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Concept of White Flight and the Houston Area

means (2002). He also goes on to say that the white flight that actually is still occurring, is not at a greater level, but proba...

Prescription Rates and Side Effects of Antidepressants

treatment as well. Peter Jensen, a professor of child psychiatry at Columbia University reports that "pediatricians and family pra...

Child Abuse History and Definition

Journal of Psychohistory, deMauses story tells a story of thousands of years of crimes against children, ranging from infanticide ...

Overview of Blackfoot Mythology

the creation of the world (Peardon, 2001). The term "legend" is applied to accounts which are told as true (Peardon, 2001). The ...

Why People Agree With Groups

Groupthink refers to a psychological phenomenon in which people are so determined to reach consensus some will set aside their own...

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

Racism and Discrimination in Asia

has been made of black slavery, but the same sort of attention is not given to the Asians who suffer in silence. The Chinese who l...

Organized Crime in America

of organized crime is contained within legitimate businesses including small-scale trucking, automobile sales, and bakeries, and l...

Literature Review on Absenteeism

do not exceed 3 percent of the school years (Romero and Lee, 2007). Risk Factors for absenteeism Researchers have noted that the...

Woman and Global Work

countries like this, sends a large portion of her salary home to support her children, as well as to pay the nanny who looks after...

Society's Obsession With Celebrity

reported elsewhere, or the writer personally knows the content is true based on news broadcasts or other knowledge the writer has....

The Basic Elements of Labor Economics

the Y axis shows the price and the X axis the level of demand, this would result in a downward sloping line. When considering the ...

The Development of Social Networking Through the Internet

as it created an integrated approach as well as lead to the use of uniform protocols. It is not until 1997, after the web has be...

Overcoming Our Passivity and Addressing Bullying

Bullying is one of the more deplorable facets of modern educational environment. Unfortunately, practically all of our schools ar...

Cell Phones in the Academic Environment

and the negative sides of cell phone use in the academic environment and to present suggestions to bring those problems that do ex...

The Case Against Global Warming

influences. The urban heat island effect is an effect that will skew results, it is known that cities are often hotter that the...

Seventh Generation Culture and Structure

it is to protect the earth. This is a message that is likely to have a wide appeal, it builds on the preconceptions that larger co...

Negative Outcomes Resulting from the Impact of IT on Globalization

demonstrating the current influences and the wonders of the modern world that have already taken place. We can argue it is only by...

How to Explain Being Human

simply show them their physical shape: two eyes with binocular vision; two arms, two legs, two hands, two feet; a very symmetrical...

The Use of Sex in Marketing

message, the way it is deconstructed and the impact on the purchase decision needs to be considered. The use of a single advertis...

Analysis of an Essay by Isaac Asimov

by Friedrich August Kekule in regards to figuring out the complex structure of organic molecules. This problem was to discern how ...

Global Warming and the Environment in General

the mean temperature of the planet has been rising, and "human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean glob...

The Influences on Supply and Demand in the Low Skilled Wages Market

looking at this it can be presented on a supply and demand graph, with two line, one for supply and one for demand. The X axis is ...

Different Investor Reactions to Acquisition Announcements

providing opportunities and the role that governance may have on the way business is run and how bids are made an assessed, all of...

Comparative Analysis of Organized Crime in Japan, China, Russia, and Mexico

the don (also known as Godfather) at the top of the hierarchy, with sottocapos (underbosses), and caporegimes (soldiers) below. I...

The Boiled Frog Phenomenon

with bankruptcy because they failed to innovate or they failed to understand what was happening in the marketplace. Polynice (n.d....

Poverty in the United States as a Social Problem: Causes, Theories, and Proposed Remedies

percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...

Ragtime Music as a Societal Phenomenon

"Youve Been a Good Old Wagon but Youve Done Broke Down" (Ketch, 1993, p. 182). Sensing a popular music form, the New York song pu...

The Real Reason for the Mac versus PC Rivalry

as Coke and Pepsi. The taste tests that used to be conducted years ago have a lot of similarities to the Mac versus PC phenomenon ...