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Seat Belts

"People have long debated whether seatbelt failure problems should make us avoid wearing seat belts altogether for a safer driving...

Lifestyle Choices: Single or Married

a prospect that prompts some single women to have children and raise them as a single parent. While it is certainly possible to ...

Final Life Stage Late Adulthood

keep younger generations from realizing the cynical and sometimes contemptuous attitudes they harbor towards the elderly. Indeed,...

American Life through Japanese Eyes

were very aware of, and proud of, their ethnic heritage. In addition to saying "Im Catholic," a person might also identify their e...

Thirteen Conversations about One Thing: Revealing Conversations on Change and Hope

happiness. However, as Mickey would soon discover, his newfound wealth brought unwelcome changes and obstacles he could have neve...

Unethical and Ethical Actions

But, there are varying opinions about what is right and what is wrong when it comes to many areas of society. For example, some pe...

The Importance of Early Nurturing

is Infancy, from birth to about age 1 year; the crisis is trust versus mistrust (Boeree, 2006). At this age, the infant is totally...

Assessing Roof Options for Baderman

needs to be multiplied by the time the material would take to install as the building would not be in use during that period. Th...

Country Mouse or City Mouse

it is in fiction. Despite the fact that the city seems exciting, a great many people would prefer to live in the country, because ...

Critique of Psychosocial Theory

mother married Dr. Theodor Homberger who was a pediatrician. In his early years, his parents used Homberger for Eriks last name (B...

INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY CYCLES AND HOW THEY'RE INTERRELATED

who liked it, then as it took hold, it became an important piece of office equipment. But Wang didnt follow the life cycle correct...

Factory Work in the Latter Nineteenth Century

were the primary representative of the factory worker. Women of all ages were attracted to the mills from a primarily domestic ba...

Williams' Glass Menagerie/Role of Illusion

wall, "deserted his wife and children sixteen years earlier" (Koprince and Bloom). Tom describes him as a "a telephone man who fel...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

Physical World View of Dante

Aristotle. The sky is of course something that perhaps is significant in esoteric matters. After all, the sky is quite provocativ...

Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

In three pages the life's meaning Victor Frankl, a concentration camp survivor, searches for as represented in his book is examine...

Liberal and Republican Views on Slavery and Emancipation

Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...

Childhood Tale on the Mystery of the Disappearing Barbie

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

You Got Nothing Coming Notes From a Prison Fish by Jimmy A. Lerner

page and refuses to let go even after the final word has been digested. His writing talent far surpasses what one might readily e...

Continually Changing Beings in Cities

to articulate it and be able to do it" Continually using the idea of walking...

Reincarnation and Past Life Regression

investigation that Dr. Weiss found Catherine, a patient who "started to channel wisdom Weiss believed to be from beyond the scope ...

The United States of the 1920s

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

Film Representations of the Holocaust

of Train of Life (or its original French title - "Train de vie") is that the "village idiot" of a tiny Jewish community learns th...

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Social Values

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

Life and its Meaning Questioned

contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs on Male and Female Slaves

knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...