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Factors of Unemployment: An Econometric AnalysisIntroduction Unemployment is a hot button issue in the United States today. Unemployment affects every single person on a daily basis, the unemployment rate determines how many people at any given time are looking for but cannot find work. High unemployment is discouraging for college students considering it means poor job prospects upon entering the workforce. The purpose of this paper is to determine the factors that lead to higher or lower unemployment. This paper will be split into 6 sections. The first section will be a description of the dependent variable and the regressors I have decided to include in my first regression it will also include a description of my sources. In this section I will talk about where I got my data and how the data I am using was acquired. The second section will be an analysis of my first regression and the problems and successes of that regression. The third section will be the variables I have selected to include in the next regression I run, t |
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A Letter to God (Islam)Dear God, There are two views on suffering and purpose. One which is common, and similar to Christianity where suffering is the result of sin. The other is to be believed as a test faith and correct unbelief. Generally, suffering tests belief; a true Muslim will stay faithful throughout life. But suffering also reveals what we call the 'hidden self' to God so he may see who is truly righteous and faithful to God. God is doing this is to test and to see the person inside him and to see if they believed in him (God). This works out well because some of the believers of god could be saying that they believe in him. But how would God (Islamic) really know? This is where the test takes part in, and showing the real him inside of that person. As you said about the story of Job I do agree your doings to him, Every God wants their believers to believe in them. I agree strongly about the test you did by taking away his property and possessions. This test is similar to our r |
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Eleven by Sandra CisnerosIn the short story, "Eleven"," by Sandra Cisneros, the word of protagonist, Rachel, strengthen the persuasive aspect of the passage more than that of her actions; this is because of the ability of words to elicit sympathy from the readers. Rachel's words are able to elicit sympathy from readers more effectively than that of her actions because her words aid in forming an emotional connection - or pathos - with the reader. To begin, with her words, Rachel can describe to the reader exactly how she is feeling, which the readers can then relate to. After being forced to claim a retched sweater that is not hers, Rachel narrates, "I'm feeling sick inside, like the part of me that's three wants to come out of my eyes, only I squeeze them shut tight and bite down on my teeth real hard and try to remember that today I am eleven, eleven"" (Cisneros). Here, Rachel uses her words to communicate to the reader that she is upset, frustrated, and want |
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When the Levees Broke - Hurricane KatrinaHurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana on the morning of August 29, 2005. The storm produced sustained winds of up 125 mph when it hit that morning. On that same day, Katrina caused 53 different levee breaches in greater New Orleans, spilling the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into the city and flooding an overwhelming majority of New Orleans. The floodwaters destroyed countless homes and lives along the way. Some estimates of the cost of Katrina were up in the 200 billions but according to Kimberly Amadeo, "The actual cost of Hurricane Katrina's damage was between $96-$125 billion, with $40-$66 billion in insured losses. This statistic makes Katrina one of the most expensive natural disasters to ever hit the United States. Money wasn't the only thing that was lost; the storm killed roughly 1,500 people in Louisiana alone. Floodwaters stayed in New Orleans for weeks leaving many people stranded and fighting for their lives. Post-Katrina New Orleans was a war zone with looting, s |
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Archimede's SpiralIn the third century B.C., Archimedes of Syracuse created a special spiral-shaped curve by pulling the legs of a compass apart while turning it. By performing both actions at a steady rate, he found that the resulting spiral moved outward by the same amount with each turn of the compass. The groove in an old-style LP record is an example of such an Archimedean spiral. The most significant mathematical use to which Archimedes tried to put his spiral was to create a better method of determining the area of a circle. Using a spiral to figure out the area of a circle seems a waste of energy today since anyone with a calculator can do so by pressing a few buttons. However, in ancient Greece either a physical measurement of the circumference of the circle had to be made or a critical factor in the still not widely known equation for determining the area had to be used. Measuring the length of a circle or any other curved shape is difficult and the area of the circle that is determ |
