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    Abstract Diseases have remained an issue in human life. It has continuously claimed several lives across the board. Some patients have waited in pain for their last breath. The suffering which they undergo raises eyebrows. For instance‚ some patients have been pressed to the walls by their ailments. This has compelled them seek for suicide assistance in form of prescriptions for lethal drugs to help them terminate their lives. Such patients have undergone extreme pain that they are left with no

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    Connie’s Paradigm In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” we follow the main character Connie as she faces an inner transformation. The author introduces Connie as a vain and inexperienced adolescent who seems to daydream about things she doesn’t quite understand as she has more of a naive idea of what adulthood is all about. She takes pleasure in having control over everyone and everything around her. These ideas as well as her security are shaken when the

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    Decision support system Guideline for Creating Successful Decision Support Systems Guideline for Creating Successful Decision Support Systems Well successful DSS happens when its use actually makes a positive difference in decision making. These are most important factors to bring success to DSS using. 1. Execution time Faster execution is not always better. Only a fraction of task time is determined by actual DSS execution time. Developers should select appropriate software

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    Dead Mother on Life Support In this scenario‚ the hospital should take Mary off life support even though she is pregnant. Although the hospital believes that they are doing what’s best for the fetus‚ it may not necessarily be what is best for the family in this moment of grief. The reasons for this argument are because Mary had previously told John‚ her husband‚ that she would not want to be kept alive if anything were to happen. Secondly‚ even if Mary was kept on life support long enough to

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    There lived two goddesses named Valentina and her sister Rosa. They both asked their dad Hector “Why roses have thorns?” Their dad said that there was a story called‚ “Why roses have thorns?” Their dad started off the story with “Once upon a time there lived two sisters that asked‚ “Why roses have thorns?” They asked everyone in their village the same question and nobody had the answer for it. Until someone in their village told them that they could go to Sparks and someone there can tell

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    Matt Merritt Professor Smith English 102 13 September 2012 Arnold Friend’s Identity in Joyce’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” In the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” Joyce Oates portrays Connie as a beautiful young woman that is being coerced by a man‚ whom she doesn’t know‚ to come outside and go for a ride in his car. Who is this man that calls himself Arnold Friend? What does he represent? Looking at the things that Arnold Friend says and does will help to discover

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    Behavioral Finance Article Presentation “Are Investors Reluctant to Realize Their Losses” Are Investors Reluctant to Realize Their Losses? * This article was written by Terrance Odean. * This article was published by “Journal of Finance” in 1998. Aim of the Study By writing this article Terrance Odean wants to examine the tendency to hold losers too long and sell winners too soon. This tendency has been labeled Shefrin and Statman as a “disposition effect.” Terrance

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    “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Paper “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is a short story that poses many questions centered around the protagonist‚ Connie and the antagonist Arnold Friend and his “comrade” Ellie. The fate of Connie at the end of the story is still up for debate after all these years after the story was published in 1966. The main question posed is who actually is Arnold Friend? Is he the devil or something else? The answer may never be fully known but in

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    Could the Cold War have been avoided? Discuss with reference to the key schools of thought on the origins of the Cold War. The cold war is the product of confrontation between US and USSR‚ reflected by conflicts of interests in political‚ ideological‚ military sphere and so on (Baylis et al. 2010‚ p51)‚ and it lasted nearly half century and ended up with dissolution of Soviet Union. There are so many debates about its origin and some people argue that cold war might be avoided. However this essay

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    Sheriff (1963) defined social psychology as “ The scientific study of the experience and behaviour of individuals in relation to social- stimuli situations ”as cited in Sahakian (1982).What most social psychologists study are a person’s responses stimuli originating with fellow other people. The history of social psychology can be sought at in stages. The first is the anti-democratic French crowd psychology which was around 1900‚ the democratic attitude research in the United States which was between

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