PLEASURE PRINCIPLES: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GAMBLING AND SEX ADDICTION TREATMENT A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Sociology by M. Kelly James B.A.‚ University of Memphis‚ 1988 M.A.‚ University of Memphis‚ 1991 August 2002 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Although many people have helped me accomplish this goal
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Fast track construction is a project delivery system which compresses the design tender construct process into overlapping design and construct phases. The former can be identified as a traditional lump sum tender where plans and specification s are completed then put out to tender. Contractors bid the prject exactly as it is designed with the lowest bidder awarded the work. It is a linear process where one task follows the completion of another with no overlap. The latter‚ or " fast track construction"
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mourning/afternoon fellow classmates and teacher‚I if you didn’t guess by now I’ll be talking about urban myths or otherwise known as urban legends. First I’ll be talking about what is a urban legend. Right away you think of the urban legend bloody Mary or now the infamous Slender-man‚ those are probably the most famous one of them I’ll be talking about throughout my speech‚ that one being bloody Mary. Urban myths really started as long ago as Vikings and before that the Chinese imperial armies. They
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND LAW BY MONICA MUCHERU Last summer‚ as I was preparing for my graduation from college‚ I had a lot in mind. Apart from being excited about finishing my 4-year course and finally getting my degree‚ I was also in great thought about the career path I wanted to pursue. This search of an answer and beyond the surface issues about remuneration and earning a comfortable living‚ I felt that it required me to evaluate the core values‚ which I have endeavored
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE l I did very well during my undergraduate studies at the prestigious R. V. College of Engineering‚ Bangalore (www.rvce.com) securing the 7th rank among 2000 mechanical engineering students in the Bangalore University. As part of the curriculum requirements‚ I worked on the analysis of Wildhaber-Novikov gears for defense applications. The project was adjudged as one of the best projects in the college and was awarded maximum marks during evaluation (for a description please
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE The ever growing world of science and technology has enticed me from a younger age itself. This allure towards technology especially the art and science of measurement‚ control‚ design‚ construction and maintenance of instruments and the fact that the whole instrumentation system is the soul of any industry (small or large) is that which drove me into taking Electronics and Instrumentation as my undergraduate degree course. I strongly believe that the backup of a managerial
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Introduction Urban tribes are made up by groups of people – usually young‚ with a distinct common identity: the same aesthetic codes‚ the same identity symbols‚ the same rules‚ the same language‚ the same music… A whole ideology! These tribes have many different ideologies: right-wing‚ left-wing‚ non-political or against globalization. Some of them are nearly extinct‚ and others in full expansion. But all of them are ruled by it own ideology. They usually meet in central‚ commercial or nightlife
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*Urban Unrest in France (Nov. 30th* Reflection) The two articles both discussed the uprisings of young people in France due to racism and poverty on the outskirts of the mega city‚ which dates back to the history of colonialism. The first reading by Balibar (2007) the author addresses the riots in banlieues through categories such as: names‚ violence‚ post-colony‚ religion‚ race and class‚ citizenship/the Republic‚ and politics/anti-politics. Furthermore‚ the author answers important key words
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Finished on April 5 In the article‚ "Urban Sprawl‚ Global Warming and the Limits of Ecological Moderization"(2005)‚ Gonzalez argues that the rapid development of urban sprawl has been environmentally harmful due to the emissions of greenhouse gases and the narrow solution to global warming through further development of technology proposed by business groups. He criticizes the shortcomings of the business groups approach and states his own concept. Urban sprawl brings business corporates a great
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Many urban centers have been known to be places where diverse styles of structural development are put in place through individual differences‚ desires and expression of wealth which over the time have brought about the use of series of finished construction materials. The constant increase in the rate of urban development‚ the use of materials and some of the construction style; have their contributing impact on the environment. These impacts of “growth in urban areas affects urban climate in several
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