Abstract Argumentative paper on whether the U.S. should be dropping food into the country of Afghanistan while at the same time bombing the country. The author argues that because the United States government is at war with the Taliban, there should be no good will gestures of dropping food over Afghanistan.
From the Paper "On September 11 an unforgettable tragedy happened to the United States of America. A group of terrorist, whose alleged leader is hiding in Afghanistan, crashed two airplanes into the World Trade Centers, and one into the Pentagon. The United States is now in the process of retaliating against the Taliban by bombing the government, yet at the same time the U.S. is also dropping food for the people of Afghanistan."
Tags: aid, bombing, government, poverty, starvation, states, strikes, taliban, tragedy, united, war
Abstract This paper examines the problem of high school drop outs, explaining that income instability and increasing rates in teen pregnancy are two of its many underlying causes. This paper explains that teenagers with babies often are not able to keep up with their school work because they have to be up during the night caring for their babies. Consequently, teenage pregnancies lead to high school drop outs, which then leave the teenager living in poverty without the skills and ability to obtain and keep employment.
From the Paper "Nancy is a young girl who became pregnant at age sixteen. She tried attending school, working a part-time job, and taking care of her baby. However, she was up a lot at night with her baby and eventually she realized she could not continue to go to school. She lives on welfare and spends most of her time watching television. Nancy and her baby live in poverty. Nancy is one of many American teenage females who become pregnant. "The United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy and births in the western industrialized world" (General Facts). Nancy is one of many high school girls who drop out of high school to care for their babies. "Teen mothers are less likely to complete high school (only one-third receive a high school diploma) and only 1.5% have a college degree by age 30" (General Facts)."
Reviews Bliss Broyard's "One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life - A Story of Race and Family Secrets", which addresses the idea that a society can always be color-blind.
Abstract This paper is critical of Bliss Broyard's "One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life - A Story of Race and Family Secrets". The author points out that the problem with "One Drop" is that it is not only the story of Broyard's discovery that she has some African-American ancestry and what that means for her opinion on race. It also is the story of her father, Anatole Broyard, her immediate family, her father's family and the history of race relations in the United States. The paper concludes that Broyard's complex memoir makes very clear that she spent much of her life feeling very conflicted about race. The reader is left with no real answer to her questions about America's system of race discrimination and its impact on people of mixed ancestry.
From the Paper "Broyard's story of her father and his decision to pass reveals a level of dishonesty by the man that was so dramatic that it actually evokes a feeling of pity for him. The decision to pass as white, whether it was initially intentional, or a just the side effect of not being rejected as a black man when people mistakenly believed he was white, was clearly something that impacted Anatole's life in a dramatic manner. He distanced himself from his family, and his children had no real relationship with either of his sisters or his parents, though their grandmother was alive for much of their childhood."
Abstract This paper argues that, towards the end of WWII, Japan was a dying empire, and the atom bombs had no real effect on the outcome of the war. It argues, therefore, that the U.S. should have taken a different alternative than using atomic power against Japan. This research paper speculates on the United States's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan during World War II and concludes that the decision was unjust and immoral.
From the Paper "Even though many alternatives existed to avoid the use of atomic warfare, the U.S. ignored these options. The most feasible way of showing the power of the atomic bomb with minimum or any loss of life would be a demonstration of the atomic bomb. Dr. Edward Teller's suggestion to "exploding it high above Tokyo at night without prior warning"We could then have said to the Japanese leaders: ?This was an atomic bomb. One of them can destroy a city. Surrender or be destroyed!? However, there was a strong feeling on the part of President Truman that it was criminal and morally wrong for us to have means to bring the war to a proper conclusion and then not use the means. Moreover, only two atomic bombs existed and nobody was sure that either could be successfully dropped on a target."
Abstract This paper discusses several motivation theories from Educational Psychology. It then looks at each factor that affects the probability of a student dropping out of high school. Finally, the motivation theories are used to show what can be done to retain high school students within the educational framework.
