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American Immigration Paradoxes

will explore the ramifications of these paradoxes, focusing primarily on the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants. Silvia Pedra...

Is Working Too Many Hours Good?

There are some who feel that working overtime is good because it allows an individual to get ahead at work, or that it allows them...

Differing Images of the Apalachian Coal Fields

that "one was there to drive the other to take chances with life and limb in order to maximize output per unit of compensation" (L...

Who Really Makes Decision In Organizations?

same in all processes; to define the problem, to consider the alternatives, to evaluate the best course of action and to make the ...

Belize as a Hospitality Market

percent of those over the age of 15 can read and write (Belize 2008). Tourist Accommodations Superficially, it could appear...

President John F. Kennedy’s Leadership

as being led into making decisions by events and circumstances rather than meeting them head-on. An example of this might be the ...

Oliver Sacks—An Anthropologist on Mars

totally impossible for a normally sighted person. When offered the chance to possibly have his color vision restored, he turned it...

Cradle Will Rock

water from a fire hydrant. The street scene also emphasizes the desperation of the era. A man stands next to a car that is covered...

The Fair Tax

used by the wealthy to shield themselves from paying a fair share of the national tax burden. The fair tax would,...

Infancy And The First Year Of Life: Secure Attachment As The Base For Growth And Learning

of reflexive patterns keeps newborns from assimilating and associating into their individual worlds to any great extent, yet by th...

Tadeusz Borowski and the Holocaust

prisoners and the captors into villains and victims. He views the entire situation as evil, not evil perpetrated upon the innocent...

America and the Reality of Gender and Race

In six pages this paper discusses U.S. history in terms of gender issues and then considers the present African American reality. ...

Review of the Post World War II Film The Bicycle Thief

In six pages this paper discusses the portrayal of the realities confronting Italy after the Second World War as featured in Vitto...

Dr. William Glasser's Reality Therapy Theory

daily life (Glasser, 1965). In essence, Choice Theory is based on the idea that we, as individuals, construct a world view, whic...

Easy Rider

This 5 page paper delineates the importance of political expression as it manifests in this blockbuster movie. Mainstream cultur...

VR

In eight pages this paper examines the technology associated with virtual reality in an overview of its many applications with exa...

Technology of VR

In three pages this paper lauds the technological benefits represented by Virtual Reality both in terms of design applications as ...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper examines how war's realities and intrusions have cemented contemporary society's philosophical foundation...

Articles on Affirmative Action

In five pages three actions pertaining to affirmative action Brent Staples' 'The Quota Bashers Come in From the Cold,' Thomas Sowe...

Richard Matheson's and H.G. Wells' Use of Science Fiction to Portray Alienation

In a paper consisting of 5 pages alienation as a theme are explored in Matheon's I Am Legend and in Wells' The Time Machine and Th...

'A Small Good Thing' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this report examines how existential reality and daily life's transitory nature are depicted in the 1983 short story...

Elie Wiesel's Night and Albert Camus' The Plague

In seven pages these stories are compared in terms of their similar messages regarding the Second World War's harsh realities. Th...

The Idea of Thought According to Descartes

This research report examines the ideas of the philosopher Rene Descartes and how he views reality. Is only the physical real? Ide...

'Evil Genius' and Rene Descartes

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

Cultural American and African Characteristics Prior to the Expansion of Europe

In three pages these characteristics are considered in order to determine if they were as primitive as they were often portrayed o...

Argument of Illusion by George Berkeley

In five pages Berkeley's illusion concepts and arguments as represented in Principles of Human Knowledge and the Three Dialogues b...

'Sugar and Other Stories' by A.S. Byatt

goes on behind its sheltering walls. The central point to the story deals with making both moral and literary judgements and how t...

Wives and Courtesans in Camille by Alexandre Dumas

In five pages this paper with reference to Camille considers the realities of Parisian wives and courtesans. Three other sources ...

Reality and Dreams in the Humanity of John Milton's Works

In five pages John Milton's 'Lycidas,' 'Areopagitica,' and 'Of Education' are examined in a consideration of humanity and the ten...

David Lean's Film Version of Great Expectations and Confusing Appearances for Reality

In five pages this paper considers the 1946 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel by director David Lean in a discussion of ho...