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The Obesity Epidemic in America Obesity in the United States continues to grow at an alarming rate and is currently at an all-time high. Approximately 66% of Adults are overweight and 36% are considered obese while 33% of the children and adolescents in America are overweight with a staggering 17% of them are obese according to the Center for Disease Control in November, 2015. Due to this epidemic, sociology has taken a look into the major sociological perspectives and I will be addressing some…

Death, destruction, and mayhem are just a few of the vestiges of modern war present throughout the United State Civil War. This conflict was based on industrialization moving to the boundaries of total war. The American Civil War is the first modern war due to innovation in technology. This is because of advances in weaponry, logistic, and communications. The industrial Revolution allowed for the greatest level of production in human history, which in turn led to the greatest level of…

The rich or wealthy as most like to call them seem to be ideal to people, but don 't we all wonder how they do it. Money is something the wealthy have, so what society wants to know is how they are more privilege and how they have the tools to get where they want to be. The rich are seeking new opportunities for more wealth, so they are continuing to educate themselves and they are taking the risks to get there. Inequality ( an important role when It comes down to the state of being unequal;…

When I think back to the year I was born, 1982 there has been quite a bit of change between now and then. In 1982 the major technological advances were the introduction of the first CD player and also the first time genetic engineering and human insulin was produced by bacteria. Most importantly TIME Magazine’s man of the year was the computer which was the year the Commodore 64 was released (The People History, Steve Pearson, 2016). Now 34 years later, in 2016 there are endless technology…

What are agency problems? What are the cost of agency problems? Why may stock-based compensation alleviate the problems? What concerns have been arisen? Agency is when the stockholders (principals) hire managers (agents) to run the company. Agency problems is the conflict between the goals of firm`s owners and its managers. The problem is when the managers who is supposed to make the decision that would best serve the principals is naturally motivated by self-interest benefits (Investopedia,…

Attribute selection is the process of identifying and removing as much of the irrelevant and redundant information as possible from a dataset. If the data dimensions are reduced, we will be able to improve the performance of the applied classification algorithms. They will function faster, more efficiently and will be with an improved classification accuracy. As an addition we can also execute data visualization, and increase the insight of the potential classification model [] . There are many…