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Turner's Theory and the Use of Text in Film as Interactive Social Practice

the change - dwindling audience numbers, and the need to cope with more complex narrative structures, for instance - were the outw...

Ursula K. LeGuin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'

tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...

Sex Education as a Social Problem

about sex education is a conflict wherein the dominant group in the society is determining where and how this education should tak...

Sociological Intervention Tactics in There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotliwitz

fictional. Indeed, this book vividly portrays the harsh reality which so many of us have refused to acknowledge. The same factor...

Social Groups and Alcoholism Research

family arguments or fights after drinking? (Usually, often, sometimes, never) Responses to these questions establish a profile o...

Categorizing Films Through Genre

in that the main character, Abdel, has been abused by the police. He has been beaten so badly that he has had to be hospitalized. ...

Social Control Problems

three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...

New Deal Policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

addition to the stock market crash. The situation which developed after the end of World War I was one of the primary factors....

A Compendium of Four Essays on Religion

and some of the verses were sung. It was explained to me later that the members of the congregation that perform this part of the ...

Apocalptic Literature/Daniel and Revelation

This research paper addresses some of religion's biggest question, such as "Will the world come to an end?" If one's rel...

Role Of Religion With The Loss Of A Child

(Smith, 2005). However, learning usually begins with a person doing something and discovering the effect in that situation (Smith,...

Ancient Political Systems

A 6 page research paper that discusses the political positions of various authors from the ancient world. The writer asserts that ...

Ancient Indian Religions

not possible to work backwards to reconstruct the Harappan faith from the Vedic (Hooker, 1999). The second period is that of the...

Domestic Violence And Immigrant Hispanic Women

dominance, a reality much of which is attributed to - or blamed upon - religious underpinnings. Laughton (1995) notes how women h...

Hume’s Dialogue Updated

any attempt to model understanding of God on the basis of a study of humanity is simply untenable. What is the soul of man? A mixt...

Witches and the Religious Majority in Preindustrial Europe

the Middle Ages progressed and a series of devastating events would lead the preindustrial European continent into mass witch hyst...

Culture in India

(India, 2007). The cabinet is "appointed by the president on the recommendation of the prime minister"; the president is elected "...

Culture of China

voted against him, 4 abstained, and 38 did not vote); ZENG Qinghong elected vice president ... with a total of 2,578 votes (177 de...

Inherit the Wind and Religion

the majority of people in the United States today still disbelieve that people actually evolved from another species, it seems acc...

Birth Rituals, Judaism and Islam

"Hebrew name" does not have to be in Hebrew, as Yiddish or English names are often used (Rich). Of all the Jewish rituals, the bri...

The Varied Viewpoints of Hinduism

Trinity, both the father and son, as well as the pure spirit. This is a very difficult concept (how can anyone be both father and ...

Newman and Rousseau: Victorian and Romantic Ideas of Religion

support of it. If Rousseau is a Romantic and Newman a Victorian, it seems that the difference lies in the fact that Rousseau wants...

“I Alone” by Live

stanza, which pictures the listener, the person offering lifes big questions, emotionally stranded. The narrative voice states, "I...

Literary Critique: Letter from the Birmingham Jail

to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town" (King). One of the most poignant parts of the speech is Dr. Kings examina...

David Hume on Natural Religion

a philosopher, Philo a skeptic and Demea a theologian. Well see if this is correct and analyze one of the arguments. Cleanthes O...

Dostoevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor" - Analysis of Jesus' And The Grand Inquisitor's Goals

while the millions, numerous as the sands of the sea, who are weak but love Thee, must exist only for the sake of the great and st...

Ethics, Blood Transfusions & Jehovah's Witnesses

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

Proof Of God's Existence

broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...

The Japanese Samurai

century, for example, the Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo attempted to overthrow the shogunate, the defacto government vying for power w...

An Anthropological View of Ghosts

explained by motivation. In the case of this story, the idea that someone of a rather primitive culture is using the idea of posse...