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The Works of Pat Conroy, 2007.
This paper analyzes Pat Conroy's valuable contribution to literature.
2,185 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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The paper portrays how Pat Conroy shows important dynamics between real people through his realistic characters. The paper determines that Pat Conroy has made a significant impact on the world of literature through his novels and non-fiction in a way that would not be possible for an author who does not use his own life experiences in his writing. The paper explains that, through this contribution, the reader gets a beautiful and powerful glimpse of both good and bad relationships, human nature and human experiences that are true to life. In this author's opinion, Donald "Pat" Conroy has made a generous contribution to the world of writing through a combination of great creativity and raw honesty.
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"Much of Conroy's human interaction in his writing is similar to his personal life and experiences (Castro and Grant 55). In fact, Toolan points out that most of Conroy's writing is autobiography, only "thinly disguised" (128). The "Water is Wide" is considered to be mainly autobiographical; Conroy's short-lived teaching career is revealed and, again, intimate relationships with his students come out in the writing. The complex human dimension of Conroy's writing also creates a multidimensional view of people who could easily have been the villains of the stories he wrote."
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The Wingo Family in Pat Conroy's Novel "The Prince of Tides", 2000.
An examination of each member of the Wingo family in "The Prince of Tides" both individually and how they relate to each other.
1,960 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 7 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper looks at the various family members of the Wingo family and their characteristics. It starts with a look at Southern society and how the family fits into it. Aspects of Conroy's own life as seen in the book are discussed, then each family member is analyzed individually.
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"Pat Conroy?s The Prince of Tides portrays both the past and present stories of the Wingo family and illustrates vividly the pains and struggles of the family in South Carolina society. Conroy consistently unfolds the family?s indefinite attempts to blend in with the inhabitants of Colleton, South Carolina. Because each member of the Wingo family possesses characteristics so divergent from one another, the only attribute they appear to share consists of the ties of blood and marriage. The Wingo family consists of father Henry, mother Lila, eldest son Luke, and twins Tom and Savannah. Conroy?s writing style not only furnishes an explicit basis for the plot but a major influence on the characters? lives as well. Both the mystery and the complexity of the story stem from the way each member of the family reacts to having been born and raised as a Southerner."
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"Prince of Tides", 2006.
A review of the book "Prince of Tides" by Pat Conroy.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper studies the novel "Prince of Tides" by Pat Conroy. The author of this paper looks at how one communicates about shame, particularly over childhood abuse. The paper examines the responses of each of the book's main characters to shame and tries to understand how it affects their psyche.
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"Clearly, shame can make a person feel awkward, powerless, and painfully alien. Furthermore, it can make a person feel trapped and exposed in vulnerability, terrified, undefended, and profoundly unlovable. Finally, it can make a person feel singled out as the object of scorn or laughter. Yet, even within shames rage and blame, the emotion remains powerless to reform and serves only to overwhelm its victim with a disordered sense of responsibility makes the victim feel bad about himself."
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City and Country in the "Prince of Tides", 2002.
A comparison of the settings in Shakespeare's plays and in Pat Conroy's "Prince of Tides".
1,710 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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The paper explains that like in Shakespeare's plays, Conroy also provides a clear setting for each type of scene. Like in Shakespeare?s comedies, ?Prince of Tides? also makes it very easy to discern exactly where each scene is taking place. The paper examines the main character of the novel, Tom Wingo, and discusses how each scene is represented by a mood and specific setting - , the low-country in the south represents honesty and understanding whereas New York City represents dangerous denial and calamity.
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"William Shakespeare?s comedies often differentiate between the staid, political atmosphere of the court and the city, and the raucous carnival atmosphere of the forest and the countryside. Often, characters will escape the court to the forest to explore their inner depths and their passions. The result is a dichotomy that permeates several of his plays: even from close textual analysis of one passage in a Shakespeare comedy, the reader is able to discern whether the scene takes place in the court or in the forest."
