SUBMISSION: DECEMBER 2007 SUPERVISOR: Dr. J. McFarlane ABSTRACT This study investigates the causes‚ consequences and possible solutions of teenage pregnancy. It indicates that socio-economic factors play an important role in the occurrence of teenage pregnancies. In addition the study suggests that a range of factors‚ including‚ cultural norms and individual needs‚ impact on the childbearing decisions of teenage females. The study demonstrates that the most important negative consequences of teenage
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A Future Society The story Harrison Bergeron shines a new perspective on the future of the government. It made me sit and think about the possible reasons of inequality and whether they are fair or not. However‚ I wasn’t too pleased with how the laws of equality were carried out. Were the government’s alterations of each person’s life harsh? Did they take these laws too far over the line? The selected piece of reading is Harrison Bergeron written by Hurt Vonnegut Jr. It is a short story of a future
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10/26/12 THE FUTURE OF FOOD You might think you know everything about the foods that you eat or place on the plates for your family‚ but you have no idea. The Future of Food is a documentary that reveals appalling or should I say shocking information regarding our crops that are grown in the U.S. today and how big corporations are taking over and altering the foods that we eat through science‚ all because of corporate greed. What’s even more terrifying is that majority of consumers have no
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dropped to a third of its prohibition cost. A study done by the Task Force on Cannabis Regulation to the Center for the Study of Drug Policy-Regulation and Taxation of Cannabis Commerce reveals that legalization could open up a tax revenue stream for governments. Licensing‚ taxing‚ and fees could generate up to 7 billion dollars a year not including the taxes on sales of paraphernalia‚ recreational establishments and new industries according to a study by the Congressional Budget Office with state
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The Future of Management by Gary Hamel and Bill Breen (Harvard Business School Press‚ 2007) The end of current management In his book The Future of Management‚ Gary Hamel poses the significant question on the existing management practices which have gone unquestioned before. Most of the modern management models were stemmed from the industrialization of the late 19th and early 20th century. In that time‚ they were highly efficient management methods in dividing up employees’ tasks and responsibilities
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I have been going to school at RCC for six terms now and plan on being here for another five. RCC has given me the tools necessary to prepare for a four year college and a doctorate program beyond. The classes offered here are invaluable to my future educational career. In fall 2012‚ I will transfer to SOU into the pre‐physical therapy program under the guidance of Kelly Mason. As this is the case‚ I have been diligently taking classes at RCC which will directly transfer to that program. I
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been taught and all that she thinks . She is wrapped in a cocoon of experience composed of the good and the bad things of the past and present. But one day she’ll free herself of this cocoon and emerge as a woman. Woman of the Future I am a child. I am all the things of my past. I am the freckles from my mother’s nose. I am the laziness of my dad Resting his eyes in front of the television. I am all I see. Boys doing Karate Chops.
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One of the implications of abstinence-only sex education is that it is ineffective in its desired outcome and therefore puts young people in danger by not providing them with the appropriate knowledge to practice safe sex. According to an article by the Guttmacher Institute‚ ““Despite years of evaluation in this area‚ there is no evidence to date that abstinence-only education delays teen sexual activity” (Guttmacher‚ 2006). Abstinence-only education can be harmful because it doesn’t curtail sexual
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They’d dropped with the latest and greatest gear the most ingenious minds in the United States of America had to offer. The Armored Combat Suit of the Future was an integrated network of information sharing components that collected data and gave the soldier the information he needed to make tactical decisions. The three main parts were the M18 dual-action combat rifle‚ the two-tier body armor‚ and the
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Future energy Have you ever thought about the energy providing you electricity for your daily life that nuclear power could take you off from this world (it is not clear what you mean here)? What was your feeling when you watching news about the Fukushima nuclear crisis? What do you think when you see how victims of Chernobyl disaster live today? Good start – the questions are a very good way to get your reader’s attention.) All of those issues are just because of one reason – the safety problem
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