Furthermore, alcoholism causes brain damage and "thiamine deficiency is a common occurrence in people with alcoholism"
(NIAA 2004). The fact that brain damage is caused by excessive alcohol
abuse is a serious concern and one which cannot be overlooked. But
alcoholics are not alike and alcoholism has different origins for different
people. Therefore the effects vary considerably. But these, among many
other effects of alcohol abuse can be expected or at least there is a
possibility for them to exist.
Alcohol abuse also poses a risk on one's psychology. Although one
initially feels relaxed after drinking, this will soon turn into a negative
feeling. Someone who drinks too much will experience anxiety and this can
possibly lead to depression. Alcohol abuse is also related to sleep
problems, mood-swings, violent behavior, and possible suicide as 2/3 of all
suicide attempts involve alcohol (BUPA 2006). This is an extreme effect of
alcohol abuse and likely linked to the fact that alcohol is a depressant
and it…...

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Abuse. Oct. 2004. 25 Apr. 2007

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Great Depression refers to the serious economic decline that started in the United States towards the end of 1929 and spread to most industrial countries of the world, lasting until the early 1940s. The period saw sharp declines in the production and sale of goods and a sudden, severe rise in unemployment. Numerous businesses and banks closed down or went bankrupt, people lost their jobs, homes, and savings, and large sections of the population in hitherto prosperous countries had to depend on charity to survive. Economists have discussed and dissected the causes of the Depression ever since and its long-term effects have not even been fully overcome even today. In this paper we shall discuss some of the important causes and effects of the Great Depression.
Causes

The popular misconception about the Great Depression is that the sudden stock market crash of October 1929 caused it. Although the stock market collapse certainly…...

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DeLong, J. Bradford. "Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century" 1997. Brad Delong's Website. March 26, 2004. http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html

Great Depression in the United States." Article in Encyclopedia Encarta. CD-ROM Version, 2003

Gusmorino, Paul A., III. "Main Causes of the Great Depression." Gusmorino World. May 13, 1996. March 26, 2004.  http://www.gusmorino.com/pag3/greatdepression/index.html 

McElvaine, Robert S. The Great Depression: America 1929-1941 Times Books: New York, 1981

Marcia Cedeno
Mrs. Kelley

Cars: Cause and ffect

The use of cars has been a major factor in modern life. Although most people would consider cars to be indispensable, there are many effects that cars cause on the environment and quality of life.

The environmental impact upon the environment is strong. Using a car is one of the most polluting activities an individual can do.(PA) In turn, the consequences of the resulting pollution include such problems as smog, respiratory problems, acid rain, and ozone depletion. However, improving on the efficiency of cars can help counteract this problem by reducing the emissions they produce. (Albrecht ) Indeed, the effect of switching from high fuel consumption vehicles to "greener" alternatives can have a significant effect on these problems.

Interestingly, environmental effects are not the only consequences of using cars, for they also affect human safety and health -- from accidents, obesity, and violence due to road rage,…...

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Energie-cites, Org. "The Toll of Automobiles." Homepage. 16 Mar. 2001. 16 Feb 2004

hat causes women to risk their health? Clearly the hoped-for effect is to improve their performances. Sutton explains that a woman on anabolic steroids will have less body fat and her body muscle mass will offer her more strength. "She may also develop euphoria and a heightened self-esteem… and have much more energy" (Sutton, 4). Moreover, women on steroids may experience "…heightened sexual arousal" and athletically inclined men are apt to be more attracted to her. She will have negative effects too, such as being irritable, experiencing dramatic mood swings, and she may even go into a "roid rage" -- or become depressed -- when she sees a woman that looks better than she does (Sutton, 5).

It should also be explained that women on anabolic steroids may begin to develop a body that is more like a man's body (after all, anabolic steroids increase testosterone production). Her breasts may decrease…...

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Centers for Disease Control. (2010). Corticosteroid Therapy / Information for people with Diamond Blackfan anemia, and their families. Retrieved August 9, 2012, from  http://www.cdc.gov .

Medline Plus. (2009). Anabolic Steroids / Also Called Anabolic-androgenic steroids,

Performance-enhancing drugs. Retrieved August 8, 2012, from http://www.nim.hih.gov/medlineplus/anabolicsteroids.html.

Mileur, Ray. (2004). Steroids claim the life of Ken Caminiti -- Was it worth it? The Birdhouse.

