Essays Tagged: "ten percent"
Women In Combat
. Also, banning women from the combat hurts their military careers. Although women account for only ten percent of the enlisted personnel they are still a major part in the armed forces. Their perform ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Winning isn't evrything
ke of "bad luck" although theseteams lost, they take it into the next game and gave one hundred and ten percent.Last month at the Erie Mayors Cup 10K and 5K race, competitors from aroundthe tri-state ... ures and humidity. Great Olympic and BostonMarathon runners have dropped out of a 10K due to it's intense strain. I was on hand towitness the race and saw many great athletes finish the race with grea ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Stimulants and Their Effects
drugs are being prescribed for children with various disorders. One of these disorders is called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). An estimated five to ten percent of children are diag ... ssive drug use setting for the children? Finally, what actions can be taken to solve this problem?Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a syndrome caused by a biochemical imbalance and un ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Fossil Fueled Cars Are History- paper about the decline of fossil fueled cars.
f all, carmakers have been whipped into action by California's Zero Emissions Mandate that requires ten percent of all cars sold in the state to be pollution-free by 2003.Mention green cars, and most ... nd a filling station for. Industry analysts predict that by 2010, the market will be ready; another ten years, and half the cars sold in the world could run on hydrogen.
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Alzheimer's, a progressive and irreversible brain disease
. There was a loss of nerve cells from the Cerebral Cortex in the Alzheimer's victim. Approximately ten percent of the neurons in this region were lost. But a ten percent loss is relatively minor, and ... ellent family with which he held a strong relationship. Albert's mother, Pauline Einstein, had an intense passion for music and literature, and it was she that first introduced her son to the violin i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
The Profit of Slavery
work in the fields. The average interest rate charged by traders between 1820 and 1860 was eight to ten percent. Since this rate did not vary much over the years and the slave trade business was boomi ... and the slave trade business was booming, it is safe to assume that planters were getting at least ten percent return on their investments.Second, many slaves were hired out by their owners. This usu ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
Christopher Columbus - Hero or Villian? Short essay
ht" methods of achieving goals were.Christopher Columbus was first driven by greed, he was promised ten percent of the profits from the trip, governorship over the new-found lands, and the new title " ... ." On October 12, 1492 land was sighted. The first man who had sighted land was supposed to receive ten thousand maravedis for the rest of his life. The man who sighted the land, Rodrigo, never receiv ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The French Revolution Study Notes
f the First Estate were entitled to many things. One of these things was the tithe. The tithe was a ten percent tax income from each church member.- However one 'deconstructs' their undoubtedly schola ... h-west. But peasant insurrections could also be led by village (even town) merchants and priests, often the 'natural' leader of village communities.- Jones sums it up: 'In some instances it is clearly ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution
AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa: Possible Solutions and Causes.
Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa: Possible Solutions and CausesSub-Saharan Africa is made up of about ten percent of the world's population. In 2001, two-thirds of the 40 million people living with HIV ... iral drugs. There are two main ethical issues; should pharmaceutical companies be allowed to hold patents and determine the price of its drugs during this type of epidemic? Should companies be able to ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
This essay is about the affect of human changes to the environment. It uses two cases: the inncident at Cherenobyl and the draining of the Aral sea.
ected how people live, their culture, and their type of society. To make life easier, people have often altered the land they live on. Sometimes these changes can damage the land and the people that l ... wer plant was built by the Soviet Union in the 1970's. It was built to provide electricity to about ten percent of the Ukraine. The building of the power plant had no large effects on the environment, ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Child Abuse - Is it the right thing to do?
ild abuse cases being reported in the news, they assume the abusers are mentally ill but fewer than ten percent of these people have mental disorders which is very sad and disturbing. Physical abuse i ... g the child, he or she can also be affected mentally. The psychological injuries to the child can often be even worse than physical injuries. They can last a lifetime and can include a low sense of se ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters > Child Abuse
Factors Of Teen Suicide, Can We Stop It? Symptoms, main factors, causes, significance, results, and solution of teen suicide.
ce abuse.In the twentieth century, low self-esteem has infected a majority of teenagers in the U.S. Ten percent of adolescent boys and eighteen percent of adolescent girls contemplated it. In 1985 5,3 ... at then leads to 80% of the time suicide.Bad environments include abusing parents, inappropriate content in media violence, not accepting gays and lesbians, and depressed friends. Many a time this lea ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide
Reconstruction.
d an oath to the nation, excluding a few high ranking Confederate officers. He determined that when ten percent of a state's voters had taken the oath, Congress should readmit that state. When Lincoln ... e bill, however Congress then overrode the veto. A Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was written that made freed slaves citizens of the United States (law.emory.edu). The states could no longer ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
What is Anorexia?
dolescents in the United States have. Though most people that have anorexia are young women between ten and twenty years old, older and younger people have this disease, and a few men have this diseas ... der and younger people have this disease, and a few men have this disease, but it is not as common. Ten percent of people with anorexia are men, the other ninety percent are women. Anorexia is a serio ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Poor: dealing with the cycles and culture of poverty.
s be with us". Today many people get trapped in cycles of poverty. People trapped in these cycles often try to escape this pattern. Some of the reasons people cannot escape this cycle are because of p ... verty. For example this type of poverty could include the people that their wages are in the lowest ten percent. In this type of scenario poverty will always be a part of our normal society, because e ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Polycystic Ovarian Disease.
he perils that this syndrome would put me through. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) affects up to ten percent of all women, and its effects are extended far beyond the ovaries and the reproductive y ... s also a strong connection between PCOS and other medical problems such as insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia, stroke, and thromboembolism. There are, however, several new and upcoming tre ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
How a Bill Becomes a Law. A comprehensive look at the complicated process of a bill becoming a law. Includes a title page.
or proposed laws, are introduced in the House and Senate during one term of Congress and fewer than ten percent of those bills become laws. Without this process, our society would have no rules or reg ... re born in the executive branch from business, labor, agriculture, and other pressure groups that often draft bills. Other bills, or the ideas and inspirations for them, come from private citizens. Th ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Opposing viewpoints on the Israeli separation wall.
ailable to Palestinians. The land grab appears to be of greatest concern since the wall will engulf ten percent of the West Bank. In building the wall, the Israelis are enclosing more than 37,500 acre ... eace. The wall will be approximately 650 kilometers long, will average 25 feet in height, will have tens of guard towers, and will cost some 12 million shekels per kilometer for a total of almost 2 bi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Aids in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is made up of about ten percent of the world's population. In 2001, two-thirds of the 40 million people living with HIV ... iral drugs. There are two main ethical issues; should pharmaceutical companies be allowed to hold patents and determine the price of its drugs during this type of epidemic? Should companies be able to ... f epidemic? Should companies be able to conduct testing of experimental drugs in Africa?Regarding patents held by pharmaceutical companies, if I were the Supreme Court, the answer is yes. This has bee ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Southwest Airlines - What makes them so successful? Discusses the advertising and management techniques that makes Southwest Airlines so profitable.
he airline began the first profit-sharing plan in the U.S. airline industry. Employees own at least ten percent of the Company stock. The mission statement says "we always try to do the right thing". ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers