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Pars Plana Vitrectomy, 2006.
An analysis of the technique and advantages and disadvantages of the surgical procedure known as pars plana vitrectomy.
1,623 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper presents an overview of pars plana vitrectomy. It explains the development and history of vitrectomy, including how it was first performed and how the technique has been improved over the years. The paper then gives a detailed description of the tools used in the surgery and other procedures that are performed with vitrectomy. The paper concludes by describing the advantages and disadvantages of the surgery.
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"A pars plana vitrectomy is a surgical procedure in which specialized instruments and techniques are used to repair retinal disorders and treat vitreoretinal diseases. During the surgery, the vitreous (the clear liquid that fills the area between the lens and the retina) is partially or completely removed and replaced with a clear fluid or gas. The pars plana vitrectomy procedure is a major medical advancement that allows treatment of retinal disorders and prevention of vision loss in patients who alternatively would become blind."
"Before the invention of the pars plana vitrectomy, a vitreous surgery called the "open sky" technique was developed in 1968 by David Kasner to remove all diseased vitreous within the eye (Stone 127). David Kaisner is the first surgeon who intentionally removed as much of diseases vitreous as possible and demonstrated that this is tolerated by the eye. However, it quickly became evident that the technique Kasner performed on his patients had some problems. The procedure involved removing the lens of the eye resulting in aphakia, the absence of the lens, which could lead to the detachment of the vitreous or retina (Stone 127). Also, irritation of the iris during vitreous removal resulted in a severe inflammatory reaction."
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Mental Health and Physical Health, 2005.
Discusses the reasoning behind two beliefs - whether or not mental health should be treated on par with physical health.
930 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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There are two arguments regarding the treatment of mental health. Some believe that it should receive the same amount of health care coverage as physical illness, while others argue that the costs of treating mental illness could lead to severe problems. To better understand these arguments, this paper examines two articles, "Mental Health Should be Treated on Par with Physical Health," by Lewis L. Judd, and "Mental Health Should Not be treated on Par with Physical Health," by Richard E. Vatz, as well as two of their reference sources.
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"Martin Bobgan and Deidre Bobgan, the writers of an article titled, "Mental Illness is not a Disease" would probably agree that spending money on mental illness, and treating it equally to physical illness would be a lost cause. Although their opinion is much more drastic than that of Richard Vatz, all three writers would probably seem to agree that covering mental illness in insurance coverage would not be helpful to society. In the article, Mental Illness is not a Disease," Martin and Deidre Bobgan profess that people "continue to promote the false concept of mental illness, to align it with medicine, and consign it to science." It is apparent that these writers believe that the mental state and one's physical well-being fall into completely different categories."
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Western Film Genre, 2008.
An analysis of Andre Bazin's "The Western: Or the American Film Par Excellence" in which he analyzes the western filmmaking genre.
777 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper discusses the evolution and success of the western genre of filmmaking. It discusses Andre Bazin's "The Western: Or the American Film Par Excellence" in which he analyzes this genre. It describes Bazin's arguments, as well as his comparison of the western to the courtly romances of the medieval era in their focus on the chaste woman and his comparison of them to the Russian revolutionary genre.
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"To Bazin, the only other modern epic cinema was the Russian revolutionary genre, which had some parallels to the western: both showed a new society undergoing its tumultuous birth pangs, imposing a new order and morality upon a vast canvas of human activity during a fleeting historical moment. Bazin concludes that, like the mythologized history of the Russian revolution, the story of the American west would have been relegated to much lesser international prominence were it not for the power of the moving image to universalize human experience."
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Czechoslovakia and Poland 1945 Through 1992, 1994.
This paper discusses the economic and political impact of Soviet socialism and its collapse on Czechoslovakia and Poland from 1945 to 1992: Planning, stability, leadership, decentralization and reform, protests, labor, foreign aid and multinationals, par
6,750 words (approx. 27.0 pages), 35 sources, $ 135.95
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"This research examines economic and political stability in Czechoslovakia and Poland from 1945 through 1993. Czechoslovakia separated into two sovereign nations--the Czech Republic and Slovakia--as of 1 January 1993. Thus, Czechoslovakia is treated as a unity in the greater part of this examination.
