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"Missing Sarah", 2008.
A comparative analysis of the characters of Maggie and Sarah in Maggie de Vries' "Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister".
1,562 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper first asserts that Maggie de Vries' "Missing Sarah" is a moving memoir of the author's relationship with her adopted sister. The paper also relates that the book was written in the shadow of the author's awareness of her sister's murder at the hands of a notorious Canadian mass murderer. The paper goes focuses on the narrative roles of the created characters of "Maggie" and "Sarah" in the text and argues the thesis that the disparity in our knowledge of the two characters - with the figure of the author being represented far more elusively than that of her sister - is a result of the different manifestations of narrative gaze within the text. The paper maintains that these gazes have narrative power to shape the spectator's perspective and understanding of the complex issues of identity, race, and familial interactions that define the text.
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"It may be argued that one reason we know so little about "Maggie" in the text as opposed to "Sarah" - a fact that is extraordinary given that "Maggie" is "Sarah's" sister - is the possibility that the relationship between the siblings was defined by tensions that the author does not wish to revisit. Thus, the author - through the vehicle of the "unreliable narrator" - obscures the figure of "Maggie" in the text, and thereby avoids having to publicly discuss issues that may be emotionally unsettling to her. Thus, it is only at moments that the reader seems to catch glimpses of this tension; moments that seem to be revealed almost unconsciously by the author. "
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?The Missing Link?, 2002.
A review of Pat Choate?s article ?The Missing Link? on how education can solve the fundamental problems of the U.S. economy.
986 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper examines Pat Choate?s article ?The Missing Link? which celebrates the collaboration between educational institutions and businesses as a solution to America?s economic difficulties. It discusses how Choate views schools and human beings as an economic investment that is vital for the U.S. to stay competitive in all areas as well as evaluating the failure of U.S. policymakers to invest in human resources for the advancement of its economy. It highlights various successful collaborations between the American education system and industries with government assistance in the domains of research, technology transfer and economic development.
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"Even though Choate?s view of the importance of education in the U.S. economy is valid, she fails to take into account other justifications for the existence of schools. In fact, her stance represents one school of thought about the role of schools. Like Choate, there are educators who believe that schools justify their existence in society by supplying training to workers or professionals and promoting economic growth in collaboration projects (Cohen & Brawer, 1996, p. 236). However, schools also have a higher social function of infusing students with ethics and morals, which are neglected in the economic realm (Cohen & Brawer, 1996, p. 235). These components are also integral elements of a school education that produces people who will not be governed solely by their profit motive."
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Women in "Othello" - Missing in Action, 2001.
A discussion of social, historical, and cultural gender biases in tragedies of Shakespeare's time, which often show women to blame for the tragedy.
1,360 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 45.95
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"Women in tragedies are indeed destroyed or absent from the "new order consolidated at the conclusion" (Sprengnether, 9). This is also much the same in Shakespeare's Othello; the bold social, historical, and cultural gender biases are clearly evident to the contemporary reader. Women seem to be the stimuli that manipulate and shape the characters' (read: men) lives negatively. Whether it is through passive or active intervention, women are blamed for the horrific consequences at the conclusion of this particular tragedy, and it is this exact reason why I feel that Shakespeare does not allow women to be involved with the conclusion of Othello."
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Age of Missing Information, The (Bill McKibben), 2001.
Critique of 1993 book on television. Aspects of TV viewing incl. choice, consumerism, destructive nature of medium.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"In The Age of Missing Information, Bill McKibben writes that "As much as [TV] loves choice, . . . it doesn't actually believe in choosing. It urges us to choose everything--this and this and this as well" (185). The question is, how can "TV"--an inanimate object or process--"believe" in anything? Does a river "believe" in the choice people have to look at it, or swim in it, or drown in it? The fact is that TV has a life of its own, just as the river does, and just as capitalistic society does in the theory of Karl Marx. TV, in that sense, does not "believe" in human beings' free choice any more than history believes in human beings' free choice. In both cases, human beings are dealing with forces beyond their control. And just as capitalism ultimately steals the soul of the worker (and the soul of the capitalist, too, of course), so does TV steal the soul of the.."
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Missing Pieces; Where are the Women in Sports?, 1999.
A paper on the effect of gender on sport participation, sport television programming and commentary.
2,954 words (approx. 11.8 pages), 18 sources, $ 87.95
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As the title implies, this paper evaluates both the history of womens' involvement in sports and the recent developments. The author blames the media for the present imbalance citing many specific examples and causes. She examines sports on the High School level as well as the professional.
