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"Heart of Darkness", 2008.
This paper focuses on the wilderness in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".
1,092 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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The paper examines Joseph Conrad's classic 1899 serialized short novel "Heart of Darkness", interpreting the book as a look at the effect of the wilderness upon seemingly civilized men. The paper focuses on how an encounter with such wild primal energies can penetrate the veneer of civilized conditioning and even destroy it, leading to what Conrad refers to as madness.
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"Joseph Conrad's classic 1899 serialized short novel Heart of Darkness has been examined from various angles, utilizing diverse literary as well as political and economic approaches. The most frequently encountered tactic of analysis for this story of adventure and inner conflict has probably been from the perspective of colonialism and the attitudes of late 19th/early 20th century Europeans (especially British and French) toward their colonial possessions in Africa, including their pragmatically Machiavellian treatment of both natural and human resources therein."
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"Inventing the University", 2008.
An analysis of the concepts and applications of the theory of David Bartholomae's article "Inventing the University."
804 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper critiques David Bartholomae's article "Inventing the University." It describes Bartholomae's proposal and argument within his article and the practical application of his suggestions to students within universities. The paper then briefly compares Bartholomae's arguments with Amy Devitt's theory in her article, "Generalizing about Genre: New Conceptualizations of an Old Concept."
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"While Bartholomae is correct that university professors have power, while students need to bow to that power by learning and using the appropriate discourses, it is also true that children learning the language are in the same position of relative powerlessness vis-a-vis their parents. It is incumbent upon them to enter into the discourses of their parents, on their parents' terms, in order to be understood. Thus, it would seem that there is no reason to single out university contexts for this reality. It is simply the reality of how all human beings learn to enter the various discourses that together comprise our human societies."
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"Strategy as Action", 2008.
A review of business strategy and strategic rationale for competitive advantage, as discussed in "Strategy as Action: Competitive Dynamics and Competitive Advantage," by C. Grimm, K. Smith and H. Lee.
1,321 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the book entitled "Strategy as Action: Competitive Dynamics and Competitive Advantage," written by C. Grimm, K. Smith and H. Lee. The paper first discusses the book in relation to general managerial economics as applied for competitive advantage. The paper then discusses the relationship between establishing a sound economic justification for business strategy and strategic rationale. It also provides various examples from the literature used to support these observations.
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Overview
Major Themes
Economic Integration
Conclusion
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"Such a mentality at the managerial and executive level within a given organization allows the company, no matter how large or hierarchical in nature, to respond more quickly and more effectively to both threats and opportunities in the marketplace. In such an environment, while there still exists many real and unforeseeable market threats, the market itself is reduced as close to the concept of perfect competition as it likely can be (Besanko, Dranove, Shanley & Schaefer, 2006, p.208). In this ideal type of market companies compete in a relatively level playing field of opportunity where there are sufficient consumers, a market price completely arrived at by market forces, and a market not controlled by any single competitor or supplier. By framing the global market in such a context, the authors of Strategy as Action: Competitive Dynamics and Competitive Advantage becomes a field manual for contemporary organizations in the global economy."
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The "Canadian Geographer", 2008.
A general overview of the "Canadian Geographer" journal and an analysis of five of its articles over a five year period.
1,282 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper reviews the "Canadian Geographer," which is an academic journal published by the Canadian Association of Geographers. It focuses in particular on the five year period from Summer 2001 to Spring 2006. The paper begins with a general discussion of the design of "Canadian Geographer" and its articles over this period. It then analyzes, in detail, five articles chosen from within this time frame.
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General Overview
Article Analysis
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"Of the five articles explored in detail here, Bronson's and Noble's "Measuring the Effectiveness of Park Canada's Environmental Management System" would have perhaps the most limited audience base in that, it may be argued, geographers and environmentalists would be those readers primarily interested in its quantitative case study of the environmental support aspects of park operations in Riding Mountain National Park. This article's assessment of the effectiveness of the environmental management system of one Canadian National Park is, of the five articles discussed here, the one that seems most reflective of the popular limited conception of geography as a discipline."
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Moral Principles in "L'Ingenu", 2008.
An analysis of the relativity of Enlightenment moral principles in "L'Ingenu" by Voltaire.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper analyzes the moral freedom of the individual in "L'Ingenu" by Voltaire. It looks at how the central character Ingenu (the Ingenuous One or The Huron) is often described by Voltaire as the "noble savage", ultimately representing a far more noble morality in relation to the 'civilized' Europeans in the story. It examines how Voltaire uses the outwardly barbaric nature of a Native American to define the relativity of moral values, which reflect the objective diversity of moral tenets outside of French moral absolutism.
