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"People Of Plenty" ( David M Potter ), 1999.
Reviews this work on American character as shaped by economic abundance, including the significance of moral, historical and methodological issues.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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David M. Potter in his book People of Plenty offers an analysis of the American character and American achievement in terms of the plenty Americans were faced with in the country they shaped out of the New world. It was the possibility that there was such abundance somewhere in the world that spurred many of the early explorers and that contribute to the decision of many of the colonists to settle in this region. Potter postulates that the American character has been shaped by exposure to the abundance around them so that they have become a people of plenty, a people shaped by economic abundance. In analyzing this issue, Potter also develops a different perspective on the role of the historian.
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"David M. Potter in his book People of Plenty offers an analysis of the American character and American achievement in terms of the plenty Americans were faced with in the country they shaped out of the New world. It was the possibility that there was such abundance somewhere in the world that spurred many of the early explorers and that contribute to the decision of many of the colonists to settle in this region. Potter postulates that the American character has been shaped by exposure to the abundance around them so that they have become a people of plenty, a people shaped by economic abundance. In analyzing this issue, Potter also develops a different perspective on the role of the historian.
Potter began his analysis when asked in 1950 to write about the American character and especially on the influence of ..."
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"Road Through The Rain Forest" by David M Hayano, 1996.
Critical review of study of impact of modern world on Awa people of Papua New Guinea.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"David M. Hayano, in Road Through the Rain Forest, tells a compassionate, empathic and humanized story of the lives of the individuals of the Awa people of Highland Papua New Guinea at a time when their culture is undergoing dramatic changes brought about by the incursion of the world of progress and technology. It is a very personal narrative in which the author, striving for a "living anthropology," includes his own life as an integral part of his work. As the author writes,
These are not dramatized men and women, but actual individuals, some living, some dead, of flesh and blood. . . . Conventional ethnographies are usually writings about people with no personal names, no utterances, no feelings, no individual life experiences. Rather than beating the life out of the..."
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"M Butterfly" by David Henry Hwang, 1996.
Analyzes memory play's plot, structure, characters, themes of love & deception.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"M. Butterfly is a memory play in which author David Henry Hwang smoothly switches time and place throughout the play in order to reveal a story that is already known to the narrator and central character, Rene Gallimard. The play is constructed as an "evening" in the theater in which the speaker will take the viewers over his story until his "ideal audience" will come to envy him because he has been loved by "the Perfect Woman" (1936). Hwang (and Gallimard) assume that the audience is already somewhat familiar with the outlines of the story. Yet, just in case anyone is not clear on it, a certain amount of suspense is built in to the play. The opening conversations of the people at a party do not specifically state the case. Their remarks could be understood by anyone who knew the story and would offer hints to those who did not. But the gradual revelation of Song Li's..."
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M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, 1999.
Play's characters, plot and themes, focusing on the influence of Puccini's opera [Madame Butterfly].
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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" In the play M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, the action derives from a true story about a French diplomat who had a long-term affair with a Chinese singer, presumably thinking this was a woman when in fact it was a man. The story was also a spy story as the "woman" acquires secrets from her diplomat-lover for her government. The title of the play intentionally evokes images both of Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly and what in French would be seen as "Monsieur" Butterfly. The opera embodies a certain Western attitude toward Asian women and toward Asians in general, and Hwang's play uses those ideas as something against which to balance his own drama as he deconstructs certain ideas from the opera and creates a different sense of operatic reality. Within this operatic universe, Gallimard's complacent Western stereotyping of Asians.."
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A Reading of David Armstrong and David Lewis, 2002.
Comparison and contrast of the points of view of David Armstrong and David Lewis regarding the question of what exactly is the mind.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This essay compares and contrasts the points of view of Armstrong and Lewis on the centuries-old debate regarding the question of what exactly is the mind, and the degree to which mental states are identical with brain states.
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"Prophets In The Dark" ( David Kearns and David Nadler ), 1995.
