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"After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie", 2002.
A look at the assortment of pictorial and geometric forms in the novel "After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie" by Jean Rhys.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses art in the novel by Jean Rhys, "After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie", and how the paintings and other artistic elements in the novel affect the characters and help develop the author's theme.
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Alexander Mackenzie: The Western Frontier and the Fur Trade, 2001.
Discusses Alexander Mackenzie?s discovery of the Western Frontier and the expansion of the fur trade and the relationship with native peoples.
2,800 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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One of the key players in the establishment of fur trade routes linking the Atlantic ocean with the Pacific and Arctic oceans via a quite complex route through various lakes and rivers of the Canadian shield was Scottish explorer, Alexander Mackenzie. This paper explains how Mackenzie?s voyages to the Arctic ocean in 1789 and the Pacific coast in 1792-93 proved to be paramount for the continuation of Westward expansion, and perhaps even more pertinent for the expansion of the fur trade, the major economic means of pre-confederation Canada and a major contributor to Britain?s economy. By analysing Mackenzie?s own account of his journeys, as well as other supplementary sources, the paper defines exactly how crucial his two voyages were to all elements of the fur trade and just how extraordinary his journeys were in historical perspective. It explains that the establishment of trade routes to the North and Northwest, establishment of relations with the native tribes along the various waterways, and the discovery of a vast, relatively unexplored territory (unexplored by whites), with much in the way of wildlife and the potential for great wealth and economic prosperity, were all positive aspects in regard to Mackenzie?s voyages.
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"Alexander Mackenzie was once described, in his younger years, as a man who would take second place to no one whether it be as an explorer or as a fur trader.1 Mackenzie?s voyages of 1789 and 1792-93 are conveyed in his journal entries as ?strangely unspectacular,?2 quite odd considering the importance of his travels to the well being of the fur trade industry, the chief economic means of British North America at this point in history. In the years prior to his exploration of Northern and Northwestern Canada, Alexander Mackenzie served as an employer to the Northwest fur trading company. Mackenzie, who was young and ambitious at the time, declared his certainty that greater successes for the Northwest company lay in the far West and North of the Canadian territory.3 Mackenzie?s only problem lied in company kingpin Simon McTavish whom had a particular dislike for Mackenzie for one reason or another; fuelled by his dislike for Mackenzie, McTavish refused to support the young explorer in his wishes to explore the far North and West of Canada. After continuous unsuccessful harbouring with McTavish, Mackenzie defected from the Northwest company and found himself employed with rival company, the XY company, with whom Mackenzie expanded with in order to challenge the Northwest company.4 Eventually, after the death of Simon McTavish, the Northwest Company and the XY Company merged in 1787;5 Alexander Mackenzie was stationed at Lake Athabasca, the Company?s westernmost post, with fellow explorer and trader, Peter Pond. Both men were determined that great wealth lied in the lands to the North and to the West.6 This determination drove the men to curiosity as to where the Great Slave River running North from Lake Athabasca would lead to. Mackenzie and Pond were also determined to create a continuous trade route linking all three oceans which contained Canada: the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the Pacific.7 Mackenzie?s first voyage would be to the Arctic, where he hoped to find a link to the ?frozen sea.? "
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"Leaving The Saints", 2008.
A review of Martha Beck's "Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith".
1,694 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 54.95
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This paper discusses how Martha Beck's "Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith" is an extremely compelling, non-fictional story of a woman's spiritual journey through life. It looks at how, through the book, Martha Beck reveals some of her most horrifying life experiences, deeply guarded secrets, and the unbelievable hardships she endured while being trapped in the "life-world" religion known as Mormonism. The paper examines how Beck conveys the deep seriousness of her experiences while also adding a dash of humor as well as how Beck walks her readers through her incredible journey, which led her to overcome Mormonism, but also betray her family and faith.
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"Martha Beck focuses her story around a conversation that she is having with her father, years after she has left the Mormon Faith. During the book she flashes back and forth to and from the conversation, while telling the story of her past at the same. One of the first events that she reflects on is her wedding day. In the Mormon faith, there is a very sacred process that young women and men are required to undergo preceding their wedding ceremony. The process takes place in the Mormon temple, and Martha chooses not to go into great detail about what she experienced in the temple because she was required to take a death vow, which involved a vivid representation of what would happen to her if she spoke of what takes place in the temple. "
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Health and Well-being Outcomes for Young People Leaving Care, 2007.
