Essays Tagged: "recent years"
Should women be allowed to go top-less?
n should not be allowed to go topless is with respect to the safety of women. Men and boys have, in recent years, been using short, tight, skirts and shirts as an excuse for rape or date rape. Men hav ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
GI Jane
is upon us. And I am all to happy to give my whole hearted no.If you have kept up with the news in recent years, women have been fighting theirway into the top military academies, the Citadel being t ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Changing gender roles
sed by our process of acculturation.Gender roles in Western societies have been changing rapidly in recent years, with the changes created both by evolutionary changes in society, including economic s ... s acceptable to their social roles. These roles have been in a state of flux in American society in recent years, and men and women today can be seen as having expanded their roles in society, with wo ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Sport Psychology
ts is due to mental factors and psychological mastery. Sensing the importance of mental training in recent years, scientists have developed mental training programs. These programs all vary in techniq ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Creatine: Advantages Versus Disadvantages
and a performance plateau is reached many turn to supplements to help them reach the next level.In recent years creatine seems to have become the supplement of choice. Creatine is a compound that is ... ancement, athletes began to look elsewhere for substances that might bring about similar results.In recent years creatine has become more popular among body builders, high school and college athletes, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Legalizing Marijuana
juana be Legalized?The proposal for legalizing drugs has entered the mainstream of public debate in recent years, mostly focusing on marijuana. This brings about the following essay centred around the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Legalization of Marijuana (Anti)
Drug use is becoming more common today than in recent years. Almost anywhere we look, we can find some relation to drugs or drug paraphernalia. In ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Parental Alcoholism as a Determinant of Drinking Styles in Their Adult Children
nant ofDrinking Styles in Their Adult Children: A reviewConsiderable research has been conducted in recent years onthe personality characteristics of adult and adolescent childrenof alcoholics ( Berko ... cs. These assumptionsare based primarily on clinical observation during ACOAtreatment. Research has recently shed doubt on the findings ofWoititz and other theorists who delineate specific definingcha ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Parental Alcoholism as a Determinant of Drinking Styles in Their Adult Children
nant ofDrinking Styles in Their Adult Children: A reviewConsiderable research has been conducted in recent years onthe personality characteristics of adult and adolescent childrenof alcoholics ( Berko ... cs. These assumptionsare based primarily on clinical observation during ACOAtreatment. Research has recently shed doubt on the findings ofWoititz and other theorists who delineate specific definingcha ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Westerns and social commentary
e filmhistory of the west. Yet, despite it's early and lasting popularity, the Western has notuntil recent years attracted the attention of interpretive critics. Many critics viewedWesterns as an esca ... forum. A return the American work ethic provided a main sense of value onwhich to build on. "Recent studies of the films of the 1930's argue that American moviesappearing after the inauguration ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study
Current Controversies Related to Reproductive Health Policy
In recent years new controversies connected to reproduction health policy have evolved. The first area ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
This Essay is a case study on Nick Leeson and the Barings Bank fiasco. It is aptly titled: "THE COLLAPSE OF BARINGS - WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH £827 MILLION?"
INTRODUCTIONThe failure of banks is not unknown and over recent years there have been many cases of banks collapsing. The fall of Barings Bank in 1995 genera ... e committee to instruct Leeson to decrease his options in Osaka. ALCO was as yet unaware of Leesons recent 'gamblings' on the movements in the Nikkei 225 index, and when it did notice, Leeson had gone ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
tool of the storyteller, finding its origins in the folklore of our earliest civilizations. In more recent years, however, symbolism has taken on a new role, forming the skeleton upon which the storyt ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Electronic Distance Education
ay of education, even though it does offer the benefit of having a flexible schedule of studying.In recent years, a new electronic media, namely the internet, has gained significant momentum. Although ... he fifties (Frank on-line), it was only accessible to people in military and academic circles until recently. 'Internet' is a general term for the electronic networks which connect computers around th ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Video card
the video card in the past. As the new technology has been introduced to the video card industry in recent years, the video card can now render 3D graphics. Most of the PC computer games nowadays are ... forecasted that it is not far away.Many new kinds of video cards have been introduced to the market recently. In the past, the video card could only deliver two dimensional graphics which were only in ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
Death Penalty, to be or not to be
er the economy or health care.Despite the many government and community initiatives launched during recent years to reduce crime, most Americans see no improvement. In a 1993 survey asking respondents ... he hardest punishment that could be received when a person is convicted of a capital offense. Until recently it did not exist in New York State but after new governor, George Pataki was elected he man ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Community based policing provides hope for law enforcement.
heart of what we knowas Community-based Policing.The movement toward C.B.P. has gained momentum in recent years. AsPolice and community leaders search for more effective ways to enhance thesense of p ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Police Abuse
In recent years, police actions, particularly police abuse, hascome into view of a wide, public and cri ... techniques. The length of training of police personnel should beincreased, as has been the trend in recent years. The average length ofpolice academy programs has more than doubled, from about 300, to ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Handguns - vital weapons or deadly killers?
orprotection. The others keep them for hunting, target shooting, collecting, and similarpursuits.In recent years nearly 35,000 people have been killed annually by guns in theUnited States. These death ... uns also provide vulnerable women with some form of protection against rapeand other violent crime. Recently, Orlando, Florida saw an increase in the number ofrapes over a twelve - month period from 1 ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Pakistan
Pakistan is a country that, since its creation, has been rooted in turmoil. The recent years are no exception to this. Since 1988, power has been divided among the president, the p ... t postings, transfers, and promotions they want. Corruption is so prominent in Pakistan that it was recently listed by Transparency International, an international watch group, as the third most corru ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays