[toc] Topics Discuss the presence of Jim Crow laws and their manifestation in the novel and social ramifications. Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark case for maintaining segregation and inequality for blacks. Discuss how this was demonstrated in Continue Reading...
Anscombe and Truman’s Decision to Drop the Bomb As G.E.M. Anscombe notes in his essay criticizing Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the intention was “to kill the innocent as a means to an end&rdqu Continue Reading...
Introduction The Cherokee Tribe in North Carolina is part of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally-recognized independent Native American Cherokee tribe whose home base is in Cherokee, North Carolina, south of the Smoky Mountains. The Ea Continue Reading...
Fire services are on the front lines of community safety, and are occasionally integrated with other community organizations. However, fire service affiliations with other community groups are frequently underutilized. Fire service organizations some Continue Reading...
Offshoring an Ethical Business Practice? The practice of offshoring jobs is one that has been discussed at length by both by critics and proponents. Proponents argue that it is an unavoidable outcome of trade agreements that are both necessary and Continue Reading...
Sacraments As Bernard Cooke (1994) notes, for many centuries, sacraments were what "structured people's lives and experiences" (p. 6). The celebration of the holy mysteries (the concept that is denoted by the word sacrament) gave meani Continue Reading...
Welfare in Captive Wild Animals The Holy Bible gets the relationship between humankind and wild animals out of the way early on in Genesis 1:26 when God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish i Continue Reading...
HSMS Gap Analysis and Hazard Identification Risk Assessments Description of APM Terminals Legal Environment Review of the Health and Safety Management System Description Gap Analysis Hazard Identification Physical Hazards Health and Welfare H Continue Reading...
.....motif of surveillance features prominently in Captain America: Civil War. More importantly, the film features the ability of a powerful state entity to control the behavior of its citizens. The types of surveillance and brainwashing depicted in Continue Reading...
Medea Life was hard for women in Greece (or Corinth) as Medea notes in her 1st speech, when she calls upon the "white wolf of lightning to leap" and "burst" her and "cling to these breasts" like a baby. What is she saying? She wants to feed the wild Continue Reading...
Armand Nicholi's The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life is a downright unusual book. It places in counterpoint the thought and writings of two men who never met, spoke, or engaged in any impo Continue Reading...
Spirit The author of this brief report has been asked to offer a few words and answer a few personal questions about spirit. Within the confines of this report, three major questions will be answered and otherwise spoken to. First, there will be a l Continue Reading...
Freedom in the Classroom The first chapter asks why theory, especially Critical Theory, matters in today's classrooms. The very first chapter essentially sets the stage for the kind of "freedom" that is aimed at achieving in the classroom: freedom f Continue Reading...
Chillingworth from the Scarlet Letter with Claggart from Billy Budd Herman Mellville admired Nathaniel Hawthorne and presented him as the lucky strike of faith for the American literary world. According to Melville, the genius of Shakespeare had fo Continue Reading...
Suffering Tim Murphy Theology MA2000D The existence of human suffering poses a unique theological problem. If God is omniscient, omnipotent, and all-loving, then why does suffering exist? Indeed, this difficulty is confronted in scripture itself: Continue Reading...
Banner Health in a non-profit based in Phoenix, Arizona with Peter Fine as the president. They serve as a nonprofit, existing to offer health care services to the community, instead of placing emphasis on generating profits. That means that each doll Continue Reading...
Chagas Disease in the Southern Cone of South America Goal (What is the Purpose of the Intervention) The overarching goal of the initiative outlined by the Center for Global Development was the elimination of the insect vector in infested homes in t Continue Reading...
King David and the Covenant The covenant that God makes with David, also known as the Davidic Covenant, contains a series of promises to David and Israel, the most important being that the Messiah (of the New Testament) will come through the House o Continue Reading...
Character Development: Novel Review Novel Review: Character Development The novels, The Red Badge of Courage' by Stephen Crane and 'The Things they Carried' by Tim Obrien, are among the best depictions of the role played by introspection in helping Continue Reading...
