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Gary Kremen, 2007.
A review of the life and history of Gary Kremen.
3,095 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 90.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the life of Gary Kremen, a life that is closely linked to the controversy and legal battle surrounding the ownership of sex.com. According to the paper, the sex.com case was a traumatic and multidimensional court case which serves to highlight the tenacity and perseverance of the character of Gary Kremen in the face of daunting opposition and legal odds. The paper also discusses how this case highlights the interaction between the legal system and the changing world of online commerce.
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Introduction
Overview: Gary Kremen and online entrepreneurship
Overview: personal and business history
Brief overview of business accomplishments and history
The Sex.com saga
Conclusion
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"However it is the Sex.com case and legal battle which has riveted the media and public attention. Kremen registered the domain name sex.com in 1994. However, in 1996 a convicted fraudster, Stephen M. Cohen, contacted Network Solutions and had the domain transferred to his name. This was to result in a protracted legal battle over a number of years about the ownership of sex.com Cohen was supported by his influence and contacts in the pornography industry in the country. He also had large financial resources and had the financial ability to fight a lengthy and expensive legal battle. In brief, Kremen was to succeed with the assistance of some of Cohen's rivals in the pornography and adult industry. "Kremen took the upper hand when two of Cohen's rivals in the pornographic industry, Seth Warshavsky and Ron Levi, helped fund Kremen's case."
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Gary Gildner's "Sleepy Time Gal", 2005.
This paper is a review of "Sleepy Time Gal" by Gary Gildner, a short story, which centers on a tale of love and loss that takes place in a small, unnamed town in Michigan during the Great Depression.
825 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper explains that, in Gary Gildner's "Sleepy Time Gal",
the narrator, a third-party in the story, recounts the tale through his father and mother's experiences, presenting each parent's view on the past events as well as some of his own interpretation. The author points out that the narrator's re-telling of his father's story about the Great Depression without focusing heavily on love and its loss, is indicative of a male stereotype that portrays men as somewhat devoid of romanticism. The paper states that Gary Gildner has de-emphasized a cliched love plot and instead presents it in more of a 'no nonsense' manner. The author concludes that, regardless of how the story is told, the story remains one of love and how it is lost. The paper states that readers are aware of how the narrator provides a balance to an otherwise one-sided and potentially uninteresting story.
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"By mentioning the parts he would like to include, the narrator seeks to complete what, in his mind, is only a partial story. By mentioning that he had already intruded too far in a story that wasn't his, the narrator displays the need to balance the story and offers an apology for straying from his stated intent of relaying the story as it was told to him. Though his mother also did not experience the events first-hand, but rather heard it from the narrator's father, her view of the romantic side of the story should be given a certain amount of weight; since the story was most likely relayed to her closer to the occurrence of the events."
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Poem: Gary Soto's "Mexicans Begin Jogging", 2004.
This paper analyzes Gary Soto's 1981 freedom poem "Mexicans Begin Jogging".
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, $ 31.95
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This paper argues that Gary Soto's 1981 poem "Mexicans Begin Jogging" illuminates the general immigrant experience. The author points out that the poem reflects the unique experiences of Latinos.
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"Gary Soto's poem "Mexicans Begin Jogging" is both technically and emotionally skillful a story that applies both at some level to all Americans and one that is in other ways unique to the Latino experience. Speaking as it does of freedom and the desire of all ..."
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Southwest Airline's CEO: Gary Kelly, 2005.
Discusses how Gary Kelly's style has set new directions for the airline.
1,840 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss how CEO Gary Kelly's style has set new directions for strategy, internal relations and Southwest Airlines operations in an increasingly competitive and challenging environment.
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"The instability of macro-environmental forces and their impact upon the effectiveness and profitability of airlines indicates the need for multi-dimensional flexible and responsive management structure able to operate ..."
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Gary Orfield?s ?Dismantling Desegregation?, 2002.
This paper argues against the conclusions of Gary Orfield?s book ?Dismantling Desegregation?, that segregation is slowly becoming the norm again in many communities.
2,340 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper explains that Orfield is making an argument for entitlement: All students are entitled to the same educational opportunities and that measures must be taken to ensure that children, especially black children, are not forsaken these opportunities. The author feels that Orfield fails to make the distinction between racial segregation and the social or market forces that compel poor blacks to live in the same neighborhood. The author cites that in the two cases of Grutter vs. Bollinger and Gratz vs. Bollinger, the Supreme Court questioned the very notion that the government should allow state-funded institutions to maintain race-based methods of selection to insure the diversity of an applicant pool.
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"Orfield is quick to demonize Nixon, Reagan, and Bush, who are all coincidentally Republican conservatives, for trying to turn back the clock on desegregation. Orfield finally does refer to bussing in the context of the Green decision and the Keyes and Swann decision, he calls it ?student transportation as a means for integration.? (pg. 6) Because most students of this phenomenon know the process as ?bussing,? one can assume that his failure to use this term is deliberate. However, we are left unsure as to whether his deliberate omission of the term is due to a possible negative connotation of the word, or a general distaste for clich?s. To omit the word ?bussing,? given its negative connotation in the eyes of those that have live with and experienced it, would be to engage in a shrewd charade of semantic manipulation. We are inclined to argue in favor of objectivity in that he also eschews the phrase ?turn back the clock.? He cleverly sidesteps this one by naming the chapter ?Turning Back to Desegregation,? leaving out the beloved clock."
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"The Hatchet" by Gary Paulson, 2002.
A brief review of the adventure book "The Hatchet" by Gary Paulson, looking at themes of struggle and survival.
987 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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"The Hatchet" is an adventure about a young boy?s survival in the Canadian wilderness. The writer explains how Brian, the protagonist in the story, is faced with many challenging situation that require maturity and strength. Paulson?s book thrives on themes of survival, courage, self-discovery, and hope. It shows that through conscious detail, Paulson successfully integrates positive learning experiences about survival in nature into a believable story that is well suited for younger readers.
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"Paulson focuses on the theme of courage by constantly placing Brian in situations that test his courage. Brian?s first test is landing the plane. Brian witnesses the pilot of the plane suffering a heart attack and although Brian might not have known what was happening at first, he did know it was something bad and it was up to him to take charge of things. This scene is foreshadowed when the pilot innocently lets him put his hands on the controls of the plane. While trying to guide the plane, it runs out of fuel and lands in a lake. Brian?s trip to see his father has suddenly turned into an a frightening experience. Surrounded by water, Brian?s courage is further tested as he has to find his way out of the crashed plane. By placing Brian in a situation that demands quick-thinking, Paulson is showing the reader how a courageous person responds to a dangerous situation."
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"Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen, 2008.
An analysis of the changes in the character, Brian in the novel "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen, as he adapts to his environment .
704 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 25.95
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The paper describes how the character of Brian in Paulsen's "Hatchet" grows to manhood as he learns to adapt to his environment in order to survive. The paper explains that Brian feels anger and despair but understands that he must depend on himself. The paper therefore shows how his survival has stimulated his emotional growth and development.
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"After his initial shock at the pilot's death, Brian panics, as just about anyone would in that situation. He finally gains control of the plane and makes radio contact with someone, but he realizes he is going to have to land the plane himself. He is frightened, but this is the first sense of his will to survive - he begins to realize that he will be safer if he lands on water, and he begins to plan, as much as he can, his descent so he can live through the crash. Although the crash itself is extremely dramatic and emotional, Brian survives, and that is his first adaptation of many that will occur throughout this novel."
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Life and Poetry of Gary Soto, 2002.
A discussion of the poet's involvement in the literary world.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 9 sources, $ 63.95
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Discusses the poet's involvement in the literary world. Themes of his poems, prose and stories centered in his background. Overview of his early life as a child in a poor working class Chicano family. His academic career. Examples several of his poems in detail, cotent & form. His "narrative recollection" prose of the 1980s.
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"Introduction
Gary Soto, currently one of the most recognized Chicano poets in the American literary mainstream (Olivares, 1990), said once that, as a child, he assumed he would "marry Mexican poor, work Mexican hours, and in the end die a Mexican death, broke and in despair" (Soto, quoted in Lee, 1995, p. 1). For someone who has published over twenty books, including seven volumes of poetry, and achieved numerous honors in literary circles (Lee, 1995), this may seem like a surprising comment, yet his statement is not unexpected considering his background. Because Soto returns to this background repeatedly in his stories and poems (Torres, 1995), it is important to briefly detail the environment that Gary Soto grew up in, and how he became involved in the literary world, before discussing his poetry, prose, and stories."
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Frank J. Webb's "The Garies and Their Friends", 2005.
