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"Time and the Art of Living" by Robert Grudin, 2002.
The paper provides a review of the book "Time and the Art of Living" by Robert Grudin, which discusses how we co-exist with time, and how to make time more meaningful in our lives.
1,862 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 59.95
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The paper analyzes the main concept put forward in Grudin's book that people do not make the best use of their time and looks at the way this philosophy explains much about our time oriented society. The paper examines society's preoccupation with time, and the way the author encourages the reader to think more about their goals and aspirations, rather than their day-to-day existence. The paper admires Grudin's effective arguments yet criticizes his use of duplication throughout the book.
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"One important theme Grudin talks about in the book is how we are "impoverished in time" (Grudin 6). This is an interesting and compelling thought, and bears deeper investigation. Literally, all we have in life is time, and yet, there is never enough of it. Grudin explains this phenomenon in a variety of ways, but ultimately breaks it down between people who look toward the future, and people who can only see their day-to-day existence."
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"Living Buddha, Living Christ", 2005.
A book report on this text by Thich Nhat Hanh.
1,460 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 48.95
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Thich Nhat Hanh, author of the bestselling book, "Living Buddha, Living Christ", witnessed the persecution of Buddhists under the Catholic governments of South Vietnam and was also befriended by Christian leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Thomas Merton. This paper presents a report on his book in which he attempts to make clear the conjunction of beliefs between the religions of Christianity and Buddhism.
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"Thich Nhat Hanh's ultimate message in this book is that true faith is living faith. If people do not practice their faith in their everyday lives, their faith is reduced to an inactive mental concept. The connections between Christianity and Buddhism are not as important as are the similar usages of things like the Holy Spirit and mindfulness. The idea Hanh puts forth is that both Buddhism and Christianity utilize concepts to reach the ultimate goal."
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Art and Pop Art, 2002.
A comparative analysis of art with pop art using the works of Andy Warhol and Leonardo Da Vinci.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 44.95
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This discusses art and pop art, and distinguishes between the two by noting the characteristics of each form. As examples of each, two works of Andy Warhol are compared and contrasted to Da Vinci's "Last Supper" and Rembrandt's "Syndic of the Clothmaker's Guild.
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"Where I Live and What I Live For", 2002.
The paper argues against Thoreau's view that man should shun the modern world and live among nature.
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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The paper lists the benefits of living in modern society as opposed to living a life of isolation surrounded by nature. It argues that beauty can be found in the modern world and cites the advantages of technology. It speaks in praise of toil and work and endeavors to show how Thoreau's view can be adapted to a modern society.
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"Work and sweat produces conveniences so that men can do more, it is true. These conveniences do just as much good as they were intended to do. For example, helps men to feed their families. Farming does not always yield enough money for food so that all men can eat. Thus, these men must work in industrialized society so that they can have meals on their table. The fathers must work in the railroad so that their children can eat. No one can argue against that point. The conveniences also allow men to visit family and friends so that they may spend quality time with them. Instead of it taking years and years to have enough time to spend from the crops and household chores in order to make trips by foot or horse, man can visit as often as they wish because it takes less time to make such trips. Also, thanks to the train, entire families can go and can just as quickly return. Dangers associated with traveling across the wild and reckless land are almost removed. "
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The "Art" of Art Forgery, 2002.
Shows that forgery is more than just a copying process, involving complex techniques found in art.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 106.95
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This paper examines the skill involved in producing 'true' forgeries within the world of art. It is stressed that the forger is to be seen as an artist, in that he or she must sometimes enter the mind of the original artist, master his or her techniques,and otherwise execute works that can withstand the expert eye. Forgery is a normal aspect of the art world.
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"Julius Caesar Plutarch's Lives" ( Plutarch ) & "The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars "( Suetonius ), 1999.
Compares two biographies of Julius Caesar, examining biases & aims of the authors.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, $ 71.95
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" Biography is an art rather than a science, and it is influenced by the attitudes of the historian writing the biography, the limits of his or her knowledge of the subject, the evidence that has been amassed, and often by political considerations which might shape how a figure is depicted. Different pictures of a figure can emerge from different biographies for these and other reasons. Two biographies of Julius Caesar from the classical era show different views of the Roman leader, that of Plutarch in his Lives and of Suetonius in The Lives of the Twelve Caesars.
In the Roman era, much of Greek literature and culture was either adopted or held up as an example even though the Romans had a different worldview in many ways. The gods of Greece were carried over into the Roman pantheon, though the names and some.."
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Robert M Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", 1976.
This paper analyzes Robert M Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" that deals with the search for quality and synthesis of Eastern and Western views.
