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Euclid's Fifth Postulate, 2002.
A paper which discusses the philosophical and logical problems contained in Euclid's 'Fifth Postulate' on planar geometry.
1,622 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 84.95
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Euclid gave the world much of the information it has on planar geometry in his five postulates. The paper shows that while the first four are relatively easy to understand, the fifth one is very difficult in relation to the others. It is this fifth postulate that many people feel can never be proven. The paper discusses how there are those that say it is simply incorrect, those that say it's both true and false and others that say there is no possible way to prove it, and Euclid himself may have realized that the task was impossible. The author of the paper surmizes that if someday the fifth postulate is proven to be either true or false, and the decision is agreed upon, then it could change the way mathematics are done and the way geometry is looked at.
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"Theoretically it would be possible for the lines to move toward one another so slowly, because of the low degree of angle, that they take a huge amount of space to come together at the end. But is it possible to have such a slight angle that the lines are almost parallel? They would be so close to parallel at that point that the impression that they are drawing closer together wouldn't be noticed unless they were looked at over miles at one time. That must be possible, but they still must meet somewhere in infinity.
Perhaps Euclid was right and the lines do meet somewhere, but the angles can be so minute that the lines go on almost to infinity, and we don't have the capabilities to calculate just how far that is yet. Perhaps Euclid is wrong and lines will go on into infinity still never touching, but only being a hair's width apart. Mathematicians may never know, since they haven't discovered any way to prove Euclid's fifth postulate by now."
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"Fifth Business" by Robertson Davies., 2002.
The following paper discusses the character of 'Dunstable Ramsay', Robertson Davies' protagonist in the book "Fifth Business," who appears to be a "fifth business" or minor actor on the stage of life.
2,290 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 113.95
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Ramsay's discussion of his participation in war as seen in Jungian terms is discussed in depth in this paper. The writer examines how understanding our individual destinies and the place of war within human destiny can occur if we are willing to assume the cost which is thorough analysis of our roles on the great stage of life. This paper examines the way in which Davies shows that not only Ramsay, but every human is a primary player with a significant role in the grand scheme of things.
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"In the novel Fifth Business, Robertson Davies uses the metaphor of his title to allow his readers to explore the significance of their own lives as they compare themselves to the autobiographical details revealed by the protagonist Dunstable Ramsay as he affirms the significance of his existence. The concept of being an essential, although not major, player, from which the novel gets its title, is very pertinent to Davies portrayal of war in Fifth Business. Using a style that is mythic, theatrical, and satirical, Davies presents Ramsay's specific experiences in World War I in a way that makes them universally applicable to anyone's experience of war anywhere, anytime."
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Principles of the U.S. Constitution: The Fifth Amendment, 2002.
A comprehensive examination of the Fifth Amendment and its impact on criminal justice in the U.S.
5,011 words (approx. 20.0 pages), 12 sources, MLA, AU$ 203.95
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This paper introduces the Fifth Amendment, describes its primary components, and provides a review to identify their respective histories and interpretations. A Fifth Amendment case is selected and discussed as to its impact on contemporary American society. A summary of the research is provided in the conclusion.
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"According to ?The Bill of Rights and the Judicial System,? the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution in 1791 to further strengthen the basic rights of American citizens. Some of the rights specifically protect the rights of citizens accused of committing crimes. The Fifth Amendment of the Bill of Rights requires that a person punished for a crime must be indicted by a grand jury. This amendment also forbids double jeopardy (trying a person more than once for the same crime) and forbids the court from forcing a person to testify against him or herself (called self-incrimination). As a result of the Fifth Amendment, the American judicial system is expected to assume the defendant is innocent until proven guilty. Further, the accused does not have to confess to a crime unless he or she chooses to do so."
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Saks Fifth Avenue, 2004.
A discussion of the history, management, and target markets of the department store chain Saks Fifth Avenue.
2,413 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 118.95
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This paper provides an overview of Saks Fifth Avenue, a department store chain that specializes in offering upscale merchandise to higher income individuals, while at the same time, being able take advantage of economy-of-scale dynamics to offer high-end merchandise at better prices then smaller boutique type stores.
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Introduction
Saks Fifth Avenue
Overview of Management
Facilities
Operating Hours
Outline of the History of the Company
Future Plans for the Company
Daily Operations
Customer Relations
Merchandising
Competition
Personal Reactions and Comments
References
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"Both the Saks Department Store Group and Saks Fifth Avenue stores, the company focuses on its commitment to a merchandising strategy that emphasizes branded products, (i.e. Bali, Hart Schaffner, etc.), coupled with a sophisticated style and feel of its merchandise presentation. The company?s emphasis on high level customer service helps fuels the merchandising focus. Finally Saks Inc. believes that their emphasis on presenting branded products in the best possible setting coupled with a focus on providing outstanding customer service makes them a preferred distribution channel for premier brand-name products."
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A Fifth Grade Curriculum on Oppression, 2002.
A proposal for hands-on projects, discussions and assignments for fifth graders to illustrate artistic responses emanating from both the Holocaust and from slavery in America.
1,245 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 68.95
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This paper addresses the question, "How did artistic expression that arose from oppression suffered by Holocaust victims and slaves of early America help provide inspiration and cultural works of record?" The writer suggests that through the artistic expression of those who succeeded despite their oppression, we can inspire and motivate fifth-grade students. A program of discussion sessions, role-playing and hands-on projects aimed at helping the students to learn concepts in math, science, language arts and social studies is outlined.
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"Through the analysis of artwork, social studies lessons can unfold. We will learn whether stories portrayed in paintings, sculpture, writings and music have been skewed by history and what significance they represent today to students of math, science, language arts and social studies. In addition, there are dozens of stories where people have escaped the clutches of either a tyrant slave master or cruel Nazi. Many discussions can evolve from both sets of experiences. Through these discussions and analyses, fifth-grade students can also come to understand perseverance, a lesson that can't be taught through multiplication tables."
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"The Fifth Discipline", 2005.
Discusses various aspects offered by Peter Senge in "The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 63.95
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This reaction paper discusses various aspects offered by Peter Senge, et al. (1994) in "The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook", including systems thinking, mental models, leadership, and the learning organization. Also included are a few questions intended for in-class discussion and further learning.
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"The Fifth Discipline Senge et al provide information on a host of tools methods and resources used by management to create learning organizations. In today's complex global marketplace learning faster and putting such learning into ..."
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"Fifth Business", 2002.
A review of Robertson Davies' "Fifth Business" through analysis of specific paragraphs.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 71.95
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This essay is a detailed review of Robertson Davies' Fifth Business. The author examines the progress of the story through a close study of specific paragraphs and page numbers, reading for particular sentences that signal a shift in the character's development. The focus of this review is on the ways the character's psyche moves through progressive changes. 5 pgs. 1 source.
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The Fifth Amendment, 2002.
An explanation of the fifth amendment law of the American constitution.
5,003 words (approx. 20.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 203.95
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This paper introduces the fifth Amendment, describing its primary components and explaining its meaning and legal consequences. The writer provides a review of the law, including its history and modern day interpretations. The paper makes reference to a specific 5th Amendment case involving the ten commandments, which was selected and discussed as to its impact on contemporary American society.
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"The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is perhaps best known for its protections against compulsory self-incrimination, but it provides a wider range of rights and guarantees as well. The Fifth Amendment is, of course, part of a broader range of civil liberties and freedoms contained in the first ten amendments, or what has become known as the Bill of Rights. These first ten amendments were adopted to overcome the concern that the Constitution granted power to a central government at the expense of the individual citizen (Corley et al. 250). Although the framers of the Constitution did not necessarily intend to the provisions of the Fifth Amendment to evolve as they did, today they provide a wide range or protections for the individual citizen and businesses in America."
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Self-made Man in "Fifth Business" and "The Great Gatsby", 2006.
A literary study examining the role of the self-made man in the "Fifth Business" by Robertson Davies and "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 85.95
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This paper discusses the basis of national identity and the self-made man in "Fifth Business" by Robertson Davies and "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, explaining that it is apparent in the characters created by the authors. The paper goes on to explain that, in the case of both Jay Gatsby and Boy Staunton, the elements of the self made are revealed through materialism and a quest for greater power. Gatsby obsessed about Daisy as his wife and foolishly thought by gaining wealth he might have her. Boy Staunton also thought along these lines, as he cared little for morality in the success he sought through selling sugar after the war.
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"By understanding how Jay Gatsby and Boy Staunton are self-made men, they invariably have great similarities in how they are ambitious and seek greater wealth in their drive towards upper class status. In many ways, Gatsby and Staunton offer nationalistic views of extreme capitalism, as they seek to attain the "American Dream.""
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The Fifth Commandment, 2002.
An examination of the Fifth Commandment from the Bible and how it applies to the modern world.
1,141 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 63.95
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This paper discusses the Fifth Commandment of the Bible, "Thou Shall Not Murder" and examines how, today, it does not just apply to one person murdering another, it also encompasses all topics from abortion to euthanasia, from capital punishment to war crimes. It analyzes some of the controversies such as intentional homicide being illegal in our society while abortion is legal and even publicly funded. It also looks at the challenges the Catholic Church faces today is trying to keep the morality in a secular society.
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"Suicide is another violation of the Fifth Commandment; a person who takes his or her own life is still committing murder. Suicide is also contrary to love for the living God; suicide is contrary to the just love of oneself. ?The action of suicide simultaneously offends the love of one?s neighbour because it unjustly breaks the ties of solidarity with family, nation, and other human societies to which we have obligations.?5 Because God has created us in His likeness, by committing suicide we are concurrently blaspheming the living God. Up until recent centuries, those who had committed suicide could not be buried on consecrated ground."
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"Fifth Business"., 2002.
This paper is a book review of "Fifth Business" by Robertson Davies.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 42.95
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Thispaper discusses that the book explores the fate in a small town, drawing out its strands from the simple act of throwing a snowball. The author believes that his book shows how the littlest act in human life can lead to an entire saga.
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The Three?Fifths Compromise, 2004.
An overview of the history, background, and consequences of the three?fifths compromise.
