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Passive Assets And Human Capital

our most important asset" has been around almost as long. If people really are assets, then maybe they should be treated like mac...

Henry Giroux/Dangerous Minds

academic as being relevant or meaningful to their lives (Giroux 46). The plot of this movie is obviously the story of a plucky, ca...

Daily Life in China by Jacques Gernet

In five pages this paper analyzes Gernet's text, which realistically presents the history of China and in so doing exposes the com...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

THE KOL NIDRE - AN EXPLANATION

they confess their sins only once a year, on what is called Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement. Jews are mandated to observe this...

Mason Weems' Fictional George Washington Text and the Actual Man

In four pages this paper examines how Mason Weems' fictional account of George Washington's life is responsible for many of the mi...

The Workplace and AIDS

problem is economics. He states: "Companies have so many other things on their table. They have profit margins to worry about, ...

Slave Live Stereotypes and Actual Realities

In five pages this paper considers the misconceptions associated with slavery as opposed to the actual slave life reality. Five s...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

Media Prophet and Renaissance Man Marshall McLuhan

In the introduction to McLuhans Understanding Media he writes: "Today, after more than a century of electric technology, we have e...

An Article Review on HIV/AIDS

virus they can be treated with new medications. The facts regarding HIV and AIDS are unfortunately much more disturbing. First, ...

What is Hypertext Fiction?

to culminate in a conclusion. The purpose here is to find that middle ground in complaints that hypertext allows writers to impar...

Reading Instruction and Phonics

in fact, taught to read using phonics. They just misassociate the term with some new social movement or some other great mystery ...

Heat and the Planet of Mercury

"planet" to the Sun! Indeed, the four so-called 51 Peg planets (those planets including 51 Peg, Tau Bootis, 55 Cancri, and Upsilo...

Thomas Sowell's Washington Times' Article 'Afrocentric Escapism'

of time: "navel gazing about roots while others are learning square roots, and contemplating chains...

Scientific Method Philosophy

in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...

U.S. vs. the Middle East Dictatorship Perceptions

this in mind, then, it is not surprising that there is such turmoil in that region. Interestingly enough, both democracy and dic...

Comparative Analysis of Stars and the Sun

In five pages this paper compares various stars to the most well known star, the sun of the Earth in a discussion of its proximity...

Overview of Domestic Abuse

In six pages domestic violence is examined in an overview that discusses the victimization of spouses and children along with vari...

Overview of Generation X

In seven pages Generation X is examined in terms of its misconceptions and discusses its uniqueness and beneficial aspects. Seven...

Critical Review of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

In five pages this paper critically analyzes Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and addresses the various misconceptions often associated w...

Women and Orgasm

orgasms or pleasure had been routinely ignored. For many years it was routinely believed that there was no biological reason for a...

Preschool Children and Explanations of Dying and Death

go to sleep (VanClay, 2004; Vernon, 2002). As LesStrang said: "Grandpa did not go on a long journey; he did not pass on; he is not...

Educational Value and Money

save D.C. schools from coming in dead last in educational results (Edmonds, 2002). Compared to other states, Mississippi is...

Disabled and Issues in Sexuality

Many people have misconceptions about individuals with disabilities and sexuality issues. This article corrects these fallacies an...

The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Feminism

the one of the "waves" of feminism in the twentieth century. The first wave of feminism is associated with the womens suffrage mov...

Senility and Aging

allowing the elderly to stay mentally alert is: "a sense of belonging and purpose"...

Positive Impact of Globalization

possible to make an international phone call or surf the Internet from a caf? in Shanghai, while sipping a cappuccino (Micklethwai...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

The History of California Native Americans Prior to 1900

of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...