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"Soldiers' Experiences with Military Health Care", 2008.
Any analysis of the study design of "Soldiers' Experiences with Military Health Care," written by B. Jennings, L. Loan, S. Heiner, E. Hemman and K. Swanson.
882 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 38.95
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This paper critiques "Soldiers' Experiences with Military Health Care," written by B. Jennings, L. Loan, S. Heiner, E. Hemman and K. Swanson. The paper examines the focus of the study, that is provider competence, the sick call cycle, getting appointments and unit leadership for the sick soldier. It then discusses how the data was collected, the results of the study and criticism of the study design.
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"The researchers found that Soldier Care fails to meet soldiers' expectations in each of the four components studied: (1) informants doubted competence of first line providers, who lacked sufficient diagnostic knowledge or an awareness of their deficiencies; (2) informants criticized the sick call cycle are depersonalizing and demeaning; (3) informants reported that getting appointments was difficult because the system failed to consider deployments or other restraints soldiers face; and (4) unit leadership often worked against soldiers getting needed medical treatment. These findings, drawn from the raw data, were properly linked to items in the researchers' synthesis. Findings were linked to existing theories and literature."
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Participating in Community Service, 2008.
A personal statement on the importance of participating in community service and why leadership is important.
716 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 30.95
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The writer looks at the valuable contributions that have been made throughout history by individuals who have taken an active stance to improve the society in which they live. The writer also touches upon the subject of altruism and why helping those in need also rewards the volunteer. In addition, the states that volunteering allows him the opportunity to meet like minded people. The author concludes that his volunteering activities are beneficial to society and to his own well being.
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"Leadership roles are very important to me as well. The old saying that if you didn't vote, you do not have a gripe is very true. If you sit back and do not participate, how can you change things, stand up for what you believe or even be a part of society. It is the obligation of every citizen to participate and ensure that his or her interests, feelings and convictions are served. The world is full of people that want to sit back and gripe about the way things are going, but they will not do anything about it. Get involved, start your own community group if necessary. "
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Vietnam War Literature, 2007.
This paper discuses references to American religious culture in Vietnam War literature using examples from Tim O'Brien, Norman Mailer and Robert Bly.
1,375 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 55.95
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This paper explains that Vietnam War literature positions American religion as being a God-fearing culture that seeks to be moral. The author points out works by Tim O'Brien, Norman Mailer and Robert Bly that refer to this everyday American religion and culture and to myths of American power, politicians and industrialists as being insane and immoral and as changing forever how Americans saw their country. The paper relates that these works project the Vietnam conflict as something in which Americans should never have been involved including describing its soldiers as victims or as people responsible for terrible crimes of war. The author stresses that Vietnam was a working-class war rejected by the American bourgeoisie, who did not need to go to combat. The paper concludes that the literature discussed in the paper is the work of Americans with the option not to go to Vietnam and that it needs to be examined along with other literature produced in the next decades, too.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Damning Literature
Tim O'Brien's "In the Field"
Norman Mailer
Robert Bly Poem: "The Teeth Mother Naked at Last"
Last Remarks
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"Norman Mailer's "The Army of the Night" was published in 1968 and is an allegorical description of the March on the Pentagon. The reader is shown the extreme contrast between rather decadent hippies of the anti-Vietnam War movement and the thousands who then fought in Vietnam, ordinary Americans who dealt with every terrible aspect of jungle warfare. The last pages of "A Confrontation by the River" tell of a clash of American popular myths and moral beliefs about America and a "true religious war of Christ against the Communist" in relation to Vietnam towards a "whole crisis of Christianity in America... ""
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Freud in "Brave New World", 2008.
This paper analyzes Sigmund Freud's structural theory in "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.
1,399 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 56.95
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The paper discusses Freud's structural theory of the conscious and the unconscious within "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. The paper looks at the characters Lenina Crowne as the "ego", John the Savage as the "id" and Henry Ford as the "super ego" within Freud's structural theory. The paper shows how one can realize the modernity of Huxley's writing within the context of his futurist utopia. The paper is of the opinion that this novel provides an interesting critical view of Freud's theories, highlighting the importance of both individual and group issues that arise in human relationships.
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"The basis of the Freudian Structural Theory is to determine the nature of the human psyche at the conscious and unconscious levels. The historical character "Our Ford" in Huxley's novel has become the central aspect of Freud's Super Ego defining the male dominancy of cultural norms tat must be followed in relation to the purely sexual libido of the Id and the mediator of the Ego (Freud 47). Ford was symbolically named after the American automobile manufacturer Henry Ford (Bloom 88), which symbolized the assembly line autocratic tendency of Huxley's futurist society. Our Ford is called "Our Freud" in the novel, as Huxley suggests that horrors of father/mother relationships that arise within this Super Ego aspect of human cultural interaction and macrocosmic family values in Chapter Three."
