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Maria Montessori: A Modern Woman in an Old World, 2005.
Examines how Maria Montessori broke all the traditions of a male-dominated society to present us with innovative ideas on early childhood education.
2,105 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 70.95
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Maria Montessori was a modern woman in a man's world. In times when women were expected to follow procedure and know their roles in society, Montessori made her own rules. This paper shows how she continuously broke tradition and expectations by forcing her thoughts and ideas onto society. She was the first female to enroll in two all-male institutions, showing no fear when the male students ridiculed her. She dominated the medical profession, which was more of a fraternal brotherhood in those days, and she completely transformed the world of early childhood education. The paper shows that Maria Montessori's willingness to take dramatic steps away from the accepted methods of her era allowed her to create a ground-breaking teaching technique that has withstood the test of time.
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"As a physician, Montessori specialized in pediatrics and psychiatry. Through this contact with children, she began to acquire an awareness of child development. In 1901, she was appointed director of the Orthophrentic School at the University of Rome. The school had been used as an asylum for "deficient and insane" children of the city. Many of the children were most likely retarded or autistic. She walked into a room to discover children sitting on old benches for hours at a time. She was told that the children were "savage and dirty" because they would scramble to pick crumbs up off the floor after a meal. Montessori was appalled by the scene and began to develop a way to reform the school (Standing 28)."
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From Old World China to the New World America, 2004.
This paper reviews three novels, based on the generational transition from China to America: Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" and "The Bonesetter's Daughter" and Maxine Kingston's "The Woman Warrior".
835 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 31.95
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This paper explains that Amy Tan and Maxine Kingston's central themes reflect the inherent difficulties faced by the foreigners in a different land. The author points out that, in "Joy Luck Club", Amy Tan employs the stories of four Chinese women and their highly Americanized daughters, bred and born in America. The paper states that Maxine Kingston reveals a great deal about the Chinese convictions pertaining to their culture and traditions, which have many superstitious beliefs in her book, "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts".
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"However, the basic problem that thoroughly reflects the uneven, unbalanced and highly disturbing transformation from the old world to the new world is that of the lack of comprehension and interest of the young girls that belonged to these four Chinese women. Born and brought up in America, Jing-Mei, Lena, Rose, and Waverly all exhibited little emotional attachment to the culture they never experienced living in a foreign land and consequently showed clandestine aversion towards their own native cultural values. The four Chinese women who were also good friends, wanted comforts, luxuries and all the positive American values for their Chinese American daughters but also desperately wanted to inculcate a strong sense of discipline arising out of the Chinese traditions and cultural values into their daughters."
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Brave Old Lies for a "Brave New World", 2004.
Critique of Aldous Huxley's famous novel, " Brave New World", and Huxley's negative view of technology.
2,080 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 69.95
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This paper argues that Huxley's negative view of technology as presented in his novel, "Brave New World", is a one-sided perspective that ignores the positive aspects of technology and how it can benefit society.
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"In Aldous Huxley's dystopic Brave New World, humans live in a consumerist world where all human life is directed by the twin scientific miracles of the opiate soma and behaviorist child-rearing and procreative practices that direct the lives of its people. It is easy to look at this book and see it as an example of a world gone wrong in which science has been allowed to usurp the humanity of the masses. The ease with which it can be interpreted in this way is due to the fact that this is how the protagonists see the story unfolding. However, one must keep in mind that Huxley is presenting a very skewed view of this new world, because he draws the force of his narrative sentiment from the point of view of the Savage. The society portrayed is of course dystopic in many senses. However, in many other ways it shows great promise and potential for being superior to anything that preceeded it. Science and technology in Huxley's new world present opportunities for happiness and human achievement which are both misrepresented by the author and openly rejected by the close-minded inhabitants of that world."
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Remote Sensing, 2005.
An overview of Old World and New World remote sensing.
766 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 29.95
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This paper examines how remote sensing can be broken down to New World and Old World. It looks at how New World involves aerial photography from artificial satellites and how Old World involves procedures like electromagnetic and resistivity surveying.