1,151 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 63.95
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This paper discusses how, while slaves were definitely treated inhumanly, they did have a certain impact on two important historical events, Ratification of Constitution and Articles of Confederation. It looks at how the Southern states felt that, since they had large armies of slaves to support, they must be given an upper hand in the Congress and how this led to a compromise that three out of every five slaves should be included in population count for determination of representation. It discusses how, with this compromise, slavery came into the limelight and how it was then viewed from the political perspective. It also shows how the effects of the compromise were prominent and how they helped in increase political power of the South.
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"Sugar plantation is heavily responsible for the growth of slavery on the United States. An ugly practice that began in Portugal spread to whole of Europe before it found its way to the Southern states of America. This was in fact one institution that every person with morals would found repulsive and degrading but since it was economically viable, Southerners were more than glad to have found a cheaper means of raising sugar and becoming economically stronger than their more modern Northern counterparts. This shameful practice continued in the United States without much opposition until the latter half of 1800s when Northerners launched staunch attack against inhumane treatment of slaves."
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?Fifth Business? by Robertson Davies, 2002.
This review discusses the theme in ?Fifth Business? by Robertson Davies that an unstable childhood is often the cause of a lifetime full of struggles and fears but can also lead to a successful and fulfilled life.
1,490 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 79.95
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The author analyses and evaluates characters that reveal evidence of a successful life despite their childhood instability. The paper compares the characters of Dunstan Ramsay and Paul Dempster, both had childhood instability but as adults led a successful and fulfilling life, to the character Boy Staunton, who had the perfect childhood but grew up and became an unstable adult.
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"Not only does Dunny suffer from a guilty conscience, but also violence and abuse. He refers to a scene where his mother is beating him, ??she pursued me around the kitchen, slashing me with the whip until she broke me down and I cried. She cried too, hysterically, and beat me harder, storming about my impedance, my want of respect for her, of my increasing oddity and intellectual arrogance-not that she used those words, but I do not intend to put down what she actually said-until at last her fury was spent? I can still feel that hour?s misery in its perfect desolation, if I am fool enough to call it up in my mind.? "
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Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter, 2005.
This paper analyzes what it means to be a first generation Chinese American.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 115.95
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In this article, the writer discusses what it means for the child of a Chinese family to be a first generation Chinese American. For this study, the writer uses information presented in Jade Snow Wong's book, 'Fifth Chinese Daughter'. Further, the writer examines how the assimilation process may change family values.
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"In Jade Snow Wong's memoir 'Fifth Chinese Daughter' the author tells the story of one Chinese family's adjustment to life in the United States. Told from the point of view of the family's fifth daughter, Jade Snow, the book examines not only the way in which two different cultures clash, but how two generations of the same family might be at odds over what path in life is most appropriate. Indeed, 'Fifth Chinese Daughter' is an exploration of how family values and culture are affected when the ... "
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"Woman Warrior" ( Maxine Hong Kingston ) & "Fifth Chinese Daughter "( Jade Snow Wong ), 1999.
Examines autobiographical works on Chinese-American. experience, use of symbolism, acculturation & native traditions, child-parent relations.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 89.95
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The stories "The Sky Is Gray" by Ernest J. Gaines and "Angel of the Candy Counter" by Maya Angelou tell similar tales of young children visiting the dentist, and in both cases issues of a racist society are expressed in the seemingly simple act of going to the dentist to fix an aching tooth. Both stories are told in the first person and have the aura of a memory (which in Angelou's case it definitely is). In both stories, blacks are shown at a disadvantage at every turn, and the trip to the dentist is an occasion in each case to show ways in which blacks are made into second-class citizens. Another important theme is the need for strong parents, especially for the young black child facing the reality of racism in America.
Angelou's story comes from her autobiography and is in keeping with the overall tone of that work, a book that gains.."
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Beethoven's First & Fifth Symphonies, 1999.
Analyzes structures, movements, forms, tonality, innovations, key shifts and instruments; compared to other composers' works.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, AU$ 128.95
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"Ludwig van Beethoven's composing career began in the last decade of the 18th century and ended with his death in 1827, and thus spanned from the Classical to the Romantic period. In his youth, he studied under F. Joseph Haydn, one of the greatest Classical composers; in his maturity, he anticipated the Romantic style which was later fully realized in the works of Schubert, Schumann, and Berlioz, among others.
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"Ludwig van Beethoven's composing career began in the last decade of the 18th century and ended with his death in 1827, and thus spanned from the Classical to the Romantic period. In his youth, he studied under F. Joseph Haydn, one of the greatest Classical composers; in his maturity, he anticipated the Romantic style which was later fully realized in the works of Schubert, Schumann, and Berlioz, among others. Beethoven's wrote only nine symphonies; on its face this seems paltry compared to Haydn and Mozart, who established the Classical symphonic style--between them, they wrote over 150. However, despite the beauty (and often humor) found in Haydn's symphonies and the sheer brilliance of Mozart's, Beethoven single-handedly redefined the form and used it as a means of emotional, as well as musical, expression. This research will examine two of Beethoven's symphonies, his.."
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