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Essays 301 - 330

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...

Contemporary World and 'Sacred' Technology

Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life" author Richard Florida (2002) contends that we have changed because we have sought ch...

Social Change Through Theater and West Side Story

Story from Historical, Social, Cultural, Political and Religious Perspectives Surprisingly, the original idea for West Side Stor...

T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' and the Contemporary World

world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...

Critical Legal Studies and Whether or Not They are Outdated

or continual acceptance of the status quo (Berger and Luckmann, 1967). In many ways the artificial reality caused by this phenomen...

Natalie Merchant's Song 'These Are Days You'll Remember' and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...

What It Means to Be a Teacher

educational policy, such as high stakes testing, which places more emphasis on meeting a preset criterion than on a teachers profe...

Foundations of the Contemporary World Cemented by the Scientific Revolution

scientific explanation, rather than a divine one, for the way the world works. The changes that came with the Scientific Revoluti...

Religious And Racial Stereotyping: Causes Many Problems In Today's Culture

categorization. Inasmuch as racial and religious stereotypes are both unreasonable and erroneous, such predisposed opinions about...

Mysticism in Island by Aldous Huxley

anywhere else. We are all, if we already knew it, already there" (Huxley 35) displays a sharp Taoist influence. Looking at Huxle...

Social Construct and Crime

social construct (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). In looking at the role of the law in relationship to detaining what is an...

Jean Paul Sartre's 'The Flies' and Aeschylus's 'Oresteia'

Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra...

Connection Between Pilot Skill and Automation

moments notice. Pilots are supposed to be able to cope with changes in weather conditions as well as to make sure that the plane i...

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...

Commercial Contemporary Art Market

their own websites, pay to be put in many different cooperative galleries, and perhaps hope that they become well known. But, this...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" - Technology

is how science fiction portrays this futuristic idea. Indeed, the extent to which films and books have expounded upon the potenti...

Thoreau/Importance of Wilderness

requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...

Adam Smith: Theory Of Growth And International Trade

in the context of economic growth" (Afonso, 2001). One of Smiths (1991) greatest concerns is the variance in national wealth from...

Scholarship (True Historical Analysis) And Contemporary Entertainment (Popular Culture): Erroneousness And Embellishment

the directors chose to employ properties of historical revisionism speaks to the inherent influence the concept of truth versus fi...

Contemporary World and the Realism Model

impractical and visionary. In many ways the term realism is used to define many aspects within a range of disciplines such as the...

Contemporary America and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

London societys most important government agency was Hatcheries and Conditioning, and its Director seemed to wield more power than...

Changing Warfare in the Contemporary World

a follow through on the policy of bringing Al Qaeda to justice. This followed the refusal of the Taliban to co-operate with the US...

Tutorial on Religious Tolerance and the Film The Passion of the Christ

hype people would not have continued lining up to see the movie. This is not a fun film, it graphically and brutally shows the las...

Controversial Mel Gibson Film The Passion of the Christ

time. Perhaps in the distance between the time of Christ and modern times, the death of Christ by way of crucifixion has been sa...

The Passion of the Christ Film by Mel Gibson

film Braveheart is noted for its bloody battle sequences (Brackman, 2004). While The Passion is based on the Gospel of John, Brac...

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...

Contemporary World and Adult Self Directed Education

most dynamic approaches to the systematic collection of knowledge in an environment in which that knowledge is collected with the ...

Contemporary World and Chinese Medicine

Chinese medical traditions are the focus of this paper consisting of six pages and its effects when combined with Western medicine...

Three Science Fiction Novels and Intelligent Machines

In five pages this paper analyzes how intelligent machines are featured in Galatea by Richard Powers, Neuromancer by William Gibso...