Gun Control Essays and Term Papers
335 Essays on Gun Control. Documents 226 - 250
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The Maxim Gun by Alexander Thompson
The Maxim Gun By Alexander Thompson Hiram S. Maxim, who was working with an engineering works in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, invented the Maxim machine-gun in 1884. Hiram Maxim was born in Sangersville, Maine on February 5, 1840. His first patented inventions included models of electric lamps and gas appliances, and curling irons. Maxim's first idea of inventing a weapon effective for battlefield combat came from a man he met at the 1881 Paris Electrical Exhibition. This
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The Need for Control
The Need for Control In December of 1995, a thirteen-year-old boy named Joey was shot by his fifteen-year-old friend when they found a pistol that they thought was unloaded. In January 1996, two-year-old Kaile was shot in the chest by her three-year-old brother who found a loaded handgun in a drawer in his parent’s room. Fifty-four percent of Americans who died from gunshot wounds in 1997, died by suicide. In that same year, 247 Americans,
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Governments and Their Control over Education
Sept. 13th, 2005 History is taught to students all around the world, but no matter where people learn it from it is always somewhat different. Societies will always view history from their own perspectives. The reason is obvious. People want to know how they came to be here and consequently learn more about their origins. This is why when mandatory history is taught it is always national history; because the governments can focus in on
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Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems with Total Quality Control and Business Process Reengineering
Implementing enterprise resource planning systems with total quality control and business process reengineering Survey results ________________________________________ Marc J. Schniederjans, Gyu C. Kim The Authors Marc J. Schniederjans, Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA Gyu C. Kim, Department of Operations Management, College of Business, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA Abstract The primary objective of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is to help integrate an organization's business operations
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Controls
In order to monitor the progress of the marketing strategies we propose, we at The Hit Cafй have set up a series of indicators which will allow us to mark progress and let us know what is going well and what may need adjustment. It will allow our upper management to have greater information about what is going on and allow them to make educated, timely decisions that will benefit our profit intake. In
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The Difference Between the Methods of Control in 1984 and Brave New World
The difference between the methods of control in 1984 and BRAVE NEW WORLD is the difference between external control by force and internal control, enforced only by the citizen's own mind. While 1984's method has real-world precedent and seems more feasible to the modern reader, in the end it boils down to the oppression of a people whose human nature at its very core demands freedom. No amount of dictatorial force can eliminate this
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Narcotics Control
Critical Issue Analysis: Narcotics Control The use, production, distribution and control of narcotics, both legal and illegal, have been controversial discussion pieces for many years. It is a sensitive subject that has fueled efforts by both pro and con entities to change or rectify the issues for both sides. I have selected two documents that support either side of the argument, and I will then attempt to analysis them using critical thinking methods. The first
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Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda. By Noam Chomsky Seven Stories Press. 2002 Synopsis of the book. Chomsky examines and explores the use of propaganda in the mass media. His focus remains on the “elite” as he would call them, or the corporations and politicians that control the mass media in our country. He speaks of how the U.S. government used propaganda in order to gain support for our country’s involvement in wars
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Quality Control Within the Toyota Automotive Corporation
Toyota 1 Quality Control Within the Toyota Automotive Corporation Toyota 2 In 1960, the Toyota Corporation established quality control guiding principles after creating the document “Request Regarding Inspection.” This document built a process by “pointing out the idea behind inspections was to eliminate the need for inspections.” Because the Toyota Corporation keep higher standards they felt in an ideal world inspection would be unnecessary. The high demand of automobiles in Japan quickly surged, which caused
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Controlling Security Threat Groups
Security threat groups or, "prison gangs" pose a daily problem within the walls of our national prisons and officials must constantly devise new methods in dealing with an ever growing population of inmates. The difference in dealing with multiple gangs is that prison officials focus on the group behavior rather than centering on individual involvement. With the focus on the whole group, one then must develop plans or procedures when controlling various threats within a
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Atchafalaya: River Control
The Atchafalaya is the most original basins because it has a growing system with very stable wetlands. It is also the biggest river swamp in North America but has lost about 3,760 acres between 1932 and 1990. The loss of the wetlands is primarily due to erosion, human activities, and natural conversion. Many human activities, such as oil and gas pipelines, have interrupted the movement of flow and sediment within the wetlands that it
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Howard Street Jewelry Accounting Case Study on Internal Controls
Howard Street Jewelry Accounting Case Study on Internal Controls 1. The main internal control concept the Levis ignored was segregation of duties. No one person should be responsible for all transactions from the beginning to the end. Betty had too many responsibilities that were interwoven and should have been performed by more than one person. She handled the cash that came in, maintained the cash receipts and the sales records. Another concept that this relates
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Development of Motor Control in Children and Adolescents
In everyday life, we use thousands of movements to navigate through our world. Rarely do we take the time to analyze where these movements come from, or how they are executed on a neuromotor level. Perhaps even less often do we contemplate how these movements have changed with age. Any mother can certainly tell you that she expects to aid her infant by holding its’ bottle during feeding at first. However, at one year of
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Effective and Efficient Control Systems of Walmart
Thesis The first year of operation for Wal-Mart was 1962. At this time, Sam Walton’s stores in Arkansas and Kansas were already facing competition from regional discount chains, such as K-Mart and Target. Sam traveled the country to study this radical, new retailing concept and was convinced it was the wave of the future. Today, Sam Walton has a global company with more than 1.8 million associates worldwide and nearly 6,500 stores and wholesale clubs
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Self Control in the Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou
Self Control, a Problem of the Ages A lack of self control is very evident in O Brother Where Art Thou? as well as in The Odyssey, these stories portray how engrained this problem is, and are evidence to how long lack of control has been pervasive in society. These two sources parallel an idea, however the actual events that take place are much different. The numerous events that show lack of self control occur
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The Future of Batteries at Johnson Controls, Inc.
