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Society and Tattooing and Body Piercing

is now considered to be part of mainstream culture (Armstrong 236). Iverson contends that the discomfort society has with tattoos ...

A Local Smoking Ban: Controversy Verses Reason

to do so. Those of us that do not smoke resent the fact that everywhere we go we are confronted with second hand smoke. When you...

Same-Sex Marriage - A Philosophical Analysis

In a paper of nine pages, the writer looks at the topic of same-sex marriage. Frameworks such as religion, politics, and ethical p...

Examination of Church, State and Public Justice: Five Views

This essay pertains to Church, State and Public Justice: Five Views, which is edited by P.C. Kemeny and presents five perspectives...

Conceptual, Philosophical, Legal And Ethical Foundations And Processes Inherent To Professional Nursing Practice

there a time when an individuals interests supersede those of the masses? These are ethical questions posed each and everyday thr...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

Existence of God and Philosophical Proof

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

Impacts to California Water Resources

occurs during rainfall and snowmelts as well as from atmospheric deposits. Nonpoint sources can include everything from stormwate...

Philosophical Views on 'Wrong' Lying

a prison takeover (Burke, 1995). Though unusual, if something like that were to happen, officials would be at an extreme disadvant...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Philosophical Similarities of Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates

(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...

Eastern Philosophical Traditions and Aesthetic Experiences

in turn functions to accentuate the bodys passage through time. Myriad philosophers, psychologists and sociologists have at...

Education and Health Promotion

fundamental differences between the two concepts. Whitehead (2004), for sake of clarity, delineates the foundation of health-rela...

Philosophical Analysis of Nestle's Infant Formula Marketing

problem is that in 1970, it was suggested that Nestle was profiting at the expense of third world mothers. While breast-feeding is...

Philosophical and Scientific Role of Rene Descartes

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

Criminal Justice I

doctrine established in Plessy v Ferguson in 1896 that kept the black and white races legally separate for 70 years. The aparthei...

An Ethical Consideration of the Drug Companies

Drug companies are often criticized for unethical behavior. The writer considers the pharmaceutical companies from an ethical per...

Perspectives on Technology in the 21st Century

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at technological perspectives. The media, consumers, and community are all analyzed for...

Negron-Muntaner/Barbie's Hair

if it was straightened, which is viewed as an "act of self-hatred or conformity" (Negron-Muntaner 45). Within this cultural framew...

Social Theory: Recreation, Leisure And Play

Peer Group Affiliation And Differences According To Residential Status, Subsistence Patterns, And Use Of Services" provide empiric...

National Identity in 2 Chinese Films

in economic terms, which depends largely on equating national cinema with a countrys domestic film industry. As this suggests, thi...

Representation Of National Identities In Media - A Case Study, News Coverage Of Turkey On The Doorstep Of European Union (EU).

of power. The aim of this research paper is to ascertain the way in which the power is used to represent national identities in th...

Adolescence: Identity Formation

very pressure it places upon the youth. There is a tremendous burden for teens to perform within their respective peer groups, wh...

Transgenderism: A Psychological Disorder

Manual (DSM) III, transgenderism has long been described as a psychological problem due in great part to the manner by which child...

Federal Shield Law: A Journalist's Right

From anonymous to citizen to professional to criminal, informants are comprised of various types of individuals who uphold an asso...

Octavio Paz/Diego Rivera

portrays him "wearing the local costume of the Cuernavaca region and carrying a sugarcane=cutters machete ("Agrarian Leader Zapata...

Developing a Communications Strategy for the American Red Cross

foundations for the way that the message should be communicated can be determined, along with channel choice, determination of any...

Free Will and Determinism in Buddhism

one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...

Callaway Golf; Strategic Case Study

all sources of cost advantage... [and] ... sell a standards no frills product" (Porter, 1985; 13). The alternate strategy is that ...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...