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Essays 61 - 90

Internal Migrations

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth

he has, he finds he has lost much. His sons are not what he desired and while he possesses great wealth in the form of land and ho...

Earth and Mars

formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty million years ago. This explanation is commonly referred to as the...

Phobias, Anxiety And Defense Mechanisms

the unpleasant incident becomes less threatening and, therefore, easier to address. Human beings push away inherent tendencies in...

Genesis 6:6 The Lord Was Grieved

in Scripture, such as in Isaiah: "yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit" (Isaiah 63:10), in Psalms: "How often they ...

Environmental Stewardship and Consumerism

their needs and desires without wrecking the environment? (Simms, 2008). The answer lies in the fact that there seems to be no c...

Stem Cell Controversy: Chapter Analysis

the greater good of humanity. Peters (2002) effectively illustrates how the extent to which stem cell research has ignited a veri...

Legal Issues in Commercial Use of Outer Space

The industry is not limited only to the owners of satellite hardware. There are four sectors of the industry that generally are r...

Burns - Transformational Leadership

few of the many theories will be discussed here. The theories describe how an individual can use the inherent strategies to become...

Oedipus Rex & Darker Face of the Earth

on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...

Colonial Culture

he is not Dutch. He is only really being given the education as an outward sign of respect and acceptance. Even though he proves t...

Study Guide/Oedipus the King & Darker Face of the Earth

this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...

Close Readings/Darker Face of the Earth & Oedipus

an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...

SETI's Relevance

actions of inhabitants in order to detect habitable worlds (2003). Different tools are used in SETI but todays SETI has many simi...

Earth and Heaven According to Dante Alighieri and Augustine of Hippo

tells the reader that all the Romans desired, and more, would actually be found in the City of God. This is not to say that moneta...

Systematic Taxonomy and Biodiversity

classify and categorize things, a need first addressed by Linneus when he first devised the binomial system of nomenclature for li...

Environmental Issue Depicted in Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

that, themselves, survive because of the reefs. "Reefs need to be managed place by place, and while each place is different, what...

Geertz and Fanon Comparisons on Integrative Revolution and National Culture

definition and becomes rational (Fanon 1968). While revolution against oppression may give black or other oppressed races back the...

Depleting the Ozone

2,000,000:3 (Case study for the 4th year). While O2 is odorless and colorless, "ozone has a strong scent and is blue in color" (C...

Modern Indian Cinema

Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...

Science Fiction Cinema's Portrayal of Society's Fears and Hopes

robots, coming to Earth to present power and knowledge in how people can live together. They insist that the people of Earth need ...

Earth in the Balance by Al Gore

between what he writes in the pages of Earth in the Balance and what he, as politician, businessman and individual, chooses to pra...

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, and Environment

returning home only to find his friends drunk and lost to the world. He essentially needs healing and he can only find healing thr...

Environmental Policy and Greed

the tragedy of the commons, a conflict arises between the interests of the individual and the good of the resource or the people (...

The Origin of the First Americans

the Native Americans undoubtedly traveled extensively in prehistoric times. Their reasons for this travel and their consequent ar...

All the Days of the Earth by Roger Rosenblatt

In three pages this commemoration of the 2000 Earth Day by Roger Rosenblatt is critically assessed in a thesis and position evalua...

Literary View of Creationism

is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and...

Mildred Pierce and Daughter of Earth

She does not confine herself to a single domestic location, and is overtly...

Biodiversity and Climate Change Offer Hope

climactic shifts that are taking place. In short, according to Grossman, mankinds arrogance and refusal to believe that he was a ...

Biology, Ecology, and the Impact of Humans

were far too exciting for people to be distracted by the damage that was being done on account of toxic manufacturing residue as i...