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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Contemporary Education and the Value of Online Access

has been argued that computers have fundamentally changed the central nature of the language laboratory, both in elementary and se...

What It Means to Be a Teacher

educational policy, such as high stakes testing, which places more emphasis on meeting a preset criterion than on a teachers profe...

Modern Medicine and Religious Traditions of the East

were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...

Procedure and Criminal Law II

The definition of felony murder is that it is a killing that is unintentional, occurring "during the commission or attempted commi...

Theory of Knowledge or Epistemology

the Christian religion. In other words, in order to belief in God, the Bible as the proof of God must be justified or proved itse...

'Live and Let Live' and Stephen Carter's Etiquette of Democracy

social theorists for over a century. Perhaps one of the best approaches to addressing the concept of democracy, though, came not ...

Digital Age and the Importance of Protecting Intellectual Property Rights

digital technology looming ever larger on the international business landscape, it is incumbent to produce and protect intellectua...

Blackpool's Architecture, Land Use, Industry, and Growth

the medieval period, Blackpool consisted of a "few coastal farmsteads within Layton-with-Warbreck" (Blackpool Council, 2005) and s...

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,...

Modern Music Industry and Subcultures

The idea of resistance through the use of ritual is a paradigm that emerged from early works of the Birmingham School and would ga...

The Impact of Post-Release Service Programs on Housing and Employment Procurement for Ex-Cons Suffering From HIV/AIDS

16,000 new infections per day (AIDS Weekly Plus, 1997). With figures like these, it is essential that health care providers under...

Education Concepts of John Locke

in fact prompt motivation. Yet, while Lockes ideas seem pertinent in todays world where education seems to be nothing more than di...

Educational Concepts of Immanuel Kant

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...

Modern Economic Globalization and Changing Technology

part of the globalisation process over the last fifty years this is supported by the way the actual output increase has remained c...

Three Poems by Gary Soto, Nikki Giovanni, and William Blake

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

Modern Architectural Concepts

with open arms. Said Ray Eames: "Modern architecture -- not a style. A philosophy of life" (The Eames House). From Charle...

Natalie Merchant's Song 'These Are Days You'll Remember' and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...

Discipline and Islam

in the different aspect and practices, but to look at the way in which discipline manifest in the main practices of modern Islam. ...

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...