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Eating Disorders and ReligionIn addition to our physical dependency on food, human beings also have strong emotional connections to the foods we eat. Eating disorders have been asserted as fitting into an addiction framework, as they involve key elements which define addiction: compulsivity, a loss of control, and continuation of behavior despite harmful consequences (Garner & Gerborg, 2004). The tendency to deny that a problem exists and the potentially fatal outcomes of eating disorders have also been cited as evidence of the addictive nature of disorders such as bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, and binge eating. Religious orientation has various psychological implications in relation to food, and there has been increasing interest in the link between spirituality/religion and eating disorders (Richards, Hardman, & Berrett, 2007). Various researchers have documented that religious belief is a harmful force and increases eating disorder symptoms. In other words, certain religious beliefs may be used as a just |
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Free Radical and Mitochondrial DysfunctionAbstract Multiple disorders are linked to overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that form as side-products of normal cell respiration in mitochondria. The relationship between ROS and mitochondria suggests association between pathology causing mechanisms. Defects in oxidative phosphorylation have been shown to elevate ROS levels, whereas ROS-induced deleterious effects on organic matter can directly compromise the function of the electron transport components. This paper will present the molecular mechanisms of ROS production, as well as the existing evidence of mitochondrial ROS involvement in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Introduction Oxygen is damaging to aerobic organisms at levels higher than are found in the atmosphere. Frank (1985) found that the deleterious effects are caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS) free radical formation after intracellular oxygen reduction (as cited in Lagouge & Larrson, 2013). Free radicals are inorganic molecules that have unpaired or odd nu |
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Academics and Standardized TestingOne difference between a third world country and a developed country is an education gap. With a disparity between Nepal and the United States, it is easy to judge which country has information retention during middle and high school. However, when it comes time to measure average domestic core curriculum intelligence retention among children, the situation becomes exponentially harder. As society becomes more and more advanced, it tends to quantify people into numbers; SAT's and ACT's are all just ways that society wants us to focus towards preparing us for the higher education that comes after these tests. However, focusing on these standardized tests cannot be ultimate way to becoming better people. To explore the subject more in-depth, we must divulge into the origins of the standardized test in a developed nation such as the United States. In Eric Boese's "Standardized Tests: Shouldn't we be Helping our Students?"", Boese uses empirical data and logos to express that contrary to |
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Fast Food - Targeted AdvertisingThe smell of French fries wafts out of the kitchen. Hamburger meat sizzles on the hot grill. Surrounded by red and orange menus, greeted by excited cashiers, customers ponder over what to order, putting fast food advertising methods to the test. Fast food companies spend at least $1.6 billion a year in the United States on advertising, according to the Federal Trade Commission. In order to maximize sales, companies have utilized various advertising methods. "We don't normally think about how fast food companies appeal to product placement, communication applications teacher Kami Faldyn said. "They will place commercials at times when a specific audience is going to be seeing it. "According to senior Kathryn Wright, fast food companies have implemented the feelings evoked from color into their advertising techniques. "They tend to use reds and yellows,"" she said. "They mix together to give an orange, which actually promotes hunger." " How companies intend to be seen can also be reflected in the environment restaurants place customers. Junior La'Lexus |
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Dynamics of Conversion - Fundamental TheologyIn his book "The Craft of Theology," Avery Dulles (1992) starts chapter four; "Fundamental Theology and the Dynamics of Conversion," by making reference to one of the best known essays by Bernard Lonergan where he states that, Theology is entering a new age it is changing from a deductive science into an altogether empirical discipline. This new Theology if is not to deceived every fashion, needs a new foundation. In seeking this new foundation, Lonergan concludes that even though its conclusions have to be revised it is possible for a science to have identity and unity. Methodologically speaking he points out that today empirical theology is a reflection of religion. Furthermore, the foundation is based upon the reality of the person reflected in; upon their religious experience, particularly what we call conversion. Lonergan defines Conversion as a radical change in a person's apprehensions and values, accompanied by a radical change in oneself, in one's relation with others and w |
