... percent in 1995, while state expenditures went from 8.1 percent to 13.5 percent in the same time span. This increase can be attributed to multiple factors. First, through a series of mandates, the Federal Government has expanded the eligibility for Medicaid, requiring states to serve more people. They also increased the standards required of nursing homes. This led to higher nursing home costs which were passed directly back to the Medicaid program. The current average cost to care for a patient in a nursing home is nine times greater than that of a single dependent child. The price of medical care, in general, has drastically increased. Expensive new technolo ...

... of conduct" an item every male must follow verbatim. "On Self-respect " faces the every day pressures of adolescent life. The main premise of this essay is that you must respect yourself for anyone to respect you. Both essay's rely on self respect to relate to the rites of passage in today's society. Peer pressure is a very major dilemma in that friends or peers try to get a person to do what they, the majority, like and not what the individual likes. Peers create some of the so-called rites, then when one follows more start to follow, then it becomes the scenario of the lemmings following their leader off of the face of a cliff. Some teens think ...

... thirty”. She went on to tell me what the consequences were and I should not blow my money like that. I went into a Texaco on November 1, 1999, and I noticed two machines to my left as I walked through the door. I looked at the machines and noticed a sign that read “Must be at least 18 years of age to play”. I had $1.50 in quarters in my pocket, so I played. I was ahead in the game, so I decided to cash what I had out. The machine printed out a yellow ticket. I lost the rest of the credits and took the ticket up to the clerk and he told me that it was worth one dollar. I picked a scratch off and won ten dollars. This experience shows there is a differen ...

... since highschool so he knows me very well. The person that I chose to complete the acquaintance section was my friend Leslie Margasak. Leslie is my girlfriends roommate therefore our communication is somewhat limited. Through the following research and analysis I have created a table (Table:1) that shows the means for my friend aquaitance, and myself. The summaries and findings in which I calculated provided me with insight of my dominant yet friendly communication style. It also provided me with a different perspective as to how other people interpret my communication habits. For example, the mean for myself on the category "relaxed" scored a 1.3. However, ...

... novels, this marriage at the end of the novel shows us Jane Austen's ideal view of marriage as a social institution. The novel Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen gives us the reader a very good idea of how she views marriage, as well as society. The theme of marriage is set in the very opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice; "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" (Austen, 1) As Norman Sherry points out, this is Austen's way of implying that 'a single man in possession of a good fortune' is automatically destined to be the object of desire for all unmarried women. The statemen ...

... animal testing, giving new alternatives and shining a new light for illnesses that did not have a cure before. Working with animals like monkeys and dogs have resulted in successful open heart surgeries on people, as well as organ transplants, and the cardiac pace maker. The disease polio, which killed and disabled many children, is almost completely vanished from the United States by the used of preventive vaccines that were perfected on monkeys. Not only polio, but also mumps, measles,rubella and smallpox have been eliminated through antibiotics tested on monkeys. Major diseases have been alleviated and have had major advances totheir cure, diseases such a ...

... the road. First be courteous. Think of why you might say or do to the other driver if you were face to face with him in like the grocery store or something. It is a lot easier for us to get angry at someone when we are in a car, but if we were right in front of the person we would think twice. We wouldn't just give the person the middle finger or curse at them if we were face to face with them, so why would we do so if we are in a car? Second of all you want to use your change lanes signal whenever you are about to do so. That could trigger most people if they get cut off, you want to give the person or persons in the other lanes as much time as possible to ...

... be learned; it is not simply there from birth. Rather than being an uncontrollable instinct, a person’s behavior is something that is taught to him. For example, a newborn baby is breathing because it is an involuntary reflex. On the other hand, a father may tell his young son to beat up the school bully who is picking on him. As a result, the boy is taught to deal with the situation by using violence. In order for an individual to display aggression, it must be driven by an instinct interacting with that person's surroundings. McDougall defines the word instinct as “an inherited or innate psycho-physical disposition which determines its possessor to perceive ...

... gets overprotective because he feels that he now "owns" her because they are sexually active which is unhealthy for the couple. is something that often goes overlooked when we think of the things that should be stopped but it is necessicary to note that putting a stop to could help with the amount of teen mothers, people that are sick and are given a death sentence from AIDS and people that get hurt because there is a lack of commitment in their relationship. The first and most serious problem that comes from sex before marriage are sexually transmitted diseases. AIDS is the most common and most deadly of the sexually transmitted diseases. First it is ...

... by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights an fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field. Why can it spread so widely? It is perpetuated by the survival of stereotypes and of traditional cultural and religious practices and beliefs detrimental to women. Women always don't have the same human right as men. In this society, a number of countries throughout the world, women are denied their basis legal rights, including the right to vote and the right to own property. Many countries discriminate against female nationals who marry foreigners. Foreign wiv ...