Part II: Review of the Literature A) Summary In a paper which looked at gun control and firearms violence in North America, Robert J. ... Mundt's study, when compared with the United States, trends in Canada over the past ten years in various types of violent crime, suicide, and accidental death show no dramatic results, "and few suggestions of perceptible effects of the 1977 Canadian gun control legislation". The only positive effect , Mundt, found in the study was the decrease in the use of firearms in robbery with comparion to trends in the United States...

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The method of research that I used was literature review. ... Methodology: The method of research used in this paper is literature search and review. ... Literature Review: In the article "Getting ahead: social mobility among the urban poor" by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, the author examines the social mobility within the urban poor population. ... Also the study concentrated on the black urban poor in order to exam prejudice and discrimination. ... The study consisted of the responses of 27 black males who were either unemployed or receiving public assistance. ...

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This study builds on White-Parks' conclusions by exploring the role of genre manipulation in Sui Sin Far's literary and political innovations. ... Like Howells, Sui Sin Far demands in fiction a truthful depiction of Americans; her rewriting, however, represents an adaptation of mainstream realism because it focuses on Americans who had, before she wrote, little voice in American literature. ... Drawing from elements of realism and sentimental romance, Sui Sin Far uses short stories, articles, and essays to pioneer the act of self-representation for a people who existed in late ninete...

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Abstract A review of literature on pregnant women smoking efforts found that few programs heed epidemiological patterns of smoking and is not empirically designed. ... Methodology Evaluation Concerns While controlled research studies indicate tobacco control strategies with the potential to reduce teenage tobacco use when applied more widely, evaluation of the extent to which they achieve these aims when implemented in practice as part of comprehensive tobacco control programs is rather more difficult to determine. ...

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This study identifies these theories as it relates to origination, treatment, and prevention/protection. ... Further, this study compared beliefs among Black South Africans and African Americans. ... Secondly, this study will compare and contrast conspiracy theories among Black South Africans and African Americans. ... Review of Literature This review of the literature will first introduce basic knowledge and incidences of conspiracy theories globally and in the United States. ... In this literature, the word conspiracy theory is an attempt to justify or explain unsubstantiated facts th...

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Asian Indian Assimilation in the United States America is referred to in many countries as the "Land of Opportunity". This is land is also often called the "Melting Pot of the World". It is believed that people from all over the world come to the United States and lose their cultural identity and "...

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If you study animals you can cut back on a lot of time (Hoagland 111). ... The literature shows that advanced surgical techniques (cardiac surgery and organ transplants to name but two of the more recent an! ... This argument misses the point that experiments usually want to disturb the animal as little as possible in order to study its material response to whatever is being tested. ...

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The second event that helped keep women in the home was literature and books urging women to subordinate themselves to their husbands (Epstein/Easton 93). This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. ... According to Barbara Epstein, in Industrialization and Femininity: A Case Study of Nineteenth-Century New England, women were told that they had special abilities for raising children due to their innate warmth and morality. ...

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Social Darwinism and Eugenics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often seen as theories based on scientific knowledge. However this is not wholly true. While eugenics was often loosely based on scientific theory, social Darwinism was not at all. One would be hard-pressed to fi...

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LITERATURE The idea of including management in labor relations is not a new concept in the United States. ... The study conducted by Yue observes the "management position in the early development of a fast growing workplace to get a better understanding of the interplay between the concepts of 'role' and 'position.'" At the conclusion of the study, Yue establishes that "while positions (i.e. titles and designations) might appear to be permanent, jobs (which also imply responsibilities) and authority can be undergoing much change, demonstrating the dynamic...

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CONCLUSION As you can see from the two opposing argument above, I believe that we as the public are not given enough information to make a fair judgement. General Info Alcohol is a depressant drug that reduces social inhibitions and relaxes. Alcohol is produced by the fermentation of fruits,...

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There was some literature on homosexuality from Germany available but it was hard to get. ... Considering how difficult it was even to obtain literature relevant to homosexuality, it is not surprising there was no important campaigning for gay rights in the US during that time. ... As Mattachine, One, Inc. had several publications such as One magazine, which had a circulation of 5000, which made it the largest invert publication, One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies, One Confidential. ...

