Essays Tagged: "percentages"

Gun Control

will be covering this and other topics such as the Brady Law, the 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 whil ...

(2 pages) 73 0 4.8 Aug/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Why Restaurants Fail

, the highest failure rates in the U. S. economy. In researching this topic, statistics numbers and percentages fly around routinely. All give somewhat the same concept; in the starting years, most re ... , the highest failure rates in the U. S. economy. In researching this topic, statistics numbers and percentages fly around routinely. All give somewhat the same concept; in the starting years, most re ...

(19 pages) 335 0 4.3 Jan/1995

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Hype used in advertising

s, big words, powerful colors, and giant pictures. You're sure to see several trademark symbols and percentages that claim you will save. What they hide are the details, which are quite often exceptio ...

(4 pages) 91 0 3.4 Nov/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

In 1989, a bomb was dropped on the Boston banking industry when a FED study of neighborhood lending patterns provided evidence of discrimination.

of 1974 (HMDA) required that banks submit information on mortgage application denial and acceptance percentages to Federal regulators. From these data, they also had identified patterns of discriminat ... ea.vThe HMDA Act required banks to submit information on mortgage application denial and acceptance percentages to the Federal regulators. So, banks had to face a problem/threat, when patterns of disc ...

(12 pages) 80 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Stats changed from before 1960 until present.

le do smoke and 34% do not smoke. I can see that over the fifty-five years leading up to today; the percentages will have changed, leaving the percentage for those who smoke today equal to or less tha ... % of the people smoke, 71% does not, and 6% do not know. What I expected was going to happen to the percentages of those who do and those who do not smoke, did happen and even with the number of those ...

(4 pages) 19 0 0.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

History of the Melungeons

tinct group of people having white European, Native American, and African American blood in varying percentages.Another popular belief is that the Melungeons are the descendants of Portuguese and Turk ...

(6 pages) 29 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

University is a gendered institution and knowledge is also gendered.

fferent faculties is highly gendered. According to the statistic of student enrolment in year 2002, percentages of undergraduate women in the faculties of Arts, Education, and Health Science are 66.1, ... le for women are those in which the woman can use her innate abilities of nurturing and caring. The percentages of undergraduate women in the faculties of Commerce, Law, and Science and Engineering ar ...

(4 pages) 40 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Shopping on the Internet

revolutionized the modern civilization. The use of the Internet has increased more than a thousand percentages within the last five years and it promises to continue to keep on increasing. Many criti ...

(3 pages) 164 0 3.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Personal healthcare providers

re providers the numbers were surprisingly slightly lower than the general healthcare provider. The percentages are as follows:Nurses at sixty-three percentDoctors at sixty percentDentist rose to fift ...

(2 pages) 62 0 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Advertising Analysis

telling you to "buy quickly before we run out!" or "Hurry! Before sale ends!"The advertisement uses percentages to make claims about their products that are being advertised. They tell you that there ...

(2 pages) 190 7 4.1 Jan/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Listed Property Trust in Australia (Mirvac Group)

Mirvac Property Trust (Mirvac Group, 25 March 2005).2.2 Composition and ActivitiesThe apportionment percentages of each entity in Mirvac Group stapled security is shown in the following table (Mirvac ...

(2 pages) 22 0 5.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Outline of Chapter 6 text - Elementary Statistics: A Brief Version(A. Bluman 3rd Ed., 2003)

ted variable by transforming it into a standard normal variable.Find specific data values for given percentages using the standard normal distribution.Use the central limit theorem to solve problems i ...

(5 pages) 136 0 0.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

How Did Hitler Gain Power?

ple, which were the aristocrats, and he gained no support from well educated people. With so little percentages of support from the high social groups that it was amazing Hitler ever came to power. Th ...

(9 pages) 46 1 4.1 Apr/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

Density Lab Essay

. The mystery metal was discovered to be Aluminum. The density of Copper and Zinc were taken so the percentages of how much of both went into making a penny. Through careful experimenting and math the ... the unknown metal. 3. To calculate the percentage composition of an ordinary penny.To discover the percentages, finding the density was a good place to start. The density is the mass divided by the v ...

(4 pages) 28 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Research task into religion in Australia post 1945 - part one: Trends, Part two: Causes and Effects, Part Three: Ramifications, Part Four: What can churches do?

lationThe major trend when referring to Christian denominations is the strong decline in membership percentages of the Australian population. Christianity reached the height of its popularity (during ... eople identifying with a religion regularly worship or attend church. As table three shows, greater percentages of older people (60 and above especially) attend church compared to younger people. Howe ...

(9 pages) 37 0 5.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Non-Discriminatory Work Environment Essay

ever, to ascertain non-discrimination in hiring males and females, the company can set rules of the percentages of men and women who will be taken in a given pool that are qualified in terms of talent ... % of the 50% pass-rate for white males (SSS Consulting, 2005).Part of this activity of looking into percentages is a guide that helps recruitment ensures non-discrimination. It helps to have this guid ...

(4 pages) 83 0 1.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Females Perform Higher Proximity than Male in Communication in Standing Position at Interpersonal Level

to each other when they are communicating in a standing position. We calculated our statistics into percentages to compare the differences in how female and male conduct standing conversation. Our stu ...

(5 pages) 42 0 4.7 Mar/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

Why Shouldnt Societ Y Treat Substance Abusers?

say he includes a substantial amount of support from believable sources. He includes statistics and percentages, scientific data as well as studies and findings. In paragraphs, (7-9) he uses both stat ...

(3 pages) 14 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Curtis Hoist

rket share and growth profit. Actually, from 1995 to 1997, Curtis automotive hoist had increased 55 percentages. Since they succeed in US and Canadian hoist market, Curtis automotive hoist wants to tr ...

(7 pages) 26 0 3.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Changing Legal Drinking Age

have tried alcohol. That number jumps to 77% of 10th graders and 85% of high school seniors. Those percentages are appalling. They show that majorities of young people under 21 consume alcohol, and t ...

(3 pages) 17 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers