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American Cultural Contributions of Elvis Presley

latter, which was written by singer/songwriter James Taylor, became a staple of Elviss extensive musical ensemble, performed at vi...

Cultural Dimension of International Business by Gary Ferraro

business. The topic of cultural competence is rather overwhelming as there are thousands of cultures throughout the world. Ferraro...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

Book Report: Finance

evaluate expected future gain on the basis of present value. Assessing investment alternatives according to present value methods...

Boylan’s “She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders”

transsexual individuals is that they do not feel that their true identity is fulfilled in being the sex they were born. Many strug...

An Analysis of Rosemary Ruether's Book, Gaia and God

beginning of a very slippery slope where mankind lost his spiritual footing and began to make a distinction, a separation of faith...

Donald Chidsey's The American Privateers

objectives. Though the historical context provided by Chidsey relates the idea that privateering was not a new concept, he does ...

Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson's Raising Cain

wonder, then, that there are so many divorces? Little boys grow up to be men who cannot or will not show their emotions; not even ...

An Analysis of Orwell's 1984

member of the Thought Police, and his role is to discover individuals going against the society and bring them out. Mr. Carringto...

Joseph Plumb Martin's Ordinary Courage

the year 1774 arrived. The smell of war began to be pretty strong, but I was determined to have no hand in it. I felt myself to be...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...

Beirut Outtakes by Larry Pintak

The Muslims wanted more power and the Christians were doing their best to try to prevent them from achieving this goal. However, P...

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

for myself. I began to blame Danny, Butch and the Kid for my present fate...But then I thought, aw, hell, it wasnt their fault--as...

'Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians' by Norma Basch

contends that, "Regional variations in divorce law were more pronounced on an east-west axis than a north-south one."3 For instan...

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

being the spiritual problems of modern man. We must keep in mind, of course, that Jungs reference to "modern" is dated to say the...

Cynthia Arem on Anxiety About Math

text is logical and begins with a diagnostic process that aids the reader in determining whether or not he or she truly does suffe...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

17th Century American Economic Thought

The sole reason for a colony (in the eyes of the sponsoring Nation at least) was to provide greater wealth to the mother country. ...

Dan Vergano's Article 'Water Shortages Will Leave World in Dire Straits'

be safe; however, the water sources of late are clearly demonstrating the consequences of overwhelming pollution and poverty by de...

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

In eight pages this text which covers the 1980s Palestinian and Israeli conflict and tensions in Lebanon is the focus of a summary...

Educational Management Business Model

model was the decentralized version that was child-centered proposed by progressives (Gelburg, 1997). Both models were based on ma...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

Overview of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Covey

The cognitive aspect of the work seems to be the most important. Making a paradigm shift, as the author reiterates, is the highlig...

Kenneth Hensall's Dimensions of Japanese Society Gender, Margins and Mainstream

emotion we most often find in Western culture. Just three decades ago, however, literature on Japan would take a different tactic...

Congress and the Internet

and provides a springboard for discussion on this very important topic. The articles contained in the volume all relate to the In...

'Rocket Boys' by Homer Hickam

of resignation which sent young mind after young mind into the coal mines, but there were a few who hoped to change that statistic...

Melton McLaurin's Celia, A Slave A True Story

issues raised in "Celia, a Slave: A True Story", however, were not confined to the South alone, nor were they limited to the rela...

A Review of the Essay From Rosie to Lucy

the media of the time (i.e. television and movies), as well as the impact of various frames of "official" reference such as census...

The Habsburgs, Embodying Empire by Andrew Wheatcroft

how they have always been an incredibly focused and a very driven family who is dedicated to their power. And Wheatcroft examines ...