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County of Cook/City of Chicago Homeland Security, 2007.
This paper describes in detail the author's interviews and analysis of homeland security in the County of Cook/City of Chicago.
5,855 words (approx. 23.4 pages), 19 sources, APA, $ 140.95
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This paper relates that Cook County, Illinois, the second largest county in the US, and its hub, the City of Chicago, have critical and symbolic infrastructures, within its borders such as the Sears Tower, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Federal Reserve Bank and the Navy Pier, which are at the heart of the U.S. defense of its homeland security. The author expected well-planned and well-executed preparations; yet it seems that this department is marred in the typical "Chicago political machine" with what appears to be more spin about its weaknesses than exploitation of its strengths. The author of the paper states, for example, with total shock, that, unlike all of the other ten largest counties (by population) in the United States, Cook County does not have a specific division addressing homeland security.
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"In an interesting article in CIO Magazine, it continues to elaborate as to the new camera system. Chicago already had about 2,000 un-networked video cameras installed around the city as well as at O'Hare International Airport and Midway Airport. An additional 250 cameras were added at "undisclosed locations deemed 'high-risk terrorist targets,'" according to Ron Huberman, Executive Director of the City of Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communication. He continued in saying that "linking all the cameras into a single network, tied together with customized off-the-shelf 'smart' software, will bring the system to a whole new level." "
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Chicago, 2001.
A critique of an article written by R. Longworth titled "Chicago as a Global City."
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper briefly summarizes the article concerning the factors that are lacking in order to turn Chicago into a true global city and a leader in business headquarters. The writer then lists criticism about the article and examines each of these - unclear, narrow focus, failure to present strategies.
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"This is a timely report that addresses several valid and important aspects of globalization, including harvesting knowledge, building and sustaining a brand, integration of resources, and maintaining balance with the human element. The report, however, has several significant shortcomings that result in a lack of validity and broad applicability. The first is lack of clarity regarding the meaning of ?globalization? and success in global markets. Second, the report has a narrow and local focus as it ignores external politics, markets, and consumers. Third, the report fails to address strategies for long-term sustainability of a global presence. "
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?The Ku Klux Klan in the City?.
This paper reviews Kenneth T. Jackson's book, ?The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930?, a valuable look at the second Klan movement.
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 39.95
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This paper examines the way the second Klan movement captured political power in urban centers in the South and the North as portrayed in Kenneth T. Jackson's book, ?The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930". The book dispels many of the stereotypes of the Klan as a rural, Southern movement. The author points out that as the Klan grew in prominence it moved into new areas. In the South, it moved into areas such as Knoxville and Dallas. In the North, it expanded into Chicago, Detroit, and Indianapolis, a city which became the center of Klan activity. The Klan also moved west into California, Portland, and Denver. The paper states that, according to Jackson, the Klan's weakness in the political sphere can be largely attributed to its association with racism and intolerance because the Klan found ample opportunity to denounce Catholicism, integration, Judaism, immigration and internationalism as threats to traditional American values.
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"The Ku Klux Klan had a number of strengths and weaknesses in the political sphere. In the south, the Klan held a fair amount of power, even from the late 1910s, and many of its actions were public. In 1918 the Klan played a role in stopping a strike in the shipyards of Mobile by abducting a labor leader and threatening others. A similar scene played out in Birmingham at about the same time. The Klan's defiant stance against criminal elements in Birmingham carried a great deal of political clout in the south. In Nashville, a local police chief advised authorities to start a Klavern in order to help reduce crime in the area. The Klan even participated in a confederate reunion in Atlanta."
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Why Would You Doubt Your Senses?, 2006.
A discussion regarding senses, perception and reality.
1,114 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper takes a look at a person's senses, perception and how it relates to reality. According to the paper, different people have different perceptions of the same thing, as our senses sense differently. The smell or taste that is enjoyed by one person, may be abhorred by another. The paper goes on to discuss the concept of hallucination and how it relates to reality.
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"It was a nice warm spring afternoon and while I was taking a nap at our backyard, I had a dream - or a nightmare perhaps! In my dream, it was night and I was lying on my bed trying to sleep. But sleep was hard to achieve because I was wrapped in Saran wrap and I was having difficulties breathing. Deep, labored breathing...my chest was going up, down, up down and the more I try to breath deep, the more labored my breathing got. Somewhere in the subconscious or unconscious realm of my mind, I knew I was having a nightmare and I needed to fight it off. As my dream/nightmare continued, I felt myself getting out of bed - still wrapped in Saran wrap - and went out of my room, walked down the stairs and went to the kitchen. I opened the refrigerator, grabbed the first bottle of water and tried drinking, but to no avail. It was then I took the deepest breath I could muster and let out the loudest shout I could - then I woke up sweating and hyperventilating."
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Personal Senses, 2001.
This paper discusses how senses work together in order to paint a complete individual picture.
