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Contemporary World and Taoism

in modern Chinese society; however, as the following discussion will illustrate, Taoist principles are also influencing Western cu...

Education and an Application of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Perspective on Knowledge

In five pages this paper discusses how Rousseau's views regarding learning and knowledge can be practically applied to contemporar...

Comparative Analysis of 'Araby' by James Joyce and 'A and P' by John Updike

In a comparative analysis of five pages John Updike retells Joyce's classic tale in a contemporary way with distinctions made betw...

A Review of Human Knowledge Classical And Contemporary Approaches

rA 5 page review of the book by Paul K Moser. Traditional philosophic constructs of knowledge is contrasted with contemporary con...

Contemporary Prisons and Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

Damiens, was executed in this manner on March 2, 1757. The records of this execution appear to be quite detailed, as Foucault rela...

Individualism and Magic in The Tempest And Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone

This five page paper considers the elemtn of magic in Shakespeare's clasic play and in the highly popular contemporary book by J. ...

Ron Padgett's Contemporary American Poetry

In six pages this paper examines Ron Padgett's contemporary American poetry in an analysis that reveals it is much less simplistic...

Past and Present Fairy Tales

human spiritual life and then comes back with a message." The usual heros adventure will start with someone "from whom something ...

Number e's History and Use

compound interest is as follows. Assuming that the principal is equal to E9 and the amortization period is d10, payments in a year...

Contemporary World, Heroes, Gods, and Joseph Campbell

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the myths of gods and heroes as contemporary instruments of change as described by Joseph Ca...

An Overview of Anxiety Disorder

unbalancing illnesses they truly are. With an astounding fifteen million Americans suffering from clinical anxiety disorder -- a ...

Postmodern Music

In five pages Farmclub and Napster are featured in a consideration of technology's impact upon contemporary music. Four sources a...

Romanticism's Dark Side and French Poet Charles Baudelaire

In five pages this research paper explores how Baudelaire unlike his Romantic contemporaries Shelley, Wordsworth, and Keats probed...

Organizational Structure and Management Theory

In ten pages this paper examines the Chubb Group's organizational structure and applies the management theories of Lyndall Urwick,...

Algebra and How It Has Evolved

One should bear in mind that they could solve, for example, quadratic equations, and find Pythagorean triples and Babylonian tripl...

Overview of the Science of Statistics

In five pages this paper examines the contemporary applications of statistics in terms of usage and study. Seven sources are ci...

Nursing Theory of Imogene King Critiqued

time were better qualified to make such definitions. Baker had received her preliminary degree in nursing in 1945, a degree which...

Mass Media and Visual Communication

ethically questionable tactics to sell the companies products. While the Nike Corporation promotes an active image and lifestyl...

Spiritual Marketplace by Wade Clark Roof

Contemporary American beliefs and spirituality are the focus of this overview of Wade Clark Roof's Spiritual Marketplace consistin...

Oleanna by David Mamet

and critic Thomas Eagleton as a "modernist literary work," meaning that the content is purposely left minimal so that it is up to ...

The Issue of Adultery

wants to hear about it. In addition, cliches such as "The grass is always greener on the other side" abound, and did not become ...

Contemporary Institution of Marriage

In ten pages this essay analyzes how contemporary society regards the constitution of marriage with the concepts of Sigmund Freud ...

Explanation and Adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In seventeen pagest this research paper commences with an original Hamlet adaptation and then focuses upon contemporary social inf...

The War Against Boys How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers

In five pages this report considers Sommers' 2000 text and the assertion that in contemporary America boys are having a more diffi...

Machiavelli and Modern Writers on the Athenian Thesis

In six pages this paper examines how Machiavelli and contemporary writers would regard the Athenian Doctrine or Thesis. Four sour...

Biblical Passages Acts 19: 23-41

A seven page paper analyszes this passage from the Bible and applies it to contemporary society to achieve deeper meaning. There ...

The Birds by Director Alfred Hitchcock

In a report consisting of six pages the notion of seemingly harmless creatures turning on innocent residents of a northern Califor...

Contemporary US and the Effects of the Civil War

thirty years prior to the outbreak of war, they were limited to a few heavily-populated urban areas. However, during the War, it ...

Psychology and Shifting Paradigms

In five pages this paper discusses psychology in an overview of the contemporary paradigm shift in this field of science. Three s...

Contemporary Literature Essay Tutorial

In five pages this tutorial essay considers Virginia Woolf's use of stream of consciousness in Mrs. Dalloway, T.S. Eliot's free ve...