Alternative Medicine Throughout recorded history‚ people of various cultures have relied on what Western medical practitioners today call alternative medicine. The term alternative medicine covers a broad range of healing philosophies‚ approaches‚ and therapies. It generally describes those treatments and health care practices that are outside mainstream Western health care. People use these treatments and therapies in a variety of ways. Alternative therapies used
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characteristics which include race‚ religion‚ ethnic background‚ national origin‚ gender‚ or sexual orientation‚ represents a serious threat to all communities. Experts estimate that a bias-related crime is committed every 14 minutes. Criminal justice officials and state policy makers need to realize that it is key to make or adjust hate crime legislation. This has been a heated debate for centuries. I think more hate crime legislation is key to solving the ever-growing problem of hate crimes. The first
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established to offer authentic Asian foods to the growing population in the country as well as to an ever-increasing market of urban professionals who enjoy eating more adventurous specialty ethnic foods. In recent years‚ the rise of Asian fusion through the integration of Japanese‚ Thai or Chinese and Singaporean food in culinary cuisine has been a prevalent trend in restaurant themes and dishes on menus. There’s a new crop of Asian fusion that has been hitting the streets using inspirations from
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and keeper of the healthiest balance sheet in the industry.2 The reasons for this competition were easy to understand. Over 45 percent of United’s revenues came from passengers who flew through its California hubs. As a market‚ the California corridor was the most heavily traveled in the United States‚ which had 80 percent more traffic than the Boston-New York-Washington corridor. Yet United’s share in this market had fallen from 38 percent in 1991 to 30 percent in 1993. During the same period
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Victimless crime is defined as a violation of community standards or an illicit act against a government policy or agency (Wisegeek‚ 2009) yet‚ which neither directly harms nor violates the rights of any specific person‚ although some people may claim it harms society as a whole. Many people consider such acts as drunk driving‚ prostitution‚ public drunkenness‚ assisting someone to die at his or her request‚ using drugs‚ white-collar crimes‚ and abortion to be victimless crimes. They feel‚ as though
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Friendship is inevitable. Regardless which direction you turn to or what situation you are in‚ the traces of friendship are all around you. This situation is portray nicely in the movie The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants as it discusses four best friends and the amazing summer that they spend even though they are not together because their summer is connected by a pair of jeans that amazingly enough‚ fits all of them perfectly‚ even though they are very different in size and shape. Apart from
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effect of various factors on the crime rate in the US. The model is estimated using the OLS procedure and a cross-sectional data set across the fifty states in 2000. The four variables that are found to have significant coefficients are police expenditures per crime in 1999‚ unemployment rate‚ per capita income‚ and the percentage of people living in poverty. Specifically‚ for every dollar increase per crime in 1999‚ the crime rate is found to decline by 260 crimes per 100‚000 population. When the
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A Best Friend is... “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never ever the same” (Unknown). What is a “best friend”? Almost everyone has one‚ and almost everyone is one. There’s something about a best friend that cannot be duplicated. Everyone has their own definition of what their own best friend is like and what an impact he or she has made in their life. In this essay I would like to take a better
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everything‚ if their elders are tolerate enough. But does it mean that they are to permissive‚ I don’t think so. In my opinion‚ grown-up should let their child make their choice and if they bring up the child good enough‚ he doesn’t abuse his freedom which is given to him by parents. It should be emphasized that every child want to be independent and if we don’t trusted him and can’t assure some freedom for him‚ he is likely to take it by himself without our consent. I believe that the problem is not
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Everyone has someone they consider a best friend. That best friend is like no one else. You can tell them all your secrets without fear of them getting out. They’re the person you can act like a nerd with‚ and know they’re going to be just as nerdy‚ like two peas in a pod. I’ve known my best friend since I was in the third grade when she moved and came to my school. Today‚ we’re still going to school together‚ and are better friends than ever. We’re like good wine‚ we get better with age. We have
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