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"The subjectivity of moral values in Voltaire's novella L'Ingenu is revealed through his main character, the Huron. Although the Huron appears to be a representative of the "barbaric" Native American culture, he is actually being represented as an alternate source of morality outside of Voltaire's own culture. Of course, the Huron meets many upper class elites from French society, and they define him as being the "noble savage" or a tribesperson below their civilized station. The French view of the Huron Indians is often deemed unworthy of the refinement that French society represents in the world through Voltaire's narrative. "
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Globalization and Capitalism, 2008.
A comparison of the style and focus of Steven K. Vogel's article, "The Crisis of German and Japanese Capitalism" and Gary Teeple's article, "The Global Economy and the Decline of Social Reform."
1,546 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper discusses and compares Steven K. Vogel's article, "The Crisis of German and Japanese Capitalism" and Gary Teeple's article, "The Global Economy and the Decline of Social Reform." It describes the different style and focus of each article, as well as their similarities, especially in their main focus on modern day economic globalization and the current state of capitalism.
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"The thousands of Canadians who recently had to line up to get passports to cross the world's longest "friendly border" and enter the territory of our nearest neighbour most likely did not feel as if they were at the end of the era of the nation-state. Similarly, Canadian/Syrian national Maher Arar, who was allegedly deported to Syria via Jordan by the US government in 2002, there to be detained and tortured for a year, most likely did not feel as if he was living in the era of the end of the nation-state (Amnesty International, 2003). A year of being tortured in the name of national rivalries and animosities between two different nation states would cause most people to believe quite strongly that the nation state was alive and well. On the other hand, Teeple's analysis goes to the macro economic forces that operate below the surface, and it might be possible to simultaneously believe in the end of the nation-state in relation to economics, while allowing that deeply held animosities between nation states could continue to cause incidents such as Arar's ordeal, as well as calamities such as 9/11."
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Evidence-based Practice in Mental Health, 2008.
An analysis of the strengths and limitations of Sandra Tanenbaum's research article, "Evidence-based Practice in Mental Health: Practical Weaknesses meet Political Strengths."
1,554 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 51.95
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This paper discusses Sandra Tanenbaum's research article, "Evidence-based Practice in Mental Health: Practical Weaknesses meet Political Strengths." It assesses the merits of the article as well as its potential problems. The paper analyzes all the aspects of the research study and then enumerates its strengths and limitations.
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Purpose of the Study
Research Questions
Study Design
Subjects and Setting
Data Collection Methods
Data Analysis Procedures
Strengths and Limitations of the Research
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"Two of the major weaknesses in Tanenbaum's study are in her selection of evidence and the overall lack of descriptive information concerning her methods. The limitation of evidence selection is not unique to Tanenbaum's research but is instead a major problem associated with all literature-based qualitative research papers, as it is easy to see the selection of content as "cherry picking" specific items that support the author's point of view. As for the second limitation, Tanenbaum places the majority of descriptive information in the Abstract to her paper and this makes it difficult to assess the overall design of the study. It also makes it difficult to assess the validity of the study, and to that extent it is not known how or why the study is valid. However, as Tanenbaum provides a balanced presentation of materials, it can be inferred that the study is as valid as a qualitative research paper using an archival methodology can be. She also recommends that more research is needed in EBP, and points out areas in which this research can be attempted."
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"Ordinary Men", 2008.
This paper analyzes Christopher R. Browning's "Ordinary Men".
1,262 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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The paper discusses Browning's book "Ordinary Men", where Browning wants the reader to see how a unit of the German Order Police, who committed terrible acts by carrying out a number of killings and other atrocities as part of the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jews of Poland, were actually "ordinary men". The paper describes Browning's analysis of these men, which is told in a detailed way and that exposes all the questions that might be raised. The paper also highlights the Browning's difficulty in explaining how ordinary individuals could commit such terrible atrocities against the Jews during the Holocaust.
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"Brown asks how these men faced this dilemma and offers a history of the Order Police, though that history does not explain the central issue of why these men acted so brutally and so out of their normal character. Browning does try to answer the question of why these men acted as they did, though he also points out that no one reason can be offered as to why the many man involved committed the acts they did. Any explanation would apply only to a percentage of the whole and not to all. One force that Browning does cite as important is the conditioning of society, conditioning that accustomed people to respecting and deferring to authority."
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"The Illustrated Man", 2008.
This paper discusses the overall theme found in Ray Bradbury's collection of short stories, "The Illustrated Man".
