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This paper discusses custom and how it relates to international law. The paper finds that custom laws are extremely relevant in international law because they make it possible for various societies to maintain agreeable relations with one another. Also, customs go beyond the scope of voluntary law to help regulate situations for which laws have not yet been set. The paper also discusses the International Court of Justice. It finds that the Court has not been effective, primarily because the United States, a prominent member of the United Nations, has removed its ICJ jurisdiction.

From the Paper
"Custom covers the scope of international law where rules go undisputed and become the generally accepted law, but can change when states choose to reject them. Custom revolves around the societal and international norms that are in place, maintain their power by widespread public and political acceptance, and thus can be changed or rejected when they conflict with another equally universal but contradictory norm."

Tags:Custom, International Law, International Court of Justice, Political Theory

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The paper relates that Custom Snowboards, Inc. will be a designer, manufacturer and servicer of custom snowboards. The paper describes the company as well as its mission, vision and key objectives. The paper overviews the snowboarding industry and offers a description of the business' products/services.

Outline:
Executive Summary
The Company
Industry
Product/Service Description

From the Paper
"Our firm, Custom Snowboards Inc. is built around the philosophy that every board should be a unique piece of art. Drawing our inspiration from the mountains around us we are a designer, manufacturer and servicer of custom snowboards. We will make our boards by hand, and allow the customer to either provide artwork of their, or work with our in-house artists to develop snowboard art that is truly unique. It is this latter service that differentiates Custom Snowboards from the competition."

Tags:mission, vision, key, objectives, products, services

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The paper describes the proposed product known as Custom Compilations, that will allow people to go into a record store and purchase only the songs they want. The paper discusses how the rise in legal music downloading, the decrease in illegal music downloading, lawsuits against piracy and the fact that many people in America do not and will not access the Internet at home will contribute to the success of Custom Compilations. The paper explains the benefits to producers, retailers and consumers alike.

Outline:
Introduction
The Consumer Need
The Solution
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Have you ever been to a record store and bought a CD with a song you like, only to find out that's the only good song on the entire CD? It makes you feel like you've wasted your money. CD stores have come up with a way to satisfy their customers, allowing them to make sure they like the album before they buy it. Stores have kiosks where you can scan any album in the store and listen to the songs on it. But customers who do find that there's only one good song on the album usually don't buy the album. They'll go home and download the one song they want (whether legally or illegally). But the people who don't have computers, or don't have internet access, or just don't have the knowledge of how to, cannot go home and download the song they want. They still have to buy the whole CD if they really want that song. Well, we've come up with a solution for these people. This solution is "Custom Compilations." It will allow people to go into a record store and purchase only the songs they want."

Tags:Internet, piracy, peer-to-peer, programs, songs, albums, CDs, mp3, kiosk

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The writer asserts that it is difficult to imagine today, after 47 years, the depth of frustration felt by the southern Black in 1960. This paper reviews the article, "Mr. Local Custom Must Die", written at that time, and relates it to the ferment present in the South. It also analyzes the reasons for this frustration.

From the Paper
"It is difficult to imagine today, after 47 years, the depth of frustration felt by the southern Black in 1960. This angst comes through loud and clear in "Mr. Local Custom Must Die." This paper reviews this article, written at that time, and relates it to the ferment present in the South at the time. It will also analyze the reasons for this frustration.
"The Setting for the Article: As the author mentions, hopes had been raised in the past, only to be..."

Tags:mcmillan, race, south

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The paper examines the article "Mr. Local Custom Must Die" that conveys the depth of frustration felt by the southern Black in 1960. The paper explains that although the desegregation of the army and the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision "Brown vs. Board of Education" paved the way for future change, there was little of that change visible to a black man in the South in 1960.

Outline:
Introduction
The Setting for the Article

From the Paper
"As the author mentions, hopes had been raised in the past, only to be dashed by subsequent stonewalling by the aristocracy of the southern power structure.
"There had been two events in the recent history of the author which provided encouragement that the black family might come closer to equality with their white counterparts: the integration of the armed forces following the Second World War, and the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision."

Tags:Brown, v., Board, of, Education, gradualism, civil, rights

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This paper examines the ancient Chinese custom of foot binding. The paper details the history of this ritual and the socio-cultural role it played in Chinese society. Then the paper turns to an analysis of the metaphoric significance of foot binding in literature and on film. Works studied include the James Michener epic novel "Hawaii" and the film "The Hawaiians", which is based on the novel and the film "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness".

