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"Transients in Arcadia", 2004.
An analysis of O. Henry's short story "Transients in Arcadia".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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An analysis of O. Henry's short story "Transients in Arcadia" that discusses the central theme and the literary devices utilized by the author to reinforce it. It also looks at O. Henry's use of irony.
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"O, Henry's short stories generally involve an ironic twist near the end of the story and "Transients in Arcadia" does not disappoint in this manner. "Transients in Arcadia" illustrates the atmosphere and culture of the Hotel Lotus..."
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"The Old Arcadia", 2003.
An analysis of the role of Philisides in Philip Sidney's "The Old Arcadia".
980 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 34.95
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This paper discusses how it is hard to miss the evident congruence between the character known as "Philisides" and Philip Sidney himself in his novel "The Old Arcadia". It discusses how, because Philisides does not appear nearly as much in the revision of the Arcadia, the reader of "The Old Arcadia" is left to wonder why Philisides is included in the novel and what the role is he is meant to play. In order to understand the true meaning, the paper explores Sidney's self-representations in the novel.
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"Another instance in which Philisides appears to be a representation of Philip Sidney is at the end of Philisides's song in the Third Eclogues. Philisides mentions the animals that follow him when he is walking, but who never run ahead of him. "Thus I did sing and pipe for eight sullen hours / To sheep whom love, not knowledge, made to hear; / Now fancy's fits, now fortune's baleful stours. / But then I homeward called my lambskins dear; / For to my dimmed eyes began t'appear..." (Sidney 223). While the sheep understand the meaning of Philisides's pipe, their knowledge of the instrument only goes as far that they know enough to follow the noise. The sheep are easily swayed by the spontaneity and sound of his pipe, and because of the large admiration that they have for him, they completely trust him with their entire beings. "
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"Arcadia" by Tom Stoppard, 2006.
This paper examines the impact of the dual structure in Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia."
1,741 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 56.95
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The paper discusses how one of the most interesting features about Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia" is the use of the dual structure. The play features two sets of characters in the same place but in different times. The paper analyzes this play and concludes that by utilizing a unique dual structure that parallels two sets of characters, Stoppard cleverly makes his point about the role of the unknown in life. In doing so, he offers a warning about approaching life from a purely rational viewpoint and shows that people should use their curiosity and be willing to explore.
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"The first effect of the dual structure is to contrast the characters of Thomasina and Hannah. They are both the main female characters and their stories take place in the same place, though at a different time. They are also both driven by a search for knowledge. Thomasina makes the focus of her quest for knowledge clear where she asks what carnal knowledge is in the first scene. This shows that her curiosity is based on human desire rather than being based on a quest for scientific knowledge. This is later seen again when Septimas tries to explain equations to Thomasina. Thomasina seems uninterested and says that she wants to create equations for nature, such as how to make a flower. Thomisina asks why the equations "only describe the shapes of manufacture" and then suggests starting with a maple leaf (Stoppard 26)."
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?Arcadia?, 2002.
A discussion of Lord Byron?s influence in Tom Stoppard?s play ?Arcadia?.
1,268 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 43.95
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This paper examines Tom Stoppard?s play ?Arcadia?, which is set in an English country manor house where two levels of action take place-- the action of the present day and the action set in 1809 around a young student of mathematics. In particular it analyzes the influence on the plot of the poet Lord Byron by drawing parallels between his life and the characters in the play. It looks at how Byron?s influence is felt not only on the mathematical side of the play, but also in the continuing debate over the nature of landscape art and how the young girl Thomasina, is a living and dead parallel with Byron?s own, real-life abandoned female child. When Byron fled his pregnant wife, the young girl he produced became a mathematical prodigy herself just like the protagonist in the play.
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"The intersection between the beautiful and the perfect in mathematics, between the theoretical and the personal, is perfectly embodied in the character of Lord Byron. Thomasina, the girl being tutored, is an exponent of the geometry of irregular forms, a precursor to the chaos theory being studied by the modern characters in the house. The introduction and variations of small elements and their potential to create great later changes is important in the scheme of the play."
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?Arcadia?, 2003.
An analysis of Tom Stoppard?s presentation of society in ?Arcadia?.