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?The Prince of Tides?, 2004.
Examines ethical issues in this movie based on the novel by Pat Conroy.
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper presents a plot summary of the screenplay, "The Prince of Tides," which centers around the character, Tom, who is called to New York to assist his sister?s therapist in trying to piece together the problems in his sister?s life. The paper then examines the ethical issues in the movie, especially the relationship between the therapist and Tom. It also includes a paragraph relating to the understanding of the ethical issues involved.
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"By drawing Tom into her treatment for Savannah, she enters with him into an unspoken contract that she will take the information he has to offer, use it for her care of Savannah and do the best of her professional ability for all the individuals involved. Of all of the characters, Susan bears the most responsibility and therefore must be found to be the most culpable. When a professional begins to have personal feelings for the client, it is most appropriate for the professional to suppress these feelings and at least to arrange for transfer of the care of both the family member and the brother to another, less involved party. Beyond that, it is probably clinically inappropriate for Susan to continue her personal relationship with Tom since she comes to the relationship with the balance of power in her favor. She knows a lot about him, he does not know enough about her. She can sense his emotional pain and vulnerability and should not press that advantage."
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Pat and Chris in Conflict and Resolution., 2002.
An analysis of the psychological pressures behind the relationship of a couple named Pat and Chris.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This essay will analyze Pat and Chris's interaction in order to determine the psychological pressures and motives behind the couple's verbal communication. This will be done from the areas of emotional intelligence, the effective expression of emotion, types of talk, defense mechanisms and transactional analysis and will conclude with an assessment of what might happen two week later if Pat accepts some responsibility for what is going on in the relationship.
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XML PAT Algebra Operators.
This paper discusses the Extensible Markup Language (XML) PAT Algebra Operators, urging standardization of the XML programming query process.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 69.95
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This paper explains that the Extensible Markup Language or XML was created to help allow users to share and pass documents, which were richly structured, over the Web in an easy, cost effective manner. The author points out that a markup language is a methodology of identifying the inherent structure of a document, and therefore, XML is a critical aspect of the World Wide Web because it helps explain the way to add markup to all documents. The paper relates that the Internet is based on a foundation of distributed hypertext, which could be regarded as a large distributed database where there are million to billions of queries processed daily.
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Introduction
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History
Governing Bodies
XML PAT Algebra Operators
Conclusion
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"One such body is the American National Standards Institute or ANSI which is a non-profit private organization that surprisingly institutes standards the industry accepts voluntarily. Other influential standards organizations include the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers or IEEE and the Organization for Standardization or ISO. The IEEE was the organization that defined LAN standards in the Project 802 or the 802 series. These projects could be the blueprints that could be used to make XML more effective by using PAT Algebra Operators for query needs."
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Pat Buchanan's Candidacy, 1996.
Examines hard-line conservative presidential candidate's stands on economics, protectionism, immigration, labor, social issues and the impact on Republican Party.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 47.95
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"Pat Buchanan is a hard-line social conservative candidate for the U.S. presidency. Buchanan's campaign emphasizes a no-compromise stance on controversial issues such as abortion, illegal immigration, and protectionist trade barriers. Although fellow Republican candidate Bob Dole has clinched the party nomination for president, Buchanan placed a respectable third behind the well-financed campaign of Steve Forbes. The resiliency of support for Buchanan's rhetoric has raised concern among high-ranking Republicans, particularly in light of the approaching GOP Convention in San Diego, where Buchanan could exert a critical influence on the party's campaign platform.
Economic nationalism is the theme of Buchanan's bid for the presidency; his motto is "America first." Essentially, Buchanan advocates returning to the types of economic policies that.."
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Pat Riley & Phil Jackson, 1999.
Compares rival professional basketball coaches' philosophies of life & sports; looking at techniques, influences, backgrounds and leadership.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 47.95
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" Pat Riley and Phil Jackson could not have more different styles of leadership and coaching in the National Basketball Association. This research examines some of the key differences in their leadership styles and notes the conflicts that have arisen from those differences.
