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Story Is Told Oldest Sister
1,427 wordsRecently I have had the pleasure of reading Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis and The Golden Ass by Apuleius. Both are accounts of the myth of the marriage of Cupid and Psyche. Since they are in essence the same story, there are of course many things similar in both stories. However, since both stories were written in such different time periods by such different authors, there are also many differences. In this essay I will present and discuss both these similarities and differences. The storie...
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Marriage In The Colombian Kogi Tribe
709 wordsMarriage rituals exist in all types of societies whether it is in todays society or past societies. Researching this particular topic, the Colombian Kogi Tribe, the role of women and their marriage rituals are very different in todays post-modern society. This tribe is found in Santa Marta Colombia. They reside primarily in the Sierra Nevada, a place where snow can only be found in this South American country. Residing in the rainforest the Kogi Tribe migrated towards the Sierra Nevada for lack ...
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Gay And Lesbian Kingdom Of God
1,076 words... person to tell about their sexual orientation. Only 11 % said their family members knew and were supportive. Over 50 % received professional counseling. Over 50 % were very troubled by depression, anxiety, and worry about HIV infection. 30 % said that they had sometimes or often thought about killing themselves. 42 % had one or more suicide attempts. 24 % had two or more suicide attempts. First awareness of sexual orientation: age 10 Self-labeling: age 15 Told a parent: age 17 First same sex...
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B 2 C Wide Range
1,204 wordsIndustry and Company Being the music lover that I am, it is important to me to stay up to date with the bands I follow as well as be able to find good places to see live music. This becomes a difficulty when traveling abroad as I am this summer. However, with the ease of the internet and the e-business strategy of Jambase. com, I am able to find current news, music merchandise and concerts most anywhere in the modern industrialized world. With the slogan Go see live music, Jambase seeks to promo...
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File Format State University
1,050 words... format is relatively old and often creates problems when an attempt is made to print on non-PostScript printers and high-resolution image setters. The PS format also has the problem with gray rectangles appearing when viewed in certain programs. Web graphics are made to transfer information through phone lines as quickly as possible and use the information to display images on the computer screen. Web file formats used for this reason are formats, which are made to display lower resolution, ...
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Lack Of Communication Big Daddy
1,053 wordsWhen literature is transformed into film, it goes through a process known as cinematic mutation. This process could not be more noticeable in the production of Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This playwright and later blockbuster film is based on the inner conflicts of honesty, love, and greed. There is a great deal of narrative refraction in the screenplay by Richard Brooks and James Poe. Some major thematic modifications in the film include: Brick Pollitt's sexuality issue, a trans c...
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Good And Evil Victorian Society
1,118 wordsWith reference to the title, this essay will attempt to demonstrate Golding's philosophy, that evil is a natural part of every human being. The origins of his work will be examined, such as his schoolteacher background, and the influences of his war time service. Similarly, Stevenson's accusation that society is to blame for mans evil will be discussed. The influences on this author will be shown to include his own Calvinist upbringing, his own past experiences, such as his observations of Victo...
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Stephen Hawking A Life In Science
1,791 wordsdepicts the life and accomplishments of Stephen Hawking, a unique and towering figure in modern physics, perhaps the most famous scientist since Einstein. He has achieved far more than the vast majority of able-bodied people would ever have dreamt of accomplishing. He has made fundamental breakthroughs in cosmology and, perhaps more than anyone else alive, he has pushed forward our understanding of the universe we live in. His brilliant work on black holes, the big bang, and quantum cosmology ha...
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Object Relations School Narcissistic Personality
1,383 wordsIntroduction Understanding the Narcissistic Phenomenon The so called 'narcissistic personality disorder' is a complex and often misunderstood disorder. The cardinal feature of the narcissistic personality is the grandiose sense of self importance, but paradoxically underneath this grandiosity the narcissist suffers from a chronically fragile low self esteem. The grandiosity of the narcissist, however, is often so pervasive that we tend to dehumanize him or her. The narcissist conjures in us imag...
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Need For Harmonization Of International Accounting Standards
1,033 words... an additional political dimension to any effort to change those standards. (Said 2001) Another barrier that the governments of different countries will have to face is the coordination of their accounting policies with policies prevailing in other countries in order to minimize negative externalities and to maximize positive externalities. There are other barriers to harmonization as well. For example, users might have different needs in different nations (e. g. , debtor vs. creditor nations...
