A Voice in a Box
There has always been a need to communicate among great distances whether it was someone on horse delivering mail, or the use of the telegraph. At first it was the telegraph which was considered a really advanced way of communicating and then with the invention of the telephone over a century ago ....
Abercrombie and Fitch Research
Research Purpose
The project that our group has chosen to explore is concerning the Abercrombie
and Fitch clothing company. More specifically, the recent issues and cases that have brought against them regarding racial hiring issues and the boundaries that they have chosen in promoting sex ....
Advantage of Advertising
It is Jim's first day of high school and he cannot decide what to wear, since he knows that his first impression will be the one the counts the most. Suddenly, an advertisement of Sean John clothing comes on the television. A boy, much like himself, is walking through the school hallway while other ....
Analysis of who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
In this play there are many characters to blame on the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The two young lovers both committed suicide after a series of misunderstandings. If no one interfered with their love lives they would not have died. In this composition, I will analyse the characters and come to conc....
Animal Rights: Do They Exist?
For the past 20 years, there has a been an on going heated debate on whether experiments on animals for the benefit of medical and scientific research is ethical. Whether it is or isn't, most people believe that some form of cost-benefit test should be performed to determine if the action is right. ....
Baldwin

American writer, noted for his novels on sexual and personal identity, and sharp essays on civil-rights struggle in the United States. Baldwin also wrote three plays, a children's storybook, and a book of short stories. He gained fame with his first novel, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN (1....
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN SINGAPORE
ABSTRACT
More than 400 prisoners have been executed in Singapore by hanging since 1991. This makes Singapore the country with the highest execution rate in the world relative to its population size, easily double the execution rate of the country with the next highest execution r....
Charles Darwin and Evolution
Its My Life: On Charles Darwin.
How did we get to the state we are at now as human beings, from cavemen nearly 2.5 million years ago (Carl, 260)? When Darwin began his research there were not even recognized fossils of ancient humans. He pondered these ideas and put them in a journal and he ....
Chernobyl nuclear power plant
The biggest accident in history took place on April 26, 1986, when an explosion destroyed Number Four Reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It left an area the size of New York State unsafe for humans to occupy and the city of 42,000 people was abandoned for the next 500 years. The a....
Children in Today's Society: Who is to Blame?
Who is to blame?
In todays society parents seldom take responsibility for their children. Kids are coming in contact with law enforcement regularly and not for their outreach or young adult programs. It all starts at born. Parents need to take more control of their kids from birth, especially ....
Civil rights
Security versus freedom--the either/or of the new millennium--yet the very question indicates a flawed sense of both terms. It sets them up as mutually exclusive when, in fact, they go hand in hand, for can one truly be secure if one is not free? We make such a swap only when we define security as s....
coping with stress
Stress is something that affects everyone and yet few people know hope to cope with it. People spend more of their time blaming things for their stress instead of coping with it. Life has its ups and downs and stress is always going to be a part of it. People can choose to make it have a large impac....
Cultured Fat
Cultured Fat
In the last forty years many things have changed in American culture, from the way Americans act to the way they eat. These cultural changes are not always in the best interest of the American people, many of which put their health and self esteem in grave danger. Changes in cultur....
Current U.S financial crisis
Who is to blame for the current financial crisis?
Since the news of banking turmoil rocked the financial world and the abrupt steep decline in stock prices wiped out trillions of dollars from the stock market that made so many investors losing out a big chunk of their savings now looking for answ....
Descartes knowledge
Knowledge is gained by empiricism and rationalism and for me it is hard to decide what side Im on. To me it is like the Democrat/Republican split no one is ever totally on one side, and if they are theyre usually an idiot. I like to base my knowledge on both reason and my experience. Now someone....
Downfall - Germanys culture at the end of Hitler
World wide, Germany is most known for their actions in World War ll. It was then where Hitler's government took a turn for the worst and the citizens of Germany were left with nearly nothing. In 2004, a film was released, called The Downfall, which was made to depict the last days of Hitler's leader....
