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Segregation's Return

their schools," on average attending schools "where less than 20% of the students are from all of the other racial and ethnic grou...

The Political Thought of Machiavelli

that what is done is not as important as the character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. At the same time, unlike a preach...

Clever Women in Modern Detective Fiction

the standard framework for a mystery detective novel, each of these works share similar themes that are indicative of current Amer...

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

Analyzing the Iraq War through Works by Plato and Aristophanes

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

Past and Present Interpretations of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Caesar with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who was at that time entering the twilight of her life.6 At the time it was initially...

USA Patriot Act and the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Investigative Technologies Division, the Laboratory Division, the Records Management Division, the Security Division, and the Trai...

Controversial Psychology Pioneer Sigmund Freud

modern scientific discovery has all but disproved Freuds dream theory is quite apparent; that Hobson utilizes this technology to s...

Business Basics and Change

complaints about companies such as Gap and Nike (Mason, 2000). Nike has made such strides in the other direction that today, the ...

Abraham Lincoln and His Civil War Involvement

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

Richardson and Fielding as Critics of British Society

rather than allowing her marriage to Tom. From the onset, Fielding makes it clear that his sympathies are with the young lovers an...

Book of Amos and Greed

is Gods displeasure with those who do not help the poor and needy, but who instead pursue the good life at the expense of others. ...

Modern Theater and Greek Drama

role of the chorus: "[E]ach play had its chorus, or group of men, a dozen or so, who would observe the action from the orchestra, ...

Educational Philosophy of John Dewey

gear pedagogy accordingly, politicians, policymakers and the public at-large are still "stuck" in the old paradigm, which states t...

'The History Book' and School Textbooks on History

One that attracts a great deal of attention as been the American Kennedy Family, others may be less well known as it s the accumul...

Articles on Memory, Consciousness, Pattern Recognition, Attention, Perception, and Cognitive Psychology Summarized

al, 1998, p. 1101). Cognition refers to the process of knowing, which applies to a combination of judgment and awareness; indeed,...

Manager's Organizational Role

possible, relying on the leadership of well appointed subordinates. There are different schools of thought on how a manage...

Behavioral and Cognitive Schools of Psychology

of mind" (Wilder Dom, 2003). Boeree (2000) reports the roots of the cognitive movement began in the mid-1900s: "the advent of th...

Modern Society and The Communist Manifesto

the fallen wall, and while remnants of Marxism remain--like Communist China and Cuba--there is a decided attack on the ideology. T...

Engineering or Evolution in Aldous Huxley and Charles Darwin

nothing)" (The origin of species, 2005). But this was countered by "James Huttons uniformitarian theory of 1785 [which] envisione...

Society Does Not Exist

objective that one becomes labeled as selfish and intolerant of commonly accepted methods. This negative connotation of individua...

Psychology and Self Esteem in Child Development

childhood develop self-esteem encompasses several elements. I. INFANCY There is perhaps no more vital a growth period in an indi...

Changes to the U.S. Constitution Proposed

In five pages this paper proposes contemporary changes to the U.S. Constitution in terms of their implications and the advantages ...

Confucian Thought and Its Principles

In fourteen pages this paper explains Confucian thought in a consideration of its principles, its social and medical impacts, and ...

New World Migration of the English Puritans

In nine pages the New World migration of the Puritans of England and the influence that they still exert in contemporary America a...

Factors Influencing Behavior from an Adolescent Psychology Perspective

In six pages factors that influence adolescent psychological development such as environmental and genetic factors are explored. ...

Thomas M. Hout's Harvard Business Review Article, 'Are Managers Obsolete?'

that "companies that last do so because managers who run them are exceptionally good at what they do" (p. 116). Those in this ca...

Drug Abuse and the Views of Saint Augustine, Aristotle, and Plato

In 10 pages this paper considers how these philosophers would view the contemporary problem of drug abuse. There are 7 sources ci...

Modern Workplace and Groupisms

In eleven pages the groupisms that continue to invade the contemporary workplace are examined in a discussion of discrimination an...

Othello by William Shakespeare, 'Inferno' by Dante and Dying for Love

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Desdemona's submissiveness and Francesca's defense of her adulterous behavior are compared from a...