Essays Tagged: "last decade"

Serial Killers

During the last decade the world has witnessed a staggering elevation in serial killings.To give some insight i ... r, in the United States can be gained from examining the statistics for just one year. In 1989 (the last year for which detailed figures are available) there were 21,500 recorded homicides, of which s ...

(6 pages) 414 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

A WORLD OF DREAMS. Achieving your dreams.

rs jobs such as doctors, accountants, and corporate executiveswere considered high profile . In the last decade, careers in the field of law havebecome more important due to the increasing number of l ...

(2 pages) 124 0 3.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Computer crime

tureEnglish II6 April 1996Computer Crimes Explosive growth in the computer industry over the last decade has made newtechnologies cheaper and simpler for the average person to own. As a result, ...

(4 pages) 175 1 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Marijuana

he world. Some of these names are kif in Morocco, dagga in South Africa, and ganja in India. In the last decade marijuana has gotten many street names like grass, pot, tea, reefer, weed, and Mary Jane ...

(2 pages) 53 0 4.5 Nov/1996

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

Workplace Diversity

Needs, values and priorities of employees and employers have changed dramatically over the last decade. On all rungs of the corporate ladder, men and women are seeking new ways to manage the ... telecommuting complications resulting from OSHA. OSHA had suggested the idea of at-home inspections last year, but decided to focus these inspections only on employees who are doing productive piecewo ...

(8 pages) 1636 2 4.7 Mar/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Biotechnology

Biotechnology has made many advances in the last decade. Biotechnology has made it possible for the cheap and plentiful production of such disea ...

(3 pages) 203 0 4.6 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

Violence on Television- The violence on network television

from the NationalInstitute of Mental Health (NIMH) pools evidence from over 2,500 studieswithin the last decade on over 100,000 subjects from several nations toshow that the compiled evidence of telev ...

(7 pages) 538 1 4.1 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Stevia & Yerba Mate; herbs of the future

In the last decade America has become aware of the present crisis in significant sugar and caffeine consump ... y will experience a caffeine hangover. Caffeine also depresses a baby's respiratory system that can last throughout infanthood.Caffeine is not only harmful to women and their unborn children, but can ...

(12 pages) 60 0 4.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Phantom limb phenomena

ent through a denial period due to the trauma of loosing a body-part. Experts have discoveredin the last decade that the sensations which the amputees have been reporting,is due to a manifestation cal ... t on the surface of the brain, a homunculus.The scientists are now challenging the theory of brain plasticity. It has been always believed that the brain is plastic during infancy, but after this crit ...

(3 pages) 51 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

East Coast to the South, personal experience

the right place for a living depends on the matters of self preference and comfort. Throughout the last decade, I was brought up in two different cities that are thousands of miles apart - - New York ...

(5 pages) 86 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Government Intervention on the Internet

During the last decade, our society has become based on the sole ability tomove large amounts of information ac ...

(5 pages) 149 0 4.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

The evalution of the microprossesor

microprocessor is expanding at an almost explosive rate. The changeshave been most evident over the last decade. The microprocessor haschanged the way computers work by making them faster. Themicropro ... mputer is more orless useless. Motorola and Intel have invented most of themicroprocessors over the last decade. Over the years their has been aconstant battle over cutting edge technology. In the 80' ...

(5 pages) 88 0 3.3 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIES IN SPAIN

ity to the country but protectionism and no international perspective slower its growth. During the last decade several factors helped to change the situation. A young, well-educated generation of man ... panish Civil War (1936-1939) marks a sharp stop to the industrialization process which begun in the last decades of the XIX century. After the war the country was entirely devastated with a much lower ...

(9 pages) 336 0 3.8 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Capital punishment

f these executions will make the front page, having become more and more a matter of routine in the last decade. Indeed, recent public opinion polls show a wide margin of support for the death penalty ...

(6 pages) 101 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

The positive and negative effects of DNA profiling

Genetic engineering has developed and blossomed at a frightening rate in the last decade. Originating as merely an area of interest for scientists, genetic engineering has now b ...

(10 pages) 380 0 3.6 Apr/1995

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

In the last decade, we have seen technology bring worlds and people together in a manner which existed only in our parents and grandparents imaginations.

In the last decade, we have seen technology bring worlds and people together in a manner which existed only ...

(6 pages) 209 1 4.7 Sep/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Internet argrument

During the last decade, our society has become based on the sole ability to move large amounts of information a ...

(6 pages) 99 0 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Human cloning and Immanuel Kant

Ruben GuizarPhilosophyOver the last decade, the advent of cloning andadvancements in human genetic research have presentedsociety w ...

(5 pages) 119 0 3.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Violence in tv

om the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) pools evidence from over 2,500 studies within the last decade on over 100,000 subjects from several nations to show that the compiled evidence of tele ...

(7 pages) 68 0 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

The threat of internet security and its effects on electronic commerce

The threat of Internet security is an issue of growing concern. In the last decade, the number of people using computers on a regular basis has exploded. For quite some ti ... y about five new system vulnerabilities showed up each month (Babcock, 1).Security is the first and last step in building an e-business enterprise. It is also the part of the infrastructure task that ...

(8 pages) 645 0 5.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking