Miscellaneous Essays

The number of Americans behind bars for drug law violations has increased radically to extraordinary levels, however drug-related problems is not yet vanished.Most of new AIDS cases in U.S. cities, and among African Americans and Latinos, are caused by drug misuse and related behavior. Majority of the twenty million Americans who violate the drug laws each year are modest or controlled drug users. The government itself emerges at a loss for what to do about this enduring problem (Nadelmann et al, 2004).

In addition to this restraint, there is the additional burden of sticking to the journalize in vogue. Journalists, faced with the burden of reporting the truth as a social commitment often resort to the fictionalization of their information. Carl Hiaasen may be said to belong to this bandwagon of writers.

In an organization recognized for excellence those parts are aligned so that the whole is actually more effective than the sum of the parts. The model presented here identifies the key parts of an effective organization. It provides a simple framework to view and assess any part or the entirety of an organization.

The introduction of western ideas, of products made by western countries, led to the advent of modern education and industry in Japan. The Japanese adapted very quickly to these developments. Political changes also kept pace with the rapid economic and industrial transformation. The entire nation was unified under an emperor (termed ‘the Meiji restoration’), and a western-style of government was established.

Everyone works. According to Bertrand Russell, we work so we don’t get bored. And boredom is an even more serious problem than poverty. As such, even rich people work. W.H. Auden defined work as a job in which one is personally interested and is paid for it. This is different from labor because, with labor, one is not interested in what he is doing.

I argue that while the culturalist perspective might be valid in explaining diversity in the degree of acculturation among different groups in a single country, its explanatory power is greatly reduced when looking at different patterns of immigration adaptation of ethnic/national groups from one country scattered across the globe.

Hoodoo is an American term, originating in the 19th century or earlier, for Afri-can-American folk magic. Hoodoo consists of a large body of African folkloric prac-tices and beliefs with a considerable admixture of American Indian botanical knowledge and European folklore.

Her quilt lies, thrown asunder, off of her huddled form, evidence of a sleepless tussle. The ceiling fan creaks solemnly above, a monotonous jarring abeyance to the morbid silence. The air-conditioning hums softly, a prayer to end this chronic suffering. The child's thoughts wander, her cerebrum trying to weave together strains of rational thought, struggling to find answers to inquisitions a mind as young as her was never meant to ponder upon; All, in vain.

His brief was to develop MAPS into a customer-focused organization within a year. The company’s new HRM initiatives include valuing diversity by offering equitable employment opportunities to all sections of society, which also helps it contract work from public sector companies. The organization secured a substantial new contract.

As a person, it has always been my passion to reach my utmost potential by exhausting all the available opportunity for me to develop my strength and competencies. Thus, my education spans from the time I enter grade school to the day I graduate from high school and pursue vocational studies.

It's a violation of so-called discipline, or sophistication, in order to help spread a message that it's now high-time we realize the demand to 'end hunger'. Youth's Paradise, is a cafeteria cum restaurant in the close vicinity of my Apartment. I often go there with local friends, when I get bored of watching TV or playing soccer on a Sunday when my school is off.

These teachings come in the form of the religious text, religious history including timelines and places representing these religions. The sacred part of any religion in other words is known as holy, sanctified or even special. This gives an outlook to the believer of that particular religion that what their religion has considered as sacred is the guiding way to understand the religion and the people outside the particular religion.

Summarizing data pertains to the act of describing the information that has been collected from an investigation. This activity may involve the use of statistical tests that would determine whether there is any correlation between two variables, such as when an increase in one factor may influence the increase in a second factor. 

Quality is not easy to define because it means different things to different people under different sets of circumstances. It is the customer receiving the goods or services who decides whether or not the promised quality of goods or services are being provided by the organization, regardless of what the organization thinks of itself.

It ceased to be a threat once antibiotics to control the disease were discovered. It has reappeared in all parts of the world and to make a serious matter worse, it has developed resistance to the drugs used to treat it making the prognosis unfavorable. This alarming resurgence may be attributed to a misplaced sense of security and complacence.

The Russian oil business group has an annual turnover of over $30 billion. LUKOIL is the second largest oil company worldwide by proven reserves of hydrocarbons after ExxonMobil with control of 1.3% of global oil reserves 2.1% of global oil production. It ranks as the 6th largest oil company worldwide by production of hydrocarbons.

