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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Themes of Class and Racial Prejudice

and to happiness (Fitzgerald, 1995). The story that unfolds is actually quite sad. Jay is obsessed with recreating the p...

William Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic

be one of the social issues that Ross recognizes, but the ways in which corporations function in modern society are inherent to th...

William Gibson's Cyberfiction Novel Johnny Mnemonic

The new literary genre dubbed 'cyberfiction' is considered in a five page research paper that discusses how technology's complicat...

Analyzing Stigma by Irving Goffman

Quite obviously, the word stigma originates from roots which reveal the negativity associated with the word. To stigmatize someon...

Consciousness Shaped by Culture

to have pancakes for breakfast isnt exhibiting an instinctual response, but rather a cultural preference (A Baseline Definition of...

Street Corner Society Methodology Reviewed

and Social Structure and Social Mobility. The second part deals mainly with the social structure of racketeering; the racketeer in...

1820s' Appalachia Laws

without food or rest and equipped with rudimentary fighting equipment - set the stage for the mass movement toward America. Once ...

Care Order and English Family Law

In eleven pages English law is referred to in this case study of social services gaining a care order for the children ages two an...

Nora Helmer's Innocence in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

husband Torvald, belittle their women and define their mates based on their potential as a companion, housekeeper, and the ability...

Ar'n't I a Woman? and White and Enslaved Women

womanhood was physically weak and dependent on a man for support. African women, however, were judged to be strong enough to earn ...

Evaluating On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

Who Cares? by David Schwartz

of ordering the markers, with the "quality review office" determining "that all of these procedures are being performed as specifi...

Socrates and Callicles Dialogue

to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...

The Relationship Between Minority Immigrants and Poverty.

released a report entitled "Urban Poverty in Canada: A Statistical Profile". While this report covered a great many demographics r...

U.S. Citizenship Rights and Homelessness

that often blames the homeless persons as the reason they have landed in this situation -- can, for the most part, be blamed upon ...

The Third World, HIV, and AIDS

AIDS was first discovered in New York and California among homosexual males and intravenous drug users in 1980. It quickly became...

Society's Perceptions and Treatment of Transgendered Individuals

racism that has permeated society for centuries. When the student considers the extent to which Teena goes in order to live life ...

America and Obesity

2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new ch...

La Traviata Opera by Giuseppe Verdi

search of what she calls new delights, but she would soon realize that love was what gives life meaning (1998). One might think th...

Understanding Health - Two Approaches

Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...

Moral and Ethical Decisions in Business

(Himma, 2003). Throughout their lifetime, individuals are presented with moral dilemmas and situations in which they must make a ...

Comparative Analysis of Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope

of land in the area and with whom Pope considered his family belonged. When Robert, Lord Petre had cut off a lock of Arabella Ferm...

Cuban Culture

(University of Texas, 2002). Music and dances are lively but food is not particularly spicy (University of Texas, 2002). Many Cub...

Communism and Karl Marx

In four pages this paper examines historical materialism in this discussion of Karl Marx's perspective of communism and its diffic...

Identity and Class

and manual workers as a C2. Again this categorisation has attracted much criticism, and can be seen as a useful reference, but not...

Homelessness in NYC

("Modern," 2002). Modern mass homelessness had become dramatically worse in subsequent years, especially during the early-1980s r...

Criminal Justice System and Women's Needs

penal system. First, it should be noted that this topic is very important due to the increasing female population in prison syst...

Greek Tragedy Characteristics of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

Trumpet History

extra devices to alter pitch, and chromatic trumpets, which do have extra devices, such as valves, to modify pitch.4 Essentially, ...

Discussing Death, the Obligations of Living, and Cultural Variation

death as well. It is, after all, the family who is charged either directly or indirectly with putting the body to rest once the l...