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j | High levels of organizational justice result in better outcomes from a possibly point of conflict because the employee, while still feeling the pains of the negative outcome of the result, is not further exacerbated by feelings of injustice, unfairness and outrage. By delivering a high level of organizational justice ... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
j | Interviews are time consuming and waste time of valuable employees, it should be moved to second from first. Tests are relatively inexpensive and are easy to administer with minimal involvement from employees, they should be administered first. Assuming the same ratios of elimination, the attached matrix would be re... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
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When discussing the 4/5ths rule, it is important to note that the law distinguishes between disparate treatment and disparate impact of protected classes. Disparate treatment is intentional discrimination of a protected class and requires no more than a finding that protected classes were intentionally treated differ... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
j | Hunt Companies is in a unique position to turn a perceived detriment of our operations into a tremendous benefit, both perceived and actual, to the City of El Paso and to the residents thereof. As Hunt Communities develops land in the suburban areas of El Paso the clearing and grading operation destroys countless dese... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
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With numbers so staggering it is easy to assume that prostate cancer isn’t getting publicity because of the taboo nature of the screening process, but Dr. Cox offers another explanation. “Prostate cancer has a very low mortality rate. 1 in 6 men get prostate cancer at some point in their life, but very few of thos... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
j | A $2000 investment in web based advertising produced more hires than`a $75000 investment in TV ads and the percentage of people completing probation from web based ads was double that produced by hires generated from TV ads. Not only would web based advertising be less expensive, it would require fewer interviews, ba... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
j | The standard deviations, attached in appendix 1, were determined by taking the historical prices for each of the stocks on a weekly basis, adjusting for dividends paid, then calculating the returns. It must be noted that the standard deviation calculated on weekly prices were weekly standard deviations and had to be ... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
j |
An ETF, or exchange traded fund, is a security that is designed to track an index, a commodity or a basket of assets like an index fund, but is more flexible and trades like a stock on an exchange. An ETF gives you the diversification of an index fund and the benefits of single stock ownership like the ability to s... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
j | If an employee discusses sexual harassment with a manager, and is dismissed, regardless of the merit of the claim or seriousness of the incident, the dismissal by the manager would go toward showing that the employee is incapable of receiving a satisfactory resolution and would increase the likelihood of litigation.
R... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
j | These private sources of funding foundations donations are becoming all too important because the federal funding is just drying up. I think that these types of events to raise money for research are very important and it’s important to highlight the contribution that potential donors are going to make to medical res... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
j | From the diagram we see that random selection at a .10 selection ratio yields 50% successful hires. Using Unstructured interviews, a selection procedure with a validity of .10, the percentage of successful hires becomes 54% . This may not seem like a huge step forward, but remember the low validity of unstructured i... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
j | By pouring over those medical journals, and reading about the drugs that never made it to FDA approval, the synthetic drug manufacturer is provided with a nearly endless list of chemicals that can be manufactured and sold legally. These drugs have not been evaluated for their effects on humans and are often manufactu... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
j | Because women have a higher hiring rate, they are selected for calculation of disparate rejection rate. At 55% *4/5ths, the disparate rejection rate is 44%. We then compare men’s hiring rate to the disparate rejection rate. Because the hiring rate for men if 47%, higher than 44%, men are not adversely impacted by t... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
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Rule 12 – Be Careful in Situations Involving Employment Termination. A manager should never take the decision of termination lightly. They should always consult with higher managers, HR or EEO to ensure that the termination is merited and that the termination does not occur in a manner that would cause hostilities o... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
j | Few marketing tools could provide such positive PR with such little cost. In summary, by providing these groups with desert landscaping, we not only beautify their home and increase its value, but we are not giving them a chore to keep up with it, as these plants require little to no maintenance, as an upkeep respons... | 30 | English | male | Master's | Engineer | N,N,N,N,N |
p | Oh, and that first quarter at UCSD turned out to be a D not an F. I guess that leaves me with something to accomplish still.
