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krpa savlani

Zodiac Killer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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background zodiackiller

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  • The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s
  • The Zodiac continued to communicate with authorities for the remainder of 1970 via letters and greeting cards to the press. In a letter postmarked April 20, 1970, the Zodiac wrote, "My name is _____", followed by a 13-character cipher.
Aneesh Mysore

Video Games: A Cause of Violence and Aggression | Serendip's Exchange - 0 views

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  • when action is taken upon the frustration and stress, and the action is taken out in anger and aggression, the results may be very harmful to both the aggressor and the person being aggressed against, mentally, emotionally, and even physically.
  • , violent video games were considered to be more harmful in increasing aggression than violent movies or television shows due to their interactive and engrossing nature.
  • Although there have been studies that have found video game violence to have little negative effects on their players,
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  • However, violent games do affect children, as the studies show, especially early teens, and I feel that there needs to be a stricter regulation regarding the availability of these games to young children.
Aneesh Mysore

Video Games For Underage Children - 0 views

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video games underage

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  • n fact, over eighty three percent of all those adults who buy computer games or video games for children against the publisher's age recommendations are the parents themselves.
  • well over sixty percent of all those who do play or buy such video games are over the age of eighteen.
  • that parents don't realise just how much computer graphical capabilities have developed in the last few years.
Aneesh Mysore

Media Violence-Video Games - 0 views

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media violence

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  • The article gives some details about HR 669, a bill pending in Congress which would make it illegal to sell ultra-violent video games to children. 
  • A Boston Globe article examines arguments in a U.S. Court of Appeals case brought by the industry against a St. Louis County ordinance that restricts minors' access to violent video games
  • Playing violent video games can increase aggressive thoughts, feelings and behavior, say researchers in the BBC News article
krpa savlani

The Zodiac Killer / Zodiac Murders - Full Story - The Zodiac Killer - Crime Library on ... - 0 views

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Zodiac Killer background

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  • This October, 1966 killing began a ghoulish series of murders that panicked the people of the San Francisco area
  • n 18-year-old student named Cheri Jo Bates was brutally murdered
Aneesh Mysore

Should Stores Sell Violent Video Games to Minors? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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should video sell stores

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  • The law would impose $1,000 fines on stores that sell violent video games to people under 18.
  • Some of the Grimm’s fairy tales are quite grim,” he added. “Are you going to ban them, too?”
Aneesh Mysore

Can Video Games Help Reduce Stress? - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedconten... - 0 views

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relieve stress games

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  • The mindless activity of punching buttons and watching the screen can effectively take the mind away from stressors and focus energy in a positive direction. Although video games are reportedly addictive, they can also help reduce stress and therefore increase levels of health.
  • , the best games for this type of stress relief are repetitive games that are easy to master but which have a goal that can be difficult to achieve.
  • Video games can also reduce stress by giving the hands and the mind something active in which to partake. It doesn't take a significant amount of energy to play a video game, but it is a constructive use of the hands and involves hand-eye coordination.
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  • release certain chemicals in the brain, such as what happens during exercise.
Aneesh Mysore

Video game controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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video game controversy

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  • There are three types of aggression, measured along a mild-to-violent severity continuum: physical, verbal, and relational. Violence refers to physical aggression of which the victim is likely to suffer serious physical injury.
  • One study did find an increase in reports of bullying, noting, "Our research found that certain patterns of video game play were much more likely to be associated with these types of behavioral problems than with major violent crime such as school shooting
  • On April 20, 1999, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher in the Columbine High School massacre. The two were allegedly obsessed with the video game Doom.
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  • a 19-year-old Thai teenager, stabbed a Bangkok taxi driver to death during an attempt to steal the driver's cab in order to obtain money to buy a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV.
Mash M

EBSCOhost: Affirmative Action Wins and Loses - 0 views

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bumiputra affirmative action policy malaysia

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    positive side of affirmative action
Mash M

Access World News - Document Display - 0 views

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bumiputra malaysia policy

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    government ideas on affirmative action
Ari Kewalramani

Preferring Girls Over Boys - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Preference Girls over Boys

