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Screenings for Colorectal Cancer and Ethics

application of diagnostic tests or procedures to asymptomatic people for the benefit of dividing them into two groups: those who h...

Social Expectations and Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

also survived the wreck to conceal her true nature. Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become T...

Medieval Italian History and Literature

points out that "communal Italy" is "historians shorthand for the high urbanized areas of Lombardy and Tuscany between the twelfth...

Sex Crimes, Blame, and Perceptions of Society

Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...

An Article on the Politics of Canadian Settlers Analyzed

(Stasiulis and Jhappan, 1995, p. 1). The referendum was narrowly defeated, which is a fact in and of itself that supports the auth...

Size of Society and Democracy

seeking it have been unable to achieve it on their own. This is high praise and noble purpose for a structure that Madison called...

Society and Technology

of political life" (1969, 55). Mesthene sees technology as detrimental and provides examples. For instance, cities have mass trans...

Societal Conflict from Different Perspectives

In four pages society's conflict is examined with a contrast and comparison of Marx's and Coser's theories. Two sources are cited...

Information Age and Social 'Technophobia'

who created the buggy whip? Many believe that technophobia is a modern syndrome, but in fact, it is not. During the Indust...

'Power Elite' and C. Wright Mills' The Structure of Power in America

remains powerful and persistent because of its overwhelming influence upon the smaller but dominant upper class elite, those whose...

Shakespeare's Tempest and Colonialis

European descent of Prospero and his belief that by taking over the rule of Caliban, he can "help" the people and bring "civilizat...

Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean Paul Sartre and The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud

In six pages these works are contrasted and compared regarding the theorists' radical differences regarding the individual and rel...

Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and the Sociopolitical Redefinition of Women's Roles

In one page this paper examines the African society's redefining of women's social and political roles as represented in this nove...

Values and Research

question of whether research can be value-free requires a straightforward, unequivocal answer of "it depends." Research and Values...

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...

Policies of Birth Control in China

In eight pages the philosophical views of Pythagoras, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill are applied to an exploration of the bir...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

Society and Gender Roles

Why is gender important in society? Why are men different from women? These issues and others are discussed inclusive of the fact ...

Sports and Gender Stratification

This paper consists of four pages and considers how studying sports reveals much about society's stereotypes, gender roles, and st...

Political Philosophy of Greece and Athens

much as they are in todays society. Therefore, the philosophies and laws created chaos, but democracy was enjoyed as a fact of ex...

Philosophical Views on Human History

In five pages this paper discusses society's development in relationship to humans in a consideration of the philosophical perspec...

A Black Oppression Theory

In an essay consisting of three pages Andrew Hacker's theory on the US mainstream society's oppression of African Americans is dis...

Comparing Marital Attitudes by the Hebrews and Ancient Greeks

allowing them to be less complex than they often are in real life. In the Old Testament in the bible, they tend to be rather simpl...

Using Critical Thinking to Tell Truth from Lies

Critical thinking has become even more important in today's society of opinion masquerading as news. This paper analyzes contempor...

Economy and Intellectual Property

In six pages this paper examines change in society's economic base as it relates to the roles of intellectual property and technol...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In ten pages this research paper focuses on the novel's protagonist Okonkwo and discusses how he reflects his ideal society's trad...

Critical Comparison of Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these two German theorists in a discussion of their views on society's functions, s...

Social Satire in E.M. Forster's My Wood and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal

This paper consists of five pages and examines how what the authors condemn as society's false values are satirized in these two w...

Women and Chaucer's Attitudes in The Canterbury Tales

In three pages this essay considers how Chaucer offered an insightful commentary regarding medieval society's view of women in the...

Character Analysis of Alex and Angel in Tess of the D'Ubervilles

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Alex and Angel, the two central men in Hardy's Tess of the D'Ubervilles...