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Natalie Merchant's song "Gold Rush Brides" recalls the beauty and majesty of the early American West but emphasizes that it was the men who enjoyed the freedom of the Wild West. The women had to undergo horrendous struggle and hardship as "homestead wives" and "gold rush brides" ("10000 Maniacs Gold Rush Brides Lyrics"). As the song lyrics indicate, women in the West suffered through yellow fever, childbirth, the deaths

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1. Governments should be less involved when it comes to public health. Government intervention in public health-except to ensure healthcare for the disadvantaged-is largely a mistake. It compromises the quality of care and adds a huge burden of bureaucratic red tape to a healthcare system that is already struggling. 2. The U.S. government needs to take less of a role in public health. The interventions designed by the medical profession, such as chemotherapy and radiation-both proven cancer causers-for cancer victims no longer make sense to many Americans, who are increasingly interested in holistic health care, organic foods, and natural remedies, yet the U.S. government and its legal system have taken a stance forcing citizens to accept medical care even when they do not want it. Even many doctors and nurses "vary in their willingness to undertake cancer chemotherapy" (Bremnes, Andersen, &

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PART 1. I plan to determine the effectiveness/ineffectiveness of SMART Board technology in the classroom among children with autism. The focus of the study will be an examination of what new and emerging technologies have to offer in terms of increasing learning comprehension in the classroom. The educational context will be autistic learners in the elementary classroom. The problem to be studied is the need for and benefits of special, targeted technologies, specifically the SMART Board in a classroom for autistic children, and ways that the SMART Board can be used effectively with autistic children. Although computer technologies have been widely touted as a beneficial adjunct to the regular elementary classroom, their use in the classroom geared toward autistic children has not been explored sufficiently. Kimball and Smith (2007) recommended in general that computer software be used with the autistic, but there are a variety of explicit technologies being developed that could each have a significant and specific impact on the elementary classroom of autistic students (Goodwin, 2008, p. 125). Whi

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MPH and MBA Admission Essays My passion for the healthcare field is the result of a hardship in my youth. My father was a successful lawyer in India but sacrificed his career so that he could build a better life for our family in America. My parents worked at low-wage grocery store jobs while the four of us lived in a one-bedroom apartment and my parents put together the business plan they needed to obtain their own convenience store franchise. Health insurance was too expensive for our meager budget, and our life without healthcare helped me to recognize how vital and precious this resource is. My desire to work in the healthcare industry grew out of this recognition that the healthcare profession provides the most important service to people of any other. The first step in reaching my goals was to obtain my biology degree at the undergraduate level. In addition to attending school full-time, I was also working in my parents' store full-time--a difficult

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It is generally agreed among scholars that the Renaissance emerged in Italy although the wave of "new learning" and humanism in thought and ideas was certainly not limited to Italy (Huizinga, 1996). Italy is generally regarded as the primary locus of the complex movement that stirred in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and then reached a climax in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy, spreading with different manifestations throughout Europe (Gardner, 1982). The Renaissance emerged in Italy as a direct consequence of a number of unique political, social, and economic conditions. For example, St. Francis and the Franciscan movement was unique to Italy and turned the tide of thought from the Medieval point of view that focused a futu

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The information indicates that clouds have a net cooling effect on the earth. Therefore, an approach that humans could use to reverse global warming is to spur cloud formation. This would provide cloud cover, cooling the earth and negating the effect of global warming. The approach that humans could use to spur cloud formation is to release the chemical dimethyl sulphide, or DMS, into th

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Research Description/Question The topic of this research is the effects of gender on social communications among young adults. Research shows that there are clear and prevailing differences in social communication between young men and women due to gender. Even new media seem to offer only new routes of sharing traditionally gendered forms of communication not a means of developing a more gender neutral language. As Stern (1) notes in a study of the content of home pages of young men and women, "Personal home pages do not appear to have generated a new type of gender neutral communication among adolescent authors, but rather, they seem merely to provide a new outlet for traditional, gendered communication." Further, social institutions like the media continue to perpetuate traditional stereotypes of male and female social communication. Teasing is associated with the social communication of "flirting," while sexual messages to young adults portray puber