Jack continued to stare at the ground in front of him. Grey, brown concrete. Green grass, pale in dying spots, bright in new ones, deep in the healthy areas. Brown earth, rich as candy,... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p |
Downwards I stared, mind blankly comprehending the view in front of me. Unemotionally, silently, with a practiced awareness that studied but refused to relate the object of study to any abstract understanding my mind analyzed the picture before my eyes. Thoughts slipped into my mind and slipped out again almost fast... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | In a job whose primary means of promotion was political maneuvering, and undermining another’s decisions and actions, Jack felt his situation and his attitude towards his work to be a bright neon sign. He knew that any of the hundreds of ground floor wage slaves would be happy to take his job, as he had once taken ano... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | My fingers twitched, then again, then smoothly and assuredly as they answered the part of the essay question that I knew, with what memories I had. As I wrote my mind calmed my body as it planned out the immediate future and courses of action. I finished the second and final page of what should have been a six page... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | Once in a while there was a rhyme and reason to the process. On those days the line formed according to who had been there first, courtesy for elderly people, and consideration of minutiae of social status. Those were odd days. They weren’t special, like the relaxed and relaxing days Jack enjoyed. They were just… o... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | Jack washed his hands and hoped people had wandered away from Bill’s cubicle. If so, he could return to his own cube while Bill basked in the glow of social indulgence.
Stepping cautiously through a grey corridor, past a decoration here and there proclaiming awards or corporate information, Jack noticed a lack of n... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | Though such negative bits of human psychology could be of profitable use, these particular ones were all redundant to those owned by Reap-Tech already and so Jack discarded them readily.
Jack considered the sunshine maze as he floated through the landscape, hoping to find another useful bit of data. He thought of t... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | Otherwise he sat wherever there was a free space, preferably with a lot of room between himself and other passengers. He would patiently wait, at every stop checking to see if the middle seat was about to be vacated, and move into it when it was.
An open seat to Jack was one of the cushioned double chairs, facing to... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | Brisk steps carried my body forward as I entered the one room motel studio my family called home. Relief at having quit a job I hated and fear that my mother and brother would resent me for losing work that brought in a hundred and fifty dollars a week colored my comments as I related my story. No glares confronted ... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | There was no message in the media, no goal in the experience, no value in the reality. The program existed to lure the customer in through promises of sensual delight, hooked them with easy fixes to their human problems, kept them in psychological and emotional mazes, in traps of simplicity and complexity, and would ... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | If left to it’s own devices the areas’ ecosystem would drive powerful knotted tree roots under the man-mixed concrete to twist and tear it apart, freeing the ground for trees, brush, and grasses to grow as far from the river as could be supported.
In April, a month before my financial aid arrived and just before I qui... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | From January to March, when I had no job and only one class there was a lot of time to study the room we were staying in. After awhile, though, the place began to feel like a forgotten piece of history, one of those weird out of the way places most people don’t know about, a museum that showcased the relics of a time ... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | He had, at one time, decorated his walls and desk as every other employee took pleasure in doing, but the cheap posters and knick-knacks only amplified his agony in the abhorrence of his surroundings. He had removed them, almost immediately, and found a sort of peace in the simplicity, the cheap fabric existence of f... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | In the mornings there were free muffins and pastries you could finish with several bites, of which my brother would procure four or six, two each for whoever wanted something to jam up the passage between his or her stomach and intestines before work, community college, or Literature English 22 class. There was a mai... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | The girl to my right looked like her entire body was trying to yawn in boredom at the quizzical demands set before her. I stared at the words in front of me, my eyes feeling like they were going to explode from their gelatinous settings onto the blue book with the force of a thousand ruptured capillaries.
Heart rela... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | “Nah. Thanks,” replied Jack in a tone he hoped did not reveal his dislike of the person talking to him, and desire not to be near him.
“Fine, later then,” said Paux, in a tone that said that he realized exactly those things.
“Yeah,” said Jack, in a tone that said “I don’t care if you do realize those things, just get a... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | By openly parading the happily, consciously perverse twists and knots of his psyche, a mindset that wasn’t uncommon in an office full of twenty-something big-money hopefuls, and showing his need for human association he was quickly building a network of political friendships.
