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Epic Heroism of King Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2000 BC and found inscribed on 12 tablets at Nineveh, is the earliest known epic. The Epic...

Future in the Present and 1984 by George Orwell

radio, and telephone, and substitute my computer for every use to which I put my TV, phone, and radio now. If I choose to have my ...

Analysis of The Subjection of Women by J.S. Mill

In five pages this research paper discusses the issues John Stuart Mill addressed in his text and assesses whether or not they rem...

Arguments in On Liberty by J.S. Mill

In eight pages this paper discusses the arguments Mill presented in this text and considers contemporary drug legalization within ...

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 ...

War in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

In six pages this paper considers classical and contemporary examples of war literature. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliog...

Author Michael Crichto

In eleven pages this paper discusses the author's life and the unethical interaction between science and medicine as portrayed in ...

How Birds Evolved from Dinosaurs

In ten pages this paper discusses how contemporary birds evolved from their prehistoric dinosaur ancestors. Five sources are cite...

Lessons from the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

In five pages this paper considers these catastrophes within the context of contemporary fire code applications. Six sources are ...

Medical Malpractice Insurance and its Importance

In ten pages this paper discuses medical malpractice insurance and its contemporary necessity. Six sources are cited in the bibli...

Is the U.S. Government Working for the Individual or the Community?

This 5 page paper discusses whether the U.S. government works for the community as a whole, or for indivdiual interests. The write...

Hamiltonian Economics and its Historical Impacts

In five pages this research paper discusses the economic approach developed during Alexander Hamilton's tenure as US Secretary of ...

Literature Review on Spondylolisthesis

In five pages this paper examines spondylolisthesis in this contemporary literature review with the condition as it affects adoles...

The Marxist Concept of Alienation

In twelve pages this paper applies the concept attributed to Karl Marx to modern society and includes several contemporary authors...

Changing Perceptions Regarding Nature, Animals, and Humankind

In nine pages this research paper considers the natural world and how humankind's perceptions regarding animals have changed with ...

Edward Lee Thorndike and Charles Darwin on Behavioral Science

In nine pages Thorndike's and Darwin's theories of behavioral science are discussed and contrasted and compared with contemporary ...

Outline of How Society is Impacted by Stress

in leaving small children in order to enter the work force (Brimelow, 1998). III) Methods exist that can help to alleviate str...

Islam's 5 Pillars

In three pages this paper considers how the contemporary Arab persona was created by Islam's 5 pillars. Three sources are cited i...

A Consideration of Athenian Democracy

In five pages this paper considers whether Athenian democracy reflects the democracy concept including a case study from the perio...

Developmental Disabilities

In five pages the existence of developmental disabilities in contemporary society is examined with examples of the positive impact...

Walt Whitman vs. Emily Dickinson

each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...

English and French Governments

In six pages this paper discusses these countries' post Crusades rises to power in a consideration of aristocracy, feudalism, and ...

Professional Sports and the Sociological Impacts of Big Money

In five pages this report considers contemporary pro sports and the sociological effects of the big money it requires and generate...

Political Philosophy of Greece and Athens

much as they are in todays society. Therefore, the philosophies and laws created chaos, but democracy was enjoyed as a fact of ex...

Adoption Issues

In five pages this research paper examines homosexual and racial issues as they pertain to contemporary child adoption. Six sourc...

Urban Sprawl as Demonstrated in Canada and the United States

other people. Most of them lived in the rural country. By 1800 only 3 percent of the entire population lived in cities. Times h...

Adolescent Suicide and Romeo and Juliet

This research paper analyzes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and compares its narratives to instances of adolescent suicide and fam...

A Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

This research paper/essay offers a critique of Baz Luhmann's adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The writer discusses ho...

Nihilism in Baz Luhrmann's Updated Film Interpretation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Shakespeare's original tragedy with the contemporary interpretation Baz Luhrmann b...

Evolution, Dinosaurs, and Birds

in the mountains of China, at the margin of the Andes Mountains in Argentina, and in the sweltering jungles of Laos and Thailand (...