A number of individual, school and family risk factors contribute to this risk. Studies have identified exposure to domestic violence, child maltreatment, emotional and behavioral problems, low self-worth and reduced assertiveness to increase children's risk of being bullied." (Shakoor, Jaffe et al., 380). In other words, victims may already be in a position where they could very well suffer mental health issues later in life, but it is undeniable that the bullying worsens any prognosis. Indeed, Farrington et al. In a 2011 study have shown that if anything victims tend to understate their own mental health difficulties (at least in contrast to parental assessments): they write that "victimization (being bullied) according to mothers was a strong and significant predictor of depression, even after controlling for ten key risk factors. Victimization according to boys was a weak but nevertheless significant predictor, especially when it was measured at the youngest age…...

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Farrington, David, Loeber, Rolf, et al. "Bullying Perpetration and Victimization as Predictors of Delinquency and Depression in the Pittsburgh Youth Study." Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research 3(2): 2011. 74-81. Print.

Menesini, Ersilia, Modena, Marco, and Tani, Franca. "Bullying and Victimization in Adolescence: Concurrent and Stable Roles and Psychological Health Symptoms." Journal of Genetic Psychology 17(2): 2009. 115-133. Print.

Shakoor, Sania, Jaffe, Sara, et al. "Mothers and Children as Informants of Bullying Victimization: Results from an Epidemiological Cohort of Children." Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 39: 2011. 379-387. Print.

If the team managers were to infuse players with a greater sense of camaraderie and a winning approach to playing, the team may perform well.
Often the media uses derogatory terms when describing the team, such as the team that "spoiled" the best stadium in the nation (Spagnolo, 2007). Proclamations as this can also turn sentiment into reality, and cause poor self-esteem among players. It seems as though the owners and managers have also made poor choices when it comes to trading and keeping players, trading out certain players that may have helped the team achieve victory, and adopting players that did not affect the team positively. Some team members during the last decade experienced injuries resulting in further loss of good players.

There is also evidence of team managers hiring players who averaged well over the "average" number of strikeouts one would expect from a decent player (Spagnolo, 2007). Even…...

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References

Spagnolo, D. (2007). Baseball season preview: Pittsburgh Pirates. Retrieved 6, Aug, 2007:

 http://deadspin.com/sports/baseball/baseball-season-preview-pittsburgh-pirates-241876.php

Teen Smoking
Cause and Effects of Teen Smoking

For more than a half-century, the deadly effects of cancer smoking in humans has been well-known and scientifically documented. Due to the strong addiction element of cigarettes, a nationwide anti-smoking campaign, meant for full efficiency, soon appeared to be doomed, as smokers continued smoking, despite knowing about the deadly effects of cigarettes.

Slowly, the scientific community was able to effectively bring a halt to the legal selling of nicotine products to children under the age of 18. For years after the initial banning of adolescent tobacco use, these children were still targeted for advertisement as the incoming generation of smoking adults, a crucial demographic for cigarette companies. The causes of teen smoking include targeted advertisement by tobacco companies and the ever-present problem of peer pressure, and the negative effects of teenage tobacco use are early symptoms of lung disease, cancer, and lifelong addiction.

American presents to…...

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Behavior-Cause and Effects
Cause and effect.

There are many circumstances in life that result in positive as well as negative effects. The causes or causative factors that result in certain effects however cannot just be considered from a purely subjective point-of-view. One should also consider the environmental and societal factors that act as causes that affect one's feelings and behaviour in life. A central thesis therefore that will be explored in this paper is that social and environmental factors determine one's life and experiences but that knowledge of the way one's life is affected can be used positively in terms of contentment and satisfaction.

If one thinks in the larger context one has to come to the conclusion that certain social, socio-economic as well as political factors are causative factors in our lives. One could consider as a primary factor in our lives the various social and political structures which result in the…...

