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Pain Tolerance, 2005.
This paper compares the tolerance for pain of males and females.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 9 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper explains that research findings reveal that gender differences in pain are a complex phenomenon involving multiple biological psychological and sociocultural factors. The author points out that recent research recognizes gender presents a consistent picture of gender differences in pain. The paper states that women display greater perceptual and neurophysiological responses to noxious stimuli.
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"Who has a higher tolerance for pain - males or females? Gender and pain tolerance has been an interesting field of study for psychologists. Research findings reveal that sex differences in pain are a complex phenomenon involving many variables. Fillingim (2003) points out that "pain is a complex experience sculpted by multiple biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors (p. 2). In recently years, researchers have recognized that gender is one of the variables that influences pain. Fillingim notes that literature on experimental pain presents a consistent picture of gender differences in pain. Women display greater perceptual and neurophysiological responses to noxious stimuli (p. 2)."
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Literature Review on Zero Tolerance, 2007.
A literature review of the zero tolerance policy in an educational setting and various views regarding its effectiveness.
12,690 words (approx. 50.8 pages), 41 sources, APA, $ 242.95
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This paper examines the use of zero tolerance policies as a preventative measure against school violence. It points out that studies reveal conflicting opinions about zero tolerance. It argues that the research available shows a clear need for a change in how zero tolerance policies are applied and a need for various alternatives. The paper includes tables and survey statistics to illustrate this. To conclude, the paper suggests that now is the time to make adjustments in policy, practice and research to implement policies that can keep schools safe and preserve the opportunity for all students to learn.
Outline:
Introduction
Statement of Purpose
Review of Literature
History of Zero Tolerance
Perceptions of Teachers, Administrators and Parents
Suspension and Expulsion
School Shootings
Negative Impact of Zero Tolerance
Alternatives to Zero Tolerance Policies
Conclusion
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"A particular strategy that has caught the attention of many school districts in the last two decades or so is the zero tolerance policy. The zero tolerance policy has become a one-size-fits all solution to all the problems facing schools. Skiba (2000) offers this definition for zero tolerance...it is "a method of sending a message that certain behaviors will not be tolerated, by punishing all offenses severely, no matter how minor". The said purpose of the zero tolerance policy is to create a safe and secure learning environment for all students, something that is in fact a right of all students and parents to expect from any educational institution. However, in practice, it has been used to direct students who misbehave intentionally, targets serious risk students who cause disturbances in schools, and applied to students who have an emotional problem or other disability (Noguera 2003)."
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"Teaching Tolerance", 2004.
A review of the book, "Teaching Tolerance" written by Sara Bullard.
883 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses the issue of intolerance among children. Through an overview of the book, "Teaching Tolerance" by Sara Bullard, the paper examines the importance of educating young children towards tolerance of others. The paper contends that teaching tolerance is not about paying lip service through politically correct language, which can all but gloss over deeply-rooted biases. Rather, the paper claims that tolerance should be taught by embodying acceptance and respect and continually teaching those values to children.
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"According to Sara Bullard, author of Teaching Tolerance, prejudice begins in early childhood. Her book, subtitled "Raising Open-Minded, Empathetic Children," illustrates the prevalence of prejudice in the United States and shows how intolerance can be inherited through environmental factors. A significant portion of the book is also about how to combat, eliminate, and prevent intolerance. Children inherit their beliefs from parents, peers, teachers, and other external influences. Intolerance can therefore be partly inherited through the generations. "Our habits of thinking, our emotional reactions, and our feelings about ourselves have been an integral part of our personalities for many years," (74). Overcoming intolerance involves a systematic program of self-inquiry, journal writing, and reaching out to other people."
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Face Transplants: Focus on Immune Tolerance, 2006.
A review of studies contributing to a strategy for immune tolerance in the transplant setting and their relevance to the future of face transplants.