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Soviet Union and Victory Over Nazi GermanyIntroduction No conflict, neither in size nor in scope, is comparable to the Eastern Front, 1941-45. It was the deadliest theatre of war in history causing the death of over 30 million people. This colossal conflict played a decisive role in destroying the Nazi regime: the German armed forces suffered 80% of its military deaths in the Eastern Front. In the six months following Operation Barbarossa, 66% of the mobilized Red Army died or were taken prisoner and 90% of its mechanized strength was lost. Despite fears that Russia would fall, they prevailed, due not only to superior manpower, but a massive economic revival coupled with a reformation of the army and a powerful allies in Britain and the USA. Manpower The German Army in the east drowned in "vast reservoirs of Soviet blood." Soviet tactics were appallingly costly in lives, of 34.5 million mobilized Russians, 84% were killed, wounded or captured. No other nation could have the attrition rate afforded to Russia by its vast popula |
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The American School SystemAs many already know, the American school system is failing more and more as days go by. Billions of dollars from American taxpayers are going to the public schools of the United States, but statistics show that more students drop out of school every year. Local governments have been meeting up with each other to find a solution to what is becoming a fiasco, without any success. Why can't they fix what every other country as wealthy as the states manages? Why is it so difficult to fix this issue, and what is the reason that the American School system is failing? Until 2020, the USA will be dominated by jobs which are high skill high pay, sharpening the bright side of the moon even more. But what about the dark side? An experience which many students face is that you're doing well in school, and once you fall a little bit behind in a couple of subjects you're suddenly moved to a worse school. Then your grades an |
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Short Story - Going to CollegeCalliope was in the middle of her sophomore year of college. Two years ago, she received an exciting letter in the mail, regarding admittance to a university. It just so happened that it was from her dream school: the University of California, Los Angeles. She was over the moon, excited as a young child on Christmas day. The only thing hurting was the enormous price tag on the school. Because Calliope lived across the country in Connecticut, her tuition cost was sky rocket high. She signed up for every scholarship possible as well as applied for financial aid. She managed to lower her tuition costs by half, but tens of thousands of dollars were still not wallet friendly. On a cool Thursday evening, Calliope and her roommate and best friend Ingrid are casually watching their favorite TV show, Vampire Diaries. The two start talking about how they want to fly to Florida over break to go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios. "I really wish we could go with Fleur an |
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Character in Work"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better." This quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., promotes the idea that people should devote themselves to their work and do so with passion and excitement, whether or not it brings the person a sense of pleasure. Dr. Kings' quote encourages societies to find purpose in the work that they do and continue to do it well. It also inspire the idea that an individual should re-evaluate the meaning of working and finding that path in life intended for them. Although the rates of unemployment are at an all-time high, Dr. Kings' statement still rings true in today's modern economic downturn. First, in the text "Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum," by Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen has many stories that best describes the idea of people working for a purpose and providing an opportunity for someone else. One of the essay "No Long Term: New Work and the Corrosion of Character," by Richard Sennett writes about a man named Enrico who worked as a janitor to support his family and providing more possibilities in life for |
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Ethics and Character in PolicingAbstract This paper explains issues that shape the role of ethics in policing. Police ethics involves hard choices as well as avoiding violations of basic moral standards. Police officers will inevitably face ethical issues concerned with questions of right and wrong. Moreover, the authority that is given to police officers in order to protect the public presents the temptation to abuse the power given to them. This paper is meant to explain the rule-of-law and how it represents societal standards that define police duties and responsibilities. Additionally, the two types of problems that are encountered in police ethics is explained as issues that center around integrity and problems that involve harder choices in law enforcement which require additional ethical analysis. Police corruption is further explained through personalistic, institutional, and a systemic approach. This is witnessed in the example of the hiring of Miami police officers in the early 1980s. Finally, efforts to |
