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Iago's Jealousy, 2008.
This paper analyzes how Iago causes Othello's moral degradation in William Shakespeare's "Othello".
1,663 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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In this analysis of Shakespeare's "Othello, the author discusses how Othello, Iago and Desdemona are victimized by the envy and jealousy of Iago's trickery. The author further emphasizes how Othello's lack of moral objectivity is often the subject of Iago's cunning. The paper then shows how this loss of moral objectivity ultimately acts as the foundation for Iago's success over Othello.
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"In these lines, Iago's envious understanding of Othello's jealousy is a successful modus operandi for his diabolical scheme to sabotage Othello's career. When Iago successfully dissolves Othello's trust in Cassio, one can see a glimpse of his anger, which would commit murder against his wife in a jealous rage. In this manner, the racial superiority that Iago feels toward his Moorish superior helps to begin the cataclysm of jealousy that cascades through Iago and then into the marriage of Othello and Desdemona."
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Application to University, 2008.
This paper describes the author's qualities and experiences that would make her successful in the Bachelor of Commerce program.
870 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 30.95
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This paper explains that the author's greatest quality is her ability to communicate by feeling comfortable with people and to make others feel comfortable as well. The author points out that she is a social person with an outgoing and friendly personality that makes her an asset in any group situation. The paper relates that the most outstanding experience in her life over the last four years was volunteering at church to act as translator, bringing people together by translating between Mandarin and English. The author stresses that she is a hard worker, never giving up on improving her English skills, even when people laugh at how she says things. The paper concludes that the author looks forward to sharing her skills and unique knowledge with others at the university and to the opportunity to learn from the others in class.
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"I have worked in several retail jobs over the past few years. In my first job, I worked as cashier and was eventually given the responsibility of keyholder, a position that is not quite management, but is close to the management track. I am currently employed at Bods Bodyknits, where I have worked for approximately seven months. I enjoy working as a salesperson there, as it makes use of my ability to communicate with people. This ability is reflected by my on-the-job achievements. I was the top salesperson in the store for December, January, and February, which I believe is quite an accomplishment."
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"Code of the Street", 2008.
A critical review of Elijah Anderson's " Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City".
1,252 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 42.95
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This paper analyzes the text, "Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City" by Elijah Anderson. The book is analyzed based on how it reflects four major tenets of strain theory, social learning theory, control theory, and labeling theory.
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"The first of these social theories that is demonstrated within Anderson's text is that of Strain Theory. In strain theory, it is argued that social structures that are constructed and adopted by society can cause the society's citizens to commit crime. First of all, Anderson does not demean or belittle the actions that many "criminals" in the inner-city perform during their daily lives. He argues that in this sector of society, there is a "code" and a decency that its citizens live by, not arguing that this is morally right, but showing that it is a code and manner of life, nonetheless. These are not merely subhumans going about criminal lives; this is a living, working society that adheres to its own standards and rules."
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Jean Watson: Needs Assessment Questionnaire Survey, 2008.
An analysis of the results of Jean Watson's "Needs Assessment Questionnaire Survey" in "Caring Science and the Science of Unitary Human Beings: A Trans-theoretical Discourse for Nursing Knowledge Development".
1,152 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper analyzes "Caring Science and the Science of Unitary Human Beings: A Trans-theoretical Discourse for Nursing Knowledge Development" by J. Watson M. Smith, which discusses Jean Watson's "Needs Assessment Questionnaire Survey." The paper discusses the results of the survey and provides recommendations for a transtheoretical approach to teaching nursing models.
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"The following are the top five leaning needs and recommendations for this contingent. There is a need to revise the BSN curriculum to create a transtheoretical approach to teaching nursing models, which specifically involves integrating more prominently the nursing theory teachings of Jean Watson, particularly for integrated use in clinical instruction and practice (Watson & Smith, 2002; Morgan, 2006). Thus a timeline must be established in order to accommodate the main activities of the curriculum revision: Content development for instructors, instructor tutorial proper, assessment and further content refinement for classroom instruction and preparation of materials for classroom instruction. Given the timeline for 2008, this must be done at the soonest convenient time."
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Thomson's Allegory for Abortion Rights, 2008.
A review of the arguments presented in Judith Jarvis Thomson's article, "A Defense of Abortion."