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There is sometimes a thin line between noble, benevolent character and character that aspires to do good but ultimately fails. Although the man of character who cares about others may look similar to the man without character who cares, their decisions under pressure reveal who they really are. Atticus in Lee Harper's To Kill A Mockingbird and George in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men are two such men, Atticus being the man of character who cares and George being the man without character who cares. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus comes under pressure as a man of character for defending Tom Robinson, a black man, but he braves the pressure and does his best to win the case. Heck tries to persuade Atticus not to accept the case, telling him that he has got "everything to lose," but Atticus is determined and answers, "Heck, that boy might go to the chair, but he's not going till the truth's told" (Lee 35). Atticus' character com

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One of the key facets of project management is performance measurement. In fact, "The three prime objectives of project management are to meet specified performance within cost and on schedule" (Meredith & Mantel, 2006, p. 24). The importance of performance measurement cannot be overstated. Other project management values such as rapid project completion are not valuable if performance quality is sacrificed to attain them. In addition, without performance measurement, it is difficult to evaluate the success of a project. By linking measures to the company's strategy and ensuring that they work within the budget and compensation framework, a company can obtain meaningful information that supports its overall health (Thor, 2006, p. 8). Finally, as someone once said, "You cannot manage what you cannot measure," so performance measurement is vital for managing work and workers ("Performance Measurement," n.d., p. 1). There are a variety of performance measures that can be used to assess performance in a project, but three of the most important are schedule, quality, and customer satisfaction. A project schedule is an exce

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The Murals at Lascaux (Dordogne) France The most striking works of art in the Paleolithic era are the image of animals that were incised, painted or sculpted on the rock surfaces of caves (Janson, 1986). The cave paintings found at Lascaux in the Dordogne region of France are representative of man's observation of bison, deer, horses, and cattle. It is believed that these paintings were done by blowing pi

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In his article on gun control, Gary Rosen (2002) addresses both the liberal and conservative camps' views on the subject. Rosen explains the views of both sides, discusses the changing trends in gun ownership, and looks at the need for new gun laws. In addition, he reviews gun violence, the views of the gun lobby, and the benefits of background checks before insisting that the two sides need to reach a consensus. I. Introduction "A middle ground needs to be reached on gun control (Rosen, 2002). A. Both sides' arguments are v

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Epidemiology has the potential for both medical breakthroughs and serious barriers to the epidemiological control of disease, and the way we approach epidemiology in the future will determine which of these possibilities wins out. On the positive side, epidemiology will leverage new technologies. For example, genetic epidemiology will allow doctors to actually prevent disease by targeting individuals with genetic predispositions for certain diseases and then reducing their disease risk (Okasha, n.d.). On the other hand, the high percentage of specialization among physicians reduces the ability to diagnose a patient because it segregates the patient's treating physicians, and they compartmentalize the patient's symptoms. In the event of an infectious disease outbreak, epidemiology would fare better because of collaboration among medical profession

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In Dana M. Rhule's (2005) article "Take Care to Do No Harm: Harmful Interventions for Youth Problem Behavior," she discusses the iatrogenic effects documented because of group interventions for problem youth. She explains that although such interventions are intended to ameliorate problem behaviors such as delinquency, aggression, and alcohol and drug use, it is often the case that they inadvertently increase negative behavior rather than improving it. She cites Lipsey (1992), who concluded that "approximately 29% of controlled interventions focusing on youth problem behavior produced iatrogenic outcomes" (Rhule, 2005, p. 619). Drawing on research and theory, Rhule (2005) identifies the peer group as performing a major function in youth problem behavior in terms of initiating, maintaining, and escalating it (Rhule, 2005, p. 619). She cites Stormshak et al. (1999), who contend that "the presence of many aggressive peers together in a group has been shown to contribute to a sh

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The Constitution of the United States was the result of a "Great Compromise" in which leaders of the early days of the American Republic negotiated the relative powers that would be given to the three branches of the federal government and the division of powers between the national and the state governments (Janda, Berry, and Goldman, 81). The genius contained within the Constitution is reflected in the fact that it creates a people, explains its reason for being, articulates goals, and fashions a government (Janda, et al, 83). Levinson (30) stated that there is a special nature within the American Constitution in which its "writtenness supplies a tangibility, an ability quite literally to take the Constitution into one's own hands and read it with one's own eyes." It is a written instrument full and complete in itself which enjoys the force of law. Levinson (31) contends that "the mere text, and only the text, and not any commentaries or creeds written by those who wished to give the text a meaning apart from its plain reading was adopted as the Constitution of the United States." Because this is the case, Calvi and Coleman (132) state that jud

