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Social Security System and Its Impacts

to restore security by those that had lost it as a result of changing lifestyles associated with their changing occupations. As f...

Charlemagne's Historical Importance

one of the most important legacies left by Charlemagne involved literacy. Hartman (2006) states that with his influence, "there wa...

Teachings of the Historical Jesus

are knowledgeable about one fact of Christianity that the Christian worshipper is not, there is limited historical facts to establ...

Disaster Planning and Response

The writer reviews the document “Dimensions of Crisis Impacts: Humanitarian Needs by 2015” and considers some of the potential pro...

Should a Nurse Assist in the Suicide of a Suffering Patient

looking at a potential scenario where a patient seeks the provision of narcotics with the intention of ending their life the nurse...

Corporate Environments and Action Learning

group of peers with some familiarity with the situation who are nevertheless consequentially detached from it) with concerns about...

Should Governments be Intervening in the Credit Crunch?

Federal Reserve in the US extended the normal lending period to 30 days at the same time as reducing the discount window interest ...

Osama bin Laden's Capture and Murder

Osama bin Laden's capture and demise are the focus of this paper consisting of 3 pages that assesses it as a covert action, consid...

How A Civil Action Demonstrates a Need for Social Action

1998, p. 67). The case is not anything new. It is based on a true situation and there are other cases of cancer clusters being tie...

Performance Assessment within the National Health Service (NHS)

performance assessments from a legal perspective, a professional perspective and an ethical perspective. 2. Performance Assessment...

Making Action Plans or the McGill Action Planning System (MAPS)

Canada. It was named for the university where it was developed, McGill. Initially, the system was intended to be used as a part of...

Educational History and Women

colleges and institutes of education. "But it would take time" (Anonymous The Education of Women, 1998; women.html). In the follow...

Analyzing Historia Calamitatum by Abelard

same time, the importance of this identification should not be overestimated; his life experiences are not limited to the expected...

Placing a Historical Value on 'The Iliad' by Homer

be regarded as a historical document. There is very little certain about the poem itself or its author, who was supposedly a blin...

Relationship Between Israel and Pakistan

In ten pages this paper examines Israel's relationship with Pakistan from a historical perspective. Six sources are cited in the ...

Canadian Aboriginal Women

Aboriginal societies. Aboriginal people were first directed away from hunting into the economic order of the fur trade society. Gr...

Taiwan's Global Position

In six pages this paper discusses Taiwan in an assessment of whether or not it should belong to the Peoples Republic of China from...

U.S. Antitrust Laws and the Suit Against Microsoft

appeared to be only to benefit Netscape while taking business away from Microsoft. In asking for specific changes to the new Wind...

Middle East's Improbable Quest for Peace

format which is easily digestible even to those readers to whom the Middle East has previously been a baffling incongruity of valu...

Perspectives on Universality

(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...

Edward Saidian Perspective of The Chan's Great Continent by Jonathan D. Spence

authentic reports of Chinese culture. As it turns out, however, Polos accounts are marred with self-aggrandizing elements that cl...

Civil War General George B. McClellan

the War Between the States broke out, he rejoined the army, with the highlight being that he was given the command of Union Troops...

The Clown by Boll Heinrich

he recalls when his mother stole a piece of ham just so she could feel it to her family. In another example, he recalls when his ...

Campaign 2000 Issues

In nine pages this paper examines the U.S. election process in a consideration of presidential campaign strategies and issues from...

Life in the Medieval Era

1431) and Jean Foissart ( c 1330 - c1404). Yet we will see different pictures of the same society from their point of view as we ...

Ireland's Women's Suffrage Movement

In ten pages this paper examines Irish women's suffrage movement from an historical perspective and includes strategies and major ...

History of Vocational Youth Organizations

In nine pages this paper examines vocational youth organizations from an historical perspective with criminal offender retraining ...

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five from a Historical Context

In seven pages this 1968 novel by Kurt Vonnegut is examined from an historical perspective. Six sources are cited in the bibliogr...

The World War II German Achievements of Admiral Karl Donitz

In six pages the German U-boat leader that eventually replaced Adolf Hitler as head of state is discussed not only in an historica...

Southern Religion and Women

This paper considers Southern women's religious involvement in fourteen pages froman historical perspective. Six sources are cite...