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The paper relates that the dominant theme in Ray Bradbury's "The Illustrated Man" is how each person reacts to his own personal problems and fate when confronted with new and threatening circumstances. The paper focuses on the way the protagonists in the stories "The Man," "Kaleidoscope" and "The Long Rain" react to a situation in which they know they have no way out and can only depend on themselves and their own inner strength.
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"Ray Bradbury is one of America's best known and popular science fiction authors, having written more than 30 books over the past half century, not to mention numerous short stories, plays and screenplays. In this essay, I am going make an attempt to discuss the overall theme found in Ray Bradbury's collection of short stories, The Illustrated Man, which was originally published in 1951 and has been reprinted many times since ("Ray Bradbury.") The reason I am selecting this angle of approach is that although the issue of technology and its impact on society are a very important part of Bradbury's work, not every story is about technology itself. In most of the stories, technology forms only a backdrop. It also seems that despite some obvious exceptions (such as "The Other Foot") Bradbury's stories are not especially concerned with immediately relevant social issues, although they do deal with how society reacts to threatening events. In fact, it seems to me that what makes Bradbury's work here so interesting is the way he focuses on the effects of new ideas on particular individuals, and I see this as the overriding theme of the anthology."
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Countee Cullen's Poetic Universality, 2008.
This paper analyzes the cultural universality in the poems of Countee Cullen.
1,058 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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The paper focuses on the diversity of cultural and race issues within the poetic works of Countee Cullen. The paper looks at the poems "Heritage" and "Yet Do I Marvel" and discusses how Cullen is able to convey a sense of awareness of his own cultural background without the monolithic view of race issues in his work. The paper highlights Cullen's broad sense of poetic universality across cultural and racial lines during the Harlem Renaissance.
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"For Countee Cullen, poetry was often deemed "raceless" due to the way that he interpreted human relationships within the big city. New York City was a massive "melting pot" of immigrants and people of differing races, which became manifest during the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen lived in this section of the city where African Americans were indeed marginalized, yet they were able to have greater freedoms that what was allowed at the time in the South. Cullen is aware of cultural roots going back to Africa in this urban milieu, which helps to dictate his ideas about the limitations of African American identity in the poem "Heritage"."
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"Growing Up Palestinian", 2008.
This paper critically reviews Laetitia Bucaille's book "Growing Up Palestinian", which focuses on the complexity of social change among the Palestinian population.
1,115 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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The paper critically analyzes Bucaille's text "Growing Up Palestinian", which explores the social fault lines within Palestinian society. Using Bucaille's book as a basis, the paper argues that these fault lines have not only been exacerbated but, to a great extent, created by the instrumentality of the Israeli occupation; a process that has been reinforced by the inadequacies of the emerging Palestinian governance since the 1990s. The paper shows how these fault lines have not only fragmented Palestinian society, but critically weakened it in the face of a range of challenges over the past decade.
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"In her book Growing Up Palestinian, French journalist and academic Laetitia Bucaille describes the impact of the Israeli Occupation, the two Intifadas, and the emerging Palestinian governance structures in the 1990s upon a generation of young Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Given the nature of her subject, this text cannot truly be considered a general analysis of Palestinian society as a whole. For example, one significant gap in her text is its lack of direct treatment of young Islamists and members of Hamas; an increasingly influential portion of the Palestinian population. This being said, even with the text's focus upon more secular young Palestinians we can understand the complexity of social change among the Palestinian population over the past two decades."
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Marlowe's versus Goethe's "Faust", 2007.
This paper contrasts Christopher Marlowe's "Tragical History of Doctor Faust" and Johann von Goethe's "Faust".
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This paper explores the story structure, the role of Gretchen and theological presuppositions in Marlowe's play "Tragical History of Doctor Faust" and Goethe's play "Faust", separated by approximately two hundred years and by two different languages and cultures, English and German. The author points out that, while both Marlowe's and Goethe's plays are tragedies, Goethe's ends on an optimistic note. The paper relates that Goethe's play is a longer and more complex work with many more episodes of varied style. The author states that the Gretchen episode, which is prominent in Goethe's "Faust", is not found at all in Marlowe's play. The paper concludes that, what to Marlowe was basically a foreign story, which he imported for his own ends, was to Goethe a part of his own nation's cultural tradition and was more familiar to people as a folk tale.
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Gretchen
Theology
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Structure
Gretchen
Theology
Conclusion
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"The Gretchen (Margarete) episode is a very prominent and well-known one in Goethe's Faust but is not found at all in Marlowe's play. In the last part of Part I, the role of Gretchen comes to the forefront of the story, even putting Faust himself into the background for a while. Despite her tragic, Ophelia-like demise, the voice from above which proclaims her redemption at the very end of Part I ends that part of the poem on a highly optimistic note, and foreshadows Faust's own redemption at the end of Part II."
