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Helen Keller, 2002.
A biographical essay on Helen Keller, one of the most courageous and inspiring women of all times.
1,203 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper discusses Helen Keller's life story, outlining her tremendous faith and courage. The paper describes Helen as an inarticulate little deaf and blind girl who grew into a world renowned and beloved figure. Her slow, painful and successful battle to re-enter the world is examined. The paper illustrates how she changed the destiny of the blind and deaf forever. She is portrayed as one of the most powerful symbols of triumph over adversity.
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"For the first few years after her illness, Helen became a very difficult child, throwing tantrums, and terrorizing her household. Relatives urged her parents to put her into an institution. Seeking out the advice of many experts, including Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone), she was referred to Anne Sullivan, a woman who had lost the majority of her sight at age five, and became an orphan by age ten. Surgery improved her eyesight, and she agreed to accept Helen as a pupil. In fact, she and Helen moved into a small cottage in Tuscumbia, and after a month of trying to teach Helen through sign language, a "miracle" occurred. In a scene that is famous around the world, teacher and student were at a water pump, and as Anne pumped the water over Helen's hand, she spelled out the word water in the other hand."
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Helen Keller, 1999.
Looking at the life, education and communication development of Helen Keller. Examines several autobiographies, influence of philosophers on and the life's work of deaf-blind-mute American.
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 103.95
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"Helen Keller
Helen's Early Development
Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, a small town in Alabama (Keller, 1990, p. 1). When she was eighteen months old she was stricken with an illness that left her deaf and blind (Keller, 1990. P. 4). While the extent of Helen's disabilities was not immediately apparent, it was not long before her family became aware that she could no longer communicate as others could. Nonetheless, in the period before her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to her, Helen's story demonstrates her will and determination to communicate and to make herself understood: "My hands felt every object and observed every motion, and in this way I learned to know many things" (Keller, 1990. P. 5).
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Helen of Troy, 2006.
A character analysis of Helen of Troy as presented by Greek literature.
1,109 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper looks at how one of the most controversial characters in Greek mythology is that of Helen which has been discussed over and over again by various authors. According to some authors, Helen is an inspirational female, transcending the strict boundaries imposed on Greek women. On the other hand, some authors think of her as a deceitful and shameful woman which was primarily the cause of death of thousands of Trojan and Greek soldiers. It looks at how these differences can be observed in the lyric poetry, art and in epic tradition and how writers such as Homer and Alkaios share the negative views about Helen, while authors like Sappho portray her as an innocent being.
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"Homer, one of the most famous authors of the epic literature, has a complex version of Helen's guilt and the blame associated with her character. His book, Iliad is filled with negative references toward Helen from every character that mentions her name. Whenever Helen's activities are described in the Iliad, she displays self consciousness about the scandal of her behavior, leaving her husband and a son for a foreigner and causing the war at Troy. Her character has always been associated with shame. According to Iliad, she not only disgraces herself by choosing another man over her husband, but she also disgraces all of Hellas who goes to war for ten years over such an unworthy woman. "
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Mount Saint Helens, 2002.
An overview of the eruption of Mount St. Helens volocano in 1980.
950 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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There are approximately 500 active volcanoes world wide and a couple dozen of those erupt every year. Humans have learned to live around volcanoes, for the most part. They have been avoided, feared and even worshipped for millennia. However, that by no means guarantees that humans and the environments that humans depend on, will not come into harm's way. The paper shows that as the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 proves, even with advanced warning and strict security measures, nature can take its toll. The paper describes the aftermath of the explosion, where about 60 people and countless plants and animals died and it would be almost two decades before the surrounding area returned to a stable and comparative ecosystem. The paper shows that if two decades sounds like a long time, one need only keep in mind that scientists were actually pleasantly surprised with the rate of recovery.
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"It would be a while before the people could breathe freely after this natural disaster. It would be even longer before the world healed itself. Contrary to what one might expect, conservation efforts to help nature along were often doomed to failure. No duplicated ecosystem could replace a lost one. However, scientists eventually learned that the ecosystem was self-correcting. Some things had survived the lava, like small fungi too small to be thoroughly trapped and destroyed. Small animals often survived as well. Over time, when left to its own devices, it seemed that nature worked to preserve itself intact. For example, insects that conservations might think would be harmful killed many surviving trees, but the fallen trees provided prime shelter and a budding environment for other survivors."
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Helen Longino's "Pornography, Oppression and Freedom", 2008.
This paper rejects Helen Longino's position on pornography as presented in her work, "Pornography, Oppression and Freedom: A Closer Look".