Jack’s aversion to joining Bill in such ... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p |
The elderly couple took their last little steps off of the bus. The driver closed the doors behind them, looked left, and turned the wheel sharply. The bus slipped into the river of blue, green, brown, white, black, and silver cars with utter confidence born of its size. The little cars might take chances around t... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p |
As he thumbed the ridges of the quarters Jack thought of his work, of the papers he had to write and the books he had to read. Have to write six page paper, he thought. Have to read a hundred pages. Have to do eighteen translations. One hour, he calculated to himself for the translations. One hour, he added for t... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
p | They wore crazy t-shirts, sporting slogans and pictures, which shouted their individuality, personal beliefs, and desires. Many wore skin tight jeans that spoke of their youthful prime. Most seemed child-like to Jack, who was an almost elderly thirty years old, and were obviously not yet of drinking age. These yout... | 34 | English | male | Master's | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c | The area in which one lives such as urban, suburban, or developing could determine the amount of vulnerability sensed by an individual. Cross cultural factors could look at religious obligations, traditions, morals, races, and ethnicities that play a role in the cognitions involved with insomnia. While biological facto... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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This study had a very good strength of looking at the Maori and non-Maori populations of New Zealand because of the differences in health status between the two groups. There were no conceivable weaknesses of the study. The Multiple Logistic Regression analysis was able to strongly answer the research questions. The ... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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The research I read taught me a lot about insomnia. I learned that anxiety and physical tension seem to be the main focuses of the drugs in reducing insomnia or time spent trying to fall asleep. I also learned that economic and cultural factors differ for those with insomnia. And that women have higher rates of insom... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c | In comparison to American schools such as those in Los Angeles County, there are schools such as preparatory and some private schools that prepare students early on for SAT. And even fewer public school systems allow for classes and tutoring that is written into the curriculum or that is at the very least affordable fo... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c | American schools in the US do have standardized exams, yet these exams rarely impede a student or determine their future to the extent of those exams in some foreign countries. Immigrants and Americans of Japanese descent have brought to the US programs such as Kumon and Juku schools which are popular for teaching stan... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c | For example, Western thought usually has a monistic description of lifestyles, and constantly focuses on separating the physical body from the mind; Japanese lifestyle focuses more on dualistic properties and links the body and the mind. These ways of thinking allow for different ways of processing the regular events o... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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An article that pushes for changes is one by Nishino and Larson. They insist that school causes stress, extended schooling causes long hours, little sleep and exhaustion, and with little spare daylight hours juku students are not allowed the exercise and free time they need to socialize and grow in areas other than ac... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c | Students in a Kumon class will not run into a similar problem since these students are only allowed to advance once they meet a requirement of accuracy.
There is also Kumon for preschoolers and kindergarten age students. The main website does not seem necessarily tailored to only Asian students (as is the case for juk... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c | The constructs of interest are conceptualized as variables in this study, which is another strength; the researchers sought out to find the effects of insomnia on professional life, and they studied good sleepers in comparison to those with insomnia, and they studied the effects of sleep on professional life and medica... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c | It was found that students showed similar sleep patterns to other students in the US (such as those in urban areas) as well as to those in other developed countries of the world. It was also found that overall many students seemed to have problems with sleep related behavior. But teachers were not found to be able to a... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c | It is also possible for the opposite, and a bad SAT score leading to no choice of college perhaps due to a lack of funding or knowledge about college from a parent or student. But community colleges do not require SAT scores, and colleges near Torrance and Gardena, California such as El Camino College, Harbor College, ... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c | The less overlap between sleep and food site, the fewer sleep sessions the artificial organisms had, specifically, there was a tendency for monophasic sleep patterns. This finding implies that animals are more likely to have monophasic sleep patterns when there is a high cost in changing from wakefulness to sleep. It w... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c | Their reason for looking at such information was because insomnia is one of the most prevalent health complaints. The comorbidity of insomnia was examined and it was found that in relation to onset of the disorder, patient responses to treatment, and long term history with the disorder, insomnia can often be independen... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c | Negative aspects of after school cram schools are that those which last from about 4-7 are very hard on a student. The student will still have their daily homework to consider as well as possibly their cram school homework. An article by Harnisch (1994) explained the curriculum and daily lifestyle of a case study stude... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c |
The following paper addresses the Biological and Sociocultural models in relation to the disorder insomnia. The biological model focuses on genetic information that is inherited as well as medical aspects of health. The Sociocultural models look at environmental relationships and their applications to race, ethnici... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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The risks and benefits discussed in the study could be very helpful for an older individual to consider. This article was a very strong meta-analysis. In looking at 24 other studies, they noted the selection criteria, inclusion criteria, the data sources, and they identified the studies used. This is helpful in valid... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c | Findings can be generalized specifically to the elderly, which is the target population for problems of sleep fragmentation (or waking and sleeping multiple times during one sleep session).
This study was very strongly done: the hypotheses were based on past knowledge, and the researchers used what they knew to find ... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
c | The implications of this review article is that future research should look more intently on finding specific differences between the available benzodiazepines, such as: the specific populations they work best for, the duration of usage a patient should be suggested, and the impairments that have not been considered si... | 28 | English | female | MA | unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
x | Cardiovascular disease mortality was lower among women in the top quintile of the aMed diet score (RR, 0.61).
