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Globalization and Global Practices

1970s, long before globalization was considered a buzz word in business, is almost spooky in its prescience; as his belief that mo...

Drug Offenses and High School Undercover Law Enforcement

however, an easy demonstration to make. Indeed, drugs in our schools have resulted in the formation of its own subculture and tha...

Thematic Conflict in John Nichols' The Milagro Beanfield War

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

Films Based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

novel. However, the film adaptation was to have the monster say nothing at all, something which led Lugosi to declining the part. ...

State of the Discount Retail Industry

advantage, though smaller discounters such as Dollar General have benefitted too. Though Kmart recently filed for bankruptc...

City of Dallas, Texas

PG). Another celebrity was Doc Holliday who sent up a dental practice in Dallas, but found out that gambling was much more profit...

Policy Argument Regarding Red Light Cameras and 'Big Brother'

of the Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA), "Law enforcement officers depend on the trust and support of the community they...

Overview of The Five Biggest Ideas in Science by Wynn And Wiggins

Whether it was spending "frigid nights beneath the open observatory dome photographing nebulae" (Parshall et al, 1998, p. PG) or f...

Assessing Traits

were associated with biological differences in people (Psychometric Success, 2012). Towards the end of the 20th century, theori...

Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney,

This essay discusses characteristic features of Bright Lights, Big City, a novel by Jay McInerney. Three pages in length, no othe...

Understanding “The Big Switch”

a centralized power grid and draw upon electricity as a commoditized "service", rather than an internally integrated aspect of doi...

Women and Children as Products in the Sex Industry

Women and children have been exploited throughout history by those that seek to profit in one way or another from that...

Film and Communication Theory

instance), and externally (how the cinematic techniques used communicate with one another, and with the audience, to convey some t...

"Big Two-Hearted River, Parts I and II" by Ernest Hemingway

aching muscles, "Nick felt happy," as he has "left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs" (Hemi...

1870 to 1914 Corporate America

with presidents. In addition having only limited power and little regulation in existence to hold these companies back. In additi...

Cyril Connelley on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction

family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...

Ben Franklin, America's Colonial Printer

works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...

1996 Study on Emergency Situations and Clinical Decision Making

picture" and not miss crucial details that can lead to positive patient outcomes is a question that has been addressed, to some ex...

U.S. Antiterrorism Tactics After September 11, 2001

because of the impact they have on personal freedoms. Some proclaim, in fact that such provisions are simply another excuse for "...

Andrew Zimbalist's Unpaid Professionals

the most part, his examination of this particular field of study is "firmly grounded in economic theory and free of the rhetoric t...

Overview of the Big 5 Personality Dimensions

a scant amount of this trait might be open to some things but merely not express the desire to learn about new things. They also m...

Creationism, the Big Bang Theory, and the Universe's Origins

creation. God created the universe in six days and rested on the seventh, and that is that. But this antipathy is nothing...

Corporate social responsibility, cognitive dissonance, and preserving the environment.

Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...

Novel and Film Comparison of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

of a visual masterpiece that demonstrates that Scorsese is an artist who understands the tone of the original work from which he c...

Philip Marlowe as a Knight in The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

revealed. The reader is introduced to Marlowe as he is about to call on a potential client, the elderly, but very rich, General ...

An Analysis of the Film, Big Fat Liar

evidence of the mixed critical reaction to this film, The Tampa Tribune critic Bob Ross disagrees, calling Big Fat Liar "a showbiz...

Life's Big Questions

that further illustrated many of his theories concerning men and their mothers, which is not a far cry from theories of Jung, sinc...

Howard Hawks' 1946 Film The Big Sleep

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

Money, Advertising, and Political Campaigns

Where once a candidate took almost sole responsibility for getting his message to the American...