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the significance of the title in Robert M. Persig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. On a concrete level, the title refers to two very distinct times in the life of the narrator. Early in his life, as Phaedrus, the narrator spent several years studying Oriental philosophy at Benares Hindu University. During this period he discovered that western logic is not "final wisdom" because it presupposes a dichotomy between the thing perceived and the perceiver. The elimination of activity - physical, mental, and emotional - is the path to truth and final wisdom, since it dispels the illusion of the subject/object duality:
There are many disciplines for this. One of the most important is the Sanskrit dhvana, mispro- nounced in Chinese as "Chan" and again mispro- ... "
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"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M Pirsig, 1993.
A review of the work on the quest for truth, values, reality, art, spirituality and technology.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"In his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig offers an assessment of the idea of quality and applies this to life, using as his platform the maintenance of a motorcycle. He uses the quality of a mechanical object and the relationship of that object to himself as a thinking human being as a way of finding a unity with the idea of quality in every life experience. The motorcycle is more than just his tool for accomplishing this. It is a physical object that is also a mental construct. It is an object of art and an object of technology at one and the same time, and it is through Pirsig's direct work on the motorcycle that he is able to see the unity in what are sometimes set forth as opposites--technology and art, classical and romantic, the internal and the external.
The book has as its overt subject one man's quest for truth..."
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"Longing for Darkness" by China Galland and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M Pirsig, 1994.
A comparison of the paths to enlightenment and natural processes of spirituality in the two books on knowledge and philosophy in the East and West.
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"This study will compare and contrast the paths to enlightenment portrayed in two books, Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna, by China Galland, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig. The study will consider how the spiritual/philosophical journey toward truth and reality is a natural process and one in which we are all perpetually involved.
Both works tend to emphasize an Eastern approach to wisdom, although Pirsig's journey takes place entirely in the United States, while Galland travels throughout the world, East and West. This Eastern approach to wisdom stresses intuition and experience over dogma or doctrine. Although both authors include many elements of Western religion and thought (especially Greek philosophy in Pirsig and Christian faith in Galland), it would be..."
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Literary Themes: Invisibility and Keeping the Dead Living, 2007.
This paper examines the literary themes of invisibility and keeping the dead living as observed from William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" to the modern literature of Robert Browning, William Faulkner, Gwendolyn Brooks and Ralph Ellison.
1,960 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper explains that, in "Hamlet", Shakespeare uses literal invisibility only once; however, there are several instances in which he uses a motif of figurative invisibility, when characters are present but unseen. The author points out that Gwendolyn Brooks' brief poem 'We Real Cool' reflects a modern understanding of invisibility as people about whom no one cares rather than in the classic motif of a character whom some can see while others cannot. The paper relates that, in Shakespeare's "Hamlet", Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" the living characters try to deal with the dead. The author points out that Prince Hamlet is driven by the ghost of his father, Browning's Duke Alphonso has reduced his late wife to a curtained off, collectible art object and Faulkner's Miss Emily has clung for thirty years to the hidden body of the lover she felt she could not keep were he alive.
Table of Contents:
The Theme of Invisibility
Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
Gwendolyn Brooks' Poem 'We Real Cool'
Ralph Ellison' "Invisible Man"
The Theme of Keeping the Dead Living
Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"
William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
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"The "Invisible Man" is a black youth in the segregated deep South. His invisibility stems from the fact that the whites around him are determined to maintain a racial caste. To do this, they have made those who were slaves "invisible." When the ten youths are summoned to the hotel ballroom and shoved blindfolded into the boxing ring, the white crowd does not see then as human beings. They are the countless racial slurs that are yelled out at them. They are the animalistic violence that drives the crowd to a frenzy."
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'Living Jesus', 2007.
This paper studies the work 'Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the Gospel', by Luke Timothy Johnson.
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In this article the writer discusses that 'Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the Gospel' offers a deeply personal insight into approaching the meaning of Jesus Christ within an admirably scholastic framework. The writer notes that the author's primary goal and objective in writing 'Living Jesus' may be to stimulate new modes of thinking about Gospel and to renew or initiate appreciation of the resurrected, living, omnipresent Jesus Christ. The writer concludes that the title of 'Living Jesus' offers readers a double-meaning to contemplate. The writer explains that Jesus is at once living, fully alive and omnipresent and that the title also refers to an active incorporation of Christianity into one's personal life: living Jesus, living as a Christian.
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"Being a Christian, according to the author requires a heartfelt confession in the immanence of Jesus: His divine presence in the world. Johnson's emphasis is on action and process, rather than on historical analysis. While the author does not discount the relevance of historical examinations of the life and times of Jesus Christ, he denounces such historical investigations as missing the point. The historian's Jesus is dead, whereas the faithful Christian's Jesus is alive. The mystery of the resurrection is the central motif by which Christians can ponder the living Jesus and His role in the world. Moreover, the resurrection forms the actual inception of the Christian faith, because the cult of Jesus began with the moment of the resurrection."
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Diana McGowin's "Living in the Labyrinth", 2006.
A review of Diana McGowin's book about living with Alzheimer's disease, "Living in the Labyrinth".
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Alzheimer's disease means a diagnosis of dementia which creates serious problems for both the patient and the family such as stigma and social isolation. Alzheimer's disease also includes other serious issues such as grief and loss along with memory loss, anxiety and depression. Alzheimer's produces irreversible effects and losses. This paper summarizes McGowin's experience with Alzheimer's disease and looks at her symptoms. The paper also discusses the impact of the chronic health challenge on her and her family.
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Assisted Living Review, 2005.
A discussion regarding assisted living facilities for the elderly.
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This paper reviews an existing assisted living facility. The facility chosen provides service from partial assisted living to secure assisted living for Alzheimer's and other memory loss disorder medical consumers. This paper also presents an extensive checklist of all items necessary before a decision is made to finalize living arrangements.
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"Growing old in America is not generally thought of as a gentle process, rather one fraught with higher medical costs, rising inflation, and familial separation and loneliness. Unfortunately the elders in our society are oftentimes forgotten, seldom revered, and generally not appreciated. With mega computer technology in our midst young people today seek companionship, information, and support all too often from lifeless machines that are incapable of projecting warmth, feeling, or a sense of security rather then from those whose life is more dramatic and colorful. Therefore, to get a sense of what it is like to be a senior citizen in today's society an assisted living facility was chosen to be reviewed with respect to the medical consumer serviced, the needs of the facility's residents, the proprietor's mission and policy statement, and core competencies of the overall facility and staff."
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The Living-Wage Debate, 2008.
An analysis and evaluation of two opposing viewpoints on the living-wage laws debate.
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The paper examines M. Hurd's support for living-wage legislation and R. Berman's arguments against living-wage laws in "Do Living-wage Laws Help Poor Workers?". The paper analyzes both viewpoints and concludes that Berman is more convincing in his arguments against living-wage laws. The paper explains that Berman uses facts to reinforce his claims while Hurd relies mainly on anecdotal accounts. The paper therefore takes the position that the well-intentioned efforts to increase the income of a few poor workers has an overall negative effect upon this class of low-skilled employees.
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"The adoption of living-wage laws by nearly one hundred cities and counties is a benefit to the local economies, thus is the conclusion of Maude Hurd, President of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), when she states, "When workers earn enough to support themselves, taxpayers spend less on food stamps, housing assistance, Earned Income Tax Credits, on other handouts" (Hurd, "Do Living-wage Laws Help Poor Workers?".). Beyond the economic benefits, there is a general community wide enhancement when, as Hurd claims, "Communities benefit from less crime, more homeownership and increased time to parents to spend with their kids" (Hurd, n.p.). The direct and indirect benefits of living wage regulation are realized by the local economy, local and federal governments, employers and families, these are the conclusions made by Hurd in urging additional jurisdictions to embrace this concept and enact legislation mandating the payment of a living wage to all low income workers."
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A Living Wage Will Work, 2003.
Presents the case for a mandatory living wage for U.S. workers.
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This persuasive paper deconstructs many of the arguments against a living wage (i.e. increased costs of goods, workforce shrinkage) and makes a case that a living wage is not only necessary for economic reasons, but for moral reasons as well. Arguments presented in favor of a living wage: lower employee turnover; socially healthy; morally appropriate; and possibly due to the growth in the service industry. The paper refutes that a living wage will increase overseas outsourcing, decrease total employment, and lead to more workers simply being replaced by technology.
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"A third argument against a living wage is that employers would simply replace workers with automation and new technology. This is something that has been happening since the beginning of Industrial Revolution, and something workers have been dealing with for just as long. Companies will always use technology to replace workers, no matter what wage they are required to pay from $5.15 to $8.00. Over the past hundred years thousands of jobs have disappeared due to technology, and somehow our economy has survived. Bank tellers, secretaries and full service gas station attendants have decreased in number considerably without any apparent mark on the unemployment rate so it can be assumed that these people went on to find other jobs. Also, technology can create new jobs for unskilled workers. Data entry, a task that requires little skill, hardly existed fifty years before the common use of computers."
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