2,100 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper explains the similarities of the individual senses, and draws reasonable assumptions as to how the senses work in concert with one another to enable the mind to create a complete picture of an individual?s environment. The first exploration is of a personal observation with regard to the use of the senses to detect a bad piece of shellfish, followed by similarities in differences in the olfactory system and taste. The next exploration is of the epidermis, and some observations with regard to the similarities and differences of how motion is detected.
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"Smith and Margolskee state that taste cells lie within specialized structures called taste buds, which are situated in the epithelium of the mouth, predominantly on the tongue and soft palate. The majority of taste buds on the tongue are located within papillae, which are tiny projections that give the tongue its velvety, slightly rough appearance. They further state that the taste buds are onion-shaped structures that contain between 50 and 100 taste cells, each of which has fingerlike projections called microvilli that poke through an opening at the top of the taste bud called the taste pore. Chemicals from food, called tastants dissolve in the saliva and contact the taste cells through this pore, which interact, either with proteins on the surfaces of the cells known as taste receptors, or with pore-like proteins called ion channels. And it is these interactions that cause electrical changes in the taste cells that trigger them to send chemical signals that ultimately result in impulses to the brain. (Smith, Online) "
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"The Natural History of the Senses", 2007.
This paper discusses "The Natural History of the Senses" by Diane Ackerman.
915 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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The paper examines Ackerman's book "The Natural History of the Senses" that spans an experiential history of all five senses. The paper explains Ackerman's premise that it is essential to use a multifaceted approach to understanding human sensory experiences. The paper discusses how human biology influences the way people experience the sensory world. The paper explains that cultural and social influences affect the ways in which these biologically generated impulses are experienced throughout history, in different areas of the world and from person to person. The paper asserts that one will never smell, touch, taste, hear, or see the world the same after reading "The Natural History of the Senses."
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"Diane Ackerman, author of The Natural History of the Senses, seems to posses the ideal qualifications to author such an enterprising and all-encompassing work. According to the author's own website, Ackerman is a noted author of poetry, memoir, and nonfiction. Her education is grounded in both creative and academic training. She received an M.A., M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Previous to writing A Natural History of the Senses in 1990, Ackerman authored several volumes of poetry, and has written a kind of sequel after The Natural History of the Sense's success, called The Natural History of Love. She has authored a book for children on animal's senses, and even has a molecule named after her, called "dianeackerone.""
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"Natural History of the Senses", 2002.
A review of the book "A Natural History of the Senses".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This is a reaction paper to the book "A Natural History of the Senses". It covers each chapter - one on each sense, and one on synaesthesia, or a unification/interaction of senses. Each corresponding section of the paper is followed by a few questions.
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Obsession in "In the Realm of the Senses" and "Sugarbaby", 2004.
A comparison of the obsession exhibited by the central couple in "In the Realm of the Senses" and "Sugarbaby".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses the central couples in two films, "In the Realm of the Senses" and "Sugarbaby", and how the two couples move in opposite directions from each other. The paper explains that the couple in "In the Realm of the Senses" begin by being engaged with the world, but allow their obsession with each other to isolate them, while the couple in "Sugarbaby" use their obsession with each other to connect not only as a couple but to all of society - and to life itself.
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"Where can love take us? A very great distance. It can carry us to lands that we never thought to visit, lands both metaphorical and real. Love can redefine the nature of reality, can redefine how it is that we see ourselves. Love can make us do things that we never believed were possible or right or good. Love breeds obsession and is bred from obsession. It breeds desire and is bred from desire. Both Nagisa Oshima's "In the Realm of the Senses" and Percy Adlon's "Sugarbaby"..."
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Human Senses, 2004.
A description of the process of stimulation experienced by human senses.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 23.95
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This paper studies the process of stimulation, sensation and perception, using specific illustrations from the senses. The paper aims to understand how the senses work within the brain and the body. The paper defines the terms and provides examples.
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"When someone smells coffee is he or she having a sensation or a perception? In every day language these two terms are used interchangeably, however in technical terms sensation and perception..."
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"The Hundred Secret Senses", 2002.
A focus on 'Oriental meeting Western' issues discussed in Amy Tan's third novel, "The Hundred Secret Senses" .
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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A paper which explores important ethnic issues in Amy Tan's "The Hundred Secret Senses" - one of the most important being how the novel emphasizes the differences between East and West through its two main characters and how each has much to learn from the other.
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"The Hundred Secret Senses" is Amy Tan's third novel and received positive response from the readers because of her earlier successes namely "The Joy Luck Club" and "Kitchen God's Wife". The book as her earlier works is a beautiful blend of east and west and the writer herself coming from a Chinese family brings an element of Oriental culture and values in the Hundred Secrets Senses too. While the storyline is definitely unique in its own way, it is important to understand that it is not the plot for which Amy Tan is famous but it is her wonderful and lively characters, their amazing and rather incredible powers and their ability to bring something different to everyday American life that makes her novels interesting and gripping. The readers may not always be able to relate to those characters but they are special because they open new vistas and introduce the readers to a world they didn't know existed."
