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1929 Stock Market Crash and Source Reliability

day (1998, 1). The author goes on to report more detail, saying that the trading volume had been approximately three times the n...

Ahmed Rashid's Taliban

into an object of political power by Persians, the Mongols, the British, the Soviets and the Pakistanis over the centuries. From t...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and the Influence of Charles Darwin

notch to become a tale about the near-extinction of a species - that is, the family called the DUrbervilles - and how they attempt...

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

and how it reflected the changes in Russian society and government around the end of the nineteenth century. However, before addr...

Understanding the Old Testament by Bernhard Anderson

of envisioning and grasping the full significance of difficult passages. In his preface, Anderson outlines his general approach....

Jack Weatherford's Native Roots

the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...

The Slave Girl by Buchi Emecheta and the Nigerian Woman's Role

Ojebeta with charms to keep away tempting spirits from the land of the dead, and she was cherished and marked with special tattooe...

Reason and Religious Belief An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Michael L. Peterson

corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...

Homosexual Persecution by the Nazis

The central theme of The Pink Swastika, by Lively and...

Bill O'Reilly's The No Spin Zone

unlike many newscasters, is interested in getting at the truth, and that is all he asks from his guests. THE NO-SPIN ZONE In thi...

Christianity and the Wrong Views of Friedrich Nietzsche

by those in a particular sect of Christianity, there would be more purity in the Christian religions. Yet, this is not the case an...

Changing Thinking with Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

the concept of free trade is one that separates economists into ideological camps even today. Smith further believed that the prac...

Facing Mt. Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta

understands their deep significance to the people who have practiced them since birth. This provides a personal perspective that ...

Literature, Film, Identity, and Travel

conversation" (Clifford, 1997, p. 37). Similarly, the identity of the Moe family remained Hawaiian, despite the fact that they t...

Theories of Max Wertheimer in Productive Thinking

student may have to word it differently. THE PHI PHENOMENON Wertheimer had one theory that is called the phi phenomenon which ma...

U.S. Multiculturalism and Nationalism

to answer those questions and come up with support for the answers to those perplexing queries, a student writing on this subject ...

Rhetorical Statement Applied to Growing Up by Russell Baker

book Growing Up. None of us are going to be just like another. When Russell is admonished to do something with his life, to grow...

Edward Saidian Perspective of The Chan's Great Continent by Jonathan D. Spence

authentic reports of Chinese culture. As it turns out, however, Polos accounts are marred with self-aggrandizing elements that cl...

Social Science Predictability According to Alexander Rosenberg

it is (L) that connects human behavior with the environment via "desires and beliefs" that the environment fosters in us (Rosenbe...

Our Kind Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where Are We Going by Marvin Harris

interpretations. It is important for the one to understand that there exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives,...

Causes of Criminal Behavior

make-up, were twice as likely than fraternal twins, to share a criminal record(Selzer, 838). This would seem to support their theo...

Maxine Greene's The Dialectic of Freedom

evident. By doing this, then, she draws the reader into an inner examination of what one believes and why one believes it. One is ...

Lalita Tademy's Cane River and 4 Generations of African American Women

to fancy or given to unrealistic dreams. She was a down to earth and rational woman. In regards to the name, "Elisabeth merely sai...

Public Policymaking by James E. Anderson

make welfare benefits, buy airplanes or prohibit the retail sale of alcoholic beverages (Anderson, 2000). Procedural policies refe...

The Daily Lives of Ancient Egyptians

or when (Montet, 1968). There is some historical text which has been deciphered giving some of the details of ancient Egypt. Mon...

The 'Traditional Family' That Never Was by Wren Walker

how men of the 1950s entered into marriage for their own gain: to have someone tend to their needs, wants and desires. It is only...

Pregnant Women on Drugs Combating Stereotypes and Stigma by Sheigla Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum

or no more than six months postpartum, who had used "heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine" during their pregnancies and were not in ...

Self Identity According to David Hume

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

Policy and Social Work Implications of The Corner by David Simon and Edward Burns

The most vivid message of "The Corner" is the desperate situation under which the people of "the corner" exists. We find that the...

Practices of Criminal Justice Management

title can involve such things as an integrated computer system, modernized facilities, and human resources that are made available...