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Ineffective Aspects of the Articles of ConfederationThe Articles of Confederation did not provide the US with a government able to solve national and international problems due to its inability to collect money, weak government with no executive branch, and conflicts with its foreign policy. The Articles proved to be financially ineffective because it was not able to impose taxes or tariffs to pay off debts and help the country. To be able to impose a national tax, the government had to have unanimous agreement. One tax attempt by Robert Morris of 5% of national input was rejected because one state out of thirteen, Rhode Island, refused it. The US also had bountiful debt to the people with bonds or IOU's, to the French, and to the British in the US for their loss in the revolution. The Land Ordinance of 1785 that surveyed western land and sold it to Americans was passed to gain some money, but although it provided the government with money, it didn't account for the grea |
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Social Media and Business MarketingWhen brands look at using social media as platforms to promote their business, they should look at what most people use as far social media and what type of people are using the social media. They need to think about whether they will use ads on the side of a Facebook page, post videos to Vine, or post pictures to Instagram. Twitter has promoted pages, but there needs to be more than a page, brands need to be involved with their followers and fans. It takes interactions, a follow back, competitions, and retweets. An example of this could be Starbucks. Starbucks has and instagram page and encourages followers to take pictures with their drinks or snakes. They use hashstags so their followers know they are looking at the pictures. Here content is important |
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The Ship Diligent and SlaveryThe novel, "The Diligent," provides insight to the slave trade from Africa to the New World through Robert Durand's journal. Robert Durand was the first lieutenant on the slaving ship, The Diligent. The target destination of the voyage was Martinique from Whydah. Whydah was the major location of Africa's slave trade. In contrast to all the other West African slaving ports, Whydah exported the largest amount of slaves. The plan was to gather slaves and board them onto The Diligent and sail towards the New World. However, the popularity of slave trade and wealth within Whydah created controversies with nearby kingdoms. The kingdom of Dahomey ruled by King Agaja decided to attack Whydah, which caused the delay of gathering and boarding the slaves onto The Diligent. However, despite all the conflicts, Durand was still able to purchase the slaves and bring them onto The Diligent. Ultimately, slave trades are gruesome journeys with conflicts from slaves' uprisings. Therefore, the slave tr |
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Response Study - The Pathology of ImprisonmentZimbardo's experiment on the social structures of prison, resulted in unreasonable responses from many of the participants. The test/focus group of prisoners experienced a loss of personal identity, distorted self concept, and the subjective control of their behaviors. This study demonstrates the importance of context, labeling, social reality, power structures, and the social aggregates of groups. There are multiple theories that are can be used to analyze the results of the experiment and provide perspectives at both the individual and group level. Symbolic Interactionism Interactionism is a perspective of sociology that provides a framework for understanding society as a product of everyday social interactions of individuals and the use of symbols to create meaning. The meaning of social reality is created by the individual based on their interactions with others. In this view, there is no objective reality, but rather multiple realities that depend on an individual's definition o |
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Immigration Policies"The mighty tides of immigration bring to us different languages, opinions, customs, and principles"" (Immigration Opposing Views 26). Immigrants from all over the world contribute to the United States by revitalizing cities, building the economy, and bringing their energizing culture to the bland society of America. About 12 million people in the United States are living illegally (scholastic, New York Times Subtitle) only because of the U.S code title 8 1325, which states that you have committed a federal crime if an improper entry has been attempted by an alien (legal information institute par.1). Illegal immigration should not be considered harmful to the United Sates; hence, it molds society into a multi cultural and prosperous country. The current immigration policy brings tension to family ties and tears them apart. About one million spouses and children wait daily for visas in hopes of reuniting with their families (immigration opposing views 138-139). In some cases children a |
