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Comprehensive Overview of America's Health Care System

family became very sick, required surgery, or even broke a bone. Medial bills of this sort have wiped people out and put them in b...

Tantrism and Tantric Tribes

In seven pages this research paper examines India's tantric tribes and considers tantrism's effects on Hinduism and Buddhism. Six...

Latin America's Neoliberalism, Informal Economic Sector, and Migration

In four pages this paper examines Latin American economies and countries in a consideration of 3 economic concepts. Three sources...

1990 to 1995 Conditions of America's Working Class

verses the tenth percentile had increased to over four times as much. The discrepancy for women increased as well, from 3.1 in 19...

The End of Affluence The Causes and Consequences of America's Economic Dilemma by Jeffrey Madrick

In five pages this 1995 economic text is examined. There is 1 source cited in the bibliography....

Analysis of Chinese Buddhism

In five pages the ways in which Buddhism traveled to China and became an integral component in its religious practices and as a ph...

Cultural Impact of Zen Buddhism

This paper examines Zen Buddhism in an overview of its East and West cultural significance in four pages. Five sources are cited ...

Meditation Value, Zen Buddhism, and Martin Heidegger

In nine pages this paper considers Zen Buddhism and Heidegger's teaching in a discussion of how meditation and its value relates t...

Kamakuran Period Art of Japan

In ten pages this paper discusses the style and development of Kamakuran Period art in a consideration of Buddhism, priests, spiri...

It is Time to Break Up America's Love Affair with Guns

In a paper consisting of twenty pages the right of America to own arms is examined from an historical perspective and the argument...

Early America's Many Divisions

This paper discusses the geographical, cultural, and political divisiveness that plagued early America and the importance of regio...

America's Schoolchildren and Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities

In five pages this paper discusses the argument the author makes within the context of inequities in U.S. public school funding. ...

Computers and Buddhism

In eight pages computers and their increasing role in Buddhism adherents' lives are examined in the expanded methods of worship, s...

America's Drug Trends Since 1980

related to the greater permissiveness of American society (after all, even President Clinton has been at least been handed a "join...

America's Nintendo Company

In two pages this paper examines U.S. Nintendo in a consideration of its website information that also includes a discussion of wh...

Comparing Americas' Slavery with Roman and Greek Slavery

This is a review consisting of twelve pages that compares and contrasts the institution of slavery in various times and societies ...

'Science' of Buddhism

(Rothberg, 1994). This makes it difficult to apply these terms to the Eastern concept of Buddhism. The fact that the usage of th...

19th Century America's Economic Developments

majorities in terms of the Senate and the intermittent control of the White House, change was not significant (2000). The desire t...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and America's Jazz Age

the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...

Analysis of America's Airlines

is a huge factor in terms of how well airlines will do on a profit (or lack thereof) basis. The problem here is that rising fuel c...

Comparisons Between Buddhism and Islam

number one, yet Islam doesnt characterize Allah in any type of human form (Zahid). Additionally, Islam doesnt recognize castes - a...

America's Involvement in the First World War

of Britain, France and Russia, US President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring American neutrality (Kennedy, 1991). Ho...

China and Buddhism

In seven pages the different forms of Buddhism practiced in China are examined in an historical overview and consideration of how ...

Contemporary Artist and the Influence of Eastern Philosophy

In five pages this paper examines how the Eastern philosophies of Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Keiji Nishitani, and Dogan can influence t...

Books on America's Racism Problems

In five pages this paper examines racism in America as it pertains to the Native Americans and the Japanese during the Second Worl...

America's Dominican Community in New York

New York's Dominican immigrant community is examined in five pages....

Westernization of Zen Buddhism

This paper examines how the Eastern precepts of Zen Buddhism have been impacted by Westernization in six pages. Five sources are ...

Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, and America's Roles in the Crisis of the Suez Canal

In twelve pages this paper considers the 1956 crisis involving the Suez Canal in an overview of its circumstances, the roles of th...

Reading Whybrow: America's Illness

Adam Smith and his ideas of economics. Smiths theory of economics "is firmly grounded in the biology of human behavior" (Whybrow)....

America's Most Serious Social Problem

the direction in which America is headed. What has gone wrong? The top Americans arent getting richer by accident; government pol...