It is reasonable to accept the results of this study as valid because (1) the study population was very large; (2) nurses would likely keep accurate records; (3) where judgment was called for, the authors mad... | 64 | english | female | JD and masters | retired/unemployed attorney | N,N,N,N,N |
x | Together, integrated, they create not a sum of the meanings but a new whole. Giacomo Festi, Lecture, UNISG Colorno, 2010.
Let’s take an initial look at the ad, including denotative aspects. On the left is an artistic photo of a nude female figure. Although she is crouched, she is on her tiptoes and holds her legs wi... | 64 | english | female | JD and masters | retired/unemployed attorney | N,N,N,N,N |
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The artistic references are not to a contemporary style or photographer such as Liebovitz or Avedon, but to a Dutch Old Master or still life artist who would be known to the upper middle and wealthy classes who would have studied art history. Their recognition of the reference would inspired confidence, reminded them... | 64 | english | female | JD and masters | retired/unemployed attorney | N,N,N,N,N |
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This study was to show that adherence to a “Mediterranean Diet” (Med diet), as reflected by a high “alternate Mediterranean (aMed) diet score”, is associated with reduced risk of chronic heart disease (CHD) and stroke and stroke mortality. The aMed diet is a modified version of the Med diet and is characterized by hi... | 64 | english | female | JD and masters | retired/unemployed attorney | N,N,N,N,N |
x |
Comparing the 2002 Nude Ad with both earlier and later ads highlights some of qualities and aims of Perrier Jouet throughout the changing eras in which the ads were used, and reveals semiotic differences.
Recalling again the 1926 ad in the form of a typeset announcement similar to a formal, engraved wedding announ... | 64 | english | female | JD and masters | retired/unemployed attorney | N,N,N,N,N |
x | The nude, curved, soft woman faces the masculine bottle. The moisture can be a further sign of the sensual, and also suggests the bubbly, cool quality of Champagne. The angle of the woman, the positioning of her bent knees, point upward towards the bottle, the flowers, the product’s identity. This appears to intersect ... | 64 | english | female | JD and masters | retired/unemployed attorney | N,N,N,N,N |
x |
Pouring wine sound. Burbling pasta sauce sounds. Some kind of music about eating cool food. Oinking pig sound.
Do you love great food? Good wine? Do you want to be at the cutting edge of the latest action in the food world? Live Your Dream . Become a New Gastronome and give your career a jump start. Live Food... | 64 | english | female | JD and masters | retired/unemployed attorney | N,N,N,N,N |
x | And a genius will know to buy this Champagne.
There may also be a simile. The phrase itself uses a simile, a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind–that genius, a matter of the mind, is “beauty”, which is generally a matter of the visual. And so there is a subtle ... | 64 | english | female | JD and masters | retired/unemployed attorney | N,N,N,N,N |
x | In 2002, the United States had not yet been governed by a conservative Republican Administration and Congress for over six years. In fact, it had just changed from a President who brought sex to the White House in a very public way. A nude figure advertising a quality champagne was probably still possible to accept. B... | 64 | english | female | JD and masters | retired/unemployed attorney | N,N,N,N,N |
x | Sophisticated American women are certainly not excluded from the target. And so we now conclude by considering whether this American will respond to this ad.
An ad with the strong artistic, plastic components of this ad is not mere decoration or communication of the availability of the product. This ad, and the 2008 ... | 64 | english | female | JD and masters | retired/unemployed attorney | N,N,N,N,N |
x | The white of the woman’s skin suggests innocence, invoking a contrast with her nudity, which seems not as innocent. The contrast of the light and dark invokes “a dissonance, and hence a maximum expressive effect.” Id. p. 161.
The language or figurative of this ad is limited in the extreme. In the photo accompanying t... | 64 | english | female | JD and masters | retired/unemployed attorney | N,N,N,N,N |
x |
To see more dramatically the evolution and modification of advertising for this wine and to enhance the diachronic perspective of the three ads being compared, I have placed the ads together in chronological order, in Appendix A. They will be reordered for analysis.
