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A Line in the Sand, 2002.
Examines the history of the disputed Kuwait-Iraq boundary, from its instatement by Percy Cox in 1922 to the present day conflict in the Gulf.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 38.95
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In 1922, the year that Iraq became a British mandate, the British High Commissioner to Iraq - Sir Percy Cox - held a tent meeting in the Arabian desert with representatives of regional leaders, including the man who would become King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. At this meeting Cox arbitrarily set out the lines marking the desert boundaries of Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Almost seven decades later the lines that Cox drew in the sands of the region were reinforced by the orders of an American President.
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The Erosion of Sand Dunes on North Carolina's Beaches, 2001.
An examination of the sand dunes in North Carolina.
1,715 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 11 sources, AU$ 80.95
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This paper presents an analysis of North Carolina 's erosion of sand dunes. The author examines the causes and solutions to the problem and provides a brief overview of how sand dunes are formed.
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"The erosion of North Carolina?s sand dunes causes definite and easily recognizable problems for North Carolina?s coastal communities. The erosion of sand dunes and beaches from North Carolina?s barrier islands and mainland coast causes problems for residential and commercial developments, which rely on these dunes and beaches for protection against storm surges. While hurricanes and strong storms have been few this year, in past years these storms have devastated coastal communities with flooding and strong winds, causing tens of millions of dollars in damage in the past decade. (Orrin 142) The best prevention against damage to homes and businesses is the protection and replenishment of sand dunes. It is important to remember that ?nature maintains the dynamic equilibrium of the beaches through the unceasing trade of four factors.? These factors are material, energy, shape, and sea level. (Kaufman 15) Dune erosion is a major problem for North Carolina coastal communities, but new preservation methods and building codes cause less damage to dunes and homes and allow damaged dunes to be repaired or replenished."
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Sands Hotel and Casino, 2005.
This paper discusses the Sands Hotel and Casino case and the financial controls upheld by them.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 76.95
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This paper considers the risk assessment and security concerns for accounting in the Sands Hotel and Casino case. The paper notes that the casino business is regulated by state law so that certain financial controls must be in place and the regulations covering this issue are extensive and specific. The paper explains that Sands meets all requirements and then exceeds them, seeing these controls not as an onerous requirement imposed by government but as a necessity for a cash business in order to meet the needs of the state as to tracking revenue and paying taxes.
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Frida Kahlo and George Sand, 2002.
Describes and compares the works of artists Frida Kahlo and George Sand and how they translated their life experiences into their art work.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 51.95
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Describes how Sand and Kahlo both used their experiences of pain and love in their art and how their desire to equal the men in their fields expressed itself in uniquely liberating ways.
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?The Book of Sand? by Jorge Borges, 2002.
A literary review of ?The Book of Sand? by Jorge Borges which centers around the theme of obsession.
1,006 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 51.95
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This paper discusses the book ?The Book of Sand? by Jorge Borges about a man who buys the infinite book and becomes haunted with the idea that something can exist with no beginning and no end. His obsession grows and begins to take over his life. Eventually he realizes what the book is, causing him to finally hide it and with its removal, the man feels better though forever changed. This paper analyzes the obsessions and desperate emotions and describes how similar they are to the crippling effect that a forbidden love affair can have.
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"He cannot bear to share the book with anyone; for fear that the book will no longer hold its magical esteem once others know about it. As if suddenly the book will no longer be infinite, and he will lose what has become the focus of his life. Those desperate emotions are like the crippling effect that a forbidden love affair can have ? as if the passion I feel will no longer exist if someone knows about the affair. As if the love I feel for the other person will cease once the love has been shared with the world. As if the love I feel will be taken from me by its rightful owner."
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"A Sand County Almanac", 2002.
A focus on Aldo Leopold's love for the wilderness.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 38.95
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This paper focuses on the passion of a writer for wilderness and its protection. Aldo Leopold, the author of 'A Sand County Almanac', was known for his love for land and he wanted to protect it from rapid industrialization. In his works, he constantly pleaded with the people of his country that land must not be destroyed as it is sacred and therefore must be respected.
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?House of Sand and Fog?, 2002.
Analyzes this novel on American prejudices by author, Andre Dubus III.
926 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 47.95
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"House of Sand and Fog" is a novel by the American writer Andre Dubus III in which the principal characters engage in a struggle over possession of a house. The paper shows that the house functions as a symbol of membership in American society and the combatants -- an immigrant Iranian colonel and a woman recovering from cocaine addiction -- have more than money at stake in their fight to own a home to which each has a legal right. The paper explains how the tragic plot is driven by the failure of the parties to communicate and by their suspicions of each other based on their prejudiced views of each other's cultures.
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"As Dubus develops his story, however, none of this is simple. All the characters' motivations are complex and by employing three narrative voices -- Behrani, Nicolo, and an omniscient narrator who describes Burdon's thoughts and actions -- Dubus creates a balanced picture in which everyone is shown to be capable of great self-deception, prejudice, and ignorance. Behrani, for example, persistently avoids introspection and when he finds himself dwelling on his own motivations he simply says, "I must discipline myself to keep my attention on my present tasks and challenges" (164). "
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Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac", 1993.
Critical review of work on nature, ecology, ethics of land use, progress and the place of humans in the environment.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, AU$ 80.95
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" In A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold presents a series of portraits of nature and the natural landscape, coupled with related musings on life, the environment, and man's place in this world. The approach taken is not dissimilar to a tradition in American literature extending back through such writers as Emerson and Thoreau. both of whom also used observations of nature to glean philosophical and practical knowledge of themselves and their world. In the Preface to the Enlarged Edition, the author's children note that the book was originally published in 1949 after Leopold's death and that much of what he discusses in this book, offering his insight into the American landscape and to our need to preserve and enjoy it, has passed into common currency, though much distorted. In 1966 when this edition was published, roadside beautification had replaced "the.."
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"A Face in the Sand", 2004.
An insight into Michel Foucault, psychoanalysis, and the Dissolution of Man.
2,614 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 113.95
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This paper analyzes Michel Foucault's poststructuralist critique of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, focusing on each thinker's conception of the construction of sexuality. It argues that, despite the fundamental conflicts between the two, there are surprising similarities in their theories regarding the formation of human subjectivity and how both remain essential for contemporary queer theory.
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"For Foucault, psychoanalysis purports to take as its objective the revelation and liberation of an ?authentic? self through therapeutic speech, but in fact, with its elaborate classificatory systems of perversions and pathologies, constructs markedly inauthentic selves through the process ? selves that, in the unique tradition of modern Western culture, are defined almost exclusively by their sexuality. Psychoanalysis, more so than any of the other ?human sciences,? as Foucault argues in The Order of Things, lays claim to explaining human behavior while actually constructing that behavior through its explanations ? and thereby continually reconstituting the grounds of human knowledge."
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"A Sand County Almanac", 2002.
A review of Aldo Leopold's "A San County Almanac".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 76.95
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This is a book review of Aldo Leopold's work. A close reading of this critically-acclaimed book makes it abundantly clear why Leopold is touted as the father of modern environmental conservation. His thoughts on sustainable development of an ecological consciousness was truly visionary, and most of his ideology still resonates aloud today ----- and this is what has perhaps lent this unique book an enduring popularity.
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The Shifting Sand of Moral Relativism, 2004.
An analysis of why moral relativism should not be entrenched in the political culture.
1,602 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 75.95
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This paper examines how current political and social thought, which is built on the foundation of moral relativism, cannot chart a path for a nation to follow out of confusion into an enlightened and orderly society. The tools, talents, skills, and abilities of moral relativism are completely inadequate for leading a nation. In particular, it looks at how Leo Strauss is one of the few modern philosophers who understood that moral relativism is a source of evil in the world and cannot produce a just and fair society.
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"The founders of our country understood the relationship between the need for a moral people and the effects on a nation of immoral leaders. Ben Franklin is quoted as saying ?Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." John Adams wrote in the Federalist Papers, ?We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. ... Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Franklin and Adams knew the legacy which political leaders such as Hitler, Clinton, or Hussein would leave behind - a willingness to pursue their own desires at the expense of others, and the political power to justify or hide their actions from public scrutiny."
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A God of Sand and Fire, 2004.
A review of the poem, ?To the Desert?, by Benjamin Alire Saenz.
1,032 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 52.95
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This paper examines how Benjamin Alire Saenz?s breathtaking poem, ?To the Desert?, updates the ancient sonnet form Donne once used to praise the Christian God and turns it into a revolutionary invocation of a pantheistic deity embodied by the desert itself. It looks at how, through a flawless onomatopoeia that evokes the brushing and rustling and hissing sounds of the desert, he weaves sharply observant images to bring the very scent and color of the desert to the reader?s mind.
