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Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging An Honest Consensus

Visiting Researcher, The Foresight Institute P.O. Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA hanson@charon.arc.nasa.gov 510-651-7483 To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, London, 7/90.) C O U L D G A M B L I N G S A V ...

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Just Say No! A Profile Of Cocaine And It's Effects On Two Lives

Greek mythology tells of a young god, Morpheus, god of dreams. Morpheus planted a special purple flower called the lotus. Soon the people of the land smelled the sweet flowers and ate them. They immediately feel into a deep and troubled sleep. From that day on, they awoke only long enough to ...

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The Study of World Religions and the Public School Curriculum: A Problem or a Solution?

“The mere mention of the terms religion and public education in the same sentence has both educators and parents gasping aloud” (Ayers and Reid 14). The whole controversy of religion and public schools has a thick, impenetrable shell of arguments wrapped around it. People on both sides of the ...

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Media And Democracy

South African government and media held completely different political views as well as policies for the duration of apartheid and after the dismantling of apartheid. Similar to South Africa the United States of America also held different political views and policies beforehand, during and after ...

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How Crime Is Represenred In The News Media

BIRKBECK COLLEGE HOW HATE CRIME CAN DIFFERENTLY BE REPRESENTED IN NEWS REPORTS? Module: Hate Crime Student Name: Ufuk Ucar HOW HATE CRIME CAN DIFFERENTLY BE REPRESENTED IN NEWS REPORTS? Exploring news reports, which can shape the aspects of our society, within the light of news ...

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Roger And I

Roger and Me The documentary film Roger and Me, directed by Michael Moore, is an excellent documentary which is meant to portray the closing of a General Motors (GM) factory in Flint, Michigan, and its subsequent effects on the town. Using a wide variety of effective techniques, Moore seeks to ...

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The Florida Experiment

THE FLORIDA EXPERIMENT: An Analysis of the Process of Granting Prosecutorial Discretion to try Juveniles as Adults ABSTRACT Out of the fifty states within the United States, forty-three have altered their laws to allow their judges to try juveniles as adults in the adult court system, ...

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Thinking Critically With Psychological Science

Module 2: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science Mr. Davis Objective 1: * Hindsight Bias the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it; also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon; associated with psychologists Paul Slovic and Baruch ...

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Technology in Han and Roman Society DBQ 1

The Han and Roman societies show grateful attitudes towards technology, while they both use the technology to their full advantage, they use them in different ways; the Han leans more towards technology use for water control and the Romans try and improve their tools for agriculture. Docs. 1, 4, ...

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Sociology Of Sport

Inequities and power struggles are part of any society. Soccer has been nationally recognized as one of the leading sports in modern culture. Regardless of its popularity, inequity between the genders still persists. The provided picture demonstrates a gender inequity in the sport of soccer caused ...

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Using The Internet For Social Research

The internet provides both opportunities and risks for social researchers. Research, in general, with all of its nuances has been forever altered by the technology of the internet. Research has been made possible in ways never before imagined. The amount of information available, the ease of ...

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Abuse In Women Suffering From Long-Term Musculoskeletal Pain

Case Analysis: "I was always on guard: an exploration of women abuse in a group of women with musculoskeletal pain" Section 1: In this article Hamberg, Johansson and Lindgren explore abuse in women suffering from long-term musculoskeletal pain. Twenty participants were examined and date ...

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Was the Ogdensburg Agreement a Surrender of Canadian Autonomy?

Matthew Olivan Mr. R. Wood CHC2D7e 17 December 2015 Word Count: 2169 Was the Ogdensburg Agreement a Surrender of Canadian Autonomy? Identification and Evaluation of Sources One of the sources used in this historical investigation is Military Relations Between the United States ...

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Use Of Psychedelics For Medicinal Purposes

AS91602 Integrate Biological knowledge to develop an informed response to a socio-scientific issue Jack Kelliher DECRIMINALISATION AND USE OF PSYCHEDELIC SUBSTANCES FOR TREATMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS/MENTAL HEALTH ...

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Journalism On The Internet

The common forms of media in today's world each have both advantages and disadvantages. The Internet has been around for an almost equal amount of time as most of them, but only recently has it become a popular way of retrieving information. The Internet takes the best of all other medium and ...

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Talk Show Tension

"Jerry, Jerry, Jerry…" Everyday, this chant is heard by millions of people watching the now infamous "talk show", Jerry Springer. Even though just a few years ago, most people regarded these shows as ridiculous, now this chant is recognized and adored by many people in society. The most ...

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Capital Punishment

The use of has been a permanent fixture in society since the earliest civilizations and continues to be used as a form of punishment in countries today. It has been used for various crimes ranging from the desertion of soldiers during wartime to the more heinous crimes of serial killers. ...

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Ignorance And Racism In Heart Of Darkness

Joseph Conrad develops themes of personal power, individual responsibility, and social justice in his book Heart of Darkness. His book has all the themes that make the book an adventure story- mystery, exotic setting, escape, suspense, an unexpected attack. Chinua Achebe concluded, "Conrad, on ...

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The Charter School Movement In New Zealand And England

Introduction In 1994, the Globe and Mail reported that question period in the Alberta legislature had turned into a “rowdy exchange.” Liberal leader Laurence Decore had requested that Premier Klein clarify his government's vague reference to piloting charter schools in the speech from the ...

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Theory Of Knowledge 2

“History is part myth, part hope and part reality.” Discuss this quote in relation to History and to at least one other field of study. The study of history has been and will continue to play a major part in the lives of every individual and every community. Our history is our identity ...

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