Background on Economics and Politics in Eastern Europe: 1945- ... "
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Discipline in the Schools, 2004.
This paper discusses programs to find a healthy balance between harsh control and no discipline in the United States schools.
1,060 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 37.95
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This paper explains that no one wants to see students uncomfortable about expressing themselves and in fear of their teachers and disciplinary measures; but, similarly, children cannot learn and "will be left behind' if they are spending more time socializing and razzing the teacher than studying the classroom lessons. The author points out that hitting a child across the hand would most likely cause a lawsuit; instead, there are a number of newer approaches that are being tried to find a happy behavior medium. The paper describes the Prevention Action Resolution (PAR) Comprehensive Behavior Management system, a process-based model where collaborative teams join together to form consensus on a positive and supportive school-wide approach to behavior management for all children and the Positive Behavior Interventions System (PBIS), the application of positive behavioral interventions and systems to achieve socially important behavior change.
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Introduction
Cause-Decreased Discipline
Effect-Unruly and Unproductive Classrooms
Example of Student Returning to Earlier School and Seeing Difference
Rise of Sue-Happy Society
Examples of Behavior Programs: PAR and PBIS
Need for Increased Communication between Parents and Teachers
Conclusion
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"One of the reasons teachers have stopped their disciplinary measures is the rise of a litigious society. A national survey of 725 middle and high school teachers and 600 parents released in May found: 1) Nearly half of teachers complain they have been accused of unfairly disciplining a student; 2) Over 50 percent of recipients say behavioral problems often stem from teachers who are soft on discipline because "they can count on parents or schools to support them" ; 3) Nearly 45 percent of teachers say documentation requirements go beyond common sense and are used primarily to protect schools from potential lawsuits; and 5) Over one in three teachers say they have seriously considered quitting the profession--or know a colleague who has left--because student discipline and behavior became so intolerable. The bottom line is that teachers should be able to deal with classroom and school-wide discipline issues without undue fear of being hung out to dry."
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The Music Recording Industry, 2006.
A review of the global music recording industry (MRI).
3,600 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 142.95
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This paper discusses the global music recording industry (MRI). According to the paper, the industry is massive and deeply entrenched, making it one of the most culturally powerful but fractured industries in existence. The MRI, while being concentrated around just a few large entertainment conglomerates, is fractured in the sense that it is currently undergoing a sea change that has yet to fully play out. Globally the MRI is worth in excess of $40 billion annually and the United States' (US) percentage of this revenue stream is approximately 13-14% (Research pars.1-3). The paper further discusses how the various constituents of this industry include singers, musicians, producers, sound engineers, promoters, retail operators, advertisers, and a host of others.
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Inequality in Ethnic and Racial Relationships, 2006.
An examination of the impact of racism on American attitudes toward minorities and immigrants.
1,520 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper explores how racism in America has affected public opinion toward immigration and minorities. The paper begins with a discussion of America's historic support for immigration and then argues that this support has been corrupted by racism. The paper also cites statistics about demographic changes in the U.S. over the past several decades, examining how certain minority populations have actually grown to be nearly on par with the Caucasian majority in some places. This realignment, according to the paper, has challenged some of the deeply-rooted notions of what it means to be in a majority, which, in turn, has sparked a new wave of racism from previously more tolerant quarters. The pain concludes by studying recent research efforts to to explore the structural roots of inequality in America, focusing on a Rhode Island study on the tension between strong individual rights promised to U.S. citizens and ethnic or racial discrimination against African-Americans and other minority groups.
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"The paradox of a US national identity involves multiple contradictions, such as citizenship rights promised to US citizens in contrast with differential group discrimination; of external and internal forms of racism with and through one another accepting and excluding certain categories of citizens; of civic and ethnic nationalisms that respond to the established but unstable two-faced US national identity; the combined change and continuity that has allowed American society to constantly and repeatedly transform while retaining a deeply entrenched racial hierarchy; and a deeply gendered or masculine American family ideal that constructs and hides these contradictions, at the same time. Addressing these inconsistencies, inequalities and contradictions requires listening to those with different interpretations of how it is to be treated "like one of the US national family" but actually excluded from that US national family altogether. It will mean finding a way to reconfigure that long-standing relationships among race, ethnicity and that idealized US national identity as well as working to reclaim the language of family in the process."
