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The Works of Oskison and Posey

Various pieces of literature are explored, compared and contrasted. These are Native American works and beliefs are discussed as c...

Literary Heroes Come of Age

The tale of a hero becoming an adult is a staple of literature. This essay compares heroes Han Solo and Odysseus, Luke Skywalker a...

Heart of Darkness & Social Expectations

darkest impulses are given free reign. Through the eyes of Marlow, Conrad makes it clear that Kurtzs nineteenth century notions of...

The Importance of Religious Stories

investigation of the dhamma, energy, rapture or happiness, calm, concentration, and equanimity" (Thera, 2009). The story entitle...

Theme of Conflict/Iliad and Medea

more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...

Diagnosis and Treatment for Prenatal Exposure to Drugs

of the prevailing literature had been conducted on neural capacity of neonatal and infants under the age of two (Carta & Sideridis...

The Lament of the Businessperson 'I Don't Have Time To Read Novels!'

The importance of reading creative literature for business professionals is considered in this essay of 4 pages. The problem-solv...

Job Satisfaction Motivation and the Leader

A great deal has been written about how leadership styles and behaviors impact and influence employee motivation, job satisfaction...

Leaders Must First be Followers

One of the issues that has arisen in the last several years has to do with whether an effective leader also needing to be an effec...

Tale of the Heike, An Overview

This essay pertains to the "Tale of the Heike," which is a warrior tale from medieval Japanese literature. This narrative recounts...

Teaching Advanced Students

In the recent past, the literature has been emphasizing including gifted children in the regular classroom rather than placing the...

Domestic Violence

This essay has several headings that include data/statistics of intimate partner violence, literature review, recommendations for ...

Child Abuse, Physical

This research paper/essay, first of all, describes a case of physical child abuse and then offers discussion and analysis, drawing...

Developing a Toy for Preschoolers

This essay describes developing a toy that stimulates the cognitive and physical development of three-year-olds. Derived from Mont...

Intricacies of Nursing Identity

This essay pertains to a nursing student's sense of nursing identity. The writer discusses the student's personal perspective and ...

A Qualified Defense of Singer

determined by the goodness, or badness, of the results that flow from it" (Colosi 8). The second is the "hedonist principle," whic...

Oil Prices and Airline Budgets

of hedging and how the airline will fare will depend partly on the type of instrument they use (Flottau & Wall, 2008). This is a g...

Issues Related to Foster Care Children

This essay presents a draft of a review of the literature about foster youth. A number of topics are included such as the data reg...

U.S. Refugee Population, Health Policy Treatment, Prevention, and Care Services

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

The Effects of Divorce

of research, journal articles, books, magazines and newspaper articles. A great deal of it paints a negative and sad picture of th...

Obtaining Information From Theses

contrast, Steward reported a large and comprehensive literature review identifying numerous authors and numerous topics and subtop...

The Shape of Heroism

Using examples from literature and from world events, this essay identifies some of the heroes everyone knows and those nobody kno...

Interview With Nurse CEO

A very large meta-analysis was performed by the American Library Association in 2007 to determine the most important traits for an...

An Alien Life Form's Speculation on Mankind

This paper speculates how an alien life form would view earthlings if he or she visited the planet in the year ten-thousand A.D. a...

The Transformational American Literature Between the Years 1865 to 1914

shows how the Huck was socialized by his culture to look on slavery as an economic and moral necessity, not as an evil. In so doin...

Meditations

controlling his temper, modesty, and manliness, he learned piety, abstinence, and how to live simply "far removed from the habits ...

Louise Erdrich's 'The Leap' Feminist Short Story

In five pages this essay analyzes the short story in order to determine that it is an example of feminist literature. Three sourc...

Arguing Against Smoking

of smoking and the issues surrounding the health impacts of secondary smoke. Such is not always the case, however, when it comes ...

Loss of Paradise in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

Lennie talk of their plans for a farm, he immediately feels the pull of this dream. He asks, "Spose I went with you guys...I aint ...

Ethical Dilemma Pertaining to a Do Not Resuscitate Order

disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...