1,235 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper explains that Helen Longino argues in her article "Pornography, Oppression and Freedom: A Closer Look" that pornography by its nature is harmful to women and should be controlled and eliminated. The author maintains that Longino bases this position on tenuous distinctions between pornography and erotica and on the liberal use of universal claims about the effect that pornography has on women and their place in society. The paper contends that, despite her superficially well-reasoned article, a closer examination of Longino's claims and analysis reveals problems that undermine her argument. The paper then asserts that pornography cannot be considered necessarily and categorically harmful to women. The paper concludes that the marginal harm that pornography might cause in isolated incidents is not great enough to justify banning pornography and restricting this form of sexual expression.
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"Longino argues that these harms are cause enough to invoke laws and regulations that would limit freedom of expression and sexual expression. But are these harms entirely plausible? Is the potential for these harms to be realized justification enough to ban pornography. F.M. Christensen would say no, that efforts to ban pornography through limitations on freedoms--especially freedom of expression--is reprehensible and much more harmful to society than the potential ills of pornography. On this point, I agree with Christensen."
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Helen and Odysseus, 2002.
An insight into the Greek concept of heros and heroines using Helen and Odysseus as examples.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper is written about the Greek Hero or Heroine - Helen and Odysseus. The Greeks seemed to have favored a view of the heroic that contained its element of imperfection, and against a background of grand events in which the hero, or heroine, typically present themselves.
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Wolfgang Keller Harvard Business School Case, 2002.
This paper discusses the need for cross-cultural understanding by listing the problems exhibited in the case of Wolfgang Keller which had negative effects upon Koningsbrau-Hellas as a whole.
1,280 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 43.95
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This work deals with the case of Wolfgang Keller and describes numerous people from different backgrounds (ethnic, educational, etc.) and the confusion that was caused as a result of those differences. All of these diffculties in communication are elaborated upon and this essay describes the means by which all parties can benefit as well as keep from making the same mistakes in the future.
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"The Wolfgang Keller at Konigbrau-Hellas A.E. Harvard Business School case illuminates upon several cross-cultural communications circumstances, confusions, and problems. The case is described mainly from the point of view of Wolfgang Keller with supporting documentation of performance evaluations, memos, and other documents. These papers supplement the storyline and add valuable resources for the reader to more closely analyze the situation."
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The Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson, 2005.
This paper discusses Helen Hunt Jackson's novel "Ramona" and research text "A Century of Dishonor" about the plight of Native-Americans in North America.
2,665 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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This paper explains that Helen Hunt Jackson's books describe the way the United States government stole their cultures from the Native-Americans, robbing them of the lands, language, religion and honor. The author points out that, in "A Century of Dishonor", Jackson discusses seven different tribes of North America, the Delaware, the Cheyenne, the Nez Perc, the Sioux, the Ponca, the Winnebago and the Cherokee, which are summarized in this paper. The paper relates that, in Jackson's romance novel "Ramona", which is the story of a young Spanish woman who defies the customs of her people and falls in love with a Native-American, the animosity of European decent people towards Native-Americans is presented in heart breaking fashion.
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"The Delaware lands stretched from the Hudson to the Potomac Rivers. The Delaware are an interesting tribe who, like the Moslems, recognize the fact that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The Delaware played both sides against each other in an attempt to maintain control over the lands. "In the French and Indian war of 1755 many of them fought on the side of the French against the English." The British of course were attempting to displace the Delaware and other Native-American tribes. They also were trying to gain control over French territories in the North. The majority of Delaware later sided with the British in the beginning of the Revolutionary War against the future United States."
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Helen Lamb Frost, 2005.
This paper discusses the historical impact of Helen Lamb Frost on the profession of anesthesia.
1,330 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 44.95
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This paper relates the accomplishments of Helen Lamb Frost, who revolutionized anesthesiology by establishing the School of Anesthesia in St. Louis, Missouri in 1921 (AANA, 2005). The author points out that School of Anesthesia (1) introduced a new organization to anesthesiology's medical and academic significance in the field of medicine, (2) assisted the emergence professional organization such as the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists or AANA and (3) developed the standards for using anesthesiology in the field of medicine. The paper stresses that Lamb 'humanized' anesthesiology as a science by Lamb, in order making it patients safer thus making them more receptive to the use of anesthesia before undergoing a crucial medical procedure or operation.
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"AANA's study on patient safety in the office setting is one such example. Hornsby, in his article entitled, "Anesthesia's New Frontier: Ensuring Patient Safety in the Office Setting," focused on introducing the new method of conducting "office-based surgery." This new concept is presented as a new way in which medical practitioners adapt to the changing lifestyles and environments that people find themselves in everyday. As in the case of most people who work inside offices, Hornsby and the AANA delved on the possibility of promoting safe "surgical and anesthesia care" in the office setting to people who find themselves unable to commit themselves to caring for their health and illnesses for fear of missing out on work."
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Mount St. Helen's, 2002.
A discussion of the volcanic Mount St. Helen's, its history, eruption process and aftermath.
