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Helmet Laws, 2007.
This paper discusses the current debate over motorcycle helmet laws.
1,090 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 56.95
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The paper relates how the motorcycle helmet laws have raised different ideas regarding how governments should police individual behavior. On one hand, government advocates argue that the enforcement of helmet laws is a public safety issue. Many motorists, however, believe that helmet laws interfere with personal decisions and should be seen as unconstitutional. The paper discusses these arguments and reveals that it is in society's greater financial interest to prevent as many motorcycle injuries and fatalities as possible. The paper concludes that the government should re-institute and enforce mandatory helmet laws throughout the United States.
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"Motorcyclists who challenge the state mandatory helmet laws have often been portrayed as reckless thrill-seekers. They are seen as irresponsible rebels who relish danger. However, this stereotype downplays many helmet law opponents' valid concerns.
"Sonny Pinard, a biker based in Port Charlotte, Florida, believes that "people are grown adults, and they're old enough to make their own decisions" (qtd in O'Donnell). For riders like Pinard, the motorbike is the ultimate representation of freedom. A helmet is therefore a negation of the bike, a symbol of constraint."
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Mandatory Motorcycle Helmet Laws, 2003.
A discussion of mandatory helmet laws from a public health perspective.
1,380 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 9 sources, APA, AU$ 69.95
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This paper analyzes the issue of mandatory helmet laws for motorcyclists as a health policy issue. The paper begins with an overview of the issue, followed by an analysis of the issue in several contexts. The paper focuses on the importance of this health safety issue for professional nursing and offers strategy recommendations for the nurses.
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Motorcycle Helmet Law in Kentucky, 2006.
A look at the motorcycle helmet law in the United States of America, with a specific focus on the state of Kentucky.
1,760 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 82.95
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This paper reviews the history of the motorcycle helmet laws in the United States of America, with specific focus on the state of Kentucky.
The motorcycle helmet laws have undergone various changes, adaptations and then finally abandoned, since the original law was passed in the early 1970s.
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"Motorcycle helmets do provide the very best protection to riders from fatal head injuries when they are riding a motorcycle, and meet with a crash. However, only the law can increase helmet usage among the general population, and therefore, it must be stated that the laws governing motorcycle usage must be more stringent and strict. Accordingly, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or the NHTSA ensures the safety of motorcyclists by requiring that all states follow the rule that states that all motorcycle riders must wear helmets. Statistics reveal that in the year 2002 alone, 3,244 motorcyclists died and a further 65,000 individuals were injured in crashes involving motorcycle riders in the United States of America. In the same way, it must be noted that an unhelmeted motorcyclist is 40% more likely to suffer from a fatal head injury than a helmeted person. This means that helmet usage can reduce the risk of fatality by about 37%. (Laws, Motorcycle Helmet Laws)."
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Motorcycle Helmets, 2006.
This paper explores the design of motorcycle helmets.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 46.95
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This paper examines the physics of elastic and inelastic collisions and applies this theory to the design of motorcycle helmets. The author discusses the essential features of motorcycle helmets and compares a good design and a bad design.. The paper relates the way motorcycle helmets protect the brain.
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"The laws of momentum and energy govern collisions between two objects. A collision occurring in an isolated system conserves the total momentum of the system and so the total momentum of the system after the collision is the same as it was before the ..."
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Motorcycle Helmets, 1991.
This paper discusses the law mandating helmets: Background, freedom of choice, discriminatory legislation, economics, statistics and precedents.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 69.95
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In recent years, a controversy has arisen over the issue of whether or not motorcycle riders should be required by law to wear helmets. Those who favor such laws claim that helmets help to reduce the occurrence of head injuries in motorcycle accidents. As such, it is argued that the use of helmets helps in reducing the number of deaths and disabilities which are caused by such injuries. Those who are opposed to mandatory helmet laws claim that the motorcycle rider cannot see or hear properly while wearing a helmet. In addition, the opponents of laws mandating helmets argue that they have a right to freedom of choice in the matter. It is argued that the government has no right to legislate on this issue, and that any attempt to do so is an infringement of personal liberties.
At this time, the controversy over motorcycle helmets is ... "
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CA Motorcycle Helmet Law of 1992, 1994.
Legal & economic analysis. Issues examined include insurance, citations, helmet market, liability and freedom vs. safety.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 57.95
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"Beginning on January 1, 1992, motorcycle riders in California had to wear helmets or risk receiving a moving violation citation. The helmet law was controversial on several fronts, with hard-core motorcycle riders concerned about the loss of freedom that goes with not wearing a helmet, helmet manufacturers interested in an increase in sales and insurance companies concerned both that the helmet law would reduce the seriousness of injuries received by riders while increasing the number of product liability cases that were filed against manufacturers of helmets. This research examines the motorcycle helmet law and considers its economic effects both to individual riders and to society as a whole.
At the heart of the controversy surrounding the helmet law is where an individual's personal freedom to enjoy a leisure activity.."
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Business Law: The Case of Luke Cool, 2007.
This paper discuses the complex case of Luke Cool, who is suing Bobby's Super Bikes and La Brute Manufacturing.