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"The world emits energy in the form of electromagnetic waves. There are many sources of energy and the most important one is the sun. Satellites mostly portray the land with respect to the electromagnetic spectrum. There can be two types of sensing active and passive sensing. Active sensing involves the satellite to send waveforms that interact with certain parts of the land (including water) and give off different waveforms in the spectrum. The passive sensing involves just reading the waveforms from different sources (like the sun) and portraying them. One advantage of active sensing as opposed to passive is that measurements can be recorded anytime where in passive it has to be done when the naturally occurring energy is available."
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Accounts Of North America, 1610-1835, 1999.
Examines the accuracy and biases of European travelers' reports and their impact on Old World and New World perceptions. Discusses exploration, politics, economics, settlements, American-Indians, melting pot and institutions.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 11 sources, AU$ 67.95
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This research will examine the value of accounts of North America produced by Old World visitors from 1610 to 1835. The research will set forth the context in which European travelers produced such accounts and then discuss the impact that the writing had in shaping Old World perceptions of America as well as New World views of the emerging American culture.
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"This research will examine the value of accounts of North America produced by Old World visitors from 1610 to 1835. The research will set forth the context in which European travelers produced such accounts and then discuss the impact that the writing had in shaping Old World perceptions of America as well as New World views of the emerging American culture.
Any discussion of Old World visitors' accounts of North America that predates the American Revolution must begin with the observation that until the successful completion of the Revolution the measure taken of the new land was not necessarily the measure of America but rather of Europe in America. The priorities of European geopolitics, culture, and economics, specifically Europe's needs that the New World could fill and Europe's values that the New World could receive, were almost ..."
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Tom Harpur, 2002.
A discussion of Tom Harpur's views on old world religions and how they are the cause of many global problems.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 47.95
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This essay discusses Tom Harpur's argument that the old world religions are out to destroy themselves. He shows that these religions are causing many of the world's global problems. Indeed, the old religions seem completely helpless in the face of many of the crises facing the world today.
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Imports and Pre-Colonial America, 2004.
A look at the impact of imported/exported animals, plants, and diseases on Pre-Colonial America and the Old World.
774 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 29.95
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This paper examines how, until Christopher Columbus found his way across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, the various biological systems in the Old World and the New World were very different and how, since that time, the mix of European and American plants, animals, and diseases has brought about the explosive propagation of species from other lands. It debates whether such mixing and jumbling made it possible for the Americas to be colonized in the years following Columbus.
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"These "invaders," first from Spain and then from other European countries, quickly learned that European crops did not thrive in the Americas, especially in the Caribbean Basin. But their livestock did extremely well, due in part to the lack of large carnivores and the vast quantity of fodder in the fields and meadows. Most of the imported animals prospered, especially the horses, cattle and pigs. In fact, these animals increased at such a rapid rate that many areas of the backcountry swarmed with feral livestock, meaning horses, cattle and pigs that lived as totally undomesticated in the wild."
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The Second World War, 2006.
A enlightening perspective of the Second World War.
2,673 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 85.95
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In this paper the author takes a different perspective of the Second World War, citing it as not a single armed clash. He looks at the Second World War as a collection of three different conflicts, the Japanese-League war in Southeast Asia and China, the German war in Eastern Europe, and the German-League war in western and central Europe that happened to overlap in time and causes. The author discusses in the paper that despite the different causes, theatres, and strategies of the three conflicts, their simultaneity and their direct challenge to the custom of the global community leads historians and other spectators to classify them as a single worldwide war. He looks at all of the effects of the Second World War on the different participants in terms of political, economic and social issues. In conclusion, the author addresses how in destroying the old world order, the Second World War demanded the formation of a new world order, one shaped by the triumphant, defeated, and neutral powers.