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"I have decided to look into the issue of media coverage and the imaging of female athletes because it is an area of popular culture that I am not only interested in, but have become intensely aware of as a spectator of sports programming. I have also watched and noticed over the years that sports coverage of women is another means by which the media sexualizes women. Mass media, which has long been transmitting negative stereotypes of women, portrays female athletes with these same stereotypes on place."
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Norman Rockwell's "Missed!", 2004.
A paper about Norman Rockwell's painting entitled "Missed!"
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper examines one of Norman Rockwell's paintings, entitled "Missed!", which depicts young boys playing golf and missing a putt, as a way of demonstrating both the artisanship that defines Rockwell's work as well as the way in which his images help to create a sort of cultural map of many of the significant events and beliefs of American life in the 20th century.
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"Norman Rockwell's work has for years been dismissed by art critics and cognoscenti as being egregiously overly sentimental as well as lacking in all of the nuance and ambiguity that are defining elements of high art in the post-Renaissance West. However, while there is certainly some merit in the former charge, a close examination of Rockwell's work reveals not only a high level of artisanship, something that even his critics admit to being present in his work but also the kind of..."
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Sarah Michelle Gellar, 2002.
A critical study of the actress, Sarah Michelle Gellar, examining her perfomances in various television and film roles.
1,313 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 19 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses selected works of the actress, Sarah Michelle Gellar. The paper describes each selected work and provides critiques by several different entertainment critics to illustrate the differing opinions of her acting ability. The writer points out the evident difference of opinions of her television roles as opposed to her film roles.
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"Although young, actress Sarah Michelle Gellar has proven herself to be a formidable actress in many different types of situations. The actress has appeared in commercials, television shows, TV movies, and even a few films as well. Although young, she has quickly become one of the most marketable faces of the teenage demographic. However, being marketable does not necessarily mean that a person is a good actor/actress. In this situation, the reviews are quite mixed as some critics completely adore her work and others say that she is lacking in acting ability."
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Sarah Lucas and Conceptual Art, 2004.
This paper explores the work of Sarah Lucas in relation to conceptual art.
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper explores the work of conceptual artist Sarah Lucas. It argues that Lucas challenges gender stereotypes and the image of the "anguished male artist." The paper looks at conceptual art as an oppositional process.
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"Sarah Lucas is known for her provocative work. Using mundane objects such as food and furniture, she takes words and images and transforms them into metaphors for sexual objects. Ready-made food and furniture are imbued with new meaning. The innocence of the original object becomes something else entirely. The objects imbued with new meaning carry with them crude and sexual connotations. Sarah Lucas goes against the grain. In addition, through her work that emphasizes the ordinary person in ordinary surroundings she challenges the..."
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Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry, 2004.
Biographical account of Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry.
2,685 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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This paper provides a biography of actresses, Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry, as well as a description of their characters and personalities. The paper goes on to discuss the typical image held of female actresses during the Victorian era and the origin, evolution, and impact of the pin-up, as well as how actresses of the Victorian era manipulated the photographic images to their advantage.
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"Through the use of visual imagery to promote their theatrical identities, female performers in the mid-19th century shifted these personae from the relative isolation of the stage to mass media and popular culture. Both the burlesque tradition and the photographic ?pin-up? originated in this period - and the pin-up genre was utilized and manipulated by actresses in the realm of the burlesque. As representations of female performers who explored pointedly sexual roles (both on- and offstage) between a binary cultural construction, many of these early pin-ups can be read as a parallel to and inspiration for some of the more transgressive and unabashedly feminist uses and readings of the genre today."
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Sarah Orne Jewett?s "War Debt?, 2005.
This paper analyzes the psychological affects of the American civil war as illustrated in Sarah Orne Jewett's short fictional story "War Debt".
2,030 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 64.95
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This paper explains that Sarah Orne Jewett's "A War Debt" is about the journey of the story's main character Tom, who was instructed by his grandmother to return a stolen cup, which his grandfather had recovered during the American civil war , back to its owners in Virginia. The author points out that there is no real climatic event in the story, which makes it very flat; however, the style of the writing, which splits the story between simplistic dialog and extremely descriptive narration, adds a great deal of interest to the text. The paper relates that, like any war, the psychological affects after the American civil war were devastating: Individuals were faced with many hardships and obstacles that came about from their known world crumbling down around them.
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"Sarah Orne Jewett, in her own way, captured this heartache and expressed it in a unique way throughout her story. In many different passages, there are examples of how the war had affected the characters psychologically. Right from the beginning, the reader is introduced to Mrs. Burton, Tom's grandmother, who Jewett described as wearing an unmistakable look of pain and sorrow. As Mrs. Burton explains the story of the cup to Tom and how she wants him to bring it back to its owners, her state of distress is first revealed to the reader: "Every time I have thought of it I have been more and more ashamed to have it in my house. People weren't so shocked by such things at first; they would only be sentimental about the ruined homes, and say that, 'after all, it was the fortune of war.' That cup was stolen."'