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Scene Analysis - Alfred Hitchcock's VertigoSet in the hauntingly secluded locations of mid-twentieth century San Francisco, Alfred Hitchcock's film "Vertigo," is a hypnotic tale of one man's struggle for power, his hopeless search for his ideal love and his abandonment of reality for an illusion. In particular, the scene in Scottie's apartment after he rescues Madeleine from the bay is significant in illustrating these central themes, which is made especially effective through Hitchcock's use of camera angles, framing and background music. The camera pans slowly across Scottie's apartment at the beginning of the scene, finally stopping to pause for several seconds at an open bedroom door, drawing emphasis on the subject of the shot. Madeleine, who is shown to be sound asleep inside. When the telephone rings with a jarring sound, she whirls around to face him, the camera zooming in on her startled expression. Her obvious disorientation and fear, coupled with her nakedness, paint her as being vulnerable, helpless and exposed. I |
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Women, Men and Beach VolleyballBeach volleyball was invented in 1895 by American William G. Morgan. He blends elements of basketball, baseball, tennis and handball to create a game for his classes of businessmen that wanted a new game with less physical contact. Beach volleyball is an outdoor ball sport, played between two teams of two players on a 16 x 8 meter court divided equally by a net (FIVB). This essay investigates whether the mandated female international Beach Volleyball uniform impacts upon the participation of individuals and groups in society in the sport of beach Volleyball. The controversy started in 1999 when the Federation Internationale de volleyball changed the uniform regulations for the female beach volleyball athletes to swim attire. This revealing change allows no more than 6 cm of clothe at the hip', while males have few rules in what they have to wear. Not only does this leave an area of inequity but it also means that because of cultural beliefs and structural funding, participation from |
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Symbolic Light and Colors in The Great GatsbyThe central conflict in "The Great Gatsby," (announced by Nick in the fourth paragraph of the book), is the conflict between Gatsby's dream and the reality that "the foul dust which floats in the wake of his dreams." Gatsby, Nick tells us, "turned out all right in the end"; the dreamer remains as pure, as inviolable, at bottom, as his dream of a greatness, an attainment "commensurate to man's capacity for wonder." What does not turn out all right at the end is of course the reality: Gatsby is slain, the enchanted universe is exposed as a world of wholesale corruption and predatory violence, and Nick returns to the Midwest in disgust. As we shall see, the color-symbols render, with a close and delicate discrimination, both the dream and the reality "and these both in their separateness and in their tragic intermingling. Now the most obvious representation, by means of color, of the novel's basic conflict is the pattern of contrasting lights and darks. Gatsby, Nick tells u |
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Death and the Grief of SurvivorsAuthor, Joan Didion, believes that it's possible for people to anticipate the death of someone close to them. She states it as, "We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such on imagined death." (Didon, 929) We know that someone could die in a matter of days, but we do not look beyond the future, that it could take a toll on us. People tend to look back and think about the times that they had with that love one and sometimes that can overwhelm a person. Depending on the person, the end result of someone dying, which is close to us, could have a negative impact. But on the other hand death could have a positive outlook now, and in the future, due to a person's beliefs. But we all know that death happened and life changes fast. People die daily, a person's grieving process different from the situation and death itself. The grieving process sometimes can be negative. Didion says, " |
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Olympic Group and IDEAL - Acquistion Case StudyThe Situation Olympic Group (OG) is an Egyptian company that makes products such as water heaters and fans. IDEAL was a large state owned firm. It had established a well-known name among Egyptians and this was achieved through monopolizing the market for about 40 years with its refrigerators and washing machines. IDEAL had lots of potential for future growth. Olympic Group decided to purchase it in 1997. Olympic Group (OG) was founded by Abdallah Sallam in the 1930's. The company originally started manufacturing and selling radios, small appliances, electric transformers and by 1950, it started its own Shaher store chain. Abdallah Sallam also started another company under the name Cairo Light Industries. During the early 1970's, Cairo Light Industries invented its first locally built electric water heater and it was a great success due to its reliability and affordability. Between 1970 and 1980, OG was able to fill in gaps by introducing services and products that was needed in mar |
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