Essays Tagged: "annually"

Domestic Violence

ult, abuse, and even murder. In today's American society, violence is more prevalent now then ever. Annually, we see violence statistics rise and are left to wonder why. Each year 1 person out of ever ...

(3 pages) 280 1 4.7 Mar/1993

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Comparison of Seven Samurai and Magnificient Seven

r example, the plot of both movies entails farmers hiring mercenaries to help fend off bandits that annually pillage their farms. The two movies also have differences like the characterization of the ... in similarities between the Seven Samurai and Magnificent Seven is the plot. In both movies bandits annually pillage a small village and the farmers are left with barely enough food to survive. In the ...

(2 pages) 132 3 3.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History

Ban Smoking

ana, areillegal in the United States. However, the use of cigarettes, which kills millionsworldwide annually, is perfectly legal. If certain harmful substances are illegal, thencigarettes should not b ...

(3 pages) 207 0 3.9 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Treatments of Alcoholism

woman's drinking during pregnancy, afflicts five thousandinfants a year; it costs about $1.4 billionannually to treat the infants, children and adultsafflicted with FAS;*More than twenty thousand peop ...

(7 pages) 166 0 4.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Software Piracy

s Association, as much as $7.5 billion of American software may be illegally copied and distributed annually worldwide. These copies work as well as the originals and sell for significantly less money ... d with people convicted of more serious crimes. The software industry loses more than $15.2 billion annually worldwide due to software piracy.Software piracy costs the industry:$482 every second$28,90 ...

(5 pages) 131 0 4.1 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Handguns - vital weapons or deadly killers?

get shooting, collecting, and similarpursuits.In recent years nearly 35,000 people have been killed annually by guns in theUnited States. These deaths include 15,000 murders, 18,000 suicides, and 1,50 ... esides handguns areincluded, then over 1,000,000 law - abiding citizens use guns for self - defense annually.Guns also provide vulnerable women with some form of protection against rapeand other viole ...

(19 pages) 257 1 4.8 Feb/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

This is a discription of the soft money elections in the States.

ederal candidates. Individuals may give up to $1,000 to a candidate per election, and up to $20,000 annually to a political party. Political action committees (PACs) may give up to $5,000 per election ... litical action committees (PACs) may give up to $5,000 per election per candidate and up to $15,000 annually to a party. The soft money scam lets deep-pocketed special interests flout all those restri ...

(1 pages) 54 0 4.0 May/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

The Population Problem

hese statistics have become reversed. From 1950 to 1984, the amount of grain increased at 3 percent annually. Yet, from 1984 to 1993, grain production had grown at barely 1 percent per year, a decreas ...

(12 pages) 621 1 3.9 May/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Cancer

ure,but the amount of research done on this one disease costs on the average of $1.2 billion dollarsannually, and $20 billion annually in care of cancer patients.What is Cancer?Cancer is a broad rangi ...

(11 pages) 152 1 3.4 Mar/1994

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Smoke Prevention

hat advise would you give "What advise would you give our peers about staying away from cigarettes?"Annually, more than 430,000 Americans die from smoking cigarettes. Studies have proven that smokers ...

(1 pages) 73 2 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Cisco

coach on business trips. Furthermore, all employees were granted stock options upon being hired and annually thereafter (pg 3.) This promoted company pride and loyalty. Employees now had a stake in th ...

(5 pages) 303 1 3.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Chemistry of Beer

Out of the Blue? Chemistry of BeerAnnually, college students spend $5.5 billion on alcohol, mostly beer. This averages to $466 per yea ...

(4 pages) 69 0 4.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

International Space Station.

cientific and medical discoveries that will be made on the station could create billions of dollars annually. A plan like this, arranged to benefit the whole world economy, should sound like a good id ... al Processes 3). The new experiments on combustion could save the United States millions of dollars annually because it controls the heating of homes, powering of cars, and the production of a large r ...

(12 pages) 125 0 4.6 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Aquaculture in the British Columbia Fishery.

he fishing industry harvests millions of fish in a matter of weeks. It is valued at over $1 billion annually and provides employment to over 25,000 people. The industry represents B.C.'s largest singl ... incentives to cultivate fish are greater than ever. The natural harvest no longer increases by 4-5% annually as it did in recent decades, but now is in a rapid decline; still, the demand for many edib ...

(12 pages) 104 0 3.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies

Harley Davidson has long been an American Icon.

1918 Harley-Davidson became the world's largest motorcycle company by producing 28,000 motorcycles annually.In the early 1940s (during WWII) Harley-Davidson had another chance to increase production. ...

(8 pages) 476 0 4.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Very descriptive notes on preparing for an IEP meeting.

dent.*The IEP is applied after the meeting.*The IEP Team modifies the IEP and evaluates it at least annually.*The IEP meeting must include all of the necessary members and parent contribution must be ...

(1 pages) 82 2 3.5 Sep/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Tobacco: The Growing Global Epidemic.

e they?One billion people worldwide smoke and around 3.5 million die from tobacco-related illnesses annually. By 2030, this figure will rise to ten million, with 70 percent of deaths in Lower and Midd ...

(3 pages) 61 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

"Affluenza"- the disease of spending money.

hrow away 7 million cans a year, 2 million bottles, and each American uses 20 tons of raw materials annually. Although Affluenza is an easy disease to catch, and you can live with it semi-comfortably, ...

(3 pages) 87 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

How does GM beat Ford in China.

unity. The whole market is worth billions of dollars every year. Car sales in China should grow 20% annually through year 2010, from 1995's 380,000 cars, and reach 3 million within a decade, estimates ...

(2 pages) 170 0 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Automotive Companies

Human Resource Management.

wned and operated offices in 26 countries, Kelly provides to its customers nearly 700,000 employees annually, with skills including office services, accounting, engineering, information technology, la ...

(5 pages) 786 0 4.4 Nov/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management