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Four Types of Social Provisioning in Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation

1944). During communal activity, such as feasts, dances and other occasions, the chief distributes gifts to all and the "overwhelm...

Richard L. Daft and NAVSEA Management System

NAVSEA was an ageing workforce (which, in many cases, was near retirement) (Overby and Ash, 2002). One concern was, in the words o...

Machiavelli on Power and Leadership

In five pages this paper discusses Machiavelli's views on the concepts of power and leadership. Three sources are cited in the bi...

Woman and Man in Paul by Naubert Baumert

the other parts of this analysis. In part D, the final section of the text, the author avails himself of various other theological...

Styles of Making Legal Decisions

who also figure prominently in the decision-making process by virtue of the arguments they offer for courts consideration and the ...

Comparative Analysis of the Perspectives of Sigmund Freud and Virginia Woolf

life, that indicates women had some buried anger and resentment towards men, a sort of position that had to become strong enough t...

Rationalism and the Concepts of Rene Descartes and David Hume

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

Restraint Uses in Psychiatric Nursing

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

Women and Taoism

They developed the idea of Dao (which we know as Tao, meaning "way" or "path") "as the origin lf all creation and the force-unknow...

Personal Perspective on Social Stratification

old stereotype that the only way to get out of the ghetto is through basketball or rap has some truth. People are born into a cert...

A 'Mice and Men' Marxist Analysis

These day laborers are obviously the ones who are trying to get by and are juxtaposed to the people who are willing to hire them. ...

William Faulkner's Narrative Perspectives in As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury

own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...

U.S. Supreme Court, William N. Eskridge, and Lochner v. New York

(Findlaw, 2005). The employee worked as a baker, and baking at that time was a dangerous occupation: bakers inhaled quantities o...

'Self Reliance' and 'Nature' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

be true to oneself in solitude, the hammer of outside voices when in the midst of society tends to sway people toward conformity. ...

'Good Life' and the Philosophies of Albert Camus, Rene Descartes, and Plato

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this essay examines how Poe's combination of detail and manipulated point of view constructs a compelling psychologi...

Marcia Baron, Philip Pettit, and Michel Slote on Three Methods of Ethics

This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares Baron's Kantian views, Pettit's consequentialist persperspectives, an...

The True Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness, the seminal masterpiece by Joseph Conrad, is a study in cruelty and the degeneration of man into beast as the t...

'Mariners and Machines' by Lance Buhl Reviewed

In five pages the author's views regarding technology changes and social stratification are critically analyzed. There are no oth...

Education and an Application of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Perspective on Knowledge

In five pages this paper discusses how Rousseau's views regarding learning and knowledge can be practically applied to contemporar...

'Unexamined Life' Concept of Socrates

In eight pages this paper examines Socrates' philosophical views on self examination and the importance of motivation within the i...

'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...

Comparing Aristotle and Plato

the immortal soul so that man can survive (PG). The mortal and the immortal soul were each housed in different areas in the body (...

The Golden Mean of Aristotle

In five pages the way in which Aristotle perceived the golden mean as described in Politics is discussed and also compared with Th...

Living Chicana Theory by Carla Trujillo Summarized

In five pages this 1998 feminist text is examined in a summary overview offered from a Chicana point of view. There are no other ...

The Early Christians and the Ancient Greeks Comparing Their Gods

Looking at Saint Augustine's 'Confessions' and Homer's 'The Iliad', the author finds characters and situations that represent the ...

Business World and Changing Technology

In five pages corporate America is examined in view of the impact of technology changes with retail, banking, and entertainment in...

First World War and Gendered War Perspectives

In ten pages this paper examines the concept of warfare in a consideration of the differing views between men and women regarding ...

Mill Verses Tennyson Verses Gaskell, A Comparison of The Subjection of Women, The Princess and North and South

This six page paper considers the societal roles expected of Victorian women. John Stewart Mill, Tennyson, and Elizabeth Gaskell ...

Liberalism Shift in America According to Eric Foner

In seven pages this paper examines Eric Foner's views on the shift from republicanism to liberalism in the United States. Five so...