3,300 words (approx. 13.2 pages), 23 sources, MLA, $ 94.95
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This paper discusses the problem of medicine's inability to induce antigen-specific immune tolerance, the final technical obstacle to bringing face transplants into widespread clinical application. The paper presents an overview of historic and current immunological research - from the use of chimerism, to the use of monoclonal antibodies to control T-cell activation - and its role in future prospects for a non-pharmaceutical strategy for tolerance induction in humans. The paper highlights studies that have examined tolerance in recipients of composite tissue allografts (CTAs), with emphasis on studies using animal models involving skin allografts, and with the intent of providing insight into the issues presented by transplantation of a face. It includes graphs and photographs to illustrate this.
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Abstract
Introduction
CTA Study Goals
Antigenicity of Facial Allograft Components
Immune Tolerance and Chimerism
T-cells: Activation and Blockage
Memory Cells: The Ghost in the Immune Machine
Conclusion
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"Investigators are exploring several strategies in an attempt to provide medicine with safe and effective pharmaceuticals and clinical protocols for inducing tolerance after transplant. These include creating and using chimerism, and developing targeted bio-engineered monoclonal antibodies to inactivate or destroy T cells. This review, in its overview of historical and current immunological research, provides insight into the development of a T-cell-based strategy from a basic understanding of chimerism. This review also highlights studies that examine tolerance in recipients of CTA transplants, with specific emphasis on those using skin allograft animal models."
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Fault Tolerance By Duplication, 2006.
An explanation of the concept of fault tolerance by duplication.
1,542 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper provides an overview and explanation of fault tolerance. It specifically focuses on the method of fault tolerance by duplication and discusses this throughout the paper. It also links the advantages of fault tolerance to medical systems in California such as Palomar Pomerado Health.
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"Naturally you can see the importance of fault tolerance in a California hospital computer system and network. Situations and emergencies like surgery, patient monitoring and emergency room cases don't leave much margin of error. There is little room to explain that the computer systems failed during a patients surgery- --at least not without expecting an ugly lawsuit."
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Tolerance and Modern Society, 2006.
This paper discusses the views of John Locke and Pierre Bayle regarding tolerance and modern society.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 53.95
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In this article, the writer examines the concept of tolerance as viewed by John Locke and Pierre Bayle. The writer notes that both Lock and Bayle usually looked at this subject as it relates to religious beliefs. However, the writer further points out that when the concept of tolerance is expanded into the concerns of the social order, with the predominant class being white and male, the concept of tolerance becomes a significant issue among all people. The writer also discusses that both Locke and Bayle condemned the idea of government making determinations about an individual's religious beliefs.
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"The concept of tolerance was generally discussed by John Locke and Pierre Bayle in relation to religious beliefs. Yet, the theory of tolerance had a much greater scope of importance because its concepts were ultimately related to the whole of society. Tolerance, for the most part, meant accepting different people with different points of view that were not part of the mainstream society. In the time of Locke and Bayle mainstream thought was based on Christian beliefs."
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Fault Tolerance, 2007.
This paper looks at how important fault tolerance systems are to companies.
826 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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In this article, the writer first points out that errors in a network system can result in serious financial problems for a company. The writer then explains that this has led to an increased demand for products such as magnetic tape backup, recording systems, UPS and fault tolerance systems that help in protecting the company's network systems against data loss. The writer also notes that fault tolerant devices are also called mirroring products since they work on redundancy by providing identical copies of data and program files. The writer concludes that ,while fault tolerance systems are needed in order to avoid potential loss of data and revenues, there are some drawbacks attached to their implementation, such as cost.
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"While these technologies are standard, there are some specialized fault-tolerant products such as Novell's System Fault Tolerant (SFT) NetWare are not that well understood and hence not used that often. Fault tolerant devices are also called mirroring products since they work on redundancy by providing making identical copies of data and program files. The fault tolerant devices make use of the server and the hard disk to mirror files and each of these files has the exact same formatting and content as the original copy."
"Fault tolerant technologies help in providing security to a large extent. This kind of security is more protective than simple back up or data recovery system. A fault tolerant network is not the same thing as a fault resilient system."
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Zero Tolerance Policies in Education, 2004.
A look at both sides of the argument concerning the zero tolerance policies of the educational system.
