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Genetic Diversity and the Origin of Life

According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...

Crime, Criminology Theory, and Delinquency

of behavior upon individual members of the group" (Bursik & Grasmick, 1995, p. 110). Thomas and Znaniecki also included the term ...

Marx and Durkheim and Their Theories of Religion

oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless condition. It is the opium of the peo...

Human Contact and 'Ozymandia' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

In five pages this paper presents a poetic analysis that compares its contents to human dependence in the contemporary world. The...

Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound' and William Blake's 'Marriage of Heaven and Hell'

is angry, for he looks out at the activities of the people of the world and does not like what he sees. He implies that we have co...

Religion, Society, and Emile Durkheim

play within its boundaries. As Goffman (no date) notes, it can be argued that Durkheim would contend that there is no viable reas...

Providing an End to 'The Triumph of Life' Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley

In six pages this paper discusses Shelley's poem that has no end in a proposal of a fitting conclusion for it. There are no other...

A Child Called 'It' by Dave Pelzer

In five pages this research paper examines Pelzer's account of his horrific childhood with an application of current theory on fam...

Comparing the Poetic Styles of William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley

A paper consisting of five pages compares and contrasts the Romantic poetic styles of Wordsworth's 'A Complaint' and Shelley's 'A ...

Economy, Market, and State According to Karl Marx and Thomas Hobbes

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares Marxist and Hobbesian theories regarding a market economy, the State, and society...

Analyzing Terrorism from Risk Society and Dramaturgial Perspectives

include sociological explanations, conflict theories, ideology explanations and medial theory explanations. In Erving Goffmans d...

Society and Religion

of the people" (Fay, 1996, p. 24). While Fays comment may ring true today, the truth is that at the time in...

Media and Hyper Reality According to Jean Baudrillard

In eleven pages this paper discusses the hyper reality theory of Jean Baudrillard in consideration of the media's creation and the...

Analyzing the Kiss Between Ally and Ling in the Television Series Ally McBeal

The kiss between female characters Ally and Ling is analyzed psychologically and socially in this paper consisting of eight pages ...

Network Society of Castells

In an analytical essay that consists of ten pages examines the 'Network Society' theories of Manuel Castells. Four sources are ci...

Mutual Aid A Factor of Evolution by Piotr Alekseyevich Kropotkin

In eight pages this report discusses the author's theories as represented in this text and how it serves to rebut 'The Struggle fo...

Poetry and Different Romantic Modes of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Lord Byron

In eight pages this research paper discusses the romantic modes featured by Shelley's 'Platonic love,' Keats' 'doctrine of art,' a...

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Human Nature and Society

This paper examines how the human concept of virtue and its pursuit influence human nature and society within the context of the t...

Visions of Utopia

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Charles Fourier's theories of a utopian society with those of H.G. Wells. The writer argu...

A Defense of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley

In five pages this research paper analyzes the arguments regarding poetry's value the Romantic poet makes including his observatio...

Looking at Society from 3 Sociological Perspectives

In five pages society is glimpsed from the perspectives of symbolic interactionism, conflict theory, and functionalism. Six sou...

The Argument for Community Policing

This research report examines the concept of community policing and argues that it should be implemented. Ideas about the beat cop...

Social Learning Theory in '8 Ball Chicks'

there is nothing else "but us" to provide protection, safety and survival for the girls who join gangs. Within those gangs, they ...

Increasing Problem of Violence in Schools

In twelve pages this paper discusses the problem of increased violence in schools in a consideration of theories and shared blame ...

Language and Its Influences on Society

In five pages this paper examines how society is influenced by language in a consideration of various theories. Ten sources are c...

Functionalist Ethnographic Application

In a paper consisting of five pages the functionalist theory of George Homan is applied to an abortion clinic ethnographic analysi...

'Mont Blanc' and 'Mutibility' Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Wordsworth

example, he paints a picture of fleeting beauty and dispair about both the frailty and temporary nature of life. He paints a pict...

Poetic Odes of Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats

outside of time, unlike human beings who cannot escape it. Keats ode is written in iambic pentameter, like a sonnet. However, it ...

Society and Politics of the French Speaking Portion of Africa

desires to assure those caught in both the ideological and the pragmatic, remained loyal to this new world and the similar rules, ...

Theories of Motivation and Leadership

and Mazur 823). Obviously, Stogdills "Great Man" theory was the foundation of what has become known as the charismatic leadership...