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Thucydides "Account of Pericles" Funeral Speech, 2002.
A look into the accuracy of a work written by a biased historian.
951 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper shows the inaccuracy of at least one of Thucydides' works and explores the bias present in any historical document. Comparisons are made between what Thucydides' documented "Pericles" is saying and what was actually happening in Greece at the time.
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"In his treatise on history, Thucydides claims to be the most accurate and unbiased historian of his time. It is unquestionable that he was an extremely influential writer and has provided the modern world with an unparalleled glimpse into Greek history. However, the accuracy of his work does provide a forum for much debate. It is hard to believe that anyone past or present can provide a truly accurate account of any event. The author?s own ideas, knowingly or otherwise, always manage to find their way into any account. Thucydides was no exception. Despite his best intentions, Thucydides? account of Pericles? Funeral Speech falls short of ?a possession for all time?, as the author might have you believe (Thucydides 107). Instead, it serves as the author?s interpretation of how Greek history should be viewed rather than how it actually happened."
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Hate Speeches: The Right to Freedom of Speech, 2001.
A look at freedom of speech with respect to 'hate' speeches' and whether or not these speeches are protected under the First Amendment.
1,168 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 5 sources, $ 40.95
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In this paper the author argues that ?hate speeches?, however abhorrent, should be protected by the U.S. Constitution, that in the interest of free speech, they should be allowed. He suggests that this is synonymous with American freedom and refers to some specific examples in order to assess whether hate speeches should be protected under the First Amendment. The author contends that as long as we are free to judge the importance of what is being said for ourselves, then words should never be banned.
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?Words are serious, not because they have any direct effect in their own right, but because words, and the ideas they express, are what we use to weigh up our own decisions, their likely effects, and our responsibilities. Words have consequences only if we choose to give them consequences.?
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Gay Speech, not Hate Speech, 2008.
A discussion on the use of word forms specifically constructed for recognition by gay and lesbian groups.
1,041 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 36.95
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The paper illustrates how language serves a purpose to the gay and lesbian community to assist them in recognizing themselves as a group in a world of opposition and ridicule of their status. The paper quotes several words and descriptively explains how the word is utilized in gay society. The paper then summarizes the situation with examples on how language has been used negatively with the resultant necessity for this group to formulate their own vocabulary.
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"This usage appears to have grown out of political activism. The need to combat homophobic oppression - including internalized homophobia - was perceived, and a concrete way of doing this was to hold a public parade in which pride in one's alternative sexual orientation was expressed. Out of this activity, the word "pride" acquired a whole new meaning - a meaning that is useful for this community in overcoming the societal prejudices it has to deal with."
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The Ethics of Selling Funeral Services, 2007.
An analysis of the changing nature of funerals and the responsibilities of funeral directors.
1,174 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper discusses the ethical issues involved in selling funeral services to the families of deceased relatives. The paper discusses the mission of the Funeral Ethics Association and how it strives to educate funeral directors to act in the best interests of the public and the common interests of the profession. The paper ends by discussing the changing nature of the funeral tradition and how this is affecting funeral directors.
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"The mission of the Funeral Ethics Association is "to provide the public and the profession with a balanced forum for resolving misunderstandings and to elevate the importance of ethical practices in all matters related to funeral service" (Funeral2). This is achieved through the continuing education of funeral directors and clear presentations to the public, such as information regarding "funeral options, funeral prearrangements, prefinanced funerals and the ethical purposes of the funeral profession' (Funeral2). The intent of the Funeral Ethics Association is to cultivate ethical harmony and cooperation while establishing ethical relationships between the pubic and funeral service (Funeral2). To accomplish these purposes, the FEA publishes newsletters on ethical practices, hears matters dealing with ethics, and establishes an office of ombudsman to act in the best interests of the public and the common interests of the profession (Funeral2)."
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Funeral Industry, 2005.
This paper examines software applications used in the funeral industry.
1,405 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 46.95
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This paper explains that, although the end product of funeral homes may be dramatically different than most other industries, most funeral homes need to fulfill many of the same administrative tasks that are associated with any type of business, which can be met by off-the-shelf small business management software packages; software vendors also are addressing the unique needs of funeral home directors. The author reviews several funeral home software packages such as Mortware, which provides funeral custom software that allows easy data entry, rapid form generation as well as a number of add-ons that funeral home directors can select for their own unique needs. The paper concludes that it makes good business sense to automate everything possible in a funeral home environment to allow more time for the face-to-face interactions required to ensure the perception of high quality customer service.
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Introduction
Review and Discussion
Background and Overview
Administrative and Processing Needs of a Typical Funeral Home
Software Solutions for Funeral Homes
Conclusion
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"Microsoft and other major computer providers generally provide a standard suite of software tools with their products that can be easily customized for the specific needs of a funeral home (pers. obs.). Likewise, standard software accounting packages such as Quicken are appropriate for many funeral homes' accounting needs today. For additional assistance in itemizing funeral costs, POWERsolutions has created a software package called "PreNeed" that retails for about $40; this software package provides funeral directors (or consumers) with a step-by-step guide through the decision-making process; the program also generates a final report for comparison purposes (the author notes that comparable reports can be developed by using a basic word processing or spreadsheet program). While funeral homes can manage to get along by using off-the-shelf software programs, there are a number of applications specifically designed for the funeral industry available today."
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Bereavement and Funeral Policies, 2004.
An extensive review of literature regarding bereavement and funeral policies for American military personnel.
8,242 words (approx. 33.0 pages), 46 sources, MLA, $ 176.95
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This paper presents an in-depth literature survey that examines the history and protocol of military benefits, the history of military funeral legislation, and military funeral leave and protocol as defined by federal law. The paper scrutinizes available books, articles, and Internet materials on caring leadership, in general, and on caring leadership as it relates to funeral leave benefits and the caring management of grieving employees. The paper also reviews available literature on caring leadership as a value, qualitatively and in terms of potential financial benefit to a company or organization. The paper presents an analysis and comparison of funeral leave benefits offered by a variety of public organizations and private companies to their employees, comparing them with each other and with those of U.S. military personnel.
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Introduction
Federal Legislation on Military and Government Funerals, Funeral Leave, and Bereavement Leave
Literature on Caring Leadership
Literature on Grief Management in the Workplace
Funeral and Bereavement Leave Policies of Specific Organizations
Potential Advantages and Drawbacks of Incorporating Official Bereavement Processes and Expanded Funeral Benefits for United States Government Employees Other than Military Personnel
Conclusion
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"Other documents on military funerals, history, protocol, employee leave, and entitlements surveyed for the study included: Military funerals - A brief history (2005); History of Taps (2005); Funeral leave (2005); Military funeral support (2004); Funeral honors ceremony (2005); Banusiewics (2004), and Military funerals (2002). All of these sources contained also information on military funeral protocol, including the facts that: the military has a litany of regulations regarding its funeral procedures. When military personnel pass, there are federal laws and formal procedures in place to acknowledge them, based on Title 38 of the United States Code, Section 112. Military funeral protocols spelled out by federal law include: (1) At least two military personnel being sent to the funeral; (2) Taps being played by a bugler, if available, and if not, a recording of Taps being played; (3) a 21-gun salute being given to honor a fallen soldier, under particular circumstances;(4) an American flag being first folded thirteen (13) times by the military detail conducting the ceremony, and the folded flag then being given, by the military detail leader, to the next-of kin; (4) special words of condolence being spoken, by the detail leader, to the next-of-kin; and (5) a Certificate of Honor, signed by the current President of the United States, being made available, upon request, to the next of kin."
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Discaeopolis, Pericles, and Socrates, 2004.
A look at the claims to possess greater knowledge of Discaeopolis, Pericles, and Socrates.
3,130 words (approx. 12.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 91.95
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This paper seeks to analyze the claim to knowledge made by three important Greek figures in their public speeches. It begins with Pericles, whose public speeches occupy a pivotal position in Greek history and reached us through Thucydides. It then continues with Socrates, whose very name is synonymous with knowledge and truth, and his public speeches reached us with the help of Plato. The third important figure is Discaeopolis, whose speeches in Aristophanes?s comedy, "Acharnians", make similar claims to knowledge and truth. It attempts to understand the type of audience these three figures were addressing and why, in particular, all three stressed the significance of education.
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"Thucydides? History of Peloponnesian war offers an close insight into the character of Athenian ruler Pericles and shows how during his reign Athens attained unprecedented heights of success and prosperity. However the last few years of his rule were quite troublesome and were infested with internal and external problems, which took their toll on Pericles and thus we notice pronounced contrast between the contents and tone of his first speech and those of the second and third speeches in History of Pole War. Pericles? Funeral oration occupies a pivotal place in the public speeches of all times. It reveals the rhetorical skills of Pericles and proves that for him, public speaking and addressing the nation was the main weapon for inspiring and motivating Athenian public."
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Thucydides: "History Of The Peloponnesian War", 1993.
Discusses Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War", focusing on how Thucydides approaches the study of history from a methodological standpoint.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 55.95
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"War is a devastating human activity, one that decimates populations, destroys property, and alters political and social structures for both victor and vanquished. The history of mankind has been a history of warfare to a great extent, and few civilizations have been able to avoid war for long. At certain points in history war has been aggrandized as a glorious effort to promote a social or political agenda, while at other times society has frowned on war and has resorted to it only when all else fails. The world of ancient Greece produced some of the most important philosophical concepts in human history, ideas that have continued to prevail to this day. Yet, the Greeks as well were subject to war both with outside forces and among themselves. An example of the latter was the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, an event that had major consequences for the development of the ..."
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Thucydides: The Father of History, 2006.
This well-researched paper details the life and monumental achievements of Thucydides, the world's first scientific historian.
4,950 words (approx. 19.8 pages), 122 sources, APA, $ 125.95
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This in-depth paper explores the life of Greek historian Thucydides, the inventor of both the year by year narrative and the legal and medical metaphors. Thucydides was and still is considered the greatest historian of antiquity who wrote a critically acclaimed history of the Peloponnesian War. This paper also discusses Thucydides inventing the first historical archeology of a culture in his pursuit of learning how men learn of the past.
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The Biography of Thucydides
Conclusion
Footnotes
References
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"Thucydides' work was enlivened by the well-crafted speeches he put into the mouths of participants in the events he chronicled. This was a common technique in his day. The greatest speech in his history was Pericles' funeral oration. Besides being an accurate historian, Thucydides' account of the plague, through which he lived, displays his clinical and descriptive attitude and is considered a standard of its type. He is generally acclaimed as the creator of scholarly history as we know it today."
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Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, 2006.
This paper analyzes Greek history in 'The History of the Peloponnesian War' by Thucydides.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 7 sources, $ 62.95
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In this paper, the writer discusses that the historical non-bias of the Greek historian Thucydides is represented in his classical work: 'The History of the Peloponnesian War'. The writer points out that by defining the nature of the Athenian Constitution and the democratic principles that are within state policy, Thucydides often presents the failure of this form of government under Pericles. The writer further notes that the reality of the history presented in this form of early history provides a foundation for non-bias, which helps one to realize how both sides of the war are depicted during the Peloponnesian War.
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"The aim of this historical study is to analyze the non-biased account of Greek history within 'The History of the Peloponnesian War' by Thucydides. By realizing the immoral and often unnecessary sense of violence that one Greek would impart another during this conflict, Thucydides attempts to bring to light his disagreement with the war through a Constitutional premise. However, Thucydides does not choose a single side to agree or disagree with through his non-biased account of the war between the Peloponnesian League and The Delian League during this conflict."
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Thucydides.
This paper discusses Thucydides, the first historian, and his book "The Histories: The History of the Peloponnesian War".
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that Thucydides's historical approach, which is documentary yet personal, partisan yet does not assume that only what wins is right, is the genesis of contemporary modes of recording and, more importantly, creating history. The author points out that Thucydides asked not only what happened, but also why something happened. From the perspective of a losing army, he indicated that, if an army like the Spartans were winning, this did not mean automatically that the Spartans were morally better than the Athenians. The paper relates that, in Thucydides, history was transformed from merely being a fabric of myths and legends about the wonderful nature of one's own land and became a portrait of moral governance.
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"This is most apparent in Chapter IV, the Second Book, where the funeral oration of Pericles is recorded and depicted. In the words of the historian, "Pericles, son of Xanthippus, was chosen to pronounce their eulogium," of a fallen warrior Pericles himself says that it is not winning or losing battles that matters most in history, rather "hat part of our [Athenian] history which tells of the military achievements which gave us our several possessions, or of the ready valor with which either we or our fathers stemmed the tide of Hellenic or foreign aggression, is a theme too familiar to my hearers for me to dilate on, and I shall therefore pass it by," rather "what the form of government under which our greatness grew," is of greatest importance."
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Six Sigma and a Funeral Home, 2006.
This paper employs the Six Sigma quality management system to evaluate a small funeral home.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 4 sources, $ 106.95
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The paper discusses quality management and productivity as it applies to the small business enterprise and particularly a small, family owned funeral home. The quality tool, Six Sigma, is used to demonstrate how it can improve several business processes within the funeral homes' daily tasks. The paper explores how the small funeral home can greatly improve its efficiency in the embalming and preparation processes that can not only improve margins but ease the experience of the person responsible for arranging the affairs of the deceased.
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"Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma and other quality management systems owe most of their processes and underlying logic to the work of Dr. Deming who was the first researcher to promote the use of statistics as a management device. Dr. Deming was instrumental in facilitating Japan's rise to the top of the quality chain and his methods have influenced every quality management program in existence to one extent or another: "His teachings were encapsulated in his 14 points, his 7 deadly diseases and...his system of profound knowledge. Deming challenged us...to reconsider both our fundamental roles and our technical teachings..."(Hahn, 2002, paras.5-7)."
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Thucydides' Work: Posterity over Public Acceptance, 2007.
This paper discusses Thucydides' objective, authoritative accounts of historical occurrences and argues that this style has led to the present day survival of his work.
1,920 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper aims to show that Thucydides provided a new benchmark for accurate, objective history by providing for humanity in the future instead of for the popular masses in his time. It also states that Thucydides work provides a penetrating insight into the human character by showing human nature's integral shaping of history. Furthermore, this paper shows how Thucydides' history is still relevant today, proved by the contemporary analogies drawn from his themes of empire, self-interest, political arrogance and corruption.
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"Chronicling the war in such a persuasive and definitive style, in a systematic year-by-year and blow-for-blow account of the events in the war, shows an almost scientific approach to the war. Thucydides does not leave out tedious details to improve the pace of the book for a Greek audience; he leaves in every possible detail. It is his passion for detail and his realisation of the importance of the subject matter for successive generations, which gives the book its definitive style, differing radically from Herodotus' Histories and Homer's Iliad. Indeed, Thucydides states that because of his laborious investigation, the 'reasonably accurate' conclusions he has drawn from the 'plainest evidence' he obtained, the reader is not 'far wrong in accepting the conclusions' he has reached when compared to the Homeric poets who 'exaggerate the importance of their themes' or chroniclers who are far 'less interested in telling the truth than in catching the attention of their public' , an indirect criticism of Herodotus' style."
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Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home, 2005.
A discussion on the mission statement of the Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper offers a mission statement for the Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home, a family-owned business established in 1870. It explains that the company is dedicated to providing the highest quality in pre-need services, traditional funerals, cremations, burials and embalming and to doing so in a sensitive and caring manner. The paper mentions that the company serves the local area around Chagrin Falls, which is approximately 20 miles east of Cleveland, Ohio. This is the area's oldest funeral home and expresses its pride in carrying on the founder's commitment to serve families with compassionate, quality service in a sensitive human caring profession.
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"The Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home was established in 1870 and remains a family-owned business. The company is dedicated to providing the highest quality in pre-need services, traditional funerals, cremations, burials, and embalming and to doing so in a sensitive and caring manner. The company serves the local area around Chagrin Falls, which is approximately 20 miles east of Cleveland, Ohio. This is the area's oldest funeral home and expresses its pride in carrying on the founder's commitment to serve families with compassionate, quality service in a sensitive human caring profession. The mission of the company is to provide this service to people in a time of need and to help alleviate the grief of the families. The company provides a wide variety of services aside from funerals, including insurance portfolios, caskets, rentals, monuments, removal services, notary services, trusts, vaults, limousine services, out of state services ..."
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?I Felt a Funeral in My Brain?, 2005.
This paper discusses the construction of the poem by Emily Dickinson "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain".
1,530 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that themes of death, altered states of consciousness and mental chaos are conveyed through traditional and sophisticated uses of poetic composition in Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain". The author points out that the poet employs a plethora of poetic techniques such as alliteration, repetition, rhyme and rhythm to create mood and convey the central themes of emptiness and mental chaos. The paper relates that, just as sensory deprivation is a common tool used to create altered states of consciousness, so, too, is sensory overload; the speaker in "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" describes both sensory deprivation and sensory overload.
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"Alliteration and repetition provide the musical and rhythmic backbone of Dickinson's poem. Examples of alliteration include: "felt a funeral," "seated, / A service," "silence some strange," and "dropped down," (1; 6; 15; 17). In addition to alliteration, "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" also contains several examples of word repetition: "treading, treading," "beating, beating," "down, and down," (3; 7; 17). The rhythmic quality of both alliteration and repetition mirrors the motif of drums that the speaker refers to in the second stanza. Therefore, poetic devices perfectly reflect the theme. Musicality is also conveyed through careful word selections: the third stanza begins: "And then I heard them lift a box, / And creak across my soul /.../ Then space began to toll," (9-12). Key words invoking music and sound include "heard," "creak," and "toll." Aural imagery continues in the fourth stanza, which continues where the third left off with its allusion to a bell tolling."
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