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Greatest Danger Facing the Global Community, 2006.
Argues that the rich-poor gap is the greatest danger facing the global community in the twenty-first century.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, $ 89.95
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As we enter the last half of the first decade of the twenty-first century academics are still trying to determine what threat constitutes the greatest danger to the global community Some individuals believe that terrorism with the massive loss of human life that can attend it and the chilling effect it can have on civil liberties and on the willingness of people to engage in honest debate is the greatest threat the international order will confront. Others believe that overpopulation may constitute the greatest threat over straining our fragile ability to provide for all our citizens especially those reared in poor nations. This paper argues that it is the gap between the rich and the poor that presents the greatest threat to the global community.
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Globalization and Global Survival, 2005.
This paper discusses the effects and dangers of globalization.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, $ 71.95
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This article examines the cultural, commercial, political and environmental effects of globalization. The writer then looks at the related challenges and dangers. The writer discusses how the existence of international monopolies together with the third world sweat shops and additional factors endanger global survival. The writer further discusses that globalization's exportation of environmentally and perhaps socially unsustainable Western materialism to populous developing nations such as India and China is also worrying for the future of the planet.
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"Evidence of increasing hegemony by an ever shrinking number of multinational conglomerates is fuelling increasing concern regarding global cultural, commercial, political and environmental effects from such inequitable distribution of power. The creation of international industrial monopolies and massive fortunes of unprecedented size, accompanied as it is by equally massive down-sizing, unemployment, environmental degradation and the exponential increase of Third World sweat shops and child labor, seems to be leading to disaster on a global scale."
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The Dangers of Marijuana, 2007.
This paper investigates marijuana; its potential use as a curative for several high-profile conditions and the dangers associated with it.
1,317 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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The paper relates that marijuana is considered a dangerous addictive drug that is often a "gateway" to the use of more dangerous addictive drugs. The paper discusses how researchers are now investigating this drug for more therapeutic usage. The paper explains how marijuana works, its medical uses and the suspected harmful long-term effects in habitual users. The paper stresses that for the lay person, the dangers of long-term marijuana use are clear. As far as medical use is concerned, the paper explains that the potential dangers of use will have to be weighed against the potential dangers of the disease.
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Pharmacology
Changes in Brain and Behavior
Medical Uses of Marijuana
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"The effects of marijuana intoxication include the sensation that time passes more slowly, and an altered awareness of the body and environment around the person (Murray, 1985). There are also a number of emotional changes that occur as well. Intoxication with marijuana produces difficulty with motor coordination, impaired learning, difficulty paying attention and memory loss (Murray 1985). Compared to other psychotropic drugs such as cocaine and MDMA (Methamphetamine), marijuana is considered to be relatively harmless (Lundquist 2005). However, some long term effects, such as neurotoxicity are a concern regarding the long-term medical use of the plant."
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Global Dangers, 2002.
A review of "Global Dangers: Changing Dimensions of International Security" on environmental security.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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This paper reviews "Global Dangers: Changing Dimensions of International Security". The collection of papers in this book perfectly reflect the themes of this course, since it touches on how the threat to the environment poses the greatest danger to the international community today. This is precisely why environmental security must now become the most important objective of all nations.
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The Dangers of Obesity, 2005.
A look at the argument that the dangers of obesity have been grossly overrated.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 9 sources, $ 53.95
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We are constantly told by the media that Western society faces an obesity epidemic. Being fat is equated with being unhealthy. The media constantly promotes being thin as equivalent to being healthy and beautiful. This paper argues that the health dangers of obesity are over-rated, and that the real threat to fat people's mental and physical health is the fat oppression they have to deal with every day in a fat-phobic society.
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Dangers of Tobacco, 2004.
An opinion paper which argues that making the public aware of the dangers of tobacco is the best prevention method.
1,658 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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Tobacco smoking is a grave health threat to the world population, and without immediate action, the situation will escalate to alarming proportions. The paper states that with cancer and cardiac diseases on the increase, the negative impact of tobacco is plainly obvious. It argues that, going by the statistical data, it is pretty clear that immediate, positive intervention is required to contain the harmful effects of tobacco addiction. The writer concludes that creating awareness among the people as to the dangers of smoking is the first and foremost step in our efforts at controlling this global health menace.
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"Tobacco smoking is one of the most common habits prevalent throughout the world. People continue to smoke tobacco and there is very little concern for the health consequences of tobacco use. Every year smoking takes a huge toll on peoples lives, greater than any other epidemic disease like AIDS. Cardiac arrest and lung cancer are two of the potentially fatal diseases, which are directly attributed to tobacco smoking. Apart from this tobacco is also the leading cause for respiratory problems like asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, infertility, oral diseases and other complications. A discussion on the health effects of smoking, laws pertaining to tobacco trade and some statistical insight would certainly help us get a better picture of the problem."
