Abstract
Some Manitoba politicians have argued that the province's average resident is economically better off than his or her British Columbia counterpart. At first glance, this might appear to be unusual in light of the understanding that British Columbia is a much larger province in terms of population and has achieved strong growth during recent years as a result of a robust market for the province's natural resource exports. With this in mind, the purpose of this paper will be to examine this particular claim. An assessment will be made of the merits of this claim using primary data sources, most notably the information that is provided by Statistics Canada.

Tags:economic, counterpart

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"The American political system as embodied in the Constitution is supposed to be a democracy with a government that derives entirely from the will of the people. However, there is also considerable influence brought to bear by elites in the form of representatives of corporate wealth that can gain access denied the average citizen, provide funds for candidates and programs, pay lobbyists to push their agenda, and generally manage to have more influence than the average citizen. It is true that there are still multiple points of potential persuasion available to rank-and-file citizens to influence public policy, but achieving change for the average citizen is a much more difficult task precisely because it is necessary to generate a groundswell and bring together diverse groups for a particular purpose while the business interests have permanent organizations and (...)"

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Profiting from investments in securities by analyzing the trends provided by the use of the method called average moving price changes requires numerous mathematical computations, the use of line graphs and the ability to understand the results of what the compilation of the accumulated information offers. The paper relates that it would appear that the investor, who may use this information, needs to enjoy working with numbers, and must like working with puzzles.

From the Paper
"Profiting from investments in securities by analyzing the trends provided by the use of the method called average moving price changes requires numerous mathematical computations, the use of line graphs and the ability to understand the results of what the compilation of the accumulated information offers. It would appear the investor, who may use this information, so derived needs to enjoy working with numbers, and must like..."

Tags:investment, moving, averages

Abstract
This paper looks at whether the Average Daily Attendance (ADA) or Average Daily Membership (ADM) provides a better way of allocating funding for schools. The paper also looks at provisions for funding of the No Child Left Behind Act, and how best to equalize funding resources.

From the Paper
"The Ohio House budget called for a shift in the way students are counted because it believed that Average Daily Membership (ADM) counts phantom students and it preferred to count Average Daily Attendance( ADA). President of the Ohio Federation of Teachers testified before the Ohio Senate Education Committee that because a student is absent on a given day, the cost of the educating that student is not reduced at all. Students who have erratic attendance records actually cost more to educate he said..."

Tags:ADM, ADA, Title i

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This paper discusses the phenomenon of the "better-than-average" effect. The paper explains that when people are asked to evaluate themselves compared to others, the tendency is to rate themselves higher on positive attributes and lower on negative attributes; however, when asked to evaluate others, these tendencies reverse. The paper discusses an experiment that aims to highlight this type of self-serving bias in the UK, by asking participants to complete questionnaires. Each of the 20 participants was asked to complete two questionnaires and rate themselves and others on positive and negative traits. The paper focuses on how these tendencies translate themselves in social dating and across cultures. In conclusion, the paper summarizes that dating people tend to sell the best version of themselves, and so it would be interesting to discover just how much better people think they are compared to the average person registered at a dating agency. This paper contains an illustrative table and figures.

Outline:

Thesis Statement
Abstract
Introduction
Method
Design
Subjects
Stimulus/Apparatus
Procedures
Results
Discussion
References

From the Paper
"In encouragement of our experiment, other studies have been done with different cultures and uncovered the better-than-average effects presence, but little research has tested UK culture. This experiment has taken inspiration from Alicke's study (1985). Our experiment was similar both in set-up and in pattern of results. But this experiment did highlight a difference between UK culture represented by this experiment and US culture represented in Alicke's (1985) study. If you compare the graphs of Alicke's (1985) study to the mimicked graph type in this experiment a difference is pictured in the slopes of each graph showing that compared to US culture, UK also shows the better-than-average effect, but to a lesser degree. Other studies done into exploring the better-than-average effect have also compared others cultures to the US culture. Svenson (1981) looked at Swedish culture and US culture and in support of our findings found that the better-than-average effect is more present in US culture. Another study looks into the difference between Canadian and Japanese tendencies for self-enhancement and self-criticism (Heine et al., 2000). Their work emphasised that in Canadian culture people were reluctant to judge themselves as worse than the average classmate whereas Japanese culture were hesitant to judge themselves as better. Again showing a difference, albeit a much larger difference, in how the self-serving bias has developed in different cultures, that in some the better-than-average effect is strongly present, yet elsewhere in the world there is little trace of it. Our comparison with the US culture shows a much smaller, but still significant difference."