This paper analyses the health and well being outcomes for young people leaving care, looking at mental health, physical and learning disabilities.
1,870 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 59.95
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In this article, the writer firstly critically analyses the health and well being outcomes for young people leaving care; addressing the areas of mental health, physical and learning disabilities. Secondly a critical evaluation of both national and specific LAC focused health promotion strategies is discussed and the impact of these on the young person's journey through care is provided, with particular attention paid to young people affected by disability and mental health problems. Throughout the essay an awareness of oppressive and discriminatory practices is demonstrated.
From the Paper
"As mentioned earlier, mental health problems are very prominent in care leavers. Once a young person reaches 18 years of age, there are often problems with accessing adult services. Young people with mental health problems can find it very difficult when they become care leavers. Mental health issues are sometimes left undiagnosed in looked after young people as doctors and psychologists sometimes feel that they do not want to "label" young people. This could be because there is still a stigma attached to having a mental health issue. However, on the opposite side of this, if a mental health issue is not diagnosed then resources are not made available to the young people when they may need them in order to lead a full and health life. Another difficulty for care leavers who move on to adult services, is that they may forget appointments and no-one is there to remind them or take them to appointments, this means that the young person is not receiving the care and support they may need."
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The Puritans Leaving Britain, 2006.
An analysis of the factors leading up to the Puritans leaving their homes in Britain for the New World.
2,434 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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The paper discusses the creation of the group of people referred to as the Puritans and what led them to leave Britain for the New World. The paper goes into detail about the political, religious and economic factors behind their decision to leave their homes. It then discusses the Reformation in England and the reasons behind it.
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"For example, seventeenth century England certainly saw challenges to the sacred aura surrounding society, which began earlier when Henry VIII secularized many things besides the church's lands, wealth, and powers (Sommerville). If by secularization, one considers what it meant then, the separation of anything from its religious associations, then one must speak of a secularization of "space and time, language and art, play and work and power; of personal, social, and national identity, even of flags and military technology" (Sommerville). Thus, religion reasserted itself not as a new religious culture so much as a religious faith, a conscious reaction to the disenchantment of ordinary life (Sommerville)."
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"Leaving Home", 2008.
An examination of the concept of the "other" in Canadian culture through an analysis of David French's play "Leaving Home".
1,175 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper relates that the idea of culture, in David French's play "Leaving Home" reflects the idea of traditional perspectives towards the significance of belonging. The paper explains that French's play focuses on the character of Jacob Mercer, a Newfoundland immigrant who has relocated his family to Canada, who forcibly imposes his native values upon his two sons. The paper then examines how Mercer presents his view of the clash between generations, where the children recognize the opportunity for change and are willing to participate in it while the parent holds tight to the old ways.
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"The modern mainstream cultural landscape of Canada is one in which the concepts of shared values overcome cultural limitations (Angus, 21). Yet where Ben and Billy are indicative of the transformation within the mainstream, Jacob represents the fringe cultures; were the play written twenty years later, this would perhaps have been an ironic commentary on French's part, as Jacob is himself an immigrant into Canada and major resistance to the Canadian national project has come from immigrant communities (Chambers, 50). These fringe cultures are formed mainly from immigrants who have purposefully moved into limited geographic areas in order to preserve their cultural identity (Chambers, 50; Mackey, 71). "
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"Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant: Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau", 2002.
A review of Gordon Robertson's "Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant: Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau", his account of his experiences in the Canadian government.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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This essay gives a review of Gordon Robertson's memoir. It discusses Robertson's account of his experience in the Canadian government as a civil servant. He saw all the behind-the-scenes developments from 1945 to 1979. In this context, therefore, this is a document of living history that reveals a significant amount of information about Canadian history and politics.
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Transgender Nation (Gordene MacKenzie), 2001.
Sociocultural analysis of 1994 book on transgender movement. Defines types of intersexual people. Civil liberties issues.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 55.95
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"Introduction
According to Gordene MacKenzie (1994), the transgender movement is inextricably bound up with the gender movement in the United States and they are the most important civil rights movements of the 1990s. MacKenzie, who teaches courses on sex and gender, along with popular culture, is in the Women Studies Program at the University of New Mexico.