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A Persuasive Speech Against Underage Drinking
970 wordsI. Introduction: A. Attention Getter: By a show of hands, how many people in this classroom are under the age of 21? As you look around the classroom, you will see that many of you are under this age. Now think to yourself, even though you are under the age of 21, does it mean that no one in this classroom has ever tried alcohol? According to Prof. Rosenberg from the Psychological Bulletin 1993, alcohol is the most serious problem facing teenagers. B. Link to Audience: We are all students at col...
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Swisher Mower And Machine Company Smc
1,077 wordsIntroduction Wayne Swisher, CEO of SMC, is concerned with the companys future prospects. The unit volume sales of the SMC riding mower, which constituted 64 % of the total sales of SMC, had plateaued in recent years. He is presented with an attractive private-brand arrangement that can impact Smc's prospects and has to decide whether to accept it. Alternatively, or additionally, he can decide to have more aggressive advertising and sales effort to recruit new dealers and assist current dealers. ...
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Childrens Literature And The Holocaust
1,075 words... care writing fiction about the Holocaust is impossible and immoral: The arguments about the immorality of creating fiction about the Holocaust are related to concerns about exploiting the victims and survivors, as well as the fear of being cooped by the act of describing evil. There are concerns that imaginative works about the Holocaust, as opposed to factual texts such as autobiographies or histories, will somehow subvert the truth of what actually happened (Walter 40). However, unlike fir...
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Western Countries Human Mind
1,692 wordsMedia/Impact (Newspapers) The public role of newspapers can hardly be underestimated. They represent the classical way of obtaining information in democratic societies. Newspapers educate and entertain at the same time. They can be easily carried and disposed of, if necessary. The spiritual foundation of democratic society is based on the idea that people can make political decisions on their own. However, in order to be able to do this, they need to be well informed about the current events. Th...
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Decision Making Process Trial And Error
1,541 wordsHumble Decision Making According to Amitai Etzioni, decision making in future will be rather compared with an art than with science. With the emerging technologies the process of decision making has faced drastic changes. The flow of information became so huge that extracting data from numerous sources turned out to be a very complicated task. However, with all this confusion, new decision making models emerge in order to facilitate the daunting task of decision making. As it is claimed by the a...
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Freedom Of Expression Hate Propaganda
1,280 wordsCENSORSHIP ON THE INTERNET The Internet is a fast becoming a part of every day life. It allows for world wide communications. It is easy to access. But like any other media whether it is invited or these invites it into their home it has its positive and negative sides. The Internet provides us with valuable resources yet it also provides us with inappropriate information. The following essay will deal with censorship on the net, its affect on freedom of speech and ways of censoring by various g...
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Appearance Versus Reality Hath Not A Jew
969 wordsThe Merchant of Venice Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is still relevant today because it deals with issues which still affect us. Show how two of those issues are discussed in the play. Throughout the play a distinction is made between how things appear on the outside and how they are in reality, or on the inside. The issue of appearance versus reality is demonstrated in varied ways, mainly by the use of real-life situations. The first representation of this is Shylock's generosity with hi...
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Crime And Punishment Unable To Reenter Society Isolation
1,574 wordsThe Crime of Alienation The massacre of 25 students at a high school in Colorado shook the nation as the most devastating and heartless crime of youth. No one questions that these murders were a crime to society, as no one questions that rape, assault, and theft are also crimes. Society has dictated and labeled these actions as crimes because they harm others. One must question, however, whether the crime lies more in what caused the action. Many works of literature have posed this idea, but it ...
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Hamlet Madness Shakespeare Hamlet
1,152 wordsDave Boston A Critical Analysis of Shakespeare? s Hamlet 19 September, 1996 Hamlet. Is he an insane madman or a revengeful, scheming, genius? There are many conflicting ideas and theories on this subject, and hopefully this paper may be of some assistance in clearing up the confusion. The paper is divided into three separate analytic sections beginning with the beginning of Hamlet? s so called madness, and why it may have occurred. Next, is an analysis of why Hamlet delays revenging his father? ...
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Reading This Article Alan Greenspan
675 wordsThe article, " Greenspan gets another Fed term, " in the New York Times discussed Alan Greenspan's success and failures during his term. The article was fairly easy reading. I found some statements to be quite amusing however, there were some issues discussed that was a little ambiguous. Reading this article, I learned that President Clinton nominated Alan Greenspan to a fourth term as chairman of the nations central bank. I had no clue as to what the title of chairman of the nations c...
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