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Women Scorned in Literature, 2006.
A look at the theme of the subversive power of women in seventeenth and eighteenth century texts.
1,223 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 41.95
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Contrary to assumptions about the position of women before the twentieth century, they were often able to gain power through several devices. This paper looks at how often in seventeenth and eighteenth century texts, woman are seen exerting themselves, verbally sparring on par with men, manipulating their supposed superiors, essentially outwitting them in their own games during a time the modern reader expects to see women subjugated, undereducated and suppressed. The texts examines include Aphra Behn's "The Rover", Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" and Jonathon Swift's "Gulliver's Travels".
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"Unlike The Rover, the rage and indignation of a woman scorned cause battle to be fought in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. The mock battle scene at the ombre table sets up the actual battle quite well. Belinda seems to stand tall as Athena when she throws her cards on the table winning the war between the sexes. She is forceful in her moves to call trump and take tricks, but when the real battle begins, the crux of Pope's mock epic, for a moment she wavers. She is helpless until she becomes angry."
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"Atlas Shrugged", 2005.
This paper analyzes the role of the protagonist Dagny Taggart in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged".
2,640 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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This paper explains that the protagonists in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" are industrial geniuses, such as Dagny Taggart and great minds, such as Francisco D'Anconia, who are fighting against a society that doesn't want them but desperately needs them; the society and the government are the antagonists. The author points out that this book is about losing to win, which is a philosophy created by Ayn Rand, displayed by her characters and called objectivism, a system where each individual strives to be the best they can be and to profit themselves. The paper relates that feminists, who are sympathetic with the themes of Rand's literary work, say that Rand has created a rare female character, Dagny Taggart, on a par with any folk hero or medieval knight, but even sympathetic feminist readers have difficulty with Rand's seeming to define her female characters in terms of their relationships to their male counterparts as a derivative or dependent, if not subordinate.
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"For the adult Dagny, there are few men (individuals) in the world to whom she could submit or subordinate herself. As John Galt is following her into the long, dark, abandoned, granite tunnel of Taggart Transcontinental Railroad, Dagny chants to herself, "You will follow me." These words silently spoken are more a claim of right than a prayer, more a demand than a wish. Sensing that she is being followed, she moves even faster into the darkness, pulse beating rapidly, but unafraid. And then, despite Galt's "leashed intensity," the "harshness of his lips...down the line of her throat, leaving a trail of bruises and his elbow knocking her head aside," with "her teeth sinking into the flesh of his arm," there is less surrender than "worship of him.""
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Post-Soviet Era, 2006.
This paper analyzes the social, cultural, economical and political problems that arose in Russia, after the fall of the Soviet Union.
1,361 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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The writer of this paper contends and proves that the fall of the Soviet Union did not solve the pre-existing economical and political problems of the U.S.S.R. This paper examines how different moral and cultural values, compared to those of other western countries, contributed to Russia's downfall, in the Post-Soviet era. The writer discusses the fact that former Soviet Union countries are currently rife with poverty, poor social infrastructure and corruption. While democracy reigns in Russia at present, this paper delves into the current situation of former republics of the U.S.S.R., which are considered to be on par with third-world countries. This paper focuses on the growth of nationalism and religious extremism, which has become prevalent in Russia, in recent years. This paper also examines the lack of democratic institutions, along with no experience of actual democracy, which has resulted in a shift towards totalitarianism, in many post-Soviet republics.
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"Foreigners who visit former Soviet Union countries are often shocked by existing poverty, poor social infrastructure and corruption which erodes society from inside. It may be explained taking into consideration different historical factors: Soviet Union was based on strict dictatorship, where the interests of individual were not taken into consideration. Individual got basic facilities for living: in 1930's it was a great progress as USSR turned into a quickly developing industrial economy from a conservative and outdated agricultural one. Formal equality of all citizens created favorable conditions for unavoidable corruptions which made citizens to exploit their positions illegally in order to improve the living. There is an ethical explanation too: several generations of Soviet people didn't know what religion and morality are, as the official religion of the USSR was atheism."