Tags:psychology, self-perception

Abstract
This paper discusses the role of the Federal Reserve and its effect on the average person. First, the economic factors that might precipitate further rate increases by the Federal Reserve and how these would impact the writer personally are discussed. The paper then suggests that there is a seeming lack of concern about the average person by the Federal Reserve.

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"What can worry an individual who is not well versed on the Fed or economic indicators, someone who does not peruse the financial pages regularly is the constant talk about "inflation." Most of us tend to be ignorant where inflation starts or where it stops. We often hear and red about the so-called "cost of living" because many salaries are based on that figure, especially seniors who depend on their monthly social security checks. It is this concern- or lack thereof-0 about inflation and the future actions of the Fed that can really distract a potential home-owner. Today, for example, the real estate market is booming. There are more million-dollar homes which were built and sold for far less just a few short years ago. But, how can the Fed tell me, a potential home buyer, whether this market is continuing to rise in the foreseeable future, or whether this "real estate bubble" will burst one day soon."

Tags:mortgage rates profits, cost of living

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This paper examines how Mike Rose's "I Just Wanna Be Average" gives some interesting insights into the problems of student motivation and some of the potential ways to motivate underachieving students. It looks at how Rose's article suggests some helpful ways to deal with the problem of student motivation, including the potential influence of one key figure in a student's life or through extrinsic rewards.

From the Paper
"This is not a novel or innovative idea, as the concept of educator expectancy on student achievement has been studied since the 1960's. In a landmark 1966 study, Rosenthal and Jacobson examined how the expectations of teacher's affected children's performance by randomly assigning students as either bright or dull. In the study, Teachers scored students who were labeled as "bloomers" with higher grades than students labeled as dull. A 1974 follow up study by Chaiken, Sigler, and Derlega got similar results. The authors video- taped the interactions between teachers and children in a classroom setting, and noted that teachers smiled more often at supposedly gifted students, maintained more eye contact with the bright students, and responded more positively to their comments."

Tags:student, motivation

Abstract
Our society needs and survives by information. The governments can rule and protect the flow of personal data when private sector is involved, but they cannot renounce to the decisive source of power of our society. The paper shows that the reduction of our right to be left alone was already an ongoing process. It discusses the forecast for a post-September 11 world, what the actual interaction between power, society and technology is, how privacy is threatened and what remains of our right to be left alone.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Concept of Privacy
Governmental Surveillance
Authoritarianism and Technology
The Great Fear - Security Measures after September 11
The United States
Europe
Worldwide Scenario
Black Surveillance - Intelligence Actions and Projects
Surveillance Connection - Private & Public and The Global Database
The Daily Intrusion into the Average Man's Privacy
Protecting Privacy - Human Rights Advocates' Activity and Privacy-Enhancing Strategies
Conclusions

From the Paper
"Different resources can be used to find if our computers are running spyware software: spyware lookup databases, such as Spychecker , allow to check whether the free software we are about to download comes with spyware software; Ad Aware from Lavasoft is a free utility that scans the memory, registry and hard drive for spyware; OptOut of SpinRite is a free software that cleans the system registry of spyware.
Furthermore we can route our communications through anonymizers which are technology permitting to hide our identity on line. Among the different resources available Anonymizer is an anonymous browsing service and its technology blocks cookies, Java and JavaScript, encrypts cookies, email, and Web addresses in the user's browser history and conceals the user's identity while the user chats and browses the Internet. Other anonymizing tools are SuperProxy platform System from Lumeria and ZeroKnowledge Freedom WebSecure."

Tags:database, fbi, patriot, surveillance

Abstract
This paper analyzes stock market crashes, from 1929 until today. The paper describes the volatile history that has taken place since 1929, illustrating an interesting discourse on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The writer provides possible recovery scenarios and offers advice to the beginner investor.

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"One country that has affected that of the United States in the issues of responding to market outcomes in America is that of China. In 1998 China's stock market operated smoothly and we saw it continue to grow. By the end of 1999 the number of companies listed on domestic markets in China had reached eight hundred fifty one that is an increase of one hundred and six, or fourteen percent, for the year. The chairman of the Securities Regulatory Commission said that by the end of that year the total market value had exceeded 24.46 percent of the gross domestic product, and the number of registered investors reached thirty nine million. The Dow Jones Industrial report continued to say that one hundred twenty enterprises listed stocks on both domestic and overseas markets. One hundred fifty seven enterprises listed A shares and two companies issued convertible bonds which all had an aggregate capital-raising volume of 84.14 billion (Madigan 1999)."

Tags:stocks, bonds, investments, shares, securities, regulatory, commission

Abstract
This paper argues that the participation of the average German soldier in barbarity in this conflict was because of the acceptance throughout all levels of the German military that they were participating in a crusade.

Tags:action, de, humanization, lebensraum, propaganda, race