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Gunpowder's Invention and Historical Impact

and explosives has ranked among the top three most important elements of modern civilization along with printing and the Protestan...

4 Articles on Jewish Culture Compared

In six pages Jewish life and culture are considered in a discussion of 4 articles which offer contrasting views to Jewish societal...

Voltaire, Moliere and Social Satire

money, not religion. Organ, a simplistic, but good man, has allowed Tartuffe to come into his home and take dominance over his fam...

Past and Present Needs of Society and the Montessori Educational Method

to the place and specific time, there were numerous commonalties in the educational situation of Maria Montessoris time. Inner ci...

Social History and Sexuality

mentioned and courses taken were important enough in the society to warrant public attention to them. The account of this single ...

What is Normal? Lahiri vs. Chabon

Mr. Pirzada Came to Dinner by Jhumpa Lahiri and Spikes by Michael Chabon are good sources for comparisons of what is considered a ...

Gilgamesh, 'The Odyssey' and Heroic Epics

In five pages this paper discusses the societal and immortality quests of epic heroes in Gilgamesh and Homer's 'The Odyssey' in a ...

Canadian Consumer Culture & the Environment

was not, as it had been during the Depression, a function of what the consumer could afford, bur rather what the then could find (...

Let's Move The Whitehouse's Attempt to Intervene in Childhood Obesity

This paper emphasizes the importance of this program being part of a much larger societal framework. There are three sources in t...

Fragmentation and Globalization

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at globalism. Societal fragmentation is held up as an antithesis to globalism. Paper u...

Societal Expectations, Twain, Krakauer

This essay considers Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and asserts that both protagonists were societ...

Child Abuse, Its Nature and History

were perceived and what sort of behavior was considered appropriate in regards to children has changed considerably over the cours...

THE PESTICIDE INDUSTRY, ITS CORE VALUES AND SOCIAL ISSUES

in which Union Carbide operates, the pesticide industry, is rife with situations such as that which created the Bhopal tragedy. So...

Homosexuality, Shifting Societal Views

This essay draws on sources to describe the shift from viewing homosexuality as a criminal offense and a mental disorder to a more...

Tracing the Origins of the Internet

the Internet (1999). The concept that anyone in the world can publish information and have it instantly available to someone else...

Thirty Questions on Complexity by Mitchell lWaldrop

complex systems, whether they are ecosystems, individual organisms, or economics, have certain characteristics in common. Complex ...

An Analysis of The God That Sucked by Thomas Frank" – Impact Upon Understanding Of Or Concern About The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth

whenever a civilized society is involved. Indeed, the very notion of social justice often leads directly to social injustice, ina...

US Society and the Internet

incredibly intriguing and checks every day to see what the weather will be like. From such simple perspectives as this we can see ...

Sociological and Biological Definitions of Sexuality

wonder that many are reluctant to place full responsibility for behavior and personality on genetics. Peele (1995) notes:...

Societal Concept of Emile Durkheim

allow him a greater ability to define what served as the foundation for social change and how it changed and grew into other degre...

Female and Male Inequality and Societal Consequences

leads to a number of societal dysfunctions such as unequal access to education, jobs and other societal positions. A number of so...

A Tribute to the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team Who Brought Home the Medal

historical events. Instead there is an interplay between them, circumstance, and other major and minor players. At the time of t...

Mass Imprisonment and the Societal Damage It Inflicts

violence. Malcolm X did nothing to dissipate this idea and on many levels encouraged the mindset. Additionally, welfare rolls adde...

America of the Eighteenth Century and the Monticello Home of Thomas Jefferson

in the Virginia (Leary 42). Palladios designes were: "... inspired by the temples and villas of Ancient Rome. Palladio project...

Society and Pornography

Some therapists say that pornography helps marriages by providing variety for otherwise good marriages whose sex life has gone Sou...

Domestic Violence and its Societal Impact

hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because the system did not seem to either believe them about the scope of the...

Radical Aspects of the Scientific Revolution

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

Comparing John Stuart Mill and Mary Wollstonecraft's Ideas About Female Emancipation

live up to its promises. Mill realized that the male had practically unlimited power over the woman and that the institution of ...

Who's to Blame? Failure of the Bovary's Marriage

This essay examines the question of who is to blame for the failure of the marriage between Emma and Charles Bovary. The writer pr...