Essays Tagged: "University of California Berkeley"
Ecstacy; A large proportion of young people, especially in Britain,are regular users of the drug Ecstasy,Adam,X or MDMA for a simple reason: it provides ....ect.
ather' as he describes himself is Alexander Shulgin. After obtaining a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, Shulgin got a job as a research chemist with Dow Chemicals, fo ... lf-conscious and able tofeel emotions more clearly, while a small minority become more depressed. A university lecturer who was oversensitive to Prozac described how, as member of an examination revie ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Diversity in school and life.
d to determine its outcome on students. The affirmative action law is hurting the minorities in the university education system.Students with inferior academic credentials are admitted in order to ach ... virtually anyone of the right color who applies. In order to fulfill affirmative action objectives, university admissions officers cannot afford to pay too much attention to the probability of a stude ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
George Gerbner and the Mean World Syndrome
ster. Gerbner obtained his U.S. citizenship and earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley in 1942. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Cali ... a and moved to New York.In 1964, he became the dean of the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn State archives). Here, he devoted over 40 years studying the effect ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Discrimination and Reverse Discrimination
John Wilson:"As Nick Catoggio went to his mailbox, he knew that his acceptance letter from Harvard University had arrived. Although Nick was nervous, he knew that his hard work in high school had gai ... an African American to get hired at a prestigious job, let alone be granted acceptance into a major university. Today, after all these anti-discrimination laws have been passed, it is extremely hard f ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
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 ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Affirmative Action: A good intention Gone Sour
te 1970s, Allan Bakke, a white student who had been denied admission to Davis Medical School at the University of California, challenged the idea of affirmative action in higher education in the Supre ... are not fully prepared and equipped to handle. "Under affirmative action, 42% of the blacks at the University of California Berkeley dropped out in the years 1980-91, as opposed to only 16% of the wh ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Olympia, Manet and Modernization
to scholarly criticism ignited and still persist today. T.J. Clark, an art history professor at the University of California at Berkeley, examines this painting and responds to it in his book, The Pai ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Should private schools receive federal and state tax money?
by USC, and the physical research WIMPS (weakly interacting massive particles) released by Stanford University. If the government can patronize or cooperate with them, many useful research and discove ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
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 ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Biography On Charles Manson
hrough those doors. Charles Manson headed to San Francisco. Once there, he liked to hang out at the University of California-Berkeley campus and play his guitar. One day, while doing so, he was sittin ... nged Mary's personality. She let her guard down and became more open-minded.She quit her job as the University of California-Berkeley librarian and she andCharles stole a car and traveled. They slept ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
"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 ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Deconstructing Architecture Using EvenHookey
stractThe e-voting technology method to symmetric encryption is defined not only by the improvement of forward-error correction, but also by the technical need for DHTs. In fact, few electrical engine ... lso by the technical need for DHTs. In fact, few electrical engineers would disagree with the study of expert systems. Despite the fact that it is largely a theoretical mission, it has ample historica ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
STar Value Vs. Brand Value
lic education should be guaranteed for everybody. An intelligent boy should not be denied to a good university because of his wealth status, but his entrance into a good university should be examined ... 7; of a student. The "star value" of a student is what affects the "brand value" of the university's name. Public colleges and universities are turning into brand names like clothing lines ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Achieving Fault Tolerance Using RAID Technology
g and after a hard disk failure.The Birth of RAIDThe RAID acronym was introduced in a 1988 paper by University of California at Berkeley scientists David Patterson, Garth Gibson, and Randy Katz propos ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Altoids
esearch on these things called "Altoids." A visit to the historic Bancroft Library at the campus of University of California Berkeley yielded that Altoids were a kind of primitive treat developed by t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
NOTORIOUS B.I.G./2PAC
a symbol of black power and racks up sales of his posthumously released recordings. Since 1997, the University of California at Berkeley has offered a class called The Poetry and History of Tupac Shak ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
“Governor Of California, Hiram Johnson”
nson? and ?Hiram Johnson: California?) Hiram Johnson was born in Sacramento in 1866. He went to the University of California at Berkeley in 1884 but later dropped out to marry Minerva ?Minne? McNeal a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Jack London
educated himself by borrowing books from the Oakland Public Library. At 19 he was accepted into he University of California at Berkeley. He started his career by writing short stories for the newspap ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Saving California Languages by Katharine Whittmore
us Advocates Members: Carol Korb a graduate of Humboldt and Leanne Hilton a linguistic professor of University of California at Berkeley. They will visit three Master-Apprentice teams in central Calif ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies
Analysis of Apple's Steve Jobs personality traits
later hired as a summer employee. That was when 16 year old Jobs met 21 year old Stephen Wozniak, a University of California at Berkeley dropout with a passion for inventing electronic gadgets, who wa ... f How the Mac Was Made", O'Reilly Media, IncJobs, Steve (12 June 2005) speech delivered at Stanford University's Commencement Address, http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.htmlPollack ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication