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The Young and the Reckless: Adolescent Reckless Behavior

In Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, they "surf" on the tops of trains, standing with arms outstretched as the trains rush along. The surfers—adolescents, girls as well as boys—are undeterred by the death of 150 fellow surfers per year and the injury of 400 more, from falling off trains or from hitting the 3,000-volt electric cable that runs above. On Truk Island in the South Pacific, drunkenness, figh...

Medical malpractice: a time for more talk and less rhetoric.

Influence of Reckless Jaywalking on Urban Road Traffic Capacity

A modified cellular automaton (CA) model based on the NaSch model is proposed to simulate the typical reckless jaywalking which can cause serious traffic jam and even traffic accident. Incorporating traffic psychology, the walking characteristics such as customary activity, randomness, conformity and tendency are analyzed. Two parameters reflecting the influence degree of human factor is introd...

Newman on Rhetoric and Preaching

Title of Document: NEWMAN ON RHETORIC AND PREACHING Milton King, MA, 2007 Directed By: Professor Jeanne Fahnestock English Language and Literature In Newman studies, four current theological issues find resolution and application. Faith emerges as the best mode of reasoning for discerning truth, boosts theology’s academic status, and speaks to the felt need in academia to require students to en...

Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Argument

Many lawyers lack a basic understanding of the structure and process of legal argumentation. Their limited understanding, which often leads to less than effective advocacy, stems from legal education's failure to make the structure and process of legal argument explicit and systematic. One approach to this problem is to explore the intrinsic relationship of law to rhetoric. Because law and rhet...