Looking at Language
It might help to start by making some distinctions in terminology. Many terms have been used interchangeably, and there is some confusion about their meaning. The basic terms are transvestite, transsexual, and transgenderist. The transvestite individual, whether male or female, is the individual who attempts to look like.."
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Leaving the Church, 2005.
A discussion on the reasons that young people are turning away from the church.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 44.95
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This short proposal examines some of the major longitudinal factors illustrating why it is that young people today are turning away from the church. The proposal aims to provide a cursory overview of the broad forces which have collectively contributed to the relative decline of the church and to the concomitant rise of secularism; in addition, the paper also reviews the social factors in recent decades that have driven the church from its former cultural pre-eminence.
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"Why Young People are leaving the Church Since the Age of Enlightenment, intellectuals and other observers have been anticipating the final demise of the Christian church in a Western culture that has become disquietingly secular. As will become apparent, the departure of young people from what was once society's seemingly irrefragable social institution is a process that has origins reaching well back into the past."
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"Trainspotting", "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Drugstore Cowboy", 2000.
An examination of the films' depiction of drug and alcohol-related self-destructive behavior in subcultures.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 23.95
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"Drugs and similar destructive behavior are major social problems addressed by a number of films in recent years. These films develop around a subculture and evoke certain images associated with such milieus, often using stereotypical images as shorthand to introduce the audience to the world of drug abuse and other marginal behavior.
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"Drugs and similar destructive behavior are major social problems addressed by a number of films in recent years. These films develop around a subculture and evoke certain images associated with such milieus, often using stereotypical images as shorthand to introduce the audience to the world of drug abuse and other marginal behavior.
Trainspotting is a film depicting the drug culture in the United Kingdom, and the American audience at least is less familiar with this milieu than with its own drug subculture. Controversy developed between those who saw the film as reflecting a reality that had to be understood and addressed and those who saw the film as glorifying drug use and so as creating a problem that might not otherwise exist. The harrowing nature of the lives of the young people in this film, however, would..."
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The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), 2005.
Looks at the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), which requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide up to twelve weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave "each year for specified family and medical reasons."
1,560 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 51.95
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This paper explains that the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) was designed to help those individuals who need to care for either a close family member with a serious medical disorder or to assist employees when a serious medical condition arrives without notice. The paper first describes some of the provisions of the FMLA, including entitlements to leave, the maintenance of health benefits during leave, job restoration after leave, and protections for employees who request or take FMLA leave. The paperalso relates the process by which an employee can use FMLA leave. The paper concludes that the success of this legislation has led many states to pass similar acts.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Leave Entitlement
Maintenance of Health Benefits
Job and Benefits Protection/Restoration
Notice and Certification
Illegal Acts
FMLA Case Examples
Conclusion
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"As is the case with many federally-backed laws, the FMLA includes a number of items that are required by both parties. First, an employer is not allowed to "interfere with, or deny the existence of any right provided" by the FMLA. In addition, an employer is not allowed to "discharge or discriminate against any individual for opposing any practice or because of involvement in any proceeding related to FMLA," meaning that employers must adhere to all anti-discrimination laws within the United States."
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The Family and Medical Leave Act in the Workplace, 2008.
An analysis of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) as it applies to the airline industry and Delta Airlines in particular.
2,807 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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This paper examines the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) which was passed in 1993 and permits employees to take a leave of absence from work in order to take care of a sick family member or because of personal illness. The paper explores the act with respect to the airline industry and to Delta Airlines, in particular. It looks at how a company such as Delta Airlines can exceed FMLA standards and balance its obligations to the employee while also working to preserve its economic sustainability.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Family and Medical Leave Act and Social Responsibility
The Family and Medical Leave Act and the Airline Industry
Delta Airlines and the Family and Medical Leave Act
Balancing the Needs of the Company with the FMLA
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"Delta Airlines is often used as a representative case study of the FMLA due to its emphasis on the workplace culture. Delta Airlines has historically been focused on employee integration as a means of ensuring a stable and satisfactory workplace for all persons working within the company. Also, after the Reagan Administration cracked down on unionization within airlines in the 1980s, Delta Airlines sought to maintain a fair and equitable working environment through implementing numerous regulatory policies where the workers had control over certain internal policy decisions. While Delta Airlines has never been an employee-owned company like U.S. Airways, it has sought to include the views of the employees in its decision-making policies and also has sought to reduce the distance between the worker and management. This has promoted an environment of inclusion within Delta Airlines, where employees are encouraged to consider themselves valuable contributors to the success of the company as opposed to interchangeable, expendable parts within an autonomous system."