Over this long period, the advertising strategies ... | 64 | english | female | JD and masters | retired/unemployed attorney | N,N,N,N,N |
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With regard to placement with a travel agency, I would make an exclusive arrangement with one travel agency in a high income, high education area (such as xxxxxxxx, as indicated on the brochure). This brochure and exclusive offering could be a benefit to an American travel agent who is looking for methods to add val... | 64 | english | female | JD and masters | retired/unemployed attorney | N,N,N,N,N |
i | She was able to gain insight and work toward moving beyond her stereotypical views, which were ingrained at an early age. Adichie mentions a time in her life when her family had “live-in domestic help.” When Adichie was eight years old, a boy named Fide came to help around the household. All Adichie ever heard about th... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
i | Adichie tries to get the audience to realize that there is more to recognize than a single rumor or a single story told about an individual or people. Essentially, her message is to not judge or criticize until the whole story is heard. Dr. Wotsuna described a culture where conformity is very important to the communit... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
i | The left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for analysis, while the right hemisphere of the brain is responsible for recognizing patterns. Evidence from numerous studies show that one hemisphere of the brain may be preferred over another in an individual, known as hemispheric preference. Cerebral lateralization aff... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
i | In regards to this case, I am curious as to why the client would want to be a mother to future children when she cannot be a mother currently.
After reading this situation, I was surprised that I was not seething with anger at Mr. O. Rather, I felt a sense of shock that he would abuse his own daughter, but I also felt... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
i | Why does the female have to stay at home and look after the children? Why can’t this describe the male, instead of the female? Why can’t the female go back to school and earn her degree like anyone else? Why does Mr. M think it is her sole responsibility? Marriage should be a partnership and a “team” effort. I wish I h... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
i |
In pursuing an education in social work, I intend to follow a career path with the Division of Family and Children Services to help children who have been abused or neglected; and to provide support for troubled families. Values that I can provide to the social work field include the following: service, respect, ethi... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
i | I found myself disgusted with this addition of body odor; I could not imagine being attracted to someone who does not care about their appearance or body odor. Actually, from past experience, I ended a relationship with a male who was constantly sweating; that was not attractive at all. After carefully examining my re... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
i | This type of learning environment, based upon the left-hemisphere preference, is better suited for females than males. Since males are generally right-hemisphere preferred, they feel uncomfortable in modern schools and tend to act out.
Beck describes three learning style inventories that educators can use to select w... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
i |
My commitment to building relationships and improving myself in any way that I can is also very important to me. I have learned in the past that relationships need work to be maintained. However, those relationships are necessary for the personal well-being of an individual; Umberson and Montez (2010) note the impor... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
i | I also fulfill religious, political, and gender roles. These values are important to me; I believe that my ultimate goal to become a social worker incorporates these values as well.
In relation to my roles and responsibilities in a family setting, I pride myself on all these values. As a daughter, I hold respect for m... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
i | Negative emotions, according to the researchers, have a harmful affect on schooling because negativity distracts students from the assignment and weakens motivation. The researchers also note that environments and evaluations by others influence emotions and those emotions then influence the student’s learning and achi... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
i | Why would a mother throw away her baby? This is definitely murder to me. Although the attorney said that she could have gotten an abortion a couple of weeks earlier and the end result would have been the same, I am still angry. As a side note, I believe that abortion should only be available to women who have been rape... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
i | My fiance, who continues to positively surprise me every day, supports me emotionally and sometimes financially; I hate to use the cliche, but he is the other half of my soul. The best characteristics about my family include their ability to overcome past negative experiences, support me financially and emotionally, an... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
i | My initial reaction upon reading this case is happiness for the couple. I do not see why their case should be problematic in the least. I am also confused when I think about racial injustice that is so rampant in our society. It is improving, but I still find myself being shocked at what others say in a racist manner.... | 25 | English | female | Bachelor Degree | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
d | It could not force the states to join the Union, and it could not stop them from leaving it at will. In fact, he sometimes pushed for secession. The Federal government existed for considering foreign affairs, and sometimes for determining relationships and decisions between states, but never for interfering... | 25 | English | female | College - Bachelors | Substitute Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
d | Taylor's opinions on the economy should not be surprising. He believed that the economy should be completely outside the Federal government's sphere of influence. He considered the National Bank unconstitutional, claiming that banking offends the “partnership, called society” (Inquiry, pg. 370). The F... | 25 | English | female | College - Bachelors | Substitute Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
d | The only answer, to Randolph, was to follow England's course, and to let slavery end slowly as it became less and less profitable to landowners. As this was already occurring in the South, Randolph saw it as only a matter of time before slavery ended almost of its own accord.
