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Contemplating the Diet Monster

in terms of physics, i.e., take in fewer calories than burned in exercise and the individual will lose weight. Then, there are tho...

Critical Thinking & Art Education

and his analysis of the stages of artistic development (Olson 33). Following Lowenfelds ideas leads to teachers directing their fo...

A Young Woman's Life Choices

goal. My father is a college grad but my mother did not attend school beyond high school, and I know that she regrets that. She ha...

Personal Statement/Applying to Virginia Tech

last year from breast cancer at just 51, keeps me going. She taught me the importance of striving towards ones dreams, over all ob...

'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

What is Communitarianism?

simply not possible. Not surprisingly, given the focus on community, communitarians typically stress the value of specifically ...

Personal Childhood Experience Tale 'That's Cause You're Stupid'

In three pages this essay considers the ups and downs of childhood friendship in an author's personal account of one that continue...

An Examination of Red Azalea by Anchee Min

in Shanghai and how quickly she had to take responsibility. She writes, "I was an adult since the age of five" (1). She goes on to...

Dancing Skeletons

A 5 page essay exploring the ethnographic account by Catherine Dettwyler. Medical anthropology entials precise fieldwork, professi...

A Review of Everyday Use

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as a Personal Narrative

This research paper/essay discusses the journey of personal discovery that is described in Salinger's famous coming-of-age novel. ...

A New Sibling in the Family

In a personal experience creative essay of six pages the changes represented by a new baby sister in the life of a ten year old gi...

Personal Space Territoriality

the brutality of the guards. As the prisoners became more submissive, the guards became more sadistic and demanded even more obedi...

Inoperative Community by Jean-Luc Nancy

community images its purpose and legitimacy (Vermeulen 95). Nancy indicates that modern communities exist in the "interrupt of ...

Example of a Personal Biography

have gone back to school and gotten a degree then, but the city we lived in was an hours drive from the closest college. As this i...

Personal Growth and Ibsen's "A Doll's House"

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...

A Defining Personal Experience

is my drive and determination, as, once I have decided on a goal, I never give up till that goal is accomplished. This ethos perme...

Questions on Ethics

actions that he would normally finds repugnant. Similarly, the captain of the guard who compels Joe to commit murder undermines Jo...

'The End of History?' by Francis Fukuyama

end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end p...

Moral Decision Making and Business Ethics

an ethical lapse because this is generally refers to making decisions that are "morally wrong" (Ethics, no date). To ask someone t...

Travel Poems by Frost and Stafford

Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...

Personal Nursing Philosophy

perspective, is viewed as "the optimal level of ones potential relating to the environment" (Tourville and Ingalls 22). For examp...

Strategies for a Successful Life

to perceive, control and evaluate emotions" (Cherry). The ability to manage your own emotions is crucial in life. For example, str...

Spiritual Formation

2:14-15, it is also possible to do what is right instinctively, which shows that what Scripture requires is written on the heart (...

Achieving Goals

part of being a teenager and also plays an important role in the overall high school experience; however, in order to achieve my d...

Comment on 2 Education Articles

this essay, he differentiates between knowing multiple facts and being able to regurgitate them on demand in order to score highly...

Teaching Reading, A Personal Philosophy

good readers, reading is not a guessing game and that the grapho-phonemic or letter-sound information should be the first element ...

Characterization in Crash

Rican descent. Graham would undoubtedly not identity himself as racist, yet he fails to remember that Ria is Puerto Rican, not Mex...

Walt Whitman's Influence on D.H. Lawrence

1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...

The Process of Personal Growth

choices and is creative (Boeree). On the other hand, there are numerous other psychological perspectives and models that also ad...