Essays Tagged: "three quarters"

Police Blunders in Manson Investigation

screaming in the early morning hours of August 9. Mrs. Kott, who lived at 10070 Cielo Drive, heard three or four gunshots at what she guessed was to be about twelve thirty to one o'clock a.m. after w ... she guessed was to be about twelve thirty to one o'clock a.m. after which she heard nothing. About three quarters of a mile south of the murder scene, Tim Ireland was having an over night party at th ...

(3 pages) 52 0 3.3 Jun/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

haiti

try in Latin America and has the lowest per capita income. About half the people are unemployed and three quarters are living in the most severe poverty. Some of the problems that Haiti still face tod ... try in Latin America and has the lowest per capita income. About half the people are unemployed and three quarters are living in the most severe poverty. Some of the problems that Haiti still face tod ...

(2 pages) 109 0 4.5 Jun/2002

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

What is the future of the family in Canada?

the family we fondly remember doesn't exist today. It probably never existed at all.' For example, three-quarters of absentee fathers in Japan don't pay child support. Furthermore, one third of all c ...

(2 pages) 52 0 2.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Tourettes syndrome

ent to child (Gaffy,Ottinger). Those most at risk are sons of mothers with Tourette Syndrome. About three-quarters of Tourette Syndrome patients are male. Males with the disorder have a ninety-nine pe ...

(4 pages) 66 0 3.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Sex Education should be taught in middle schools to make our children aware and help them with decisions in the future.

ce to ask questions and receive help if they are in a sexual situation. District #150 makesup about three quarters the schools in Peoria and if you make room for a sex education programto help your st ...

(2 pages) 131 1 3.2 Feb/2003

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

George W. Bush and the U.S. official position on Israel vs. Palestine

ne into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a neutral UN zone containing Jerusalem, a city sacred to three religions. The Jews were thrilled, the Arabs adamantly opposed.In late 1947 the UN ratified th ... immediately attacked in an attempt to destroy Israel. By the time of armistice in 1949, Israel held three quarters of Palestine--twice as much land as the UN had proposed: Jordan had taken the land on ...

(4 pages) 134 2 3.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

The Recovery and Resurgence of the Japanese Economy from 1945 TO 1961.

s industrial production was less than thirty per cent of her output in 1936.". "Tokyo was literally three quarters flattened. The Japanese Navy was at the bottom of the sea and so was most of the merc ... nd the reorganization of industries.". "Technological innovations [in Japan] were accelerated by... three factors.". The first factor was the, " 'Foreign Investment Law' under which the Japanese Gover ...

(10 pages) 88 0 1.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Television Essay This essay is a argument against the watching of telivision by our children, and the backfalls of television on our children's lives and health.

being done about actually cutting down their children's television time. The average child watches three to four hours of T. V. a day and another two and a half hours more on the television watching ... Academy of Pediatrics, a little more than half of our children have a T. V. in their bedrooms, and three- quarters of children eat their dinner in front of the television. All of this television is t ...

(8 pages) 461 5 3.8 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Shell Oil In Nigeria.

population before the drilling was fishers or farmers. Unemployment was estimated at 30 percent and three-quarters of adult population are illiterate. Life expectancy for Nigerian males is 54 and fema ... he first thing they did was deposit ten 500-liter drinking tanks in Ogbodo, which were filled every three days by Shell. Of course that was not nearly enough water since there were over 150,000 people ...

(9 pages) 189 0 4.2 Jan/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

This is an experiment on how planaria regenerate body parts and an explaination as to how the experiment was performed.

once the surgery had been performed. Total regeneration and reproduction had occurred resulting in three separate flatworms from one that had been cut through three quarters of the length of the body ... ells. In this experiment, a flatworm was used to assess the regeneration process over the course of three weeks.Materials and Methods·Remove ice container from freezer, snap it shut and place o ...

(6 pages) 38 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

The Kielder Project - An essay about the Kielder Reservoir, its history and purposes and various effects it had on its surroundings.

which has a surface area of 1,084 hectares or 2,684 acres making it larger than Lake Ullswater and three-quarters the area of Lake Windermere.The Northumbrian Water Authority is responsible for an ar ...

(3 pages) 20 0 4.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

This essay is about "The Cheat With The Ace of Diamonds" by Georges de La Tour.

head bent and her face in profile. The "trickster" sits on the left, next to the maid; his back is three-quarters turned, right elbow resting on the table and right hand casually holding up his cards ... casually holding up his cards; he looks back nonchalantly over his shoulder, bringing his face into three-quarter view. At the opposite end of the table the young prodigal sits bolt upright, in profil ...

(4 pages) 42 0 4.8 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Situation of Human Rights and Democracy in Haiti

Dominican Republic.Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere, with more than three quarters of its population live in abject poverty and below poverty line. In 1959 the uprising ... tate into exile unleashing violence and terror that took more than 5000 Haitian lives over the next three years.Haiti's former president remains Jean Aristide, after being re-elected following his exi ...

(3 pages) 100 0 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Sea Monkeys

-bitty shrimp looking things that are usually kept in tanks in people homes. They only grow to be a three quarters long. So you could imagine you'll need a magnafineglass or a microscope to see the ac ... rough their feet! Another weird fact that I found out was that when sea monkeys are born, they have three eyes! But as they grow older and closer to adulthood they lose that middle eye.Another questio ...

(3 pages) 59 1 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

We the People-the origins of the constitutuion

over 2500 years ago in the city-states of ancient Greece. Others might place its beginnings nearly three-quarters of a millennium back in the fields of Runnymede. Still others might say the Constitut ... millennium back in the fields of Runnymede. Still others might say the Constitution had its origins three centuries or so ago during the tumultuous years of the seventeenth-century English revolutions ...

(5 pages) 95 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

College Cost

thers, the amount depends on the number of credit hours. In a government study taken in 2000, "Over three quarters of all college students attend an in state college or university due to the relativel ... iable meal plans, where you sign up for any number of meals per week. What's best? You may not need three meals a day, seven days a week. So if you can, choose the plan that meets your needs. Remember ...

(4 pages) 120 0 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Child Abuse in the world

er the pain and misery of abuse in silence.Over a quater of all recorded rape victims are children, three quarters of sexually abused children do not tell anyone at the time and around a third are not ...

(7 pages) 171 1 4.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Youth access to Internet Pornography; should it be banned? Title: Trash Folder is full.

essible, and harder to control. As stated in an Australian discussion paper by Sue Headley, "Nearly three-quarters of boys and 11 percent of girls watched an x-rated video, while 84% of boys and 60% o ... very effective. As studies show, filters fail thirty-eight percent of the time. Meaning one out of three times a child can access pornography despite filters (Bring Problems, 12).The Encyclopedia of ...

(6 pages) 108 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

What was peristroika; why did Gorbachev introduce it; and why did peristroika fail?

and social restructuring that became the unintended catalyst for dismantling what had taken nearly three-quarters of a century to erect: the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist totalitarian state.Initially, G ...

(5 pages) 74 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Microsoft plans to introduce a Windows XP update that would launch a built-in firewall and automatically obtain and install security patches regularly.

excellent for the home user, the PC networks, ones without the expertise, and Windows XP as an OS. Three-quarters of program complaints from Sasser were acquired through the auto-update tool. Sasser ...

(1 pages) 65 1 2.3 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Programming Languages