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References

As Time Goes By. Retrieved from  http://timeaftime.blogspot.com/ 

Gironda et al. Born Happy: How Much Does Genetics Determine our Happiness

Throughout Our Lives? Retrieved from  http://www.estebancalvo.com/files/teaching_files/Genetics_v2.pdf

School Violence: Cause and Effect
Leary el al. (2003) have noted that, "Case studies were conducted of 15 school shootings between 1995 and 2001 to examine the possible role of social rejection in school violence. Acute or chronic rejection -- in the form of ostracism, bullying, and/or romantic rejection -- was present in all but two of the incidents." This study drew extremely clear connections between incidents of social ostracism, bulling, and social rejection and incidents of school violence, including shootings. For example, incidents of school violence frequently occur as a direct result of negative interaction between members of a peer group. esearchers such as Leary et al. have provided conclusive evidence of this link. School violence prevention must, therefore, focus on ways in which school communities can mitigate these negative and potentially harmful social interactions and issues. In this sense, the cause of school violence is bullying and negative social…...

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Thrust for Educational Leadership, Reprinted from Youth violence: Cause & solutions, (David Brown, D.E., October 1994)?School Violence In World of Criminal Justice, (Gale, 2002). Retrieved from:  http://www.credoreference.com/entry/worldcrims/school_violence 

Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA. (2008). Conduct and Behavior

Problems Related to School Aged Youth. Los Angeles, CA: Author.

Leary, M.R., Kowalski, R.M., Smith, L. And Phillips, S. (2003), Teasing, rejection, and violence: Case studies of the school shootings. Aggressive Behavior, 29: 202 -- 214. doi: 10.1002/ab.10061

Smoking: Cause and Effect
Smoking has always been a serious and controversial issue since it is on the one hand projected as a health hazard while on the other, we see all the glamorous, so-called health conscious people with cigarettes in their hands all around us. Therefore most people find themselves faced with a dilemma when it comes to the issue of quitting smoking. They cannot be convinced that it is a health hazard that could not only reduce number of years in one's life but can also affect one's quality of life. It is therefore extremely important to focus on the effects of smoking in the light of research and explain that smoking is actually the cause of several health problems.

Let us first focus on the effects of Smoking on Life expectancy. As mentioned earlier, smoking is a serious health hazard that can reduce the number of years in an…...

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Peto R, Lopez AD, Boreham J. et al.: Imperial Cancer Research Fund and World Health Organisation. Mortality from smoking in developing countries 1950-2000 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994

Frank J. Chaloupka, Kenneth Warner: The Economics of Smoking, National Bureau of Economic Research, March 1999

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Dialogue
Cause and Effect: A Misunderstanding

At three in the afternoon their parents were still at work and they had the house to themselves. They had left campus at lunch, nobody the wiser. This had been going on for months. Today they were at Sebastian's in the garage. Both of their parents worked in order to make ends meet. Because of this they had little supervision in the afternoon. For Sebastian and May it was a bonus, free time.

"I don't like what you're doing," said May.

"Yes you do," Sebastian swung hard.

May tried to dodge, but was too slow and got hit in the middle of the forehead. "Damn it!"

"That's game." Sebastian put the paddle down next to his cell phone on the work bench and walked around the ping-pong table.

And I should care beeeecaaauussee?" She flirted.

"Because at five cents a point you now own me eighty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents. Unless…...

Running by Luis Rodriguez
Cause and Effect as Found in Always Running La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

A by Luis Rodriguez

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction" Sir Isaac Newton once wrote. Such is the case in the life of author Luis Rodriguez. The short essay found on pages 160-164 of his book, Always Running, describes the unjust imprisonment (effect) Rodriguez faced following his participation in the "Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam ar" protest of August 29th, 1970. (cause) (p.160)

Before discussing the effects of his actions, it is important to know the reasons behind his behavior. Rodriguez wanted to attend the march because he was interested in being a part of a cause greater than he was.

The Vietnam ar was going on. Many Hispanics were opposed to the war because of the large numbers of Hispanic casualties overseas. The number of Hispanics dying was not in proportion to…...

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Works Cited

Rodriguez, Luis. Always Running La Vida Loca: Gang Days in LA. Pages 160-164. CT: Curbstone Press, 1993.

Additional Resources

The Cause and Effect Essay. The Writing Center.  http://www.delmar.edu/engl/wrtctr/handouts/cause_effect.htm

When the storm occurs, people are asked to restrict their outdoor activities so they will breathe in the polluted air. The magnitude of impact is directly connected with the intensity of the storm. The more severe ones can cause problems for people going to work and hence can disrupt economic activities. Some of the respiratory problems caused by the YDS can be severe enough to prove fatal. It has been noticed that in areas that encounter yellow dust storms annually, there is an increase in mortality rate.
The effect on farm land is also serious in nature. While the dust itself doesn't harm the farm activities, it is the sulphuric emission and acid rain resulting from the storm that destroy crop by damaging the soil. When soil is affected, animal life is also seriously harmed by the storms especially the cattle. But the effect on sea life is even graver.…...

