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Arafat: A Controversial Political Legacy, 2005.
The paper discusses Arafat's political legacy and the difficulty involved in trying to reconcile the dual roles he played as national hero and international terrorist.
2,827 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 84.95
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The author argues that Arafat's political legacy is extremely controversial and practically irresolvable. On the one hand, he was an international terrorist and a dictator. On the other hand, he was a national hero and the father of the Palestinian people. That legacy, containing so many contradictions, as the author argues, is a reflection of Arafat's own incapacity to define his political aims and strategies; he often vacillated from one extreme to the other.
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"Upon his death on the 11th November, 2004, Yasser Arafat became the subject of yet another controversy. That controversy was, specifically stated, over the nature of his political legacy. Some, as reported by CNN, celebrated his death, interpreting the event as the passing away of a "ruthless terrorist and roadblock to peace" ("Palestinian Leader"). This group interprets Yasser Arafat's political legacy as one of violence, bloodshed and corruption. However, if that group numbers in the millions even, there is another equally large group which mourned Arafat's death, perceiving of it as the passing away of a great political leader and symbol of Palestinian nationhood. This group interprets Yasser Arafat's legacy as being that of a freedom fighter and patriot. However, the fact is that the issue is much more complicated than this black and white picture and a critical analysis of Yasser Arafat's political journey illustrates that he left a mixed political legacy. As this paper shall try to argue, while Yasser Arafat had been involved in terrorist activities in his early life and had become the dictator and not the liberator of the Palestinian people in the last period of his life, he was not the obstacle to peace that Israelis and the United States have insisted he was and, after his death, his legacy will of national leader who, as a freedom fighter, restored the concept of the Palestinian people, made the dream of the Palestinian state an international goal, and achieved the independence of the Palestinian decision making from the control of Arab countries."
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Common Legacy Systems, 2003.
Defines what comprises "legacy".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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Discusses the nature of information processing systems. Describes legacy operating systems as core computer systems integral to keeping a business running. Examines the purpose to solve the immediate problem, legacy computer language, and entities of a database.
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"A computer language, or a computer, or a database, or any software for that matter, becomes known as "legacy" when it shows signs of resisting modification and evolution (Lehman, 1980). The unfortunate ..."
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The Abraham Legacy, 2002.
Shows the impact of the Abraham Legacy on Islam, Christianity and Judaism.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper examines the role that the Abraham Legacy could play in the Middle East. It identifies the shared elements of the Abraham Legacy in Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Then it explores the role this heritage could play in the contemporary era.
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Controversial Television Advertising, 2007.
This paper argues that parents are responsible for keeping their children from watching controversial television advertising.
840 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 29.95
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This paper explains that businesses use controversial television advertising because controversy spreads more rapidly amongst viewers and thereby increases the spread of powerful word-of-mouth advertising. The author points out that censorship only prolongs or intensifies questionable advertising. The paper explains that, because companies competing for profits will continue to believe that questionable advertising methods relay the most powerful messages, parents who are perturbed by this practice must set limits for their own children's television watching simply by turning it off.
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"The more protesters - slash - objectors holding up mini-billboards, or picket signs, simply just broaden the advertisement target area even more. Each person can forge their own opinions about the advertisement's approach, but at least the controversy has opened up the doors to many others to consider forming an opinion, whether it is good, or bad. The public response to the Janet Jackson Super Bowl stunt has gotten other advertisers to pull ads, in fear of upsetting TV networks, of course, due to upsets from viewers."
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Controversial Advertising, 2005.
Discusses controversial advertising and also questions the need for censorship.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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In recent years, legislation, such as the passage of the V-chip law, has made an attempt to address the problem of violence, sex, and overly obscene programs on television. This paper educates the reader in regards to the effects of television and commercial advertising. The paper allows the reader to decide on just how controversial advertising really is.
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"A controversial issue is often raised towards the alcohol advertiser's intent or style of approach in regards to the target market that they are trying to reach. The biggest problem thatthe Alcohol Industry needs to address is the fact that many of the ads are linked to sex, power and success fantasies. This is where the going gets rough and where the censorship factors are showing their value. Alcohol use has never really put anybody high up on any success ladder. Do you yourself know of anybody that really made it to the top by drinking? Obviously it becomes a controversial issue."
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The Political Legacy of the French Revolution, 2004.
An analysis of the legacy of the French Revolution on politics in the U.S. and its likely impact on politics in Iraq and the Middle East at large.
1,631 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper examines how, since the beginning of the 19th century, the legacy of the French Revolution has been ardently debated by politicians, revolutionaries, and political theorists. It looks at how the Revolution of 1789 was the origin of what soon became known as nationalism, liberalism, socialism, and eventually, communism. In particular, it explores its long-term effect on the American political system, Middle Eastern politics, and international terrorism.
