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NASA's Effect on the U.S. Economy

the areas in which it operates sites (Reddy, 2006). NASA Langley was the object of one of the investigations seeking to identify ...

Globalization as Americanization

that the export of American culture is not always appreciated, or desired, but America is so powerful that it cannot be resisted. ...

Medieval Law and Literature

the names of these people), wrote the following: In the reign of the most clement king of the Kentish-men, Wihtr?d, in the fifth ...

Two Views of "Oedipus Rex"

in which a drunk calls Oedipus a "bastard," thus forcing him to the extreme of looking for the cause of the plague on the city whe...

Marijuana Should be Legal in Medical Applications

1993, p. 23). The authors believe that if people see patients using marijuana and "functioning fine," they will question why its i...

Postrel & O’Brien/Aesthetics & The True War Story

summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...

Women’s Rights/Incompatibility with Islam

of the state. They are always perceived in their relationship to men as defined by Islamic scripture. Within this social and polit...

The Positive Aspects of Monopolies

they do not need to (Gisser, 1999). This meant some monopolies would end up lagging behind technologically other similar industrie...

Jazz and New Orleans

ongoing, carried in the people, but the symbols and landmarks, of the music and the culture it has influenced. The loss of the bui...

Thomas A. Bailey and the Trail of Tears

as noted above deserves some further expansion so that we know how to respond to it. When he discusses Baileys remarks, Peloso is ...

The Relevance of Economics for the Real Estate Agent

agents," 2006). Brokers hire agents as needed. One observation about the business is tied to the economy, as follows: "Employment ...

The John F. Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy

seriously injured Governor Connally. One bullet passed through the Presidents neck; a subsequent bullet, which was lethal, shatte...

Management/Labor Conflict in "The Grapes of Wrath"

people were desperate for jobs, the owners and those who hired the migrants paid them pennies; as Steinbeck says: "They were hungr...

Chaos Theory and the Virginia Tech Shootings

these factors might be important with regard to complexity, such systems also have to exhibit stability or they could not exist (C...

Better to Live in the US than Mexico

Constitution. There are also financial advantages to living in the US. In American culture, owning your own home or business is ...

Is the Avant-Garde Over?

to the art of the motion picture; and just this past month, Zack Snyder directed 300, a film starring Gerard Butler and based on a...

Synthetic Fertilizers: An Alternative

spread between many. The salt water of the oceans, for example, interlace with the fresh waters which flow from the rivers to fo...

Paulo Coelho/The Alchemist

he meets, as well as the lessons that he learns. This plot sounds simplistic and stereotypical, and in many ways this is true; how...

Does London Have a Split Personality?

explores the seamy side of city life. In fact, the novels central theme is the horrible treatment endured by the poor and those wh...

The War in Iraq is Not Justified

is the most popular one, acting in the face of adversity should mean that the action is strongly supported by the actor. In the ca...

The Media Bias Conundrum

half-wits, for example (Alterman, 2003). While clearly to the right, Coulters rants appear infantile. Bernard Goldberg also sees m...

Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

Technology's Effect on Society

astronomers have figured out whats going to happen and are hoping to leave records so the next generation will understand, and be ...

Data Analysis; Cross-Cultural Competence and Best Practice Social Work

approaches we can use, such as the paired T-Test, however, in this case as we would usually expect to find a normal distribution a...

Rene Descartes/Proving God Exists

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

Bahrain; Women’s Rights

all elections and public referenda and [be] eligible for election to all publicly elected bodies" (quoted Sakr, 2000). Therefore, ...

Critiquing the Critic: Henry Mackenzie on "Hamlet"

Mackenzie is also correct in attributing his hesitation to an overly sensitive nature; Claudius remarks on this when he says that ...

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

The Flaw in Utilitarian Theory

is one alternative in deriving a moral theory when considering a variety of philosophical models. Above all, it is simplistic. And...

The Ghost of Hamlet's Father

he no longer has the means to interact with the living effectively, he returns to drive his son Hamlet to take revenge on his beha...