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Traditional Gender Roles World War Ii
1,853 words
... during the war years for many men hoped that
marriage would defer conscription to the war. This
alone suggests that women's roles as wives and
mothers were still dominant during the war because
the nation witnessed a 25 percent rise in the
population aged five and under. The popularity of
marriage and the traditional gender roles that
marriage carried, was exploited during the war.
For example, the Office of War Information,
established in the summer of 1942, worked closely
with the media. P...
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Gun Control Black Market
580 words
Topics for conversation in this report will
include: Gun control assumes some fundamental
things to hold true. It assumes that all people
are law abiding, responsible, and well intended;
we know this is not the case or their would not be
a gun debate. Since the above does not hold true
we have markets that will work against gun
control, called Black Markets. Gun control works
for the normal market, where there is a series of
checks and balances to keep guns out of the hands
of known criminals an...
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Purpose In Personifying Death Death As A Shadow Tennyson
893 words
In Memoriam is a poem through which Tennyson was
trying to make sense of the death of his friend,
Arthur Hallam. The consistent and intentional use
of imagery throughout the poem helps reveal the
inner healing process that Tennyson was
experiencing during the seventeen years he
composed In Memoriam. One recurring image in the
poem is shadow. In the early parts of the poem,
Tennyson usually refers to The Shadow, and when he
does, he is usually speaking of a personified
Death, such as an Angel of ...
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Elizabethan Age Upper Class
553 words
The Audience of the Shakespearean Theater During
the Elizabethan Age there were different social
classes. What you wore depended upon the social
class to which you belonged. It was easy to
distinguish the classes by the way people would
dress for the theater, and also where they sat to
watch the performance. The lower class, also
called peasants, were poorer people. Most were
merchants or servants. A peasant man would wear a
tunic or shirt, and breeches of some kind. He
would also wear a laced-u...
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A Reaction To Uncle Toms Cabin
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A Reaction to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Toms
Cabin So this is the little lady who made this big
war. Abraham Lincolns legendary comment upon
meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe demonstrates the
significant place her novel, Uncle Toms Cabin,
holds in American history. Published in book form
in 1852, the novel quickly became a national
bestseller and stirred up strong emotions in both
the North and South. The context in which Uncle
Toms Cabin was written, therefore, is just as
significant as the act...
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City Of Troy Twelfth Century
1,404 words
World Civilization to 1500 Research Paper When
Heinrich Schliemann emerged from Turkey in June of
1873 with a hoard of treasure, the whole world
took note. He claimed to have found the ruins of
ancient Troy. Schliemann had rejected the
prevailing scholarly doctrine that Homer was a
mythmaker, not a historian or scholar. Even today,
some people argue that the actual ruins of the
historical city of Troy are in Croatia, not
Hisarlik, Turkey, as Schliemann claimed. This
position is outdated now, jus...
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Book Club Working Conditions
1,012 words
The book, The Road to Wigan Pier, by George Orwell
depicts the life of miners in 1930 s Britain. The
1930 s in Britain were rough unless you were part
of the upper class. The miners and others of that
stature were suppressed, by taxes, by other
classes, by just about anyone and anything you can
possibly think of. It has a very socialistic point
of view. Along with Orwell, there were a good
number of men in Britain with the same view. The
man that published the book, Victor Gollancz, was
a social...
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Nuclear Weapons Atomic Bomb
1,075 words
... hold be noted that we have generally been at a
disadvantage in crisis, since the Communists
command a more flexible set of tools for imposing
strain on the free world than we normally command.
We are often caught in circumstances where our
only available riposte is so disproportionate to
the immediate provocation that its use risks
unwanted escalation or serious political costs to
the free community. This asymmetry makes it
attractive for Communists to apply limited
debilitating pressures up...
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Iron Ore Great Lakes
504 words
Penetrating 3, 540 kilometers (2, 200 miles) into
interior North America, the Great Lakes-St.
Lawrence Sea-way navigation system, completed in
essentially its present form in 1959, was regarded
as one of the great engineering accomplishments of
the 20 th century and an outstanding example of
international cooperation... It was intended to
remove much of the disadvantage of the continental
interior in importing and exporting overseas. It
was also designed to meet the increasing needs for
electric...
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Front Foot Upper Body Bat
825 words
Baseball, the American pastime, is one of if not
the most difficult sports to play successfully. In
contrast, playing basketball involves shooting a
ball into a stationary opening its size. Further,
golf takes enough skill to hit a small ball from
the ground at point A to the hole in the green at
point B, also stationary. Baseball, on the other
hand, requires the batter to swing a narrow bat at
precisely the correct speed to contact a ball
traveling at speeds up to ninety miles per hour.
After m...
