Essays Tagged: "Iowa State University"

Circadian Rhythms

is population?Participants for my experiment will be ninety-nine undergraduate female students from Iowa State University. Prior to the experiment all participants will have to fill out a questionnair ...

(3 pages) 36 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays

George Washington Carver

ri farm near Diamond Grove, Newton County in Marion Township, Missouri. He received a B.S. from the Iowa Agricultural College in 1894 and a M.S. in 1896. He became a member of the faculty of Iowa Stat ...

(1 pages) 65 0 2.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

George Washington Carver.

education led him to several communities in Missouri and Kansas and finally, in 1890, to Indianola, Iowa, were he enrolled at Simpson College to study piano and painting.He excelled in art and music, ... d painting.He excelled in art and music, but art instructor Etta Budd, whose father was head of the Iowa State College Department of Horticulture, recognized Carver's horticultural talents. She convin ...

(4 pages) 81 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Essay questioning the NCAA and its policies such as title IX and the BCS system.

departments have found they need to cut the number of male athletes in order to comply. Examples in Iowa include Iowa State University having to drop mens swimming and diving and baseball in order to ... nd baseball in order to make budget while still complying with title IX. The University of Northern Iowa attempted to cut men's and women's tennis and swimming and diving programs, but when a group, n ...

(6 pages) 93 0 4.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Concerns about the impacts that a free-flow of US-sourced media products would have on Australian local culture.To what extend are these concerns justified

n posted by these 'stars' would follow them. Dr. Brad Bushman, Associate Professor in Psychology of Iowa State University mentions that "There are very few studies on this topic (The Impact of Enterta ... ad Bushman, October 8, 2001, 'The Impact of Entertainment Media Violence on Children and Families', Iowa State University, last viewed on the 5th of April, 2004.. If music and music videos with violen ...

(5 pages) 45 0 4.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Aggressive Tendencies In Violent Video Games

to prove the fact that violent video games do increase aggression in people. Dr. Craig Anderson of Iowa State University believes when teenagers play violent video games that seeds of aggression are ...

(11 pages) 156 0 2.5 May/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays

George Washington Carver.

ver's race. Finally at the age of thirty, Carver gained acceptance to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, where he was the first black student. Carver had to study piano and art and the college did no ... he college did not offer science classes. But he still wanted to study science so he transferred to Iowa Agricultural College, now Iowa State University in 1891, where he received a Bachelor of Scienc ...

(2 pages) 49 0 4.1 Oct/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

Media Creating a Violent Generation.

good about what he is doing influences the boy to go do that in the street when he grew up. As was stated by Professor Brown and his co-author, Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, said that media violenc ... er Is NO Accident. SanFrancisco, CA:Jossy-Bass, 2004.Sternheimer, Karen. It's Not the Media. United States of America: Westviewpress, 2003.

(10 pages) 86 2 3.7 Oct/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Media and its effects on children

e kinds of shows it made me feel more excited and powerful. James D. Hollaran, a British researcher stated:It is not that the violence portrayed in these programs is more likely to be copied, or that ...

(3 pages) 30 0 0.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Should RIAA keep filing lawsuits against people who illegally download?

net connections to distribute music files. American University in Washington, D.C., Boston College, Iowa State University, and the University of Massachusetts were among the college networks used by t ...

(6 pages) 48 0 4.8 Apr/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

Total Quality (TQ) Model and Methodologies

ks under the basis that improvement comes by small incremental changes using the scientific method (Iowa State University [ISU], 2005). CQI is about making changes and looking at the results then adju ... ed PowerPoint is the best way to explain the CQI methodology and implementation for IBIC.References:Iowa State University (2005). Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI). Retrieved August 4, 2006, from h ...

(3 pages) 491 0 5.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

With The President's Body

le nuclear attack on the United States. The final entry in this article was written by a student at Iowa State University. He saw the original blueprint from the first made computer, the ABC.The ABC w ...

(2 pages) 1196 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Theories of Biology

Inc.Valdivia-Bernal, Roberto (1988) Estimates of genetic homeostasis in maize. Ph.D. dissertation, Iowa State University, United States -- Iowa. Retrieved November 9, 2007, from ProQuest Digital Diss ...

(1 pages) 38 0 0.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

George Washington Carver

e offer. He became very discouraged and chose to travel abroad until 1890 where he found himself in Iowa. He decided to enroll in Simpson College in Indianola. One of his teachers recognized his many ... ege in Indianola. One of his teachers recognized his many talents and encouraged him to transfer to Iowa State College at Ames, which he did in May 1891.At Iowa State, Carver found that he was especia ...

(2 pages) 1675 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

PST In Pigs

tary gland until recently, when they started producing Porcine Somatotropin using bacteria. In 1990 Iowa State University conducted a field trial using Porcine Somatotropin. This field trial showed fa ...

(3 pages) 1759 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Information Technologies

The mission of the Office of Academic Information Technologies (AIT) at Iowa State is to support campus academics through information technology (IT). It seems in the "info ... ructure.Quality: In rankings based on computing resources and services available to undergraduates, Iowa State was ranked 20th in the most recent (AIT, 2000) research university category of Yahoo's "M ... tion of a Microsoft Licensing Agreement which students believe to be a waste of their student fees (Iowa State Daily, 2002). Although quality, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, the quality o ...

(3 pages) 17 0 5.0 May/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Computer and Electronics Companies

Mock violence is converting fantasy into a crooked reality

t children are the group age who watches TV more than the other groups age and what is more, as the Iowa State University asserts: "90 percent of the time [of children] is spent watching programs desi ...

(8 pages) 19 0 0.0 Jan/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders