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- 5221: Leaders of the Progressive Movement
- ... or the corruption that had replaced that beauty. Steffens does not seem to offer any solutions for those societal problems, but instead offers that "Americans
can stand the truth." Perhaps there was sarcasm in his writing style, but I did not catch it. In the last part of the article, Steffens dedicates the shame and disgrace to the citizens of the United States. In my opinion, this article does not sufficiently ...
- 5222: Adoptees and Identity Formation
- ... adoptees sometimes are involved in a behavior which psychologists term family romance. This is not a romance in a sexual manner, but rather a romance in the sense of fantasizing about birth parents and their personal qualities. Horner and Rosenberg (1991) stated that the adopted child may develop a family romance in order to defend against painful facts. Often times, adoptees wonder why they were adopted, and because closed-adoptions are ...
- 5223: Interpersonal Communication
- ... The information has to be shared such as when a friend tells another friend about a problem that he or she is having or when a child talks to his or her parents about something personal. That information is being shared by two people in order to illicit a feedback. There are many important issues that become important when discussing my definition of interpersonal communication. One primary assumption is that communication ...
- 5224: Violence In Sports
- ... perspective. Coaches should not emphasize winning at all cost. Enjoyment and the development of individual skills should be the objective. Coaches should be alert to and praise improvement. Athletic performance should not be equated with personal worth (Coakley, p. 106). Players should not be encouraged or allowed to play when injured or ill, as a demonstration of stoic virtue. 2.Stress participation. Hellstedt (p.70) cites studies which show that many ...
- 5225: The Heart Of Darkness
- ... return to the ship. They set off down the river, but Kurtz's health is failing fast. Marlow listens to him talk while he pilots the ship, and Kurtz entrusts him with a packet of personal documents, including an eloquent pamphlet on civilizing the savages which ends (as Kurtz seems to have forgotten) with a scrawled message that says, "Exterminate all the brutes!" The steamer breaks down and they have to ...
- 5226: Eugenics
- Eugenics Since the beginning of human existence, humans have thrived through millions of years on earth, taking advantage of its great resources that were available freely for their personal use and survival. Toward the end of the 20th centry, these humans realized that they were utilizing large amounts of resources once thought to be an endless supply. With these uses come consequences, and these ...
- 5227: Machiavelli's The Prince
- ... for suspect of conspiring against the new rulers, only later to be acquitted and released. Later Machiavelli had a brief return to public life when he received a grant from Pope Clement of Rome, for writing his History of Florence. Machiavelli died in 1527, leaving his family, according to his son, in poverty. In The Prince, Machiavelli offered a monarchical ruler advice designed to keep that ruler in power. Its ...
- 5228: Improving Education
- ... beyond the realm of the regular school day to providing intensive instruction in a smaller group setting. Extended day is an after school program, held on campus, designed to target students with low achievement in writing, reading and math on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills or TAAS test. The program was started during the 1996- 1997 school year and services approximately 125 students per year which is about 22 % of ...
- 5229: The Influence That Hsi Yu Chi
- ... of heaven and the eight trigrams. I could find absolutely no reason why the rock would have to have markings which correspond with divine symbols and I am sure that the author meant nothing by writing that they do, but apparently, many scholars have written long and tedious essays relating to just the description of the rock. I believe that the author simply wanted to see people ponder over his work ...
- 5230: Affirmative Action Today
- ... The teacher was awarded three years back pay and returned to her job after her victory in court (Brimelow 96). Affirmative action should be used to increase opportunity, determined by ability. It should not guarantee personal success because of color. White people today also feel the effects of racial discrimination. They contend that employers are in fact discriminating against white applicants on the basis of race. However, if equal representation of ...
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