From the Paper
"James Michener explored the Chinese culture in his epic novel Hawaii, which was made into two films, the second of which, The Hawaiians, dealt with the Chinese woman Char Nyuk Tsin, and her husband, Kee Mun Ki. While the practice of foot binding is never a central theme or issue of either the novel or the film, it is an underlying element in the plot structure and character development. Char Nyuk Tsin is a peasant woman of Hakka, a mountain village that traditionally does not bind the feet of their women, since they are required to carry heavy loads up and down steep and rocky terrain. A rival neighboring village practices the custom, considering it a mark of ignorance that their neighbors leave their women's feet to grow naturally.When the Chinese are imported to Hawaii to work in the fields, the first women allowed on the islands are the women with strong, unbound feet. Chinese women with bound feet are not among the early Chinese allowed to relocate in the Hawaiian Islands, since their usefulness as laborers is limited."

Tags:Chinese, culture, torture, lame, feet, hawaii, inn, sixth, happiness, michener

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This paper conducts a qualitative investigation on the effectiveness of e-learning tools. Because e-learning is becoming a fashion in many educational institutions nowadays, it is important to find if the use of custom-built and interactive courses have positive effects in the process of gaining knowledge in students. As part of the discussion, this paper also covers the effect of having custom-built learning environment to teachers and instructors. Some of the questions that may assist the readers to understand the effectiveness of e-learning to students are: What are the advantages and disadvantages of e-learning? Do custom-built learning environments provide better outcome grades to students as compared to the outcome grades of students when in a traditional process of learning and teaching? How do students view the use of custom-built learning environments?
Introduction
Adapting Virtual Learning Environment
Literature Review on the Effectiveness Custom-Built E-Learning
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The emergence of computers decades ago gave rise to a lot of improvements in man's daily work and activities. The different businesses and industries were brought with technologies that were born out of a computer's capabilities. This includes the diverse kind of software that automates the used-to-be manual and paper-based tasks in the office. Also, it includes the different hardware that are usually used as alternatives to the jobs humans can perform.

One area where computers perhaps have great impact in the manner and style of learning that the previous generations have is the area of education. Nowadays, almost all educational institutions utilize computers as part of their learning tools and sources. This is becoming a trend because of a computer's capability to rapidly provide information, as well as store them without the need to use traditional learning materials like pen, paper, chalk, and board. Moreover, computers provide a better way of presenting learning materials with the help of diverse software that are available in the market. Thus, increasing students' interest to learn and allowing them to easily absorb information and knowledge."

Tags:student, distance, grade, course

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The paper examines how Americans desire the social classes of Europe, while Europeans desire American money. The paper analyzes how this is represented in the social dramas of James and Wharton. The paper discusses how Henry James' novel suggests that even an American who covets and respects the sophistication of European nobility cannot buy his way into this sensibility, nor lose his American sheen. The paper further examines how, in Edith Wharton's novel, the crass, social-climbing heroine Undine Spragg's social aspirations triumph over the fake American aristocracy of her first husband Ralph Marvell, but Undine is vanquished by the 'real' European manifestation of class in the form of her second, French aristocratic husband.

From the Paper
"At the beginning of the James novel, Newman is seen gazing at the pictures of the Paris Louvre, which he experiences as a kind of an attractive and beautiful marketplace of old European art curiosities and cultural majesty. Newman covets these offerings of Europe, much as a woman might covet objects of commerce in a store, but the culture of Europe, although it can be experienced visually or aurally by an American in a museum or by listening to an opera, cannot be purchased like an American object made in a factory."

Tags:commercialism, Newman, illusion, morals, aristocracy, refinement

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This paper discusses marriage customs of Igbo tribes in West African culture. This cultural analysis is uncritical, and especially sympathetic to the traditions of patriarchal societal structures.

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This paper describes some of the ways in which Chinua Achebe's 1959 novel, "Things Fall Apart", critiques traditional Nigerian tribal customs as well as the incoming British Christian colonial rule. Like the novel, the paper focuses on Okonkwo, an African villager who finds the world around him falling apart over the course of his lifetime. His reactions to his own family's roles in tribal life and colonization are considered as important moments of characterization.

From the Paper
"Chinua Achebe's novel, "Things Fall Apart", describes the daily life of a group of tribes living in Nigeria at the end of the nineteenth century. The book focuses on Okonkwo, a powerful and feared Umuofia villager, and his relationships with his family members and community. "Things Fall Apart" traces the ways in which Okonkwo came to become the person he is, and, eventually, how he and his community change in relation to Christian European colonialization. While the novel strongly sympathizes with the original tribal culture of Nigeria and supports much of the communities' efforts to keep colonization at bay, it also includes a critique of some..."

Tags:achebe, customs, colonization