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  • South Korea
  • “38 percent of mothers-to-be wanted a daughter, while 31 percent said they preferred a son
  • fathers
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  • 29 percent a son.”
  • 37 percent wanted a daughter
  • Twenty years ago
  • ould decide on the sex of their child
  • 116.5 baby boys for every 100 girls born.
  • 2008,
  • 106.4 boys for every 100 girls
  • within the international average
  • Maybe
  • parents are now less likely to rely on their children for financial support after retirement
  • less necessary to have a son
  • low national birth rate (the lowest in the world) means that parents who are planning just one child believe a girl will care for them emotionally in their old age.
  • Or perhap
  • “it’s more fun bringing up girls than boys.”
Ari Kewalramani

Abortion, Infanticide Foeticide India - 1 views

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Abortion India Son Preference

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  • According to a recent report
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      Ari Kewalramani on 15 Nov 10
       
      50 million females have been omitted from the population in India because of discrimination against women.
  • (UNICEF)
  • up to 50 million girls and women are missing from India' s population as a result of systematic gender discrimination in India.
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  • most countries
  • 105 female births for every 100 males.
  • less than 93 women for every 100 men
  • Much of the discrimination is to do with cultural beliefs and social norms
  • norms
  • be challenged if this practice is to stop.
  • ultrasound scanners
  • advertise
  • spend 600 rupees now and save 50,000 rupees later.
  • avoiding a girl,
  • ing a large dowry on the marriage of her daughte
  • a family will avoid pay
  • According to UNICEF
  • the problem is getting worse
  • scientific methods of detecting the sex of a baby and of performing abortions are improving.
  • increasing available in rural areas of India
  • fuelling fears
  • abortion of female foetuses is on the increase
Mash M

MALAYSIA, THE BUMIPUTRA POLICY, AND FOREIGN INVESTORS: AN EVALUATION. - Powered by Goog... - 0 views

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malaysia bumiputra evaluation good_bad

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    Bumiputra policy
Mash M

EBSCOhost: Tall buildings, narrow minds - 0 views

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bumiputra malaysia discrimination

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    bumiputera
Bhavya Puri

Shark fin soup alters an ecosystem - Page 3 - CNN - 0 views

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soup ecosystem sharks humane shark

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  • Located 300 miles off the coast of Costa Rica, the only way to get to this uninhabited islet in the eastern Pacific is by boat. Cocos Island, recently declared a national park, is a nearly pristine and richly preserved ecosystem where thousands of sharks have roamed for centuries. Scientists think there are more sharks there than any other place on Earth
  • "Can you imagine if it was Yellowstone Park and people were shooting up grizzlies? No one would ever get away with it. But this ocean, because it's out of sight, out of mind, [shark finning] carries on," said Knights.
Bhavya Puri

Shark: Trade and Environment Database (TED) - 0 views

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finning shark trade

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  • Because of demand for shark meat and for fins used in shark's fin soup, shark have come under heavy pressure from harvesters in North American waters.
  • Many sharks are now being killed. The meat of the shark itself, which can be expensive, is not the part of the animal with the greatest economic value. Half of the shark's value is in the fins which are largely sent to Asia to make shark-fin soup.
  • Shark cartilige, thought to cure cancer, has led to a boom in poruidct sales.
Bhavya Puri

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ecosystem soup sharks humane shark

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  • Though considered the great predators of the sea, the hundreds of species of sharks have more to fear from mankind than vice versa. Vital to healthy oceans, these animals are being overfished. Demand for shark fin soup, a delicacy in Asia, is one reason for the killing. Fins are severed from live sharks for trade.
Bhavya Puri

38 Million Sharks Killed for Fins Annually, Experts Estimate - 0 views

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finning shark 38 million stop sharks

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  • Demand for that crucial ingredient has led to the killing of a median of about 38 million sharks a year, according to a new study that offers what may be the first reliable estimates of the number of sharks killed for their fins.
  • Some conservationists, however, put the number at closer to a hundred million
  • To make matters murkier, most fisheries-management groups give little attention to sharks, because they are often considered bycatch—fish caught by accident—given their low value per pound.
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