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Lance Armstrong and the notion 'Its Not About the Bike'

on Armstrongs body but the real heroics are attributable to the man and to the body itself! Armstrong was diagnosed with te...

Questions That Do Not Have Answers

with any of the six definitions could mean a decision to change patterns of behavior (or not to change them); in either case it mi...

Events and Key Players of the American Revolution

colonists from making their own money. The Stamp Act placed taxation on almost all paper product goods: "all printed materials are...

Unique Spirit of California

diverse. It is important to note that California, at the time the gold rush started, was not a state. Like many other territories ...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on the Body and Mind

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

Environmental Problems in the United States and Possible Solutions

the lakes is predicted to fall by as much as eight feet due to the increased temperature, "with serious implications for ecosystem...

Knowing Truth That Has Not Been Proven

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

3 Non US Newspapers Reflect American Foreign Policy

differences in the two accounts is that The Globe and Mails version states, "Mr. Hussein was allowed to write a note to his family...

Analysis of Incurred but Not Reported

payment has yet to be received. Given this, IBNR can end up being a problem for hospitals and/or health care organizations...

View of Grandfather's House Overlooking the North Carolina Great Smoky Mountains

too steep and rocky to be of any value for farming. The soil is thin on the steep hillsides; rains wash the rich, fertile topsoil...

Immigration to Nineteenth Century America in 'The First Great Wave'

of the time were the primary motivators for virtually all of the immigrants to the United States. The example of the Irish serves ...

Great Britain During the Victorian Age and the Roles of Women

police and the criminal justice system as well as voluntary workers and professional helpers (van Dijk, 2002). Prior to 1970, v...

British Women During the Victorian Era

The angel required Woolf to participate in her writing only within boundaries, and without stepping passed cultural limitations. ...

We Shall Not Be Moved by Robert Pratt

not received with the kind of welcome that most universities would convey to a white student; Wards status as an African American ...

Twentieth Century Leisure and Social Change in Great Britain

agriculture is a priority and employment patterns are dependent upon it, leisure is not only constrained by the amount of "spare t...

Demeter and the Great Mother Archetype

was mandated that she should be returned to Hades for three months of the year. While Persephone is in the underworld, the natural...

History and Financial Performance of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.

2004). Operations also take place with the core brand name of A & P, in Canada operations take place under the name Dominion In Mi...

Same Sex Marriages Should Not Be Allowed

decision to allow gay marriages, a new Pew Center poll shows 59 percent of Americans oppose such marriages, thats up from 55 perce...

Social Standing as a Barrier to True Love

of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...

Definitive US 1828 Tariff

American industry as prices rose and the British began making noises about getting cotton from other markets. Success had come at...

Kosovo and Whether or Not the Conflict Could Have Been Avoided

Yet certain things need to be kept in mind before we can go ahead and support the blanket statement we made above. First,...

Great Britain and Nazism in Remains of the Day

were emphatically not members of the aristocracy that it was almost impossible for them to transcend their conditioning and upbrin...

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

Maya Angelou's Sister Flowers

a very well to do family. She attempts to foster a love of beauty and words to the narrator. In order to do this she encourages th...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and its Social Criticism

Meckier 1993). This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of his other novels. In most of his stories, o...

Women's Opportunities in Great Britain During and After World War II

woman suffrage committee was formed in Manchester in 1865, and in 1867 Mill presented to Parliament this societys petition, which ...

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...

Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and the Title's Meaning

the beginning she has no doubts about the importance or the validity of such faith. And, in all honesty, there is something to thi...

Richard T. LaPiere and 'Not Practicing What You Preach'

basis of the importance of measuring attitude when it comes to society and how people in it behave toward one another (Ellwood, 18...

New Deal of FDR and its Importance

done created a stellar U.S. economy and a great deal of productivity. Of course, many of the measures were meant as temporary fixe...