Reviews this work by Xerox Corporation's CEO on the firm's successful transformation in the 1980s.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"Introduction
During the 1980s, much of American business focused on improving its quality process in order to better compete with the Japanese. Great attention was paid to issues such as just in time inventory, total quality management and quality circles, and the American quality expert Deming was both hailed and vilified in the press for having introduced fundamental quality concepts to the Japanese some years before. David Kearns was CEO of Xerox Corporation during the 1982 to 1990 period, a time when the company whose name is synonymous with photocopiers faced intense competition not only from American competitors such as IBM and Kodak, but also from the Japanese. During the 1980s, the company undertook a rigorous quality program designed to transform the way the company did business. At the beginning of the 1990s, the ..."
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"Tube of Plenty", 2002.
Reviews Erik Barnouw's book on the history of the TV, "Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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In "Tube of Plenty. The Evolution of American Television", Erik Barnouw provides us with the amazing history of television. He shows us that television is not only a technological reality, but also a sociological phenomenon. Television, in other words, moulds society in the same way that society moulds television. Barnouw demonstrates that we can not really understand our own history without examining the effect that television has had on almost every aspect of our lives. He is especially interested in television's newest features. Thus, the "Tube of Plenty" is not only the history of television, but also the exploration of the development and impact of the latest phases of the communications revolution.
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Chief Plenty Coups, 2004.
This paper is a biography of Chief Plenty Coups of the Crow Indians.
2,486 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 87.95
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This paper discusses the leadership Chief Plenty Coups of the Crow Indians. The author relates his including life, pre-reservation and on the reservation. The paper describes his fight to obtain Crow Indian rights from the U.S. government.
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"Chief Plenty Coups of the Crow was born in the son of Medicine Bird and his wife Otter Woman. Chief Plenty Coups was named by his father as he had a dream that his son would count many coups live to an old age and become a chief ... of Plenty-Coups. All of these premonitions would be realized by Chief Plenty Coups and while he was instrumental in helping the Crow in battles against other ...."
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Environment, Food, and People, 2002.
Questions whether modern agriculture is sustainable, based on an analysis on two articles on the subject, "Averting a Disaster" and "Assault on the Earth".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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Virtually everyone is aware of the importance of agriculture in supporting the lives of the more than six billion people on the planet., but the fact that food is quite plentiful in Western societies and available at a relatively low cost can hide the crisis that exists in agriculture. This crisis is outlined in the articles "Averting a Disaster", published in "International Agricultural Development", and "Assault on the Earth" by Elena Wilken. Close examination of these articles shows that, together, they provide a comprehensive look at the problem of soil degradation and loss. An attempt is made to outline possible solutions, but these articles fail to pay enough attention to the underlying cause of this situation and an area where the greatest chance for success in solving problems exists, namely, the lack of a global management system.
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Crime Reporting from 8:30 A.M. to 6:00 P.M., 2002.
This paper looks at the roots of crime reporting in America and compares it to contemporary society, addressing the issues of cultural identity and the merging of entertainment with news in today?s electronic world.
3,048 words (approx. 12.2 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 89.95
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The writer traces news from the Penny Press to the Present Press, showing how crime has evolved to become the most important feature in written or electronically produced news. To simplify: crime is news. Printed news about crime and justice is nearly as old as the printed word itself.
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"New York, 1841: Mary Rogers' body has just been discovered. Rarely do the editorial pages codemn the lack of crime control in the city; instead the papers are either fictionalizing the crime and making up stories to fit the facts or extrapolating from the crime and using the story to represent the city itself. James Gordon Bennett was the editor of the New York Herald and a symbol in journalism for sensationalism and libelous reporting. He has been noted as ?the principal figure in the rise of the new urban journalism and the creation of the Mary Rogers story?. His and other newspapers followed the saga of the story, and along with it delved into the issues that surrounded the case: it appeared that Mary had gone to have an abortion; it came out that she had been seen with several different suitors; she was a working woman who helped run a boarder house; all of these issues that were central to the crime itself were expanded in the newspapers to represent the whole city, with ?Mary herself serving as an extended metaphor for the city.? "
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Plenty of Panera, 2005.
