Essays Tagged: "decade"

Tuition Aid

that financing a college education is getting tougher.College costs have skyrocketed over the past decade or so, and there's no relief insight. Average tuition at four-year colleges will increase 7 p ... ing towiden the gap in enrollment between rich and poor students that the nation hasstruggled three decades to close. Average tuition at four-year colleges will increase6 percent this school year, dou ...

(8 pages) 299 0 4.4 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

The impact of Snowboarding on retail marketing

ime the retailing industry of the ski world has been on a steady increase. At the beginning of this decade the increase began to skyrocket. However, skiing was not the reason for the growth. The reaso ...

(7 pages) 147 1 4.9 Nov/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Mountain bikes

Mountain BikesIt has been a decade in the making, but the mountain bike has become a passion for many people.Along with this pas ... tal way to get from point A to B. It hasgone through a very intense evolution process over the past decade.It all started with some guys from California who took their bikes out for a ride on their da ... emade have come very rapidly.The evolution of the mountain bike has been a stormy one over the past decade. Within onedecade the design has changed radically; this is due to three reasons. First , bec ...

(18 pages) 72 0 4.3 Jun/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Industrial Music

categories, one specific type of alternativeoffspring,industrial music, made the best attempt in a decade to revive the longforgottenera of rock and roll. The only problem with this new rock is that ... and roll. The only problem with this new rock is that it wasangeredfrom being forgotten for over a decade and now it's back, filled with angstandhatred. Industrial music has weaved rock and roll with ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.9 Dec/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Society and it's automobiles

e even since the first American built car was made in 1903. Of course its body has changed over the decades instead of a box shape it is more aerodynamic, a cd player is standard instead of an AM/FM r ... Instead of one model of car we now have 3 models of the same car. With all these changes it was two decades that helped in defining what the car is in America. These two decades are the turbulent musc ...

(4 pages) 159 1 4.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Racism is All Around Us - White Supremacist Views in Mainstream Society. Describes discrimination against Jews, homosexuals, and blacks.

d by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's in the United States has steadily eroded over the past decade, and the issues and incidents of racism as well as anti-Semitism, homophobia, and violence ag ... ill be dominated by Shasta and her kin. The choice is clear. You and your actions over the next few decades will decide who will propagate and who will not, who will control and who will be controlled ...

(9 pages) 484 2 4.7 Mar/2002

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

the development of aggression

e behavior I will be focusing on is aggression and its development.The Development of AggressionFor decade's psychologists have attempted to find the causes of aggression. Some psychologists believe t ...

(4 pages) 314 2 4.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Positive and Negative Advances in Biotechnology. Positive and Negative advances dealing with cloning,stem cell,genetic experimentation, and also "designer babys" are covered in this essay.

I believe that biotechnology is one of the greatest discoveries that mankind has achieved this past decade. It has led the way to maintain and improve the quality of life we live. Biotechnology has ve ...

(5 pages) 279 0 3.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

This essay is basically a summarization of many inventions that made and changed the 1970's.

THE 1970'sThe 1970's a decade that will never be forgotten, for its medical and technological outbreaks in society. Thirty ... and also were able to be controlled by computers.There for it is clear that the 1970's are a great decade for breakthroughs in new technology. New technological inventions in medicine, personal, and ...

(3 pages) 116 2 2.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Women in 1950's Hollywood Films-- the Hayse code and the changing roles of women.

in Hollywood. Among the most important transitions that took place in Hollywood in and around that decade was in how women were represented in film.There have always been powerful and independent wom ...

(5 pages) 233 2 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History

this is a college paper on MENTAL ILLNESS AS A SOCIAL PROBLEM

.11III.Immediate Future of the Area of Mental IllnessA.What is most likely to occur within the next decade and why ............p.12V. Works Cited ...................................................... ... nesses dramatically. Both of these outcomes seem to be not only plausible, but imminent in the next decade due to both increasing technological and medical advancements and increased unhealthy living. ...

(15 pages) 1401 4 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Economic Reform/Policy Mix, Covers macro and micro economic reforms in Australia

Synopsis:The role of government in Australia today has less influence on the market than they did a decade ago. It function now is to provide a stable internal and external balance under which the mar ... hieve a budget surplus. One reason behind this goal is to maintain external stability. For the past decade (except for the late 80's boom) the public debt has been on a continual rise. This was largel ...

(7 pages) 286 1 4.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

THE MAIN CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION BY PAUL ALEXANDER GUSMORINO THE THIRD

virtually all of the industrialized world. The depression began in late 1929 and lasted for about a decade. Many factors played a role in bringing about the depression; however, the main cause for the ... 1920's, and the extensive stock market speculation that took place during the latter part that same decade. The maldistribution of wealth in the 1920's existed on many levels. Money was distributed di ...

(14 pages) 312 1 4.6 May/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > The Great Depression

Internet beyond human control

he Internet Beyond Human ControlThe Internet has started to change the way of the world during this decade. More homes,companies, and schools are getting hooked online with the Internet during the pas ...

(4 pages) 74 1 1.8 May/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Equality, an essay about Technology

iting theannouncement of what the rumor mill had told them to be the most important inventionof the decade. The air was cold and damp, like that of a hospital. Barley audible was themost annoying Mich ...

(4 pages) 72 0 3.5 Oct/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Internet regulation, Government Intervention of the Internet

During the past decade, our society has become based solely on the ability to move large amounts of information acro ... ks.' (Levy 56).The government has not been totally blind to the need for encryption. For nearly two decades, a government sponsored algorithm, Data Encryption Standard (DES), has been used primarily b ...

(10 pages) 627 0 3.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

1990, a year where real music had its real downfall with violence and corruption. Includes part of lyrics from one of Tupac's songs

The music rap only a decade and a haft old , finally notice bythe world in 1990 as real music had has its real downfall w ...

(5 pages) 84 1 3.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

This essay, "1920s vs 1960s", writen in AABB format, deals with the comparison of; general statistics, fashion styles of both men & women, music, & controversial issues.

uring this time period. Yet, despite all the aspects, which today we might see as unfavorable, this decade was full of many new and exciting things. From the way they dressed, to the music styles, and ... onsisted of a casual plaid and button down shirt with a crew cut as their popular hairstyle. As the decade progressed, there was a great change for men. They began to wear their hair longer and wider, ...

(6 pages) 171 1 3.2 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Gun Control (an issue that effects us all)

to not only the target, but the user as well. Theavailability of guns has sky rocketed in the past decade or so, and the immense populationof guns in our society make it a dangerous place to live. Gu ...

(10 pages) 432 0 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Between the Forest and Greed?

more of a meld -- refers to an article heavily opinionated, good content, backed upWithin the past decade there has been a rising 'environmentally conscious' movement. The spectrum of issues in conte ...

(4 pages) 64 0 2.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science