As is indicative in the U.S. and, especially Japan, this has led to an increase in stress, psychological problems, substance abuse and even suicides when students fail to pass their entrance exam for a respected school.
The Chinese are quickly lear Continue Reading...
U.S. History
Historical Book Review: Moretta, John Anthony. William Pitt Ballinger, Texas A&M University Press: 2000.
John Antony Moretta's biography of William Pitt Ballinger attempts to put in an historical perspective the career of a legenda Continue Reading...
" In it, he showed a poor boy and a rich boy (the Prince), who exchanged places and found that they each preferred to live in the life to which they had been born. Still, each learned from the other's life and the outcome was not what the Sunday Scho Continue Reading...
Stephen Crane's novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, was written during America's "Gilded Age" which was the era from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the Century. The name was given to the period by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, wh Continue Reading...
it, too, has the rails coming in beneath the fine, old Beaux Arts building, for which tunnels beneath the city were built, removing millions of cubic yards of earth. it, too, heralded and celebrated the new, electric railroad track with its electrif Continue Reading...
Organized Crime / Counterterrorism
AL CAPONE OR AL QAEDA?:
ORGANIZED CRIME AND COUNTERTERRORISM
AS LAW ENFORCEMENT PRIORITIES IN 2014
Should law enforcement in America prioritize fighting counter-terrorism or fighting organized crime? A full exam Continue Reading...
Ethical Leadership
Given the recent crash on Wall Street and the housing market symbolized by corrupt financiers like Bernard Madoff, ethical and moral leadership of corporations has become a major issue for those who study the American capitalist s Continue Reading...
American Expansion
Post-Reconstruction America gave rise to an incredibly transformative society and culture. Modernism was beginning to sweep the land with the industrial revolution, urbanization and westward expansion. How did the underprivileged Continue Reading...
Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas)
The "Poetry Explications" handout from UNC states that a poetry explication is a "relatively short analysis which describes the possible meanings and relationship of the words, images, and other small units that make up a po Continue Reading...
Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T.S. Eliot. Specifically, it compares and contraststhe two works and how they are both excellent examples of the dangers of unexamined tradition.
Unexamined tradition can Continue Reading...
" It is something that the film, in showing Marie's response to gossip in the news about her, refutes. She also refutes having said, "Let them eat cake," saying, "I wouldn't have said that." However, that is the most likely response a young woman who Continue Reading...
Narrative Case Analysis: Older Adults Perception of Their Roles in Society Over Their Lifespan
Narrative Case Analysis
Many societies have been described as holding up a stereotypic and sometimes negative perception of older adults. With that said Continue Reading...
Role of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Camegie
Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business
Was Andrew Carnegie a "Robber Baron" or a "Captain of Industry"?
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American born on 25th November 1835. He was an ordinary person but Continue Reading...
Pastoral/Forest Scenes
'As you like it" is one of the darker comedies of Shakespeare's and is largely based on pastoral tradition that was very popular during Renaissance. This comedy especially draws inspiration from a pastoral novel by Thomas Lod Continue Reading...
Stephen Rushing (461-35-0813)
The five-years between 1997 and 2002 were a financial and emotional roller coaster for me - a true rags-to-riches-to-rags journey of self-discovery. Almost overnight, my life was transformed from that of a typical under Continue Reading...