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nature of this land. And finally, in the late 1950s, the school board sold the remaining land to private developers, and over the next decade hundreds of homes were built near the Love Canal area (Eric Zuesse, 1981; New York State Department of Health, 1978). Because of the Niagara Falls Board of Education’s awareness of the chemical waste and willingness to sell it for home development, they did contribute to the overall tragedy. However, no litigation has been filed against them and most of…

saying predator-prey relationship, is the killing of a particular species on a different species to gain nutrients (Baenninger 1978). There are five steps in which this relationship can take place: 1) Searching for relevant stimuli, 2) hunting or chasing…

In his original findings, John Endler (1978) reported that male guppies in high predator areas tend to have patterns that resemble their environment so they don’t stand out. Guppies with low or no predation, tend to not blend in and are brighter with more and larger spots (Endler, 1978). Endler thought that this could be happening because color patterns are molded by natural selection and sexual selection. Although brighter males are often preferred by the females, they are also more likely to…

Before reading The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area by Malcolm Margolin, I never knew about the Ohlone. I did not even know much about Native Americans. While reading the book, I feel like I was watching a movie. The author describes the Ohlone as if he was there. I could picture an Ohlone man inside a sweathouse, a group of women grinding acorns, a dancing shaman treating the sick, a boy trying to catch a rabbit, or a chief welcoming the traders. This is the most…

gained from a textbook and lacking “abstract and systematic explanations,” (Carper, 1978). It is viewed more of knowledge that can be integrated into abstract thinking but does not exhibit those characteristics by itself (Carper, 1978). Esthetics is the art of nursing that expresses an imitating learning style but it can also be how the nurse integrates her own creativity and style to provide quality of care (Carper, 1978 and Orem, 1971). Personal knowledge are the experiences a nurse or nursing…

Strategic Decision-Making: How to Keep Your Competitive Edge Porter 's (2011) argues that organizations may beat competition by positioning itself by using strategies to achieve different activities over organizational rivals. This positions the organization to perform comparable activities in some different ways. This paper discusses how organizations may measure their competition’s advantages and formulate global strategies to explore how strategic decision-making process affects the…

From 1978 to 1991, seventeen male victims, most of them from Milwaukee, were found having been raped, murdered and dismembered, some of them had been involved in necrophilia and cannibalism. Jeffrey Dahmer, who was nicknamed the Milwaukee Cannibal, was the serial killer and sex offender from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who killed those men. After he was caught in 1992, he was sentenced to fifteen consecutive life sentences, but after two year he was killed by another prison inmate Christopher Scarver.…

was inevitable because is had flaws itself that would destroy itself. In the Manifesto of the Communist Party, Marx mentions that “Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion (Marx 1978:pg 485). In summary, the members work together to make products. Also, capital is a social power. In Marx’s theory, division of labor is necessary for commodity production (Kirschner lecture 10/8/2015). Exploitation and competition would help…

annual gathering cycle that made it necessary for them to leave their winter settlements on the river ridges. In the summer, they traveled into the mountains to hunt. In the spring, they ventured into the valley areas to collect grass seeds (Riddell 1978). The Konkow economy was a mixture of hunting, fishing,…

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) was created by the United States Congress with the Passing of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act(FISA) of 1978. The main purpose of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is to provide jurisdictive guidance of intelligence activities in a secure, classified setting. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is make of Federal judges that are selected by the United States Supreme Court Chief Justice. (Foreign Intelligence…