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The Transformation of China in Modern Times

for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is to improve upon what has existed in the past. The...

Spiritual Perspectives of Native American Author N. Scott Momaday

the world tend to be heavily influenced by their methods of acquiring food, whether by hunting wild animals or by agriculture. Nat...

Knowledge Analysis by David Hume

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

Social Construction or Cognitive Development in the Relationship Between Emotion and Language

is a complex one and not one in which all researchers are in agreement. This question is central, however, to understanding of ho...

Aviation Inspection, Maintenance, and Human Factors

The manual was incomplete in that, when the locking pins were extended to lock the door, there was no positive check to indicate w...

Scholarly Opinion on John 21, Verses 15 through 18

Jesus disciples, literally as pastor (i.e., shepherd) alongside the enigmatic Beloved Disciple." 1 However, in expressing the mea...

Fourth Book of John Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' Lines 32 to 113

better understanding of what is going on, and we gain a more in-depth understanding of who Satan is and what the entire struggle i...

'Weary Blues' by Langston Hughes

Hughes indicates the basic characteristics of the music that a black man plays at a piano. The alliteration between "droning" and...

Burka and Yuen Procrastination

(Burka and Yuen 3). The difference between the two scenarios is the cause of serious problems as addressed in their first chapter ...

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

true in the modern non-fictional Palestinian reality, survival as individuals and as a culture is the primary goal of Khalifehs fi...

Prospero Character Analysis in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...

Young Teens, Education in Schools, and AIDS

ignorant, uneducated attitudes. The social, political, economical, cultural and religious activities experienced in everyda...

Character of Melanie in Alfred Hitchcock's Film The Birds

Mitch, a man completely under the control of his mother. But, we really do not necessarily believe that Melanie wants this man. Sh...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

Skepticism Philosophy

(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...

Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld and the 'Productive Thinking' of Max Wertheimer

limitations. The law of pragnanz, which asserts that man is "innately driven to experience things in as good a gestalt as possibl...

History and Ecology of the Chimpanzee

hominids" (Anonymous, 2002). Chimpanzee hunting ecology is intermingled with their history as a species, in that their inherent a...

World History, Religions, Psychology

readers would be going backward and forward in terms of years. however, it is the concept and theme of civilizations that is prima...

Paranoia and Schizophrenia

p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...

British National Cinema in the 1980's

identity in relation to the various products of the national and international film and television industries, and the conditions ...

Motivation for the Purchase of Cosmetic Surgery

are extremely important. The purchase of plastic surgery is undertaken by men and women, but the main target market remains women...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Culturally Sensitive Nursing

basic knowledge of other cultures in Leiningers theory are: culture is about norms and values within a specific group and that are...

Psychoanalytic Theory

ego as an entity unable to maintain control over itself; social and individual psychology are one and the same; organizations are ...

Perspectives on Jihad

(Schuett, 2006). This is the definition that seems to be in widespread use today, as people define jihad as a struggle between Mus...

Sharing Grief

did you wonder about your stepfather being alive or dead? What you write may resemble the following: I was considered too young to...

Piaget, Vygotsky, Skinner and Their Developmental Theories

all objects with the same shape together regardless of their color (Atherton, 2005). The third stage is the "concrete operational...

Aimes Electrical and Supply Case Study

where the firm operates it has an 8% share of the market and seeks to differentiate itself with the level of customer service prov...

Starbuck's; What Can They Learn From Other Companies?

egg shells along with cappuccino. The company faced problems as the core products remains and the identity of McDonalds was firmly...

Primary Crime Data Sources: Compare/Contrast

rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...