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Engaging Our Hundred Secret Senses: Amy Tan, 2001.
This paper provides an examination of the soaring career, culture, and works of Chinese-American author Amy Tan with a special emphasis on her novel, "The Hundred Secret Senses".
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 73.95
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This paper examines the life, career and literature of best-selling Chinese-American author Amy Tan. The author focuses specifically on her novel "The Hundred Secret Senses", and examines the history of Chinese-American immigrants, the discrimination they were subjected to, and the pressures of assimilation into American culture. The paper also looks at the pull between Chinese tradition and American way of life, and how Tan struggles with this issue in her writing.
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"In only a handful of novels, Amy Tan has brought us the legends and stories of her background. She has introduced the American public to a new world of fiction, based on her own experiences mingled with the experiences of her ancestors in their beloved homeland of China . In these stories, she has shown herself to be a writer of uncommon technical skills, powers of observation, and richness of humanity, a combination of gifts that inspires her many readers to eager anticipation of her future works."
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"The Hundred Secret Senses" by Amy Tan, 2002.
A look at the theme of mixed identity and senses in Tan's novel.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper discusses the way in which Amy Tan manages to weave the theme of cross cultures and identities in most of her works, focusing on "The Hundred Secret Senses." It describes the main character of Kwan who also represents this confusion and uncertainty of her identity.
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"As is suggested by its title, The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan?s work of fiction suggests that there are senses that go beyond the five customary ones individuals think of when analyzing the ways that human beings perceptually relate to the world. Tan is a writer primarily interested in how individuals located between cultures conceptualize their identities. She suggests that identity and truth, are mutable and constantly in flux, dependent upon perceptions that lie deeper than the material world. Two of three main characters in the text are bi-racial, the half-white and half-Chinese Olivia Yee and her half-Hawaiian husband Simon."
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Descartes and the Limitations of the Senses, 2002.
Critical analysis of Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy" and its strict adherence to the concept of Cartesian dualism.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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Rene Descartes, in his Meditations on First Philosophy, addresses a wide variety of questions, from nature of the self and perception, to the demonstration of the existence of the world and of God. However, his argument in these Meditations begins at a point of radical scepticism concerning the existence of the universe and the nature of reality. Central to this argument is the idea of Cartesian dualism, or the separation of rational intellect from the body and the senses. In this context, this paper will argue, through a examination of various facets of Descartes' argument, that in the final analysis Meditations on First Philosophy retains a measure of this scepticism in its refusal to accept the position that knowledge may be acquired by the senses. 4 pgs. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Poetic Conventions and Stimulation of the Senses, 2003.
An examination of the conventions, both common and original, used by poets to gain superior, heightened responses from their readers.
1,282 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper discusses how one of the common qualities possessed by successful poets throughout the ages is the profound ability to stimulate the senses through subtle and original means. It demonstrates the truth of this statement by closely examining the works of several poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley and the ways in which they persuade their readers to be led by their poetry. It looks at the manner in which the poets employ conventions such as simile, metaphor, rhyme and syntax, to stimulate the reader's subconscience into sensing subtle feelings in the precise way intended.
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"Simile and metaphor are well recognised as being two of the most common conventions present throughout the history of poetry. Most poets have no difficulty in using one or the other to vary their description of events or to add diversity to the structure of their piece. Far rarer, however, are the poets capable of employing their use with such appropriate application as to heighten the texture and feel of the poem in order to increase the reader?s perception of the sights and sounds within the work to a more three dimensional level. That is to say in order to draw a deeper, more detailed realisation of the situation described. Elizabeth Barrett Browning took the use of these conventions to extreme lengths in part XXIV of her Sonnets from the Portuguese."
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Senses and Receptors, 2008.
An analysis of an experiment that investigated chemoreception and mechanoreception in humans.
2,122 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 66.95
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The paper details an experiment that examined the three senses of taste, touch and hearing by determining the thresholds and the localization of their specific receptors. The paper describes the materials and methods used and includes graphs and charts to display results. A discussion on the findings of this experiment is also provided.
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Introduction
Materials and Methods
Results
Discussion
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"In this experiment, three senses were analyzed by determining the thresholds and the localization of their specific receptors. The chemical sense of taste can be divided into five distinct qualities: salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami (Goldstein, 2007), of which the first four were investigated in this experiment. The surface of the tongue contains four different papillae: circumvallate, fungiform, foliate and filiform. The first three house the taste buds. Each taste bud contains receptor sites for different types of chemical, depending on its papillae type (Zungia, et al, 1993). When a chemical contacts the appopriate site, transduction occurs down its nerve fiber. Fibers from the same receptor types synapse with the nucleus of the solitary tract, which eventually leads into several areas of the frontal lobe. These are the insula and the frontal operculum cortex, which receive the taste signals and the orbital frontal cortex, which combines these signals with input from the olfactory system (Goldstein, 2007)."
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