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Papers on Miscellaneous Topics
The Issue Of Block Scheduling In Schools
Number of words: 525 | Number of pages: 2.... same amount as they would in a regular class time. As humans we tend to remember the things we do first (primacy) and the things we to last (regency). The time in the middles is sag time and is remembered at a much lower percentage. So basically you start our remembering a greater percentage of things in the beginning and as you move to the middle of your time period you remember a lower percentage. Then you remember more as you come from the middle to the most recent event. By lengthening the classes to ninety minutes you decrease the percentage learned because there are 50% less primacy and regency events occur and there is .....
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Boss Mustang
Number of words: 509 | Number of pages: 2.... have been privileged enough to drive this car. The first thing I noticed when driving the car was the smoothness it had. This car was extremely light, 2164 pounds. Motor World has examined this car from front to back and give it a perfect 10. Every magazine I¡¦ve looked at has rated this car no lower than a 8.5 which is still extremely high. This car itself has the looks, drive, and speed to out perform any major sports car on the market.
I would ask any of my readers to go to their local BOSS dealer and get a test drive on this car. I know you¡¦ll love it as much as me and more. I¡¦m encouraging you to tell y .....
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Colorado
Number of words: 1837 | Number of pages: 7.... With an area of 104,091 square miles, it ranks eighth among states in size. Colorado is located in the Central Time Zone of the United States. Also known as Mountain Time Zone, it’s clock runs an hour later that the Eastern Standard Time Zone and one hour ahead of the Pacific Standard Time Zone.
The state itself is located somewhat in the center of the United States, just slightly southwest of center. It borders Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Colorado is called the "top of the nation" because it’s average elevation of 6,800 feet is higher than any other state. It’s lowest .....
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Golf And Its Environment
Number of words: 421 | Number of pages: 2.... the golf course is bad for the environment. Golf is one of the best sports for the environment. A majority of the time it uses natural resources and occasionally improves its landscape. A golf course can make an open field of tall grass into a lush, green, tree-lined maze.
The idea of destroying animal habitat could be a good argument but most of the time you see more animals come to the course or to the surrounding area because of its peacefulness and beauty. Animal rights activists are still arguing that it is still destroying the habitat of some the native animals. Because of this courses are now putting in protected areas .....
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College Costs
Number of words: 2212 | Number of pages: 9.... 1995-96 academic year averaged about $15,400, compared with about
$5006 at public 4-year colleges. The cost of attending an institution of higher
education includes not only tuition and fees, however, but also books and
supplies, transportation, personal expenses and, sometimes, room and board.
Although tuition and fees generally are substantially lower at public
institutions than at private ones, the other student costs are about the same.
According to MS-Encarta94,"the average cost for tuition, fees, and room and
board for the 1995-96 academic year at private 4-year colleges was about $20,165.
At public 4-year colleges the averag .....
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A Brief Overview Of Psychedelics
Number of words: 6103 | Number of pages: 23.... some scientist and psychologists permission to experiment with such agents, and despite the controversy and varying results there seem to be many positive uses of psychedelic agents. These positive uses and the research that has been directed toward these uses will be reviewed in the following, as well as a brief history of psychedelic drugs.
Native Americans are probably the people most known for their use of psychedelic drugs. Being a very religious people, their entire society revolved around the spirit world, and some believed that access to this world was possible by eating certain plants that were abundant in their surrou .....
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Abortions
Number of words: 1165 | Number of pages: 5.... A woman from Brooklyn, New York died from a legal abortion and the police engaged in cover up. Tamika Dowdy, 22 was pronounced dead after having a legal abortion at Long Island College Hospital on Wednesday (reported in the case of http://www.roevwade.org/rvw//.html). Dowdy's fiancé Rudy Alston waited in the waiting room for six hours the abortion practitioner told him that Dowdy's heart had stopped. Dowdy and Alston were planning on a January or February wedding and the couple didn't want a child because Dowdy wanted to go to a two year accounting school. The police officials tried to squelch news by omitting the tragic abort .....
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Illiteracy, A Problem Facing W
Number of words: 921 | Number of pages: 4.... have defined illiteracy, I want to raise the awareness of this problem, how it relates to women and propose a policy to help solve the problem. Illiteracy exists in America and in all nations all over the world, and the percentages of illiterate women are much higher than illiterate men. Many people assume that illiterate Americans are concentrated in large cities with troubled schools. Although this may be true in some cases, there are rural areas where illiterate women are overlooked.
According to the most recent statistics in the World Education Report, a study released last year by the United Nations Educational, Scienti .....
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Comparison 2
Number of words: 592 | Number of pages: 3.... and give injections and enemas, apply dressings, apply ice packs and insert catheters. L.P.N.’s observe patients and report adverse reactions to medications or treatments to the R.N. or the doctor. They help patients with bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene, and care for their emotional needs.
Likewise the working conditions are related. C.N.A.’s work a 40 hour week, but because patients need care 24 hours a day, some aides work evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. Aides spend many hours standing and walking, and often face heavy workloads. Because they may have to move patients in and out of bed or help .....
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Extraordinary Means Of Treatme
Number of words: 528 | Number of pages: 2.... the life of the patient. Sometimes you may need to take the individual’s opinion on the treatments advice. If they are able to give a competent decision shouldn’t it be used to determine whether or not to go on further with the treatment.
If extraordinary means are not offered and the patient slowly dies, can the doctor just sit and watch and not try and save the patient. Is it not the doctor’s duty to try and save that patient? When a doctor graduates from medical school they take an oath, in this oath they state to preserve all life. So who should they stay true to, should they grand the wishes of the .....
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