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Affirmative Action Programs
Number of Words: 567 / Number of Pages: 3
... 3-5% of senior management positions. Women held only 6.9 % of the seats on corporate boards of directors in 1994. Of the female senior managers in Fortune 1000 industrial and Fortune 500 service industries in 1992, 95% were white women, 2.3% were African American women, 1.8% were Asian American women and only .2 % were Latinos. Although 23 % of the female workforce is made up of women of color, only 15% of female managers are members of minority groups. The percentage of women in executive, administrative and managerial positions rose from 17.6% in 1972 to 43.8% in 1996. The number of women business ...
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Hemp-A Crop With No Future For
Number of Words: 1858 / Number of Pages: 7
... pushing for the repeal of laws that prevent this crop from being grown. Hemp cultivation cannot and should not be reintroduced in the United States. Hemp may have served a useful purpose in the past, but there is no place for it in today's society. Two major problems will arise from the cultivation of this plant. Law enforcement agencies will struggle to fight drug trafficking. Because fields of marijuana and hemp are almost completely indistinguishable, measures would have to be taken to protect the rights of those practicing hemp cultivation. This would slow down the efforts of those whose job ...
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Is The United States Giving Too Much To The United Nations?
Number of Words: 1084 / Number of Pages: 4
... it is that you just said probably isn't enough. Why should any US citizen worry about what the UN does, we are the US, the most powerful country in the world? It should be a matter of your concern since the US is vulnerable, maybe not from some other falling superpower, but to some third world country that is trying to get their hands on a medium yield nuclear weapon. How does this effect the UN? Well the UN works with small third world countries to get them developing in the right the direction, away from weapons of mass destruction and more towards a better agriculture system of infrastructure ...
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Child Development
Number of Words: 378 / Number of Pages: 2
... him. Robert only speaks to the teachers when he is asked a question or when he asks a question. He doesn't tend to seek approval from the teachers or his peers. Overall he seems to have developed socially in many ways. A typical four year old has also developed emotionally in many ways. Four year olds have a sense of humor and tend to help out and share with others. Other emotions start to show like fears, angers, jealousy, and sadness. Typical four year old starts to have bad dreams and they imagine creatures. Children at the age of four start to express their feelings more. Robert has shown his emoti ...
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State Of The Union Address Essay
Number of Words: 368 / Number of Pages: 2
... in last month's address, by invoking the symbolism that the nation is
about to pass into a new millennium. "We don't have a moment to waste," he said.
"Tomorrow, there will be just over 1,000 days until the year 2000. . . . One
thousand days to work together."
The speech proved shorter than predicted and far more organized and
disciplined than some of his previous appearances before Congress. The annual
speeches to Congress have served as markers of Clinton's ideological migration.
In 1993, he announced that government must do more and unveiled a raft of big-
government proposals, including a ...
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The Lost Art Of Typography
Number of Words: 1129 / Number of Pages: 5
... he or she must learn the language, memorize customs, learn to read, learn to write, etc. Postman even goes so far to say that print communication controls your physical body as well -- that a person's body must remain at least semi-mobile in order to pay attention to what the words are trying to say. In chapter 4, Postman details how the development and success of the printed word in Western civilization created what he calls "The Typographic Mind", a mind set where a person from the 17th, 18th or 19th centuries could endure and pay attention to lengthy written tomes or lengthy speeches. Postman ci ...
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The Need For Congress In The U.S
Number of Words: 1750 / Number of Pages: 7
... most part
our Congress does a good job at keeping this country under control. The
problems with lawmaking that most people see is the time involved in getting a
law passed. In order for a bill to become a law it must first be "introduced to
the House or Senate, or both, then referred to a committee." (Cummings / Wise
479). This can be a very time consuming process. Anyone interested in having a
law passed must realize the process involved and be patient. In addition to
lawmaking Congress is also involved in passing amendments. Our nation has been
able to grow and strengthen due to the amendmen ...
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Individual Advancement Vs. Dem
Number of Words: 1372 / Number of Pages: 5
... were in a race for the gold as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne thought. Benjamin Franklin's ideas begged to differ. He felt as though the democratic community and growing the ideology of individual advancement (Individualism and/vs. Community, 1306) could coexist together. Franklin, having risen from poverty, felt that he wouldn't have been able to be a man of such distinction if it had not been for Government that encouraged the advancement of self. He felt that without a Government no one man could be content with themselves or their works. He even goes as far as to promote America to f ...
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Teen Pregnancy
Number of Words: 1080 / Number of Pages: 4
... and more condoms use has meant lower rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. Abstinence is not a crime, as most teenagers and their peers seem to think. Most teens have sex because of their peers being sexually active. The percentage of sexually active males declined from 57.4 percent to 48.8 percent, essentially erasing the gender gap. In high school students alone the rate for being sexually active went from being 66.7 percent to 60.9 percent in the years of 1991-1997. Abstinence is very important, but the peers your child hangs around are just as important. " The Nurture Assum ...
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Is The Prime Minister Too Powerful?
Number of Words: 1110 / Number of Pages: 5
... front in the face of parliamentary opposition. Within such a system, the PM could be described as 'primus inter pares' - first amongst equals - because, although he was the leading memberof the Government and its chief spokesman, it was the Cabinet rather than the PM that dominated the decision-making process.
Almost 100 years later, when Richard Crossman edited 'The English Constitution' and wrote its Foreword, he was able to state that the doctrine of Cabinet Government had itself been replaced by one of Prime Ministerial Government. Later in his 'Diaries', Crossman was able to develop hi ...
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