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College Education's Socioeconomic Importance

a broader strategy - namely, the antidemocratic upward redistribution of material, cultural, and symbolic wealth" (Saltman, 2000, ...

Serving the Gods According to Socrates

beings. Euthyphro would of course agree with that sentiment and oppose Socrates on this matter. The gods of course are powerful. W...

Events that Led to the Holocaust

Hiemer managed to use their political influence to largely overcome those advances and to call back into play the age old hatred o...

Arguing Against Smoking

of smoking and the issues surrounding the health impacts of secondary smoke. Such is not always the case, however, when it comes ...

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and the Character Algernon

dandy was a man who may well have lived off of others, being a freeloader, an individual intrigued by the arts and by living out f...

Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia

environment which fed the development of the disease, relapse is not uncommon ("Schizophrenia," 2006). Complete recovery is a poss...

Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx on Equality and Liberty

Marx, the freedom was not in the ability to acquire wealth, or the opportunities, but rather in equality. It was the ability to li...

UK Family Law

of marriage versus a product of a union of two unmarried individuals. At the same time, recent changes in the Adoption and Childr...

Types of Addiction

comics are well-produced and very content-rich. Theyre designed for adult readers, not like the western comics which are aimed onl...

Globalized Islam by Oliver Roy

first" (Roy 25). As this indicates, Roy sees fundamentalist Islam as both a "product and an agent of globalization," due to the fa...

Practicality of Existentialism

if coincidences are meaningless activities created by the individual thinker who indeed creates his own universe? It is really dif...

Anthropological Assessment of the Film North Country

children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...

Feminism and the Stargate Television Series

While Carter is rescued by the rest of SG-1, Nya is caught trying to elope and her father sentences her to death by stoning as pun...

Student Reflection on Diversity and Equality

need for equality and other areas such as race and ethnic origins. It is difficult to argue that there is equality here, the lesso...

Connection Between Capitalism and Democracy

. . Capitalist democracy is neither just capitalism, nor just democracy, nor just some combination of the two that does not change...

Education Philosophies and Quote Interpretations

fine, but teaching them what counts is best." This quote, which includes a clever play on words, suggests a very practical approac...

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Spirituality

the individual. For one to realize his best self he had to first discover himself and to learn to trust himself. He believed in ...

International View of TQM

to quality, whether specific organizations chose to implement TQM or not. Those attempting to implement the facts without the und...

Middle School Math Teaching

that time is always an issue; there is not enough of it to spend with each student. To meet the state and district standards, she ...

Stock Listing Day High Initial Return Earnings by Investors

the underwriter and fears of an under subscription prior to the listing day (Aggarwal et al, 2002, Chishty, 1996). The phen...

Socrates and Plato on Wisdom

because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...

A Review of Season of Migration to the North

more. The narrator is returning from an extended trip to Europe where he studied in European schools and became conversant with E...

The 9-11 Terrorism Attack and its Impact on Caribbean Tourism

and simple seemed to put more devastating pressure on the Caribbean. This is because the Caribbean is a destination of many Americ...

Affirmative Action Views

up against glass ceilings, and find themselves, in relation to men, as poor as ever" (Katz, Stern and Fader, 2005; p. 65). ...

Ethical Support for Capital Punishment

without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp. People who witness the reality each and every night on t...

Workplace and Gender Wage Disparities

pay in the workplace can be aided both from an employment of the so-called radical feminist approach and an employment of the stru...

Free Will Debate

the point that it was not uncommon for others to counter such philosophies, inasmuch as those who conversed with him held staunchl...

Adam Smith and Karl Marx on Human Nature

living, they may be making a lot of money, but they are also spending a lot. Upon retirement, they can sell a home in the Northeas...

Decreasing Low Birth Weights and Decreasing Infant Mortality

the same time, researchers have also argued that in the year 2002, children in the United States are somewhat less likely to die d...

Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismarck

typical Junker and espoused these conservative, even reactionary, views. With this background, its not surprising to read that Bi...