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Dr. David Snowdon's "Aging with Grace", 2007.
This paper describes and analyzes Dr. David Snowdon's book "Aging with Grace: What the Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives"
1,520 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that Dr. David Snowdon's book "Aging with Grace" represents fascinating insights into the nature of health, disease and the factors that define the realities of daily life. The author points out that this book also describes a groundbreaking research project that studied the health vectors shaping the lives of hundreds of Catholic nuns across life-spans of many decades. The paper stresses the critical methodological importance of the sample group because it allowed the researchers to eliminate many of the variables that complicate and undermine studies of aging and Alzheimer's. The author indicates that the advantage of the sample was that the nuns presented the researchers with detailed records of their lives, health conditions, and intellectual capacities (e.g., written autobiographies) for a large population spanning decades.
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"Over the course of twelve chapters, complete with pictures and biographies of many of the participants in the study, the author describes how important such practices as reading and emotional stability are to ensuring that the brain has the capacity to repair or "patch" damage over the course of a long life. As the likelihood of Alzheimer's increases with age, one of the surprising findings of this study is that the symptoms of Alzheimer's (e.g., forgetfulness, dementia) often have little to do with the rate of progression of the disease."
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T. R.Berger's "Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland", 2007.
This paper applies the critical-emancipatory paradigm and the constructivist-interpretive paradigm to T. R.Berger's 1988 book "Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland: The Report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry".
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This paper explains that the critical paradigm recognizes that reality is the product of history and analyzes it accordingly through social, political, cultural, economic, ethnic and gender values developed over time. The author states that, when applying the critical-emancipatory approach to T. R. Berger's "Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland", the observer understands that the whole issue surrounding the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry involves a strong reaction to historical reality issues especially the importance of the First Nation people and the environmental supporters in deciding against the pipeline project. The paper relates that the constructivist-interpretive paradigm assumes that to understand the world and its meaning, one must interpret it. The author underscores that the constructivist-interpretive paradigm can be applied to Berger's work in that his assessment of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline is heavily subjective and based upon interpretation of multiple realities.
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The Strengths and Weakness of the Critical Paradigm
Application of the Critical-Emancipatory Approach to "Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland"
The Strength and Weakness of the Constructivist-Interpretive Paradigm
Application of the Critical Constructivist- Interpretive Paradigm to "Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland"
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"It is easy to analyze the Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland document in terms of the critical-emancipatory approach. Indeed, the whole issue surrounding the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry involves a strong reaction of social, political, cultural, economic and ethnic issues derived from processes over history. The writer, Berger, has assessed the contentious issue of the pipeline development firstly in terms of economic issues: that is, that it will be good for the Canadian economy, particularly the northern Canadians who will be brought now into the "mainstream of the Canadian economy" (Berger, 1988, p. 3). Ultimately, however, Berger has acknowledged the role of ethnicity in appraising the pipeline project and assessing its worth. His final position assumes the First Nation Canadians are correct; environmentally-speaking, the project should not go on). The role of acknowledging the importance of the First Nation people and the environment in deciding against the pipeline project display evidence of cultural, social, political and ethnic values in evaluating the situation.
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War Literature, 2008.
An analysis of the role of symbolism in Jeff Shaara's "The Rising Tide", Richard Galli's "Of Rice and Men" and James Bacque's "Our Fathers' War".
1,462 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper examines war imagery as it appears in three novels - Jeff Shaara's "The Rising Tide", Richard Galli's "Of Rice and Men", and James Bacque's "Our Fathers' War". It looks at how this imagery captures the absurdity of war and its many contradictions by having symbols and concepts uneasily juxtaposed against one another. More than that, the paper also notes how war inverts things, with the cross and the Church taking on chilling meanings while "dirt" becomes more meaningful than cleanliness. It concludes that symbols serve as powerful communicators of war's destructiveness and perversity.
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"In Jeff Shaara's 2006 novel, The Rising Tide, the use of symbolism raises some interesting images in the minds of the reader. For instance, at one point, as his tank crew is firing on a German tank, it occurs to a British officer of the British Seventh Armored Division that the first thing they always see through the dust and dirt of war are the crosses - the crosses marking German tanks on the battlefield of the Libyan Desert (Shaara, 9). The cross is supposed to represent Christianity, of course, but in the desert it is inverted in the mind to represent something else: killing machines that fire projectiles which tear apart Allied tanks and the men within them. Considering the absurdity of war, the symbolic potency of finding crosses in the middle of a war-torn desert is quite powerful."
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