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Are People Better Off Today than a Century or More Ago?

may find that it was far easier to live in the past regarding our health. One author notes that a hundred years ago people gener...

Climate Change Negotiations and Political Posturing

they assert that "it is absolutely essential to reduce carbon emissions in developing and developed countries to 40% of 1990 level...

Slavery in Two Worlds

slaves from Africa were sold mostly in the Americas. Wolf first discusses who bought these slaves and why, and then answers the q...

The Dystopian World of P.D. James

cousin, who has taken the title of the "Warden of England" (James). The title is apt, because England (and one must presume other ...

Vera Brittain and the Death of Youth

found herself trying to heal German boys that her brother and his friends would later try to kill (Brittain). The idea of patching...

Theodicy in Christianity and Buddhism

tradition, also included transmigration: "Karma is ... the momentum of our actions that propels us through sa?sara, the continuous...

Brave New World

one that is ruled by sedation in many ways. There are no mothers, no fathers, no life long commitments, and a control through the ...

Wilson's Fourteen Points, Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter, and Bush's Second Inaugural Address

make a difference not just in terms of affairs close to home but in terms of world affairs. We flexed our muscles and finally rec...

US Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Cannot be Justified

inhumanities against our fighting forces" (Benson V1-V2). Supporters for dropping the bomb have conveniently skewed the fac...

Overview of a Postmodern World

the later part of the 20th century as the world saw two world wars and numerous small wars such as the Korean and the Vietnam wars...

Five Centuries Leading Up to the Second World War

in Europe there was a great civilization and a great deal of conflict in relationship to property, economics, politics, and religi...

A look at the Herpes Viruses

subfamily have longer reproductive cycles and a more narrow host range. In this group, infected "cells often become enlarged. Lat...

Tsunami of December 2004 and Its Economic Consequences

a member country on their list. The tsunami affected many poor regions that relied on tourism. Some of these nations are consider...

Marxism Lives On

his theory, there is more than just home ownership that is valuable. After all, a critic might contend that Marx was bent on provi...

First World War and British Military Leadership

meant the sacrifice of thousands of their own men in failed attacks) (MacKenzie, 1990). This also meant that the leadership had no...

Overview of Multicultural Theater

nature - the very truth of human nature - which is why it is often painful to accept. Indeed, Hansberrys work represents all that...

Popular Culture and its Effects

effort to the point where one can hardly find a flag in a store anywhere. George Lipsitz states that "For all of their triviality ...

Overview of the Case Korematsu v. United States

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

Economy of China and Foreign Direct Investment Effects

Chinas FDI Policies In the late 1970s, China began opening the door for foreign direct investment (FDI) (Fung, Iizaka and Tong, ...

Global Dominance Concept of Saddam Hussein

Command Council (RCC), of which Saddam Hussein, a military commander, was the chairman. Hussein and party members initiat...

Cellular Telephones and Tele Density Influences

per capita No. cellular telephones Population Cellular telephoned per capita Ethiopia 700 17,800 66,557,553 0.03 Nigeria 800 1,607...

Contemporary World and Class Struggle

power and cannot be equated with a salary range. The fisherman who may bring in six figures one year may never be considered a par...

The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong

radicalism and there is no way of rationally communicating our way out of entanglements with those having this mindset. H...

Kantian Ethics and a World Hunger Evaluation

an emotional argument such as that, it is not sufficient to prompt a true, logical conclusion regarding the problem of world hunge...

Economic Stimulation of War

period of three or four years after each of these short wars, despite the fact that millions of women were unemployed after World ...

World and Self in Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...

Mississippi Blacks Prior to and Following the Second World War

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

Finance and the Contributions of Benjamin Graham

in 1914 (Brainyencyclopedia.com, 2004). During that same year, Graham began his career on Wall Street. During the booming 1920s, G...

Gender Satire of Gerd Brantenberg's Egalia's Daughters

theme that is carried throughout the book--namely, that a rationalization for patriarchy sounds absurd when reversed. Little girl...

Contemporary World and a Mercantilist Position

world, the student will want to examine the policies of John Maynard Keynes (1997), who states that "mercantilism is a continuall...