Essays Tagged: "high risk"

Carrers in Investment Banking

as an investment banker has its pros and cons just as any career does, but if you're looking for a high-demanding, high-risk career that at times is very rewarding financially, investment banking cou ... ment banking jobs have been significantly growing due to the availability of complex securities and high-yield bonds, also known as junk bonds.(Investment Banking,12) Now that the financial market has ...

(4 pages) 209 0 3.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

AIDS and You

. Like other communicable diseases, AIDS can strike anyone. It is not necessarily confined to a few high-risk groups. We must all protect ourselves from this infection and teach our children about it ... he days before AIDS had an average of 200 to 400 new sexual contacts per year. This figure was much higher than common practice among heterosexual (straight) men or women. For these reasons, the disea ...

(4 pages) 81 0 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

As I lay dying. An essay on drugs

have law aginst drug is so that the people who use dangerous drugs are putting themselves at a very high risk. They risk their health and their lives. Since they are breaking laws they also but themse ...

(3 pages) 97 0 3.0 Jan/1996

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

Gun Control

he Second Amendment and some of the percentages and death rates is the U.S.Gun control aims to keep high risk people away from guns while not putting much of a burden on law abiding citizens. Guns sho ...

(2 pages) 73 0 4.8 Aug/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Should there be restrictions on where level 3 sex offenders can live?

there are eight times as many rapes. A level 3 sex offender lives a hop, skip, and a jump away from Highland Elementary School. Allowing that to happen is equivalent to letting a recovering alcoholic ... covering alcoholic work as a bartender. Level 3 offenders, being the most serious, are considered a high risk to re-offend, according to police departments and experts who have done research on the to ...

(2 pages) 54 0 3.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

What would Aristotle have thought about a state lottery? This essay uses Aristotle's views on justice to evaluate the morality of a state lottery.

is harmful to the poor in that since they are poor they should not be throwing away money to such a high-risk endeavor. It would be beneficial to the rich in that a large portion of the tax burden wou ...

(3 pages) 77 1 4.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

This essay is about teens and high risk behaviors (drugs) why not to do them and where they will bring you with three examples why teens may choose to try drugs

Many teens these days indulge in high-risk behaviors, for instance drug use. Teens often start doing drugs "to be cool, or fit in", t ... perience. I smoked my first joint of marijuana with a couple of my friends when I was a freshman in high school. I have always been rebellious in my lifetime so I gave it a shot. We went to my friend ... party that night and we were asked if we wanted to some "pot" nervously we all said alright and got high. Yes, I still smoke weed, and think nothing of it; I do not find it wrong in any way although i ...

(4 pages) 55 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

What Is Tay-Sachs disease?

entually, becomes blind, paralyzed and unaware of its surroundings. Death occurs by age 5.Who has a high risk of getting the disease?Tay-Sachs disease occurs most frequently in descendants of Central ...

(3 pages) 70 1 4.4 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Working conditions for child/ adult labor during the industrial age.

e children were small, they were often hired to go into these machines and make repairs. This was a high risk to their safety and as a result, there were many machinery related deaths among the workin ...

(3 pages) 84 0 4.8 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Effects The Fast Food Industru Has had on Are society.

be discussing Stratification in the workenvironment. How Fast Food has changed is nation Health to high riskfactors.There were tremendous number issues to deal with the socialinequality based on Ethn ... ployees self being in a since.There is no real employee training so there is no real learning of anyhigh tech skills. The computer does all the work for them. In mostMcDonalds you don't have to speak ...

(7 pages) 363 0 3.9 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

A current study on AIDS

. Like other communicable diseases, AIDS can strike anyone. It is not necessarily confined to a few high-risk groups. We must all protect ourselves from this infection and teach our children about it ... d States. Current estimates are that 1.5 to 2 million Americans are now probably HIV carriers, with higher numbers in Central Africa and parts of the Caribbean (UNAIDS).The AIDS virus is present in se ...

(3 pages) 51 1 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

AIDS What's New?

. Like other communicable diseases, AIDS can strike anyone. It is not necessarily confined to a few high-risk groups. We must all protect ourselves from this infection and teach our children about it ... the U.S. Current estimates are that 1.5 to 2 million Americans are now probably HIV carriers, with higher numbers in Central Africa and parts of the Caribbean.Recapping AIDS - the facts:AIDS is an in ...

(13 pages) 119 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Am I Uninsurable?

Am I uninsurable? Should I let "high-risk" problems go by so my rates stay lower? Should I find a outside doctor to take care of an ... on-smokers. The difference between the two rates seem fair to me, there is a choice for smoking and higher insurance rates should reflect that. The MIB on the other hand hold information such as age, ... having different life spans and pricing accordingly? What if you are born in a hospital that has a higher degree of babies born there with health problems later? The possibilities are endless with th ...

(4 pages) 107 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Heart Disease in Women

le age, overweight, and lives an unhealthy lifestyle. But now women are being added to this list of high-risk candidates. "Heart attack is the leading cause of death in American women" (Internet 1). W ... to be done, using different controlled factors.Works CitedInternet 1 Heart Disease & Women: How High Is Your Risk? The Planned Parent hood Women's Health Letter, May 1995, Vol. 2, No.3.Manson, JoA ...

(3 pages) 107 3 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

"Fixing Elections" Essay

e not guaranteed to be represented in the office, no matter where you stand politically. There is a high risk of being unrepresented. Representations, national elections, and the process of congress a ...

(2 pages) 33 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Virtual Colonoscopy

cancer, yet the virtual colonoscopy failed to detect two of the patients. As you can see there is a high risk of not being fully detected with the virtual colonoscopy.In favor of the virtual colonosco ...

(2 pages) 24 0 3.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Investment Ideas

) that you intend or hope to make money on and sell when the time is right. These are split up into high risk and low risk investment.The different services provided are different depending on the pla ... n this investment for 2-3 years.A bond fund provides income and capital growth that are potentially higher that the others. This is also a conservative approach and it is suggested that 2-3 years is s ...

(3 pages) 73 0 2.3 Dec/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

What three risks and their specific consequences did TA-Orange face when entering the Thai Mobile phone market?

t as a low risk for TA-Orange because their profits increased but ended with a consequence that was high risk. The lowering of the handset prices had the least favorable result to the Thai mobi ... id mobiles at half of the competition, and financing the price of handsets, ultimately ended with a high risk consequence. Their massive leap into the mobile phone market lead to a misjudged outcome o ...

(2 pages) 17 0 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Risk Assessment Report for Resorts

rom the industry was held earlier to discuss the issues. With the Hospitality business being in the high-risk category, it is more susceptible to public crisis, therefore it is important that we utili ...

(5 pages) 235 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Compares and contrasts How Krakauer's life (the novelist) parallels Chris McCandlesses's in the Novel Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer. Includes 3 in text citations and 3 works cited.

s McCandless. What he finds is the intense pull of the wilderness on our imagination, the appeal of high-risk activities to young men. When McCandless's mistakes turn out to be fatal he is dismissed f ... bad weather. Most people wouldn't even dream of doing either of these feats. When the risks are as high as either of these men faced, even the most simple of mistakes can prove fatal. I think that if ...

(5 pages) 48 0 5.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American