During one championship game against the Bulls, Pat Riley erupted. Two quick technical fouls sent him to the dressing room, necessitating a long walk from one end of the floor to the other, right past the Chicago Bulls bench. With every step Riley took, Bulls Coach Phil Jackson's face tightened. He tried to look down, then away. Jackson was trying not to laugh and everybody could see it. As Riley finally passed the Bulls and disappeared, Jackson could not help himself any longer. He laughed. Actually, it was more like a giggle. They still cannot play nice, Jackson.."
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?The Missing Link?, 2002.
A review of Pat Choate?s article ?The Missing Link? on how education can solve the fundamental problems of the U.S. economy.
986 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper examines Pat Choate?s article ?The Missing Link? which celebrates the collaboration between educational institutions and businesses as a solution to America?s economic difficulties. It discusses how Choate views schools and human beings as an economic investment that is vital for the U.S. to stay competitive in all areas as well as evaluating the failure of U.S. policymakers to invest in human resources for the advancement of its economy. It highlights various successful collaborations between the American education system and industries with government assistance in the domains of research, technology transfer and economic development.
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"Even though Choate?s view of the importance of education in the U.S. economy is valid, she fails to take into account other justifications for the existence of schools. In fact, her stance represents one school of thought about the role of schools. Like Choate, there are educators who believe that schools justify their existence in society by supplying training to workers or professionals and promoting economic growth in collaboration projects (Cohen & Brawer, 1996, p. 236). However, schools also have a higher social function of infusing students with ethics and morals, which are neglected in the economic realm (Cohen & Brawer, 1996, p. 235). These components are also integral elements of a school education that produces people who will not be governed solely by their profit motive."
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Exalting Nature, 2004.
An analysis of the use of poetry to exalt nature, with reference to poets Stevie Smith, Margaret Walker, Alexander Pope, 'Abd Allah ibn al-Simak and Pat Lowther.
1,158 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper contends that poets vary in their views on nature. The paper discusses how Stevie Smith in the poem "Alone in the Woods" uses anger to convey man's destruction of nature and how Margaret Walker in her piece "My Mississippi Spring" conveys nature as if it were the most beautiful thing they have ever experienced or beyond carnal experience. The paper explains how other poets choose to personify it or give it some type of unimaginable quality or symbolic meaning. The poets discussed in the paper (Stevie Smith, Margaret Walker, Alexander Pope, 'Abd Allah ibn al-Simak and Pat Lowther) tend to all mean for the better of nature but all use different techniques. The paper explores how the poets use different themes such as anger and different techniques such as diction or personification, but all arrive at the main idea of exalting nature.
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"Stevie Smith in the poem Alone in the Woods personifies the woods "Nature has taught her creatures to hate" (line 3). By personifying the woods she can now illustrate anger or "bitter hostility with words using the woods as the one angry at the human race. "As the sap paints the trees a violent green so rises the wrath of Natures creatures At man" (lines 4, 5, & 6). Further along Smith continues fortifying the his technique and idea on lines eleven through eighteen "Nature is sick at man, Sick at his fuss and fume, Sick at his agonies, Sick at his gaudy mind, That drives his body, Ever more quickly, More and more, in the wrong direction" (lines 11-18). Smith uses short lines and repetition which reaffirms his angry view on mans destruction of nature. On the other hand poets like Alexander Pope in his work An Essay on Man (epistle 1) display or convey anger but not from nature, he puts comes out and openly and describes man. Pope gives the idea that man is very possessive, Pope uses six possessive pronouns such as "Tis for mine...for me"(Pope 1-10). "
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?Living Religions", 2004.
A review of the book, ?Living Religions" by Mary Pat Fisher, with an emphasis on Judaism.
