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George Mackee's ethical dilemma at Ardnak Plastics

George Mackee has a problem. His wife is after him, his boss is after him, and one day soon, the whole community of Hondo, Texas may be after him. George has one very large, very simple problem: He works for Ardnak Plastics, Inc.

~20 min read

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Oligarchical power and critiques of the Romantic novel

The Romantic period and the attendant rise of the novel in England as the preeminent literary form saw the emergence of the first truly popular literature, and with it denunciations of the degradation of culture at the hands of frivolous entertainments and occupations.

~15 min read

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Historical accuracy and representation in "Dances with Wolves"

The old Hollywood Westerns that depicted the heroic cowboy and the evil Indian have past; they no longer sell out the movie theaters and are inundated with critique instead of cinematic favor.

~17 min read

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How advertising creates false memories in consumer experiences

Advertising Can Influence Memory for Consumer Experience," Kathryn Braun-LaTour, Michael S. LaTour, Jacqueline E. Pickrell, and Elizabeth F. Loftus designed three experiments to measure the impact of advertising on creating false memories.

~8 min read

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Standards-based curriculum implementation: roles for administrators and teachers

The purpose of this project is to devise a plan, based on research, to provide a standards-based professional development for staff at a selected school.

~7 min read

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Marshall McLuhan's theory of media as extensions of human senses

Today, a large majority of people in the Western industrialized world take electronic media for granted. Stores such as Circuit City or Best Buy, where huge flat-screen TVs, cell phones, laptop computers, PalmPilots, etc., etc., etc.

~9 min read

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Courtly love and Guillaume de Machaut's medieval lyrics

Western ideas about romantic love came in large part from the classical Greek and Roman past. However, they were also filtered through the very different culture of the European Middle Ages. One can trace the concepts that dominated Western thinking until recently to the mid-12th Century.

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The search for meaning and reality in Moby Dick

Moby Dick or, The Whale is a book that can be read on a number of levels. On the surface it is an adventure story and a mine of information about whaling and the whaling industry.

~11 min read

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Rawls and Nozick's competing theories of social justice

Justice has been explained by different theorists in different terms. The theories of John Rawls and Robert Nozick differ in key ways, but both theories are normative, offering a model of what they each believe justice should be.

~5 min read

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Defining terrorism: Bush administration policy and alternative approaches

There are a number of ways to interpret terrorist attacks in the modern world. The Bush administration has chosen a particular perspective that is intended to justify the employment of the United States military as a tool for rooting out terrorism in general.

~48 min read

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