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Influences on Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”

what was to come" (Furlong, 2003). Bruenning was a member of the "banned Proletarian Revolutionary Writers Union at the time, and ...

Expected Value, Decision Trees, Break Even Analysis and Waiting Line Theory

alternatives in a decision making process" (PC Mag, 2008). A decision tree is therefore a tool which will help with the process of...

Fadiman/Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

with their prescribed regimen for controlling the childs epilepsy (Simon, 2003). They became so frustrated that they brought charg...

Carles: “A Life of Her Own”

her father was scheduled to go and get a bull from the commune, and because the bull was vital to the village, he went on with his...

Critical Analysis of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

slave Tom to the sadistic and unscrupulous plantation owner Simon Legree. While the slave Tom is Christ-like and the epitome of g...

Oliver Sacks—An Anthropologist on Mars

totally impossible for a normally sighted person. When offered the chance to possibly have his color vision restored, he turned it...

Changing a Personal Behavior

friend or family member in order to make this identification. It has been noted frequently in empirical literature that there ha...

Historical Society Of Pennsylvania: Review

once considered the status quo where Society operation was concerned is now an entirely different animal. No longer are simple, d...

"Around the World in 80 Days" as a Guide to 19th Century Globalization

a deck steward on a tramp steamer. The film points out quite nicely the fact that the book really is a travelogue, with each episo...

Zimmerman: "Whose America?"

so, they failed to follow up on the result of following that doctrine, which was the extermination of Native Americans by whites a...

Literature Review Table/Diet & Exercise

is representative of interactive nursing models (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003, p. 22). Henderson viewed the mind and body as one en...

Strategic Communications at Starbucks

Starbucks mission statement is concise yet provides a "plumb line" against which to measure decisions. The statement reads, Estab...

Review of "Outcomes of Therapeutic Massage for Hospitalized Cancer Patients"

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

The Financial Implications of Undertaking Ecommerce

however, it may also be slightly limiting as the internet may not be the only medium open to e-commerce. The level of trade has b...

Arguing against Klein's No Logo

factory workers at the "Kaho Indah Citra garment factory on the outskirts of Jakarta" (Klein xvii), where the workers make the equ...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

Review of "African American Mothers' Views of Their Infants' Language Development and Language-Learning Environment"

of expecting there to be great differences between cultures within the US as well. The authors use sources from the 1970s and 198...

A Literature Review Study on ADHD

In the absence of a physical test, an ADHD diagnosis is completely subjective and based on the opinion of the individual making th...

A Review of The Rocking Horse Winner

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

Spinal Tuberculosis Management and Prevention Literature Review

is actually a form of tuberculosis. The story of Alexander Pope is just an anecdote and by no means signifies its origin. Skeleton...

Comparing the Text of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood with the 2005 Film Capote

the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...

Podcasting Article Review

built in, with the argument that it is a new technology and teacher will need to be taught how to use it and that associated techn...

Turning Point for James McBride, Within the Color of Water

This 5 page paper gives an explanation of a part of the book The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. This p...

Diane Levin's Teaching Young Children in Violent Times

and to feel safe" (Corby). After addressing the impact of violence on children, Levin describes how to build a peaceful classroo...

Thirteen Articles on Scheduling in High School Reviewed

science, block scheduling appears to have a moderate negative impact on academic performance" (p. 32). All investigators research...

Review of John Toole's Novel

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the novel by John Toole called A Confederacy of Dunces. This paper includes an examination ...

A Review of Decisions Without Blinders

propensity for heart attack and stroke. Data revealing the potential hazards of Vioxx was by all accounts easily available to doc...

Henry Petroski's The Pencil

Petroski notes this absence of information in Thoreaus list to point out how common pencils were, how they are often taken for gra...

Speaking in Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

and essentially doing what no other human could, or would, do. Charlotte was also a child and as a child could perceive and acce...

An Article on Childbirth and Nursing Presence Reviewed

for the birth" (MacKinnon, McIntyre and Quance, 2005, p. 29). As this suggests, intrapartum nurses spend the most time with labor...