Despite this somewhat cold vi... | 25 | English | female | College - Bachelors | Substitute Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
d | Taylor also argues against the idea that the tariff was temporary, and would bring profit to everyone eventually, if only the majority agriculturalists would suffer in the meantime. He notes that those in power seem to only consider this situation to be wrong if it is permanent; as long as everyone is still c... | 25 | English | female | College - Bachelors | Substitute Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
d | Here Taylor takes the opportunity to again disparage the judicial system, and call for caution against executive power, which by veto can either encourage liberty or destroy it. He states again that “Taxation disguised in any way, is disguised tyranny, so far as it exceeds the genuine necessities of a good... | 25 | English | female | College - Bachelors | Substitute Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
d | He claimed that despite claims that more exports meant a more successful economy, it is actually imports that make an economy successful. Taylor's defense of free trade and agriculture is a typical example of Old Republican ideals.
Taylor also places some of the blame on the legislators. He believed that th... | 25 | English | female | College - Bachelors | Substitute Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
d | He would accept no less than the strictest construction, always with a mind to the intention of the writers rather than the literal interpretation, which could sometimes lead to loose or liberal motions by the Federal government. This meant that he believed in the barest minimum of a Federal government, with t... | 25 | English | female | College - Bachelors | Substitute Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
d | It is only responsible even for the territories as a trustee until they become states, at which time they will be responsible for themselves. To him, the states existed as a kind of buffer between the Federal government and the people, serving both to protect the rights of the people and to guard against the e... | 25 | English | female | College - Bachelors | Substitute Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
d | Because of this, Old Republicans vehemently opposed Henry Clay's American System. They believed too much power would be given to the Federal government if they allowed protective tariffs, internal improvements, and especially the National Bank, which they considered unconstitutional. They argued against the... | 25 | English | female | College - Bachelors | Substitute Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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John Taylor's Tyranny Unmasked continues the Old Republican tradition of opposition. Taylor's frustration with the current state of the Union is clear in his work, perhaps even more so than in Construction Construed. Making comparisons between the operations of a theocracy and the current United States, T... | 25 | English | female | College - Bachelors | Substitute Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
d | Randolph opposed any motion that he believed could lead to a more corrupt government. With this in mind, he did not approve of the keeping of a standing army. He considered it a drain on government resources, and thought that an army made up of mercenaries would never be as effective as a properly trained and ... | 25 | English | female | College - Bachelors | Substitute Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
d | They saw these Acts only as ways to prevent the opposition party from curtailing corruption.
In running this government, Old Republicans wanted a Legislative system that actively and loyally represented its constituency. They believed that it was necessary for every section of a state to be represented, and t... | 25 | English | female | College - Bachelors | Substitute Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
d |
John Taylor of Caroline was an early and ardent proponent of Republicanism. Though he was primarily an agriculturalist, that very profession along with his brief career in politics created a man known for his dedication and outspokenness in matters of personal freedom and government. His dedication to an agrari... | 25 | English | female | College - Bachelors | Substitute Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e |
This policy crafted at a time when ecological considerations were null and void in public policy decisions. From 1872 on, most changes in mining policy were undertaken to add additional economic provisions for mining corporations. Changes have not been done to amend the 1872 law to deal with the ecological damage ... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e |
The United States of America and Mexico are an example of two nations which at one time were beset by an enduring rivalry which spanned 57 years, from 1836 to 1893. (Diehl and Goerts 2000 p. 145). The high-water mark of this rivalry was the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848, where the United States attacked and defe... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e | The public should not be burdened with the cost of cleaning up ecological damage as a subsidy increasing profit for a mining operation. No industry should engage in activities that generate environmental harm and be subsidized with public funds in order to generate higher profits.
In order to both represent the b... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e |
This is a typical problem with modern works; many writers may be conscious that mindsets and culture of the past was different but do not put this into thought as they judge those of a previous era; this is one major flaw of Black Elk’s Story in that it is easily noticed within the first chapters. Judging Neihardt w... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e | Tracy Warner, editor of the Wenatchee World noted how Eastern Washington interpreted the action of the Seattle City Council in saying “Seattle [and Western Washington] had looked east and said: You are a mistake.” Such actions have increased the drive of splitting the state.
The prospect of dividing Eastern Washingto... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e |
Another major challenge in changing current mining policy is how best to regulate the closure of mines which have scared the landscape and present an ecological hazard. Any major change in mining policy that would be more restrictive on the economic viability would create a new set of problems. Not only would wor... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
e | This limitation aside, Rice deeply studies his subject in great detail and his work, especially after reading Black Elk’s Story, is very helpful in gaining more insight into the life of Black Elk.
From reading any book on the life of Black Elk a reader could discern that his life was quite complex. In Black Elk Spea... | 27 | German | male | Bachelor of Arts | Unemployed | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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