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  • Staffing Injuries in Nursing Homes

    Staffing Injuries in Nursing Homes

    Team A reviewed the four papers that accounted for each team members' week one paper and unanimously chose Rachael's paper on injuries that occur on the job in Nursing Homes. In the original article that Rachael's paper was written about, it clearly states research has been done supporting the fact that injuries are occurring more often as a direct link to reductions in nursing staff hours. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is

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    Essay Length: 3,272 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: March 13, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Homosexuality in the Middle Ages

    Homosexuality in the Middle Ages

    [Back to People With a History] Paul Halsall: The Experience of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages Preface The following is a paper written in 1988. I would change some, perhaps many of the conclusions, and certainly the theoretical approach. In particular I would emphasis the position of large aggregates of human beings [i.e. cities and monasteries] as a necessary but not sufficient pre-condition for homosexual sub-cultures. It should also be noted that this paper stands

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    Essay Length: 4,723 Words / 19 Pages
    Submitted: March 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Weddings of the Middle Ages

    Weddings of the Middle Ages

    Middle Ages As the ages have past weddings have changed, the most interesting weddings took place in the middle ages. Middle ages were full of mystery and lust, women were not merely wives but prizes and a possession, rarely was it love. The reasons of which people were married was determined by their class. Most of the marriage laws we know today evolved during this era. The celebrations were extravagant, full of color and magnificent

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    Essay Length: 1,165 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: David
  • The 21 Drinking Age

    The 21 Drinking Age

    -1- In America, the law is extremely strict with the policy of being 21 or older to have the right to drink. I feel that age is not very necessary when it comes to limitations on drinking. The drinking age should be lowered to a younger age if not lifted all together. I believe that a positive results will come from the drinking age being dropped. In this paper I am going to defend why

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    Essay Length: 1,410 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Vika
  • Federal Aviation Administration and the Age Sixty Rule

    Federal Aviation Administration and the Age Sixty Rule

    Federal Aviation Administration and the Age Sixty Rule The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is an agency of the United States Department of Transportation. The FAA has the authority to regulate all aspects of civil aviation in the United States. They also have control over foreign pilots who fly into the United States. The FAA was created in 1958 under the Federal Aviation Act. In 1959 the FAA required all U.S. pilots to stop flying commercial

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    Essay Length: 448 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The Jazz Age

    The Jazz Age

    The Jazz Age Many of the influential artists of the past came from the jazz age such as Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Basie and Crosby, Sarah Vaughan, Cab Calloway, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, and many others. Frank Sinatra was dominating the scene in 1947. He had a voice that was carefully articulated, and had meaningful quality that could make everyone feel that he was sending a private message in his songs to everyone in the

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    Essay Length: 524 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Wendy
  • The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation Summary

    The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation Summary

    In the beginning of Eric Foner’s essay, he talks of how devoted Americans are to their freedom. Different titles, for example, on history textbooks suggest just this: Land of the Free and The Rise of American Freedom. People on the outside of America looking in find this astonishing. The pride that is shown by Americans is outrageous to people that do not know what freedom is or people who have some freedom don’t see what

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    Essay Length: 553 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Yan
  • Queen Elizabeth: Ruler for the Ages

    Queen Elizabeth: Ruler for the Ages

    Queen Elizabeth I: Ruler for the Ages Introduction Queen Elizabeth I is often referred to as the greatest female ruler in history. Her legacy is one of triumphs, failures, eloquence, and strength. The story of the Tudor Dynasty reads much like a soap opera filled with scandal and laden with sin. Yet, in spite of her family and herself, Elizabeth was a success. Decisions made during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I defined England both

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    Essay Length: 1,610 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: regina
  • Home

    Home

    Home is a term that is used throughout the world as the place where one lives. Is this really what home means? In looking deeper at what the word really means, many interpretations become apparent. Another word that sometimes is confused with home is the word house. A house is the actual building where a person lives, whereas a home is more personal. The dictionary defines the word home as the place in which one’s

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    Essay Length: 1,043 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Janna
  • Roman Catholic Church Influences on Europe in the Middle Age

    Roman Catholic Church Influences on Europe in the Middle Age

    The Pope and the Roman Catholic Church made many positive, as well as negative influences on Europe during the Middle Ages. Some of the positive influences were education and music. Some negative influences were the Crusades and conflicts between Kings and the Pope over power. As illustrated in Document 3, there are children learning and a monk is teaching them. They have books on their laps like they are reading. This had a very positive

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    Essay Length: 366 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Paternal Age and Increased Risk of Schizophrenia, Providing Evidence for De Novo Mutations

    Paternal Age and Increased Risk of Schizophrenia, Providing Evidence for De Novo Mutations

    Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that afflicts approximately one percent of the world’s population and yet its etiology is relatively unknown. There is a clear link between schizophrenia and genes in familial cases, demonstrated by heritability. However there is also evidence that genes contribute to the onset of schizophrenia in sporadic cases (where there is no history of the disease in the family) due to accumulating ‘de novo’ mutations in ageing fathers. One experiment

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    Essay Length: 1,874 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Jack
  • The Coming of Age Stories

    The Coming of Age Stories

    Stories about youth and the transition from that stage of life into adulthood form a very solidly populated segment of literature. In three such stories, John Updike’s “A & P,” Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Was Almost a Man,” and James Joyce’s “Araby”, young men face their transitions into adulthood. Each of these boys faces a different element of youth that requires a fundamental shift in their attitudes. Sammy, in “A&P”, must make a moral

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    Essay Length: 1,280 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Top
  • Psych Two Take-Home Essay

    Psych Two Take-Home Essay

    Psych Two Take-Home Essay The study of Behaviorism dates can be traced back to the classical Greek philosophers, and goes into the nineteenth and twentieth-century psychology. Below is a list of fundamental psychologists and their contributions. * Greeks Philosophers and psychologists have been intrigued with the human thought process for thousands of years, with one of the first being the Greek philosopher Aristotle. He presented some of the first operational methods in how human learning

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    Essay Length: 1,030 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Janna
  • Analyse Sociological Contributions to Our Understanding of Relationships Between Crime, Deviance and one of the Following:- Ethnicity, Social Class, Age, Gender.

