Essays Tagged: "University of California"

Hydroponics

first scientist took a look at hydroponics andadapted it to grow crops, this was a professor at the University of California,and the result was a 25 foot tomato plant that had to be harvest by a ladde ...

(4 pages) 69 0 4.6 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

Cloning

ype of cell to another, altering a cell's properties accordingly."In the early 1970s Herbert Boyer (University of California Health Science Center in San Francisco) and Stanley Cohen (Stanford Univers ...

(2 pages) 55 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Personal goals achievable by education. Brief, lots of reference material!

Personal Goals I Will Realize Through the University of Phoenix"As long as a college education remains an enormous value in the job market and ... person's life, the demand for it [a college education] is not going to decline," said Sandra Smith, University of California's assistant vice president for planning and analysis (Berkeleyan, 2000, p.1 ... rom my courses (my degree program is a bachelor's of eBusiness). What I gain from my classes at the University of Phoenix will theoretically be directly applicable in some way (even if only tangential ...

(4 pages) 470 0 4.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Glenn Seaborg

nown for his discovery of new chemical elements. He was born in Ishpeming, Michigan and went to the University of California. He was chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971 and then ... He was chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971 and then became professor at the University of California. He conducted research in nuclear chemistry and physics in connection with ...

(1 pages) 25 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Home Spoken Foreign Language.

an Asian-American and many written autobiographies from other Asian-American students attending the University of California at Berkley, yes I believe it is an obligation in order to retaining our nat ... dge of their heritage language. The most frequent experience reported by the students attending the University of California in Berkley in their linguistic autobiographies is that they knew only a ver ...

(3 pages) 150 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

Dispute Resolution.

lar, I have always had difficulty in quitting jobs where I was extremely happy. I am an employee at University of California, Los Angeles Occupational and Environmental Medicine and unhappy at my plac ... have not yet decided since I have a family to support. I am currently attending graduate school at University of Phoenix for my Masters of Business Administration degree. After finishing my degree, a ...

(4 pages) 212 1 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Extinction.

it does not reflect all threats to species. Researchers Alexander Harcourt and Sean Parks from the University of California have found that after reassessing two hundred primate species from the 1996 ...

(1 pages) 35 0 1.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

My Personal Goals as a College Student. Paper only relates to teen parents beginning a new college education.

family relations, personal growth and my future, this is one of many goals that I will achieve as a University of California student.I am a statistic. The odds of a teenage girl with a child, sti ... autonomous woman represents the core value of our country's freedom. The goal of graduating from a university by the time I am 30 years old gives me a sense of major achievement, a feeling that is on ...

(3 pages) 192 0 3.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Reverse Discrimination

Supreme Court has faced many cases regarding this controversial issue, including The Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Bakke, a white medical student, was denied admission to a Univers ...

(3 pages) 115 0 4.6 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Analyze How Ishmael Reed Is A Prophet And Oracle

orking as a correspondent for the Empire Star Weekly, a black community newspaper. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley since the late 1960s. He also has held visiting appointments at ... ng appointments at many other academic institutions, including Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Washington University in St. Louis, and Buffalo. In addition to winning several awards for his writing, he has ...

(2 pages) 40 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Ecological Restoration of Coastal Wetlands of Santa Barbara Area

cological Restoration of the Campus LagoonAbstract:The harmed ecosystem of the Campus Lagoon at the University of California, Santa Barbara is undergoing restoration by teams of ecologists and scienti ... improve upon the water quality of the lagoon.1.0 Introduction1.1- The ecological restoration of the University of California at Santa Barbara Campus Lagoon and surrounding area is a topic of great con ...

(10 pages) 61 0 4.4 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

The Gender Struggle: Communicating in Relationships

g.John Stossel, with ABC News, conducted a test with the help of researcher Campbell Leaper, of the University of California. The test showed how boys and girls deal with people differently. They made ... should be behaving more like the girls," said Susan Witt, who teaches childhood development at the University of Akron" (Stossel). She says that, "boys and girls respond differently in situations lik ...

(5 pages) 144 4 4.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Summary and key notes on the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)Facts: Allan Bakke, a thirty-five-year-old whi ... (1978)Facts: Allan Bakke, a thirty-five-year-old white man, had twice applied for admission to the University of California Medical School at Davis. He was rejected both times. The school reserved si ... ved sixteen places in each entering class of one hundred for "qualified" minorities, as part of the university's affirmative action program, in an effort to redress longstanding, unfair minority exclu ...

(3 pages) 46 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Physiological Perception Filters

icular meaning to the individual.My own group's studies, carried out over more than 30 years at the University of California at Berkeley, suggest that perception cannot be understood solely by examini ...

(21 pages) 111 1 2.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Critical Academic Analysis of a Media Article

d. Thus, depression is relevant to life span developmental psychology.According to Dr. Kemp said in University of California, Irvine, and depression is a 'Syndrome' that has no true underlying illness ... and behavior. (630).At this point, the media article Los Angeles Times focus on investigator at the University of Pittsburgh found 19 portions of DNA containing genes responsible for the disease. Stud ...

(7 pages) 62 0 0.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Stress; 10 ways to Reduce Commuting Stress

hat energy vulture called stress may have sent your pulse skyrocketing. In a study conducted at the University of California at Irvine, researchers found that the stress of commuting takes a major tol ... hem. According to back expert Malcolm Pope, Ph.D.,director of the Iowa Spine Research Center at the University of Iowa, it helps to support your back by tucking a rolled towel or a pillow in that lumb ...

(4 pages) 65 0 5.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Alterity and the actor.

nd critic, Wolfgang Iser (born in 1926),is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine and also at the University of Konstanz.. In both his writings "Th ... nditions these judgments.2. The Act of Reading' Wolfgang Iser (1978) published by The Johns Hopkins University Press pg 523. One question that came to mind here was : Who has the authority to determin ...

(15 pages) 47 0 5.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Sally Ride: Space Explorer

ated from Stanford in 1977. After her education, she excelled in her field. She joined the Stanford University's Center of International Security and Arms Control in 1987. She became head of the Space ... nia in 1989. Ride has accomplished many things from her beginning in Encino, California to Stanford University.Sally Ride has done amazing and extraordinary feats in her field of astronomy. Ride was t ...

(2 pages) 14 0 3.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Space

Decriminalization of marijuana

ld be no more then regular recklessness.Robert MacCoun, a professor of public policy and law at the University of California, has stated that an alternative could be to depenalize marijuana. If legisl ...

(1 pages) 50 2 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

"The Media Monopoly" Ben H. Bagdikian

ition, was written by Ben H. Bagdikian, a dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Bagdikian originally p ...

(9 pages) 80 0 4.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media