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Contemporary Technology and Its Influence

video conferencing, mass media, knowledge-based systems and interactive multimedia. "The coming decades will see the rise of mult...

Bacon and Plato - An Analysis

In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at classical texts by Francis Bacon and Plato. The allegory of the cave and the fou...

Effects of Colonization on South Africa

This research paper presents a short history of colonialism in South Africa. The writer focuses on slavery as a primary effect of ...

Weakened Human Interaction and Technology

This paper discusses the views of Anna Akbari and Andrew Sullivan pertaining to the issue of how technology has altered the nature...

Democratic Governance and Maintaining Morality

This research paper/essay presents an argument that maintains that it is necessary to go beyond a perspective that focuses solely ...

Historic and Contemporary Prejudice Against Native Americans

This 5 page paper discusses how mainstream white culture has treated Native Americans as inferiors throughout much of our country'...

Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

Public Administration, Reflection

This essay helps a student in commenting on a quote from public administration textbook that pertains to the contemporary state of...

Questions on Media, Power and Culture

This research paper covers a variety of topics that pertain to media in contemporary culture. Topics include social media, the Hol...

Roman Government

This paper considers the need for evolution in Rome’s government. Caesar Augustus was particularly successful in adjusting for co...

"Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree

in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" provides the author with the means to create a biting critique of contemporary societal values. T...

Adam and Eve and Current Relevance

Bible, it is a common experience that they interpret it according to how they have been taught. For example, Barbara Brown Taylor ...

Personal Growth and Ibsen's "A Doll's House"

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...

Reflection on The Ten Commandments

this theme forward, the next commandments lay the foundation for civilized society. The first of these social commandments is to...

Diane Ravitch, Her Views on American Public Schools

countrys leading educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A ...

Outsourcing and In-House Services - Contemporary IT Infrastructure

patents led to the establishment of Riordan Plastics, Inc. in 1991. At first, the company did no manufacturing, but only sought to...

Miller, Hawthorne, and the Impacts of Public Morality

morality, through exploring how public morality encourages deceit and dishonesty, causes distress and trauma, and ultimately destr...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet = Production Effectiveness

decision to transform a personal tale of forbidden love into a social commentary on increasing teen violence and decreasing morali...

Politics and Ethics - A Philosophical Overview

to explore the views of human nature of Plato and other thinkers, as well as how these views were expressed in governmental form. ...

Our Imperiled Environment Our Imperiled Future

Global health is dependent on the decisions we have made in the past and on...

Representations of Taiwan

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

Racism in Contemporary America

lives of two young people, an Asian American, Seung-Hui Cho, and Kekoa, a Native Hawaiian. Both of these young men faced pervasive...

Pebley and Sastry/Page Summary

functions as after-school program, child-care services, and so forth. Income also impacts this factor in that, as low income famil...

What Can History Teach Us About Terrorism?

Terrorism has wielded an impact in world affairs since the beginning of history. While there are important distinctions...

Modern Day Slavery

Human trafficking is often thought of as one of the more abhorrent reflections of world history. At the most, we reason, human tr...

Contemporary Slavery/Impact of Slavery in U.S.

most commonly found form of modern slavery. In this form, individuals agree to use their capacity to perform work as a collateral ...

Determining the Legitimacy of Plea Arrangements

a residential apartment building in North Carolina to check on the welfare of a tenant at the building whom friends had not heard ...

Definition and Application of Postmodernism

of these schools of thought was sufficient, but that there could be the existence of the competing thoughts that create conflict ...

Inclusion in the Contemporary Literary Canon, Anton Chekhov

This research paper/essay provides an argument that Chekhov deserves his place in the literary canon, providing a brief overview o...

A Summary of the Research of Contemporary Scientists

In a paper of fifteen pages, the writer looks at the research of modern scientists. Many fields are covered, with examples of ongo...