Feminism: Its Like Beating a Dead Horse
In recent decades, women have collectively begun to demonstrate dynamical persistence in voicing their opposition toward their constant dismissal as second-rate citizens. Vigorous protests and demonstrations later, women gained the right to work, the right to vote, and the right to be an equal count....
Fighting for the right of marriage
Since the 1970s gay and lesbian people in the United States have been trying to practice their right to marry. The problem has been that gay marriage has become one of the most debated topics since then. People have really taken totally opposed sides on this issue. Marriage is when two people m....
Frankenstein Motif- Isolation
Isolation is a powerful feeling that almost every being has experienced at one period in time. Throughout Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, rejection and seclusion are recurring elements that continually intertwine to form a theme of isolation and alienation. Frankenstein's Creation is the most obvious v....
Frontline
Representation of Truth-
It is not the truth that is complicated, only the people who tell it
Media teams, such as ABCs 4Corners, successfully use a variety of techniques, such as editing and the personal interview of Prime Minister John Howard persuade their audience that they are mos....
Gay Rights
LAW (Gay Rights/Legislation)
Constitutionality of Same Sex Marriage in the United States of America
The proposed legalization of same-sex marriage is one of the most significant issues in contemporary American family law. Presently, it is one of the most vigorously advocated reforms discussed ....
Gay rights on marraige
Gay rights on marriage
Just ask about anyone. Theyll all tell you theyre in favor of equal rights for homosexuals. Gays should have the same rights in housing, jobs, public accommodations, and should have equal access to government benefits, equal protection of law, and so on. But then you....
Hawthornes Use of Literary Elements in the Scarlet Letter
A Puritan can be best described as a person that strictly fuses its religion and law to create their attitude, character, and actions. Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter shows the extremity that Puritans experience to judge, criticize, and treat offenders of the law. In this novel, we have th....
Health Care
Within the health care arena there is a growing concern about the needs of the elderly. Families wonder if their loved ones are getting the proper care that they need With the growing costs of health care and the decreasing resources of primary care physicians it is feared that only the physical n....
How ancient eastern philosophies had an affect on western political systems
This paper is on how Greek, Roman, Judaic, and Christian philosophies that shaped the U.S. Constitution had an affect on contemporary political systems.
The Rome had established a law called the Civil Law which applied only to its citizens and was not used against foreigners. There was als....
How much do you value your freedoms?
How much do you value your freedom? Think about all the places you can go, things you can do and all the freedoms you wouldn't normally take into consideration on a daily basis. Now, imagine having no control over what you do, where you go, or what you do to earn income. Imagine the government t....
Indian removal
If the United States government were to support the reparations to the descendents of African American slaves it would be an admitting of their responsibility. This is an issue that the United States government does not want to bring back to the forefront. To them, slavery is an occurrence in histor....
islam
Despite its huge following around the world and the growing Muslim communities in the United States, Islam is foreign to most Americans who are familiar with Christianity or Judaism. Because most Americans know little or nothing about Islam, they have many misconceptions about Muslim beliefs and rit....
Jane Austen: The Role of Women in the nineteenth century
If a woman remained unmarried she became a burden to her family, and society assumed she was unmarriageable therefore there must be something wrong with her. Therefore finding a man was one of women's main priorities. It was thought that getting married was the only answer for security and money. Th....
Jane Austen: The Role of Women in the nineteenth century
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen is a novel that goes into great detail discussing the reasons for marriage. Marriage in the 1800's, when this novel took place, was very different from conventional marriages today. In that period in time, reasons for marriages were wealth, convenience, and most u....
John Winthrop
Edmund Morgan has authored dozens of books on Puritan and early colonial history, most of which were highly acclaimed. These include Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988), which won Columbia University's Bancroft Prize in American History in 1989, and A....
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another -Homer
In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare many characters are scheming, manipulative, conniving, and deceitful. They are marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretend....
Justice and Injustice in Tartuffe
A theme of the play Tartuffe is justice. Justice, or the lack of justice, can be seen in the relationship between father and son, father and daughter, and guest and host. Lacanian philosophy, which focuses on language and the conflict that the male feels due to a disintegration of oneness, can be us....