A personal critique of Frank J. Webb's "The Garies and Their Friends" ("Race in the Americas"), written in 1857 and compares this book with William Wells Brown's "Clotel" ("The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States.")
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 39.95
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This paper explains that Frank J. Webb's "The Garies and Their Friends" basically deals with the abusive treatment of blacks in the north, while in the south, they are still slaves and considered property; but, this book was easier to relate to than William Wells Brown's "Clotel" ("The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States"), which dealt with the same subject matter. The author stresses that he only slightly enjoyed the book because the story was mediocre and the characters too extreme. The paper relates that the society created in "The Garies" seems to have extremes on both sides of the issue, which is true in real life as well; in 'The Garies", Mr. Garie is the extreme version of an abolitionist, married to a black woman, which at this time in history was unheard of.
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"I find a few things in this book hard to believe. First, I don't believe that blacks lived the way they are portrayed to in the beginning of this story. The author had blacks living freely in the south. Even though he wrote it as though they were separate from the whites, I don't believe that the children so freely played in the streets and the fathers so freely owned their own shops. I think that they would have been harassed on a normal basis pushing most of them to stay indoors or some place safe. I also have a hard time with the way the Garies were living in the south. Blacks were still slaves in the south so; therefore, Mrs. Garie was a slave and so were her children. Even so, I so I don't think it would have been that easy for Mr. Gaire to treat her so kindly without his friends and neighbors criticizing him."
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The American Wilderness, 2002.
A discussion of the use of the American wilderness in the work of the authors Jack London and Gary Paulson.
1,955 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper examines how two most notable authors Jack London and Gary Paulson, both discuss in their work, nature as a force that human beings must fight with, rather than be a natural and uncontested part of. It analyzes how Jack London?s "The Call of the Wild", along with his famous short story, ?To Build a Fire,? both revolve around the fight of human beings to survive in a harsh, natural world that seems unnatural to civilized creatures because of its cold and extremity. It shows how although Gary Paulson is a contemporary author, his work "Brian?s Song" is, despite the two author?s different personal experiences and the separation of so many years of literary time, is nearly identical in its concerns to London?s works.
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"In London?s work, human beings are always clearly pitted against nature in a struggle. London did not view nature in a romantic vision. Human beings were not part of nature in the sense that the natural world supports their development and survival, like the civilized world. Human beings are part of the wilderness in that they are, like the dog Buck, forced to resort to their primal instincts when in the cold, when fighting against elemental forces. They are war with other creatures for their very survival as well, as the wilderness is full of predators. In London?s works, human beings are not ?reflected? in nature?s wilderness. Rather nature offers a proving ground for humanity, an opportunity for human beings to demonstrate animal intelligence and cunning."
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Two Nursing Theories, 2002.
A comprehensive comparison of selected chapters from Gary Zukav?s "Seat of the Soul" and Martha E. Rogers?s "Science of Unitary Humans Being".
5,842 words (approx. 23.4 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 139.95
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This paper provides an examination and comparison of Gary Zukav?s "Seat of the Soul" and Martha E. Rogers?s "Science of Unitary Humans Being", including excerpts and appropriate citations. A summary is provided in the conclusion.
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"When Dr. Martha E. Rogers presented her evolutionary nursing model in 1970 with the publication of An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing, it represented a drastic but useful manner of viewing human interaction and the nursing process. According to one Rogerian authority, ?The concept of unitary pattern appreciation is unique to the Science of Unitary Human Beings. It was developed and evolved with the intention of creating a way of doing science and practice from a unitary perspective. It is both a way of knowing from a unitary ontological perspective and an essential attitude toward persons as energy fields? (Cowling, 1989, p. 130 in Madrid)."
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"The Afterlife Experiments", 2004.
A review of the book, "The Afterlife Experiments" written by psychologist, Gary Schwartz.
1,166 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper analyzes the paranormal phenomenon of trance or spirit mediums who claim they can channel or communicate with the souls of the dead. The paper discusses psychologist, Gary Schwartz's book, "The Afterlife Experiments," which claims to offer breakthrough scientific evidence of life after death. The paper examines the studies conducted and reported on in this book and presents numerous counter-responses to Schwartz's research results, pointing out essential, glaring flaws in his research methodology.
