Importance of Physical Education"Ninety million adults, in the United States alone, are overweight and/or obese." (Smith) With the spread of obesity has come an increasing amount of diseases and health conditions. Those that are overweight suffer form cardiovascular disease, type two diabetes, hyper...

How can we live longer? According to some professors from Stanford University, changes in your physical activity and other lifeway patterns can increase your longevity. By collecting data from physical examination records based on Harvard alumni, these professors were able to research if certain h...

Transfer applicant: My immediate goal is to gain admission to UCONN University . I know that I will be able to receive a top-notch education that will allow me to fulfill my potential as a contributing member of society. What is most impressive to me though, is that University of Connecti...

Physician-Assisted Suicide An ethical dilemma that is gaining popularity as means for debate in our society is physician-assisted suicide. This process, according to the University of Washington School of Medicine, "generally refers to a practice in which the physician provides a patient w...

In a recent court decision, a mother making $6 an hour working less than 30 hours a week ($8,600/year), was granted physical custody of her son, yet the father, making $45,000 a year, was denied. Knowing the details of this case, how did the courts ever decide that this mother could provide a finan...

To be or not to be toned? Want to have a wash-board stomach? Ripped visible abs? Or how about strong, lean arms? Men and women across America strive for the perfect, flawless, and celebrity type bodies. Why do they? A physical-minded man's mentality is usually to get big and a woman's min...

Abstract There is a common misconception in our society that recess does not serve any real purpose. The Board of Directors of the American Association for the Child's Right to Play believes that recess is vital to a child's overall healthy development. Recess periods, which are regularl...

Basic Training, The Change Forever The United States Armed Forces is the most powerful military in the world. Keeping that reputation, the military must start by training the new recruits to the highest standards. Those standards begin by going through Basic Training. "There is nothing more...

Adultery Adultery is one of the leading causes of divorce in the United States. A person's life is impacted on so many levels. Adultery can cause emotional, physical, and spiritual distress not only to the persons committing the act but to others around them. ...

ABSTRACT This experiment is designed to test whether or not gender is a major contributing factor to the recovery heart rate in humans. Most would assume that the male heart rate would be considerably faster in recovery time than that of the female. This experiment furthers that assumption by elim...

The journeys of Christopher Columbus have enhanced my understanding of the concept of journeys evident in the Smithsonian's exhibition of Journeys over Land and Sea. Christopher Columbus (14...

Special Forces Officers are the leaders of the elite units in the United States Army. Special Forces Officers train personnel in parachute, scuba diving, and special combat techniques. They plan missions and corrdinate plans with other forces as needed. Lead special forces teams and accomplis...

The settings and backdrops in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, are essential elements to the formation of the characters, symbolic imagery and the overall plot development. Fitzgerald uses East and West Egg communities to portray two separate worlds and two classes of people that are techn...

"No man has the right to seek values from others by means of physical forces, no man or group has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others, however men have the right to use force in self-defense and against those who initiate it's use." Claims philosopher Ayn Rand. The Japane...

To the best of my knowledge, the United States is the most diverse country in the world. Every year, thousands of immigrants come to the United States. My family is among those immigrants. My father and mother were at the age of sixty five and fifty when we entered the country. They had many difficu...

Child Abuse among the children in the United StatesChild abuse is a term generally the mistreatment of a child by a parent or another adult. There is no standard definition of child abuse, however. A short and simple definition can be limited to the life-threatening physical violence, including seve...

Position Essay "Who Should Serve?" There are growing feelings in the United States that, as women are having more rights given to them that were previously restricted, women should be given everything that is offered to men. This is becoming very true in the military, where much sentiment is that wo...

Government Essay The United States is unlike many other countries, our government is a democracy. It is broken down into 3 branches of government called the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. Let's start with the Executive Branch. That is the branch that carries out all the l...

A Barbie doll is one of the famous cultural icons in America. Numerically, there are 2.5 Barbies for every household in America. But what does Barbie doll iconography to the young generation? According to Kamy Cunningham, in her essay \"Barbie Doll Culture and the American Wasteland,\" talks about t...

I feel really bad for the people who turn to immigration to save their lives. Americans unwillingly use their tax dollars to pay for the salary of illegal immigrants. It is a big problem for people in the US. I feel that immigration is okay, but the problem is illegal immigration. Even though the pe...

SLAVE RELIGION When it comes to religion most people feel they have a belief in God or a "higher power". This belief helps sustain them in times of mental and emotional turmoil and many times physical pain. The slaves of North America brought with them a belief in their sacred beings, in...

The most common form of travel in the United States is automobiles. This includes cars, minivans, trucks, sport utility vehicles, and many more. Driving is the means for survival for most of the people living in vast suburban communities. Gas stations, shopping malls, convenience stores, and simply ...

Alcoholism and Its EffectsAlcoholism Alcoholism is when there is a progressive, excessive inappropriate drinking of alcohol. Alcoholism is thought to come from a combination of a huge range of psychological, social, and genetic factors. Alcoholism comes from emotional and sometimes physical depe...

Mothers, daughters, and wives dieing. Is that something you want to be hearing on the news? I didn't think so, this is what would be heard time and time again if we the United States let women go into combat situations. Women shouldn't be put into combat units or combat situations directly because o...

Murder Abortion is murder and it is wrong. There is absolutely no situation imaginable that can be proved a just cause for murder. This inhumane form of "birth control," goes against all moral codes that society today is based upon. Abortion also goes against the very basis of our gov...