    Analyse Sociological Contributions to Our Understanding of Relationships Between Crime, Deviance and one of the Following:- Ethnicity, Social Class, Age, Gender.

    During this essay I will examine the sociological contributions which can help us to understand the link between crime, deviance and ethnicity. Crime is defined as being an act which is against the law, and deviance is defined as an act which goes against the norms of society. Ethnicity is defined as being a group that shares a culture, religion or language. When we look at both ethnicity and crime it can be said that

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    Essay Length: 926 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Issues Affecting Aging

    Issues Affecting Aging

    As we grow in to adulthood, there are many things that start to change in our life and like the physical characteristics, mental capability, along with other things. The aging process does not proceed at a uniform rate all over the body. As we age, the various functions and physiological reactions of our body gradually slow down. These changes are not apparent until perhaps 50 years of age as they are not perceptible. We will

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    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Age of Reason

    Age of Reason

    The Eighteenth Century in America was period of time labeled by the works of enlightened writers, thinkers, and scientists. Focus on reason over faith by many during the Age of Reason was spurred by the work of Sir Issac Newton and Galileo, scientists of the seventeenth century. In America, politics dominated the writings because of the Revolution: “By the time of the War of Independence, nearly fifty newspapers had been established in coastal cities”(95). Due

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    Essay Length: 526 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • Weapons and Arms in the Middle Ages

    Weapons and Arms in the Middle Ages

    Weapons and Arms in the Middle Ages In my observations of the Medieval time period I found the weapons to be brutal, and atrocious. From war hammers to napalm to the arquebus, this was by far the most in-humane advancement in weapons apart from modern day. The Medieval time went from about the 11th century to the 14th. During this time survival depended on the power of the certain ruler people served under. The power

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    Essay Length: 1,376 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Health and Medicine of the Middle Ages

    Health and Medicine of the Middle Ages

    Health and Medicine of the middle Ages During the Middle Ages people lived very different lives compared to what we live today. They were very unsanitary and apt to catching illnesses. There were many different types of diseases and epidemics during the middle ages and very little was done to prevent them with the lack of knowledge the people had about each illness. There were many different types of illnesses and epidemics occurring in Europe

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    Essay Length: 525 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Tommy
  • A New Age of Music Piracy

    A New Age of Music Piracy

    Andrew Vaccarezza Dr. Keith Bohm Music 129, section 2 12 July 2007 A New Age of Music Piracy A thief can be defined in many different ways. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language states a thief is one whom commits theft. So one might ask, what exactly is theft? Theft is defined as �the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it (The American Heritage

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    Essay Length: 1,813 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Poem: Home Coming (bruce Dawe)

    Poem: Home Coming (bruce Dawe)

    The poem “Homecoming” originates from Bruce Dawe. Its journey depicts the aspects of war and its devastations upon human individuals. Using mainly the Vietnam War as a demonstration for its destructions. Within this poem Bruce Dawe dramatizes the homecoming of Australian veterans' bodies from Vietnam. This is clearly an anti-war poem, reproducing the sentiments of those who opposed the time when this war occurred. The poem starts of in what seems to be a monotone.

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    Essay Length: 774 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Selflessness and the Ages

    Selflessness and the Ages

    Selflessness and the Ages Throughout “The Grapes of Wrath”, the Joad family repeatedly crosses the paths of families in need, and the Joads help them out nearly every time. For the Joads it's almost a requirement, an obligation to help those they can. Why do people help each other? Has this changed any since the 1930's? There seems to be an inexhaustible number of reasons that one person might go out of his way to

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Jon
  • The Home Depot Case Analysis

    The Home Depot Case Analysis

    The Home Depot Case Analysis “The Home Depot NYSE: HD, headquartered in Vinings, Georgia, is a home improvement retailer that aims for both the do-it-yourself consumer and the professional in home improvement and construction. It is the second largest retailer in the United States, behind Wal-Mart; and the third largest retailer in the world, behind Wal-Mart and French company Carrefour. The Home Depot operates about 1,900 stores across North America. The company operates stores in

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    Essay Length: 1,765 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Wendy
  • The Home Front Ww2

    The Home Front Ww2

    The Home Front WW2 Evacuation During the war the Germans bombed British cities. The government was worried about this and they were also worried that the Germans would use gas. They wanted to protect the children in the cities so they brought in evacuation in 1939. This meant they sent the children to live out in the countryside, away from the cites and the threat of bombs. School children went with their school and their

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    Essay Length: 1,842 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Home-Based Sneaker Business

    Home-Based Sneaker Business

    My Mission is to create an environment where sneakers are not just something to put on your feet. Sneakers are not a fad. Sneakers are a way a life and is a sub culture of hip hop fashion. My goal is to turn this lifestyle into a business and contribute to the sneaker world by promoting and customizing kick’s to keep this movement positive forward direction. I am creating a sneaker customization service that

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Success at a Young Age

    Success at a Young Age

    Success by a Young Age Aretha Franklin is a well known pop, R&B, and gospel singer. She has been nicknamed “The Queen of Soul” and is an internationally known artist and a symbol of pride in the African American community. Her popularity soared in 1967 when she released an album containing songs “I Never Loved a Man”, “Respect”, and “Baby I Love You.” Throughout her career she has achieved fifteen Grammy Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award,

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Victor