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Reference

Zhan Guo, Karen R. Polenske, Ning Ai, Evaluation of Yellow-Dust Storms and Countermeasure Policies in North China Using Regional Input-Output Models. 2005

Guo et al. 2005

Gillard's Government is a party to a UN agreement that Climate Change Minister Greg Combet signed in December at a under which approximately 10 per cent of carbon taxes in developed countries will go to a Green Climate Fund. While Ms Gillard has been denying she would support a carbon tax last August, her government had already committed to spend $599 million on climate change handouts over the current three-year Budget period. This will occur mainly in the Pacific and South-East Asia, $470 million of which has been allocated already (Murray 2011).
Solutions and eclamation

So, what is the middle path? Can a compromise be reached? While there was some support in the time of the former Howard government, the current situation may jeopardize this as the then administration assessed its options with regard to the situation Australian Government 2011). This was also the opinion expressed in a Bloomberg piece that…...

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Adams, P. (2007). Insurance against Catastrophic Climate Change: How Much Will an Emissions Trading Scheme Cost Australia? East Victoria, Australia: Monash

University. p1-2.

At-a-glance: Carbon taxes around the world. (2011)Available:

  he-world. Last accessed 21 May 2011.http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1492651/at-a-glance-carbon-taxes-around-t 

pecial Education Teachers
pecial Education Vacancies

Recruitment, Hiring, and Retention

Barriers to Hiring

Barriers to retaining special education personnel.

Incentives used to improve retention.

Recommendations to Improve Recruitment and Retention

Adequate upply of pecial Education Professionals

Resources

Teachers today are subject to more stress than ever. Increasing certification requirements, re-certification, assessments, federal standards, demanding children, apathetic parents and an unsupportive administration are just the tip of the iceberg. pecial education teachers have special circumstances. While other schoolteachers have some teachers who don't want to learn, special ed teachers are charged with the task of teaching to students who have difficulty learning, whose behavior problems are associated with an illness or handicap, whose needs for special attention are great. Teacher burnout is on the rise, and it's no wonder. This study will examine existing sources as well as conducting a survey of a sample population to assess the primary causes of occupational stress for special education teachers, and to…...

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The thesis statement for a cause and effect essay on investment decisions could be: "The success of investment decisions is directly influenced by factors such as market trends, risk tolerance, and thorough research, ultimately impacting financial outcomes and long-term portfolio growth." One way to further develop this thesis statement into a clear argument is to provide specific examples or case studies that demonstrate how each of the factors mentioned - market trends, risk tolerance, and thorough research - play a crucial role in shaping investment decisions. By analyzing how these factors have influenced real-life investment scenarios, you can strengthen your argument and....

The thesis statement for a cause and effect essay on underage drinking can be: The increasing prevalence of underage drinking can be attributed to multiple factors, including peer pressure, accessibility of alcohol, and inadequate education, and it results in detrimental consequences on physical and mental health, academic performance, and social relationships. To strengthen this thesis statement, consider including specific statistics or data to emphasize the significance of the issue. You could also elaborate more on the long-term effects of underage drinking on individuals and society as a whole. Additionally, offering potential solutions or interventions to address this problem could make your....

A thesis statement for a cause and effect essay on ways to improve patient satisfaction in nurse quality care could be: "Implementing effective communication strategies, increasing staffing levels, and providing continuous training and education for nurses are crucial steps towards improving patient satisfaction with the quality of care provided."

This thesis statement effectively lays out the main points that will be explored in the essay. It highlights the importance of communication, staffing, and training in improving the quality of care provided by nurses. By focusing on these key areas, healthcare organizations can work towards enhancing patient satisfaction and overall outcomes. Through research....

The thesis statement for a cause and effect essay on immigration in Canada could be: "The increase in immigration levels in Canada has led to a variety of economic, social, and cultural impacts on the country, including labor market growth, demographic changes, and diversity in Canadian society." To further strengthen this thesis statement, you could consider including specific examples or statistics to support your points. For example, you could mention how immigration has contributed to the growth of certain industries in Canada, or how it has led to a more multicultural society that embraces different traditions and perspectives. Additionally, you could....