Plame Affair, an incident with which most readers would be familiar and would probably have views on, and a more recent incident in Providence, R.I where a reporter “was convicted of criminal contempt” for not naming the person who “gave him a tape of a city official accepting a bribe”. The reader is more likely to agree with the questions.

Intriguingly, the Grays seem to be suggesting the polar opposite of the law in this area. There is no evidence in the case law to support the view that intention has ever seriously taken precedence over the degree of physical annexation in the determination of whether a chattel affixed to land remains a chattel or becomes a fixture.

This tale has extensively been noticed as a familiar sight inside our century's most significant social great effort, the battle in opposition towards the dehumanizing cruelty of women, principally within the family of the middle-class. Nora's concluding exit further than all her conventional social responsibilities is the most well-known dramatic proclamation within fictional portrayal of this great effort, also it facilitated to spin Ibsen into a highly praised or criticized champion of women's liberty and this performance into a fundamental statement where feminists have continually called upon towards further their source.

This paper is a review of the research conducted by Bainton, et al., an interesting study that evaluated the relationship of the cellular components of the blood brain barrier and drug-related behavior in Drosophila strains. Drug abuse is a public health dilemma, and leads to considerable morbidity.

In the year 1930, it started as a small exporter of fruit and dried fish. And after a span of 30 years, in 1930, Samsung became a key partner in the government's industrial development drive, venturing into electronics, shipbuilding, petrochemicals, heavy machinery, and construction industries.

The first colonizers we come across are Prospero and Miranda. They behave as colonizers in different ways. They are presented as colonizers in that they stole Caliban's island. We see evidence f this in Act 1 Scene 2 when Caliban says, 'This island's mine by Sycorax my mother/Which thou tak'st from me.

The 2001 court case of 99 Cent Only Stores v. Lancaster Redevelopment Agency involved 99 Cent Only Stores attempting to block Lancaster from acquiring their property. Lancaster wanted to obtain the property in order to allow Costco to expand rather than follow through with their threat of leaving Lancaster.

Methodological individualism has been employed for explaining the lack of decision-making within the UN in the case of Rwanda (Barnett.2002). At the theoretical level, bureaucratic actions, or the lack of them, are dictated by ‘instrumental rationality’ (Weber), obeying a cost-benefit analysis at the organizational level.

Another apparent purpose should have been to weigh the pros and cons of the two short listed suppliers. So as to see which is better of the two, and as to see which is better in what way. According to factors as mentioned in the case to weigh both the suppliers, Atomic products or Nuclear vessels.

The younger group is just developing their drinking habits and will be attracted to a product based on different factors, such as branding and taste, than the more mature segments. Age is also an important segment due to the population that will continue to age and move as a cohort group.

Prevalence of the problem has been suggested to include almost one-quarter of the nation's population (Finkelhor et al., 1990). As a result of sexual abuse, a variety of emotional and behavioral problems may develop and continue into the young victim's adulthood.

Anticipation in the postural domain is an example of the ability of the CNS to predict the consequence of the mechanical effect of movement on posture and helps minimize a forthcoming disturbance. During arm raising while standing, the prime mover activity in the biceps brachii was preceded by activation of a leg muscle.

This data will therefore be overlooked when considering the evidence. We also had to consider disposing of the panel 'workexp' (work experience), as this contains incorrect data, and therefore has affected the percentage significantly, to the point where it cannot be analyzed.

A participatory approach is also known as the eco-centric and bottom-up approach to environmental management. This is a hand-of-voluntary and reward-based approach and is eco-centric, decentralized, appropriate, participatory, and sustainable. There are two types of methods of environmental management i.e. holistic method and the monistic method. 

(Ross et al.) These functions define the scope and role of financial management in any organization. The financial management function thus concerns the acquisition, financing, and management of assets with the overall organizational goals in mind. Sound financial decisions of a firm should lead to an optimal capital structure.

The average expenditure per day for a family was an overprice $280.00 to enjoy the theme park and to order meals such as hamburgers and milkshakes. Overpricing does decrease the number of visitors and the amount of money that is spent. Coleman (1995) reports, "EuroDisneyhas slashed prices both at the gate and within the theme park in an attempt to boost attendance and shed its image of being overpriced.

