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  • Modern Love

    Modern Love

    The handsome prince sweeps the beautiful maiden off her feet. They are so in love, so adoring of each other. The perfect courtship is quickly followed by the perfect wedding, thereupon the perfect couple creates the perfect life together. The wondrous dream of the “happily ever after” is one hidden deep in everyone. Although, the dreamy, vain quest for this perfect life mostly results in pretense, lying, and ceases in complete unhappiness. In George Meredith’s

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    Essay Length: 384 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Vampire as a Gothic Figure

    The Vampire as a Gothic Figure

    The Vampire as a Gothic Figure The vampire myth has persisted through many ages and cultures; although it has not always been called the vampire. In the Gothic literary genre the vampire has evolved with the culture it is written into and this has continued into the post-modern media's. The vampire is most certainly a gothic figure, embodying many common themes including abjection, female gothic, the outsider and the doppelganger. Abjection, as described by Julia

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    Essay Length: 439 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Paul Rand: Father of Modern Graphic Design

    Paul Rand: Father of Modern Graphic Design

    When Paul Rand died at age 82, his career had spanned six decades and numerous chapters of design history. His efforts to elevate graphic design from craft to profession began as early as 1932, when he was still in his teens. By the early 1940s, he had influenced the practice of advertising, book, magazine, and package design. By the late 1940s, he had developed a design language based purely on form where once only style

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    Essay Length: 1,658 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Anna
  • Nietzsche and Marx Foresee Modern Alienation

    Nietzsche and Marx Foresee Modern Alienation

    Nietzsche And Marx Foresee Modern Alienation Beyond typical philosophers solely focused on acquiring knowledge, Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche were equally dedicated to actualizing their vision of a better society and way of life. Before our present state of modernism, Nietzsche and Marx were already prophesizing our societal flaws based on past wrongs done to humanity. The Spanish Inquisition, the African Slave Trade, and the Holocaust are all clear testaments to the detrimental effect that

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    Essay Length: 596 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • The New Vampire: Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire

    The New Vampire: Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire

    The vampire has been a mysterious and enticing figure since its entrance into popular culture, usually regarded as the tale Dracula written in 1897 by Bram Stoker. Stoker, and later Anne Rice, as well as many other writers and directors have capitalized on the fascination the public has with these dark creatures of the night. Whether they are in books or on the big screen vampires capture our imagination, tantalizing us with a taste of

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    Essay Length: 2,061 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Bred
  • Modern Hygiene for the Modern Woman

    Modern Hygiene for the Modern Woman

    Modern Hygiene for the Modern Woman The Golden Era and the Roaring Twenties are two well-known names for the 1920s. Following World War I, there was an economic boom, the art scene was making waves, fashion evolved, and women were going into the workforce. Many family members lost the head of the household, which forced women to get jobs and provide for the families. In 1928, The Kotex Company released an advertisement in a magazine

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    Essay Length: 316 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Anna
  • Ergonomics in Modern Planning and Design

    Ergonomics in Modern Planning and Design

    Ergonomics, human engineering or human factors engineering is the science of creating products or designing machines which maximize safety, comfort or efficiency of people who use them. People who work with ergonomics apply general principles of industrial engineering, psychology, anthropometrics, which is the science of human measurement, and even biomechanics to adapt certain designs of products or workplaces to peoples constitution, strengths and limitations. This science also takes into consideration peoples reactions and the amount

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    Essay Length: 711 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Edward
  • Crime and Punishment: How Does Hammurabi’s Code Translate into Modern Society?

    Crime and Punishment: How Does Hammurabi’s Code Translate into Modern Society?

