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The History of Fishing at Douglas Lake

Douglas Lake is nestled well into the foothills of the Smokies, with public access areas in some of the most attractive places aro...

Gang Prevention Programs in Schools and an Article Review of 'How Great is G.R.E.A.T. (Gang resistance education and training)?'

that empower adolescents with the ability to resist peer pressure to join gangs". It does so in an approach that encourages behav...

Congenital Heart Disorder TGA

time and more than 90% would pass away before their first birthday without treatment (1996). Clearly, if nothing is done, chances ...

Emily Bronte and F. Scott Fitzgerald

about, while assessing the characters he meets. In this respect both narrators must take into consideration the past lives of the ...

20th Century United States and Social Welfare

those who want to help the poor, such as in the 1930s. There was relatively little opposition to Roosevelts New Deal because times...

How Space is Viewed in Citizen Kane

had he not become wealthy and an ambitious businessman. This is evidenced by his statement ""You know, Mr. Bernstein, if ...

Great Depression's Causes

standard was a system where the different currencies were linked not to each other, but to the price of gold. For example, at one ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and the American Dream

we are offered the changing nature of that American Dream as it turned to something far more materialistic and powerful in a capit...

Continued Relevance of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eyes of others. T...

Past and Jay Gatsby

the foundation of the past that Jay will always try to defy. In essence, as he grows he tries to make money, become powerful, and ...

Illness

During this time in history there was a very powerful sense of faith in the people and in the institutions. The institutions of fa...

Human Behavior According to Freud and Nietzsche

is something that is not synonymous with love. At the same time, the sexual system is more than just something that involves a man...

The Parthenon and the Great Pyramid of Giza

Parthenon. Regardless, it still serves as a powerful example of ancient architecture. With that in mind, the following paper exami...

Augustus, Alexander, Pericles and Western Civilization

excellent sense of humor" that made him popular with his troops (Syvertsen). His values and character, and his rapid conquest of m...

Capitalism: The Views of Marx and Weber

instinct (Marx as cited in Tucker, 1978). Here, the point of alienation is emphasized. The drive which is within man is truly rema...

The Great Chicago Fire

been very well off. At the same time, it seems that there was a lot of money in the area. After all, there had been private mansio...

The Global Warming Debate

unfreezes and temperatures climb. Alaska appears to be on a direct and damaging collision course with time, inasmuch as its entir...

Christopher Hitchens: “God is Not Great”

it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerou...

Winston Churchill

then leaving this party to belong to the Liberal Party, "which, he believed, better represented his economic views on free trade. ...

Point of View: Atwood and Ford

her youth she experienced the suicide of a friend in the woods while camping. The body was never found and this woman, Lois, was n...

Great Entrepreneurs: Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, Oprah Winfrey, and Sir Richard Branson

one of the more notable entrepreneurs whose work spanned the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Whitney is most rem...

Exploring Textual Sources of “The Arabian Nights”

It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...

Turning Points

pride and sense that he must be completely honest, telling her that he has these feelings in spite of knowing she is inferior to h...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Franklin, Emerson and Whitman

means, in turn, there "are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment. Hence they generally study Oratory,...

Evolution of the Nation

In addition, "[M]ost of the major railroads failed" (Panic of 1873, 2005). While the public tended to blame the government, the c...

The Eyes of Dr. Eckleburg

no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...

Whistleblowing's Effect on Ethical Organizational Behavior

in order to accomplish a number of goals, both those of the organization and those of individual participants" (p. 44). According...

Thoreau/Importance of Wilderness

requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...

The Great Depression

a continuing source of weakness" the true brunt of agricultures influence came with the Great Dust bowl and all the devastating re...