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Comparing Achilles and Odysseus

Odysseus was renowned for both his brain and his brawn. He was also had bravery, and competence at his skills. Odysseus was an a...

Homer's 'The Iliad' Summarized

mother, a goddess, to make pleas to Zeus to ensure that Agamemnon will fail in all battles as long as Achilles is not fighting wit...

Compare: Iliad and the Aeneid

that they escaped due to their bravery. Then they both go on to say that there will come a time when they will look back on these ...

Technology and Culture: The Electronic Media and Our Children

accounts of child abductions, rapes, and murders practically every day. We are kept up-to-date on the violence in Iraq and that u...

The Violent Gene

easy explanation for the existence of violent individuals, just as there seems to be an apparently easy explanation for homosexual...

Do Violent Video Games Encourage Violence Among Children

This paper reviews author Scott Shackford's defense of violent video games as published in the article Imaginary Guns Don't Kill P...

Industrialized Nations, Violent Crime, and High US Violent Crime Rates

that the determinants of violence are socio-economic and cultural factors rather than the availability of any particular deadly in...

Are Criminals Made Or Born?

the head, cheekbones and jaws which were enlarged, lips that protruded and abnormal teeth along with dark skin (Jones, 2006; Willi...

Creation of Violent Criminals

unseasoned violent offenders" to gather data (Athens 23). From this data, Athens formulated an experiential process that he argue...

Changing Behavior

This essay explains what classical and operant conditioning are. It discusses how politicians, moviemakers, and advertisers use cl...

Statistics on Crime One State vs National

a family member, and 5 percent were killed by a friend (National Crime Victims Rights Week Resource Guide, 2011)., Campus crimes ...

Abuse in Childhood, Abusers as Adults

raised in an atmosphere of domestic violence. When they see a parent beaten by the spouse, they accept this as normal and may cont...

Violent Video Games: Who Takes Responsibility

This 4 page paper gives an answer to the question of who is responsible for violent video games. This paper includes the Supreme C...

The Iliad's Cultural Values

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at a passage from The Iliad. The cultural values of war and honor inherent in the pass...

Maltreatment: Impact Upon A Child's Cognitive And Physical Development

to the childs mental composition. If left emotionally unattended, infants learn the opposite lessons required for living within a...

The Magnificent Seven Film and the Cowboy Mentality

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

Winning is the 'Only Thing' in Sports Mentality and Ethical Alternatives

In nine pages the concept of winning as it pertains to sports is examined in a discussion of goal accomplishment. Seven sources a...

Contemporary 'Gilded Age' as Represented by Donald Trump

In six pages this report considers how Donald Trump represents the tycoons and business mentality that characterized the nineteent...

Canadian Prairie Literature and Robert Kroetsch

In five pages this paper discusses the postmodernism and garrison mentality featured in the 'Seed Catalogue' poem by Robert Kroets...

Violence and How It is Glorified in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In eight pages this paper discusses the epic's glorification of violence in an analysis that also considers gender roles, human na...

Feudal China and Taoism

In eight pages this research paper examines the militaristic mentality that existed in feudal China and how Taoism was a peacefu...

Racism in Colonial America

Racism has been part and parcel of American society since its inception, and the colonial period featured racism in its most virul...

Cyberculture and Its Sociological Ramifications

In ten pages this paper examines the mutual changes resulting from the relationship between society and Internet technology in a c...

Effects of Mass Society Theory

In five pages this paper examines the sociocultural effects of a mass society mentality with suggestions for a new system presente...

Islamic Terrorism In The World: Policy Analysis

The Islamic Jihad formed as a means by which to right the wrongs of government intervention. In the quest to separate what its me...

Divorce: Effects On Families

extends far beyond the boundaries of the mother and father. Whether it is because children hold back their feelings as a means by...

Analysis of The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer

rationalization. In a similar manner, for Ritzer, the fast food restaurant is the paradigm of McDonaldization. In both cases, ther...

Baseball Being Ruined by Steroids

national pastime" (Small, 2005, 6). National pastime or not, however, baseball is no less susceptible...

Gender Dynamics and its Changes to the Workplace

brain is more important than brawn, the mentality of both men and women is hard-wired all the way back to our hunter-gatherer/agra...

'Live and Let Live' and Stephen Carter's Etiquette of Democracy

social theorists for over a century. Perhaps one of the best approaches to addressing the concept of democracy, though, came not ...