From the Paper "Socio-economic status is another factor that helps determine whether a student will drop out. According to a study on GED and diploma attainment of high school dropouts, "socio-economic status was positively associated with degree attainment with a one point increase on the SES scale associated with an increase in the odds of returning of 1.34" (Wayman 2001). Many students from lower income families are not expected to finish high school as their parents or other role models did not; in contrast, they may have no choice but to drop out because they need to earn income for their family. In a student done in Australia, it was found that "family SES has been consistently found to be associated with participation in education, but the size of the effect is smaller than has sometimes been assumed" (Ainley, Foreman & Sheret 1991). Thus, many students may claim that socio-economic status is the reason that they dropped out, but it may have only been one of the influencing factors."
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Abstract This paper discusses how, on August 6th, 1945, 80,000 lives were ended in a matter of seconds when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. It looks at the ongoing argument of whether or not the U.S. should have taken such a drastic measure and whether it was entirely necessary to drop such a devastating weapon. It attempts to prove that the atomic bombs dropped on Japan were cruel, but justified. It examines how the barbarities of war began with Japan and their war tactics, their attack on Pearl Harbor and China, and how they used suicide bombers and killed women and children. It also includes details of how the U.S. and the Allies tried to find some other way by imposing naval and air blockades to convince Japan to give up and end the war.
From the Paper "With the end of European war, the Allies focused their efforts on Japan. By mid-1944 a consensus had begun to develop on the need at least to plan and prepare for an invasion, and in early July it was decided that unconditional surrender was to be achieved by undermining Japan's ability and will to resist through sea and air blockades, intensive air bombardments, and destruction of Japanese air and naval strength--and ultimately by invading and seizing objectives in the Japanese industrial heartland beginning with the home island of Kyushu (MacEachin). However, the huge loss at the earlier marine invasion of Iwo Jima and at Okinawa, and the information received from the intelligence reports of the preparations of Japanese by stocking on troops and suicide planes in retaliation made ground combat seem like an impractical decision."
Abstract In this paper the author examines the rationale behind high school students in America who drop out before graduation. Despite the reports of the higher percentages of students that finish school, the author points out that there are still a large number of students who drop out of school before graduating. He suggests that according to classical economic rationale there must be a valid reason for these students dropping out. In this paper, the author tries to determine the conditions under which this decision makes economic sense and looks at the economic models of education. In conclusion the author states that all the economic models of education he presents, point to the same general conclusion: more education is better and it is a rational choice to continue education. However, the author points out that these models only hold for middle class white students from decent schools. For the poor, he highlights, from the inner city, the models do not hold as the problem is not the decision-making function of the poor it is more the types of jobs available, the dismal state of education, and the general hopelessness of life that leads students to undervalue their futures.
From the Paper "The addition of these two components, rate of return and time preference, make this model a much more accurate decision function from which to view the decision to drop out. Rate of return to a high school degree has been studied. "In the United States, each year of education raises earning power by an average of 5-6% with effect tending to rise with the duration of education." (Weale, A Critical Evaluation of Rate of Return Analysis, pp. 729). Weale goes on to conclude that there is actually a point of zero return to education and then a level where extra education actually negatively influences income. This general finding is corroborated specifically for high school levels of educational attainment by Weiss, who finds that "The best estimate was each year of secondary education had roughly a 3.7 percent increase on the previous wage of the workers in that plant." (Weiss, High School Graduation, Performance, and Wages, pp. 807) Certainly, high school levels of education attainment continue to show increasing returns for each additional year beyond the 9th grade. With perfect information, it seems rational to continue one's education."
Abstract This work outlines the current trend of young students today to drop out of college. It deals with all the possible causes for the increasing rates of drop outs among high school and college students. In concluding, it suggests ways in which students could be counselled and thereby prevent this phenomenon.
From the Paper "The primary aim of education is to help the learner how to learn and promote the society through the knowledge one has acquired during the process of learning. Education enables the learner to develop the facilities of mind, those powers of intelligence and imagination without which no intellectual works can be accomplished. The accent should not only be on professional competence. The primary aim of education is to produce citizens who can exercise their political liberty responsibility. Education develops cultivated persons who can use their leisure fruitfully."
