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Emile Durkheim and the Social Theory of Lyotard

only give rise to institutions in patches--local determinism" (Lyotard PG). II. EXPOSING POSTMODERNISM Postmodernism was t...

Personal Life Experiences in Civil Rights' Championn Anne Moody's Memoir Coming of Age in Mississippi

a good student. After graduating from high school, she received a basketball scholarship to Natchez Junior College, which she atte...

Computers and Floating Point Arithmetic

yet "This computer also had nonzero numbers so tiny that dividing them by themselves would overflow" (Severance, 1998, PG). On ye...

Emily Dickinson's Attraction To Death

to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...

Jesus in the Qua-ran and in the Bible

is now dead (Jesus - The Quranic View, 2003). Those who would consider Jesus to be God, the Son of God, or part of a trinity are ...

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and the Character of Janie Crawford

I believe that Hurston was attempting to expose the scope of the racism problem through the character of Janie, as well as the str...

Supply and Demand Business Economics Illustration

in sales, J.D. Power has estimated that the full size trucks it will fall from sales of 786,000 in 2002 to 700,000. There is disa...

Problems in an ESL Classroom

It is important that every idea offered is written down even if the idea seems to have no connection or relationship to the topic ...

CAPM, APT, and Risk Assessment

growth and also dividend income. The same may be said of property, where there is capital growth and income from rent or leases. H...

Peace and Violence According to Johan Galtung

of Peace Research at the University of Oslo from 1969-77, during which period he also helped to found the Inter-University Centre ...

The Importance of Well Written and Presented Educational Materials in Patient Wellness

health information is pivotal to the efforts of practitioners in promoting health, changing behaviors and attitudes, and preventin...

Web Page Design

do it and the tools to do it easily already exist. Whether one installs a website design software program such as Front Page or Pa...

Artistic Mood, Manic Depression and Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison

one in which her "periods of high enthusiasms, [were] ... short-lived and quickly burned itself out" (PG). In Touched with Fire...

Past Basis for the Future According to David Hume

long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...

Organizations; Chapter Summaries

This 35 page paper provides a summary of 5 chapters of a book provided by the student. The book concerns the nature of organizatio...

Media Messages, Gender Stereotypes & Baby Mama

to be Kates surrogate is Angie Ostrowiski, who is characterized as "white trash," a high school dropout who has a common law marri...

Ophelia and Hamlet Relationship Analysis

brother Laertes. She is deeply in love with Hamlet, and when he treats her with disdain, she becomes confused and depressed. Ham...

Philosophies Applied to the Concept of the American Experience

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosophies that can be applied to the American Experience are examined in terms of grea...

Evolution and Phylogenetic Inference

In eight pages this paper considers evolutionary biology and the significance of phylogenetic understanding. Four sources are cit...

Beowulf and Ancient Greek, Roman, and World Societies

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts these various peoples who lived in different societies during different time perio...

Is the Future Predictable after the 2016 Presidential Election?

This paper attempts to answer three specific questions regarding the government's role in promoting cross-cultural understanding, ...

Reality and Western Social Theory

In six pages this paper discusses how Western social theory can assist in the understanding of reality and existence. Ten sources...

The Philosophy of Money by Georg Simmel

acquire otherwise. While people must join the labor force in order to accumulate money, Simmel was of the opinion that they did s...

Therapeutic Counseling, Empathy, and the Relational Model

In fourteen pages this paper examines therapeutic counseling relationship issues and problems that include empathy, identification...

Nursing Research and its Significance

In seven pages this paper discusses the importance of nursing research for a clear understanding of methodology and ever changing ...

Dialect Significance in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

In twelve pages this research paper presents the argument that a greater appreciation of Hurston's classic novel can be acquired t...

Local Dialect in Pudd'nhead Wilson

A 5 page consideration of the use of local dialect in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. The focus is on the character Roxanne. Ba...

Comfort and Sorrow in Book of Songs

In five pages this paper examines how these poems evoke realization of social sorrows while also considering comfort through under...

The Blair Witch Project Film, the Newtonian Revolution, and Phaedo by Plato

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

Frederick Douglass' Life

In nine pages the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is used to gain a greater understanding of the man behind the eloque...