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    Child Abuse – Past and Present Donna Hurst University of the Cumberlands HSOL 131 ABSTRACT This paper explores the issue of child abuse. It will trace this social problem from the earliest of times to present day. The paper will also include the scope of abuse to children. Information on how to report suspected child abuse and neglect will be provided. The references in this paper will include online resources‚ printed articles and information from frontline workers in a local Division of

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    options than just coming in physically into the bank to conduct account transactions. In this paper‚ I will compare banking in the past versus banking today and how technology has played such an enormous role in creating this difference while maintaining the same customer service. I started as a teller when I first began working at the bank about fifteen years ago. In the past‚ traffic at the branch was high and customers constantly came into the branch to conduct financial transactions. The branch

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    I have been using computers for as long as I can remember‚ whether it is for entertainment use or work use‚ computers are part of our everyday lives. They have an effect on almost everything you do. When you buy groceries at a supermarket‚ a computer is uesed with laser and barcode technology to scan the price of each item and present a total. Barcoding items (clothes‚ food and books ) requires a computer to generate the barcode labels and maintain the inventory. Most televison advertisiments and

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    PastPresent‚ and Future Paper When I was a child‚ I knew that I wanted to be a nurse just like my mom. I started preparing myself by majoring in science‚ math‚ and typing in high school. I knew that these classes would one day prepare me for college. When I enter college at the University of Memphis after high school‚ I take all the prerequisites needed for the nursing program. Later‚ I entered nursing school at Baptist School of Nursing and I was well on my way to becoming a nurse. When I got

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    “The world that we live in”: an appeal Not long ago the law of the jungle prevailed “kill or be killed”. Barbarism was at its heinous best. Darwin’s theory of “survival of the fittest” was apt for those times. The smaller animals were at the mercy of the bigger ones and the latter were at the mercy of the biggest and so on. Evolution continued and finally we are today at a position of being called the ultramodern man who has lots and lots of knowledge and education‚ robots and gadgets to assist

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    Powered by Running head: PREJUDICE 1 Prejudice and Discrimination in the Past and Present Kieley Hines Wilmington University PREJUDICE 2 Prejudice and Discrimination in the Past and Present Throughout history‚ there have been incidents of prejudice and/or discrimination against many religious‚ racial‚ or minority groups. These incidents have occurred out of hatred or fear of another group. Adolf Hitler used the justification that “the Germans were racially superior and that the Jews‚ deemed ‘inferior’

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    increasing market share in numerous web-based market‚ means Google truly is the little search engine that could. Located in Mountain View‚ CA‚ the Google corporation was begun as a simple research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin during their studies at Stanford in early 1996. While attending classes‚ Page theorized that a search engine that could analyze the relationships between websites‚ rather than searching meta data or keyword appearances‚ would be able to produce better results than those

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    Game Past In 1958 William Higinbotham (see figure 1) tiring to find a way to help stimulate interest in his exhibit at Brookhaven created with the help of Robert V. Dvorak a game called Tennis for Two. This was a two-dimensional view of a tennis court that was displayed on an oscilloscope (see figure 2). This is believed to be the first video game that had been created (see figure 3) (Brookheaven national Laboratory)‚ (Scientific and Technical Information‚ 2008)‚ (TJB‚ 2007)‚ (Anderson‚ 1983)

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    Civil Rights Past and Present In 1776‚ the Founding Fathers outlined the framework on which this new country should be built on‚ freedom and the idea that all men are created equal. However at the time the men being referred to were white land owners. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln redefined the definition of all men referred to in the Declaration of Independence to include the slaves. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. is addressing the preverbal cashing of the check that Lincoln wrote 100 years before.

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    Intro: The House We Live In: Race-The Power of an Illusion is a 2003 film by California Newsreel about how there is social differences and a wealth gap between people of different skin color. The idea of race is something that our culture has come up with. Purpose: The purpose of the film is show how different people of different colored skin have more advantages over others simply because of the color of their skin. It also demonstrates how race is something that we have learned to distinguish within

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