Iowa City’s Bar Ordinance Controversy This paper examines Iowa City’s current controversy with the 19-only bar ordinance approved by Iowa City’s City Council on August 1‚ 2003. The controversy of underage drinking that included implementing a 21-ordinance has been an oft-debated issue for Iowa City’s City Council who is split over the issue. The current ordinance allows 19 and 20 year olds in the bars after 10 p.m. I have examined several sources and classified them into the following criteria:
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Norm Violation The social norm that I chose to violate was to go into an elevator and instead of turning around and facing the door upon entering; I had my back to the door and faced the other people in the elevator. In normality a person enters an elevator‚ pushes the button for their desired floor and turns to face the door to avoid eye contact with strangers‚ and prepare to exit the elevator. The reason I choose to violate this particular social norm was because I’ve never seen anyone else
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away your hard-earned money I see it as a curious‚ although in this case fortuitous‚ habit of yours that has nothing whatsoever to do with me.”(8) Another example of knowledge and race is Fulton. All of the elevator inspectors believe him to be very knowledgable and all want his “perfect elevator”. They also all believe that he is a white man when in actualitity he is half white half black. I think that if
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gates to mitigate the impediments between passengers entering and exiting the various machines at the same time. Fare Policy Change - When there is a proposed fare increase or introduction of a new ticket type‚ it often increases the time spent purchasing a ticket with cash from a ticket vending machines. Since a passenger may need to put more bill(s) or coin(s) into a machine. Therefore‚
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“Create‚ share‚ and apply knowledge to make Iowa and the World a better place.” That is the mission of Iowa State according to Iowa State University’s strategic plan. All the classes‚ clubs‚ and organizations are made to help Iowa State reach its mission. Iowa State must have students that can conduct research to solve the problems of this century. The students have to be able to communicate in order to share their findings with other people. Finally‚ they must be able to apply what they have learned
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a challenge because elevators were unsafe at first‚ and elevator shafts cannot be made as tall as skyscrapers. Wind is the ultimate challenge that engineers face when building skyscrapers. This is because of vortex shedding‚ and the exponential rise of lateral loads at immense heights. These three challenges are felt all over the world when building a skyscraper‚ and will most likely continue to be challenges for many years to come. With the ideas of electromagnetic elevators and carbon fiber buildings
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tremendously nerve wrecking. I agreed to go first. I immediately felt anxious. My heart was racing and hands were shaking. I was terrified to break a norm due to the fact that I presumed people’s reaction would be different. I was correct. The first elevator was filled with a young crowd. Three young men and four young ladies entered and automatically faced the direction that is the norm. I ultimately entered last and faced to their direction. A young man questioned the floor number I needed to
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birthrate is declining (Kauchak & Eggen‚ 2005). According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2012)‚ the teen pregnancy rate is 34.3 pregnancies per 1000 young women ages 15-19‚ which is a record low for this age group. The state of Iowa has numerous programs to help educate teens in the prevention of pregnancy and programs to help pregnant teens and young mothers. Two of these programs are the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and Community Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
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performed my norm violation on an elevator at the Five Points Marta Station in downtown Atlanta around 4:40 pm on a cold‚ windy evening as I was on my way home from class. The observers were quite diverse from different backgrounds and subcultures (black‚ Hispanic & white) comprised of school students and people coming from and going to work‚ going to other appointments or running errands and such. I got on and stood in the back of the elevator. I remained in the elevator for approximately 15-20 minutes
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financial position in a saturated elevator market and intense global competition‚ KONE developed the Monospace elevator that uses revolutionary technologies. It has various benefits‚ such as being the most energy efficient‚ not requiring oil and therefore eliminating fire and environmental hazards and its lower installation time. 1. Importance of Monospace launch for KONE and implications of success or failure y By 1996‚ the financial situation of KONE elevator business in Germany had worsened
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