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Affirmative Action and Nebraska’s Initiative 424

experience is flawed (Hansen, 2008a). Initiative 424, however, has both supporters and critics. Harvey Perlman (chancellor of th...

A Critical Look at Obama's Education Plan

project has not received enough funding (Abramson, 2008). This is the typical criticism waged in respect to the program. The syste...

DISCRIMINATION SUITES BASED ON GENETICS

The question we need to ask ourselves here, however, is whether such discrimination, legally, can already take place. The National...

Measuring Body Temperature

thermometer in the same areas. Thus the problem lies in determining which of the types of available thermometers is more ac...

Contemporary Personnel Selection

The problem with this style of recuitment, which is still pursued, is that the labor market is changing, there may not always be t...

Test-Taking Skills

considerable pressure on the students involved. Literature Review Hong, Sas and Sas (2006) conducted a study in order to investi...

Lexington Diabetes Center Marketing Plan

that individuals learn why they need to control their blood sugar and that exercise multiplies the effectiveness of dietary contro...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

Perfusionists

perfusionist education.) The current certification process, which is overseen by the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion ...

A Study of Anabaptist Reform

controversial issue in the sixteenth century, as ecclesiastical and state authorities viewed the ritual of infant baptism as repre...

Administrative Assistant/Hospital Administration

for top executives of an organization (BoLS, 2008). They also aid physicians and researchers with the preparation of "reports, spe...

Assessing Client Personality

Therefore, the field of personality assessment can be conceptualized as "consisting of several different communities of psychologi...

Career as a Network Administrator

administrator generally is required to be an onsite worker. That requirement is changing, but slowly. For the next decade or so ...

Juicy Red Tomato Company Case Study

findings of the first consultant are that JRT need to invest in both the managerial and front line staff and need to improve commu...

U.S. Public Education as Shown in “Teachers”

Brussat, 2007). A student bites a teacher; a gym coach "has sex with three students"; a boy is shot and killed; and the school, wh...

Is There A Relationship Between Experience And Wages?

question is therefore whether or not experience matters and if it can make a difference to the wages that an individual will recei...

Genetic Testing for Congenital Anomalies

based on the results?" (Pinsky, et al, 2001, p. 168). In the case of breast cancer, once a mutation that can cause cancer has be...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Considering Michael Fullan’s Book “Leading in a Culture of Change”

says something interesting about leaders, namely that although we face difficult and complex problems in all areas of our lives, w...

Educational Attainment and Social Origin

or the "subdominant cultures" who eventually settled there. The situation has become progressively more complex in modern society...

The Case Against Animal Cruelty

(Vollum, Buffington-Vollum and Longmire 209). It has been argued that animals, in their own right, are worthy of consideration and...

Children and The World Wide Web

childs use of the Web. In many ways the Internet might be considered a sociological experiment. While most adults are...

Personal Action Plans

ensure that anything handed in is original student work. This includes taking steps to ensure that materials that are utilized ar...

Becoming a Nurse Manager

FTE RN Demand Projected Growth Setting 2000 2010 2020 2000 to 2010 2000 to 2020 Total 49,200 59,900 69,600 22%...

Pros and Cons of Animal Testing

that today scientists are "looking for cheaper, more accurate-and more humane-methods of testing chemicals on living tissues," wit...

Social Studies & Cooperative Learning

this issue by conducting a qualitative study that explore how a teacher incorporated cooperative learning strategies in an eighth ...

Drug Testing in the Workplace

coming up "dirty" that the cost of the process is not effective (Holding, 2006). However, one must clearly stop and consider, wi...

The Use of Anabolic Steroids Among High School Students

the necessity of these models. Are mandatory testing programs effective? Before embarking on a review of the literature in terms...

Supervisory Practices in Teaching

teachers file a personal development plan. While suggested procedures differ from state-to-state, these programs seemed to share t...

An Analysis of Interviews with Principals

and believe that there must be strong leadership in any school. While I think that there are some principals who can be participa...