the age of baby-booming and urban sprawling began. During this time, many American soldiers came home from the war; married, and had five or six children. This created the largest generation ever. Could this new generation change the social world of America? In 1964, most of the baby-boomer’s children were in their late teens. This was the beginning of a major social change in the United States. With the birth

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Effect of Gender on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Kuwait

    The Effect of Gender on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Kuwait

    The Effect of Gender on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Kuwait Rastied Al-Ajmi Kuwait University, Kuwait This study explored the effect of gender on employees perception of job satisfaction and organizational commitment in Kuwait. The study was conducted on 436 employees (213 females and 223 males) in five Kuwaiti government ministries. The author wondered whether Kuwaiti females are, at least, as committed and satisfied with their jobs when compared with their male counterparts. The

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Cause and Effect of the Water Wheel

    Cause and Effect of the Water Wheel

    A water wheel changes the energy of falling water into mechanical energy that can be used for machines. The water is directed into the wheel through a tube. The wheel is placed on an axle, which is connected by gearing with the machine it is to operate. There are two types of water wheels, vertical and horizontal. The vertical wheels has an overshot and a undershot. The overshot water wheel has buckets around its

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Effects of Distance on Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution

    Effects of Distance on Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution

    EFFECTS OF DISTANCE ON TEAM DYNAMICS AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION Conflict: is conflict good, bad, or ugly? Conflict itself is none of these. Conflict can make a team successful or conflict can make a team fail. The good, bad, or ugly is the direct result of how people working in a team handle the conflict. Managing the conflict can be as challenging for a team as the work the team is trying to complete. A Team

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    Essay Length: 2,617 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Mikki
  • An Introspective Look at the Modern Age of Entertainment Software and Its Proposed Effects on Society

    An Introspective Look at the Modern Age of Entertainment Software and Its Proposed Effects on Society

    The year is 1972, and a distinctive sound is emanating from the rear of Andy Capp’s Tavern. Pong….Pong….Pong. Little did the creators of this new game at the fledgling company called Atari know but they were about to kick start the modern age of video games. Many years have passed since then, and technology has progressed exponentially. As technology continues to advance and video games become more realistic, there are some that think that society

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    Essay Length: 2,024 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Victor
  • Effective Planning

    Effective Planning

    Effective Planning Planning is the (psychological) process of creating and refining a plan, or integrating it with other plans. The term is also used to describe the formal procedures used in the creation of documents, diagrams, or meetings to discuss the important issues to be addressed, the objectives to be met, and the strategy to be followed. Beyond this, planning has a different meaning depending on the political or economic context in which it is

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Causes and Effects of the Great Depression

    The Causes and Effects of the Great Depression

    One of the most often identified causes of the Great Depression which haunted this country during the 1930s is the stock market crash of 1929. There is no arguing that the effects of this crash were devastating to both the economics and the morale of the American people. The stock market had fluctuated wildly during the year before the actual crash. Investors lost and gained in increments never before seen. These extreme profits and

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    Essay Length: 438 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Vika
  • Effects of Modernity

    Effects of Modernity

    The old-traditional way of life has vanished for ever. Today only villages and some small towns remind us of this kind of life, and as time passes, more people choose to abandon traditional way of life, to move to the "big city". Modern way of life has nothing in common with the traditional one. Human habits, values, norms have changed. The most important of these social changes can be observed in human relationships, family economy,

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Effects on the Stock Markey

    Effects on the Stock Markey

    Wall Street's worrisome week Stock investors are likely to spend the first week of the second quarter much like they spent the last week of the first quarter - caught between competing influences. By Alexandra Twin, CNNMoney.com senior writer April 1 2007: 1:04 PM EDT NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Wall Street ended a bumpy first quarter with a thud last week and is bound to start the second one in a similar fashion--with Iran, China,

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Effects of Technology

    Effects of Technology

    An average person knows how much computers and the Internet have advanced our lives today. The advent of computers has brought many positive changes, life has become easier and better. Everyone uses computers to perform tasks such writing papers, gathering information, transacting business, learning and shopping. Despite all these positive attributes, technological advancement has brought with it many negative effects, especially with people’s heavy reliance on the Internet and computer games. These new inventions have

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: David

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