    Crime and Punishment: How does Hammurabi’s Code translate into modern society? In order to understand crime, it’s factors, and it’s transcendence through time, we must first realize the source of aggression. At some point during human history, man turned on himself and began attacking others within his species, whether it was a result of a territorial, sexual, or other type of conflict. However, these acts of wrongdoing did not become crimes until they were violating

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    Essay Length: 1,850 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Vika
  • Process Analysis of Vampires

    Process Analysis of Vampires

    Process Analysis Essay One of the strongest symbols associated with Halloween, are vampires. From one of the most popular costumes to the basis of some of the best horror movies, vampires fully encompass Halloween. The ideas and perceptions that most people know about vampires, they learned from movies or literature, namely Bram Stoker and Anne Rice. The problem with this is, authors sometimes embellish the truth to make the story more interesting. Thus, the problem

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    Essay Length: 1,824 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: David
  • Modern Political Thoery and Liberalism

    Modern Political Thoery and Liberalism

    The subject given for this paper was to “assess the alienation from liberalism found in modern and contemporary political theory.” To be honest, I don’t see a correlation with alienating liberalism and modern political thought through the time line of political theory in the 18th and19th century and through the 20th century. So, for this paper, I will prove the opposite. I will show, in my opinion, how the rise of liberalism has kept

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    Essay Length: 1,046 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Biopsychosocial Approach to Modern Health and Illness

    Biopsychosocial Approach to Modern Health and Illness

    Biopsychosocial Approach to Modern Health and Illness Health is traditionally equated to the absence of disease. A lack of a fundamental pathology was thought to define one's health as good, whereas biologically driven pathogens and conditions would render an individual with poor health and the label "diseased". However, such a narrow scope on health limited our understanding of wellbeing, let down our treatments efforts, and perhaps more importantly, suppressed prevention measures. Many institutions and medical

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    Essay Length: 498 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Relationship Between Modernity and the First World War

    The Relationship Between Modernity and the First World War

    The First World War, also known as the Great War of 1914-1918, is not an event that manifested overnight; it was the result of ever growing tension among European nations. This conflict was brought about by factors such as, nationalism, militarism, and the Alliance system. An upheaval such as the First World War was witness to the emergence of the glorification of war, struggle, despair, destruction and immense loss of life. The First World War

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    Essay Length: 1,568 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Jon
  • Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus

    Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus

    In past and present, society has always put an emphasis on external appearance as opposed to inner personality. As a result, social classes are formed, such as upper and lower, wherein members of each class must uphold the norms defined by the prestige of the class. Upper classes are deemed to be perfect, as they contain the wealthy and the beautiful. This class distinction is heightened in Gothic literature where emotions and the persona of

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    Essay Length: 1,026 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mike
  • Understanding the Vampire Myth in Slavic Cultures

    Understanding the Vampire Myth in Slavic Cultures

    In seeking to understand the vampire myth in Slavic cultures I found myself intrigued by the essay, Forensic Pathology and the European Vampire, exclusive to Alan Dundes's, The Vampire: A Casebook. Within this essay, an enticing and new interpretation of the vampire is offered by historian, Paul Barber. Uniquely, Barber approaches the vampire myth with the notion that " most if not all of the beliefs surrounding the vampire can be explained in terms of

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Edward
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of Modern Technology

    Advantages and Disadvantages of Modern Technology

    Advantages and disadvantages of modern technology. Technology can be defined as science applied to practical purposes. Nowadays, when the rapidness of development and research is so impressive, it is easy to think about the advantages of modern technology. Nevertheless some people argue that science can destroy mankind. It is also obvious that we are close on an era where technology is limited only by our imagination. Therefore the most frequently asked question is: Does technology

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    Essay Length: 316 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Age of Modernism

    Age of Modernism

    Intro In the late nineteenth and twentieth century there was a departure from the traditional art forms. Rather than represent what is real, artists were presenting abstractions. Technological innovations influenced the arts. Artists represented electric light in paintings with images of light in buildings. With the development of the camera, photography became a fine art. Industrialism During the early years of the twentieth century, America went through a period of social and economic change. The

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    Essay Length: 1,228 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Jack
  • Modern Technologies

    Modern Technologies

    Modern Technologies How did I ever survive living in an archaic world without modern technology? I remember the days of physically moving your body up from the couch over to the TV to change the channel. A time when there were few television networks, all of which were local by the way, would sign off by airing a taped recording of the American flag proudly waving while the Star Spangled Banner played in the background.

