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Popular Editorials and the Rhetoric That Drives Them

Post highlights what is ostensibly a growing problem in the United States: the rising prevalence of childhood obesity. In the firs...

The Transistor Conversation in Scholarly and Popular Media

the widespread interconnectivity in technology that has slowly developed over the first decade of the 21st century marks the begin...

How the Popular Game of Basketball Evolves as an International Sport

controlled, Naismith decided that teammates would move the ball by either passing it or bouncing it on the floor, but was uncertai...

Popular versus Electoral Votes in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election

In five pages this paper assesses the pros and cons of each in order to determine which should prevail in the U.S. presidential el...

Electoral Process v. Popular Vote

In twelve pages this paper examines the presidential elections of 1988 and 2000 in a consideration of how popular vote contrasts w...

Charismatic Leadership and the Mobilization of Popular Political Consent

In nine pages this paper discusses Max Weber's Economy and Society, Ann Ruth Wilner's The Spellbinders, Charismatic Political Lead...

The Bible, Koran, And Divine Comedy

the Bible - the Ten Commandments, the so-called Golden Rule, what civilized societies consider moral and immoral behaviors - all f...

Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception Book Four by Eoin Colfer Overview

assumed that both Haven City and the fairy universe are safe from Opal because she has been locked away in a psychiatric ward at J...

An Analysis of the Blakes Poems, Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience

be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...

Brian DePalma's 'Carrie' A Cinematic Analysis

would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

Negron-Muntaner/Barbie's Hair

if it was straightened, which is viewed as an "act of self-hatred or conformity" (Negron-Muntaner 45). Within this cultural framew...

Mergers; Texaco and Chevron

that competitive advantage to the newly formed merger or parent company. It is true that in the competitive market the newer compa...

Board Games During the Depression Era

(Game history, 2001). He began by "drawing squares on a piece of tile, and adding colors to those squares with whatever paint he c...

Film Genre Known as 'The Musical'

diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...

Singin' in the Rain Film Genre Analysis

it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...

The Villa San Girolamo Setting of The English Patient

true despite the fact that it has been hurt by war. It stands. The people are in some way in a sense of a denial. The author goe...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

Print Advertising Will Never Become Obsolete

bought space in 28 consumer magazines and its advertisements are either a quarter page, a half page or a full page ("Google Rolls ...

Korea Cloning in the Peer Pressl

One of these articles, the primary research article, is "Dogs cloned from adult somatic cells" published in the November 21, 2005 ...

Radio's Golden Age

brought forth by the golden age of radio. Some have accused this particular time in radio as being nothing more than a "stepping-...

Format and Programming of 4 Major Radio Stations in New York City

In fourteen pages this paper examines 4 popular NYC radio stations WLTW, WWRL, WQHT, and WBGO in an analysis of their format, prog...

Television Situation Comedy Married With Children and Family Dysfunction

do. "With Ozzie and Harriet, everyone felt guilty," said Barbara Cadow, a psychologist at U.S.C. School of Medicine. "With these...

U.S. Retailer Neiman Marcus

In eight pages this paper discusses the Neiman Marcus retail franchise that has remained true to its roots and escaped the popular...

A Lingerie Ad Analysis

This essay of six pages provides answers relevant to the content of a lingerie ad featured in a popular magazine and also includes...

An Overview of the Advantages and Disadvantages of 401 K Plans

401K was intended to supplement company pensions, but some have argued that this is simply not the reality of what has happened. ...

Copyright Issues 'Popeye is Not a Mickey Mouse Affair'

In a paper consisting of 12 pages that consider the longstanding arguments that fictional characters should not be copyrighted thr...

Civil Rights in the Late Nineteenth Century and the Abandonment of the Freed Men

The Compromise of 1877 is the focus of this six page research paper that involved a close election in which Republican Rutherford ...

The Impact of Leveraged Buyouts

This paper discusses leveraged buyouts (LBO) that were popular in the US during the 1980s, and the current ramifications of these ...

The Big Mac Index

comparison illustrate "much, in Big Mac PPP terms, selected currencies were over- or undervalued at the end of" (The Big Mac index...

Christology of Matthew Fox

and orientation. Fox argues that there is a "creation-centered spirituality" within the framework of Christian tradition that shou...