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Teaching Language Comprehension, 2008.
This paper reviews an article by Roberta E. Dorr, "Something Old is New Again."
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 44.95
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The paper provides a summary of Dorr's article; "Something Old is New Again," and offers a strong commendation of the article. Specifically, the author of this paper finds Dorr's article to be lucid, detailed, well-thought-out, judicious in its use of illustrations and clearly aimed at serving as a practical model for teachers. The writer shows how Dorr uses a wide range of scholarly materials to bolster her contention that the language experience approach (LEA) is a premier means of teaching language comprehension.
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"Roberta Dorr's article, "Something old is new again," is an excellent introduction to the complicated matter of teaching children how to read with comprehension and insight. The author insists that her avowed aim is to reinforce the old idea, first articulated by Vygotsky, that cognitive development in children is facilitated when abstract concepts introduced in the classroom setting are linked to the child's experiences in everyday life. To put the matter another way, a skilled teacher will access the knowledge children already possess and use this prior knowledge to render comprehensible that which is being read or taught to them. Dorr's article illustrates how this approach can be put into successful practice through a modified Language Experience Approach (LEA) wherein the literacy experience is placed at the end of lessons rather than at the beginning."
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Iago's Clever Words, 2008.
An analysis of Iago's persuasion in William Shakespeare's "Othello".
864 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 37.95
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The paper describes how Iago uses selective honesty as his persuasive tactic to dupe Roderigo into his trust and sway him to his own ends. The paper demonstrates how he pretends to be loyal to Othello while causing Roderigo and Brabantio to turn against Othello. The paper highlights Iago's clever words and deceitful persuasions.
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"At the beginning of "Othello," (Act I, Scene I), on a Venice street, Iago is introduced as a friend and trusted ally of Roderigo, and one who has his "purse" (financial trust.) Roderigo reminds Iago that Iago told him previously that he was antagonistic to Othello, and Iago assures him this is so: "Despise me, if I do not" - even giving what sounds like a plausible reason, i.e., Iago is bitter at Othello for selecting another man, Michael Cassio, over himself to serve as Othello's lieutenant, and he admits his jealousy of Cassio and his wish for vengeance against Othello. Of course, it seems that he is telling all this to Roderigo in order better to win him over and gain his trust more."
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John Keats And His Poetry, 2008.
An analysis of the life and most famous poems of John Keats.
3,043 words (approx. 12.2 pages), 15 sources, MLA, AU$ 108.95
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This paper discusses the life and poetry of John Keats. It describes a background of his family and his short life. The paper analyzes some of his famous works, including "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn." The paper discusses why, in his short life, Keats was placed among the great English poets. It also provides an appendix of the three poems it discusses.
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"His poem becomes a vehicle to relate the various scenes around the urn that the artist was trying to relate. He tells of lover and his beloved, the piper, the procession taking the bull to a sacrifice. These scenes are sufficiently ambiguous that Keats must pose his many questions in the first and fourth stanzas. Because the urn cannot answer in specifics, these questions pass to the reader/viewer, who is left to provide his own answers. Keats, knowing that he cannot know these details, poses his own interpretations for the stories the urn reveals. (Percarmona)"
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"Heart of Darkness", 2008.
This paper focuses on the wilderness in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".
1,092 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 46.95
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The paper examines Joseph Conrad's classic 1899 serialized short novel "Heart of Darkness", interpreting the book as a look at the effect of the wilderness upon seemingly civilized men. The paper focuses on how an encounter with such wild primal energies can penetrate the veneer of civilized conditioning and even destroy it, leading to what Conrad refers to as madness.
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"Joseph Conrad's classic 1899 serialized short novel Heart of Darkness has been examined from various angles, utilizing diverse literary as well as political and economic approaches. The most frequently encountered tactic of analysis for this story of adventure and inner conflict has probably been from the perspective of colonialism and the attitudes of late 19th/early 20th century Europeans (especially British and French) toward their colonial possessions in Africa, including their pragmatically Machiavellian treatment of both natural and human resources therein."
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"Inventing the University", 2008.
An analysis of the concepts and applications of the theory of David Bartholomae's article "Inventing the University."
804 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 34.95
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This paper critiques David Bartholomae's article "Inventing the University." It describes Bartholomae's proposal and argument within his article and the practical application of his suggestions to students within universities. The paper then briefly compares Bartholomae's arguments with Amy Devitt's theory in her article, "Generalizing about Genre: New Conceptualizations of an Old Concept."
