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Agamemnon and His Many Faces

a major figure in each of these works. Based upon the legendary king of Mycenae, Agamemnon in the Iliad is depicted as the command...

The Wild West and Wyatt Earp

Born in the middle of the nineteenth century, on March 19, 1848, Wyatt Earp is one of the most remembered names in American histor...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Scarlet Letter Compared

Crane was followed by a mysterious headless horseman, he does not return to marry Katrina. She in turn marries someone else. The s...

The Importance of Religious Stories

investigation of the dhamma, energy, rapture or happiness, calm, concentration, and equanimity" (Thera, 2009). The story entitle...

Tennessee Folklore: The Ghost Lights of Chapel Hill

his lantern, as he searches for his lost head" (Brown). In addition to the lights, some people have reported UFOs in the sky; oth...

Robin Hood and Corporate Leadership

This research paper pertains to the applications that can be drawn from the Robin Hood legend that pertain to corporate leadership...

Pertussis Rises Again

By the 1970s, the country believed that scientists had finally controlled the spread of major diseases like whooping cough, also k...

Research Questions, HAIs and Basin Baths

This research paper discusses the problem of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and literature that indicates that traditional ba...

Pennsylvania Public Health Law

This research paper provides an overview of two provisions of Pennsylvania's Disease Prevention and Control Law of 1955 and descr...

Prostitution and STDs in Britain

1800s, in England, the Contagious Disease Act created a class of women who were required to have government certificates ("Josephi...

Daily Life during the Seven Years War in North America

going in different directions. I suspect we brought much of the prejudice with us from England. But there is no denying that the "...

McDonald's in Moscow: Global Capitalism and the Homogenization of Culture

once wrote that a "McDonalds in Moscow and Coke in China will do more to create a global culture than military colonization could ...

The Subversion of Religion, Media, and the Democratic Process by Terrorists

East. These groups attempt to affect change by use of fear, intimidation, and terror with the organizational trappings of a religi...

Globalization and Sushi

outside Japan; today people all over the world enjoy it on a regular basis. This paper considers how sushi went global, who eats i...

The Use of Presurgical Washing

& Wann-Hansson, 2010). The use of evidence-based best practice protocols introduced preoperatively by nursing staff can help to r...

Comparing Huntingdon and Fukuyama in the Post 9/11 Environment

west to spread democracy and aid in economic modernization are making the situation worse as these are related to the differences ...

Program for Reducing STIs in Mentally Disabled Populations

it is often believed that these individuals will not understand the risks involved and will not follow through with contraceptive ...

The International Monetary Unrest in the Late 20th Century

This 8 page paper discusses the reasons for the financial turmoil of the late 20th century. The writer argues that the unrest star...

Financial Topics

In twelve pages finance topics including organizational cash flow, the DuPont assessment model, fund managers and mutual fund port...

International Politics and Issues of Importance

ensure that it survives and operates properly.4 A stable democracy has two sides: "the constitutional aspect, which provides the r...

Spread of Christianity and Development of Trade/Capitalism as Two Significant Contributions of the Middle Ages ‘Gothic World’ to the Phenomenon of Civilization

and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...

Essays on Absolute Monarchy, the French Revolution, and the Effects of Mechanization on the Working Class

- such as whenever he needed funding for one of the many wars he was fighting. This constant in-fighting between the English mona...

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Expatriates Rather Than Host Country Nationals to Staff Foreign Subsidiaries

and Goshall, 1989). Antal (2000) argues that in order to develop the skills and ability to respond to these challenges there are ...

The Problems Airbus

clash a misunderstanding with sites located in different countries. In order to assess ways that the operations of the comp...

Gongs Throughout the World

The composer Francois Gossec introduced gongs into the percussion comments of his symphony Mirabeau (Borakove, 2007). Debussy, th...

Sub Saharan Africa Prevention of HIV and AIDS

only to cure and resolve the problem HIV are bound to fail as they do not tackle the root causes of the spread of the virus, The o...

Russian Organized Crime

to the Russian Mafia are members of an organization that has "hundreds of gangs" and its membership numbers in the thousands (Meye...

Spread of the Roman Empire

return for Roman protection was considered by the client states as a reasonable political and economic exchange, and allowed them ...

Tax Planning: Land Sale

the Tucker Family Corporation to pay Mr. Tucker in full at the time of any future sale of the investment property that Mr. Tucker ...

Iatrogenic Infection

This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...