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"Collectively, the Revolution was also significant. Without a doubt, society in France and to a lesser level in other parts of Europe would never be the same. Once the prehistoric constitution of privilege was shattered, it could not be pieced together again. The Revolution did not essentially modify the distribution of wealth, but that had not been the intent of most of the revolutionaries. Insofar as legal equality gradually became the norm in France and Europe, the revolutionaries succeeded. The cultural impact is harder to assess. The Revolution did not succeed in establishing the national school system it envisioned, but it did found some of France?s elite educational institutions that have produced some of that nation?s greatest leaders. Its attack on the church had profound repercussions, making the status of the church a central political issue, which even today divides France politically and culturally."
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Jimmy Hoffa's Legacy, 2005.
This paper relates the legacy of Jimmy Hoffa, a labor union organizer in the 1930's.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper explains the legacy of Jimmy Hoffa as a labor union organizer in the 1930's and relates his rise to power as President of the Teamsters Union.
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"Jimmy Hoffa was the leader of the largest union in the United States, the 'International Brotherhood of Teamsters.' He was fervent, some might even say fanatical, in his support of the Teamsters. He often faced conflicts with law enforcement and union leadership. Many speculate that his dealings with organized crime leaders resulted in his disappearance or murder."
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"The Legacy of Divorce" by Judith Wallerstein, et al., 2005.
This paper presents unexpected findings in "The Legacy of Divorce" by Judith Wallerstein, et al. .
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This paper critiques o the book, "The Legacy of Divorce" by Judith Wallerstein, et al... The author points out that the book undermines the notion that children of divorce bounce back and grow into adulthood relatively unaffected.
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"The conventional wisdom or paradigm concerning children of divorce maintained that children of divorce were better off away from bickering parents and an unhappy environment after divorce. In "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce", Judith S Wallerstein et al shatter this paradigm in the third work based on their study of children of divorce since ... These children are now between the ages of .... through and the impact of childhood divorce on their development and present lives has not been good. As Wallerstein et. ..."
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"Legacy of Discord", 2004.
A review of the book, "Legacy of Discord: Voices of the Vietnam War", by Gil Dorland.
951 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper examines the book, "Legacy of Discord: Voices of the Vietnam War", by Gil Dorland. It looks at how the book was written in 2001, twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War and how the book was intended to present some sort of understanding of the causes and motivations behind the Vietnam War through interviews with eighteen people representing a variety of often contradictory viewpoints. It explores the general themes in the book, which include incrementalism, McNamara, micromanagement of the action, and relationships with the Vietnamese army.
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"Aside from the minor complaints made above, the book is a very informative and provocative account of the Vietnam War. There are, however, complaints that could be leveled at the book: for instance, that the evidence presented by interviewees was not entirely truthful. We, as readers, as children of this American foreign policy gone wrong, are asked to put our faith in some of the key players of the war, to believe that they will tell us the truth about their view of events in and surrounding the war: whilst the interviews presented are full of candor, it is a matter of debate as to whether these people can be trusted to tell the truth, and whether we can ever use such sources to base opinions of such events upon."
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Controversial Issues, 2005.
This paper examines "Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Mass Media and Society."
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This paper reviews the work by Alison Alexander and Jarice Hanson entitled "Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Mass Media and Society." The review states that the book does show a good balance between politically divisive and philosophical issues, while looking at some of the more divisive issues, such as race, television violence and liberal bias in the media.
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"Television. Racism. Body Image. Partisan bias in the news media. The tobacco industry. Victims of sexual assault. This reads like a laundry list of problems with which our society not only deals on a daily basis, but even seems to enjoy dealing with, mulling over, flaunting and sensationalizing. Alison Alexander and Jarice Hanson's casebook, "Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Mass Media and Society" is a collection of articles, editorials and case studies on these and other hot button issues regarding the omnipresent and ever-powerful hold that the media has on society. This essay will review Alexander and Hanson's work, pointing out some of the stronger cases made and some of the more interesting issues that are presented."
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Controversial Television Advertising, 2007.
An overview of what constitutes controversial advertising on television.
1,182 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 40.95
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During the past six decades, television advertising has changed considerably. Today, there are television commercials for a myriad of products, including drugs for virtually every health complaint, from headaches to erectile dysfunction. This paper shows that over the years, some television commercials have created concerns and stirred controversy. The paper looks at false advertising, commercials directed at children and teens, sex and medical advertisements.
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"In 2005,it was reported that automakers are now developing marketing strategies to reach gay consumers, a large, often affluent and trend-setting demographic (LaReau 2005). According to General Motors market research data, gay Americans each have an average household income of nearly $65,000, compared to $45,000 of all U.S. households (LaReau 2005). In fact, during the past decade, gay television commercials have been popping up more and more on the airwaves (Is 2000). For example the Volkswagen ad that portrayed two trendy young males stopping curbside to pick up a discarded "kitschy old armchair," or the John Hancock Insurance commercial that featured a female couple adopting a baby (Is 2000)."
