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How the Popular Game of Basketball Evolves as an International Sport

controlled, Naismith decided that teammates would move the ball by either passing it or bouncing it on the floor, but was uncertai...

Consciousness

in the field. Following along with one of Wundts ideas, Titchener thought that immediate consciousness was needed to understand t...

Narrative Unreliability in Atwood and James

This paragraph helps the student begin to assess how trust is established in Atwoods text. Atwoods "Alias Grace" is something of a...

Comparing Four Early Psycholigical Theorists

of experiences we have as the human species, it is knowledge that a person is born with (Boeree, 2006). The collective unconscious...

The Workers Movement and the Haymarket Bombing

The American Labor Movement has a long and turbulent history, a history that is partially detailed by author...

A Clockwork Orange and A Million Little Pieces

deciding what they will do with their night, "a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry" (Burgess 1). He mentions such things as...

James B Peake

James B Peake was appointed to the position of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in 2007. He came to this poison following a disti...

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

time which has caused him to think of himself as incredibly special: "In this world John, who was, his father said, ugly, who was ...

Blues and James Baldwin’s Short Story “Sonny’s Blues”

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

Literary Analysis: “Dubliners” by James Joyce

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

Scott: The Logistics of War

the lessons learned from the process. It is the last that might be most valuable. As an example lets look at Grenada, since it is ...

How Children Develop a Sense of Morality

that rules, in and of themselves, are not sacred or absolute (Crain, 2009). For example, if a child hears a scenario in which one ...

Favoring Ethical Egoism

"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...

Report: “Teaching the Elephant to Dance”

in the past is actually keeping them from succeeding in the present. That is, because methods worked for them before, they keep do...

Scott on “The Logistics of War”

process. It is the last that might be most valuable. As an example lets look at Grenada, since it is short enough to be easily sum...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Theories of Leadership: Kouzes, Peters, Posner and Yukl

suggests that effective leaders rely "more on personal power than on position power" (Green, 1999). That is, they lead because of ...

Pluralism vs. Elitism in the United States

these meetings dispersed throughout the area so that both rural and urban citizens could engage in political discussions that woul...

James Cone/Black Theology

that historical events entail. Therefore, Cone finds his starting place in his theological thinking with a historical analysis of ...

Characters Who Are Trapped

tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...

ANALYZING FREIRE AND LOEWEN: A COMPARISON

a progressive, he was also a white supremacist (McLaren). As a result, when he got to Washington, he segregated the federal cafete...

Henry Levin’s Rebuttal Article, “Déjà Vu All Over Again?”

the public education wheel, which has been rolling along quite nicely for centuries, easily able to adapt to the changing times an...

Disillusionment and Coming of Age in Updike and Joyce

relationship to Updikes story one author notes how, "The theme of A&P has to do with how Americans make choices that affect their ...

Feminist Perspectives on Frankenstein Being Symbolic of Women’s Fate

that each person compose a ghost story (Gilbert and Gubar 239). Marys story was transformed into the novel Frankenstein; Or, the ...

Michener’s Chesapeake

that he does not enjoy or desire. His values are apparently different than his tribes and he leaves his tribe because of the warri...

Ice Metaphor in 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...

Two View of Justice Based Ethical Systems

Five (Tong and Williams, 2009). She objects to the traditional conclusion that women are not as morally developed, on the whole, a...

Motivation and How it is Impacted by Emotion and Arousal

as a due date on a term paper or an unexpected phone call from a relative that is planning on making an unplanned visit might be e...

Defining “Realism”

into the bargain was always the same lady. She was the real thing, but always the same thing" (James). She cannot play other parts...

Current Financial Crisis/A Political Challenge

A 4 page research paper/essay in which the writer addresses the challenge facing politicians and public administrators in regards ...