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Contemporary Threats to Marriage and the Family

evolved to the point, in fact, where the extended families of old have been severed. So-called nuclear families have arisen in th...

Baumol's Management Model

are following their own goals they may support the growth of profit, but there may be variance in the way that they support profit...

Relationships Among Media

presence of Big Brother, the Thoughtpolice, Newspeak and other concepts work together to create an atmosphere of oppression and dr...

The Utility of Machiavelli's The Prince

murder should be ignored, a modern ruler might consider keeping local laws, and living in the land that over which one rules. The ...

Spread of Christianity and Development of Trade/Capitalism as Two Significant Contributions of the Middle Ages ‘Gothic World’ to the Phenomenon of Civilization

and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...

Volkswagen and Ford in Foreign Markets

in Japan. Only when it became clear that the Taurus simply would not sell in Japan did Ford learn the reason. The Taurus would n...

Ancient History and Interactions Across Cultures

the Romans. Through looking at gender conditions as it relates to the Greeks and Romans we can gain some understanding of pre-cl...

Technology and Batteries

of consumer electronics, expectation of the EV [electric vehicles] and problems of large-scale electricity storage and distributio...

Dublin According to William Butler Yeats and James Joyce

this work many critics feel that Joyce gave Dublin a feminized gender. They assert that Joyces Dublin corresponds to Claudine Herm...

Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut

faced with whitewashed Gunite (sprayed concrete) and a roof of contrasting beton brut. Formally and symbolically, however, this s...

Nursing Theory, a Comparison

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

Novel Essays by George Lukacs and Virginia Woolf

criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...

Shakespeare in Cinema

as simplistic because it stars an action hero (Mad Max becomes Mad Hamlet) and cuts several scenes and all long speeches. Of cours...

Homosexuality in the Male From a Clinical Perspective

characteristic. Subsequent psychological researchers and theorists were then able to elaborate on such factors in order to determi...

Contemporary Women's Lives and Backlash by Susan Faludi

progress because of the biased portrayal of women by the media and society at large. In this regard, this book is...

Contemporary Application of the Ideal Leadership Theory of Niccolo Machiavelli

Machiavelli had been imprisoned by the opposing Medici and he saw how the conflict between politicians can destroy what issues are...

Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

A Primer on Superconductivity

recent developments include research into nano bubbles that can remain magnetic at much higher temperatures than the traditional m...

Romance in the Sense of Medieval Debt and Obligation

of the debt and obligations that put opposing pressures on it, sending it reeling toward its inevitable conclusion--calamity. ...

Is This a joke? Who's Leading Kmart Anyway?

This 4 page essay and legal analysis asks how Kmart missed out entirely on modern leadership opportunities, resulting in its age b...

New Leadership at GM

billion, but their costs were spiraling with the economic crisis ((McKenzie 2010). While insiders still felt the company w...

Absolute Advantage, Comparative Advantage and the Heckscher-Ohlin Model

large amounts of goods to western nations, goods which those nations could produce for themselves. In many instances it may be arg...

B.F. Skinner and William James

prominent philosopher, Carl Lange, was coining his own version of that theory. The resulting combination became known as the Jame...

John William Gardner on Leadership and the Management of Organizations

leadership roles. The foundation upon which Gardners leadership theories rest is his belief that morality is the most important c...

Leadership and Communication

opens up opportunities and challenges for commerce requires the input and support from a number of different professionals that ca...

Articles on Knocked Up

or even the last thing, that may cross their minds and this is more of what Denby argues in his article. Denby notes...

Managing Change

approaches are now part of modern management techniques. Peter Drucker states that a leader can not be defined by present personal...

The Village/Directed by M. Night Shymalan

funeral, which is for seven-year-old Daniel Nicholson. Edward Walker, played by William Hurt, the apparent leader of this colony, ...

Does the Voluntary Sector Subsidize Government Spending?

in total the UK had in excess of 3 million individuals volunteering for charities (Pharoah and Smerdon, 1998). Research indicated ...

Leadership in the Real World

The writer chooses four modern business leaders and contrasts their different approaches to leadership to demonstrate the variety ...