King Odeipus
In "King Oedipus" there comes a point in the play where Oedipus learns something that plays an important role throughout the play. He learns from a oracle that he will eventually kill his own Father and sleep with his own mother. As one could imagine this is a shock to Oedipus, and he does not belie....
Macbeth - Who is to blame for the horror in the play
Who is to blame for the horror in the play, Macbeth?
Throughout his play of Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses various mechanisms involving the settings, themes and characters to establish a great sense of horror for his audience. This horror is associated with the deceitful and bloody murder....
Management and Leadership
MANAGEMENT AND LEADESHIP
Management and Leadership
Dawn Singleton
MGT/330 Management: Theory, Practice, and Application
Roxanne Cox
October 3, 2005
Abstract
This paper discusses the differentiation between management and leadership and examines the rol....
Marriage in Pride and Prejudice
Marriage is a huge commitment. Elizabeth shows us the complications of marriage in the novel, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin. Elizabeth takes marriage very seriously unlike those around her. By observing the marriages around her, Elizabeth has very clear ideas about a suitable marriage partn....
Mayor of Casterbridge: Determinism
In some point in everyone's life, everyone has asked themselves a similar question, "How did this happen?" Many people have different beliefs on how "this" happened such as a supernatural force, but the lives that we have today are a result of the choices that we made. Also, the....
McCarthy Era in The Crucible
As I began reading The Crucible, I felt prepared for what to expect and how to interpret it. I thought the play was simply a direct parallel between the Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthy Era. However, I quickly found myself questioning and reanalyzing what I had previously perceived to be apparen....
Mediaeval Language and Literature
Mediæval Language and Literature
In this essay, I shall explore the relationship between the material and the spiritual in two Old English elegies, The Seafarer and The Dream of the Rood". In The Seafarer, I will demonstrate how the narrator takes the reader on a literal and metaphoric....
Morality without religion
Many belive that religion is necessary in order to obtain morality, and yes it is possible that religion can offer moral values, but how os it so that those moral values are right, whe there are different religions and within each, moral codes/values differ from one another.Though looking at the iss....
Philosophy of History
The first era of history is the pre-modern era, which basically means the ancient and the medieval periods of history. The term modern didnt come into effect until after the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment. In the pre-modern era, historians tried to portray history as meani....
planning, controlling, leading and organizing the resources of the organization
INTRODUCTION
When it comes to running a business, some elements are critical no matter in what country the business operates. They include effective planning, controlling, leading and organizing the resources of the organization (Bangkok Post, 2002). These functions refer to the basic functions of ....
plot summery for our countries good
Act 1
Scene 1
In the dimly lit hold of a convict ship on its way to Australia. The convicts huddle together. On the deck a convict by the name of sideway is being flogged. Second lieutenant Ralph Clark counts the lashes. Sideway is then brought back to the other convicts. John Wisehammer; John Ars....
political developments of pre colonial american and there after
One could argue that politics have encompassed all civilizations since the dawn of time. Where a congregation of people
could be found, such things as: hierarchies, divisions of labor, and a cultural identity could be seen, even at a minuscule
level. In Mesoamerica one predominate culture that e....
Religions and Religiousness in "a passage to India"
Religions and Religiousness
In
A Passage to India
Seminar: India in English Literature
Contents
Pages
Introduction 3
1. Religions in A Passage to India 4
1.1 Hinduism 4
1.2 Islam 5
1.3 Christianity 6
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Romeo and Juliet - the dramatic significance of Act 1 Scene 5
Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young lovers who would do anything to be together. It is, perhaps, the most famous of his plays and undoubtedly the most famous love story in Western history. In this essay I am going to show that Act One Scene Five is on....
Rwandan Genocide
Rwandan Genocide
The Rwanda Genocide In 1994 Rwanda was known for one of the worst genocides since the Holocaust. The very name is sketched into our histories consciousness as a place of evil and unimaginable pain. Between April and July 1994, more than 800,000 Tutsi civilians were brutally slau....
STEM CELL RESEARCH
Stem Cell research is one of the most controversial issues going on in the world today.