Staffing shortages in nursing are a consequence of poor nurse retention and nurse satisfaction. Being a nurse requires a lot of dedication, patience, and ability to keep updated in a constantly evolving world. When hospitals and other medical facilit Continue Reading...
Monsters exist everywhere. The exit in fiction and the real world. Their acts may spark a myth or are myths and tall tales. Whether they are used for entertainment or to show history in its darkest moments, people have used monsters since the dawn of Continue Reading...
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is the writer of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)." He is a Professor of English as well as the Director of MEMSI or the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, located in the George Washington University. He was born in Camb Continue Reading...
Culture: The Olmec Religion The Olmec Culture: Religion The Olmec people are part of the ancient Mesoamerica cultural group. Their history, cultural beliefs, and customs are quite similar to those of the ancient Maya group; in fact, the group remai Continue Reading...
Negative Letter A few years ago, one of my cousins became engaged to be married and sent me an invitation to come to her wedding. Unfortunately, the wedding was to take place during an extremely busy season for me, in terms of my work. She also liv Continue Reading...
Messiah in the Old and New Testaments The Jewish origins of the word "messiah" are found in the ancient consecration ritual of the Hebrews, who "anointed" something or someone by purifying it with holy oil (1 Sam 10:1-2). It is to this act of anoint Continue Reading...
Military The colonists' most revered military institution was the militia, a model inherited from their forebears in England. The philosophical underpinnings of the militia model are easy to understand: "fear of a standing army," (Millet and Maslows Continue Reading...
crime in the Bible: The slaying of Abel by Cain One of the most famous crime in the Bible is the killing of Abel by his brother Cain, an act often called the first murder. Cain killed his brother when he was outraged at the fact that God accepted h Continue Reading...
Theology: The Baptism Debate Peter's encouragement sermon on the Day of Pentecost -- "repent and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you shall receive the Holy Spirit" (Acts 2:38) has been th Continue Reading...
Aeschylus - the Oresteia (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers and Eumenides) The Oresteia offers the reader a close and intensive immersion with a truly pained universe of suffering: each play still has at its core a sense of flush of promise and vibrancy o Continue Reading...
Dead: A Cultural Experience One of the most common misconceptions about The Day of the Dead is that it is synonymous and analogous to the American tradition of Halloween. However, in certain respects the two traditions are a bit like night and day, Continue Reading...
Hope Leslie Strong Female Characters of the 17th Century Strong Female Characters in Sedgwick's Hope Leslie The United States has not always been a free space for strong female characters. In fact, in its earliest stages, most women were confined t Continue Reading...
Greek Mythology When the clay tablets that comprise the Akkadian / Old Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh were first pieced together and translated by scholars in the nineteenth century, some aspects of the ancient text seemed remarkably familiar. There w Continue Reading...
Cracking Maya Code Cracking the Maya Code In the early 200's A.D. The area around Southern Mexico and Guatemala was the home to a civilization that rivaled any on Earth. They built enormous stone buildings, carved with images and writing, and thriv Continue Reading...
films will be compared. One film that will be discussed is City of God (2002) and Boyz in the Hood (1991). City of God was made in and based in Brazil, specifically in the favellas of Rio de Janiero -- the equivalent of what Americans would call "th Continue Reading...
Stalin: A Political Biography, 2ND Edition, by Isaac Deutscher Stalin: A Political Biography, 2nd Edition was written by Isaac Deutscher and published in the United States in 1967. Deutscher was a Polish Communist journalist living in London, Englan Continue Reading...
Othello, race and difference: Othello as the black 'other' The tragedy of the Moor Othello is that he becomes the man racist white society says he is by the end of the play. At the beginning of the story, the malicious Iago, who hates Othello for a Continue Reading...
Peacemaking aims of President Woodrow Wilson and Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau differed, although both ultimately wanted a peaceful resolution to mark the end of the Great War. Wilson advocated a comprehensive Fourteen Point plan, which advocated Continue Reading...
