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Unique Cultures Of The World
<view this essay>.... fare. This is due to the extremes of both geography and climate that are experienced in the different sections of the country. The four cooking regions of China are Peking or Northern China, Shanghai or Eastern China, Szechwan or Western China, Canton or Southern China.
Peking the largest area, is comprised of Inner Mongolia, Hopei, Honan, Shantung, Shansi, and Shensi provinces. Wheat, millet, sorghum, peanuts, corn, and soybeans are the main crops of the region. Chinese leaf, cucumber, and celery are the main vegetables of the region. Noodles, steamed breads and buns are more popular than rice, unlike in southern China. Mongol cuisine has influenced Pek .....
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Affirmative Action In Seattle
<view this essay>.... candidates.
This view fundamentally misrepresents the reality of affirmative action in
the City of Seattle. The City's affirmative action program does not
establish numerical quotas for hiring decisions, nor does it result in the
hiring of unqualified candidates on the basis of gender or race.
What the City of Seattle's affirmative action program does is very
simple: first, it gives City managers and personnel officers a snapshot of
the labor market, so that they are aware of the availability rates for
different groups for a given job classification. Through these availability
rates, the City can determine whether or not women, people of color, or .....
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Teens And Sex
<view this essay>.... is to
try to prevent teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and (I separate
this from the category of STD's because it is so widespread, deadly, important,
frightening, etc.) H.I.V infection. The theory is that if condoms were given
out or made available at high schools, then the students would be more inclined
to use them. They would have them or be able to get them if they need to use
them. This would cut down on unprotected sexual intercourse and prevent the
pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and H.I.V. infection. If a student
was at a party and decided, on the spur of the moment, to engage in sexual
intercourse, then it is more .....
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INTERNET USERS TURN ADDICTS
<view this essay>.... reeking havoc on their studies, family lives or careers.
Individuals such as these are classified as "Internet Addicts." Based on
level of addiction, there are three groups of Internet addicts: i) the
"I'm-not-addicted users," ii) the "I-only-use-it-when-I-have-to- users"
and iii) the "Internet junkies."
The "I'm-not-addicted users" are the users who try to convince
themselves that they are not addicted to the Internet. This group
includes college students who don't go online during the day to prove to
fellow students that they can do without getting online; only, to stay up
all night in a chat room online. Or businesspeople who stay after office
hours .....
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Employee Drug Testing
<view this essay>.... Here are some areas of potential liability.
Passing the tests on testing
"The rights of employers in testing are becoming more clear," says Philadelphia employment lawyer Jonathan Segal of Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen. A rash of lawsuits in the 1980s challenged the right of employers to conduct drug tests, but by now that issue has been resolved: Private employers may screen employees with preemployment testing, investigate accidents by testing those involved and conduct random drug tests. Recent litigation has focused not on whether an employer may test but on how the test is done.
For preemployment screening, the ADA requires that medical exams not .....
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Role Of Women In The Developing Countries
<view this essay>.... their families. Husbands and children are regarded as focus of their lives. Sometimes they give up their careers, hobbies and interest for the sake of the families. Due to the poor medical condition and the traditional family concept that women are historical entitled of the task to give a birth to a baby boy, not many of them use modern contraceptive methods to control their family size. In this case, "on average, women in poor countries tend to have twice as many babies as women in the rich countriesˇ± ("Womenˇ± 10). As we know, China is taking on "One Child Policyˇ±. Actually, it's very hard to be implemented, especially in poorly educated areas. In America .....
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Slavery
<view this essay>.... whereas men were sent out into the plantations to farm. Young
girls would usually help in the house also and young boys would help in the
farm by bailing hay and loading wagons with crops.
Since trying to capture the native Indians, the Arawaks and Caribs,
failed (Small-Pox had killed them), the Europeans said out to capture
African slaves.
They were shipped from Africa by the Europeans in what was called The
Triangular Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. This was an organized route where
Europeans would travel to Africa bringing manufactured goods, capture
Africans and take them to the Caribbean, and then take the crops and goods
and bring them back .....
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The Horrible Truth Of Child Labor
<view this essay>.... says in his native Thai. Knowing how his parents depend on his earnings, he says, ‘I cannot disappoint them and tell them the truth that I am very unhappy.’”
The issue of Child Labour is often overlooked by government and international bodies alike. Over 250, 000, 000 children (under the age of fourteen) worldwide are exploited and treated as slaves. If there is to be any hope of rectifying this grave predicament, a global awareness will have to be emphasized, and prompt action must follow. All humans have the same rights, but an astonishing number of them are not aware of them. It is this lack of knowledge, and lack of power to do anything about it, that i .....
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