805 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 41.95
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This paper explains that the likelihood of Luke Cool's receiving damages in this case depends on whether the actions of Super Bikes and La Brute Manufacturing can be described as having been executed using "reasonable care". The author points out that Luke may be entitled to both pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages from La Brute; however, Luke will likely only receive pecuniary damages in his suit against Super Bikes, as in contract law recovery of non-pecuniary damages is very rare. The paper concludes that, given that Luke was extraordinarily negligent in this case by not only continuing to ride the bike knowing it had a dangerous flaw, but also by riding on a difficult path and without a safety helmet, it is likely that his award in this case will be reduced significantly.
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"Luke would have no likelihood of successfully suing the employee of Super Bikes who sold him the bike, or the employee who told him to return another day as the part was not in stock, as the law generally distinguishes between those who have a contractual obligation to perform, and those who may due the actual work. While he may sue the employees on the basis of tort of negligence, this is unlikely to be successful due to negligence being defined in the law as failure to show "reasonable care"."
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Marketing Motorcycle Helmets on the Internet, 2001.
Discusses the product, marketing problems, SWOT analysis, Internet analysis. Steps to develop a new web site. Marketing & advertising the produce.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 81.95
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"The product name is Xian Hua, which is a fiberglass motorcycle helmet manufactured in Taiwan. The import cost for the product is $7.95 US in quantities of 100. The product is new, and has been crash tested in Taiwan and is capable of withstanding 130 pounds of direct pressure and is also capable of withstanding crashes of seventy miles per hour.
About the Marketing Problems
When getting ready to market such a product in a nation where there are so many channels from which to choose, it is essential to study the problems that other marketers have faced. The problems connected with marketing the helmet in the United States are believed to be these (Sealey, 1999)...."
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Drug Use: How Free Should People Be?, 2002.
A discussion of how much personal freedom to use drugs an individual should be allowed.
2,166 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 98.95
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This paper evaluates the position and rationale of both sides in the debate on whether people should be free to take drugs if they want to and how issues such as drug use and abuse allow the discussion and debate over morality to be relevant, intelligent and never-ending. It analyzes the dilemma over personal freedom with respect to certain kinds of drug use, although other interference in personal freedom such as helmet laws, sexual conduct, gambling, and suicide could easily be used and how the government, under elected leaders, believes that it has a mandate to legislate moral standards and create laws that limit an individual?s actions. The paper concludes by explaining the author's philosophical position and reasoning concerning individual freedom, drug use and morality.
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"Thomas Szasz, a noted philosopher, calls for greater personal freedom by arguing in favor of letting Americans take any drug they want. He believes that drug abuse is a moral and political issue rather than a medical or therapeutic one (Burr and Goldinger 250). The date of his most passionate writing, which is 1972, tells us a great deal about the work, for it was written at a time when many Americans were grappling with the more liberal and free mentality that arose in the 1960s. They were asking questions for the first time about just how dangerous these increasingly common and heavily used drugs were. Szasz?s writing is clearly relative to the more turbulent society of the period, and ethical relativism is a common theme throughout the debate over morality."
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Bicycle Safety, 2008.
A lesson plan for a third grade class that aims to encourage the use of safety helmets for bicycles.
1,783 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 11 sources, MLA, AU$ 84.95
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The paper develops an age and developmentally appropriate lesson plan for a third grade class to promote the use of safety helmets when riding bicycles. The paper describes how the lesson will encourage class participation and will use the inherent developmental characteristics of eight year-olds to belong to a group to provide positive peer pressure. The paper explains that the lesson is also designed to provide reasons why the wearing of helmets is necessary for personal safety and to prevent injury.
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"There are 85 million bicycle riders in the United States, and 540,000 of them visited them emergency room, of those 67,000 had head injuries, 27,000 required hospitalization, and 45 to 85 percent of the brain injuries could have been prevented by a helmet. (Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute) About half of the bicycle deaths were children under 15. The use of helmets vary greatly in different sectors of society by orders of magnitude, white collar communities helmet use in children is approximately 80%, where inner-city children the use is closer to 10%. (Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute) The targeted community of Lacey, Washington would be classified as a white collar community with a white population of approximately 75% and a medium income of $43,848 (year 2000)."
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Comparative Negligence, 2006.
This paper discusses the topics of negligence vs. comparative negligence concerning helmet liability.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This paper describes issues of legal negligence ascribed to a coach based on a football player's failure to buckle his football helmet during play which resulted in an injury to the student's neck. Immunity, negligence and comparative negligence are examined in the paper. The paper finally makes a determination, along with assumptions in making the determination, that the proper defense was comparative negligence.
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"We live in a litigious society. People who feel they have been wronged will file lawsuits against whom ever they can ascribe blame to; school coaches are no exception. While the laws governing tort liability vary per state, this paper will describe a generic football based neck injury for failure to buckle a football helmet during play and discuss the legal categories of negligence and comparative negligence as applicable to this case. The paper will conclude with a discussion on which of the two categories is more appropriate as a defense. The injury: Bobby Jones, a high school senior on the varsity football team had been playing junior high and high school football for the last 6 years. During one of the final games of the season, despite the coach's explicit directions to buckle his football helmet, Bobby failed to do so."
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