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King Writes Takes Place
1,058 words
In the short story, Suffer the little Children,
Stephan King tells the tale of an old school
teacher who faces an unusual problem. The teacher,
Miss Sidley, is forced to deal with a group of
children unlike any she had faced in her life;
these children were different, very different. The
children in the story are not human. The discovery
of this causes Miss Sidley to act in ways she
never thought capable, eventually leading to
murder. King conveys the theme: what you dont know
and dont understan...
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Spheres Of Influence Sphere Of Influence
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My first inclination would be to answer the first
question with a clear "YES." But come to think of
it, the causes of war really have not changed at
all, or at least very little. Rather than changes,
there has been a shift in the causes. The cause of
war which has dominated the last 50 years was the
cause of ideology. However, due to the recent end
of the Cold War, this cause of war, has
significantly declined and is almost trivial. The
causes of war have shifted from mainly ideological
ones to ...
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Strindberg Miss Julie And Beckett Waiting For Godot
1,312 words
... e count's daughter is originally is in a
position of authority over Jean because he is a
servant in her house. Through the course of the
story a reversal of roles is seen. It starts with
Jean being in the child ego state while talking to
Miss Julie to compliment the parent ego state that
she talks to him from. Miss Julie was a very
passionate woman and often would grab one of her
servants to dance with. A combination of factors
brought Jean and Miss Julie together. Some of
these factors are ...
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Tycho Brahe Heliocentric Universe
967 words
It was during the 16 th and 17 th centuries when
man's view of the universe and himself changed
drastically. This came after a millenium of
repetition and stagnation in the development of
science. People finally began questioning what
they were told, and they went out to find proof
rather than assuming on the basis of authority and
common sense. These advances in astronomy and
medicine came about in the same era, and were not
un parallel in their development. In both fields
were some very notabl...
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Role Playing Real Life
1,482 words
Before the internet, there was only the computer,
large ones that take up a whole room. The computer
then was seen only as a tool, and then a few years
later there was the personal computer which made
it more accessible and more interactive. The PC
was a kind of evolutionary step which enabled us
to have wider relationships. But these
relationships did not appear yet until PCs started
to become interconnected. This is where internet
comes in. At first it was only a military tool,
used by the Sta...
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Separating One Element Stanza Is Made Rhyme
1,135 words
... t fit his scheme, another scheme, equally
justifiable, could be suggested one which the poet
apparently used equally often, here as well as in
other poems in ARIEL. For instance, in the case of
the rhymes "darkness" / "distance, " the rhyme
works on the duplication of the initial "ds" and
the final "ss"; in "arc" / "catch, "arc" ends in
the consonant "c" which is picked up as the
initial letter in "catch" (also the sequence "ac"
in "arc" is reversed in "catch" to "ca"); the "k"
in "dark" and...
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Honest And Fair Feigning Madness
1,133 words
In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the protagonist
exhibits a puzzling, duplicitous nature. Hamlet
contradicts himself throughout the play. He
endorses both the virtues of acting a role and
that of being true to one's self. He further
supports both of these conflicting endorsements
with his actions. This ambiguity is demonstrated
by his alleged madness, for he does behave madly,
only to become perfectly calm and rational an
instant later. These inconsistencies are related
with the internal dilemma...
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Anarcho Syndicalist Lesbianism Materialist Islamo Fascism Progressive
374 words
Although relatively undocumented, the links
between Progressive Dialectial Materialist
Islamo-Fascism and Post-National
Anarcho-Syndicalist Lesbianism are concrete and
close. In this essay I aim to explicate the
connections, give a brief of summary of academic
literature on this controversial topic, and
further progress onto the directions that both
Progressive Dialectial Materialist Islamo-Fascism
and Post-National Anarcho-Syndicalist Lesbianism
and Progressive Dialectial Materialist
Islamo-Fas...
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Critique Of The Historical Debate On Versailles Treaty
1,341 words
The treaty of Versailles that closed the First
World War was set up as a way to ensure peace. It
was hoped that the treaty would ensure that the
first world was had been the war to end all wars
however this was not to be and the treaty became
the subject of much scrutiny pretty much from the
get-go. Many of the youthful insiders from the
American and British delegations claimed
immediately after the conference that Wilson had
abandoned his earlier plans and had in effect
betrayed his supporters....
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Management Seminar On Managed Health Care And Technology
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... ies that include chemotherapy have also
contributed to rising health care costs. One field
of medical practice which has become notorious for
being costs-increasing is the study and treatment
of heart attacks. In the treatment of heart
attacks the prime cost-increasing technologies
like the introduction of intra coronary infusions
and coronary bypass surgery. A study using
Medicare claims from 1994 to 1999, report a four
percent annual increase in the average
reimbursement for treating elder...
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