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Socrates: Horses In "Apology"

as horses - he points out - teach each other how to be the species of animal they are hardwired to be, which is in direct oppositi...

The Ethics of Hacking

be quite costly and we have endured this cost for several decades. Roush (1995), for example, provides insight on the historical ...

The Army Ranger Program

strict. Of course, there are more tests and requirements which include the completion of five mile runs, a combat water test, an o...

Homeostatis: Positive vs. Negative Feedback

is gradually becoming more receptive to such concepts. Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and...

The Job Application: What Executives Look For

be here to stay. It is something that is necessary in order to secure a job most of the time. And for every job, there are a numbe...

The Japanese Samurai

century, for example, the Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo attempted to overthrow the shogunate, the defacto government vying for power w...

Theories in Psychology: Freud and Erikson

genetics and psychosocial stimuli (Boeree, 2002). In their normal progression stage one occurs between infancy and two years of a...

Cardiomyopathy

number of heart attacks is that heart disease is associated with the wide scale accumulation of gunk in the walls of the arteries ...

Fast Food, Dietary Additives, and Other Food Concerns

Our conception of the ideal diet is shaped by a number of factors. As Pollan observes, many of these factors are political and sh...

United Arab Emirates: Heritage and Society

respect is seen in the way that the people greet each other and the way that they dress and eat and drink (Hurreiz, 2002). For exa...

Technological Developments in the Shipping Industry

features in place to address problems if they occur. So too do the new transport ships. Many ships today, for example, are doubl...

Total Quality Management

talking about a systemic approach to total transformation leading to continually improving quality. While we cannot outline the 1...

The Pashtun Tribes of Afghanistan and Pakistan

through careful linguistic analysis. The Pashtun language is a part of the Eastern Iranian language and the people are offshoots ...

Cognitive Development: Bygotski vs. Piaget

language and language facilitated thought. Speech, of course, develops in response to a childs interactions with others. This in...

The Mexican-American War

obtained (Lee). There were places that the new Americans wanted desperately, places like California and while the government tried...

The Australian Health Care System: A Comparison with the U.S. System

government reimburses thirty percent of the insurance premiums paid by the patient. In addition to those noted above, the...

Notification Services

take out the trash ("Memo to Me," 2007). Of course, many computers are equipped with remainder features that exist on software suc...

Paranoid Schizophrenia

not the case that there is a greater likelihood of both twins being afflicted with schizophrenia; often, one twin has it but the o...

Senator Hattie Caraway

50). Although this was an aberration, and most people did not expect her to run again, she did (Foerstel 50). In 1932, Caraway fil...

Malaria and the Issue of Who Should Provide Vaccination Coverage

countries such as those found in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America. The U.S., however, has experienced the impacts of t...

Grievance Procedures and the Automotive Industry

hurt their workers. But of course, unions were first created to protect the workers from big business. Throughout history, but par...

Merger Between Citibank and Travelers and the Roles of Commercial Banks and Structure

In four pages this paper examines this proposed merger in an overview of banking structure and the role played by commercial banks...

Federal Reserve and William Greider's Secrets of the Temple

In ten pages this text by William Greider is considered in an overview of its primary points. There are no other sources listed....

How Swaps Are Used

In eight pages this research paper presents an overview of swaps and how they are used with several examples provided. Nine sourc...

Contemporary History and the Monetary Policy of the United States

In eight pages the US monetary policy is discussed in an overview of government managing of interest rates, credit, supply, and al...

Many Mergers of Fleet Bank

In three pages the various mergers of Fleet Bank are considered in this overview. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

BankBoston and Fleet Financial Consolidation

reform of banking regulations (Meyer, 1998; Mishkin, 1999). The Federal Reserve Board is presented with its own difficulties in o...

Credit Cards and Their History

The earliest development of bank-issued credit cards, the forerunners of what are now Visa and MasterCard, was instituted by the F...

Management Accounting and the Use of Technology

11 pages and 5 sources. This paper provides an overview of the major changes in management accounting that have extended from sig...

Cost Accounting by V. Daniel Hunt

This 5 page paper discusses Hunt's book and provides an overview of basic cost accounting procedures and considers the importance ...