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"Teacher Evaluation" Edited by Sarah Stanley and James Popham, 1995.
This paper analyzes the book "Teacher Evaluation: Six Prescriptions for Success", edited by Sarah Stanley and James Popham, a compilation of approaches to evaluating effective teaching.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 1 source, $ 95.95
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"This paper is a summary and analysis of the book "Teacher Evaluation: Six Prescriptions for Success", a compilation of approaches to evaluating effective teaching. School administrations continue to search for comprehensive tools for evaluating how well their teachers do their jobs. The six approaches presented here offer six different perspectives on the problem, each of which contributes significantly to the discussion, from emphasizing the need for ongoing staff development to analyzing the precise tasks and ways of thinking that a teacher needs to use in the classroom. None gives a comprehensive solution. Taken together, however, these six prescriptions illuminate some of the possible traps and areas of concern that school administrators face in asking how effectively their schools educate their pupils. The prescriptions were ... "
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Sarah Orne Jewett?s ?A White Heron?, 2004.
This paper discusses Sarah Orne Jewett?s short story, ?A White Heron?, which illustrates the conflict between human development and nature through the eyes of a nine-year old girl, Sylvia.
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This paper explains that the combination of environmentalist and spiritual qualities of ?The White Heron? fit neatly into the Romantic and Transcendentalist genres of American literature. The author points out that ?A White Heron?, a story written in the late 19th century before the invention of the internal combustion engine, nuclear power plants, or toxic chemicals polluted the environment, predated the modern environmentalist movement. The paper relates that ?A White Heron? also can be read as a coming-of-age story depicting the character development of its protagonist, Sylvia, who experiences budding sensations of womanhood during her encounters with the hunter.
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"Moreover, because the man offers her money in exchange for the heron, Sylvia is tempted with the trappings of the material world. Her inner conflict mirrors the overarching theme of the story that deals with the potentially antagonistic relationship between human civilization and the wilderness. Sylvia knows her grandmother is poor; they have little to offer the wanderer in terms of food and shelter so when he teases them with ten dollars, Sylvia and her grandmother naturally seem interested. However poor they are, however, they have sufficient means. Sylvia?s choice reflects a mature decision based on the integrity of her principles and it reflects the romantic ideal of material simplicity."
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Missed Breast Carcinomas, 2004.
An examination into the biology of undetected breast cancer from a mammogram.
2,987 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 88.95
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This paper discusses how and why it occurs that a mammogram might not always detect breast cancer. It discusses the various biological and technical factors and also looks at ways that this phenomenon might be reversed.
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"Mammography is a particular type of imaging which use a low-dose x-ray system for the purpose of detecting breast cancer, at a very early stage. But even with the help of Mammography, in 10-30% of cases breast cancers would be missed. In this paper an attempt has been made to understand the factors, which cause missed breast cancers, and discuss ways to reduce the false negative rate of mammography."
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Having our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah & Elizabeth Delany & Amy Hill Hearth, 2001.
Discusses book that chronicles lives of the sisters from post-Reconstruction 19th Century to 1993. Combines personal experiences with historical accounts of life of African Americans in U.S.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, $ 55.95
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"n Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters, First 100 Years, siblings Sarah Louise ("Sadie") Delany and her sister Annie Elizabeth ("Bessie") Delany share poignant and humorous details about their lives during the post-Reconstruction 19th century, Jim Crow, two World Wars, the exhilarating days of the Jazz Age of Harlem and how they managed to survive it all (Moore, 34). Co-author Amy Hill Hearth opens the narrative of the lives of Sarah Louise ("Sadie") Delany and her sister Annie Elizabeth ("Bessie") Delany by noting that they are among the oldest living witnesses to American history (Delany, Delany & Hearth, 3). Sadie was born on September 19, 1889. Bessie followed almost exactly two years later on September 3, 1891 ..."
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"Goddesses, Whores, Wives & Slaves" ( Sarah Pomeroy ), 1997.
Reviews social history of women & their economic, cultural & political roles in Ancient Greece & Rome.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: A Book Review
This paper will review Sarah B. Pomeroy's scholarly work, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves. Pomeroy's book is a social history of Greek and Roman women, beginning with the role women played in ancient Greek mythology in the Bronze Age as well as at the time when the ancient city of Troy fell. The book ends after examining the role that women played in both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and ends during the time of the early Empire, in approximately 565 A.D. According to the author, her book is unique because it is the only comprehensive comparison of women in classical antiquity which has been written in the English language (x). This paper will show that Romen women had more opportunities to participate in the cultural, political, and economic.."
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