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Introduction
Home Front
Social Solutions
Political Maneuvering
Military Strategies and Operations
Conclusion
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"Many pieces of reorganization legislation were rolled back in wartime. A longer working day was reestablished to boost industrial productivity. The federal government made anti-trust legislation a very low precedence. In order to struggle the labor shortage, child labor laws and women's labor regulations were overlooked. With very little public protest, the number of high school dropouts increased notably. During the war, the teenage workforce grew from 1 million to 3 million; about 1 million of these novel workers had dropped out of high school. Traditional politicians had fought against these agencies when they were established, but now that FDR was focusing on winning a war as a substitute of reforming society, they could slash funding for the CCC, WPA, and National Youth Administration (NYA). These programs had always been intended to help those who would be hired last even in favorable economic conditions, so their cease was especially ####### blacks, women, and the elderly."
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Columbus and the New World, 2002.
A discussion of the discovery of the New World by Columbus with an emphasis on the exchange of diseases between the Native Americans and the Europeans.
3,210 words (approx. 12.8 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 98.95
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This paper examines how the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492 changed the the geography of the world with an entire new continent appearing on maps of what would soon be seen as a globe instead of a flat surface. In particular it looks at how the geography of known disease also changed as Old World diseases such as smallpox, measles and influenza found a new population with no immunity because it had had no exposure to these diseases before. It examines how this effect became known as the Columbian Exchange and evaluates the result of this exchange of diseases between the Native Americans and the Europeans.
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"To this day there are arguments among researchers about the presence or absence of some diseases in the population of the New world, such as tuberculosis and syphilis. These may or may not have been found among the population before Columbus. Recent research suggests that there was some sort of "tuberculosis-like pathology" in the population before 1492, though it was of a type not associated with pulmonary disease. There was also a relatively benign nonvenereal (meaning not sexually transmitted) treponemal infection that was related to syphilis. There is no evidence, however, that either disease was at all widespread in either North or South America. Recent studies conducted in great detail show that large-scale sedentary societies in the Americas, where such diseases could have taken hold, did not."
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Policemen to the World, 2002.
This paper reviews Mary Kaldor's "New and Old Wars" and Fred Abrahams, Gilles Peress, and Eric Stover' A "Village Destroyed", which contend that war has changed and what the world needs now are policemen.
1,105 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 26 sources, MLA, AU$ 41.95
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This paper discusses that changes in the perception of the structure of power in the world and a new era of cooperation instead of antagonism among world nations has created the need for policemen. The paper presents examples from the Bosnian War, the second Gulf War and the situation in Iraq (written prior to the war). The author presents the possible global political units to develop over the next 20 years.
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"Yet, such cooperation often involves antagonism. It did in the Gulf War, where the United States and certain Middle Eastern nations fought against Iraq. That coalition does not exist in the current crisis, but the United States is so far going ahead with some support from the United Nations, primarily in the form of weapons inspectors. The United States here is clearly acting as the world's policeman, using its power to force the world to inspect Iraq and test Iraq and perhaps eventually, to invade Iraq in order to remove the "criminal," Saddam Hussein. This is similar to what the United States did in Bosnia-Herzegovina, acting to remove a government leader and force a change in the way the nation was governed."
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Re-emergence of the Old and the New in Modernist Writing, 2000.
Looks at how the modern represents the constant demand to deny the old, even though the old comes back in new forms.
1,160 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 42.95
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This essay examines issues central to the concept of modernist writing such as the re-emergence of the old in the new and the modern notion of recreating the old in the new. The author attempts to answer whether there can ever be such a thing as the 'new' and if so how it manifests itself.
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The Old Testament, 1991.
This paper provides a condensed overview of the Biblical Old Testament, as outlined and explored in the book, "Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament", by William Sanford LaSor, David Allan Hubbard, and Frederic Will
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, AU$ 59.95
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"The purpose of this paper is to provide a condensed overview of the Biblical Old Testament, as outlined and explored in the book, Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament, by William Sanford LaSor, David Allan Hubbard, and Frederic William Bush.
The first point that must be made here is that the point of view of the authors of this meaty volume is tinged heavily by their Christian evangelical attitudes. The authors consider the Old Testament to be not only a historical study of a time and place in history (the Middle East, during the two thousand years before Christ,) but also the precursor to the New Testament, in a purely religious sense.
Thus, the authors emphasize the importance of the old Testament as the foundation upon which Christianity is based, as ... "
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"Old Friends" by Tracy Kidder, 2002.
