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Essays 1921 - 1950

Socrates, Human Nature, the 'Good Life,' and Plato's Gorgias

interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...

Operations Management and IT, TQM, and JIT Effects

* Manufacturing flexibility is essential (Green and Inman, 2000). * Customers define quality (Green and Inman, 2000). * Team effor...

Biodiversity and Globalization's Impact

they were the same species, and researchers found 950 different varieties of beetles, where eighty percent of the species had been...

Analyzing the Bombing of Oklahoma City

may help one understand how and why the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah building occurred. Conflict theory, unlike functionalism o...

Homeostasis and Universal Intelligence

and complimentary or alternative therapies (Chang, 2001). Travelbee (2002) in particular recognizes the spiritual dimension of ho...

Committed Relationship Conceptual Definition

the world would be and how others would act" (Leiser 465). Russell believed that "human actions derive from three sources: instinc...

Nursing and Critical Thinking

should be emphasized that some nurses see their function in a more spiritual manner. They take their role as a calling to help tho...

NPO and Effects of the New Policy Agenda

Agenda (NPA) is an ideological preference for markets over state controls in the allocation of of scarce resources (Copestake, 199...

Definition and Examples of Virtual Communities

formation of a virtual community may occur in many environments and as a result of many different pull factors, from entertainmen...

Sport and Leadership

to be the same for leaders across contexts or cultures and second, some believe leadership skills cannot be taught or trained (Mar...

Past and Present Definitions of Hero

rap artists came to be regarded as heroes by many. With the tragic events of September 11, 2001, however, we have once again com...

Questions Regarding Personal Ethics

a man will not work, he shall not eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10). "Work" is not always something that returns money as a reward or p...

Critical Thinking and Perceptual Blockades

logic (formal and informal), critical thinking is generally considered to be part of the informal variety. When a person employs c...

Overview of Positivism

later in the nineteenth century; those of evolutionary ethics, where there was a duty to pursue the already existing processes and...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Paradise Lost, and Cinema Verite

Paradise Lost In a review of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" Roger Ebert (1996) indicates that it "is uni...

Commercial Environment and Political Risk

helped to raise the awareness of this risk. Whilst it is known that there is often little that an individual company may do to imp...

Citizenship Concept

for certain jobs. Many very well educated immigrants (doctors, teachers) found themselves working as general laborers because they...

Examination of Compilers

Questions, 2001). However, compilers, even ones written for the same programming language, can differ greatly. Wong (2003) asser...

Compilers and Their Programming Functions

Questions, 2001). However, compilers, even ones written for the same programming language, can differ greatly. Wong (2003) asser...

Taoism, Buddhism, and Zen's Basic Philosophical Differences

Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...

Oligopolies and Monopolies

in technology, the number of companies already in the industry and their market positions, human capital, and more (Basto, Noyola-...

Policy Analysis and Systems Theory

to cybernetics and to systems dynamics, which demonstrate changes in a network of variables (Heylighen and Joslyn, 1992). Systems...

Real Wage Rates, Wage Differentials, and Human Capital Investment

to answer the call of marriage and motherhood, ultimately leaving the workforce not long after having what would be a tremendous a...

OPEC's Influence, Nation States, and Power

seen as having its routes in economic rather than military force. It is the power of trade embargos that have aided in seeking to ...

Great Britain, is It Class Driven or a Meritocracy?

more on ability and skills rather than family background and inheritance; a meritocracy. Class mobility between the generation and...

Musical Overtures in the Nineteenth Century

This ten page paper defines nineteenth century overatures and delineates them into specific types. Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Wag...

Cultural Significance of the Miniseries 'Shogun'

for the Japanese to thrust their manhood into their enemys face in order to assert their inner strength and claim ultimate power. ...

Heroism and its Characteristics

In 5 pages this paper examines how the characteristics of heroism are defined in such literary works as A Simple Heart by Gustave ...

Urban America and Cultural Wars

In nine pages this research paper discusses how social scientists define the inner city urban culture of African Americans and how...

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

In five pages this paper examines this example of 'Plays Pleasant' as defined by George Bernard Shaw in terms of its presentation ...