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Is the UN Effective?

again determined that something had to be done to prevent further conflicts, and thus the United Nations was born. It began in 194...

United Nations Peace Operations

Cypriots began to work to gain independence from Britain (Zacharia, 1999). When they failed to gain independence by diplomatic mea...

The Physical Realm According to Rene Descartes

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

The U.S. Decision to Invade Iraq in 2003, Justified with References to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Nagel and the Principles of Utilitarianism

rule-utilitarianism. Act-utilitarianism "supposes that each particular action should be evaluated solely by references to its own ...

Nation-States and International Organizations

is probably the preeminent intergovernmental organization in the world. There are 192 member nations, and membership is open to "a...

The Importance of Effective Selection and Recruitment

capital (Porter, 1985, Mintzberg et al, 2003). Any business will have numerous goals. These may be complimentary or contrad...

People Need Training to Become Effective Teams

Teamwork training is essential if teams are going to be effective. Teams need to learn specific skills to be effective, high-perfo...

Leaders Must First be Followers

One of the issues that has arisen in the last several years has to do with whether an effective leader also needing to be an effec...

DO WE NEED MORE GUN CONTROL?

Discusses pros and cons of gun control in the U.S. while pointing out that the current solutions aren't particularly effective...

BEN BERNANKE AND PERFORMANCE

and the slicing and dicing and following sale of those securities to other institutions worldwide occurred on his watch (as it did...

Ethics and Leadership

Ethics are interdependent with values and values are the basis and driver of ethical leadership (Renner & Renner, 2006). Values de...

Effective Social Worker-Client Relationships

most important, that of the therapist is also vital. The qualities necessary in a good therapist include such things as caring, ac...

Exam Revision Preparation

Outline the topics to be covered in the exam and note necessary materials to be reviewed at each point in the outline; 6. Create ...

Generalists versus Specialists in the Ongoing Education Debate

something new. While ease of learning is not exactly the goal, the concept of generalist education helps students make a definite ...

Effective Management versus Effective Time Management

effective management, and to believe so would certainly spell ruin for any involved company. Effective management, as mentioned...

Crash of Pan Am Flight 103 and its Implication on Aviation Regulations and Safety

In six pages this paper discusses aviation safety before and after the Lockerbie, Scotland crash of Pan Am Flight 103. Four sourc...

Richard Matheson's and H.G. Wells' Use of Science Fiction to Portray Alienation

In a paper consisting of 5 pages alienation as a theme are explored in Matheon's I Am Legend and in Wells' The Time Machine and Th...

Refuting Rene Descartes' Argument 'I Think Therefore I Am'

off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...

Second Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...

The Importance of Ancestry in 3 Canadian Poets' Works

The Jewish Canadian heritage which figures prominently in the poetic works of A.M. Klein, Miriam Waddington and Irving Layton is t...

Documentary History of the Contemporary World Jew

In five pages this paper discusses the contemporary era and the quest for Jewish Identity in an assessment of the text portrayals ...

NYC Skyscrapers' Controversy

population grew and the need for office space expanded. The growth of the city almost demanded that the tiny strip of island grow ...

Answering the Question of 'Who Am I?'

putting up a front or in other words "that part of the individuals performance which regularly functions in a general fashion to d...

Contemporary Families in Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace and Stephanie Coontz's The Way We Really Are

"The Woman Who Walked Into Walls" by Roddy Doyle. The Complexity of Families Today In Coontzs book many different families ar...

Existence and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...

Self, Legitimacy, and Democracy in Habermas and Connolly

I. HABERMAS The social, political, economical and religious activities experienced in everyday life represent the very esse...

Computers and Independent Thinking

In five pages this paper discusses computer intelligence and what would be meant if A.M. Turing's test was passed by a computer an...

Four Poems by A.R. Ammons

In this essay containing five pages the symbolism and imagery similarities in Ammons' poems The Damned, Anxiety's Prosody, Kind, a...

Symbolism in Dickinson's 'I Am Ashamed-I Hide'

be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...

1960s America and Pop Art

of the bright lights of consumption" (Vincent 96). The art and artists that characterize the 1960s represented not simply a diver...