Abstract
In this article, the writer reviews a noteworthy 1996 text by Joanna Bourke and discusses the book's contents and its main arguments. The writer looks at how it was received by the academic community upon its release, whether or not it can be considered a "path-breaking" work of scholarship and why it is an important text.

From the Paper
" ... what can be considered innovative about it (if such is indeed the case), how it "fits" into the broad methodological categories discussed in our course seminar, and what the strengths and weaknesses of the book's chosen methodology are. In the end, this writer found the book to be, generally speaking, a readable and interesting text; a sampling of some of the more notable academic reviews, however, reveals that other historians and individuals who have devoted themselves to the careful study of the epoch feel differently."

Tags:history, warfare

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The paper critically examines Bourke's "Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War", which analyzes how the idealized male form and notions of masculinity were impacted by the events of the First World War. The paper discusses the book's arguments, its strengths and weaknesses and how it was received by the academic community. The paper concludes that the book is a mild disappointment despite some undeniable strengths.

From the Paper
"Bourke's book is chiefly concerned with how the idealized male form - vigorous, strong, assertive - and idealistic notions of masculinity were impacted by the events of the First World War; her conclusion is that there was as much continuity as there was change. For example, Bourke finds that the millions of British men who were maimed during the course of the great conflagration did not return home to a society which viewed them as passive or as weak because their bodies no longer measured up to the ideal male figure; instead, the society to which they returned viewed them (for the most part and at least initially until their status as warriors had slipped into the background) as objects of reverence and sympathy. On the other hand, those men who did not lose limbs in the war but returned home with the reputation as "malingerers" were held in contempt; in short, Bourke's book seems to argue that the idealized male body could be savaged in the most unsightly ways - but those men who had their physical beings damaged could still be viewed as men and as full members of the body politic insofar as they had honored their "masculine duties" on the field of battle."

Tags:servicemen, civilians, disabilities, research, statistics, sources

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The paper relates that the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) of Ontario can be said to have two purposes, a superficial purpose and a deep purpose. The paper explains that the superficial purpose of WSIB is to provide workers in Ontario with safety training and worker's compensation. However, the paper discusses how as Haddow and Klassen (108) argue, the deep purpose of WSIB is to "decrease [historical] OHS administrative costs by 30%." The paper relates that WSIB does so, according to Mogensen (158), by siding with business over the public interest in the realm of workplace safety: "It took aim at dismembering a number of UHS educational and regulatory bodies that the business community in the late 1980s had targeted as both too costly and an encroaching too far into the area of management rights.""

From the Paper
"The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) of Ontario can be said to have two purposes, a superficial purpose and a deep purpose. The superficial purpose of WSIB is to provide workers in Ontario with safety training and worker's compensation. However, as Haddow and Klassen (108) argue, the deep purpose of WSIB is to "decrease [historical] OHS administrative costs by 30%." WSIB does so, according to Mogensen (158), by siding with business over the public interest in the realm of workplace safety: "It took aim at dismembering a number of UHS educational and regulatory bodies that the business community in the late 1980s had...""

Tags:labour, workplace, safety

Abstract
This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the topic of serial killers. Specifically it discusses Jeffrey Dahmer and his crimes, his apprehension, and his background.

From the Paper
"Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer who killed seventeen young men and boys, and engaged in cannibalism and necrophilia with many of the bodies. Most of the victims were African-American or other minorities, and many were gay. Dahmer, a 31-year-old chocolate factory worker from Milwaukee, would cruise gay bars and choose his victims by their skin color (dark) and their small body size. Writers Fox and Levin note, "Dahmer liked them young or small, especially with dark skin, and he surely liked Tracy Edwards" (Fox & Levin, 1994, p. 53). Edwards was the only known Dahmer victim to survive."

Tags:lured, apartment, murdered, lobotomize, sex, dismembered, bodies, ate, internal, organs