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For the purpose of this study, I have created a ficticious medical supply manufacturer, Equiptek Industries, which will be located in the eastern part of the United States. ... Importance of Study The significance of this study is to determine what the purchasing decisions of medical facilities will have on the medical supply manufacturer, Equiptek. ... The results of this study will influence to inventory levels that will be maintained during the last two months of 1999 and the first quarter of 2000. This study will explore not only the variance in purchasing patterns, but will also e...

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"There is evidence that insufficient attention is given not only to non-sampling errors and other problems that can exist in improperly conducted multicultural studies, but also to the appropriateness of consumer research measures that have not been tested in multicultural contexts." ... However, Mayer wrote that the problem of non-sampling error had not gone unrecognised in cross-cultural marketing research literature. ... If the reliability of data gathered should vary from one country to another but was not detected, the threat to the validity of conclusions drawn from a cross-national stud...

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Several studies, such as the 27 studies conducted by the United States Office of Education Cooperative Research Program in First Grade Reading Instruction (1964-1967) and the 22 instructional models evaluated by the Office of Education through the Follow-Through Project in the 1970s, consistently suggest that instruction in phonics leads to higher reading rates. ... In the NRP study (2000), the panel found that, "The effects of systematic early phonics instruction were significant and substantial in kindergarten and in the 1st grade, indicating that systematic phonics programs should be imple...

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Prison Literature in America. ... Authored by the Justice Policy Institute, a Washington-based research and advocacy group, the study showed that in 2000 there were 791,000 men in jail or prison and 603,000 enrolled in colleges or universities. In 1980, the study noted, those numbers were 143,000 and 463,700 respectively. ...

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Studies by Dr. ... In fact, following the publication of two 1977 JAMA studies, the American Medical Association (AMA) officially announced its support for the decriminalization of marijuana. ... Although the authoritative studies on marijuana use seem to agree that there is no residual impairment following intoxication, persistent impairment of short-term memory has been noted in chronic marijuana smokers up to 6 and 12 weeks following abstinence (MacCoun, Rueter, 2001). ...

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Literature Review The use of performance-enhancing drugs has been a major discussion topic and provides massive pressure on athletes around the world in a variety of different sports from Major League Baseball to Billiards. ... A clear hypothesis is unable to be made, as this is an on-going dispute and the following literature review will give points and ideas for both for and against legalizing performance-enhancing drugs in sport. ... Lincoln Allison (2004) in his article found online he comments on a study carried out to comprehend to relationship between the amount of drug use in Major Le...

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So, what is physician-assisted suicide?  Physician assisted suicide is when a doctor chooses to aid a patient in the process of killing himself or herself. This so called "mercy killing" gives the patient a chance to escape potentially long-term suffering and misery resulting from terminal diseases...

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David Rodriguez AP American History 9/26/03 Presidential Outline Thomas Jefferson I. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1836) II. A. Education- Was sent to Dover, Virginia, where he studied Latin with Reverend William Douglas until 1757. He was then sent to the school of the Reve...

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Chapter 2 - Literature Review Brand Loyalty "The term "marketing" usually conjures images of consumer packaged goods and advertising campaigns " (Olivia, 2007) but in reality this is only a very small part of marketing. ... Donvaband (2007) shows similar results in his study, he finds that the ultimate achievement when building brands is what he calls emotional brand loyalty. ...

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Hale, as a successful and popular editor, was respected for middle-class women in matters of fashion, cooking, literature, and morality. ... If they were lucky, they were taught to read in order to study the Bible. ...

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Private property both movable and immovable must be respected and only taken for some necessary purpose of war.11 The core aspects of each tradition Just war theory can be meaningfully divided into three parts, which in the literature are referred to, for the sake of convenience, in Latin. ...

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Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by the removal or forcing out from the womb of a fetus or embryo before it is able to survive on its own. surgical methods appear to have a lower risk of side effects. Abortion in the developed world has a long history of being among the safest procedures in medicine when allowed by local law. Uncomplicated abortions do not cause either long term mental health or physical problems. Unsafe abortions, however, result in approximately 47,000 maternal deaths and 5 million hospital admissions per year globally. An estimated 44 million abortions are performed glob...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...

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