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Perspective on History

out, "different perspectives of what happened create different histories" (Wilson 1). The example of the voyages of Christopher C...

Islamic Law, Aboriginal Customary Law and Queensland Law; a Comparison of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Systems

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

My Educational Philosophy

are something that they do not have to stop and think about in order to use. This, and spelling, are one of the few instances in w...

The Enron and Martha Stewart Cases Compared

those codified into law ...and creating societal pressures for reform" (p. 167). Indeed, the world is changing and more attention...

Two Views of "Oedipus Rex"

in which a drunk calls Oedipus a "bastard," thus forcing him to the extreme of looking for the cause of the plague on the city whe...

The Tragedy of Loss in "Paradise Lost"

and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...

Women on the Front Lines of Combat

In 1990 that number stood at 13 percent (Willens, 1996). In 2006 it was 15 percent (United States Census Bureau, 2006). As menti...

Royall Tyler/The Contrast

fianc? was away, Maria restricted her social contacts, read a great many books and focused on letters from Dimple. Letitia explain...

Home Schooling Benefits

The normal curriculum does not provide them with the needed stimulation to continue actively learning. Other children are small f...

Modifying Behavior and the Debate Regarding Rewards and Punishment

technique and what happens when there is no threat of punishment or promise of a reward (Brandenburg, 2006). When children are g...

Inappropriate Discipline of Spanking

III. EMPIRICAL STUDIES AGAINST SPANKING A study conducted by Landsford et al (2005) focused upon the cultural approach to s...

Legalizing Euthanasia in Canada

clear pronouncement in the case noted above that assisted suicide remains illegal, several additional cases have either ended in a...

Live Classroom Experiments and their Significance

of letting the students make discoveries on their own. That is, they tend to lecture, repeat whats in the book, and then go on to...

Looking at Atheism Through O'Leary-Hawthorne's Eyes

that there is really little true proof and the atheists will argue that there is only scant knowledge on this subject. There is no...

Article Analysis - Urban Sprawl

gridlocked roads for every chore," it also costs us a significant amount of money. They go on to say that we encourage sprawl whe...

Campus Free Speech Zones

issues but were somewhat hindered in expressing their ideas. One author notes that, "Public universities were a hotbed of social a...

Controversy Over Stock Options and Expensing

to be so controversial is because no one is really sure what their value is, making it difficult to expense in a financial report....

Justice and Ethics V

Theories of punishment indicate that the above is an invalid association. Certainly murder is serious, but it also - by definitio...

Stating a Business Case for the Linux Operating System

bits maximum processors 2.4.2 Intel/Cyrix/AMD Pentium, 80486, 80386, 80286 (partial port), 8086 (partial port), IBM/Motorola ...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Right to Die Defense

and the bitterness on both sides of that unfortunate incident have brought the debate about the right-to-die to the fore. Ironi...

Arguing Against School Corporal Punishment

inflicted" (Greydanus, et al.) Further, there is "no clear evidence that such punishment effectuates more discipline or better co...

Insurance Agencies and Sex Change Operations

(Zambito, 1995, p. C01). Gustons research has shown "that courts have forced insurance carriers to pay if the procedure is deemed...

Art's Importance to the Educational System

core values of a culture" (Kreiter 66). For example, Roman painters depicted orators, philosophers and athletes in their art, and ...

Gender and Educational Issues

suffer a decline in self-esteem at adolescence (AAUW Report). Because of their lack of self-esteem the report stated that gild fal...

1066 The Year of the Conquest by David Howarth

found nothing whatever to say to King Harald Hardrada of Norway" (9). Throughout the course of the text, it becomes readily appar...

Higher Education and the Preferable Choice of Distance Learning

summer school at no cost and so they instead prompt students to enroll in another facility for a nominal fee, or take an appropria...

Police Officers and Unprofessional Behavior

the force. In the case of Ruland, little was likely done. It was not an egregious mistake and some suggest that he was not out of ...

Death Penalty Argument

that the death penalty is not a deterrent against crimes when the death penalty is in place. One author, in fact, states that hom...

Are Payday Loans Legalized Loan-Sharking?

(Loan Shark, n.d.). There are two distinctions here that clearly separate payday loan businesses from loan sharks. The fir...