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Potomac River and Chesapeake River Basin Cleanup

in the oyster beds, but the Potomac is a Virginia tourist attraction. Therefore, it is helping to foot the environmental bill to t...

The Situation Comedy from the 1950s through the Present

would be addressed. Todays comedies are less stereotypical and generally contain a message. Douglass explains that the "succes...

New Advantages for Public Service Employees

services are also contracted, again with high turnover rates. In this environment, there is a need to find the biggest and...

Med/Surg Leader, An Interview

embarrassment in front of others, withheld pay increases, and termination" (Marriner-Tomey, 2004, p. 118). While conferring reward...

Christianity, Social Tolerance & Homosexuality

society, actually many shifts, that led to the current attitudes held by Christians today. For example, there was a time when peop...

Human Kind's Place In The Universe And How The Nature Of Drama Changes In "Tartuffe"

between tragic drama and comedic drama that had heretofore not been portrayed through theatrical productions. Indeed, tragedy con...

Q&A: SOCIAL READJUSTMENT RATING SCALE

have noted are common stressful, as they require people to make major psychological adjustments in their thinking and emotions to ...

Beckett's "Endgame" - Theatrical Passage

as audience members question the correctness of snickering at something so obviously bleak. Still, they are hard pressed to avoid...

The Mass Media and Democracy

notion that others are superior to them, and that politicians know what they are doing. Then, the general public does not care abo...

Using Facebook

(We Need to Have Sex in Widener Before We Graduate)" to downright weird (Hass). Some administrators and professors are delighted...

Are Unions Still Relevant in the United States?

involving health care would commence during the 1960s (Mankiller, Mink, Navarro, Smith & Steinem, 1998). At each turn, there ...

The Recording Ban and Other Issues in Music History

advances in technology, new concerns arise. Again, the concept of downloading music has been discussed. But the issues that face t...

Gender, Identity and Communication

intuitive sense of a subject, but keep it to himself for fear of being made to feel "girly"-intuition is after all supposedly conf...

American Children and Obesity

In this six page essay, the writer explores the growing issue of childhood obesity and offers behavioral solutions to this epidemi...

Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions; The Case of Santander and Abbey National

after the acquisition of Abbey National (Harwood, 2005). Santander is a Spanish bank, was performing well in its own marke...

Evolution of Social Welfare Policy in the United States

insurance approach to public welfare" (Historical development). That is, these public programs would "ensure that protection was a...

Using Video Conferencing in Business

Choices McKenzie (2005) reports on such software offerings as it respects video conferencing. Several products mentioned or revi...

Russian Masculinity

(Ashwin and Lytkina, 2004). Russian mens status as the family breadwinner has thus been undermined. Like Willy Loman in "Death o...

“Relinquish All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here”

the Dark Ages, 2005). Most of the learning that took place was dedicated to organizing knowledge about the past; there was no atte...

Death Penalty Debate

justice seems to supercede mercy (Budziszewski 39). This author, who is a Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University...

Twelfth Night and Themes of Romantic Love and Friendship

William Shakespeare's comedy is analyzed in terms of how the relationships of Olivia and Orsino, Cesario/Viola and Orsino, and Ces...

Broadcasts and Revenue

This essay explores the issues of profit related to mass media. Like any industry, these corporations must earn a profit to stay i...

Significance of Vernacular in "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer and "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

Comedy." His Italian allegory depicts the Christian hereafter that is subdivided into cantos of Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purga...

Hispanics and Racial Profiling

(Callahan and Anderson 36). They proceed to dismantle his car, looking in the side panels for drugs. The ostensible reason for the...

The Vaccine Debate

for their children, there are older diseases cropping up again. There have been whopping cough outbreaks for example in pockets of...

Overview of America's Juvenile Court System

serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...

International Trade Increases and Oil Price Impacts

and as such this theory was built upon and developed by theorists such as Ricardo, which helps to explain, to a greater extent, wh...

Ethical Issues in Globalization

in the U.S. overall, many industry segments are in decline, which we saw this week with the bankruptcy of General Motors (Ethical ...

Questions and Answers in Social Science

be changed by the individual who takes on a role and this is a positive aspect of roles. There are effects or consequences attache...

The Conflict Over Motorcycle Helmet Laws

Addicts steal and wreak havoc on the family. Treatment for addiction is very costly. It makes sense to have a law against it. Ther...