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Although assisting people in the process of living with greater expertise and ease is a noble undertaking, it is not the goal of existential psychotherapy. Rather, the goal of existential psychotherapy has been defined as setting clients on "the hard road" of freedom's constant struggle ("Existential Perspectives on Personality"). Existential psychotherapy forces clients to face what they would otherwise try to avoid-"existential guilt and anguish"-and encourages them to assume responsibility for their symptoms by demonstrating that they have chosen their own way and are "free...to choose better ways of coping; ways that will give meaning to their lives" ("Existential Perspectives on Personality"). Existential psychotherapy is not an approach associated with ease in any manner of speaking; it is instead the "boot camp" of psychotherapy. Arguments against the tough perspective of existential psychotherapy abound. At the beginning of his chapter on death, Yalom (2

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In the introduction to their compendium FDR's Fireside Chats, Buhite and Levy say that the founding fathers would hardly recognize the office of the presidency as it functions today. The change has occurred due to the actions of certain powerful and charismatic presidents who used tough times and powerful politics to give them the power they felt was appropriate (x). But no president did more to use the media to persuade the public to identify with him than FDR. In his famous fireside chats he fought several enemies with recurring underlying mantra, "whoever is against me and my policies is really against you, the people". The founding Fathers envisioned that Congress would be the body that generally set policy for the country. The president was to be an administrator charged with appointing judges and acting as a balance for the occasionally illogical whims of the representative congress (Buhite and Levy ix-x). In "Outlining of the New Deal Plan", FDR assures the American pe

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During the 2000 presidential election, Florida's electoral process became the focus of a series of court hearings in which the legitimacy of Florida's recount of a closely contested race was ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court (Bugliosi, 48-50). At issue herein is a brief description of the arguments for and against the decision taken by the Supreme Court to halt the recount, overturn the ruling of the Florida State Supreme Court permitting the recount to continue beyond the statutory deadline for reporting a winner, and to base its decision on the equal protection clause of the Constitution. In rendering its decision to halt the Florida recount, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Florida Supreme Court's ruling violated 3 USC Section 5, which basically states that during a presidential election, the state electors must be selected six days prior to the day when they will cast their votes for a presidential candidate (Bugliosi, 131). In addition, the plaintiff, George Bush, argued that the Florida Supreme Court's

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Childhood obesity is one of the most critical public health issues in the United States today. Over the past 30 years, the frequency of overweight children, defined as a body mass index (BMI) greater than the 85th percentile for age and sex has tripled (Miller, Rosenbloom, & Silverstein, 2004). Over 30 percent of all American children are overweight or obese and obesity has become a problem with long-term, life altering effects that persist into young adulthood and middle age. In fact, research suggests that obesity in young adults decreases life expectancy by 5 to 20 years, that pediatric obesity-related hospital costs have increased threefold during the past 20 years, and that the increased frequency and severity of childhood obesity is accompanied by medical complications such as impaired glucose tolerance, increased risk for heart disease, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia (Miller, et al, 2004). In identifying the research for this critical thinking assignment, a key article

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Introduction The heavy metal music genre arose in the early 1970s from rock and roll, but it has distinctive differences from that genre (Weinstein 11). Groupies in the heavy metal environment are not just adoring fans but "essentially and exclusively sexual beings" (Weinstein 36). The portrayal of women in heavy metal videos is decidedly sexual, as the Western culture's music mythology is expressed in the "visual language of music video...[in] that it acts as an expression of sexual desire and that voice, in particular the female voice, is a representation of the body" (Heile). Gender roles in heavy metal music are bent and stretched. Heavy music aficionados, commonly termed "metalheads" or "headbangers," understand the heavy metal world as "an arena of gender, where spectacular gladiators compete to register and affect ideas of masculinity, sexuality, and gender" (Arnett 7). The portrayal of men in heavy metal music is-like that of women-also decidedly sexual. The

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Introduction The United States public education system faces a major crisis. There is mounting evidence that too many high school students drop out and too many others graduate unprepared for either college or employment (Wise 8). Nationally, barely 30 percent of entering high school freshmen can read at grade level, more than 1.2 million American high school students drop out each year, and 42 percent of freshmen in community colleges and 20 percent of freshmen in public universities require remedial courses in reading, mathematics, and writing (Wise 8). These are the elements of a crisis that must be addressed by means of practical strategies to help students succeed in high school. Background and Thesis Statement Many efforts at reforming the American high school system have been undertaken, but the problems delineated above serve as evidence that these efforts have not succeeded (Seltz 96). Secondary education seems largely immune "to the reforms and changes in con