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"The Legacy of Slavery", 2003.
An article analysis of "The Legacy of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood" by Angela Y. Davis.
1,019 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper analyzes the article and give the writer's personal opinions. It asks whether the author presents a valid explanation of the different worlds occupied by slave women and white women. It looks at how the slave women overcame the oppression of their world to live in society. It states that the differences between black and white women certainly exist, but ultimately, Black women are not so different from their white sisters; they both want to nurture their families and live a decent life.
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"Angela Y. Davis voices some extremely compelling arguments about slave women in her article, and she backs them up with clear illustrations. For example, she writes about work in the lives of white and Black women, and how it differs. "Proportionately, more Black women have always worked outside their homes than have their white sisters. The enormous space that work occupies in Black women's lives today follows a patter established during the very earliest days of slavery" (Davis 157). She also clearly shows the similarities between the women and men's work in the fields, but defines how the masters consistently mistreated Black women. Their sexuality delineated them from Black men, because they could be abused and exploited, and often were. As Davis notes, "But women suffered in different ways as well, for they were victims of sexual abuse and other barbarous mistreatment that could only be inflicted on women" (Davis 158)."
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?The Legacy of Conquest?, 2002.
Discusses Patricia Nelson Limerick's book "The Legacy of Conquest" on the settlement of the American west.
1,208 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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Limerick's book is a work of synthesis designed to suggest a new, comprehensive ground on which the history of the American West, often fragmented into many different branches, can be approached afresh. The paper discusses Limerick's view that, contrary to popular thinking based on the ideas by Frederick Jackson Turner that the American Frontier closed officially in 1890, the 'settling of the west' experience was not an exclusively European domain. The book reminds the reader of the Indians, Hispanics, Asians and women whose involvement in the Western history was not a minor matter.
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"As Limerick notes in discussing current events that may have an impact on further shaping the West, every historian operates from a presentist context and it was a mistake for historians to ignore the fact that Turner's presentism exerted a particularly limiting force on his thesis. If historians today look at the continuities and common themes of Western history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rather than adhering to the artificial 1890 watershed imposed by Turner's thesis, they will certainly, even if they do not accept every aspect of Limerick's own thesis, develop a means of viewing Western history in a comprehensive fashion."
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The Victorian Legacy, 2002.
A review of D.H. Lawrence?s novel "Rainbow", Vera Brittain?s memoir the "Testament of Youth" and Francois Truffault?s film "Two English Girls" with an emphasis on the legacy left to women from the Victorian Era.
1,698 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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The paper discusses how D.H. Lawrence?s novel "Rainbow", Vera Brittain?s memoir the "Testament of Youth" and Francois Truffault?s film "Two English Girls", all deal with the issue of how women in the twentieth century deal with their inheritance of Victorian morality and how they shape their own lives both in response to and in defiance of those virtues. It examines how in Victorian society, women had an extremely well-defined, repressive and limited role in society with strict taboos surrounding female sexuality, which was not a subject available for polite discussion. It looks at how in all the three works, several different young female characters raised in the shadow of the Victorian Era are coming to grips with their identity especially as it relates to the typical idea of women that people held in the Victorian Era.
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"Vera Brittain on the other hand, displays an example of the new femininity that began to emerge in the twentieth century after the end of the Victorian era and the repression that that era caused people to entertain, particularly as regards their gender roles. Brittain, unlike Ursula, however, seems to have a sense of how she can achieve a difference between her and her forbearers in action as well as in thought. She realizes what she learns by working outside of the house as a nurse and what this information enable her to accomplish in the world. Further, she realizes how having access to information about the realities of both life and of sexuality enable her to have a more privileged and enlightened position in the world than many of her female contemporaries."
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The Legacy of the Ottoman Empire, 2005.
An assessment of the main legacy left by the fall of the Ottoman Empire on the modern Middle East.
3,609 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 100.95
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The Ottoman Empire ranks alongside the Roman and Byzantine as one of the most powerful and long-lasting imperial systems in world history. This paper focuses on the disintegration of the Ottoman dominion and the manner in which their former territories came to be under the thumb of the victorious European powers. In particular, it analyses the manner in which the Western Powers exerted influence on the breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the makeup of the Middle East after World War One.
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"The Ottomans had mistakenly chosen to ally themselves with the Central Powers, and when they were defeated, all of the Middle East, formerly part of the Ottoman Empire became 'up for grabs' as spheres of influence for the victorious Allied nations. This is where many of the Middle East problems we face today began. The generally unsound Treaties, drawn up by the Western powers, combined with those far removed, European politicians, arbitrarily created the Middle East national boundaries that exist today without any regard to local geography, tribal affiliations or national identity. Inevitably, this method of decision making and map drawing was to prove fallacious, yet at the time there was little criticism, bar that of the Turkish nationalists. Whether or not the victorious European powers believed or even desired that this system endure and even flourish is a topic of uncertainty."
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