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OpEd: Right of Refusal

on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...

Pragmatic Failure in Reference to Translation

human existence. Factors such as race, gender, and sociopolitical status, are all social facts and each influences a cultures lan...

Starbucks: An Overview

Planning 7 IIg. Corporate Governance 7 IIh. Corporate Citizenship 8 III. Conclusion 9 ...

Pet Therapy for the Elderly

topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...

The Source by James Michener

another individual comes in to help, and oversee the procedures for the sake of Israels interests. This man is Eliav who is a "kin...

Black Snow by Liu Heng

find it difficult to adjust. He has just gotten out of the prison camp and wanders the streets: "Ah, a good meal, of course. Now,...

Billy Collins

many different ways. For example, one author illustrates how, "You can read a Billy Collins poem to someone who hates poetry and t...

Financial Crimes against the Elderly

abuse victims in the United States each year, but officials only hear of about perhaps 1 in 25 cases" (Hurme, 2006). When people t...

Michelangelo: His Life and Works

wanted to be something other than a banker or a merchant as his father desired (Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat: A Biography, ...

Amnesty International and Social Justice

of Human Rights (Khan, 2006). Its mission has evolved from blanket support of human rights to targeting specific abuses such as g...

Analysis: Two Articles on Aging

conclusions are interesting, particularly as they take what is often seen as a negative (aging) and turn it into a positive experi...

Social Change and the Family Structure

Factors that include social, political and economic elements are distinctly related to the structure of the American family and th...

Treatment as a Result of Ageism

In a paper consisting of eighteen pages the ways in which elderly people are treated medically, in society, by the government, and...

An Overview of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the central themes of The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's classic novel about life in the Chicago ...

African and African American Heritage by Oscar Brown Jr.

This paper examines this work, also referred to as Drum Street, by Oscar Brown Jr. There are no other sources listed....

Development and Human Growth

This paper examines development and human growth in an informational overview of various psychological, social, and physical consi...

Different Views on Chaos Theory

7 pages and 7 sources. This paper provides an overview of the basic elements of chaos theory and relates them to views of their a...

Three Decades of American Freshmen

In nineteen pages this paper examines the changing American freshman class in a literature overview that includes demographics, hi...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Compared

In six pages these famous literary works are compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, and Life Expectations

In five pages these 2 works by physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman are examined in terms of the author's inspirationa...

Elderly Patients and Minimizing Physiological and Psychosocial Tracheal Tube Stresses

In five pages this paper discusses the postoperative stresses that are represented by tracheal tubes particularly as they involve ...

Senior Citizens and the UK's Mental Health Act of 1983

In thirteen pages the United Kingdom's Mental Health Act of 1983 is discussed in a basic overview with concentration being the imp...

Aspects of Asian Culture

In two pages Asian culture is examined in terms of a brief historical overview, religious practices' description, family significa...

'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...

The Politics and Metaphysics of Thomas Hobbes

same time that other men pursue the same desires (Hobbes 185). The development of enemies comes from this course of natural compe...

Review of an Article on the Epidemiologic Issue of Dementia

In four pages the article appearing in Lancet involving the epidemiologic issue dementia may pose for the elderly is reviewed and ...

Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease

in both hypertension and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Though the overall mortality rates for coronary heart disease h...

Overview of the American Social Security System

In ten pages this overview of the American Social Security system examines problems, solutions, and the dilemma represented by t...

Controversy Over US Social Security

the states - which paid half the costs. By 1939, all states had enacted OAA and, as a result, it came to be the primary method of ...

History of the Social Security System

In thirteen pages an historical overview of the U.S. Social Security System includes its program benefits, problems, and chronicle...