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Life and Theoretical Contributions of Pierre de Fermat

the work of Apollonius concerning plane loci (Ball Fermat.html). In his youth, Fermat was friends with the French scientis...

Corn Woman and Brave Wolf

kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...

Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game and Intellectualism

capacity for sublimation. . . Soon afterwards philology followed this method and began to measure linguistic configurations as phy...

The Fluidity of Identity and Consumerism

is a stable concept; shares with a social group and influenced mainly by two variables; nationality and class, but more recent the...

Fulfillment of Predictions Aldous Huxley Made in Brave New World Revisited

Huxley considers how the survival of a democracy depends upon frequent information exchanges, which is what made the medium of tel...

Intergenerational Family Relationships

elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...

Caring in Nursing Theory

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

Agricultural Considerations Location Location Location

This paper contends that a crops location is perhaps the most important factor deciding its success or failure. Location is interl...

Chronic Illness and Public Health

This research paper pertains to the shift of focus that has taken place in regards to public health policy and practice, has it ha...

Faked News Coverage

This paper pertains to the fact that fake news reports are prevalent in contemporary society. Nine pages in length, ten sources ar...

Dahl, Williams and Pediatric Patients

This essay refers to narratives by Raoul Dahl and William Carlos Williams that relate pediatric examination experience in the earl...

Definition and Application of Postmodernism

of these schools of thought was sufficient, but that there could be the existence of the competing thoughts that create conflict ...

Preface to Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing by Steven Friedson

insists on separating "aesthetics, religion and medicine" into separate epistemological categories, is so engrained that it become...

Personal Growth and Ibsen's "A Doll's House"

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...

Determining the Legitimacy of Plea Arrangements

a residential apartment building in North Carolina to check on the welfare of a tenant at the building whom friends had not heard ...

Freudian and Social Psychology

correct? If he is, then social psychology has little meaning. After all, everything would be tied to Freuds models that really do ...

Religion in the United States

impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendme...

Nursing and Communication Theory

relationships, in terms of power dynamics and the initiation and resolution of conflicts. Communication theory is, therefore, impo...

The Shadow of the Galilean by Gerd Theissen

a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...

Reflection on The Ten Commandments

this theme forward, the next commandments lay the foundation for civilized society. The first of these social commandments is to...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet = Production Effectiveness

decision to transform a personal tale of forbidden love into a social commentary on increasing teen violence and decreasing morali...

Roman Government

This paper considers the need for evolution in Rome’s government. Caesar Augustus was particularly successful in adjusting for co...

"Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree

in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" provides the author with the means to create a biting critique of contemporary societal values. T...

Adam and Eve and Current Relevance

Bible, it is a common experience that they interpret it according to how they have been taught. For example, Barbara Brown Taylor ...

Diane Ravitch, Her Views on American Public Schools

countrys leading educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A ...

Economic Understanding in the 21st Century

even now leading to a resurgence in the popularity of Keynesian economics. In addition to this influence upon economic thought an...

Child Abuse Statistics

Child abuse can be either an act of commission or omission (Nester, 1998). It can take the form of physical abuse, emotional abus...

Film Violence is Not Necessary

on whether or not the title or plotline of the story focuses on violence. Some movies and television shows contain violent themes ...

Kurt Vonnegut's The Player Piano

and technological know-how. Because the production lines were very efficient and cranked out high-quality goods on a regular and p...

Modern Religion Evolution

have been formulated that propose how religious observance may have come about. One of the first theories proposed pertaining to ...