743 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper examines how the portrayal of different time periods, the early nineteenth century and the late twentieth century in Tom Stoppard?s ?Arcadia? reveals a progression of knowledge and values, which differentiate across the generations and centuries. It looks at how both periods of time focus around the two female heroines of the novel Thomasina Coverly and Hannah Jarvis and the events, ideas and attitudes are sometimes quite different.
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"There are many other instances, especially through the character Hannah who epitomises pessimism, where Stoppard may be viewed to present the late nineteenth century as ?weary cynicism?. A good illustration of this can be seen by looking at the two households. The family of Thomasina?s age is refined and aristocratic, at the height of high society. However in Hannah?s generation, the Croom family may be seen to have dissolved somewhat into disarray. Chloe appears rather uneducated, the parents are absent and all the children have developed what may be considered curious characteristics, or at least would have been to their early nineteenth century ancestors."
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"Arcadia", 2001.
Analysis of Tom Stoppard's play, "Arcadia"
1,274 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper details Tom Stoppard's play, "Arcadia", and offers complete analysis of the characters and their relationships with one another. The way Stoppard provides social commentary, through his skillful juxtaposition of two different centuries within the same play and through the development of the characters in those centuries, is described and analyzed as well.
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"Gracefully gliding between two different centuries, Tom Stoppard?s ?Arcadia? brilliantly juxtaposes two sets of characters on the same set, the English estate of Sidley Park. The play traces two separate generations of the Coverly family and the interactions of odd scholars, ridiculous researchers, and ?wannabe? authors. The most interesting relationships within Stoppard?s play?the gentle one between Thomasina and Septimus and the considerably more acrimonious one between Hannah and Bernard-- illustrate most of the social commentary the work is known for. Stoppard succeeds in developing platonic relationships-- disrupted by natural curiosity and universal truth-- against a poignant sense of a paradise doomed."
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?A Defense of Poetry?, 2004.
This paper utilizes Tom Stoppard?s play, "Arcadia", to defend Percy Bysshe Shelley?s ?A Defense of Poetry.?
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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The paper explains that Percy Bysshe Shelley?s ?A Defense of Poetry? works in harmony with ?Arcadia?, an essay wherein he praises the Romantic poetic practice of preferring imagination and creative inspiration to reason and rational thought. The author points out that Shelley inextricably links rational thought and imagination to acts of creation, a concept crucial to understanding the role of Thomasina Coverly, the adolescent daughter of the manor, as the central character in ?Arcadia?. The paper stresses that, in ?Arcadia?, Thomasina represents Shelley?s poet as a prophetic voice.
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"Hannah Jarvis and Valentine Coverly are two modern era characters studying the historical records and gardens of the Croom Estate. Both characters present an indifferent disdain for Romanticism with each passionately defending their preference for the rational thinking Neoclassicists of the Enlightenment. Hannah Jarvis, an emotionally detached historian, is interested in Sidley Park?s hermit as a symbolic representation of Romanticism?s ?decline from thinking to feeling" (Stoppard 27). However, she undermines her stated rationalist view when she fervently proclaims to Valentine, ?it's wanting to know that makes us matter? (Stoppard 75). By claiming, the passion for knowledge matters most and not the attainment of knowledge Hannah?s statement explicitly demonstrates her reliance on feeling over reason in what otherwise appears as her wholly analytic thought process. Valentine Coverly, an Oxford mathematics and biology student, dismisses Thomasina?s genius declaring, ?she was just playing with numbers? (Stoppard 47). A theory he declares unknowable in Thomasina?s time, ?You can?t open a door until there?s a house? (Stoppard 79). By opening that door Septimus become Hannah?s lunatic and Thomasina becomes Valentine?s poet."
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Sir Philip Sidney, 2002.
This paper discusses Sir Phillip Sidney who wrote three of the most famous works of the 16th century: ?The Defense of Poesie?, ?Arcadia, and Astrophil? and ?Stella?.
2,100 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper presents Sir Philip Sidney, one of the greatest writers in the English tradition. The author compares Sidney to great writers such as Wyatt, Surrey, Sackville, Spenser and Petrarch. The paper uses examples from his poems ?The Defense of Poesie?, ?Arcadia, and Astrophil? and ?Stella? to exemplify his style.