1,082 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper introduces the book, "Living Religions" by Mary Pat Fisher, and specifically explains how and why Judaism evolved into separate groups from its original foundation. It looks at how the Jewish religion is one of the oldest on earth, and from its beginnings, there have always been different groups of Jews who believed in different ways. It examines how the Jewish religion has split into many factions over the years, including Christianity, and how, because of this, the Jewish religion may be one of the most important and essential religions still practiced today.
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"As the author notes, the Jews, who had lived in many different cultures and under many different foreign rulers, including Hellenistic (Greek) Alexander the Great, also "became somewhat open to cross-cultural religious borrowings." Some of the beliefs of others became accepted by the some of the Jews, but not all of them, and so another basis for different believing groups was established. As Fisher writes, "?and the rationalistic, humanistic influences of Hellenism led many wealthy and intellectual Jews, including the priests in Jerusalem, to adopt a Hellenistic attitude of skepticism rather than unquestioning belief." They called these two different groups the "traditionalists" and those who "embraced the Greek ways," and the two groups had trouble getting along together."
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World War One Literature, 2004.
A discussion to the extent to which the BBC's "Blackadder Comes Forth" and Pat Barker?s "The Ghost Road" are typical of texts written about the First World War.
1,194 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 40.95
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This paper considers a wide range of texts written about the First World War, focusing on "Blackadder Comes Forth" written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton and Pat Barker's "The Ghost Road". It analyses the texts in terms of language form and structure and the way the writers use the genre of their choice to express their thoughts and feelings. The influence of the time of composition and the significance of the gender of the writers is also discussed.
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"More than in any other previous conflict, the Great War inspired writers of all generations and classes to write about their experiences in a way that was totally new to previous war literature. The new manner in which the First World War was conducted dramatically changed the way war was viewed, which is naturally reflected in the literature written. Before 1914 wars were largely fought abroad, which therefore meant that people wrote about war with a somewhat detached view as they were completely removed from the immediate situation. At this time war was considered, by most, to be a cleansing, almost health giving experience and the literature written, for example Alfred Lord Tennyson?s poem ?The Charge of the Light Brigade?, celebrated Victorian values of devotion to duty, patriotic loyalty and sacrifice."
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The Privatization Push, 2002.
A review of chapter four of Pat and Hugh Armstrong's "Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care, Who Provides: The People."
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This essay will examine chapter four of Pat and Hugh Armstrong's Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care, Who Provides: The People," in order to assess the main argument of the chapter, the central points which constitute this argument, and the overall success of their position and approach.
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Sassoon and Owen in "Regeneration", 2002.
A discussion of the treatment of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, two WWI poets in Pat Barker's book "Regeneration."
1,250 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper examines how Pat Barker analyzes the characters of Sassoon and Owen in her historical fiction novel "Regeneration." It reviews the work of historical fiction, centered in Craiglockhart War Hospital, in which she describes the formation of the friendship between Sassoon and Owen, and provides a glimpse into the lives of the emotionally disillusioned and mentally disturbed soldiers. It also looks at how, by focusing on the relationship between Sassoon and Owen, Barker creates a personality and psychological analysis of two great English World War I poets who created a type of beauty and music by exposing the ugliness and sordidness of war.
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"The bond that is formed at Craiglockhart between Sassoon and Owen is primarily based on Owen?s admiration of Sassoon and their mutual passion for poetry. It is clear to see how Barker shows Owen?s development as a poet under Sassoon?s tutelage. Initially, when Owen meets Sassoon, he tells his mentor that he doesn?t write poetry about the war, because he views poetry as something that doesn?t deal with ugliness; he thought of poetry as ?the opposite of all that?Something to to t-take refuge in.? (Barker, 84) Owen ultimately changes his views in response to Sassoon?s prodding, and realizes that ?It?s mad not to write about the war when it?s?such an experience? (Barker, 123-4) Sassoon teaches Owen that poetry can be the domain of all topics, even the most sordid."
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