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Causes and Effects of Child Abuse

harm in which a child sustains physical damage and emotional harm in which the charge is endangered psychologically. This harm ca...

Friendship According to Aristotle

me to the airport as an appropriate use of your resources (your time and your car), given our relationship and the circumstances i...

Contemporary Law Enforcement

day law enforcement officers. II. DEVIANCE ON THE FORCE The law, which was originally created by the Greeks to temper mans inher...

Foundations of the Contemporary World Cemented by the Scientific Revolution

scientific explanation, rather than a divine one, for the way the world works. The changes that came with the Scientific Revoluti...

Overview of Okinawa, Japan

a fourteenth-century palace that doubled as a fortress during the war, housed Japanese soldiers far beneath its fortified structur...

Jacques Abbadie and the Enlightenment Influence

light that does not deceive us" (Whelan, 2002, p. 1). This "natural light," in his estimation enables human beings to arrive at "...

Curriculum Design and the Effects of the Learning Theory of Jean Piaget

can readily recognize how teaching reflects the combined components of open communication, creative instruction and critical think...

Segregation's Return

their schools," on average attending schools "where less than 20% of the students are from all of the other racial and ethnic grou...

The Political Thought of Machiavelli

that what is done is not as important as the character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. At the same time, unlike a preach...

Clever Women in Modern Detective Fiction

the standard framework for a mystery detective novel, each of these works share similar themes that are indicative of current Amer...

The US and AIDS

2005). At this time it was a very frightening disease or virus or condition because not enough was known about the disease: "It is...

Agriculture and the Impact of the Industrial Revolution

sell crops. Farmers worked the land themselves. They would work for the love of the land and start family businesses. In fact, whi...

Spy Satellites and Their History

(Richelson, 1997, p. 295). This laid the initial groundwork for the construction of a spy satellite, and nearly nine years later,...

Contemporary Lessons Taught by 16th Century St. Teresa of Avila

prayer and, ultimately, began to experience visions. During those visions she was outwardly the same but inwardly she was filed w...

Modern Society and The Communist Manifesto

the fallen wall, and while remnants of Marxism remain--like Communist China and Cuba--there is a decided attack on the ideology. T...

Engineering or Evolution in Aldous Huxley and Charles Darwin

nothing)" (The origin of species, 2005). But this was countered by "James Huttons uniformitarian theory of 1785 [which] envisione...

Richardson and Fielding as Critics of British Society

rather than allowing her marriage to Tom. From the onset, Fielding makes it clear that his sympathies are with the young lovers an...

Book of Amos and Greed

is Gods displeasure with those who do not help the poor and needy, but who instead pursue the good life at the expense of others. ...

Selye's Major Theories on Contemporary Stress

three phases in stress adaptation, general adaptation syndrome (GAS): 1. Fight or Flight-The alarm reaction: An event occurs that...

Poetic Analysis of 'The Battle of Frogs and Mice'

for either side. However, even though the plot is simple, the way the poem is written is deliberately heroic, and is very much ...

USA Patriot Act and the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Investigative Technologies Division, the Laboratory Division, the Records Management Division, the Security Division, and the Trai...

Concepts of Contemporary Citizenship and Political Virtue as Viewed by Aristotle

the morality Aristotle speaks of is relative. While it is not relative from one individual to another perhaps, and there is certai...

Manager's Organizational Role

possible, relying on the leadership of well appointed subordinates. There are different schools of thought on how a manage...

Analyzing the Iraq War through Works by Plato and Aristophanes

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

Past and Present Interpretations of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Caesar with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who was at that time entering the twilight of her life.6 At the time it was initially...

Learning Perspectives

functional literacy in the workplace. The learning process, then, is conscious and applicable, and can be understood relative to ...

Modern Pasture Management Practices

utilized have changed little over the years. Others, however, are extremely high-tech and impressive. Plant growth is affe...

Court Administration Issues

family reasons (United States: Rehnquists legacy, 2005). If either of these justices retire, the country, President George W. Bush...

Social Construct and Crime

social construct (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). In looking at the role of the law in relationship to detaining what is an...

Columbine High School Killings

a collective, nor were they the first to seek vengeance on individuals in their own school: just the year before, Kip Kinkle enac...