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"Stella is more than just an object of adoration and becomes a convincing human being who can assert her own rights. From the very beginning, she acquires credibility because Astrophil does not fall suddenly in love with her at the first glance, but, as he puts it in the second sonnet, "knowne worth did in mine of time proceed, / Till by degrees it had full conquest got." Her "worth," which he gradually comes to know, is the important factor, not her physical beauty. As the sequence proceeds, Stella's physical attributes do indeed come to the fore with all the traditional imagery of light and dark, warmth and cold, sweetness and jewels and there are times when, lifted out of context, it would be quite possible to say. Here is a typical Petrarchan lady, with her separate parts described as though she were an unfeeling object. But, intermingled with praise of Stella is criticism of her, sometimes covert and sometimes blatant."
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Do it My Way or Not at All, 2002.
An examination of an article written about Philip Green, of BHS and Arcadia Group.
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This paper discusses the article "Do it my way or not at all", in the guardian newspaper on 8th October 2002, written by Amanda Hall. It was reported that Philip Green, owner of BHS and Arcadia Group said to a supplier of garments during a recent meeting: "Help me understand why I would pay for instance ?9 for something that is worth ?4?" It explains what Mr. Green had in mind when he said the product in question was worth "?4"? And what effects would a reduction in price have upon the suppliers term of; competitiveness against other suppliers, product cost quantity of output, profit maximization point, retail price etc.
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Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet XXV?, 2004.
This paper discusses Shakespeare?s "Sonnet XXV", a personal poem, which examines the transient nature of nobility and love.
1,140 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper that ?Sonnet XXV? illustrates the poet?s recognition of what provides meaning in his life and indicates that Shakespeare finds meaning in love and poetry. The author points out that the poet does not hold in high esteem these warriors who risk their lives for a moment of fleeting honor; instead, he realizes the security he has in loving and being loved. The paper relates that the poet does not place much emphasis in the belief that the stars were responsible for shaping human destiny.
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"Many critics place this sonnet in a grouping of sonnets that are addressed to a ?young man, or men?. In fact, Schmidt states that Shakespeare added a ?singularly complicated libido? to the advantages of a new world. While many may consider Shakespeare?s sexuality a complicated issue, it should not be an issue that stands in the way of appreciating his sonnets. Elizabeth Stockard chooses to place this sonnet into a category that concern themselves with the ?mutability of love? replacing the ?concern with the mutability of beauty?. She also demonstrates how this sonnet represents an image of neoplatonic love. The matter of privacy should also be considered when reading this sonnet. It should also be noted that the sonnets were written, ?as one writes a diary, for himself alone, with no thought of a public?."
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Cultural Relativism, 2008.
This paper discusses the topic of morality, focusing specifically on whether morality exists and what makes something moral from a cultural relativistic point of view.
1,003 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses the topic of morality. Specifically, it asserts that a decent human being is not one who accepts transient consensus about what attitudes are normal and what practices are unjust. If anything, what counts as a decent human being is the independent moral decency to ignore transient consensus and societal attitudes to whatever extent transient consensus and societal attitudes obviously violate objective principles of fundamental fairness, equity, human empathy, and decency.
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"Considering the way that social convention arises in the first place provides another reason to reject the suggestion that social convention is a reliable determinant of what constitutes moral conduct and what distinguishes it from immoral conduct. Among a small isolated group of people, (such as a group of 20 individuals stranded on an island), social convention probably does reflect true majority consensus. Not that majority consensus necessarily corresponds to morality, but that would be the only possible logical basis for defining morality through social convention at all. Even in a group of 20 individuals, it is still possible that the minority position is more moral (objectively) than that of the majority, but at least the majority position does, in fact, reflect the desires of the true majority."
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The False Confession.
This paper discusses in detail the problem of a coerced false confession in the murder of Stephanie Crowe and the investigation that followed.
6,810 words (approx. 27.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 154.95
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This paper explains that 8% of wrongful convictions are due to forced confessions prompted by the police. The author states that twelve-year-old Stephanie Crowe was found stabbed to death on her bedroom floor in 1998; however, the Crowe family's nightmare had only just started because her 14-year-old brother Michael was coerced by Escondido, California police detectives, who were so desperate for a confession to close this horrific crime that they overlooked crucial evidence, into confessing to the murder. The paper relates that the charges of murder were dropped before trial in February, 1999 after last-minute DNA testing found spots of Stephanie's blood on a sweatshirt worn by a transient man seen in the neighborhood the night of the killing.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Crime
The Investigation
The Transient
Mass of Evidence
Under Suspicion
The Interrogation of Michael Crowe and Joshua Treadway
What Was Wrong With The Interrogation?