The Future of Batteries at Johnson Controls, Inc. ADM 519 December 4, 2004 The Future of Batteries at Johnson Controls, Inc. Introduction Although there have been many improvements to the materials and processes of lead-acid batteries, the way the battery works and the electrochemistry that takes place has not changed since Gaston Platte, a French Scientist, immersed lead plates in diluted sulfuric acid in 1859 and proved current would flow between the plates repeatedly (Lead-acid,
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Hybrid Cars: The Future of Air Pollution Control
The current vehicles that are powered by gasoline pollute, but as technologies improve and the human way of life changes alternatively powered vehicles enter the automotive industry. These vehicles developed to achieve better gas mileage and to help slow the production of the gasses that cause Global Warming. The hybrid vehicle is one of the newest and most popular alternatively powered vehicle. Hybrid electric vehicles are energy efficient cars or trucks that run on
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Controlling the Economy with Interest Rates Does It Accomplish the Task on the Consumer Side?
Interest rates have and will always be used by the Federal Government as an instrument to tighten or expand the U.S. economy. Interest rates, adjusted for inflation, rise and fall to balance the amount saved with the amount borrowed, which affects the allocation of scarce resources between present and future uses1. The Federal Government uses both fiscal and monetary policies to adjust the spending levels within the economy. Fiscal policy refers to the government increasing
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Control
INTRODUCTION Most people have heard of locus of control or self-control and recognize that without control, they can cause chaos. Many people have lost locus of control to misunderstood concept or myth. Recently, the book, The Secret, brings up a topic of control of its own life. According to the book, law of attraction reveals that core message of “The Secret” is that we are in control of our destiny. It is still debatable. Many
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Benefit from Assessing Internal Control Procedures
There are many ways for a company to benefit from assessing their control procedures. Internal controls are operating practices that are established to provide reasonable assurance that specific objectives will be achieved and every employee in the organization is responsible for internal controls. Implementing internal controls will help your business reach its performance and profitability targets, and most importantly prevent loss of resources. Internal Controls help to ensure reliable financial reporting, as well as, making
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Gun Policy
Topic: Gun Policy Specific Purpose: to persuade my audience that a uniform national gun policy is necessary. Thematic statement/ central ideas: A uniform national gun policy is necessary because the gun policies vary from state to state, the lack of a policy allows innocent death, and costs the public money. INTRODUCTION: ATTENTION GAINING DEVICE: Let me tell you a short story. At 11:10 AM, on Tuesday, April 20th, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold arrived
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Internal Controls
Introduction In recent years, many organizations have published guidelines and standards on internal control and defined it in various ways. All of the definitions captured the basic concept of internal control using different words. The definitions are very similar in that they recognize internal control's extensive scope, responsibility, relationship to achieving the organization's mission, and its dependence on people in the organization. Internal Controls are an important part of each system used to regulate and
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To What Extent Are We Controlled by the Consumer Society We Live In?
Culture of European Organisation Essay, 13/10/04 3600 words “People recognise themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobiles, hi-fi sets, split level homes………social control is anchored in the new needs which the consumer society has produced." (Marcuse,1968:24) To what extent are we controlled by the consumer society we live in? Marita Juenamnn “People recognise themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobiles, hi-fi sets, split level homes………social control
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Do You Agree with Lewis's Statement That” We Depend for a Very Great Deal of Our Happiness or Misery on Circumstances Outside All Human Control.
Do you agree with Lewis’s statement that” we depend for a very great deal of our happiness or misery on circumstances outside all human control. In the United States, there are 50% of married couple divorce in recent year and 59.9% of them got divorced because unhappiness; they might just marry for money, beauty or some other reasons. So I agree with C.S. Lewis statement “that we depend for a very great deal of our
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Birth Control
During the end of the 19th century, the United State’s foreign policy became a major issue and was in an ideological conflict within the nation. A national debate grew between citizens as to the role of the United States and its overseas and military endeavors. Americans attempted to decide the role of democracy in the world and how the United States should act in world affairs. It all started with the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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