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Gender at Work, 2007.
This paper discusses gender in the workplace and looks at writing gender into social security law.
1,441 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This article concerns the gender bias that most policy makers seem to have. The writer discusses the blatant sex typing and discrimination of women at work in spite of the fact that it is possible to prove that women are at par with men in performing any job well. In this article the writer examines the 'Social Security Act' of 1935 and looks at its effects. The writer argues that gender bias has existed from time immemorial and although no one person would be able to offer an immediate solution to the problem, perhaps awareness could be one solution. The writer concludes that while women have to bear the label of being dependent on their men, in order to avail of pensions and other benefits in their old age, they also have to tolerate a lower pay scale and other sex typing.
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"At no other time was the Act attacked than during the seventies, and the reason for this may have been that in order for the government to decide on who exactly would be eligible for benefits, legislators would have to agree upon who was a worker, and who was not, and these arguments were unfortunately based on the ideologies of race and freedom, and also on gender. During the 1930s, most old people needed relief, and this was brought in by the American Association for Old Age Security, which would provide aged persons with two hundred dollars every month to spend as they wished, but this legislation brought in a feeling of dependence and insecurity, and to combat this, insurance was brought in. according to this plan, ageing workers would have to be removed form the workforce, but with dignity, and therefore, policy makers created a program that would be more in relation to work, and not to citizenship."
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Information System Managers, 2002.
A study on the demands of an information technology professional.
1,805 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper examines the employer requirements for an information technology professional. The paper is well researched, with survey information and illustrations. The paper states that information system managers must have both technical and management skills in order to make intelligent business decisions. The author writes that employers of the future expect their IS managers to be at par with senior management, participating in decision making and strategizing with the board.
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"The emergence of information technology increased the demand for IT [information technology] professionals during the 1990s. According to a Wall Street Journal article ("High-Tech Firms," 1998) the average demand for IT professionals is estimated at 95,000 annually for the next 10 years. But information technology institutions are not producing enough graduates for hire. Hiring in this genre include computer scientists, system analysts, programmers and CIOs [Chief information officers]. As the industry realize the implication of IT professionals for the effectiveness of their operations, the mode of hiring process has also changed. Criteria could range from setting up a communication systems to a complex information structure for expansion purpose of the organizations [Ehie, 2002]. "
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A Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) Assessment, 2007.
This paper is a case study of the use of an individual's Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) assessment to create this person's developmental strategies.
1,165 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper explains that, according to the results of the leadership qualities portion of the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) assessment, this individual possesses fairly strong interactive people skills in that he is able to involve the people around him in the organization; however he does require development in several categories. The author points out that, within the team development dimension of the LPI wherein co-workers, colleagues and employees are enabled to succeed in a team environment, the subject performs sub-par relative to where contemporary management needs to be in order to meet their productive obligations. The paper states that the focus of his personal development plan is to open up the channels of communication, which are requisite to the establishment of team member trust.
Table of Contents:
Personal Leadership
Team Development
Gap Analysis
Personal Development Plan
Skills for Development
Strategies
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"The percentile ranking chart clearly indicates that the greatest gaps rest in the dimension of creating a challenging work environment that ultimately would prove more gratifying to the employee and team as a whole and in the encouragement dimension where the employees and team members sense a clear lack of feedback and motivation. These two components go hand in hand and must be addressed simultaneously in the personal development plan. The personal development plan must introduce the subject to motivational paradigms which create a challenging work environment while not creating barriers between the employee and management."
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Ralph Ellison's Protagonists, 2002.
A character analysis of the protagonists in in "The Invisible Man" and "Flying Home" by Ralph Ellison.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper will seek to compare and contrast two of Ralph Ellison's main protagonists in "The Invisible Man", and the character Todd in the story "Flying Home". By understanding how the author creates the main characters, we can see how they are par of a larger scheme in writing. The major focus will cover symbolism, and the way that the characters are formally produced in Ellison's writing style.
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