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Last Oasis Facing Water Scarcity by Sandra Postel

In four pages this report examines the 1992 text written by an environmental scientist that promotes more efficient water usage. ...

Greek Games, Now and Then

This research report examines customs, events, and for example meanings of the Phaeacians' games. Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aen...

Concepts of Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Immanuel Kant

de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...

Alexander the Great and Alec D'Urberville

This research report examines Alexander the Great and what he accomplished and compares this with a fictional character in Hardy's...

20th Century Civil Rights

of race-hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nation; discrimination that still exists in housing, education, and emp...

Adolescent Peer Pressure and Advertising

as beautiful, wild, or successful. Taken one step further, when a product is purchased by an adolescent who is perceived ...

Theories of Social Class and Social Stratification

theoretical frameworks for understanding the process associated with social class have been crafted by philosophers and social the...

Meteors and the Defense of the Earth

The rare fragment that survives and actually lands on earth-that is a meteorite" (pp. 90). Krajick (1999) adds that modern...

Global Peacekeeping Role of the US

global peacekeeping. Discussion of the Ramifications If the United States remains the worlds police force, it is important to co...

America's Revolutionaries' Hostility

that is the most threatening aspect of revolutionary behavior. A large percentage of Americans are content with their lives an ar...

America's Negative Connotation of Dissent

Nonetheless, even VOAs projection of domestic political harmony and its minimization of dissent highlights the essential vagueness...

Urban Baseball Stadium, Sporting Events, and Risk Management

relatively short season running from June to September rather than the April to October season of higher division minor league bas...

Legal Cases and Appeals of Mike Tyson

Alan Dershowitz, filed an appeal immediately following sentencing. After the conviction, Tyson was denied an appeal for a new tria...

Freon v. Tetrafluoroethane Refrigeration

ozone layer of the Earth. The ozone layer is the atmospheric layer that protects the planet and its inhabitants from the suns har...

Mother and Daughters' Conversation

lime that has been out on the counter for too long. Edna: Now theres some "picture language!" You have such a way with words! Ba...

Manipulation Ability and Conventions of Linguistics

this "information age" of the 1990s, the manipulation of language has become a principal political and ideological weapon. The voc...

Pollution and the Impact of Human Habitats

fish are thought of more positively than are reptiles, invertebrates, amphibians and microorganisms. However, they also found that...

Proust and Descartes Regarding Identity

This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...

Total Quality Management and Implementation Barriers

no matter what management says. Often, the companys managers are honest in their statements regarding their commitment to quality,...

Fictitious Nuclear Accident and Congressional Reactor Shutdown

Congress has called for the closure of light water reactors throughout the United States. A legislator in the State of Wisconsin ...

Dividend Policy, Principal Agent Theory, and Capital Structure

no matter how you slice it. As a result, there really is no "optimal" capital structure. In effect, M&M promotes a concept that wa...

Film Depiction of African Americans

Horne and Louis Armstrong. Of course, famous tap dancing acts were featured in some films of the day. There was a well known musi...

Democracy and the Internet

an active part in the democratic process. And it certainly will not assure that the results of an election, campaign, or ideologi...

McCauley's Sally's Rape as Compared With Fornes' Fefu and Her Friends

This research report compares and contrasts these two plays. Staging as well as themes and other key issues are carefully examined...

Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

De Winter must live in the middle of all of this and try to rise up to Rebeccas standards. Rebecca haunts the new Mrs. de Winter n...

Criticisms by Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche on 'Good'

"herd." The noble man, according to Nietzsche, follows the morality of one who is a master of others. As master, he is who determ...

Female Equality Struggle and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

balance the levels of power each is able to wield. Not a Particularly Likable Woman! Since the Middle Ages of Chaucer and, no dou...

Daisy and Her Financial Status in Daisy Miller by Henry James

an open and unsuspecting young woman and places her in the context of a closed and suspicious world of condemnation and value judg...

Fritz Lang's M and the Hollywood Impact of German Cinema

According to Kreimeier (1996), at its peak in 1921, the German film industry was literally cranking out some 600 films annually, m...

Black Feminism in 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me' and 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

feminism, and on the realities of women in general. Some of those statements are presented in her 1926 short story "Sweat" and he...