Essays Tagged: "recent studies"
Time's Oldest Debate.
Time's Oldest DebateAccording to recent studies, planet earth formed approximately four and a half billion years ago. Since then, the ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Can We Stop Teens from Smoking?
ile local businesses continue to sell tobacco products to minors, even under risk of penalty of law.Recent studies show that a large percentage of teens today are getting their cigarettes from stores, ... . Woodridge has become a model community as other communities are moving to stop teen tobacco use.A recent national study showed that 36.5% of females, and 40.8% of males buy their cigarettes from sto ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Neandertals
, and rotting carcasses thicken the air. Until recently, nobody would have assumed that the above passage (Rick Gore,pp.6) was about how the Nea ... e assumed that the above passage (Rick Gore,pp.6) was about how the Neandertals lived. However, recent studies have shown thatNeandertals are smarter than we first thought. ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
College Drinking
result in a failing grade on tests and will cause the person to either drop out or fail the class. Recent studies have shown that heavy drinking can result in memory loss. This leads to the student f ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Capital Punishment
et al. 77). These figures raise the question: how many innocent people are on death row right now? Recent studies and new evidence suggest that some death row inmates awaiting execution may have been ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
This essay was a short paper written about migraines for my biology class.
sorder and can be very painful.A migraine was once believed to originate in the blood vessels, till recent studies have shown that they are caused by the narrowing of blood vessels themselves, causing ... migraine with warning signs and a migraine without warning signs. A migraine without warning signs, recently called "common migraine," is a recurring headache that can last anywhere between four and s ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Current issues of debate about marijuana laws and interest in marijuana as medicine
nabis use did not occur but was inconclusive with regard to the presence of more specific deficits. Recent studies with improved methods however have demonstrated changes in cognition and brain functi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
William Blake and Napoleon Bonaparte with respect to their roles in the Romantic Era.
truly "caught" by any movement in history or any of the so-called "isms" that formed it, but in my recent studies of Romanticism and the feelings that it brought to show the world, I have been amazed ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Children, The Victems.
ttle effort towards preventing crime againstAmerica's youth. The US. Department of Justice ran some recent studies, revealing shocking discoveries about our children and teenagers. 1 in 5 violent stat ... she needed and now my darling niece is over two years old and is unable to speak or walk. They have recently had another baby and signs of neglection are already becoming evident. We have tried repeat ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Anthropology Lab, a scientific project about White Handed Gibbions, (Apes) and explores their grooming habbits.
insula, Sunderland, and North Sumatra. (Rumbaugh, 1974) Gibbons are though to be magnamous although recent studies have documented individuals in the wild who mate with multiple partners. (Fuentes, 20 ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
Censorship - "Should Depictions of Violence in the Media Be More Heavily Censored?"
oo lightly and needs to take actions in protecting the children who will make up our future society.Recent studies show that children will see 200000 acts of violence before their eighteenth birthday, ... in unrealistic scenarios in fictional story lines.Video games are becoming more and more violent. A recent successful game is "Grand Theft Auto". A simulation game where the player is a young male cri ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
"The Crucible", Fact or Fiction?
doctor was unable to diagnose any true illness, so concluded that the girls had been bewitched. In recent studies they thought that they might have suffered from encephalitis lethargica, though this ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Sigmund Freud- Anna.
orts to control the disorder and in the universality of hysteria as a disease category. However, as recent studies have revealed, in particular, the work of Helen King, the Hippocratic texts to which ... a myth, a myth by error perhaps, but nevertheless a myth that was wholly accepted until relatively recently. King herself suggests that it is possible to pose the question of whether it is really so ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Pro-legalization of Medical Marijuana.
ument that marijuana use depreciates health and causes physical abnormalities has been disproven by recent studies. However, opponents of this measure now state that marijuana leads to criminal behavi ... r drugs.Furthermore, the arguments of marijuana being detrimental to health are actually refuted by recent studies. In May 1999, a Johns Hopkins study observed the cognition deterioration due to marij ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
This essay is about thte link between type two diabetes and obesity. And how they are linked
r comes from our modern day lifestyles? These questions and more are what people want the answer to.Recent studies have been able to provide striking evidence about the link between type 2 diabetes an ... ntists may finally have an answer. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine recently reported the discovery of a hormone that may, for the first time, explain the molecular bas ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Wood,
roducts industry, and many homeowners use wood as a primary or secondary source of home heating. In recent studies, acid rain and global warming have resulted in a search for demand for wood, which is ... less that half left. The United States had about one to two percent of their original forest cover. Recent studies by the World Resources Institute have shown that more that 80% of the planet's natura ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Forestry
The Legalization of Marijuana
ion over 12 had tried marijuana at least once in there lifetime and was growing (Lowry, 2001). More recent studies put the figure at 47%. That is nearly half of the population. These numbers are up al ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
Cell Phones and Driving
e while driving. There is no doubt about it, cell phone use while driving is dangerous!According to recent studies, more and more individuals are involved in accidents due to the usage of cell phones ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Describe and discuss the social and emotional consequences for a child of being identified as gifted. Refer to evidence in your answer. (12 marks - 5/7 split)
onal consequences of a child being identified as gifted. However, when you look at further and more recent studies this idea could be said to apply only to moderately gifted children and not highly gi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
North American vs European Trends in the research of religion
n in sociology of religion, choosing empirical research, which he conducts himself. One of his most recent studies was divided over socioeconomic factors among Catholics, Jews and Protestants. There w ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith