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"Why People Believe Weird Things", 2007.
A description of Michael Shermer's fallacies in his book "Why People Believe Weird Things."
1,396 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper discusses Michael Shermer's book "Why People Believe Weird Things," in which he discusses many issues such as pseudoscience and superstition, which continue to permeate our modern society. The paper describes the two major fallacies that Shermer discusses, that have led people to believe in things that are not true and it describes some of the examples that he brings to illustrate his points.
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"As with the Holocaust deniers, the creationists also latch onto flaws or mistakes from historians and academics. When there are any gaps in the time line of artifacts used in the works of evolutionist scientists, it works as full proof in the eyes of creationists that evolutionary theory is incorrect, and by default their beliefs are proven. In this case, just like with Holocaust deniers misquoting historians, they do not work to fulfill burden of proof, because they are not working to actually prove their own theory or belief, but only making futile attempts to poke holes in the case of the opposing belief system or theory. They are misunderstanding the burden of proof, that even if they completely disprove evolution it does not prove creation, but only opens up the field for a whole new option."
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Deal with the Small Things the Big Things will Follow, 2002.
A look at the Broken Windows Theory in connection with acts of crime.
1,595 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper provides a detailed look at the Broken Windows Theory. The writer of this paper provides the reader with an overview of the theory as well as some examples of where the theory would apply. In addition the writer argues that the theory is correct and if minor offenses were more harshly judged and punished then larger crimes would be deterred.
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?As we go through history we see crime that is becoming increasingly violent. We have children killing children, people climbing clock towers and taking aim at innocent residents and serial killers seem to be on the rise. We also have gang related violence occurring each day as well as robberies and stabbings. Car- jackings have become a past time it seems and those who are victims of it are often brutally beaten before they lose their car. Everywhere we turn violent angry crimes seem to be more accepted than ever before.?
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Review of "The God of Small Things", 2007.
This paper explores gender roles and the "big" and "small" things in Arundhati Roy's novel "The God of Small Things."
1,146 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper reviews the book "The God of Small Things" from a perspective of gender roles. The book's author, Arundhati Roy, focuses her story not on the major events that shape a society, but rather on the small daily events that shape a home. In this paper, the concept of "big things" is evaluated in terms of the adult world and male world, while the "small things" are the realm of children and women. The paper analyzes the characters in the novel in relation to this idea.
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"Arundhati Roy's book The God of Small Things has many instances where gender and the idea of "Big" and "Small Things" occur. In a society where there is caste system, political affliations, and marriage, she focuses on the "small things" which in turn can be taken with the gender roles of the novel. There are many characters such as Estha and Rahel that have strong personalities which play a distinctive role in the novel. Furthermore, the women characters in the novel seem to be transgressive of what seems to be acceptable. Roy forms her characters in a way where gender roles can be seen and political views can be taken."
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?The Things They Carried?, 2004.
A review of Tim O'Brien's Vietnam war novel, ?The Things They Carried?.
1,342 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper examines ?The Things They Carried? by Tim O' Brien, the story of 12 soldiers, members of the Third Platoon, Alpha Company, Fifth Battalion of the 16th Infantry, 198th Infantry Brigade of the American Division in the Vietnam War of 1969. It looks at how O?Brien relates his and his companions? desolate and fatal experiences during that war and how he uses those experiences to explore the complications of memory and trauma, the most lasting of the things he and his companions endured, and which have remained with him to this day. It examines how it lists the many things they carried into war that were more real and terrifying than bullets, guns, grenades, and disease, such as the deaths, injuries, and sicknesses, and the overall brokenness they had to face in fighting.
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"O?Brien gives major focus on the death of his closest friend, Kiowa throughout the book. It was a freak incident in that his own platoon killed him by mistake when it camped in a latrine on the banks of the song Tra Bong. It was plain to see why the author held Kiowa closest to his heart: Kiowa shared his sentiments about the cruelty of war. Kiowa was also a very compassionate and intelligent man, but precisely because of the kind of soul he was that O?Brien gave greater coverage of Kiowa?s very costly death than his life. It was a gutting loss he carried with great pain and could never get over with."
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"The Need of Being Versed in Country Things", 2004.
This paper discusses Robert Frost?s "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things" and compares it to another poem by Frost, ?The Road Less Taken?.
805 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper discusses Robert Frost?s ?The Need of Being Versed in Country Things? by stating that Frost uses simple country imagery, not only to describe the beauty of nature, but also to comment on the needs of modern people to understand the simpler knowledge of everyday things. The author points out that the birds in the poem are an allegory for the cycle of life; whereas a person may walk by the house and think how sad it is that it is burned down, the birds see it as a home and regard it as ?the lilac renewed its leaf?. The paper relates that Frost accomplishes his view on city folk by establishing, at the end of his poem, that ?one has to be versed on country things? to appreciate the beauty and metaphor of the house and the new residents.
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"Frost begins his poem with simple imagery of a house that has suffered through a fire and ?now the chimney was all of the house that stood? (line 3). Frost accomplishes a true ?country? feel by comparing parts of the house and barn to imagery often seen in the countryside, rather than in the city. The chimney, for example is compared to a flower when he describes it as ?like a pistil after the petals go? (line 4)."
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"The Things They Carried", 2002.
An analysis of Tim O?Brien?s "The Things They Carried", short stories on the Vietnam War.
1,052 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 36.95
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The paper introduces "The Things They Carried" by Tim O?Brien, a collection of stories all involving the heavy emotional burden soldiers carry into the Vietnam War. It discusses how the book reads more like the memories of an old man, not ordered by chronology, but rather by the experiences of pain, tragedy and death that overcome a person in the moment. This paper explores O?Brien?s description of the soldiers? lives before, during and after the Vietnam War, as well as examines the real things that these soldiers carried with them into battle.
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"When the soldiers return home after the Vietnam War, life doesn?t get much better for them. Instead of a hero?s welcome they are met with ignorance and indifference, thereby making them feel alienated from routine life. A classic example of this is what Norman Bowker experiences upon his return. Norman found it difficult to think of life after the Vietnam War as relevant. Anyone who had not experienced the Vietnam War first-hand could not possibly understand its vulgarity or empathize with the soldiers who lived the war. Also, people back home were not interested in knowing about the Vietnam War. ?[The town] had no memory, therefore no guilt....It did not know shit about shit, and did not care to know.? (O?Brien, 1999, 143)."
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"Primal Leadership" vs. "Getting Things Done", 2005.
A comparative analysis of "Primal Leadership" Daniel Goleman and "Getting Things Done" by David Allen.
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This paper examines how the two works, "Getting Things Done" and "Primal Leadership" deal with success and success achievement, but take entirely different routes. It looks at how "Primal Leadership" focuses on the intangibles: emotional intelligence that guides an organization towards success and how the focus is on relationships outside self. In comparison, it discusses how "Getting Things Done", focuses on self, isolates the reader from his or her peers and forces him or her to structure priorities to get work done. Both theories are briefly applied to the real estate industry.
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"Specifically, Allen stresses the five stages of mastering work flow. First, there is the Collect stage. One must know what one must do first before one can do it. Allen asks us to process all of our collection of work efforts in several types of in-boxes: physical inbox, paper-based note-taking devices, electronic note-taking devices, voice-recording devices and email. The trick is to minimize your inbox collection devices so you only have a few places to look for tasks to be completed."
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"The Things They Carried", 2002.
An examination of Tim O' Brien's novel "The Things They Carried".
1,443 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses how O'Brien presents the negative effects war has on people, especially on soldiers. Through a variety of short stories focused primarily on the Vietnam war, O?Brien illustrates the horror of war through exquisite detail of the violent nature that each soldier seemed to have adopted as time went on in Vietnam. It shows how he focuses not only on the physical things the men carried, but also on the intangible things and how the reader can easily relate to the emotional cost of an ambiguous war.
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"The violence that seems to become embedded in the soldiers is a major topic in O?Brien?s novel. Through elaborate details that reveal the drastic change within the men, O?Brien creates within the reader an sense of understanding of the what of war does to people. This is an effective technique, as he ties these effects into the title of the book. For example, O?Brien has this to say about one of the soldiers, ?Norman Bowker, otherwise a very gentle person, carried a Thumb. . .The Thumb was dark brown, rubbery to touch. . . It had been cut from a VC corpse, a boy of fifteen or sixteen? (13). Before Vietnam, Bowker was a very good-natured person; however, war turned him into a hard-mannered, emotionally empty soldier, carrying a severed thumb as a trophy. The transformation shown through Bowker is an excellent example of the emotional change that a soldier might go through."
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"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe and "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, 2002.
A comparative discussion and analysis of two stories, "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe and "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.
1,032 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper is an introduction and discussion of two stories, both set in Africa. ?Things Fall Apart? by Chinua Achebe and ?Heart of Darkness? by Joseph Conrad. It compares the two stories as a reader response criticism. It explores the themes of darkness and language. The writer argues that Conrad?s work is harder to grasp but is haunting and vivid. Achebe?s work is perceived as simpler to comprehend. In conclusion, the discussion highlights that whilst ?Heart of Darkness? is a disturbing read, it illustrates well how the natives suffered in Africa and causes the reader to think. In contrast, ?Things Fall Apart? is an easier read but fails to make its mark in the same way.