839 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper provides the ethical background to Judith Jarvis Thomson's allegory of the violinist and the woman in regards to the right to life for pregnant mothers who need abortions in mortal circumstances. The paper discusses the arguments in Thomson's article, "A Defense of Abortion", and concludes that Thomson provides an ethically sound argument for abortion rights.
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"In conclusion, the allegory of the violinist provides a rational and moral argument for abortion that takes the mother's life into account before the child within her. The immediate threat to life and the choice of keeping the mother alive is a valid argument, since she has not consciously disregard the child's life simply out of inconvenience. The premise of Thomson's logic resides on questioning the issue of murder for abortion, since the mother's life is just as valuable (if not more), than the unborn fetus that resides within her. In this manner, Thomson makes a rational and ethical argument through the premise of the violinist allegory in this article."
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Juvenile Offenders in Adult Prisons, 2008.
This paper argues that juvenile delinquents should not be sent to adult prisons.
4,020 words (approx. 16.1 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 108.95
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The paper argues that imprisoning juvenile offenders in adult correctional facilities is counter-productive. The paper explains that adult prisons focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation, which increases the likelihood that these offenders will become violent career criminals. The paper further explains that the harsh conditions of adult prisons only encourages the perpetration of further crimes once these juveniles are released back into society.
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"Because juvenile offenders in adult prisons are exposed to a criminal culture characterized by violence and abuse, adult prisons tend to degenerate a wayward juvenile delinquent into a hardened career criminal. Daily survival requires finding ways to fit into and be accepted in the adult inmate culture, but most juvenile offenders experience difficulty submitting to authoritarian relationships with adult inmates. Adjusting to this harsh environment requires accepting physical and psychological intimidation as a part of daily lives and developing physical and psychological intimidation behavior themselves in order to survive. (Eisikovits and Baizeman 5-20)"
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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss", 2008.
This paper analyzes Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss" and concludes that persistent humiliation defines the lives of the book's main characters.
2,585 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper explains that the central themes of Kiran Desai's novel "The Inheritance of Loss" include globalization, unbridled capitalism and economic disparity. The author points that Desai's exploration of these themes is unyielding, and her conclusions are dispiriting as she uncovers the gruesome truths about the lives of the people that the comfortable classes learn to ignore. The paper underscores that Desai's novel grapples with the issue of racial self-hatred and relates that story of the judge in the book is studded with humiliations, but the crux of the matter is his reaction to the daily degradations. The paper concludes that this novel, with its unyielding gaze on the intricacies of the relationships between occupier and occupied, educated and illiterate, westerner and colonized, and rich and poor, is a damning indictment of a system that has relentlessly crushed a large portion of the world's population.
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"While the judge's response to the humiliations and degradations that are the natural offspring of colonialism is one of racial self-hatred, his granddaughter's tutors, Lola and Noni, are the very embodiment of the laughable attempt to appropriate a foreign culture. The two tutors are far less menacing than the judge, and they contribute to the book's subtle humor. Desai introduces these two characters by making note of their cottage's name--Mon Ami. The very "French-ness" of that ludicrous name is surprising, and one is left to wonder what inspired the two aspiring socialites to use such a name for a cottage in the Himalayas."
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"Guns and Violence: The English Experience", 2008.
An analysis of violent crimes and their relationship to the availability of handguns in a society, based on the arguments of Joyce Lee Malcolm's "Guns and Violence: The English Experience."
3,571 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 99.95
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This paper explores whether societies in which guns are available to the general public are likely to have lower incidence of violent crimes than those where guns are not readily available. The paper provides particular reference to Joyce Lee Malcolm's "Guns and Violence: The English Experience." It concludes that Malcolm's analysis requires us to consider how a range of variables - from culture to crime statistics methodology -inform and, to a degree, transform the parameters of this debate.
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"This being said, however, one critical factor distinguishes Hickock and Smith from the defendants in the My Lai case; a factor that is evident in Capote's choice of a title for his text: "In Cold Blood". While there are indications that Hickock and Smith may have been troubled to some extent by the brutality of their murders of the Clutter family, this unease did not prevent them from planning on similarly murdering and stealing while hitchhiking across the American south. Both men were not only free agents - to the extent that they were not under orders or a part of a larger organization engaged in an enterprise such as war - but neither were in fear of their lives from victims or those associated with their victims. Thus, self-defense cannot be said to enter into their crimes in any way, shape or form. Instead, and unlike the killings at My Lai, the sole purpose of the murders committed by Hickock and Smith were to further their lifestyle of gaining money through theft without work; the murders simply being a way of ensuring that there were no witnesses who could finger Smith and Hickock for the thefts."