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According to an essay published online on the Encyclopedia of Credit website, the Bankruptcy Act is a federal law that provides an organized procedure under the supervision of a federal court judge for dealing with insolvent debtors. The U.S. bankruptcy code consists of eight chapters. Chapters 1, 3 and 5 contain administrative provisions that apply to all bankruptcies. Chapters 7, 9, 11, 12 and 13 are the operative chapters for filing different types of bankruptcies. In this paper, we will examine filings under Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing rules ("U.S. Bankruptcy Code - Summary") According to an essay published online on the Encyclopedia of Credit website titled "Chapter 7 Bankruptcy," a Chapter 7 bankruptcy is the most common type of bankruptcy based on the number of bankruptcies filed. A Chapter 7 bankruptcy, sometimes called a straight bankruptcy, involved the liquidation of the assets of a company. If General Motors filed for Chapter 7 bankruptc

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Although grief is "not a linear process with concrete boundaries but, rather, a composite of overlapping, fluid phases that vary from person to person," meant only to be guidelines, normal grief does tend in general to follow Kubler-Ross's (1969) conceptualization of death and dying (Shuchter & Zisook 23). Kubler-Ross identified three partly overlapping phases: (1) initial "shock, disbelief, and denial," (2) acute mourning, and (3) restitution (Shuchter & Zisook 23-24). The shock phase lasts a variable amount of time, anywhere from a few hours to several weeks, and the griever experiences it by going through "varying degrees of disbelief and denial" (Shuchter & Zisook 24). The mourning phase begins at the moment that the griever acknowledges the loss both on a cognitive and an emotional level, and the griever experiences it as "periodic waves of intense emotional and often somatic discomfort," sometimes precipitating social withdrawal and "a

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Analysis of Telecommunications Industry Introduction The telecommunications industry is concerned with multiple communications media, including television, radio, voice communications, and broadband services ("Telecommunications," 2008). Although the market is relatively mature and has consolidated considerably due to mergers within the past 10 years ("Telecommunications," 2008), new technologies and issues have arisen that have changed the face of wireless communication, forcing key players such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile to adapt. This paper will examine the telecommunications industry's wireless sector, providing an external analysis of the general, industry, and competitor environments, dominant economic feature, driving forces, and key success factors. Attention will be given to emerging technologies and their implications for the industry. External Analysis General Environment The telecommunications

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Today's market for aircraft is one of contrast. Developed countries are seeing a decrease in traffic, but new markets are exploding. Customers seem to want more comfort, but are not willing to sacrifice speed and price for it. Airbus tends to treat these changes by designing large aircraft and tinkering with them to adapt them to the market, while Boeing invests in research and innovation hoping to recoup the costs through early replacement. Boeing and Airbus are direct competitors in the large, medium-to-long range aircraft production. Boeing has dominated the industry for almost a century. Airbus has been catching up as initial investments in research and development made by the European Union pay off. Both are heavily affected by changes in environmental requirements, fuel prices, and the worldwide economic climate. Airbus Airbus was formed through the conglomeration of several companies when the European Union was formed. To help solidify the designs and to jump-st

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The online furniture e-commerce industry in which FYC will operate faces threats from less-expensive foreign imports (Hyunjoo, Yoon, & Hawley, 2004, p. 1). As a result, the industry must take a more strategic approach to supplying consumer preferences and needs to engage in more effective marketing practices (Hyunjoo, Yoon, & Hawley, 2004, p. 1). In addition, it must streamline its supply chain management to provide customization and a faster time to market and achieve a seamless, efficient supply chain process (Hyunjoo, Yoon, & Hawley, 2004, p. 1). The online furniture industry still incurs risks because of its format. The "UCLA Internet Report: Surveying the Digital Future" surveyed 2,096 users and nonusers of the Internet to find out what keeps people from buying products online (Carton, 2001). Many of the issues cited were infrastructure-related and included "privacy, returns, shipping charges, and the difficulty in assessing products" (Carton, 2001). As Carton (2001)

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