1,621 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper begins by providing a brief geological history of the mountain, seperating it into nine different periods. It then examines various lava types found in the area. The paper moves to modern day when the first actual threat was realized for eruption. It discusses the process of eruption and the different types of blast - lateral blast (direct blast zone, channelized blast zone, seared zone); vertical blast and pyroclastic flows. It concludes with an analysis of the aftermath and its effect on wildlife in the area.
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"On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helen's in southwestern Washington erupted with a massive explosion. Leading up to this day was increasingly intense earthquake activity. There were also lots of relatively weak eruptions and many locations of minuet gas discharge. The devastating impact of the suddenly unleashed volcanic energy caused the worst volcanic and geological disaster in the recorded history of the United States."
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Helen in Homer's "Iliad" & "Odyssey", 1999.
Examines character, relationships and the importance of Helen in plots of epic poems.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 39.95
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"The action of Homer's epic The Iliad brings two huge armies together, one inside the walls of Troy and the other outside, as a massive act of revenge for the stealing of Helen. Helen is the figure who stands between the two opposing armies. She is Greek, but she has been taken by the Trojans, willingly or unwillingly, and is the immediate cause of the war. History shows that the war between Greece and Troy took place, probably several times over several centuries, but the story of Helen was likely created by tradition and taken over by the poet for this epic work. The nature of Helen is important in the way the epic develops, though, and she is also an important figure in the legend and in later depictions of the same story.
Rachel Bespaloff notes that Helen is the severest and most austere of the characters in The Iliad as she walks around the.."
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Helen Of Troy In Homer, 2000.
An examination of Helen's character as portratyed by Homer in "Iliad" and "Odyssey."
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 10 sources, $ 63.95
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"This research will examine the character of Helen of Troy in the Iliad and Odyssey by Homer. The research will show that though the environment and scenario of each work are different, Homer's portrayal of Helen is consistent in each. The possibly apocryphal tradition that one blind poet, Homer, is the author of both the Iliad and the Odyssey can be set beside the fact that the two epic poems, undoubtedly related by continuity of narrative, make use of a common mythic foundation that is shared by a significant literary culture. The narrative lines of one epic do not point for point complete the narrative lines of the other, although that is in general terms the case. Undoubtedly there is a difference between the Iliad and Odyssey, connected as they are, in the transformation of poetic vision from one of tragic heroism and lack of it on a grand scale to one of..."
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Mount St. Helens, 2005.
An examination of the volcano of Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington.
1,254 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 42.95
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This paper briefly looks at how residents of the area have coped with having a partially active-volcano in their geographic domain. The paper addresses lifestyle issues, agricultural and ecological issues as well as a short history of the volcano's activity.
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"While modern men created the hydrogen bomb, they have it in their power to decide when and where it can explode. But no one man, no corps of scientists or engineers, no politicians, no army of environmentalists, no governments can control the actions of aroused volcanoes. In one destructive flash they can wreak more pollution and devastation than anything man designs. Obviously we must learn to cope with these handsome deadly creations of nature if present and future generations are to live safely and happily alongside the volcanoes in the western United States. Hopefully, Mount St. Helens will teach us how to accomplish this. 8"
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Frankenthaler, Helen, 2001.
Am. Abstract-Expressionist. Her development, techniques. Example of 1963 painting, "The Bay."
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 31.95
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"Helen Frankenthaler was an important member of the second generation of American Abstract Expressionists. Her painting The Bay (1963), in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (acquisition number 65.60), demonstrates an important phase in the evolution of her style that was also the beginning of an important development in abstract expressionist method.
"Frankenthaler was born in 1928, the daughter of a New York Supreme Court justice, and attended private schools in New York City. At Bennington College in Vermont Frankenthaler studied first under the painter Rufino Tamayo but, realizing she was succeeding simply because "I made such good Tamayos," the artist began to study with the American cubist painter Paul Freeley whose influence kept her interested in cubism for several years (Frankenthaler 28). After graduation her exposure to the..."
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"Comfort Woman" ( No Keller ), 1999.
Reviews a novel about a Korean-American mother-daughter relationship, the role of spirits in culture, shame and love.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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Introduction
In the United States, any analysis of mother daughter relationships generally takes into account generational, or family, patterns. The belief is that there are more than two people involved in that relationship, or at least metaphorical ghosts affecting the relationship. In Korean, however, the spirits are more literal. In this book, the story of the mother daughter relationship is unfathomable without referring to that belief system.
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"Comfort Woman
Introduction
In the United States, any analysis of mother daughter relationships generally takes into account generational, or family, patterns. The belief is that there are more than two people involved in that relationship, or at least metaphorical ghosts affecting the relationship. In Korean, however, the spirits are more literal. In this book, the story of the mother daughter relationship is unfathomable without referring to that belief system.
Spirits
Korean culture is still replete with rituals and celebrations designed to communicate with, honor, or placate various types of spirits..."
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