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Xanax: An Argument for Inclusion in the DSM

drug-related visits to the emergency rooms across the nation in 2005: "31% involved illicit drugs...

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...

The Sadness of Thomas Hardy

the poem did not deviate from this perspective it would become something of a pointless poem that was only possessed of sadness. T...

Blame and Credit for Genetic Engineering

people who use what science has discovered that do wrong. But, many believe that what scientists do in terms of genetic engineerin...

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...

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,"...

Rethinking the War on Drugs

create more problems for the nation. In one respect, people who purchase, sell or use marijuana are put in prison and exposed to...

Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

Day-Age Theory of Creation

While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

Angelou: “Phenomenal Woman”

When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...

The Concept of the “Virtuous Person” in Socratic and Buddhist Tradition

I was speaking have a superhuman wisdom, which I may fail to describe, because I have it not myself; and he who says that I have, ...

St. Thomas Aquinas On Autonomy And Freedom

and a posterior arguments here, there is a priori knowledge of Gods existence but that knowledge is beyond human understanding. In...

Steroids

slugger Barry Bonds will be followed by the specter of steroid use as he chases major-league baseballs home run record" In this ar...

Identity Theft, Data Analysis and a Trend in Enterprise Integration

customers will immediately and the business relationship, and a further 40% will consider the ending of that relationship (Frieden...

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...

Racism in Contemporary America

investigations that "successfully demonstrate the unfairness that only Affirmative Action can begin to redress" (Bradley 450). Spe...

Global Warming/Consensus in Newspaper Accounts

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

Crane/Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Naturalism

in his review of Maggie, vented his "frustration at realism," as he complained that realism "seemed written from the outside" (Gol...

Norma Rae’s Depiction of Labor

sit down, even when "they are having menstrual cramps" (Giroux). In the film, workers also complain about "plant conditions, speed...

Gender Constructs in Advertising

as a potent tool to construct a certain kind of social reality and perpetuate certain stereotypes based on the contrived social re...

The Positive Aspects of Spanking Children

is both ineffective and harmful. Still, parents must have some sort of technique for disciplining unruly kids. These are the two s...

Human Organ Sales in the United States and China

Human Organ Sales," 2008). The partys national director Steve Dasbach, believes that online sales could be the difference between ...

The Skills of the Team Manager

team leader who knows nothing about software development may ask for a progress report. Yet, he or she will have to rely on the ex...

Langston Hughes: “I, Too, Sing America”

the more tolerant cities of the north, where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a m...

Hamlet, Was He Insane?

has credible reasons for his melancholy state, as his father has been dead only two months, and his mother has already remarried. ...

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

William Shephard described his horror at witnessing this. "Thud-dead; thud-dead;...sixty-two thud-deads" (Leap for life). Shephard...

Special Education Issues & Policy

with an appropriate education" (Douvanis and Husley). As this definition suggests, in general LRE is interpreted to mean general e...

Birth Control & Teenagers

indicates that teens are often confused by abstinence-only programs, as this approach to sex education sidesteps around issues and...

Wollstonecraft/Vindication of the Rights of Women

them to this necessity. Wollstonecraft attacks each one of Rousseaus principles, showing them to be illogical, inconsistent and ul...