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Japan, National Goals/1868-1890 & 1890-1912

63). Through incremental decrees, the Meiji government moved toward creating a highly centralized, bureaucratic government. Duri...

Family in Med/Surg Nursing

relationship or marriage (Darling, 2005). For example, a homosexual man suffering from HIV-related illness and receiving the inten...

The Real Reason for Sexual Restriction in Society Today

large part of the reason why victimless sexual practices are considered negative have to do with social factors. Societies include...

Society through the Lens of John Landis’s “Trading Places”

the streets? Will Valentine disgrace himself in the commodities market? Since this is a comedy, we know the answer to both questio...

Unionization in America

stage for the emergence of unions. The workers were treated poorly and not paid fairly. Other problems would become apparent such ...

Fashion and Society

to accomplish. We may get the details wrong, but in the main they are trying to fit in. Fashion "is just dripping with meaning,"...

Juvenile Gang Activity

While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...

Should Anabolic Steroids Be Used in the Military?

in recent years. While most of the answers to the query included suspicions, such as the idea that perhaps the journalist is real...

Sexuality, Society and Slavery

move if her husband is transferred; that she will even be willing to give up her career entirely if doing so is better for him. Th...

UNINTENTIONAL RACISM

Stuart Taylor Jr. (2006) points out in a commentary that law firms are trying to embrace diversity by using "large" hiring prefere...

Pompey the Great

the Great in appearance. He was remembered as a popular young man and as someone who seized a cause and pursued it relentlessly. ...

Imagery in Aguilar’s Luminous Cities

about Aguilars work, one author notes the following in relationship to intertextuality: "The concept of intertexuality thus dramat...

Gender Stereotypes from Infancy

author notes interestingly, though not surprisingly, that 90% of the people who buy greeting cards are women. That, right there, i...

Building Utopia

i.e., stagnation; and progressivism, while its "strong on method" is unsure "what they should be educating for" (How to create Uto...

Creating a Utopia

and wind power almost exclusively, with the result that the environment is recovering. There are a lot of people walking, riding b...

Scott R. Sanders, The Common Life

ties to his community. Examination of Sanders points show that individualism is not the problem. Sanders begins his essay by des...

Romance, Desire and Social Norms

than she is now, so her meekness is both infuriating and false. Then we have the prince, who falls in love with her at the ball ...

Critique on the Variations of the Rapunzel Folk/Fairy Tale

Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structur...

Argument: Carrying Concealed Firearms Helps Society

violent crime. They also state plainly that carrying concealed handguns has its "greatest deterrent effect in the highest crime co...

Koran, Bible on Women

and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...

Beatrice C. Mosionier/In Search of April Raintree

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

Cote d’Ivoire’s Postcolonial Cultural and Political Changes:

to protest a pro-French plantation owner policy, and on the strength of his growing popularity at the grass roots level was electe...

Jerry Mander/The Indian Worldview

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

Romance and Desire

is now, so her meekness is both infuriating and false. Then we have the prince, who falls in love with her at the ball because s...

A Reading of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...

The Healing Properties of Native American Tradition

individuals, individuals who arrived from that continent we refer to as the "Old World". The precise determination of exactly who...

Ismene as the Foil in Sophocles’ Tragedy Antigone

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

German Philosophy: Family, Society and Government

family, and how the state gets into the picture. II. German Political Theory When it comes to German political theory, there...

Democracy and The Role of the Citizen

2006). Hudson (2006) acknowledges that he used to support the idea of removing barriers to increase voter turnout, but notes that...

Islamic Integration in the West: Cultural and Political Barriers

material gain and technological advancement, while Islam is typified as highly traditional and driven by moral values rooted in an...