Discussion Essays

The family is one of the most important ideas in American life. It is with reference to the family that much political and social places itself and the family is consistently invoked as something which needs to protected, nourished and encouraged as an active bulwark in support of the country...

This paper provides answers to a range of questions based on the historical material delivered by professors Kuhlman, Woodworth-Ney, and Foner. If to analyze both lectures, a few similarities and many more differences can be found between the historical perspectives of the two professors: Prof.Kuhlman and Prof.Woodworth-Ney. First of all,...

Historians have often discussed matters relating to women’s freedoms and civil rights freedoms; agreeing on some and disagreeing in equal measure on others. The two professors, Professor Kuhlman, and Professor Woodworth-Ney discuss various aspects of women’s suffrage ranging from the background factors that made it possible to have the suffrages...

Flannery O’Connor’s characters are often physically deformed in an analogous relationship to their inward deformities. O’Connor felt that a loss of spirituality was an inward deformity (McEntyre 333). In order to get this point across to her readers, she uses freakish characters to illustrate their inner moral shortcomings with their...

This paper concerns Franz Kafka's novella 'The Metamorphosis' and a specific reading of it given by the feminist critic Nina Straus. The paper will begin by summarising Staus's reading of the text and will then go on to give a critique of it. By doing this paper will show that,...

More than a central conflict, the complexity within “A wall of fire" is, like most Edwidge Danticat stories, an intermingling of the poverty of a family and its inevitable desires to achieve some form of progress: a desire and longing that are printed in the lives of many Haitian families....

The case studies clearly show where medical ethics was not adhered to by the medical community. In the one study, a group of African-American men were told that they would receive treatment for syphilis. At the time the study began, they were not given the available treatments, which were not...

From my experience with my family, I believe that a good family should comprise of both parents who adequately provide for their children and love them unconditionally. In stating providing, I mean both financially and emotionally. Children find themselves being needy of emotional attention in most cases and, therefore, require...

"Why Violent Video Games Are Good for Girls," by Carmen Tieu, a student, discussed her reasons based on her personal experiences playing first person shooter games. However, there are good reasons as to why girls need to play these violent video games. It gives girls an opportunity of beating guys...

Professor Kuhlman and Professor Woodworth-Ney are both educators and historians who have spent a lot of time in their studies researching women’s suffrage. Woodworth-Ney analyzed the role of women in the United States, particularly in the West. Her research has shown that women had a larger more important role in...

In terms of the flashiness with which violence is depicted, graphic novels are generally more similar to movies than novels. Violence is depicted as quick and exciting both in movies and graphic novels, and the amount of gore is decided by the creator rather than being up to the reader’s...

Many children living in low income neighborhoods face critical challenges with respect to their weight, as well as their dietary and exercise habits. It is important to recognize these concerns and to consider expanded interventions in order to accomplish the objectives sought to promote weight loss and improved physical activity....

Workplace democracy is an important concept that has emerged around the world, but in spite of its growth across the seas, it remains highly contested. Over the last few decades, media and academic journals alike have been calling to allow employees the opportunity to participate in their workplace in a...

What is the relationship between China’s population and the three great “topographic steps”? That is where were most people located, and why? Chinas spatial socio-economic structures is determined by it special natural characteristics and structure, which is reflected in its physical geographical differentiation; it is divided into the three great...

The Hmong people are very conservative, to start with. They tend to preserve their cultural identity and language, often avoiding extensive integration in the cultures in which they live. There are many restrictions and rules in their community concerning the accepted etiquette and social status. For example, it was traditionally...

Question 1 Conducting a completely randomized survey of 100 Montgomery County, Tennessee residents. Since simple random sampling assumes that the people to be sampled should be from a given list, the people in the population have to be sampled by a random process. In this case, three methods could be...

Psychological egoism is the belief that people are essentially selfish and tend to act in their own interest in all circumstances. The ultimate human goal is to achieve welfare, that is, a state where their desires can be fully satisfied. According to psychological egoism, even when people seem to help...

Question One: A divisional organizational structure refers to a business enterprise’s ability to segregate and consolidate large sections of its company into partially autonomous groups that are capable of self-management, little supervision and narrow focus on a particular aspect of a company’s product or service offerings. Divisional structures, like any...

The first obstacles that come to mind when confronted with the question of the possibility of superheroes joining our reality are those related to physics. We are required to abide by the physical laws of the universe whereas the typical superhero (which is to say, just about every superhero who...