Essays 1981 - 2010
the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...
"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...
a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...
getting into debt, and he could look forward to a secure and comfortable retirement" (p. D8). That is no longer true, only the wea...
as being valuable. Resource value is more stable than commodity value (Florida Stewardship Foundation, 2000). Commodity values c...
in society, sometimes, norms are let go of for a variety of reasons. Durkheim (1997) writes: "The hypercivilization... breeds the ...
on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...
that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...
note that he differentiates between "religion" and "spirituality." Hamer maintains that "spirituality is genetic, while religion i...
anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...
GDR society," which would open it up to Western "cultural and economic influences" (Berghahn 146). However, the Partys views on re...
medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...
equivalent. Stem cells are extracted while the embryo is, as yet, an undifferentiated ball of microscopic cells referred to as a b...
knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...
became homeless, the dumpster represented a virtual lifeline for the duo, their only means of survival. Instead of being daunted ...
did. He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. As one pastor reminds us: "The Bible says that God will hold us accountable for ...
gets frustrated easily and wants to give up. At the same time, John wants to read books. Also available were the Stanford 9 Achie...
he would ask if there were any questions at the end of each lesson but he knew there were students who did not understand but who ...
typically live in poor neighborhoods, which means their neighborhood schools will be mostly populated with other poor students. Ba...
proportion, 70 percent of all ERP projects fail. The same author comments that ERP projects require a significant amount of "coord...
taxes, such as shifting income, which would require the company to have more than one entity and by shifting deductions (King, 200...
2005; Kirk, 2004). Kims Web site meet all of these criteria. Since June 1997, more than 451,000 people have accessed this site and...
a representative, push [another number that is not always 0]" What happens when you get to a real live person? You have to tell th...
moral conviction, and, especially. on the part of African American activists, a fierce visceral passion for freedom" (Bordewich 4)...
Compliance, 2007). Employees can take any number of actions without retribution if they suspect a violation, such as raising ones ...
his needs" (Atwood 8). Atwood obviously feared the emerging strength of the religious far-right and saw in its rejection of rights...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
is a "pre-observation conferences, an observation, and a post-observation conference" can be combined with a "cognitive coaching m...
give up their nuclear weapon technology, examples include Israel and India (Posen and Ross, 1997). It is not worth alienating a fr...
those of other races entirely. Nor do these forms truly explain why anybody needs to know this stuff in the first place. And there...