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Questions on Religion Answered

defined by the functional role of that state, rather than by proposed intrinsic features of that state. As this demonstrates, neit...

Jealousy and Materialism in Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'

a man who likes his possessions, being materialistic. It is almost as though we hear him telling us how he commissioned the most f...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich as Tolstoy's Commentary on Materialism

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

Our Kind by Marvin Harris

an agricultural standpoint, it makes perfect sense. The farmer who slaughters and eats his cattle, including his oxen, cannot plow...

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Islam

believe Jesus (Isa in Arabic) is the son of God, or the human incarnate of God (Hasan, 2009). However, in Islam, Jesus is regarde...

America's Relations with the Two Koreas

of Korea. The orders were fuzzy at best. As early as 1944, the leader of Korea, Syngman Rhee warned the West that the Soviets coul...

The Development of a Methodology for the Study of Urban Immigration 'New' Immigrant Communities of the West

An overview consisting of 8 pages that provides a methodological perspective on historically studying new populations of immigrant...

Germany of the Late Nineteenth Century

In eight pages the political mass market that emerged in the Germany of the late 19th century is among the topics discussed in thi...

Civil Unrest in South Africa from 1960 to 1994

In five pages this paper discusses South Africa's civil unrest in an historical overview of the time period and assesses the Truth...

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (Qaddafi), Dictator of Libya

region. However, this period of calm was fleeting because when the Turkish Empire wrested control from the Arabs, a prolonged per...

Kentucky Fried Chicken

his customers "fresher chicken, faster" (KFC, History, 2008). A year later, in 1940, Sanders created his now-famous original recip...

Wal-Mart Corporate Strategy And SWOT

store opened in 1983 and the first Wal-Mart Supercenter opened in 1988 (Wal-Mart, 2009). Supercenters offer a full line of groceri...

History of Wedding Dresses

weddings resembled pagan festivals and most of then involved the celebration of spring (important planting season for these agricu...

Causes Of The American Banking System Collapse

ones home. The reality is that not every individual earns enough to buy a home. Just as the root causes of the Crash of 1929 and...

Lutheran Refugee Services

n.d.). In 1939, the organization established a Welfare Department that included "an office for the rehabilitation and placement o...

Overview of the Cellular Phone Service Industry

had known how to do this, cell phones would have been on the market more than 50 years ago (Mehta, 2004). AT&T even developed a pr...

Buddhism and Its Teachings: Effective or Ineffective?

old age, death, and finally, a monk "who had given up everything he owned to seek an end to suffering" ("Following the Buddhas Foo...

The Just War Theory

the United States and many representatives of Asia and South America. With this initial agreement international law was put into ...

Economic Equity and Efficiency of Treatment as They Relate to Acid Rain

horrible scourge on the environment, it would help us now to take a calm and rational look at what, exactly it is and its impact o...

The Conceptual View of Poverty and its Impacts

of society (2003). Over time, through Roosevelts New Deal, and other changes, there was attention paid to those who could not affo...

History of the Civil Rights Movement in America

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

Poor People's Movements by Piven and Cloward

In six pages this paper examines poor people's movements in this historical overview that makes references to Piven and Cloward's ...

Charles Rearick's Pleasures of the Belle Epoque

Notably, Rearick conceptualizes these elements by relating the historical factors, including the conflicts prior to this era that ...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

in this film provides a means of relating the voyage that takes place without actually showing scene after scene of constant motio...

Medicine Evolution and Physicians

When we explore Greek medicine we are immediately immersed in the works of such notable ancient Greek philosophers as Homer, Arist...

Japan and Spreading Western Religion

that they were in contrast to many of the characteristic elements of Japanese culture (4). By 1564, some say that the missionarie...

US Same Sex Marriage History

was viewed in the modern era as not so much a disease but was seen as lack of upbringing and evil intent. Gay relationships were s...

Management, Labor, and Strikes

$6.00 per week (Columbia Encyclopedia, 2004). In 1806, the Philadelphias Journeymen Cordwainers union called a strike, however, th...

An Inside Look at the Labor Union in Thomas Bell's 'Out of This Furnace'

American history. Bell provides an interesting outline of the regional history of Pittsburgh but through "Out of This Furnace" he...