Essays Tagged: "preference"

Drinking & Driving

y others are wine connoisseurs. Alcohol always seems to liven up the party. But no madder what your preference is, alcohol can be very dangerous when combined with the operation of an automobile. If y ...

(5 pages) 312 0 4.2 Nov/1996

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

Opportunities of Character, Not Color. Arguments for and against Affarmative action

d in the 1960's, affirmative action programs attempted to undo past racial discrimination by giving preference to blacks and other minorities. The idea behind these programs was to help minorities gai ...

(3 pages) 152 0 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

East Coast to the South, personal experience

ivilization should take place. Choosing 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 ar ...

(5 pages) 86 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Unintentional Findings. Speaks of James Joyce's novel "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man"

way as Stephen did. Unintentionally he went back and forth between extremes until he found his own preference. Figuring out what one wants to do with their life can be confusing, especially since the ...

(2 pages) 57 1 2.3 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Theory of Varied Consumer Choice Behaviour and It's Implications

e rational, utility-maximizing choices has played an important role in economic thought. As long as preferences remain unchanged, the consumer is expected to choose the most preferred of the available ... s. Thoughts about consumers' behaviour towards substitutes hold a similar position. If a consumer's preference for the most preferred alternative product declines or the product is currently unavailab ...

(11 pages) 369 0 4.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

A good essay on Parkinsons disease. Written for a medical class

ns are responsible for the disease. They instead think that it could be thecombination of a genetic preference and an unidentified environmental stimulate. WhenPD occurs, degenerative changes are foun ...

(4 pages) 190 0 4.7 Jun/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Hiring employees from minority groups.

, etc.), with the only difference being race and/orsex.What we have here is a case of predetermined preference.The two candidates in question are equal in all ways, except race.The black applicant is ... stereotypes. The fundamental lessonyears of discrimination should have taught is that to give anyonepreference based on skin color, sex, or religious beliefs is, inone word, wrong. As Martin Luther Ki ...

(8 pages) 222 0 3.5 Feb/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Discuss critically the validity of the contention that the motivation to work well depends on more than a high salary and good working conditions.

zed both by a state of drive and by a direction of behaviour towards some goal which is selected in preference to all other possible goals. Motive, then is a concept which joins together drive and goa ...

(6 pages) 482 1 4.1 Mar/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Boxers or Briefs

lling mistakes in this one. That's why the C. SpellingSteiner's ModelSteiner's model on programming preferences and broadcasting choices tries to show how stations come to the conclusion of what progr ... n predict what each of the four stations in this market will show.There are three distinct audience preferences. The first groups of 1200 viewers has a first programming preference of sitcoms and a se ...

(7 pages) 51 1 4.0 Aug/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Use Examples To Evaluate The Optimum Size Of A Firm

these will depend on the market in which the firm is in, the current economy, and in some cases the preferences of the manager(s).牋牋牋牋牋牋牋牋For ex ... main concern would be keeping the business afloat. Another small business may stay small due to the preference of the manager/owner, for example a corner newsagent's shop may remain a small retail bus ...

(4 pages) 44 0 2.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays

The Music of Generation X

d dressed throughout different periods of time. Different groups have been formed based upon their preference in music. Take for an example in the music of my generation, Generation X, there are sev ... gs, alternative people, ravers, hippies, and pop rockers have all been labeled into groups by their preference of music. Music has also affected people mentally, causing problems in society like suic ...

(4 pages) 61 0 3.7 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Equal opportunity

, etc.), with the only difference being race and/orsex.What we have here is a case of predetermined preference.The two candidates in question are equal in all ways, except race.The black applicant is ... stereotypes. The fundamental lessonyears of discrimination should have taught is that to give anyonepreference based on skin color, sex, or religious beliefs is, inone word, wrong. As Martin Luther Ki ...

(8 pages) 216 0 5.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Boxers or Briefs

lling mistakes in this one. That's why the C. SpellingSteiner's ModelSteiner's model on programming preferences and broadcasting choices tries to show how stations come to the conclusion of what progr ... n predict what each of the four stations in this market will show.There are three distinct audience preferences. The first groups of 1200 viewers has a first programming preference of sitcoms and a se ...

(7 pages) 30 0 5.0 Aug/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

What are the assumptions behind the model of a perfectly competitive industry in long-run equilibrium?

market has to have homogenous products, so that if these conditions will exist, buyers will have no preference for the goods just a preference for the supplier. There must be a great amount of buyers ...

(4 pages) 134 0 4.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Chapter 21? in A Clockwork Orange

ge features a final chapter that was omitted from the original English edition against the author's preference. Anthony Burgess, the novel's author, provided for the new edition an introduction to exp ...

(4 pages) 87 2 3.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Medievil Society in Relationship to The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco and The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis. A comparisson of the two books and how they relate to medievil history.

Many people are interested in the Middle Ages, while others are not. But no matter what the preference is the Middle Ages offer a lot of material for entertainment like movies or novels. Some ...

(8 pages) 88 2 3.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

This paper is an overall review of the treatment of black slaves and American Indians during Thomas Jefferson's Presidency. I turned this paper in for my US History up to 1865 college course.

the early nineteenth century? How did he feel about the slave and Indian population? Did he have a preference towards one population over the other? If so, did he provide considerations for one more ... f peoples provided Jefferson with advancements in social and personal wealth, Jefferson clearly had preferences concerning how each race was to be treated in the development of his much sought after R ...

(7 pages) 296 6 4.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

Is Strategic Planning and Information Systems Strategic Planning Relevant to all Organisations?

no agreed way to define strategy as the interpretations of each writer are based on methodological preference (Robson, 1997). The above definition is an example of Porters stance on what a strategy i ...

(15 pages) 1944 1 4.6 Apr/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making

Gender Roles.

when we enter relationships with members of the opposite sex, or of the same-sex depending on your preference. Sexual scripts are a way to express our values and attitudes toward sex. According to Ba ...

(3 pages) 218 0 3.8 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Does Violent Music Encourage Violence in the Young

and notbecome affected (persuaded) by the lyrics to act out in violence.Just because you may have a preference for "hardcore" or "violent"music, doesn't mean you intend on acting out that violence. An ...

(2 pages) 65 0 4.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies