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Continued Application and Social Trends Regarding the Death Penalty

In eight pages death row inmates and issues of their innocence are incorporated in a discussion of the death penalty in terms of i...

A Capital Punishment Overview

This paper discusses the death penalty or capital punishment in ten pages and considers the issue within historical and contempora...

Evolution of Computer Technology

In four pages computer evolution is traced from the 500 B.C. abacus to contemporary desktop computers. Four sources are cited in ...

Teen Drinking and its Dangers

In nine pages this research paper discusses contemporary society and the dangers connected with teen alcoholism. Seven sources ar...

Post Unification Germany Political Party Competition and Voting Behavior

Kohl found equal voter support in both East and West Germany. Kohls electoral success proved to significantly reinforce his compr...

Overview of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution

In eight pages this paper examines the events that culminated in the Cuban Revolution, its outcome, and the disagreements surround...

Edmond Killina's Courthouse over White House Chicago and the 1960 Presidential Election

In eleven pages the controversial results of the 1960 presidential election are examined within the context of this book and provi...

A Critical Essay on Don DeLillo's 'White Noise'

This essay consists of 5 pages and describes this text as definitive of the cultural voic that exists in a contemporary life ruled...

Contemporary Japanese Women's Roles

Roles of women in contemporary Japan are the focus of this paper consisting of five pages in an overview from political and socioe...

Social Order and the Science Fiction of Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. LeGuin

In eleven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society is portrayed in this comparison of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury an...

Intertextual Relationship Between Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight and Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho

In eleven pages the ways in which Welles' interpretation of a quintet of Shakespeare plays was incorporated into Gus Van Sant's co...

Renaissance Concepts

wealthier, a group of traveling or begging clerics, sprang up - almost as a reaction against the secular excesses of the Church. ...

Modern Life Issues and Theories of Morality

In ten pages this report discusses how moral theories address contemporary life issues with such ethical concepts as virtue, care,...

African Culture and Ideology and Its Impact Upon African Americans Past and Present

In this paper consisting of six pages the 'Africanness' thread that continues to link contemporary African Americans to their past...

Ruxley Electronics Case and Contemporary Law

In six pages this paper examines the contemporary law precedent established by the Ruxley Electronics and Construction Ltd. v. For...

Mexican History During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

In five pages the historical events that had a significant impact upon Mexico during this time period and how their influence is s...

Warfare and the Role of the Howitzer

In five pages the Howitzer's role in contemporary warfare dating back to the Vietnam War is examined in an evolution that includes...

Intellectuals and the Use of Critical Thinking

The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...

Evolution Theory of Charles Darwin

admittedly the fossil record was far from complete, nor was our understanding of it incontestable, we began to consider a process ...

Modern Society and Desensitization

In 5 pages the cultural and social reasons why the increase in violent behavior has desensitized contemporary society particularly...

Reception Theory vs. Dominant Ideology of Art

In five pages this paper discusses the artistic conflict between the dominant ideology and reception theories during the Middle Ag...

Credit and its Impact

care of their credit rating can expect to find doors closed in their faces when applying for such important commodities as insuran...

Modern Theater and the Director's Role

In eight pages this paper examines the contemporary theatrical director's role in an analysis of productions of Angels in America ...

Contemporary Race Relations' Philosophies

In five pages this paper contrasts the contemporary philosophies regarding U.S. race relations between Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. ...

Changes in Idolatry from the Old Testament to the Modern Era

In six pages idolatry definition changes are examined in a consideration of past to present with contemporary rock star ideology c...

Translation Of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Gregory Horace

around Myrrhas sexual obsession with her father, a situation that was no less unacceptable in Ovids day than it is in contemporary...

Past, Present, and the Cold War

In eleven pages this paper examines congressional records and presidential papers in a consideration of such Cold War inspired leg...

Women's Sexuality Changes in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

In five pages this paper discusses how women's sexuality is represented in this nineteenth century novel and then contrasts it to ...

Lacrosse's History

In nine pages this paper considers lacrosse from its Native American origins until the contemporary game with a discussion of how ...

Alcestis by Euripides

In five pages the political issue involving identification of gender roles is examined within the context of the play and a compar...