Aftermath of the Confessions
Preparing for Trial
Forensic Flip-flop
Preview of Evidence
The Richard Tuite theory
The Evidence in the Container
The Hearing
Prosecution's Confidence Enhanced
Defense's Rebuttal
The Crucial Hearing
Groundbreaking Evidence
A Conviction at Last
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"The detectives interrogating Michael Crowe crossed a clearly and explicitly defined line when they told Michael only by admitting he killed his sister they could help him and by telling him his parents no longer wanted him. According to a Crime Library Article, the police "used lies, false promises, isolation from parents and attorneys, even threats of adult prison and predatory older inmates" as techniques to elicit a confession. The treatment of Michael by detectives was clearly not according to protocol. The interrogation of Michael Crowe was against protocol and clearly was an enormous mistake made by detectives."
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Supply Chain Management, 2005.
An analysis of supply chain management.
2,108 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper discusses supply chain management (SCM) and examines how companies apply it. The paper explains that SCM is a 'process improvement tool' that promises to have much more staying power than transient business fads. The paper contends that SCM aims to satisfy customer needs efficiently through the planning, implementing and controlling of operations from the point-of-origin to the point-of consumption. The paper explores the nature of SCM and its role in the retail sector. The paper discusses how SCM impacts profits during corporate expansions.
Outline
Introduction
Nature of Supply Chain Management
Profit Maximisation
The Mayo Clinic's Supply Chain
The Future of SCM
Conclusion
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"SCM considers inventory management, information flow, distribution strategy, and distribution network configurations from raw material to the store shelf and ultimately into the customer's hand. Inventory management addresses the quantity and location of inventory including works-in-progress (WIPs), finished products, and raw materials. Information flow addresses integrated systems for sharing information. Distribution strategies consider centralisation versus decentralisation, direct shipping, and cross-docks. Finally, distribution network configurations deal with the number and location of customers, production facilities, warehouses, and distribution centres. "
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Robert Frost's "Birches".
This paper discusses the use of symbolism in Robert Frost's "Birches", a poem whose main theme is that the troubles of life can be escaped but only temporarily.
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This paper explains that Robert Frost, who is a part of New England's granite culture, is a nature poet, capable of describing minutely the various moods of the day. Both of these traits are visible in his poem "Birches". The author points out that the symbolism in "Birches" is mostly nature symbolism such as the greatest symbol the birches themselves. The paper relates that another symbol in "Birches" is the ice, which represents trouble and adversity by causing the birch trees to bend even more deeply and for a longer time than when boys bend the birch trees; however, ice is transient and so adversity never remains forever.
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"The setting of Frost's "Birches" is also significant for its meaning. As I mentioned at the very beginning of this essay, Frost is the poet of New England. The setting is quite clearly the Northeast or Upper Midwest. The setting is somewhere where there are forests, and, also, where it is cold enough for ice-storms. More important, it is crucial that the setting is a rural one. The birch trees are located away from civilization. In fact, the poet says that ideally the birches should be bent by "Some boy too far from town to learn baseball" (line 25). This would mean the birches, too, are far from town. The country setting corresponds to the poet's desire to climb the birch trees as a temporary escape from the stresses of life."
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The ?Broken Windows? Theory, 2005.
Explores the intentions and effectiveness of James Wilson and George Kelling's policing theory.
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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The "Broken Windows" theory was developed by James Wilson and George Kelling in an article of the same name, appearing in "The Atlantic Monthly" in March of 1982. In the article, they stated the importance of preventive policing, explaining that in disorderly neighborhoods marked by incivilities such as broken windows, beat-up cars, and transient passers-through, crime was more likely to occur. This paper provides an examination of Wilson and Kelling's "Broken Windows Theory," including description, support and criticism of the theory, as well as an evaluation of literature concerning the topic.
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"Elderly people, for example, live in fear of crime despite the statistics that show they are the group least likely to be victimized (Wilson and Kelling, 1982). In neighborhoods where there are strangers and disorderly people, the fear of a confrontation may take precedence in the mind of resident despite any evidence to the contrary. As Wilson and Kelling describe, because they fear crime, they may change their habits, perhaps avoiding areas they used to visit or breaking ties with the community, still living there but keeping to themselves."
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