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Is Net Present Value a Superior Appraisal Technique?

In a paper consisting of eight pages the methods of appraising a potential investment's value such as Payback, cost benefit ratio,...

Children's Dramatic Roles

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

The Strategic Value of HRM

management was one of a buffer between management and employees, hardly a generally perceived influence and cause to the firms str...

Politics and Cultural Values

the political correctness that goes along with it have won out. This triumph is concerning to say the least. Weyrich (17) warns,...

Different Valuation Methods

owned by the company the share price may be in the region of $3.50 - $4 (Keating, 1997). It is also worth noting that this multip...

The Nature Lover Subculture

and Ryan, 2003). As a result, a number of German hiking societies developed with the Friends of Nature with its motto Free Mounta...

Is “Death of a Salesman” an Aristotelian Tragedy?

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

Oedipus’ Trial

and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking th...

The Value of Diversity

be undertaken carefully and has additional costs as well as potential benefits. It appears that the concept of diversity managemen...

Financing and Investment Questions

impact of time. A high growth potential may be seen in firms that are currently performing badly, or may have a low level of asse...

Chaldean and Greek Mythology and the Roles Played by Oracles and Fate

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the roles played by oracles and fate in the mythological tales of Achilles, Oedipus, ...

Assessing the Value of Literature

This paper addresses various techniques for determining the true value of literature. The author uses Bradbury's, Fahrenheit 451 ...

Theory of Value and Adam Smith

In this paper consisting of seven pages the conflict within Smith's Theory of Value that is in stark contrast to the idealism of h...

Arthur Miller, William Shakespeare, Sophocles and Consideration of the Individual and Fate

In 5 pages this paper examines the individual and a fate he cannot control in an analysis of Death of a Salesman, Macbeth, and Oed...

Classical Literature Compared

as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...

Society, Man and Destiny

In ten pages this paper evaluates the extent of man's power over his fate within the literary contexts of 'Epic of Gilgamesh,' 'Th...

Ultimate Value Question and Axiology

and could more readily be understood by establishing a "pattern of behaviors" measurement scale that stood alone or was supplement...

The Ancient Greek Plays 'Oedipus' and 'Lysistrata'

In 5 pages, this paper considers how the tragedy of Oedipus differs from the comedy Lysistrata. There are 3 additional sources in...

Elements of Tragedy in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

This paper examines 3 tragic elements in an analysis of Amanda Wingfield, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and King Oedipus of Thebes fea...

Aristotle's Poetics and Oedipus

In five pages this paper examines how a tragic literary hero is defined by Aristotle in Poetics and then applied to Oedipus. One ...

Tragic Heroes in Death of a Salesman and Oedipus

A 10 page analysis of the tragic hero as he manifests in these two classic plays. Twists of events affect these heroes differentl...

Tragic Heroes in Death of a Salesman and Oedipus

This 10 page essay explores the tragic heroes in these classic plays. Oedipus believes he makes his own destiny while Willy belie...

Social Responsibility and Libertarians

Libertarianism and social responsibility are two major theories of political organization in the world today. Libertarians stress ...

Walter Moseley, Toni Morrison, and Social Commentary

In five pages the social commentary featured in Walter Moseley's White Butterfly and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye are contrasted...

Analogy, Plato, and Rousseau

a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...

Iris M. Young's Justice and the Politics of Difference and Susan M. Okin's Justice, Gender and the Family

home. Labor divisions are held in check by the marriage contract and the historic or traditional nature of the family. 2.In Chapt...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....

Conforming By Way of Nonconformity in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In five pages the ways in which Melville's short story protagonist can only conform to social demands through nonconformity and no...

Alcoholism's Social and Psychological Effects

In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...

'The Day of Doom' by Michael Wigglesworth

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of primary themes as well as its social and religious connotations....