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"While Bartholomae is correct that university professors have power, while students need to bow to that power by learning and using the appropriate discourses, it is also true that children learning the language are in the same position of relative powerlessness vis-a-vis their parents. It is incumbent upon them to enter into the discourses of their parents, on their parents' terms, in order to be understood. Thus, it would seem that there is no reason to single out university contexts for this reality. It is simply the reality of how all human beings learn to enter the various discourses that together comprise our human societies."
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"Strategy as Action", 2008.
A review of business strategy and strategic rationale for competitive advantage, as discussed in "Strategy as Action: Competitive Dynamics and Competitive Advantage," by C. Grimm, K. Smith and H. Lee.
1,321 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 2 sources, APA, AU$ 53.95
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This paper discusses the book entitled "Strategy as Action: Competitive Dynamics and Competitive Advantage," written by C. Grimm, K. Smith and H. Lee. The paper first discusses the book in relation to general managerial economics as applied for competitive advantage. The paper then discusses the relationship between establishing a sound economic justification for business strategy and strategic rationale. It also provides various examples from the literature used to support these observations.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Overview
Major Themes
Economic Integration
Conclusion
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"Such a mentality at the managerial and executive level within a given organization allows the company, no matter how large or hierarchical in nature, to respond more quickly and more effectively to both threats and opportunities in the marketplace. In such an environment, while there still exists many real and unforeseeable market threats, the market itself is reduced as close to the concept of perfect competition as it likely can be (Besanko, Dranove, Shanley & Schaefer, 2006, p.208). In this ideal type of market companies compete in a relatively level playing field of opportunity where there are sufficient consumers, a market price completely arrived at by market forces, and a market not controlled by any single competitor or supplier. By framing the global market in such a context, the authors of Strategy as Action: Competitive Dynamics and Competitive Advantage becomes a field manual for contemporary organizations in the global economy."
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The "Canadian Geographer", 2008.
A general overview of the "Canadian Geographer" journal and an analysis of five of its articles over a five year period.
1,282 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 52.95
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This paper reviews the "Canadian Geographer," which is an academic journal published by the Canadian Association of Geographers. It focuses in particular on the five year period from Summer 2001 to Spring 2006. The paper begins with a general discussion of the design of "Canadian Geographer" and its articles over this period. It then analyzes, in detail, five articles chosen from within this time frame.
Table of Contents:
General Overview
Article Analysis
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"Of the five articles explored in detail here, Bronson's and Noble's "Measuring the Effectiveness of Park Canada's Environmental Management System" would have perhaps the most limited audience base in that, it may be argued, geographers and environmentalists would be those readers primarily interested in its quantitative case study of the environmental support aspects of park operations in Riding Mountain National Park. This article's assessment of the effectiveness of the environmental management system of one Canadian National Park is, of the five articles discussed here, the one that seems most reflective of the popular limited conception of geography as a discipline."
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Moral Principles in "L'Ingenu", 2008.
An analysis of the relativity of Enlightenment moral principles in "L'Ingenu" by Voltaire.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 44.95
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This paper analyzes the moral freedom of the individual in "L'Ingenu" by Voltaire. It looks at how the central character Ingenu (the Ingenuous One or The Huron) is often described by Voltaire as the "noble savage", ultimately representing a far more noble morality in relation to the 'civilized' Europeans in the story. It examines how Voltaire uses the outwardly barbaric nature of a Native American to define the relativity of moral values, which reflect the objective diversity of moral tenets outside of French moral absolutism.
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"The subjectivity of moral values in Voltaire's novella L'Ingenu is revealed through his main character, the Huron. Although the Huron appears to be a representative of the "barbaric" Native American culture, he is actually being represented as an alternate source of morality outside of Voltaire's own culture. Of course, the Huron meets many upper class elites from French society, and they define him as being the "noble savage" or a tribesperson below their civilized station. The French view of the Huron Indians is often deemed unworthy of the refinement that French society represents in the world through Voltaire's narrative. "
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Globalization and Capitalism, 2008.
A comparison of the style and focus of Steven K. Vogel's article, "The Crisis of German and Japanese Capitalism" and Gary Teeple's article, "The Global Economy and the Decline of Social Reform."
1,546 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 61.95
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This paper discusses and compares Steven K. Vogel's article, "The Crisis of German and Japanese Capitalism" and Gary Teeple's article, "The Global Economy and the Decline of Social Reform." It describes the different style and focus of each article, as well as their similarities, especially in their main focus on modern day economic globalization and the current state of capitalism.
