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Athena, The Virgin Goddess

("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...

Animal Cloning

tenderness. These all naturally reflect on the product - and its price - available to retailers" (Harper). In relationship to th...

In Defense of Governor Spitzer’s Plan

basic plan was announced by the New York Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and Governor Spitzer on September 21, 2007; it was pre...

Why There is Still a Gender Pay Gap

al. (1998) explain that between 1885 and 1970, men did earn more, but after 1970 there had been growth in the female labor force. ...

NAFTA and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis

This 3 page paper looks at the pollution haven hypothesis which argues that international trade agreements such as NAFTA are direc...

Big Media and the End of Democracy

of indoctrination and brainwashing in place. Radio, newspapers, movies, and all other forms of media were carefully monitored by t...

Latin American Revolutions and Marxist Thought

broke from capitalism (Townshend, 1996). The other way of thinking was that it would be possible for Socialism to succeed in Lati...

Victim Compensation

Smith (2006) defines victim compensation as a "form of income redistribution designed to redistribute wealth from offenders to vic...

MySpace: An Invisible World Flattener

other nations (the U.S. and Western Europe, as mentioned) are sitting back relaxed, not paying attention to the destruction of the...

Should the President Be Able to Wiretap Without a Warrant?

as long as the country faced terrorist threats" (NPR, 2007). It appears that the Bush Administration has been involved in such a...

Exploring Textual Sources of “The Arabian Nights”

It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Willy Loman, Not a Tragic Hero

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

Joseph Nye/Paradox of American Power

which hold the possibility of balancing "diplomatic and informational power."vii Nye believes that the U.S. should take a stand be...

International Trade and Global Poverty

latest "round," however, has not gone well. "America wants to slash tariffs, arguing (rightly) that the best way to help poor coun...

Hamlet and Ofelia and the Threats They Face

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

Is Black English Vernacular a “Real Language?”

This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...

Argument against School Prayer and Religion in Public Schools

passing laws that say all students WILL pray in class that they run afoul of the Supreme Court. There are many solid reasons why ...

The Significance of the Empire in History

something associated more with power and prestige than it is with the conquering of lands or people. He writes: "The original mean...

Was Lenin a Marxist?

socialism would emerge and then, finally, communism, which is the ideal society. Communism is the ultimate goal, but Marx only des...

Gun Control and the Right to Own a Gun

maintaining the right own guns and it is also an amendment wherein many people claim modern times no longer dictate such a need. P...

Stem Cells and Their Uses

place, researchers injected a toxin into the monkeys brains, then transplanted "3 million cells into the brains of five of the mon...

Exporting U.S. Wines to China

2006). The Chinese also enjoy beer, and Starbucks has successfully penetrated the market with its coffee stores. But wine is relat...

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

Arguments: Businesses Must be Socially Responsible

define the purpose of the business in terms of its own needs and desires, and each perspective is valid and legitimate" (Rethinkin...

Christopher Hitchens: “God is Not Great”

it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerou...

Reasons to Believe Humanity Has a Purpose

This 3 page paper argues that there are reasons to believe that humanity has a purpose. Bibliography lists 1 source. ...

Historical Causation Does Not Necessarily Apply to Classical Historiography

we will find one single causal factor underlying all of history. Munro makes the same argument: while there are a great many theo...

Fashion and Society

to accomplish. We may get the details wrong, but in the main they are trying to fit in. Fashion "is just dripping with meaning,"...

Where is AI Going?

the "solutions to problems are presented as symbol structures," which as weve already seen, are physical patterns that represent a...