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"In his trade book The Afterlife Experiments, clinical psychologist and University of Arizona professor Gary Schwartz offers ?breakthrough scientific evidence of life after death.? Based on a series of studies Schwartz and his colleagues conducted using spirit mediums, the author concludes that human consciousness does indeed survive the death of the body. Trance or spirit mediums are persons who claim they can channel, or communicate with, the souls of the dead. As Schwartz himself admits, ?mediumship does not have a solid reputation for integrity,? and usually more resembles ?stage magic instead of science,? (52; 51). Therefore, Schwartz undertook his research under a climate of skepticism, especially as he was a well-established clinical psychologist who graduated from Harvard. Publishing his findings in a trade book such as this one is a huge professional risk: laypersons unfamiliar with proper, established scientific methodology will be far more forgiving than Schwartz?s colleagues in academia."
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Sociological Perspectives in "Pleasantville", 2004.
Applies four major perspectives of sociology to the film, "Pleasantville," directed by Gary Ross.
1,667 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 54.95
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In contemporary sociology, four major perspectives are widely accepted. Each of these viewpoints serves as a platform from which one can understand the same sociological phenomena. Although they are each distinct ways of interpreting reality, each can be used to derive conclusions about specific phenomena that occur. The paper describes the four contemporary theoretical perspectives as the functionalist perspective, the conflict perspective, the symbolic interactionist perspective, and the postmodern perspective. The paper looks at how all four of these angles are exhibited clearly in Gary Ross's film, "Pleasantville".
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"The fact that this inevitable struggle eventually brings about social change clearly supports the neo-Marxist approach to the conflict perspective. Unlike the functionalist perspective, this viewpoint is shown somewhat before the children leave their reality at home. The scenes of modern-day high school also moderately display the different social groups and cliques which compete for social status. The students are learning about the "competitive world" ahead of them in class. They are being taught that a degree will get them everywhere and that it is the only way to succeed. This is going to perpetuate the Weber belief in the importance of economic conditions in producing inequality and conflict in society."
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Compensation and Benefits, 2005.
An analysis of Gary Roberts article on compensation and benefits.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses an article by Gary Roberts that is related to benefits and compensation called "An Examination of Employee Benefits Cost Control Strategies in New Jersey Local Governments". The paper explores how New Jersey local governments are reducing benefit costs to their organizations largely through structural displacement strategies that reduce the number of overall employees as well as the number of overall full-time employees.
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"With the spread of globalization and increasing cost competitive strategies of companies in all industries, controlling the costs associated with operations is a concern for every organization from public to private, profit to non-profit. Usually, the very first method that organizations seek to control costs is with the largest expense associated with staying in business: employee related costs. These include performance, productivity, compensation, and benefit related expenses. In a recent article examining the cost controlling strategies of governmental bodies in New Jersey, Roberts takes a candid look at the nature of these cost control methods as they relate to compensation and benefits visa-vis the employees (2001). Roberts begins by framing the importance of this issue in understanding how these cost structures have expanded over time to become such a large drain on an organization's resources: "The percentage of compensation expenditures devoted to benefits grew from three percent in 1929 to ..."
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A Comparison of "Pleasantville" and "The Zoo Story", 2007.
An discussion of the similarities and differences between the film "Pleasantville" written and directed by Gary Ross and Edward Albee's play "The Zoo Story".
1,353 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper compares Edward Albee's 1959 play "The Zoo Story" and the 1998 film "Pleasantville", written and directed by Gary Ross. The paper explains that though it is fairly obvious that they were created in different forms, one as a stage play and the other as a film, both began life as different forms of the written word, and both manage to handle and deal with various angles of human life and behavior, but they do it in two very different periods: one in the 1950s, the other in the late 1990s. The paper looks at how "Pleasantville", in an ironic way, tends to undermine and examine some of the social and personal realities of the 1950s, whereas "The Zoo Story" examines these realities in a more subtle way appropriate to a comedy/fantasy aimed at a mass audience. The paper also compares the actions, reactions and attitudes of the two protagonists, Jerry in "The Zoo Story" and David in "Pleasantville".
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"The Zoo Story holds a mirror up to the culture of the late 1950s, with its well known constraints in the political, social and cultural spheres of life - constraints most ironically illustrated in 1950s television series such as "Leave it to Beaver," "I Love Lucy," etc. It is some of these constraints that the play works against, for instance, in its criticism of middle class life and the ordinary, conformist lifestyle as typified by the character of Peter. Notice how Jerry asks him where the dividing line is between "upper middle middle class" and "lower upper middle class," for example, showing that Jerry is very aware of these fine class differences."
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