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    Essay Length: 556 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: regina
  • Modern Piracy

    Modern Piracy

    Table of Contents Facts……………Page 1 Opinion…………Pages 2-3 Bibliography……Page 4 Facts § The encyclopedia defines piracy as follows: Violence, plundering and deprivation of liberty on the high seas done from one boat against another. § According to the UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) the high seas start behind the line 30 nautical miles off shore. Based on this definition there would be only few acts of piracy, because more than 99

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    Essay Length: 770 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: July
  • A Comparison of Genetic Engineering in Gattaca to Modern Stem-Cell Research

    A Comparison of Genetic Engineering in Gattaca to Modern Stem-Cell Research

    Searching for stem cell news on the internet reveals a never-ending amount of pages with web sites about breakthroughs in stem-cell research. Such articles included potential cures to diabetes, Parkinson’s, leukemia, and various forms of cancer. This research could potentially lead to these terrible diseases’ near end. In Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca, a society is portrayed where there are no diseases due to advanced genetic engineering. This movie, based in the future, depicts couples that are

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Antigone’s Connection to Modern Audiences

    Antigone’s Connection to Modern Audiences

    Antigone’s Connection to Modern Audiences Antigone was written by the playwright Sophocles in 426 B.C. Although it was written so long ago it still appeals to modern audiences. The piece is timeless because it shows true human nature and characteristics that are still true today. Antigone is the final install installment of the Oedipus trilogy, yet it is probably the most famous. Antigone still appeals to modern audiences because human behavior and characteristics have not

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    Essay Length: 445 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Stenly
  • The Effect of the Internet on Modern Society

    The Effect of the Internet on Modern Society

    ddaddfsgaThe Effect of the Internet on Modern Society In this day and age, the Internet is the new resource tool for the masses. It has changed the way we live in society and the way people interact with each other. As more and more people log on the Internet, it has undoubtedly changed the way people think and feel about each other and the world around us. When we begin to look at the ways

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: July
  • Modernized Feminity

    Modernized Feminity

    Modernized Femininity Femininity has made an impact in the past, present, and future. Due to the stereotypical ideas, many women are caught in the crossfire of choosing between following the tradition (housewife) or the modern-day woman (career-oriented) journey to fulfill their happiness. Being in the twenty-first century, women have evolved into intelligent, independent human beings. Most important, the freedom to chose ones future has become a popular necessity. Femininity can be found in media, literature,

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The Origins of Modern Street Skateboarding: The Early 1980s

    The Origins of Modern Street Skateboarding: The Early 1980s

    The origins of modern street skateboarding: the early 1980s Historically speaking, street skateboarding has existed since the very inception of the sport itself. For example, in the 1960s, skaters would ride skateboards through city streets to transport themselves to popular surf spots. By the mid 1970s, skateboarders in Southern California were actively seeking out street spots at local public schools. Nevertheless, the origins of true street skateboarding were not to come until the early 1980s.

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: regina
  • Difference of Modernism and Post Modernism

    Difference of Modernism and Post Modernism

    Modernism and Post Modernism Have you ever wondered what the differences are between the modernism and post modernism? It seems like it would be easy to describe what they are by the words and what they are usually associated with. Yet, it's actually a lot different then your thinking. Modernism is the movement in visual arts, music, literature, and drama, which rejected the old Victorian standards of how art should be made, consumed, and what

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The Role and Development of a Corporate Brand Personality for Modern Businesses

    The Role and Development of a Corporate Brand Personality for Modern Businesses

    In this essay I intend to assess the growing roll that corporate branding is playing in today’s business environment. This assessment will be based on three peer reviewed academic journal articles, core texts and notes from the class. Academic Journal Articles Reviewed: Keller, K.L. (2006), �The Importance of Corporate Brand Personality Traits to a Successful 21st Century Business.’ Journal of Brand Management. Vol. 14. Nos. 1/2, 74-81. Reckom, J. V. (2006), �Capturing the Essense of

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    Essay Length: 756 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Jessica

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