Many people are against, but a lot of society today is fighting for it. You cannot open a
magazine anymore without a story covering the research or lack thereof. There are many
Pro-lifers activates th....
Strictly Ballroom
Scott Hastings represents the youthful individual caught in a struggle against the force of tradition represented by Barry Fife. How are these two characters, and the views and values they uphold, established by the film.
657 words
In Strictly Ballroom Scott Hastings and Barry Fife are used to....
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
I have read "Tess of the D'Urbervilles and now I will be explaining who is to blame and who is responsible for Tess' downfall and how Thomas Hardy uses Tess to show different aspects of Victorian Society. "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" was written by Thomas Hardy and published in 1891. Thomas Hardy was....
The Aptitude of George W. Bush
Introduction
The George Bush administration has taken a lot of heat from the war on terrorism. This war, which is not actually a war but rather a conflict, is one that was started long before George W. Bush ever took office. George W. Bush has had very strong values and beliefs towards foreign po....
The knife Thrower
"The knife Thrower"
People have always had an urge to watch or participate in extreme events. People like watching what is dangerous, outrageous and unexplored. It appeals to us, because we are both scared and drawn at the same time. The Knife Thrower, written by Steven Millhauser deals with this....
The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank Stockton - Tormented Love
Does love always prevail? This question is greatly asked while reading the short story, The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank Stockton, which is about a semi-barbaric kingdom and his peculiar judicial system. Once a man commits a crime, or not, he is subjected to pick one of two identical doors i....
Tulane University Athletics
TULANE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT
The Tulane University Athletic Department is an organization that is widely regarded throughout Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, and the nation. Tulane Athletics features sixteen different sports for Tulane athletes to participate in. Students and fans attend th....
Virtue vs. Law in Confucianism
Virtue vs. Law in Confucianism
With hundreds of years under the rule of law in Western culture, it is hard to imagine anything different. However, Confucius, one of the most influential thinkers in Asian culture, believed in a different form of governing ourselves. He had lived during the wa....
What Is Philosophy?
Philosophy is an undefinable term. If you were to ask two different people to give you a definition of philosophy, I can almost guarantee you will get two different but correct answers.
To begin, let us start by first looking for some definitions of philosophy. Here are a few definitions: Love ....
Who is to blame for Childhood Obesity?
Who's at fault for the dramatic increase in childhood obesity? Some have stated that parents are strictly at fault, while others believe fast food industries are the ones to blame, where in some cases it is said to be a personal responsibility. Parents are at fault for children under the age of ten....
Who is to Blame for Stereotypes? and Salam Pax
The country of the United States has always been a country of immigrants and migrants. Immigrants have come from many lands and have experienced various degrees of success in adapting to life in the United States. And though the United States claims to be a country of freedom and liberty, its citi....
Who Is To Blame For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet
Who Is To Blame For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet?
Verona is home to two feuding noble houses, the Montagues and the Capulets. In response to the constant brawling between members of these families, the Prince of Verona has issued an edict that will impose a death sentence on anyone caught d....
who is to blame for the deaths of romeo and julliet
Most of the events that happen in Romeo and Juliet lead up to the final conclusion of the couple dying. Many, if not all, of the characters also play an ultimate role in their tragic deaths. The characters that cause the most dramatic effect upon Romeo and Juliet's death are Friar Laurence, tybalt a....
Who is to blame for the fate of Romeo and Juliet?
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life whose misadventured piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents strife. Is it solely the parents fault who created a feuding environment for their children to grow up in, could it be the st....
Who is to blame for the horror in the play, Macbeth?
Who is to blame for the horror in the play, Macbeth?
Throughout his play of Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses various mechanisms involving the settings, themes and characters to establish a great sense of horror for his audience. This horror is associated with the deceitful and bloody murder....
Who is to blame?
Who do you think is to blame for terrible events in Acts I-III? Examine the characters of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and The Witches, and consider their roles in the murder of King Duncan and Banquo.
Quotations from the text
Reference to specific scenes and characters
Macbeth
Before Mac....