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The Game or the Green?, 2008.
This paper refutes the contention that professional athletes are motivated only by money and not by the love of the sport.
975 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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The paper argues that professional athletes are not involved in sports just for the money; there are also psychological factors at work, such as self-esteem and self-satisfaction. The paper explains that while it is commonplace to dismiss professional athletes as greedy and spoiled, they are deserving of the money they are offered for doing something better than anyone else.
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"To begin with, many athletes do what they do because they want to prove something to themselves. For example, when Canada's Billy "The Kid" Irwin fought his last fight in February of 2005 against world lightweight boxing champion, Juan Diaz, he was motivated to do so largely because he wanted to prove Diaz's handlers wrong; that he was not some mere stepping-stone for the young champion from Texas. In fact, Irwin quickly made it clear to at least one Canadian writer who had gone to Houston to cover the fight that this fight would really be his last fight - even though a victory would obviously mean huge sums of money (Maich, 40-43). For this athlete, earning respect at age 36 was more important than earning money."
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Violence in "The Song of Roland", 2008.
An analysis of the theme of violence in "The Song of Roland" and a contrast with how violence is portrayed in the "Iliad" by Homer.
2,359 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 72.95
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This paper discusses "The Song of Roland" and discusses how the violence expressed in this work is striking in terms of what it says about the religious sensibilities of the age. It also looks at what the song says about the social obligations of the warrior class alive during the eighth and ninth centuries in what is today France. The paper then contrasts this with the way in which violence is treated in Greek mythology, most notably in the "Iliad" by Homer.
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"At other points in classical Greek literature, it becomes abundantly clear that, while the ancient Greeks were certainly congenial to gaining possessions and tribute by violence, they were not consumed with the same lust for honor and for good reputation in battle that drove the Frankish nights of many centuries later. For instance, when the time comes to fight the Trojans, Odysseus feigns madness in an effort to get out of battle; this ruse ultimately fails when Palamedes finds him out and it is hardly unexpected when the former engineers the latter's eventual demise. As an addendum, Odysseus' shameful actions are brought to the attention of the attending audience in a later sequence found in the Metamorphoses when Ajax and he are competing for the weapons of the deceased Achilles; in a moment of withering disdain, Ajax asks why the always-scheming Odysseus should be rewarded when he had to be dragged into the battle in the first place (Parada & Forlag, para.9)."
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"Across the River and into the Trees", 2008.
An analysis of Ernest Hemingway's novel "Across the River and into the Trees".
2,579 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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The paper looks at Ernest Hemingway's "Across the River and into the Trees" and conveys how the text does an admirable job of capturing the weariness, the cynicism, the lingering shadows and the potentiality of Italy in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. The paper looks at this book relative to Hemingway's other books as well as its relationship to the work of other writers from the period.
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"To begin with, Across the River and into the Trees was released in 1950. At that time, Italy was less than a decade removed from the Second World War and from the disastrous reign of Benito Mussolini. As a result of this, many of the old wounds - wounds caused by the association with Hitler, the disastrous reign of Il Duce, the country's heavy losses in history's most costly war- were still fresh, still sore. Beyond that, the country was going through a period of relative upheaval, with the dramatic ascendancy of the "New Left" and with the deliberate purging of anyone involved with Mussolini's fascist party. Finally, the country wracked with concern (or at least its allies were wracked with concern) over the ability of democracy to flourish in a land that had no real tradition (at least in recent decades) of democratic governance (Salvati, 556-559)."
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Driving Licenses: Raising the Age, 2008.
An argument against raising the legal age for obtaining a driver's license in Illinois.
722 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 25.95
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The writer argues that there are sufficient existing rules and regulations involving obtaining a driver's license in Illinois. The writer argues further, that raising the legal age would only cause more difficulty for an age group that is, everyday, being tasked with more community responsibilities in terms of work, education and extra-curricular activities.
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"There is currently a debate occurring in Illinois and several other states regarding the legal age for obtaining a fully privileged driver's license. The targeted ages are shifting the current minimum age for obtaining a legal driver's license from 16 to 18 years of age following a series of mandated courses, tests, and experience behind the wheel. Some of the primary arguments for doing so revolve around driver and public safety while the arguments for keeping the legal age at its current 16 years of age center on drivers' rights and the increasing demands within society placed upon teenagers."
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