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The Family Medical Leave Act, 2004.
An analysis of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993, which was meant to remove gender bias involved in child care.
4,541 words (approx. 18.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 118.95
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This paper discusses the 1993 Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). The paper explains the intention of the Act to remove gender bias involved in child care, claiming that firms might offer maternity and child-care leave to mothers, but rarely offered any sort of similar leave to fathers. The law also encompassed the worker's need to care for aging and infirm parents. The paper determines that the requirements of the FMLA were limited to firms with more than 50 employees, but it is reasonable to consider any firm with fewer than 100 employees to be a small business, running leaner than larger ones, and with less capacity to absorb loss of key workers, and in some cases, any workers, as well as less power to withstand the costs of complying with the law.
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Introduction
Issue Statement
Methodology
History
Data Narrative
Findings and Recommendations
Conclusions
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"The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has a long history behind it, and it has a long road ahead of it until it begins to create the sort of 'cradle' for employees enjoyed in 98 percent of the rest of the world's nations. Meanwhile, it is spottily applied, bureaucratically run, and covers-inadequately, arguably-only 60 percent of the U.S. workforce. Despite its shortcomings, or possibly because of them if one considers the totally private price tag on the FMLA, it has enormous negative effects on businesses with fewer than 100 employees. (Phillips, 2002) Fortunately, it has no effect, yet, on those with fewer than 50 employees, although moves continue to arise pushing to extend the FMLA to cover business with as few as 25 employees, still under the privately paid design that punishes even the largest of the small companies. (Under the act, all government agencies regardless of size are encompassed in the Act's requirements.)"
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Perspectives on the Family and Medical Leave Act (1993), 2002.
This paper addresses the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. It examines why it was created and passed, as well as its effects - both positive and negative - on the economy and the workplace.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper addresses the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. It examines why it was created and passed, as well as its effects - both positive and negative - on the economy and the workplace. The Act provides unpaid leave for both parents when a child is born, but many choose not to take this leave because it is unpaid. The paper also addresses shortcomings of the Act and how it could be expanded in the future.
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The Family Medical Leave Act, 2002.
This paper discusses the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which was signed into law in 1993, one of the most important pieces of labor legislation ever enacted in this country.
4,070 words (approx. 16.3 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 109.95
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This paper reports that the FMLA requires all covered employers to grant their eligible employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave in a 12-month period for four main reasons: To give birth or to take care of a newborn child; to adopt a child, take in a foster child or to take care of a newly placed child; to care for sick family members, meaning a spouse, child or parent and allows employees who are ill and unable to work an extended leave period. The author feels that the greatest problem with the FMLA lies in the difficulty of determining what counts as a ?serious health condition?. This paper quotes studies that show that the FMLA has not resulted in greater hardships to companies and businesses or in increased worker absenteeism.
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Overview
History
Assessing the FMLA?s Effects
Problems with Implementation
Employee Concerns
Problem Areas
FMLA Reforms
Employer Reforms
The Next Step?
Conclusion
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"While employer complaints are mostly anecdotal or backed by private-interest research groups, these successful court decisions set precedents that demonstrate the need for FMLA reform. First, there is a need to clarify what illnesses fall under the classification ?serious health condition.? Critics argue that current definition of a serious health condition is too broad, including minor illnesses that are already covered by sick leave policies. In addition, while many workplace policies already provide for chronic conditions, employers believe that the FMLA regulations regarding chronic illnesses are particularly prone to abuse. Advocates thus believe that FMLA reforms should start by disqualifying short-term illnesses and other conditions with relatively brief recovery periods. Employers should also be given the right to verify the medical information on an employee?s health form directly from the healthcare provider. Employers and human resources professionals have also identified several problems with the complicated procedures regarding leave requests and notices."
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