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"The thousands of Canadians who recently had to line up to get passports to cross the world's longest "friendly border" and enter the territory of our nearest neighbour most likely did not feel as if they were at the end of the era of the nation-state. Similarly, Canadian/Syrian national Maher Arar, who was allegedly deported to Syria via Jordan by the US government in 2002, there to be detained and tortured for a year, most likely did not feel as if he was living in the era of the end of the nation-state (Amnesty International, 2003). A year of being tortured in the name of national rivalries and animosities between two different nation states would cause most people to believe quite strongly that the nation state was alive and well. On the other hand, Teeple's analysis goes to the macro economic forces that operate below the surface, and it might be possible to simultaneously believe in the end of the nation-state in relation to economics, while allowing that deeply held animosities between nation states could continue to cause incidents such as Arar's ordeal, as well as calamities such as 9/11."
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Evidence-based Practice in Mental Health, 2008.
An analysis of the strengths and limitations of Sandra Tanenbaum's research article, "Evidence-based Practice in Mental Health: Practical Weaknesses meet Political Strengths."
1,554 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 62.95
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This paper discusses Sandra Tanenbaum's research article, "Evidence-based Practice in Mental Health: Practical Weaknesses meet Political Strengths." It assesses the merits of the article as well as its potential problems. The paper analyzes all the aspects of the research study and then enumerates its strengths and limitations.
Table of Contents:
Problem
Purpose of the Study
Research Questions
Study Design
Subjects and Setting
Data Collection Methods
Data Analysis Procedures
Strengths and Limitations of the Research
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"Two of the major weaknesses in Tanenbaum's study are in her selection of evidence and the overall lack of descriptive information concerning her methods. The limitation of evidence selection is not unique to Tanenbaum's research but is instead a major problem associated with all literature-based qualitative research papers, as it is easy to see the selection of content as "cherry picking" specific items that support the author's point of view. As for the second limitation, Tanenbaum places the majority of descriptive information in the Abstract to her paper and this makes it difficult to assess the overall design of the study. It also makes it difficult to assess the validity of the study, and to that extent it is not known how or why the study is valid. However, as Tanenbaum provides a balanced presentation of materials, it can be inferred that the study is as valid as a qualitative research paper using an archival methodology can be. She also recommends that more research is needed in EBP, and points out areas in which this research can be attempted."
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"Ordinary Men", 2008.
This paper analyzes Christopher R. Browning's "Ordinary Men".
1,262 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 51.95
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The paper discusses Browning's book "Ordinary Men", where Browning wants the reader to see how a unit of the German Order Police, who committed terrible acts by carrying out a number of killings and other atrocities as part of the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jews of Poland, were actually "ordinary men". The paper describes Browning's analysis of these men, which is told in a detailed way and that exposes all the questions that might be raised. The paper also highlights the Browning's difficulty in explaining how ordinary individuals could commit such terrible atrocities against the Jews during the Holocaust.
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"Brown asks how these men faced this dilemma and offers a history of the Order Police, though that history does not explain the central issue of why these men acted so brutally and so out of their normal character. Browning does try to answer the question of why these men acted as they did, though he also points out that no one reason can be offered as to why the many man involved committed the acts they did. Any explanation would apply only to a percentage of the whole and not to all. One force that Browning does cite as important is the conditioning of society, conditioning that accustomed people to respecting and deferring to authority."
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"The Illustrated Man", 2008.
This paper discusses the overall theme found in Ray Bradbury's collection of short stories, "The Illustrated Man".
1,074 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 45.95
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The paper relates that the dominant theme in Ray Bradbury's "The Illustrated Man" is how each person reacts to his own personal problems and fate when confronted with new and threatening circumstances. The paper focuses on the way the protagonists in the stories "The Man," "Kaleidoscope" and "The Long Rain" react to a situation in which they know they have no way out and can only depend on themselves and their own inner strength.
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"Ray Bradbury is one of America's best known and popular science fiction authors, having written more than 30 books over the past half century, not to mention numerous short stories, plays and screenplays. In this essay, I am going make an attempt to discuss the overall theme found in Ray Bradbury's collection of short stories, The Illustrated Man, which was originally published in 1951 and has been reprinted many times since ("Ray Bradbury.") The reason I am selecting this angle of approach is that although the issue of technology and its impact on society are a very important part of Bradbury's work, not every story is about technology itself. In most of the stories, technology forms only a backdrop. It also seems that despite some obvious exceptions (such as "The Other Foot") Bradbury's stories are not especially concerned with immediately relevant social issues, although they do deal with how society reacts to threatening events. In fact, it seems to me that what makes Bradbury's work here so interesting is the way he focuses on the effects of new ideas on particular individuals, and I see this as the overriding theme of the anthology."
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