The process of processing is done in the brain and in human beings their memory plays an important role in processing. To get to know more about the same a keen study is necessary on the various processes involved in making up the human memory. "It seemed possible that the strength and longevity of the memory of the signal, as well as its qualitative nature depended on its depth of processing in this hierarchy of analyses." (Craik, Fergus I.

The board of directors of a company is entitled to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as the company are authorized to exercise and do. The directors should exercise such powers as per the Articles of the company. In exercising such powers, the director is responsible to supervise and control the work of the company.

Generally, although various Yorkshire police forces have their own agendas and responsibilities when it comes to enforcing anti-social behaviour laws and preventing youth crimes, these policies are also influenced by the activism of certain statutory, non-statutory and community groups within the region. 

Escalation may take place for other raison d'êtres too. In accordance with the “conflict spiral model” (Rubin et al, 1994) escalation takes place when all sides reply to the other’s endeavors. A conflict is initiated with an easygoing approach by one party, pursued by equivalent plans by the other party.

The ACE-FTS (Fourier Transform Spectrometer) is used for detecting wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation and the MAESTRO (Measurement of Aerosol Extinction in the Stratosphere and Troposphere Retrieved by Occultation) to measure ozone, nitrogen dioxide and aerosol extinction.

“Vietnam is one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia, recording an average annual growth in gross-domestic-product (GDP) of about 7.5% over the last decade.” (ADB, 2007) Accounting for over 51% of the population and labor force, Vietnamese women have been “asserting their role and position in the national development” (VietNamNet, 2007) by participating in all economic, social, cultural and political activities in the country.

The majority of the younger lot i.e. the age group up to 30 years was quite forthcoming in stating that they are doing the job for easy money. While the senior ones’ appeared somewhat convinced that the job is worth enjoying and the company is indeed paying them good money instead of their services.

This is a high state-of-the-art innovation supported by dynamic ad model implementation that helps developers deliver high quality, pushing beyond the creative boundaries of video games to deliver the best gaming experience. According to Nielsen Interactive Entertainment, the majority of gamers need content advertising that enhances the realism of games.

It is positively believed that to understand the past, is to understand the present and the future to come in today's challenging era, where people are committing acts of crime everywhere (i.e. crime against a person, the white-collar and e-commerce crimes are very challenging acts and requires the up-to-date technology to grasp the criminals).

Among them the emphasis is given towards the ability to understand the characteristics of the data and the techniques required to collect them. The broad objective of the research work is to understand the impact of pre-teaching vocabulary on students with specific learning disabilities in the content class on reading comprehension scores.

Here, compound is taken to mean chemical compound which means it's a chemical substance consisting of two or more different chemically bonded chemical elements, with a fixed ratio determining the composition. The ratio of each element is usually expressed by chemical formula.

In food manufacturing, a new concept called ‘Efficient Customer Response (ECR) can focus on providing maximum service to the consumers. ECR is keen on eliminating inefficiencies and excessive costs by recommendation-engineering the entire food distribution supply chain from a raw material supplier to store shelf (Frederic Crawford 1994).

Actions are driven by several key elements including: individual board members, specific school governance methodology; the values and perspectives of the community; and relationships between individual school staff members, the superintendent, and the school board members (Dykes 1965).

With just one click, you will be able to find data that you need for different purposes. The internet now is an educational tool more than a means of entertainment. It is considered a virtual library comparable to that of the actual physical library structure.

China, India and Mongolia are the subjects of this research paper. There are four main reasons why these countries were selected. First. The size of population and land area. China, India and Mongolia form a large and contiguous landmass that extends from South Asia (India) to east Asia (Mongolia and China). Their combined population adds up to 2.3 billion people, which is almost 40% of the global population of 6.5 billion people.

The company might have the best planning done, the best formulated and well-defined strategy, and the most optimal procedures to carry out the activities but then we need to have control of those activities to make sure that they comply with the objective, in this case, to disclose the accounts in the most transparent manner.

It's not a secret that culture in Asian society differs a lot from one in Western society. Inoguchi and Newman (1) write about the phenomena of so called "Asian values". They write that the phrase "Asian values" implies that the social, economic and political characteristics of certain Asian countries are based upon a shared value system which is identifiable and distinct and which transcends national, religious and ideological differences.