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What Can History Teach Us About Terrorism?

Terrorism has wielded an impact in world affairs since the beginning of history. While there are important distinctions...

Diane Ravitch, Her Views on American Public Schools

countrys leading educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A ...

Personal Growth and Ibsen's "A Doll's House"

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...

Determining the Legitimacy of Plea Arrangements

a residential apartment building in North Carolina to check on the welfare of a tenant at the building whom friends had not heard ...

Definition and Application of Postmodernism

of these schools of thought was sufficient, but that there could be the existence of the competing thoughts that create conflict ...

Preface to Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing by Steven Friedson

insists on separating "aesthetics, religion and medicine" into separate epistemological categories, is so engrained that it become...

Economic Understanding in the 21st Century

even now leading to a resurgence in the popularity of Keynesian economics. In addition to this influence upon economic thought an...

"Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree

in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" provides the author with the means to create a biting critique of contemporary societal values. T...

Adam and Eve and Current Relevance

Bible, it is a common experience that they interpret it according to how they have been taught. For example, Barbara Brown Taylor ...

Roman Government

This paper considers the need for evolution in Rome’s government. Caesar Augustus was particularly successful in adjusting for co...

Reflection on The Ten Commandments

this theme forward, the next commandments lay the foundation for civilized society. The first of these social commandments is to...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet = Production Effectiveness

decision to transform a personal tale of forbidden love into a social commentary on increasing teen violence and decreasing morali...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

This essay describes how Austen uses characterization and irony in a manner that causes contemporary readers to identify with the ...

Museum Needs and Challenge, New CMS

This paper pertains to computer and collections management systems (CMS) as they are used in contemporary museums. It also address...

Politics/Aristotle

This essay is on Aristotle's "Politics" and how he saw the role of the city in human life. The writer relates his political thinki...

Mary Rowlandson's Narrative

This essay pertains to Mary Rowlandson's seventeenth century account of her capture by Indians. The writer discusses its contempor...

Overview of Texas Politics

This paper describes contemporary issues in Texas' politics, such as the charges against Gov. Rick Perry, as well as the historica...

Agricultural Considerations Location Location Location

This paper contends that a crops location is perhaps the most important factor deciding its success or failure. Location is interl...

Chronic Illness and Public Health

This research paper pertains to the shift of focus that has taken place in regards to public health policy and practice, has it ha...

Faked News Coverage

This paper pertains to the fact that fake news reports are prevalent in contemporary society. Nine pages in length, ten sources ar...

Post Unification Germany Political Party Competition and Voting Behavior

Kohl found equal voter support in both East and West Germany. Kohls electoral success proved to significantly reinforce his compr...

Overview of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution

In eight pages this paper examines the events that culminated in the Cuban Revolution, its outcome, and the disagreements surround...

Edmond Killina's Courthouse over White House Chicago and the 1960 Presidential Election

In eleven pages the controversial results of the 1960 presidential election are examined within the context of this book and provi...

Intertextual Relationship Between Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight and Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho

In eleven pages the ways in which Welles' interpretation of a quintet of Shakespeare plays was incorporated into Gus Van Sant's co...

A Critical Essay on Don DeLillo's 'White Noise'

This essay consists of 5 pages and describes this text as definitive of the cultural voic that exists in a contemporary life ruled...

Contemporary Japanese Women's Roles

Roles of women in contemporary Japan are the focus of this paper consisting of five pages in an overview from political and socioe...

Modern Society and Desensitization

In 5 pages the cultural and social reasons why the increase in violent behavior has desensitized contemporary society particularly...

Reception Theory vs. Dominant Ideology of Art

In five pages this paper discusses the artistic conflict between the dominant ideology and reception theories during the Middle Ag...

Contemporary Race Relations' Philosophies

In five pages this paper contrasts the contemporary philosophies regarding U.S. race relations between Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. ...

Changes in Idolatry from the Old Testament to the Modern Era

In six pages idolatry definition changes are examined in a consideration of past to present with contemporary rock star ideology c...