Abstract The question of whether or not it was necessary to drop the atomic bomb on Japan and the reasons for doing so is one of the most hotly contested historical issues today. This paper focuses on one of the many arguments against the necessity of the bomb, which deals with the policy of unconditional surrender. Many scholars argue that if Truman would have assured the Japanese leadership that Emperor Hirohito would not be dethroned after Japan's defeat, the atomic bomb would not have been necessary to end the war. The paper provides evidence to support this claim, but in the end, concludes that even the most ardent Japanese peace advocates harbored suicidal sentiments with regard to unconditional surrender and would still refuse to accept Truman's terms after both bombs were dropped.
From the Paper "There were many advocates pushing for a change since the beginning of the war, but no real progress was made in this endeavor even after 1944 when high ranking military officials pushed for a policy change. They complained that losses would be increasingly heavy as fighting neared the Japanese homeland. Realizing that changing the terms would make the Japanese more willing to surrender, commanders began pushing Roosevelt to consider clarifying them. Early in 1945, Winston Churchill proposed at the Yalta Conference that clarifying the terms ?would be worthwhile if it led to the saving of a year and a half of a war in which so much blood and treasure would be poured out.? He proposed that after Germany was defeated the Allies ?issue an ultimatum to Japan, retaining the unconditional surrender wording, but defining it to allow retention of the emperor (Newman, 65).? Many others began coming to the realization that Japan was not going to surrender without assurances to its Emperor, and that this issue was a major obstacle to peace."
A comprehensive study researching court ordered versus volunteer admission to treatment facilities for adolescent addicts, as it relates to the completion of treatment and the drop-out rate.
Abstract The statement of the problem can be best summarized as follows: adolescents that attend treatment do so either by court appointment or voluntarily and whether they complete their treatment or drop out of the program may be related to whether they agree to attend the treatment or are forced to attend it. In light of this problem statement, there are three hypotheses presented in this study. The paper attempts to validate or invalidate them at the completion of the current study so that a deeper understanding of the issue can be obtained. The three hypotheses that are looked at are:
* Hypothesis One: Adolescents that enter treatment voluntarily are more committed to living clean and sober lives than those that are forced through the courts to attend treatment.
* Hypothesis Two: Adolescents that enter treatment voluntarily have lower drop out rates and higher completion rates for their treatment programs than those that enter court appointed treatment.
* Hypothesis Three: Adolescents that enter voluntary treatment have a lower relapse rate than those that attend court appointed treatment programs and they remain clean and sober for longer periods of time if they do relapse.
There are other issues that could be studied and hypothesized about when it comes to adolescents and their treatment for drugs and alcohol, but the three listed above are the ones that are the most significant. Validating or invalidating the three hypotheses presented here will provide many researchers and others that study and struggle with this issue more insight into the ways that they might want to work on the issue in the future. If adolescents really perform better when they enter treatment voluntarily, finding ways to show them the seriousness of their problems and getting them to want treatment may become a key issue in the future, as opposed to simply forcing them into a court appointed treatment program that they will suffer through and then return to their old lifestyle.
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Introduction
Background
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of the Study
Importance of the Study
Scope of the Study
Limitations of the Study
Rationale for the Study
Overview of the Study
Chapter Two
Review of Related Literature
Chapter Three
Methodology
Research Design and Approach
Population and Sample
Collection of Data
Data Analysis Procedures
Chapter Four
Analysis of the Data
Addiction Severity Index - Adjusted to Use as a Survey
Chapter Five
Summary, Recommendations, and Conclusion
Works Cited
From the Paper "Addiction is something that has been around for many years, and there have been increasingly new ways of treating it that have been created over the course of much research and study. There are many different forms that addiction takes, and there are many different drugs and substances that someone can become addicted to, even if they are not of the age that most people would think of when they picture people that would start down that particular road. Most individuals think of addicts as primarily young, minority men in their 20s and 30s that rob, steal, and cause other problems in order to get their drugs or alcohol. However, there are also many women that are addicted to various substances, and although race is a factor when looking at addiction numbers, there are plenty of people of all races and ethnic backgrounds that struggle with addiction and many of the problems that it can cause."
Abstract When President Harry S Truman received a report on the effects of the atomic bomb dropped by American pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, he said: "This is the greatest thing in history." This paper considers whether the atomic bomb that was dropped on the city of Hiroshima was really the greatest thing in history, as President Truman said according to the quote, or whether it was the most terrible crime in history.
