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The Common Thread of Ancient and Modern African Music

In comparison, Ethiopias krar music is played on a stringed instrument and carries overtones that are almost (but not quite) remin...

Family Systems of China

In seven pages traditional and contemporary Chinese families are compared in terms of marriage customs, power according to gender,...

Financial Crises and Panic

virtually all Americans are well-aware of the resultant mass hysteria of the 1929 crash on Wall Street, there has not been signifi...

IMF History

In twenty nine pages the International Monetary Fund is considered from its 1944 origins to its contemporary structure and practic...

In a Different Place by Jill Dubisch and Greek Island Culture

In six pages Dr. Dubisch's text regarding a contemporary Greek Island pilgrimage to Tinos is discussed. Two sources are cited in ...

Materialism Does Not Motivate Spectacular Church Buildings

In seven pages this paper argues that magnificent contemporary church buildings are not representative of the materialist Christia...

Chicago Architectural and Planning Impact of Edward Bennett and Daniel Burnham

new generation of designers have stepped away from admiring only the beauty and grandeur of the lakeside city and have begun to re...

Zen Buddhism Philosophy, Suzuki Roshi, and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper examines the philosophical similarities and differences between Suzuki Roshi's and Immanuel Kant's theorie...

Uses and Discipline of Tae Kwon Do

In two pages this essay examines the discipline of the Korean martial art Tae Kwon Do and considers its contemporary social uses. ...

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim

In five pages this text is considered with the emphasis being on religious practices being studied by sociologists as a way to und...

The Life and Works of Aldous Huxley

In a paper consisting of nine pages the amazing life of this social revolutionary particularly as it relates to drug experimentati...

Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter

In eight pages this research report examines Ptolemy I in a consideration of his achievements and how the contemporary university ...

Analysis of Race Matters by Cornel West

In eleven pages this 1993 text is examined in terms of individual chapters that deal with Malcolm X's black society influence mobi...

African American Artistic and Musical Contributions

In five pages this research paper assesses the artistic and musical contributions of African Americans throughout history in the m...

Student Degredation and Oppression Canon

In five pages this argumentative essay implies that the academic canon represents oppression and degradation for contemporary stud...

Appreciation of Music Throughout Time

Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand," writes ...

Social Function of Education According to John Dewey

In five pages this report examines the environmental and social functionality views of John Dewey as they relate to education in a...

Review of the Laws Contained in the Code of Hammurabi

This essay consists of four pages and examines the Code of Hammurabi laws and then compares them with the crime and punishment of ...

Continued Application and Social Trends Regarding the Death Penalty

In eight pages death row inmates and issues of their innocence are incorporated in a discussion of the death penalty in terms of i...

A Capital Punishment Overview

This paper discusses the death penalty or capital punishment in ten pages and considers the issue within historical and contempora...

Environmental Politics and Pluralism

In nine pages this essay discusses the contemporary environment and the various issues of pluralism that affect it in a considerat...

Society and Nuclear Proliferation

In eleven pages this research paper discusses the contemporary society impact of nuclear power including recent reactor accidents ...

Alasdair MacIntyre's View of Virtue and Academic Dishonesty

In this paper consisting of five pages the philosophy MacIntyre describes in 'After Virtue' is applied to the ethics of academic d...

20th Century Theology, Homosexuality, and the Church

tossing very divergent prohibitions under one blanket, states that godless "women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and [...

Psychological and Social Aspects of Bisexuality

In nine page bisexuality is defined and considered in historical and contemporary contexts with a discussion of studies that conte...

Teen Drinking and its Dangers

In nine pages this research paper discusses contemporary society and the dangers connected with teen alcoholism. Seven sources ar...

Senior Citizens and Economics

In five pages economics and the concerns of contemporary senior citizens regarding such issues as Social Security are discussed. ...

Nursing Home Industry and the Effects of 1935's Social Security Act

Social Security Act of 1935. In simplest terms, the Social Security Act of 1935 designated nearly $50 million of federal funds to...

History and Development of U.S. Public Hospitals

In twenty pages NY and PA Hospitals are the focus of this consideration of the historical evolution of public hospitals in the Uni...

AIDS and the Bubonic Plague

insects is the rat flea." As the disease progressed, the victims heart beat wildly as it tried to pump blood through the swollen...