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Colorado, alone, has had $700 million in medical and recreational marijuana sales and this caused $63 million in tax revenue, (Ingraham, 2015). As part of the law agreed upon by voters, a percentage of the revenue will be used to help the school systems and raise awareness of marijuana. In January of 2014, marijuana raised $195,286 and a year later it raised a total of $12,623,379 for the Public School Capital Construction Assistance Fund Transfer (Colorado Department of Revenue, 2015). Colorado…

1. What is service quality? Service quality is a comparison and assessment between the customer’s expectation and the service delivered by the service providers. Parasuraman et al. (1988) have defined that service quality is an overall judgment towards the service and as an antecedent of overall customer satisfaction. Furthermore, service quality also defined as an ability of an organization to meet the customer expectation (Parasuraman et al. 1988). According to Bitner and Hubbert (1994), the…

History of Organ Transplants The first organ transplants took place in 200 BC. A Chinese physician, Hua-Tuo, is said to have replaced diseased organs with healthy ones. He is also the first physician to use anaesthesia. Both of these are significant. Organs could be replaced and anaesthetics were available. Not much is recorded about organ transplants until the late 17th and early 18th centuries, when experiments with animal to human blood transfusions, skin grafts, and animal to human…

Annually, about 195,000 deaths result from the estimated 16 million cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, worldwide. In the United States the numbers are significantly smaller due to the availability and development of the pertussis vaccine with an annual 10,000 to 40,000 reported cases and up to 20 deaths (Pertussis in Other Countries). Although a vaccine exists, there are still many cases of whooping cough and far more that go unreported. Precautions are being pushed onto infants all the way…

Bits of the fibers are taken and portioned off into the creation of a new vaccine. This new vaccine is injected into the body and triggers the immune system to begin the process that generated antibodies. These antibodies give the body an idea of what it will be up against. There are implications though. Just like anything, results between vaccinating may vary with the person. Depending on age, weight…

precipitates long-term health problems including heart disease, strokes, weakened immune system, inflammation, and decline in "fight or flight" receptors that make us aware of dangerous situations. Factors such as isolation, post-traumatic stress disorder, socioeconomic problems, and others…

Throughout history, princesses have been known to be perfect and have no obstacles or problems to overcome. They are kept away from the real world and they live sheltered lives. When Diana Spencer married into the royal household, that stereotype was broken. Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales and she challenged the typical stereotype of a princess by talking about mental illness, making physical contact with AIDS and leprosy patients, and by exposing her…

company’s current and future position. 1. Apple brings to the table a different operating system and so they can take advantage of their operating system differences by turning it into an opportunity to cultivate improvements to the Macintosh platform in order to achieve greater perceived functional and design advantages over competing platforms. 2. The Apple Mac OS X is seen as a stable, reliable, and secure system that is also very easy to use has a very high defense against computer works…

handle the vaccinations that he or she need so early on in life. It is a common belief among some parents that vaccinating their children too early will overwhelm their baby’s immune system. These parents believe that it is safer to wait to vaccinate their child until he or she is older so that their immune system is not so…

As I look at teenagers from my adult perspective I have often find myself wondering, “What are they thinking?”. Teenagers seem to have a reputation for being impulsive and not the best decision makers and it now looks like there may be some science that can explain such behaviors. Both the article written by Sarah Spinks and the text book Invitation to the Lifespan offer insight into what may be really going on inside a teenagers’ head. It turns out it may just be all in the brain.…