Abstract The paper relates the history of education for African-Americans and explores problems relating to education legislation. The paper looks at present education issues and concerns for African-American students and examines statistics relating to their drop-out rates. The paper concludes that there has been progress, to a degree, in educational attainment of the aspirations of African-American students, although there are still barriers.
Outline:
Introduction
History of Education for African Americans
Noted Problems Relating to Education Legislation
Present Education Issues and Concerns for African-American Students
Statistics Relating to Drop-out Rates of African-Americans
Summary and Conclusion
From the Paper "The work of Allen and Jewell (2002) states that: "...the Black struggle for higher education is an apt metaphor for the larger Black struggles for citizenship, self-determination and personhood in this society." The historical account of the African American race in obtaining access to higher education in the United States is characterized by many ups and downs. The aspirations of the African American individual of attaining higher education have been historically unattained due to existing barriers to higher education of Black individuals."
Abstract This paper explains that the scope of the effect the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had on modern warfare and science technology is visible only when taking into account the intense scientific processes to create these weapons of mass destruction. The author points out that, at the dawn of World War II, Albert Einstein sent a letter to President Franklin. D. Roosevelt about Nazi Germany's efforts to purify uranium-235, which he warned could result in the building of an atomic bomb. The paper relates that, soon after this letter, the U.S. government started the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb before the Germans. The author states that the bomb was tested successfully on July 1945 and, a month later, the first bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The paper concludes that the atomic bomb was considered a "quick" and economical way to win the war; however, it was a cruel form of punishment for the Japanese citizens resulting in slow and painful deaths for many innocent Japanese. The paper includes graphs.
From the Paper "The most difficult part of the Manhattan Project was how to produce enough enriched Uranium to uphold a chain reaction. Uranium-235 was hard to extract. Only about 1/500th of Uranium ore mined ends up as Uranium metal. Of this metal, the fissionable isotope of Uranium is rare. Fissionable Uranium occurs at a ration of 1 to 139. Separating one part of Uranium-235 from 139 parts of Uranium-238 is challenging. Only mechanical methods could effectively separate the two. Scientists at Columbia University first figured out how. A facility to separate Uranium-235 was set up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee."
Abstract This paper discusses the history, aims, and effectiveness of United States economic and travel sanctions against Cuba. The paper then focuses on the change in public opinion within the United States that favors dropping the sanctions against Cuba. Next, the paper discusses the arguments in favor of dropping the sanctions and presents them as personal recommendations to the President.
Table of Contents:
Situation
Recommendations
Benefits of Change
Short- and Long-Term Change
From the Paper "Passage of this legislation came at a time when many in congress believed that the fall of Cuba was imminent, based on the example of the Soviet Union and its disintegration. They were wrong, though the sanctions they imposed continue as if they were effective. The formation and maintenance of the policy has been affected from the fist by competing interests in the U.S., and this only adds to the uncertainty seen by many: "The oddities of American politics being what they are, no one can be absolutely certain that the embargo will not last another forty years." Even as the Helms-Burton law was passed, future U.S.-Cuba relations were characterized as bleak as far as any positive change was concerned."
Abstract This paper discusses the decision, made by U.S. President Harry Truman, to drop the atomic bomb on the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which resulted in over 100,000 deaths and almost total destruction of both cities. The paper considers some of the reasons for the decision and argues that the desire to end the war quickly was undoubtedly the over-riding reason for dropping the bomb.
From the Paper "All of above, by no means suggests that President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb was based solely on the desire to end the war quickly and save lives. Other considerations may well have played a part in the decision albeit to a lesser extent. For example, the Manhattan Project initiated for the development of the atomic bomb had cost over $ 2 billion, which was an enormous amount for the time. President Truman must have been under considerable pressure to justify the expenditure to the Congress if the bomb had not been used. The potential rivalry of the United States with the Soviet Union in the post-World War II scenario may too have prompted Truman to avail the opportunity to demonstrate the power of the bomb to the Soviet leaders. Most of all, the American public's desire for revenge and to punish the Japanese for its attack on Pearl Harbor and its atrocious treatment of American prisoners meant that Truman would not have felt any remorse for ordering the devastating attacks."