4,406 words (approx. 17.6 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 115.95
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This paper reviews extant literature on youth violence, its extra-curricular motivations, its inappropriateness in a curricular setting, the role of television, gangs and drugs, and alcohol in creating a culture of youth violence that stems from unsupervised time, and the polemical argument between advocates and opponents of the zero-tolerance policy as it is presented as a way of reducing school violence in terms of both actual effect and perception.
Introduction
Literature Review
Areas for Further Research
Conclusion
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"This policy is restricted by nature to within the walls of the institution, but unfortunately, the root of school violence may not be in the school setting itself. In fact, most students do not spend most of their time in the school setting: most students spend up to eight percent of their time away from school, with their school hours making up only a small minority of their total time. Therefore, although the root of school violence may lie in what students are doing during this unsupervised time, during their supervised time at school, a zero-tolerance policy can target behavior at its ends rather than its means and keep the time that students do spend at school safe, with the assumption being that students will be shocked into line by a set of policies that monitors their time at school strictly enough to deter them from even playacting or fantasizing along themes that suggest violent behavior within the school itself. The zero-tolerance policy differs from school to school, but predominantly, the policy seeks to cut down on a youth culture that
too often expresses itself anti-social activities such as gang violence and drugs instead of more productive, future-looking activities."
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Tolerance, 2007.
An analysis of the similarities in Francois-Marie Arouet's (Voltaire) views on tolerance to his predecessor, Pierre Bayle.
1,498 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper examines the philosophical views of Francois-Marie Arouet (known by the pen-name, Voltaire) and Pierre Bayle with regards to the concept of tolerance. It argues that Voltaire is surprisingly indebted to Bayle for a number of his own views. The paper specifically discusses their views on violence, common potential and a basic belief in enlightened humanism. The paper suggests that Bayle clearly blazed a trail that Voltaire was to later follow.
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"At the same time, Bayle also believes that the outwards professions of faith are meaningless if they are not conjoined by inner purity. In particular, he defines an inner state lacking in proper fear of God or in proper love for the Holy Writ as "Acts of Hypocrisy and Falsehood, or Impiety and Revolt against Conscience" (Bayle 77). The reference to "impiety" is particularly interesting inasmuch as Voltaire, in a much later era, would write at length about how those who stoop to judge their fellow man and their fidelity to the Word of God are guilty of impiously assuming for themselves the magisterial role best left to God. In Bayle's case, his strong emphasis upon the need to truly have fear and love of God in one's heart runs parallel with Voltaire's to the extent that he, too, believes that proper modesty and deference is essential to noble Christian living. Clearly, a person who wishes to "play God" is not acting as a humble Christian and, in this respect, both Bayle - who denounces those who use punishment and coercion in an attempt to impress the Word of God upon the souls of others (77) - and certainly Voltaire rebuke those who want to act as members of earthly tribunals."
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Zero Tolerance Policy, 2002.
Questions whether American students accept the Zero Tolerance policy against drugs and violence in their schools.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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In today's American schools, both elementary and high school, there is a "zero-tolerance" policy regarding drug use and violence. How do the students react to this? Do they rail against it, or do they accept it? In this paper, that is the question I will try to answer.
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Zero-Tolerance Policy, 2003.
Questions the pros and cons of enforcing a zero-tolerance policy on school violence.
2,487 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 75.95
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This paper examines the policies developed in dealing with violence in schools and looks at the arguments for a zero-tolerance policy and the arguments for a less severe discipline plan. It presents a detailed literature review on the subject and concludes with recommendations for alternative solutions.
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"Zero-tolerance is a term that is not limited to schools; it is used to deal with crime, which I feel certain types of violence in schools are?a crime. Along with violence, there are other crimes committed in schools that warrant a zero-tolerance, such as drug possession. I am firmly for a zero-tolerance policy on violence and crimes in schools. However, it is the type of violence and the age of the student that must be closely examined before the punishment is given out. There needs to be certain grades of violence defined and placed with a certain punishment. For example, hitting a teacher would be a Grade III infraction and would merit an immediate expulsion. Meanwhile, a fight in the hallway would be a grade II infraction and merit a 5-day suspension. I just don?t feel that we can rid ourselves of violence by getting rid of every child who commits a violent act."
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Intolerance/Tolerance of Differences, 2002.
