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Competing Visions of Thomas Morton and William Bradford in 'The May Pole of Merry Mount' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...

Mystery Sonata in G Minor by Bach

J.S. Bach, such as pulsating basses and galant-sounding melodic lines (Baxendale, 2001). This has caused one critic to assert that...

An Overview of American Sign Language

In 1994, estimates suggest that upwards of 500,000 deaf Americans incorporated ASL into their daily communications, while many oth...

2000 U.S. Presidential Election and the Electoral College

are serious questions in a very serious political situation - we are talking about the President of the United States, still refer...

Stem Cell Research and Cloning Issues

puts it as three to five times more significant than pain felt at a later stage of development (Strickler). From twenty weeks on, ...

The Passion of the Christ Film by Mel Gibson

film Braveheart is noted for its bloody battle sequences (Brackman, 2004). While The Passion is based on the Gospel of John, Brac...

Common Agricultural Policy and its Significance

commitment to guaranteed prices it is economically worthwhile to take all the land and utilize it; with chemicals and other aids, ...

Zimbabwe as a Good Choice for the Australian Cricket Team

players also feel uncomfortable playing in a country where the people are so unhappy, but these other players decided to go along ...

A John and Joan Case Ethical Analysis

into a girl had been followed by intensive social, hormonal and mental conditioning (54). This was the first case of sex reassig...

Sweatshops

world. Soon after the turn of the century, and after the Triangle Factory fire, a lot has been done to assure that safe conditions...

Elements That Make Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ a Movie Worth Viewing

of a horror film, and the crucifixion of Jesus is without question one of the most horrific episodes in world history. There are ...

Overview of the Debate on 'Gay' Marriage

legal definitions of marriage exclude same-sex marriage but reveal little about what constitutes "marriage" other than as an insti...

H and M and Karl Lagerfeld

However when we look at what it is Karl Lagerfeld is trying to promote, it is not only the clothes and his desire to...

An Article Review on HIV/AIDS

virus they can be treated with new medications. The facts regarding HIV and AIDS are unfortunately much more disturbing. First, ...

Jefferson's Relationship with Sally Hemmings

times of conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or...

Life and Contributions of Sir Isaac Newton

(Hall, 1999). * Insistence on the experimental basis of true science (Hall, 1999). His major works: * Philosophiae naturalis pri...

Standardized Testing Advantages

scores continued to decline, which caused politicians to decide that the US required national standards that included measures of...

Conventional Theology and The Passion of the Christ Film by Mel Gibson

slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ, Who hit you?" All Gospel accounts agree that Jesus was brutalized at this point, bu...

Voting and Legal Immigrants

as recently as the 1920s" (Worth, 2004). And, interestingly enough, until the city of New York abolished its school boards, "all r...

Issues Investigation and Genetic Engineering

1990 the U.S.D.A. had approved almost one-hundred test plantings of genetically altered crops (Nash, 1990). It has been a slow pro...

Social Change and the U.S. Supreme Court

specific aspect from being overlooked. However, all the people do not adopt this perspective, inasmuch as Ginsburg has a certain ...

Alexandria and Antioch Exegeses

discover which hermeneutical key to open each door (Blowers, 2004). Alexandria was based on a soteriological theology, which mean...

Smoking Issues in 1999

last ten years. As the view that smoking is a voluntarily assumed health risk has declined, the political and social environment h...

Abortion Yes No or Maybe

The topic of abortion never fails to be surrounded by controversy. Most think that this is...

Should the U.S. Officially Speak English?

there have been a number of attempts to pass a Constitutional amendment making English the official language of the United States....

Global Warming Real or Imagined?

The concept of global warming has been controversial ever since it was first broached in the 1970s. This is not surprising...

Health Insurance Costs - A Nuanced View

purchase health insurance at the same cost as those without such conditions? Why or why not? The question of whether or not indi...

Napoleon's Exile

his military career.2 Presiding over a Grand Army of more than a half-million soldiers, the largest ever assembled to date, Napol...

English Unemployment in the 1930s

The concepts of unemployment and unemployment insurance have been controversial regardless of the temporal and geographic setting....

Crimes By Corporations and Their Relative Significance in the U.S.

one of her many incarcerations, who said he had stolen a loaf of bread, "You should have stolen a railroad. They would have made y...