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Dangers of Cell Phone Use While Driving, 2004.
This essay looks at the dangers of talking on a cell phone while driving.
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This essay is intended to persuade the reader not to use cell phones while driving. In this article the writer examines the dangers of cell phones. In particular, the writer concentrates on the use of the cell phones that apply while driving. The writer uses this paper to urge the reader not to use such cell phones while driving.
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"Curtis Sathre said it was like a bomb going off. His young son Michael, stood stunned, his ears ringing, hand gushing blood and body covered in black ash. In a split second, fragments from Michael's exploding cell phone had hit him between the eyes and lodged in the ceiling of the family's home. Michael is still alive. Imagine what would have happened if he had been driving. The purpose is to persuade ..."
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The Dangers of Second-hand Smoke, 2002.
A look at the dangers that second-hand smoke has on people, animals and the environment, with a strong argument supporting a ban on smoking in public places.
2,146 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper touches on the physical dangers of inhaling second-hand smoke and the negative effects of second-hand smoke on children and pets. It also argues for a ban on smoking in public places and describes some of the cities and states that have already instrumented such a ban in the United States.
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"Second-hand smoke is a public health hazard. Not only does it have the supernatural ability to cling to clothing and hair, leaving behind a lingering, musty, and stale smell, but it can also create very serious health problems. For those who choose to partake in the precarious activity of puffing on a cancer stick, the associated side effects are expected. Smokers are voluntarily and knowingly exposing themselves to the possibilities of asthma, lung cancer, heart disease, and other related diseases, and are not all that surprised when they become ill from their bad habit. For those who choose not to inhale poisonous chemicals into their lungs, however, the side effects are just unfair. Many non-smokers have chosen not to smoke to preserve their health and prolong their lives, and they should not have to expose themselves to second-hand smoke when they are out in public. Non-smokers should be able to feel free to socialize in any restaurant or bar without having to be subjected to the harmful effects of second-hand smoke. With so many grim statistics out there about second-hand smoke, why are we still allowing people to smoke in public places, literally killing those who choose not to smoke?"
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Modern Dangers of Medicine, 2002.
An opinion paper about the dangers of modern medicine and the need to return to natural remedies.
1,580 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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The writer of this paper argues that modern medicine is in collusion with the pharmaceutical and insurance industries to create a system of profit rather than health. It states that the only effective alternative is to turn back to natural cures, to proper nutrition and diet and a holistic approach to healing.
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"Every single week, more people die at the hands of doctors than in the entire World Trade Center disaster. (Smith, 2002) This is neither a new statistic, nor an unexpected one. In 1979 Robert Mendelsohn wrote a controversial best-seller, Confessions of a Medical Heretic, in which he claimed that modern physicians were nothing more or less than the witch doctors of the Church of Medicine. He suggested that modern treatments precluded the creation of modern cures, and that it was capital rather than caring that dominated the medical system. Today his words ring more true than ever. The allopathic approach to medicine has shown itself to be more kill than cure, and a change is desperately needed. Modern allopathic medicine oppresses women and treats childbearing and childhood as a pathology, and in general it takes a terrible toll with unnecessary and even dangerous techniques."
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Theodore Rosengarten's :All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw", 1995.
This paper reviews the oral history presented in Theodore Rosengarten's :All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw" about the struggles of black sharecropper in South before WWII.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"Theodore Rosengarten's :All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw" depicts the labor struggle of a black sharecropper in the years before World War II. It stands as the oral history of blacks in a southern rural economy, as recounted by Nate Shaw. Nate narrates his personal history involving the landlord-tenant system (sharecropping), the struggle for economic survival in the white man's world, and his enduring faith in the sanctity of hard work over adversity. Unfortunately, Nate's life was an uphill battle to change that which changed anyway, as New Deal policies made life easier for laborers everywhere, on the farm or in the city.
The landlord-tenant system of sharecropping favored the white man; in reality, it was slavery in another guise. The relationship between owner and sharecropper was one of exploitation, the white owner in most cases exploiting the black tenant. Theoretically, blacks should have been able to purchase and contract out land, just as whites did, but, as Nate explains, whites wrote the ... "
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Risk Perception and Dangers, 2005.
This paper discusses risk perception and assessment using the dangers of lead in children as an example of risk management.
2,310 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper explains that risk perception examines the opinions of people when asked to evaluate hazardous activities, substances and technologies, which helps policy-makers by improving communication between them and the public, by directing educational effort and by predicting public responses to new technologies, events and new risk management strategies. The author points out that the fields that have the most important influence in evaluating risk perception are (1) geography because of the recent broadening of focus on technological hazards, (2) sociology and anthropology because risk perception is influenced by friends, family and co-workers, and (3) psychology because of the use of psycho-physical scaling and multivariate analysis techniques to produce quantitative representations or'cognitive maps' of risk attitudes and perceptions, which demonstrate that every hazard has a unique pattern of qualities related to its perceived risk. The paper states that, for the last 30 years, instead of asking how to prevent lead poisoning, the medical community has taken a risk assessment approach, asking, "How much lead is safe for industry to put into children?"
