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Historical Overview of Voodooism

African for Spirit(Corbett). "Vodou is tolerant. It receives. It honors and respects us all as though we were gifts. It tells us t...

Elitism and The British Broadcasting Corporation from 1922 to 1939

was introduced within two weeks of the BBC forming, and would act as a barrier to radio ownership, as ten shillings was a great de...

An Architectural View of Centre Georges Pompidou

capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...

Education for the Deaf

part of its grammar and utilizes space to impart nuances of meaning. For example, the word "look," can be changed to mean "grace, ...

House of Representatives and Proportionality

other house. Thus it is of a complicated nature; and this complication, I trust, will be found to exclude the evils of absolute co...

College Sports and Gambling

of the athletes (Sports Wagering, 2003). The NCAA argues that sports wagering of any kind "demeans the competition and competitor...

Twenty First Century Gun Control

gun control is that the existence, or presence, of guns in a private citizens home leads to more violence. Statistics have often i...

The Language of Black America: African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

Teaching Reading

explained the bottom up model: "the reader first identifies features of letters; links these features together to recognize letter...

Pyramide du Louvre by I.M. Pei

controversial as the actual building. (An adjective often preceding his name is "iconic.") For one thing, the idea that an America...

Reproductive Technology and Identity

to be inferior (Chesterton, 1922). The idea behind this premise was to protect the American "identity" which in many ways was stil...

Roles of Tobacco Scientists

In his book, Question of Intent (which basically blows the lid sky-high off the shenanigans in the tobacco industry), author David...

Competing Visions of Thomas Morton and William Bradford in 'The May Pole of Merry Mount' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...

Mystery Sonata in G Minor by Bach

J.S. Bach, such as pulsating basses and galant-sounding melodic lines (Baxendale, 2001). This has caused one critic to assert that...

An Overview of American Sign Language

In 1994, estimates suggest that upwards of 500,000 deaf Americans incorporated ASL into their daily communications, while many oth...

Social Networking Does Not Enhance Life Skills

does not make it a good thing. After all, there are many things that people do that are not healthy. Of course, some argue that th...

A Discussion of Cochlear Implants

in thinking that everyone wants to be the same; and if they have the right to force conformity on those who are different. Cochlea...

Renewable Energy: Wind Power

energy are necessarily highly aware of the fact that reaping the power of the wind creates a "landscape" presence that some critic...

Pentecostal Beliefs

covenant and the new way. In Acts, Luke recounts acts of the Spirit. It is believed Luke wrote this to "establish Christianity as...

English Class Research Proposal

the increasing severity and frequency of floods, hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, drought, and heavy rains is directly related to g...

Culture Study and Anthropology

competitive, and prone to violence with high rates of homicide, assault and rape (1983). According to Freeman (1983), Meads conc...

Religion in the Schools

religion being taught in our schools. While a number of reasons are put forth to justify this stance, the legalities of teaching ...

The Integration of Church and School

those attending private schools were projected to be 10,653,000 (US Department of Education, 2007). The percentage of the nations...

The Reasons Why Medical Marijuana Should Be Legal

simpler and more compelling explanation accounts for the pattern of drug use you see in this country, without resort to any gatewa...

Major League Baseball, Drug Testing, and Ethics

They also promised tough penalties for testing positive ranging from a ten-day suspension for a first positive testing and a possi...

What is ADHD?

in a childs behavior in that it violates the norm. Eventually, the child is examined and possibly diagnosed with ADHD. ADHD is th...

Southwestern Forest Land Management and Land Grants

In ten pages this paper discusses the Southwest U.S. in a consideration of Spanish land grants and the controversy involving manag...

A Look at the Role of the Historian

different definitions. That is, different people see history in different ways. There is a debate over presentism where there is d...

The Depiction of Reality in the Age of Global Production

In all cases they may be seen as art that is breaking boundaries as they are seeking to break down social barriers and taboos, dea...

Why the Wright Brothers Were First in Flight

who first invented flight. Lienhard (2006) writes: "I remain content to say that the Wright brothers were first to fly, as long ...