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"Yet poetic merit is not all that Saenz has working for this piece. Additionally it carries with it an inherited weight of powerful symbolism. The poem is obviously conceived as a companion piece to Doneness classic sonnet ?Batter my heart Three-Personed God.? The concept of Doneness original was, in a nutshell, a plea to the Christian deity to force the poet into his service in the same way a man may force a hesitant woman into his bed, because without such psychic rape the poet will never be able to serve God fully and this is something he desires. Saenz has a similar point, though with far less of a sense of rape and far more of a sense of mutual re-creation and absorption. Doneness God will ?imprison? the poet, whereas Saenz? desert will keep him warm, and swallow him up. However, there is certainly a degree to which the same sense of overwhelming power and force is intended."
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Illegal Immigration In America, 2008.
A discussion of some arguments from those who are for and against illegal immigration.
865 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 44.95
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This paper discusses the blocking of illegal immigration in the USA. The paper explains that the last few decades have seen a rise in the illegal immigrant population of the United States, and the line has been drawn in the sand between those against and those for illegal immigration. The writer suggests that before any discussion is made on whether we need more laws to combat illegal immigration, the question perhaps should be that existing laws should and must be implemented. The writer then points out that despite the existence of illegal immigration laws, the divide amongst the pros and the cons are still heavy. From the legal point of view, curbing illegal immigration should be done because it simply is against the law, and the moral point of view is otherwise and goes against the ethical principle of helping humanity.
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"The United States has always been seen by most outsiders as the "land of milk and honey." Couple this with what they see in Hollywood movies as the "American dream." Indeed, the United States can be a land where one could fulfill your dreams and hopes. But like anything else, there are limits to how far dreams could be reached or how many could avail of that opportunity."
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The Conservation Effort and Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic, 2002.
This paper addresses the "land ethic" put forth in Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac" in which he suggests that human beings will never be able to reconcile conservation efforts with their desire to maintain a contact with the natural world.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 51.95
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This paper addresses the "land ethic" put forth in Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac" in which he suggests that human beings will never be able to reconcile conservation efforts with their desire to maintain a contact with the natural world. In turn, this destroys the natural world.
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Survivors in Literature, 2007.
This paper discusses the question of survival in "Survival in Auschwitz" by Primo Levi, "Wind, Sand and Stars " by Antoine de Saint Exupery, and "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison .
2,195 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 99.95
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This paper argues that the protagonists in 'Survival in Auschwitz' and in 'Wind, Sand, and Stars' survived their ordeal and returned and became productive members of society. The author points out that they were able to survive and to return because they found that their lives had meaning. The paper contends that the protagonist in "Invisible Man" had more difficulty because the society he has left would not welcome him back.
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"The protagonist in "Invisible Man", an ambitious, polite and intelligent black man, states that he is invisible only because people refuse to see him. His solitude is the result of alienation. Perhaps, his task is the most difficult of the three books because it is not simply he who must adapt, but society must also change if he is to return and interact with human beings in a normal way. The protagonist in "Invisible Man" is expected to live humbly in white society while at the same time he is being abused, a situation presented to him as "normal." For example, when he gives his graduation speech as valedictorian of his class, he is allowed to give it only after being forced to participate in a brutal, humiliating, and demeaning "boxing match" designed to be a spectacle and entertainment for an ignorant, racist, white crowd."
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Memory in Poetry and Literature, 2004.
Explores the role of memory in ?Once Up a Time When We Were Colored? (Taulbert), "Salvation on Sand Mountain" (Covington), ?Blue Wedding? (Smith), ?Carpenter Bee? (Trethewey), and "Ellen Foster" (Gibbons).
1,482 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 70.95
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The magic of the human memory can be used as a powerful, informative, and insightful device in fiction and poetry. Characters and ideas develop and grow with time, and memory is a function by which these devices can provide us with valuable information. This paper examines how the role of memory enhances the reading experience by looking at ?Once Upon a Time When We were Colored? by Clifton Taulbert, "Salvation on Sand Mountain" by Dennis Covington, ?Blue Wedding? by Lee Smith, ?Carpenter Bee? by Natasha Trethewey, and "Ellen Foster" by Kay Gibbons.
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"Clifton Taulbert, author of Salvation on Sand Mountain, uses memory to personalize history. Clifton?s technique utilizes memory to play an important role in the history of society, especially that of St. Marks? church in the town of Glen Allan. In fact, Taulbert tells us, ?And whether north or sought, large or small, the colored church was a totally black experience? (Taulbert 281). That statement leads Taulbert on a journey into history as he remembers the people who shaped his personality as a boy. For example, Mother Byrd was influential to the members of the congregation, but her ?demands for perfection and self-respect and her high hopes for the colored race will always be with me? (283). In addition, Mother Byrd was a proponent for black pride long before it became fashionable? (284). We also learn about the sister-workers. Clifton?s characters provide most of the excitement in this story, which help us visualize the scenes."
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