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Sexuality in the Elderly

the amount of semen is reduced, the testicles "do not rise as much as in the young man," ejaculation is not as powerful, and "the ...

Myth and Reality: Abraham Lincoln

against injustice and for the downtrodden. One author notes that, "However successful he may have been, Lincoln the young attorney...

Life and its Meaning Questioned

contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...

Myth According to Barthes

are added to language everyday. It helps to note also that fashion designers often take new trends from the street--such as the ba...

Levi Strauss' Myth Analysis by Applying Ferdinand de Saussure's Structural Linguistics

but an anthropologist and he made use of the theorist in his studies, including kinship and myths. The idea of Saussures t...

Creation Myths of the Navajo and Chinese

China). This was too much for the earth and it burned and cracked (A Creation Story from China). The rivers became dry and the peo...

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

Payment for Donating Blood

the blood utilized by the pharmaceutical industry in developing vaccines, diagnostics, and drug products (114). That of course mak...

Greek Mythology, Hesiod’s Five Ages of Man, and the Story of Zeus and Other Olympic Deities

period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...

American Immigration Paradoxes

will explore the ramifications of these paradoxes, focusing primarily on the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants. Silvia Pedra...

Barriers Between Readers and the Other

West, who defined the native American tribes as "savages"; and by so doing, made it possible to justify killing them (in self-defe...

Northern California Myth

up there" (Rigsby). However, while David admits that the days of the pioneers are over, "like many myths," he supposes that ther...

Role of the Feminine in Ancient Creation Myth

males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...

The Power of Myth: The Monomyth

of achievement and experience" (123). They are individuals who have ultimately given themselves to something that is larger than t...

Sexuality and Aging

or physical concerns. Although it is true that health does often enter the picture as it respect sex, sexuality is more than just ...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

Keeping Art In Public Schools

COUPLING Art can help students achieve at a higher level by encouraging them to stretch their minds beyond conventional sta...

Art, Women, and Elsa Honig Fine's A History of Women Painters and Sculptors from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century

In ten pages this paper discusses this text's perspectives on art and women. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

Myth and Reality of Outlaw Jesse James

In five pages this research paper examines the Old West outlaw in terms of how yellow journalism and the political landscape of th...

Crime and the 'Black Myth'

In five pages this paper dispels the mistaken notion that blacks are responsible for committing more crimes than whites are. Six ...

Myth and Its Importance in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In four pages this paper examines the importance of Native American heritage and the protagonist's desire to reconnect in the nove...

Historical Objectivity Myth and Peter Novick's That Noble Dream

In sixteen pages this paper analyzes the text and then reviews the issues the author addresses within the context of contemporary ...

The Myths of the British Cabinet by Richard Crossman

In five pages this paper summarizes and critically assesses this text by Richard Crossman. There are no other sources cited....

The Way American Families Never Were and the Nostalgia Myth

Americans were actually upset over their own perceived decline of morality. And if you read headlines in the 1950s about juvenile ...

J. Sterling Livingston's Article 'The Myth of a Well Educated Manager'

In three pages this paper presents a review of this article by J. Sterling Livingston. There is no bibliography included....

Myths on Creation

In ten pages the various stories on creation such as Western, Aztec and Mayan, Greco Roman, China, Mesopotamia, and Egypt civiliza...

Analyzing Myth of the Welfare Queen by David Zucchino

In nine pages the views expressed by the author in the text are compared with those by other authors on the same topic. Five sour...

Escape and Myth in Comic Books

Do comic books as an art form simply represent a desire to escape from reality or are they the embodiment of a new form of modern ...