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The Use of Mascots in the Olympic Games

Olympic game of the host country". This may be a cynical perception of the Olympic mascots, but with the higher levels of investme...

The Non-Neutrality of Technology

comes to dealing with the junk mail, both snail mail and email, that comes pouring into our homes, it is something else when the i...

Technology is Not Neutral

think we "fit" the services they offer. While this may be merely annoying when it comes to dealing with the junk mail, both snail ...

Television Depictions of Gender and Ethnicity in the Workplace

researcher that suggests that these differences relate as much to socioeconomics as they do to biology. She emphasizes that the i...

Cuckoo's Nest and Nursing Ethics

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

Metacom of the Wampanoag: Changing Perceptions Over Time

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

Montessori: Nurturing the Spirit

complex function of knowledge. Once we are born, for example, Plato contends that we forget this realm of pure Forms but that kno...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

"Fairness" in Pay Inequities

are paid substantially less for comparable work and responsibilities compared to the private sector in the job families analyzed" ...

How Children Develop a Sense of Morality

that rules, in and of themselves, are not sacred or absolute (Crain, 2009). For example, if a child hears a scenario in which one ...

Children's Book Illustrators

"pencil or pen and ink"; however, for her finished pieces, Potter worked primarily in watercolor, adding touches of pen and ink wh...

The Smart Car in the US

market, it many ways it was ahead of its time, however the last few years have been much better, by August 2008 the sales levels w...

The Effects of Alcoholic Parents on Their Children

(Anda et al, 2002). A study done in Spain finds that children of alcoholics are, as a group, at risk for skipping school days, pe...

Promoting Children's Confidence and Self-Esteem

research, some of the paradigms that scientists believed were true in the past have been proven wrong. For example, while previous...

Teen Families Canada

unskilled, dead end jobs. When school-based child care are not available, Head Start programs step in to give children of teen pa...

"Project Runway" - The Process

design worthy of winning the chance of a lifetime. Over a succession of weeks, the original twelve contestants are pared down to ...

Marketing Status

as a ready competing, the same market that Status is trying to compete in. We will look at both the market in South Africa and the...

Sentencing and Armed Robbery

sentences imposed throughout the U.S., data from the Department of Justice indicates that recidivism rates are extremely high, as ...

Austen, Northanger Abbey

this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...

Black Students Educational Achievement

programs for a specific race or ethnicity. The research question, by default, then, is: What types of educational programs help B...

Virgil’s Portrayal of Hell in Book VI of The Aeneid

observes a boatman named Charon who is transporting the souls of the dead across the river. There are "hollow groans, and shrieks...

McDonald's And Obesity

the company with violating the Consumer Protection Act when their ads focused on the toys that came with the Happy Meal (Burke 200...

Germany During World War II

began long before 1939, it began in Germany turning German against German. Hitler, however, offered hope, perhaps even after he be...

All in the Family, Values, and the Television Sitcom

first introduced to America in the episode entitled "Meet the Bunkers" that CBS originally aired on Tuesday, January 12, 1971 at 9...

Child Language and Knowledge of Syntax

684). There is what several theorists describe as "language learnability" that enables children to take that seed of syntax knowl...

Financial Plan: CrewCuts

beginning funds for operation to keep the company solvent through its first several months of operation; the remaining $90,000 wil...

Wife of Bath’s Tale and Wedding of Sir Gawain

together and makes possible the fraternal and hierarchic bonds of chivalric solidarity" (Hahn). This contrasts sharply with the fo...

Cognitive Development Through Play in Preschoolers

to learn to judge the relevancy of information, as they require the child to make choices and decide strategy in order to reach a ...

Parental Issues in Education

home-schooling vary, in general home-schooled children do very well in higher education. This is attributed to the fact that home ...

General Psychology Questions

Aristotles views are valuable to modern psychology because they have overcome any attempts at disproval and still stand as viable ...