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Gandhian Satvagraha as Considered and Evaluated by a Buddhist

Buddhism, basics revolving around the goal of achieving nirvana. Nirvana to the Buddhist is a goal or a path involving, according...

Smoking and Lung Cancer in Women

a Machiavelli. This assertion could be argued in challenging the central premise of this article. In fact, in order for effecti...

Race and the American Dream

Glauser regards race more as a social construct than a physical characteristic. As such, whether "intentional or unintentional, o...

Canada, Social Class, and Inequality

the haves wielding the greatest power (Macionis & Gerber, 2006). First, there is the predominantly Anglo upper class, in which mo...

The Social Problem of Substance Abuse

of the overall problem of substance abuse to inform potential methods for change, it is necessary to consider both the driving and...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Obesity and Television Viewing: A Review of Literature

factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...

DeParle/American Dream

Hauptmann School of Public Affairs defines "public affairs" in terms that underscore the significance of the inter-relationships t...

William Bradford: History of Plymouth Plantation

the light of the gospel in our honorable nation of England...what wars and oppositions ever since, Satan hath raised, maintained a...

Man and the Mass Media: The Theoretical View of Marshall McLuhan

culture through the medium in which it is developed. In a number of McLuhans books, including Understanding Media: The Extensio...

Educators Views on the 2001 NCLB Act

and emerging trend towards standardization in curriculum, instruction and assessment. Background Contemporary soci...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Cloning and Stem Cell Research: Ethical Dilemmas

of an action, but there is no obvious reason to suppose that intentions, but not motives, are especially strongly connected to the...

The Region of Calabria

peninsula is separated from the rest of northern Italy by Basilicata; the Ionian Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea serve as nautical east/wes...

Criminal JusticeIV

Another advantage of plea bargaining is that it allows prosecutors to dispatch cases quickly, freeing time and resources to fully ...

Termite Biology and Research

In thirteen pages an overview of termites is presented from ecological and biological perspectives with current research also exam...

Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Study:

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

DNA and the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification Project

so-called cold cases and have been on the books for a year or more (Eisenberg and Planz, 2008). Under current policies, some huma...

Leadership Interview Case Study

but not responsibility. Bobs focus on taking responsibility, a "the-buck-stops-here" type of leadership, is the clarification of ...

The Death Penalty

and Pojman quotes Kant at length in stating: "There is no similarity between life, however wretched it may be, and death, hence ...

Mythology of Native Americans

cites that as many as several hundred thousand must exist collectively (Gill & Sullivan, 1992). Each myth that I came across was...

2 Perspectives on Italian Renaissance Humanism

In six pages this paper presents the argument that an adequate overview of the humanism of the Italian Renaissance can be achieved...

Competition Landscape for AT&T Wireless

while yet keeping the number of competitors at a manageable level. As a much smaller country (and one other than the US), J...

HOME DEPOT, HISTORY AND ANALYSIS

The Home Depot Inc., headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is the worlds largest home-improvement chain and second-largest U.S. retailer (...

KUDLER FINE FOODS - MARKETING PLAN

single-family homes (Population and Housing Estimates, 2010). The highest percentage of household income resides among those earni...

COGNITIVE ANALYSIS: VISUALIZING AND THINKING

The video dealt with a teacher, her second-grade students, and the importance of visualizing while writing and reading. In the vid...

CHINA AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

become the power that it has become. Some call the transformation - in less than 30 years - nothing short of a miracle....

Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton's The Knowing Doing Gap

In 5 pages a textual overview is presented. There is 1 source cited in the bibliography....

Overview of Wind Shears and How They Travel

An overview of this topic is presented in seven pages. The bibliography cites nine sources....

Function and Design of a Dispenser for Toilet Paper

In five pages a dispenser for toilet paper is examined in this overview of function and design considerations....