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"The present 'risk balance' situation also does not appear to differentiate between different sorts of risk. For example, a one in 1000 risk imposed on someone is different to a one in 1000 risk accepted by someone. It is often the case that the risk from using a chemical, say, is borne by the population as a whole, whereas the benefits accrue only to a minority. This is inequitable, and a new focus in risk - allowing a product on the market only if it passes a criterion of 'social need' for example, would ensure that inequitable distributions of costs and benefits were reduced."
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The Dangers of Anthrax, 2007.
Questions whether anthrax is a dangerous weapon.
1,682 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 54.95
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In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, anthrax, a deadly chemical agent, began showing up in many areas of the East Coast. The nation came to fear anthrax, but was that fear justified? The paper argues that while the anthrax outbreaks caused relatively few deaths, the use of anthrax as a weapon of bioterrorism should be anticipated with fear and dread. The agent is deadly and the vaccines against it are controversial at best. The paper shows that anthrax is indeed a weapon of mass destruction if it falls into the wrong hands.
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"Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of anthrax is its longevity. The spores can lie dormant for literally years, but they can still infect a person after years of exposure to the elements. Researchers know this because of past studies conducted on the disease and the spores that cause it. For example, British researchers studied the disease and its affect on animals for about a year in an isolated Scottish bog during World War II. During their studies, they exposed sheep to various types of weapons containing anthrax spores, including bombs, bullets, and other dispersants."
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The Dangers of Modern Technology, 2006.
This paper examines the effects, both positive and negative, of modern technological advancements in daily life.
783 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This brief but concise paper explores the dangers of modern technology and the use of technological advancements by governing parties to maintain power and control over society. The writer of this paper also discusses philosophical post-enlightenment critiques that warned of the dangers of advanced science that can eventually control society as well as nature.
This paper is set up as follows:
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
Works Cited
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"According to Foucault, humans focus too much on finding our origins, what is perfect and universal. We look for justice in the best political order, but justice is not the same during all time periods. That is because justice is not universal, but based on power (Foucault Reader 5). This is true. Justice differs during time periods. It seems the more technological we become, the greater the power in fewer hands. This is not due to anything inherently bad in technology, however, but what is inherently bad in human nature. The holders of great technologies, earn the most money, and therefore have the most power, and also the ability to retain that power through the accumulation of greater technological advances."
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The Dangers of Alcohol, 2007.
This paper argues for alcohol to be made illegal.
1,428 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The paper contends that alcohol use should be made illegal because of its many detrimental effects and the loss of lives due to alcohol-related incidents. The paper discusses the argument of many that to make alcohol illegal would be to violate the individual personal rights and freedoms that we are guaranteed. The paper asserts that, although it is a personal choice to consume alcohol, when the dangers are transferred to innocent victims like strangers and close friends, the choice should be removed for those not responsible or strong enough to avoid the temptation.
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""There were 16, 694 alcohol-related fatalities in 2004 - 39 percent of the total traffic fatalities for the year" (Alcohol Alert). "[The] Drinker experiences mild euphoria and loss of inhibition as alcohol impairs regions of the brain controlling behaviour and emotion" (Drinksense). Driving requires a multitude of skills: coordination, balance, concentration, reflexes, vision, reason, judgment. Alcohol consumption slows down or impairs every single one of these abilities, making a car into a deadly weapon in the hands of an intoxicated driver. Even worse are these effects on a young, inexperienced driver. Though certainly drinking and driving are a personal choice, the many of the individuals that are killed in alcohol-related accidents are other innocent drivers, passengers, or pedestrians who are struck by an intoxicated driver."
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The Dangers of Cellular Phones, 2004.
A review of the article, ?Cellular Phones: Policymakers Consider the Effects of Highway Usage?, by Jamie Kanallakan.
879 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses the article, ?Cellular Phones: Policymakers Consider the Effects of Highway Usage? by Jamie Kanallakan, issued by the government on the dangers of cellular phones related to deadly car crashes and also their many benefits. It looks at how, as we head into the future, cell phone use is at an all-time high and how arguments conclude that cell phones, when used while traveling, are more beneficial on highways than harmful.
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"Cell phone use, whether hand- held or headset requires drivers to put their focus on more than one task of maneuvering around the streets. The phones require drivers not only to lose focus of your own driving, but cell phones cause them to loose focus of the driving environment around them. A key to driving is to be alert and defensive and the bottom line is that cell phones are a distraction while used when operating a vehicle. Drivers should keep their cell phones in the glove compartment until they are in a position where they are helping others instead of endangering them."
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