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"Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree

in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" provides the author with the means to create a biting critique of contemporary societal values. T...

Adam and Eve and Current Relevance

Bible, it is a common experience that they interpret it according to how they have been taught. For example, Barbara Brown Taylor ...

Determining the Legitimacy of Plea Arrangements

a residential apartment building in North Carolina to check on the welfare of a tenant at the building whom friends had not heard ...

Diane Ravitch, Her Views on American Public Schools

countrys leading educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A ...

Personal Growth and Ibsen's "A Doll's House"

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...

Two Issues/Social Stratification

surpass them (Kerbo, 2009, p. 52). As this indicates, issues of power, status and economics have tremendous influenced the ways in...

Economic Understanding in the 21st Century

even now leading to a resurgence in the popularity of Keynesian economics. In addition to this influence upon economic thought an...

Pebley and Sastry/Page Summary

functions as after-school program, child-care services, and so forth. Income also impacts this factor in that, as low income famil...

What Can History Teach Us About Terrorism?

Terrorism has wielded an impact in world affairs since the beginning of history. While there are important distinctions...

Modern Day Slavery

Human trafficking is often thought of as one of the more abhorrent reflections of world history. At the most, we reason, human tr...

Representations of Taiwan

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

Politics and Ethics - A Philosophical Overview

to explore the views of human nature of Plato and other thinkers, as well as how these views were expressed in governmental form. ...

Our Imperiled Environment Our Imperiled Future

Global health is dependent on the decisions we have made in the past and on...

Biblical Passages Acts 19: 23-41

A seven page paper analyszes this passage from the Bible and applies it to contemporary society to achieve deeper meaning. There ...

Machiavelli and Modern Writers on the Athenian Thesis

In six pages this paper examines how Machiavelli and contemporary writers would regard the Athenian Doctrine or Thesis. Four sour...

Overview of Challenges to National Blood Transfusion Services

In seven pages this paper examines the World Health Organization recommendations regarding solutions to problems faced by contempo...

Oleanna by David Mamet

and critic Thomas Eagleton as a "modernist literary work," meaning that the content is purposely left minimal so that it is up to ...

The Issue of Adultery

wants to hear about it. In addition, cliches such as "The grass is always greener on the other side" abound, and did not become ...

Houses That Change the World by Wolfgang Simson

This book review is on Houses That Change the World by Wolfgang Simson. This author argues for a return to the house-churches desc...

A Private and Public Faith by William Stringfellow,

This book review is on William Stringfellow's A Private and Public Faith. The writer recounts Stringfellow's criticisms of contemp...

20th Century and Gothic Horror - A Comparison

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Dracula". Comparisons are drawn to examine the differenc...

Dahl, Williams and Pediatric Patients

This essay refers to narratives by Raoul Dahl and William Carlos Williams that relate pediatric examination experience in the earl...

Jazz and Blues

This research paper describes the relationship between blues and jazz within the context of the history of these genres. The write...

Preface to Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing by Steven Friedson

insists on separating "aesthetics, religion and medicine" into separate epistemological categories, is so engrained that it become...

Definition and Application of Postmodernism

of these schools of thought was sufficient, but that there could be the existence of the competing thoughts that create conflict ...

Web 2.0, Learning 2.0

This research paper describes the changes and innovations that are affecting adult education in contemporary society. This encompa...

Majority Rule, Tocqueville, Olsen

This essay refers to the writing of contemporary author Theodore Olsen and nineteenth century author Alexis de Tocqueville to argu...

Goldthorpe v Logan - An Examination

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Goldthorpe v Logan. Contract law in the contemporary sense is examined through this...

Music and the Negative Depiction of Women

has taken a negative turn and simply glorifies ignorance, violence and misogyny (1996). Many agree with his assessment. While ea...

Cultural Diversity Should be Embraced

issues as gender and ethnicity in relation to populating the new America. In order to better understand cultural diversity, one m...