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The Celts

would put an end to the Etruscan peoples prominence (Who were the Celts?, 2008). It is also believed that shortly thereafter the ...

China; Economic Issues

growth may have taken place too fast, with an inability of the government to control growth. However with the controls on the exch...

Kupuna and the Hawaiian Culture

play a role in it" (273). As with many schools, and educational institutions around the nation, the Hawaiian schools need a deep...

American History

for farming" (Dawes Act, 2008). II: Frederick Jackson Turner Frederick Jackson Turner was a man who developed a thesis: ...

Ondaatje and Lee, Immigrant Experience

in the only way that is culturally significant, as he would link her present to that "golden chain of male to male" (Lee 31). As...

Business in China and the United States

as well. Chairman Maos successor Deng Xiaoping "and other leaders focused on market-oriented economic development and by 2000 out...

Web 2.0/Wave of Corp. Future

have been posted by a university, an institution or a business firm and consist of a series of inter-linked pages (Belcher 34). We...

911: Significantly Changed Many Lives

better get the attention of their true target(s). Once regular citizens have been drawn into the web of bombings, hijackings and ...

U.S. and Buddhism Today

today, scholars see three types of Buddhism: "immigrant Buddhism," "import Buddhism" and "export Buddhism" (Buddhism in the United...

Sexuality in Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism

paths of their hair and the red dot or bindi that is displayed on the forehead" indicate they are sexually active in many ways (La...

Buddhism in Tibet

of Mahayana Buddhism. Its basic elements are practically identical to this form of Buddhism, in fact. Buddhism is in many ways o...

The 'Hooking Up' Trend from a Sociological Perspective

the 1960s, there was a strong anti-war movement and a strong movement against anything consider to be conservative or an instituti...

Nursing as an Integral Part of the VA Medical Center at Asheville

(Waller, 2006). Not only is customer satisfaction rated higher than it is on a general scale, the death rate is somewhat lower as ...

Answering Questions on Cultural Anthropology

within that society, it is not something that integrates itself into the culture of the people. Many people must engage in the sa...

Nurse Retention and Teams Effects

in decision making (Thomas Group, 2004). The leadership team appointed a steering committee to develop a plan for empowering nur...

Buddhism and Postwar Vietnam

as no one bothered to make sure that things would go well. In the end, the war was just stopped but there were no victories. Ther...

Change and Linguistics

of the Americas. English and Spanish, for example, have a number of dialects within them that have, over time, developed in...

Comparison of 1790 and 1860 Economies

dispute. By 1860, slavery was in full force but shortly after that, the slaves would be freed. Both the 1790 and 1860 periods were...

Comparing the Philosophies of Buddhism and Aristotle

by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...

US Unemployment

money can help people until they get back on their feet. This program has its roots in the Great Depression when a great deal of p...

Culture of Japan and Zen Buddhism

into Zen Buddhism, which absorbed much of its metaphysical orientation from Taoist teachings (Suzuki 4). Unlike Indian Buddhism,...

Practical Wisdom Search and Buddhism

Buddhists believe that the mind is non-physical and is reborn in another form after the brain dies. pragmatism: pragmatic philos...

Overview of Okinawa, Japan

a fourteenth-century palace that doubled as a fortress during the war, housed Japanese soldiers far beneath its fortified structur...

Societal Dependence and Cell Phone Technology

Its safe to say that cell phones are an ubiquitous part of society. While just a decade ago, that opera-goer probably would have b...

Nursing and the Impact of 1996's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...

Civil Rights Act of 1964's Title VII

cropped up as a result of Title VII. People with religious beliefs sometimes refuse to wear hats or certain clothing that is a req...

Ancient Buddhism and Women's Roles

similar view of women, when examining Islam the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of a single man, according to th...

Atheism and Buddhism

it becomes essential to apply the definition to Buddhists by recognizing them as atheists (Buddhism and Hinduism Compared, 2004). ...

Forest Fires of California and Their Impact

and a lack of education on both sides of the fire line. HISTORY Historically, it has been stated that most of the old growth fore...

Overview of Generic Pharmaceuticals

Competition became fierce with more than 1,000 applications for generic drugs in less than a year (Barr Pharmaceutical company, 20...