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"The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the two stories "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe and "Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad. Specifically, it will compare the two papers as a reader response criticism. Conrad's work is difficult to grasp at first reading, while Achebe's is simpler to comprehend. Yet, it is Conrad's work that haunts the reader and stays with him, because of the forceful descriptions and vivid language Conrad uses to describe the dark and deep African jungle, and ultimately, because it makes the reader think".
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?Things Fall Apart?, 2002.
An examination of the underlying politics in Chinua Achebe?s novel, "Things Fall Apart".
836 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper analyzes Chinua Achebe?s novel, "Things Fall Apart", and looks at how it is a political novel intended to present a different perspective on African culture and, indeed, colonialism. It shows how the underlying politics are so clear in so much that the author wishes to communicate a different, more holistic, and real picture of African culture and the destruction of it by colonialism. It also discusses how one of the most important messages that Achebe drives home in "Things Fall Apart" is that the Umofians were a democratic people, as compared to the invaders who were from an imperialist society.
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"As Achebe unfolds the story of Okonkwo, he also artfully takes the reader through other aspects of the Igbo?s progressiveness. For instance, he reveals the fact that Okonkwo was able to achieve social status and prosperity in spite of his father being a failure because the Igbo society allowed a high degree of social mobility. The extent of the tribe?s progressiveness is also revealed in the institution of a ?week of peace.? The symbolism here is unmistakable in that Achebe wished to highlight the natives? desire for a peaceful co-existence, as contrasted with the attitude of the marauding invaders."
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?Things Fall Apart?, 2002.
A discussion of the importance of the title of Chinua Achebe's highly acclaimed first novel ?Things Fall Apart?.
1,617 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper reviews the novel ?Things Fall Apart? by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe which portrays Nigerian tribal life before and after the arrival of colonization. It examines how the themes covered by the book are those of interest to black people and how the novel has views of racial politics. It shows us how as a black writer, Achebe is able to covey language and feeling in a way which is very different than white writers. It describes how the main character in the novel is Okonkwo, a self-made man and how everything seems to fall apart for him, hence the title. It is not just Okonkwo that ?things fall apart? for. It discusses how villagers and tribe members (and indeed Nigerians as a whole) must adapt to a whole new way of life when the white man takes over.
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"Although there were earlier examples, notably by Achebe's fellow Nigerian, Amos Tutuola, none has been so influential, not only on African literature, but on literature around the world. The aim of the novel is to create a complex and sympathetic portrait of a traditional village culture in Africa. Achebe is trying not only to inform the outside world about Igbo cultural traditions, but to remind his own people of their past and to stress that it had contained much of value. Achebe intensely resents the stereotype of Africa as an undifferentiated primitive land. Throughout the novel he shows how African cultures differ among themselves and how they change over time."
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"Things Fall Apart", 2002.
An analysis of European culture and the Ibo people in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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An analysis of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" and the relationship between the Ibo peoples and the invading European culture that changed their way of life. By understanding textual examples from "Things Fall Apart" we can see how they interacted in the fall of the Ibo people.
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History in Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart', 2000.
This paper is a discussion of the ways in which 'Things Fall Apart' is informed by a sense of history.
1,435 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses 'Things Fall Apart' by the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. It is informed by a sense of history and how it reflects on the process of colonisation. It explores Achebe's motivations behind 'Things Fall Apart' and evaluates the ways in which the novel acts to reclaim Africa's genuine past. It describes the novel's plot and analyzes the use of tragic irony.
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"The Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe is one of the most prominent figures in post-colonial literature and he actively seeks to reclaim African heritage. Western colonisation of Africa destroyed native religions, languages and forcibly replaced African heritage with the European culture. In this sense, people of post-colonial countries feel they have been denied their true history and seek to rediscover their past. Achebe strongly disagreed with the existing portrayal of his homeland and it is through his novel Things Fall Apart (1958) that Achebe realises his desire to expose the Western view of African history as false and repossess Nigeria?s genuine past."
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"The God of Small Things", 2002.
Presents a psychological examination of the novel "The God of Small Things".
3,650 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 133.95
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"The God Of Small Things", a Booker Prize winning novel by Arundhati Roy, is a tragic story that renders rich psychological insights into the effects of India's political and social problems on an everyday family in their everyday lives; and illustrates in a powerful fashion the ways in which these problems can destroy both rich and poor people alike. This paper attempts to interpret the multitude of psychological meanings in "The God of Small Things".
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