An examination of the effectiveness of literature and films to illustrate the tolerance or intolerance of differences.
2,567 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes the novels I. ?Kaffir Boy? by Mark Mathabane; The Scarlet Letter? by Nathaniel Hawthorne; ?Brave New World? by Aldous Huxley; as well as the film ?8 Mile.? The discussion and analysis are based on the historical and biographical context of each source, as well as the conflict between society and individual, and the impact of intolerance of society to the behavior and actions of the individual.
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"The realm of arts as a reflection of life and society is perhaps the most important aspect that literature and similar form of arts illustrate. The celebration or criticism of human experience, particularly of human sorrow and suffering, is depicted effectively through the prose and film medium, which are two expressive forms of art. Human suffering and sorrow is depicted through different situations, and is commonly found in the depiction of conflict between the society and individual. Conflict within the society arises because of the differences that exist within each member of the society."
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Christianity and Tolerance, 1999.
Examines the New Testament and Christian teachings for signs of intolerance toward those of different religious beliefs.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 5 sources, $ 79.95
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The first-century Mediterranean world, where Christianity began, was not a world in which tolerance was an important concept. According to Bruce Malina (1981), the people of this time and region shared a certain orientation toward the world that emphasized honor in terms of power, sexual status, and religion. They
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"Christianity and Tolerance
Introduction
The first-century Mediterranean world, where Christianity began, was not a world in which tolerance was an important concept. According to Bruce Malina (1981), the people of this time and region shared a certain orientation toward the world that emphasized honor in terms of power, sexual status, and religion. They were dyadic people who derived their sense of self and personality by referral to external values and external evaluation. Their focus was aligning their own behavior with an external image of the appropriate behavior.
Karen Armstrong (1993) further noted that the people of the Jewish community were actively intolerant of their neighbors' religious beliefs and practices. She indicated that this was a ..."
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Desiccation Tolerance in Prokaryotes, 2005.
A research paper about water stress or dehydration at the cellular level.
4,645 words (approx. 18.6 pages), 25 sources, APA, $ 120.95
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This research paper takes a look at a special type of dehydration known as dessication, where drying takes place in air. The paper is concerned with responses to water stress at a cellular level and is dedicated to exploring the current research being done in explicating the idea of desiccation tolerance in prokaryotes, namely, bacteria and archaea.
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"Bacteria are critical to most molecular biology research. If a DNA sample is to be studied or created in large quantities for expression purposes for (for instance) protein synthesis, researchers make use of Escherichia coli. The DNA is inserted into the E. coli chromosomal plasmid. The bacteria are then spotted on a plate that contains nutrients and moisture that allows the bacteria to grow and reproduce. Each spot is then allowed to multiply (almost exponentially) in a medium rich for bacterial growth. This medium is aqueous. It is kept at a temperature of 37 ?C?the ideal temperature for bacterial growth. E. coli then multiplies by the typical bacterial reproductive process of geometric cell division, thus creating large quantities of the DNA to be studied. The point for using, what is called as recombinant DNA techniques, is not only to illustrate that bacteria drive research, but that bacteria thrive under moist conditions at the right (and mild) temperature. The operative terms being?moist and mild. As such, E. coli, despite its abundance is not a good candidate for desiccation tolerance and research has shown that this is indeed true."
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Transsexualism: An Argument for Social Tolerance, 2005.
A look at the liberal attitute of Canadian society and then discusses the issue of transsexualism.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper reviews the liberal attitudes of the Canadian society, the only country worldwide that accepts multiculturalism as an official policy. This paper takes a look at this liberalism and then discusses the controversial issue of transsexualism, an issue calling for social tolerance and one that is still to be resolved.
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"Canadian society likes to pride itself on the fact that it is relatively accepting and non-prejudiced. For example, it is the only country in the world that embraces multiculturalism as an official policy. Women are far less discriminated against here than in many other countries of the world. Furthermore, the Canadian Parliament has just legalized same sex marriage, thus taking a huge step towards overcoming heterosexism (Canadians for Equal Marriage). Yet there is still one thing that evokes discrimination and even hatred among many Canadians - and that is transsexualism."
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