An analysis of the book "Old Friends" by Tracy Kidder which examines the way old age is viewed in America.
680 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 26.95
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In our youth conscious society it is common to reject the wisdom of the old and to value instead only the potential of the young. This paper analyzes Tracy Kidder's book on the subject, "Old Friends" which examines the way old age is viewed in American society by focusing on two men in a nursing home.
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"The strength that is characteristic of these two men, and the independence they exhibited in life makes their existence in a nursing home extremely difficult, where their lives, like children, are governed by routine, and their lives, like the sick, seem purposeless and aimless. Unlike the sick, there is often the attitude that the old have simply been shut away to die, now that they no longer have anything to give back to society and cannot take care of themselves alone. However, life at a nursing home continues the lives these men lived 'on the outside' rather than merely terminates it."
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J. Joseph's "When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple", 2005.
This paper explores the concept of 'preminiscence' in aging women's poetry by examining a famous poem about the coming of old age, J. Joseph's "When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple" (aka "Warning").
2,655 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 84.95
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This paper explains that 'preminiscence', the process of projecting the future, is important to the process of aging, which implies that, on the basis of past experience, women shape their futures. The author points out that, in "When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple" (AKA "Warning"), the reader learns that aging women, no longer needing to succumb to the temptations of diet aids, beauty products and cosmetic surgery, are released from the tyranny of physical beauty and are free to tap into themselves and rediscover the old feistiness, lying dormant since they were 10 years old. The paper concludes that this poem offers a positive approach to aging and a vista of freedom and possibilities by making the revolutionary statement that aging isn't so bad, after all. Poem included.
Table of Contents
'Preminiscence'
Method
Analysis
Discussion
Conclusion
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"The collection of women's life histories shows that during her 70s, widowhood is a likely possibility for most women. According to Coyle (1997), "Women on the average live longer than men. Women experience a greater life expectancy than men, and as a result, they comprise the majority of older adults." Widowhood is so common, in fact, that women regard it as something like a rite of passage, and although it is initially a shock and extremely painful for many of them, they do recover and reach a point where they see it as a whole new stage of life."
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World War I, 2002.
Briefly examines how the Balkan Crisis led to the start of the First World War.
722 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 27.95
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On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a nineteen year old student and an agent of the Serbian nationalist secret society, the Black Hand, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. This paper examines how events in the Balkans following the archduke's murder led to the beginning of the First World War. The paper considers the players involved in the historical conflict, alliances and the "mindlessly mechanical series of events that culminated in the world's first global war" .
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"This potential collapse of Austria-Hungary was not only important for the "Vienna government, but for Austria's German ally, for the other Great Powers, and for the balance of power system" (Sowards 2001). The clash with Serbia affected an issue of such magnitude that it is not difficult to understand how all the Powers became involved, "all of them had interests at stake" (Sowards 2001). The division into two sides was due to local considerations from Poland to Belgium, however, the risk of world war was due to the ethnic issues behind the 1914 Sarajevo crisis (Sowards 2001)."
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The U.S. and the World, 2003.
An attempt to understand why the United States has decided to diplomatically withdraw from vital decisions that affect the world, yet still use its military as the answer.
2,978 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 13 sources, APA, AU$ 93.95
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This paper examines how the United States has had a gradual withdrawal from world politics, evidenced in the refusal by current leadership of the United States to become a party to the Kyoto Protocol, International Criminal Court, and the rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. It argues that, if the United States is to remain on top of the power structure of the nation-state club on the world stage, then active participation is critical.
Outline
Isolationism: Old News?
The Kyoto Protocol
The International Criminal Court
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
Conclusion
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"After the First World War the United States withdrew from the world stage even in light of attempts by Woodrow Wilson to involve the country in the defunct League of Nations. The Senate failed to ratify the treaty pertaining to the League of Nations and as such did not become a member of the organization the President Wilson proposed. The United States did not feel it necessary to join the League since it was to be the guiding light for all others to follow. It was domestic inhibitions and historical tradition that prevented the United States from joining."
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