3,559 words

Diagnosing acute myocardial infarction in critical care settings

How do you diagnose acute myocardial infarction in the patient with chest pain? A rule-out diagnosis should be considered in any patient presenting to the accident and emergency department with complaint of chest pain.

~18 min read

View paper →

2,873 words

Cognitive-behavioral therapy more effective than medication for generalized anxiety disorder

Ever since Mick Jagger wrote about "mother's little helpers,' much of the population has viewed medications as the instant cure for such modern-day maladies as Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

~15 min read

View paper →

2,968 words

No Child Left Behind's funding shortfalls and legal challenges

No Child Left Behind President Bush's so-called education plan, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), has turned out to be a rip-off, something perhaps educators -- and particularly African-American educators -- should have seen coming.

~15 min read

View paper →

2,716 words

Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War narratives and American literary responses

Any writer is first a man, and we have to understand his qualities as an individual before we try any analysis. Tim O'Brien has many features in his character. Apart from being an author, he is a regular attendee of the bluegrass festival.

~14 min read

View paper →

3,404 words

A personal narrative about sheltered life and seeking change

Rock decided to meet Lucas, mainly because I was tired of living this way. It was a sudden realization, a turning point, sparked by a moment of wakening from life under the rock. Well, maybe not so sudden.

~18 min read

View paper →

3,340 words

The ethics of executive compensation: lessons from Enron

Corporations have been in the news a lot lately - and not necessarily for the best of reasons. Corporate scandal after corporate scandal has caused many in the public to take a closer look at just what it is that is going on in America's boardrooms.

~17 min read

View paper →

2,618 words

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and the staging of Renaissance drama

William Shakespeare was born into a world of words that took him from cold, stone castles in Scotland to the bustling cities of Italy and the high seas of colonial change.

~14 min read

View paper →

3,113 words

Neil Postman's critique of television and American culture

Neil Postman was a special type of a man and considered that he was not an expert on anything, and yet he was ready to express his opinion on every subject under the sun. The person's mind was continuously working at jokes, headlines and different ideas. This infected an individual when he met Mr.

~16 min read

View paper →

3,419 words

Organizational culture and its role in successful change management

The concept of culture: What is it and how do we measure it? An extensive all-round consensus is existent regarding the broad description of organizational culture and majority of the survey describe culture as: a collection of cognitions shared by members of a social component, or more wholly: a…

~18 min read

View paper →

2,802 words

The rise of Target Corporation from discount innovator to retail giant

In 1902, George Dayton opened a modest department store in downtown Minneapolis named Goodfellows, one of the many that appeared on Main streets all over the United States.

~15 min read

View paper →