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Health Among the Homeless

They are in the community and spreading bacterial infections to the general public. Appropriate health care could greatly improve ...

Driving While Under the Influence of Alcohol

This research paper offers an overview of drunk driving accidence statistics, a brief description of penalties and a discussion of...

Kentucky History and John Hunt Morgan

This paper argues that Morgan had more of an impact on Kentucky history because of the myth surrounding the man and his personalit...

The Centralist Political Philosophy of Barack Obama: "Useful Fictions"

This 4 page paper provides an overview of Barack Obama's political philosophy and its orientation in centralism. The primary thesi...

Legalization of Cannabis for Medicinal Use

This paper presents an essay that expounds on the thesis that cannabis should be legalized for medical use. The benefits of the dr...

The 'Traditional Family' That Never Was by Wren Walker

how men of the 1950s entered into marriage for their own gain: to have someone tend to their needs, wants and desires. It is only...

Sociology and Family Disorganization

African-American families, this paper does not apply that only African-American families suffer from family disorganization; rathe...

Contemporary Oedipus Imagery

if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and the Roles of Tradition and Myth

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

Past and Present Mythology According to Joseph Campbell

the work of all the worlds peoples from the beginning of time. These truths may be presented in the cultural context in which they...

Issues in Black Studies

site of cultural heritage (Hoechsmnn, 2002). In other words, by reclaiming ones past,and ones history as well as cultural roots, ...

Reflections on the Philosophy of Albert Camus

Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...

Life and Paintings of Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo

that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...

Social Research and Education

Since the survey was conducted using material submitted by the childrens family members or caregivers, there...

Myth, Tragedy, and Romance

blind lord Dhritarashtra so much that she voluntarily bandaged her eyes, as she vowed that she would not enjoy anything that she c...

Cinema and Romantic Love

is very orderly and rigid and Harry is quite the opposite. In fact, many other films demonstrate that even people who do not get a...

Myths and Legends Surrounding Vampires

The term "myth", on the other hand, is reserved by anthropologists and folklorists for those stories which deal with the creation ...

Sororities and the Myths That Surround Them

in danger of being shut down. "People think we are drinking clubs," says Jonathan Brant, executive vice president of the National...

Contemporary Influence of the Myth of Pandora's Box

has "opened Pandoras Box." In addition to the nomenclature of Pandoras Box that has entered into todays society as a descr...

Cultural Analysis of the Corn Mother Myth

First Mother (PG). Kloskurbeh, the Great Uncle, taught humans what they needed to know, and also taught their children how to sur...

Crime and Youth Myths

people, accost individuals with their language, and generally make a nuisance of themselves. We can even go a bit further and argu...

Religion and Racism Themes in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the boy some cookies. Marlow meets one of the men from his company, on the street and joins him in his hut office, but after a sh...

Terra Nullius and 'New Holland' Myths

It is important for the student working on this project to understand that European imperialism was about political and national c...

Myth According to Barthes

are added to language everyday. It helps to note also that fashion designers often take new trends from the street--such as the ba...

Myths and Reality of the U.S. Reconstruction Period

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

Questions on the Philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Sartre Answered

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

Aztec Culture and Myth

superstitious. They are often deemed psychotic by the institutions that are common to modern society, something that demonstrates ...

Artist Myth and Cinema

1956 account of Vincent Van Gogh leaves that question open in his sympathetic portrayal of the artist" (TCM, 2003). When watchi...

Australian Aboriginal Myths of Creation

character traits are highly prized in this culture. Light, represented by Mother Sun, seems to sustain and nurture everything. Eve...

The Mexican Government Analysis of Alan Riding

principal emphasis in this article is on the centralization of the Mexican government, as evidenced by the authoritarian nature of...