This paper analyzes the operations of the Panera Bread Company.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses the Panera Bread Company in relation to its human relations practices. The writer also looks at the company's employees, its marketing strategies and how they are devised to reach its target markets. Further, the writer discusses how the Panera Bread Company has leveraged information and technology solutions to create market differentiation and competitive advantage in the marketplace.
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"The restaurant industry is composed of two major segments: the full-service segment and the fast food segment. However, over the past decade a novel concept has quickly been developing into a new segment of its own: the quick-casual segment. The quick-casual is essentially a combination of the quick order and fast service of the fast-food segment combined with the quality food products found in the traditional full-service segment. The quick-casual segment is a segment that produces over $6b a year in revenue and is growing in double digit percentages year on year. The quick-casual is a fast rising new segment in the restaurant industry and one which holds much promise for the organizations involved in it."
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"M. Butterfly", 2002.
A review of the play "M. Butterfly" by David Henry Hwang.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper shows the sexual gender and stereotype roles in the play "M. Butterfly" by David Hwang.
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"Romeo and Juliet", "M. Butterfly" and the Oppression of Men, 2007.
A discussion of the oppression of men in the plays "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare and "M. Butterfly" by David Henry Hwang.
1,708 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper analyzes the oppression of men through the study of characters and their experiences in two literary works, "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare and "M. Butterfly" by David Henry Hwang. The paper explains that masculinity is fragile because it is socially constructed and men have to struggle everyday against anything within themselves that many be perceived as not masculine: anything passive, any attraction to the same sex, and even displays of vulnerability are all suppressed. The paper argues that Romeo stepped out of the 'masculinity' assigned to him socially, and because of this, suffered. The paper also looks at how Gallimard, is insecure in his masculinity and uses it, along with his racism and prejudice to destroy himself. In conclusion the paper shows that the male protagonists in both plays are in a way a victim of patriarchy because they do not conform to the 'masculine' ideal.
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"Looking at the text closer, it is clear that Romeo does not exhibit typical masculine characteristics, and that Juliet often acts as the more aggressive, less 'feminine' one of the pair. This is evident from the beginning of the play all the way through to the end, where each chooses a different way to die. In the first scene of the play we are introduced to Romeo, both his parents are worried about him, as he seems melancholic. He is sad, in love, and because of this he suffers. All of these are not very masculine characteristics. He loves to read, is keen on poetry, and loves to be in love. All these characteristics could be considered 'feminine'."
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"M. Butterfly", 2007.
A discussion on the exotic, feminine Orient in the Western imagination, as depicted in David Henry Hwang's drama "M. Butterfly".
1,228 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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The paper discusses how "M. Butterfly" is a play about the power of stereotypes to do harm, both to the person and the culture they are inflicted against, and also against the people who hold such stereotypes. The paper describes how, at the end of the play, Gallimard is destroyed because he realizes his life was based upon a lie, just as China was harmed by the lies and exploitation of Western colonialism. The paper examines how the conflict of gender, national, and identity issues are dramatically depicted in David Hwang's "M. Butterfly," when the French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with a feminine image of the East, in the persona of the actress Song Liling.
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"Gallimard has a psychological as well as a national and gender based need to see Song as feminine. Thus, the gender disguises of the play do not merely invert stereotypes of male and female, Asian and West. They also destroy the security of Gallimard's own identity as a strong, male Westerner with power. Song Liling is not only a man. Song uses Gallimard's own cultural stereotypes to exploit the Frenchman. Gallimard begins the play thinking he is the Western, White man taking advantage of the virginal 'Oriental' maiden. But like the opera's "Madam Butterfly," Gallimard ends the play abandoned, disgraced, cut off from his countrymen and finally suicidal. Thus Gallimard's own secure identity as a powerful man has been so undercut, he cannot live with himself, because he no longer knows who he is as a person."
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