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  • Book Summary of the Use and Abuse of Biology

    Book Summary of the Use and Abuse of Biology

    Part 1 Marshall Sahlins is one of the most prominent American anthropologists of our time. He holds the title of Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago where he presently teaches. Marshall Sahlins', The Use and Abuse of Biology, is an excellent text, which attacks both the logical errors of sociobiology and its ideological distortions. His work focuses on demonstrating the power that culture has to shape people's perceptions

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Evaluation Jane Ellen Stevens’ Article

    Evaluation Jane Ellen Stevens’ Article

    Today’s media mainly focuses on violent stories that capture the viewer’s attention. So how are we, as viewers, affected by these stories? In her article, “The Violence Reporting Project: A New Approach to Covering Crime”, Jane Ellen Stevens focuses on the effects the media have on the viewers and the people within a community. I agree with Stevens when she states that the media fails to provide viewers with information on community violence and violence

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Janna
  • Margaret Preston: Life Summary and Description of 3 Artworks

    Margaret Preston: Life Summary and Description of 3 Artworks

    Artworks: Native Flowers, Mixed Flowers and Implement BLue Margaret Preston was born on the 29th of April 18 in Port Adelaide. Throughout her career, she produced over 400 artworks applying diverse techniques such as etching, monotyping, woodcutting, stenciling and painting. She was both a painter, specializing in still life, landscape, and portraits, and a print maker. She is widely recognized as one of the most famous female Australian artists. Margaret studied art in Victoria and

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Executive Summary: How Hr Makes a Company Money

    Executive Summary: How Hr Makes a Company Money

    Executive Summary How HR Helps the Company Make Money: Republic National Distributing Company of Kentucky Lindsay Blume (leblum01@louisville.edu) Management 305-02 Fall 2007 November 29, 2007 Introduction The purpose of this summary is to show how the human resources function helps the company make money. To support this basis, I interviewed Paula Boston on November 28, 2007. Mrs. Boston is the Human Resources and Payroll Administrator at Republic National Distributing Company of Kentucky. She has worked

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Critical Summary

    Critical Summary

    Robert J. Samuelson, a freelance writer for “Newsweek” magazine believes that the present welfare system needs to be abolished for certain age groups, and that as a result, teenage pregnancy is on the rise. Either this writer is desperate or he just does not care what he writes about. I believe that Samuelson’s article displays non conclusive data for his facts, financial flaws, and severe racial issues, but what really infuriate me is that

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    Submitted: March 12, 2010 By: Monika
  • Fallacy Summary and Application Paper

    Fallacy Summary and Application Paper

    We can refer to the term “fallacy”, in a general matter, as an error in reasoning. The reason a fallacy is such a broad term is because it is different from just actually being wrong about something based on the facts. More specifically, a fallacy is an argument stemming from a statement (often referred to as the “premise”) that is made for a conclusion that does not have enough supportive foundation to be valid. There

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    Submitted: March 12, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Riordan Manufacturing Executive Summary

    Riordan Manufacturing Executive Summary

    Riordan Manufacturing Executive Summary Ryan Schnabel The University of Phoenix CIS 319 Computer & Information Processing Dave Karpinsky March 24, 2005 Executive Summary: As a Fortune 1000 enterprise, and an industry leader in the field of plastic injection molding, Riordan Manufacturing, offers state-of-the art plastics design capabilities through its facilities in San Jose, California; Albany, Georgia; Pontiac, Michigan; and Hang Zhou, China. Currently, Riordan’s COO, Hugh McCauley, and the executive team have requested changes to

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    Submitted: March 13, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Shoah Movie Summary

    Shoah Movie Summary

    The movie begins with Simon Srebnik going back to Chelmno, he is one of the two survivors. He was taken to Chelmno when he was thirteen, his father was killed in front of him, and his mother died in the gas vans. He was known throughout the camp for his agility and his beautiful singing voice. Before abandoning the camp the Nazis shot everyone, including him, in the head. He was left for dead, but

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Steve
  • Summary of Judaism

    Summary of Judaism

    Judaism is the World’s eleventh largest religion with around fourteen million people. Judaism is also one of the first recorded monotheistic faiths as it laid the groundwork for Christianity and Islam. Judaism is divided into three branches: Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism, and Orthodox Judaism. Judaism is an Abrahamic religion like Christianity and Islam. Judaism has had a great impact on the World even though they are somewhat small compared to many other religions. Around

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Monika
  • Articles of Confederation Vs. Constitution

    Articles of Confederation Vs. Constitution

    The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, although both written documents explaining how the American government would be ran, they have very distinct qualities about them. During the Constitutional Convention, instead of revising the Articles of Confederation as originally planned, those attending the meeting felt that a whole new document needed to be written. Legislation, the sovereignty of states, and the executive branch were all major differences between the two documents. Legislation was one of

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Romeo & Juliet Basic Summary

    Romeo & Juliet Basic Summary

    Montague servants confront Capulet noblemen in a street and the start a sword fight. It is broken up by the Prince who says that they next person to fight shall be killed. Benvolio confronts Romeo about him not being present at the fight in the street. Romeo tells Benvolio about Rosaline not liking him. Romeo is depressed. Romeo and Benvolio see guest list to a Capulet party and see Rosaline's name. Benvolio suggests Romeo get

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Yan
  • The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation Summary

    The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation Summary

    In the beginning of Eric Foner’s essay, he talks of how devoted Americans are to their freedom. Different titles, for example, on history textbooks suggest just this: Land of the Free and The Rise of American Freedom. People on the outside of America looking in find this astonishing. The pride that is shown by Americans is outrageous to people that do not know what freedom is or people who have some freedom don’t see what

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    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Yan
  • Article Review: Effects of Systematic Desensitization (sd) Therapy on the Reduction of Test Anxiety Among Adolescents in Nigerian Schools

    Article Review: Effects of Systematic Desensitization (sd) Therapy on the Reduction of Test Anxiety Among Adolescents in Nigerian Schools

    The article starts off by focusing on the Nigerian education system and the problems they are facing. The people in this area are split into three groups, the first group are concerned with the education system itself, the second group are worried about the teaching methods, and the third group still blame it on the inability for the students to comprehend what they have learned. Another problem is the issue of emotional maladjustment within the

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    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Steve
  • D.J.A.Clines'article, ‘theme in Genesis 1-11'

    D.J.A.Clines'article, ‘theme in Genesis 1-11'

    D.J.A. Clines’ article, ‘Theme in Genesis 1-11’, “aims to enquire about the theme of a unit of Pentateuchal text, Genesis 1-11,considered in and by itself rather than investigate as most students have done in the past” (483). His main concern is with the text in its form and nothing else. Thus, his main thesis is to enquire about the theme of a unit of Pentateuchal text Gen 1-11. The article has four major sections.

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    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Vika
  • Summary of Defending Against the Indefensible

    Summary of Defending Against the Indefensible

    In Neil Postman's "Defending Against the Indefensible", he suggests that our society has been culturally brainwashed. Therefore, Postman has given us seven key elements of critical thinking to help us understand the English language and avoid the manipulation of language: definition, questions, simplicity of words, metaphors, reification, style and tone, and the non-neutrality of media. Postman's first principle is that a definition is only a means of helping us achieve our goals. Definitions do

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    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Bred
  • Thngs Fall Apart Full Summary and Analysis

    Thngs Fall Apart Full Summary and Analysis

    THNGS FALL APART FULL SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Chapter 1 Summary: We are introduced to Okonkwo, a great man among the Igbo tribe, well known in the nine villages and beyond. In his youth, he became famous when he defeated Amilinze the Cat, a great wrester. He is a formidable man, stern and intimidating in appearance; when angry, he stammers. The stammer makes him angrier, and he uses his fists. He has a hot temper. He

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    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Tess of the D’urbervilles-Summary of Part I

    Tess of the D’urbervilles-Summary of Part I

    Tess of the d’Urbervilles Chapter I The scene begins with a middle-aged peddler, named John Durbeyfield. Making his way home, the man encounters Parson Tringham, who claims to have studied history. The Parson tells Durbeyfield that he is of noble lineage, the d’Urberville family, and his family has prospered for many generations until recently. Tringham tells his him however that this heritage comes from such a long period of time ago that it is

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    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Victor
  • Analyzing the Weakness of the Articles of Confederation

    Analyzing the Weakness of the Articles of Confederation

    As weak as it was, the Articles of Confederation surprisingly addressed a couple of issues that were crucial to take care of at that time. Somewhere in between the ideas of Independence and Unity, there were a couple of features that needed to be dealt with. Out of the many kinds of problems that had to be confronted, two of the most crucial ones were western lands and economic conditions. The western lands were debated

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Edward
  • Ethics Article Review Paper

    Ethics Article Review Paper

    Ethics Article Review Paper (Revised) Shirley Smith University of Phoenix FIN 324 Walter P. Lambert December 1, 2006 A study done between Motorola and Ericsson on the implementation of Corporate Ethics and the transformation within the corporations following the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, looking at various ethic theories, such as stockholder theory, stakeholder theory, and legitimacy theory. Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was enacted in response to the Enron and WorldCom collapses

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Max
  • Double Jeopardy Summary

    Double Jeopardy Summary

    In the movie, Double Jeopardy, Libby Parsons, played by Ashley Judd, and her husband Nick, Bruce Greenwood, go out on a weekend sailboat trip. During the night, Libby wakes up finding herself alone and covered in blood. As she gets up to search for her husband, all she finds is more blood all over the boat and a bloody knife on deck. As the investigation is underway, Libby is charged with her husband's murder. It

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Mike
  • Summary of Chapter 3, Worldy Philosophers

    Summary of Chapter 3, Worldy Philosophers

    Chapter 3 of the book, "Worldly Philosophers" is mainly focused on Adam Smith and the "world" he belonged in. It starts off with the talk of a new vision, a remarkable vision that was formulated by no other than the Father of Modern Economics, Dr. Adam Smith. The talk of his vision was followed not only by a short biography of the renowned economist but of also brief narratives of his "absences of mind". Adam

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Edward
  • Slaughterhouse 5 Plot Summary

    Slaughterhouse 5 Plot Summary

    A disoriented and ill-trained American soldier named Billy Pilgrim is captured by German soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge. Trained as a Chaplain's assistant, he arrives in Belgium just as his unit is overwhelmed by the Germans. There is not enough time to issue him with combat gear. He and other prisoners are sent far from the front to live in a makeshift prison, a disused slaughterhouse in the city of Dresden. During air

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    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: regina
  • Fallacy Summary and Application Paper

    Fallacy Summary and Application Paper

    Fallacy Summary and Application Paper In the workplace, disagreement and arguments can be common. Part of management is the ability to listen to both sides and make the right decisions. Knowing the use of fallacies can help to separate fact from opinion. Fallacies are used to help sway opinion or judgment to one side. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines Fallacy as a kind of error in reasoning. (Dowden,2004) Some times a fallacy is not

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Jack
  • Paul Brownfield Article About the Racial Outburst by Former Seinfeld Star Michael Richards

    Paul Brownfield Article About the Racial Outburst by Former Seinfeld Star Michael Richards

    Paul Brownfield in his article about the racial outburst by former Seinfeld star Michael Richards discusses the views of comedy versus reality. Richards compares the two using countless examples from other incidents from the media as well as some from a comedy club. Throughout the article you get a sense that the author feels Richards’s apology was not effective for a variety of reasons. The negative tone throughout the article in addition to more than

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Comparison/contrast Analysis of Health Articles

    Comparison/contrast Analysis of Health Articles

    TO: Denise Burgess, English 102 Professor FROM: Jami Fryer, college student DATE: February 14, 2008 SUBJECT: Comparison/Contrast Analysis “Redefining Fitness for Health and Fitness Professionals” and “College Eating and Fitness 101: A Guide for College Students” are two articles that discuss fitness and nutrition. Their topic matter may be the same, but the way they approach their discussion and the information they include are quite different. “Redefining Fitness for Health and Fitness Professionals” is a

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Venidikt