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    The brain has the function of making their body work and help with the teens brain daily life. The gray matter is where nerves are located. They are affect the way the person acts. The gray matter is where the nerves are located . One nerve is made up of neurons-a nerve cell-The neuron is made up of dendrites, axons and nucleus . The dendrites receive signals from axon terminals and this is a synapses. As a teen grows the brain starts pruning its synapses. With this the brain is taking out instructions

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    When the musician first heard the sound of the dog barking the pinna, a part of the outer ear will channel the sound waves into the ear. Here the pinna collects the sound waves and passes it on to the eardrum, also known as the tympanic membrane. These vibrations from the eardrum are then sent to the middle inner ear, which is the chamber between the eardrum and cochlea which contains three tiny bones, the hammer, and stirrup. The bones, respectively known as the malleus, incus, and stapes then channel

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    Jenna Pedrin MC 380 Professor Burns 10/1/2014 When Affirmative Action Was White Katznelson argued that government programs produced a social shift in middle class in which white and black Americans participated and benefited. After the war, blacks had a strong downward spiral in society; they experienced welfare inequalities, unfair employment and distrust in the military all because of inherent racism America had at this time. Predominantly white southern democrats who held the power in society

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    The Homestead Strike was a labor dispute between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the Carnegie Steel Company. The Carnegie Steel Company’s chief executive, Henry Frick, hired Pinkerton Detectives to end the workers’ strike. On July 6, 1892, a confrontation between the workers and Pinkertons escalated into a deadly battle in Homestead, Pennsylvania (AFL-CIO). Despite becoming a source of inspiration for American workers, the Homestead Strike led to the eradication of the country’s

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    The 2nd degree strength standard of affirmative action states minority resumes should have a second look. The 3rd degree strength standard of affirmative action states when two applicants, one male and one minority, have the same qualifications, then the business should hire the minority because they are a minority. I am for the 2nd degree as qualifications of a minority might be overlooked compared to the many standard white male applicants for a job. However, the 3rd degree passes the threshold

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    Background Precise control over the routes taken by growing neurons is tightly controlled (Steward, 1989). In the brain extracellular cues play an important part prompting attractive or repulsive behaviours in cell migration. In addition, they are necessary for cell adhesion, axon guidance and branching (Erskine & Herrera, 2007). For neurons that navigate over long distances, axons can be guided by chemoattractants that draw axonal navigation in its direction or chemorepellents that deter axonal

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    Black Education Issues

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    The relevance to this study was important because it examines factors that cause withdrawals and my assist with increasing retention rates. The information collected is significant to all stakeholders who wish to retain minority students in higher education. Both public and private universities can stand to increase their knowledge base of how to improve higher education retention for minority students. Consequently, this study was significant because it revealed the inequities in college persistence

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    Affirmative action is necessary to give women and minorities a level playing field. The affirmative action movement began in 1960 with the intention of promoting opportunities for minority groups. How is that in the year 2015 we are still having discussions about women and minorities being discriminated against? While the movement of the 1960’s has brought attention to discrepancy against groups, which has paved the platform for reform and opportunity, there is a break down in the movement if 55

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    Racial discrimination against Asian Americans in elite college admissions: You would probably be very disappointed if you were rejected from your dream school and a kid who scored significantly lower than you did on standardized tests got your spot. Asian Americans are treated unfairly in many elite college admissions such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. They score higher and achieve higher on average compared to other races and are forced to outperform them by a significant margin to gain acceptance

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    One of the largest arguments that opponents of Affirmative Action use today is the mere fact that the United States has an African American president. They claim that since Barack Obama has risen to the highest office of the nation, that racism no longer exists and therefore we do not need to afford special treatment to minorities. They often ask, if one man can do it, why can’t the others? Obama himself seems to be color blind. In his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, Obama states that poor blacks

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