1,189 words

Urban educational inequality and systemic barriers to student opportunity

Education and society are inextricably linked. The progress, productivity and politic of a nation all are built on this singular cornerstone.

~6 min read

View paper →

1,723 words

Cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological approaches to sex offender treatment

The treatment of sex offenders is a controversial subject because of the potential pain and suffering that can be inflicted on others if the offender commits a repeat offense.

~9 min read

View paper →

1,156 words

Political rhetoric and managed care in American healthcare reform

The art of Misleading has evolved from the art of rhetoric, to the philosophy of misleading in large part as a result of contemporary society's theological and political perceptions that have, today, created a deep canyon between the liberal right and the conservative left.

~6 min read

View paper →

1,638 words

Starbucks and McDonald's cultural conflicts in Italy and China

The objective of this work in writing is to examine a multinational organization that has experienced cultural conflicts both internal and external to the organization.

~9 min read

View paper →

1,318 words

The central nervous system and stress in police officers

Neuroscience can be a difficult subject for the layperson or the student who is not majoring in deep science and biology.

~7 min read

View paper →

1,215 words

Bartleby's passivity and the narrator's obsession in Melville's story

Herman Melville's story, "Bartleby the Scrivener" is a short story about the complexities of human nature. Bartleby is a peculiar character and his words, along with how he speaks them become almost an obsession with the narrator.

~7 min read

View paper →

2,226 words

Leadership attributes needed for higher education institutional change

The sphere of higher education demands leaders that are strong and efficient at carrying out the stated goals of the institutions they serve. In recent years there have been many changes at institutions of higher learning.

~12 min read

View paper →

1,072 words

Crohn's disease: symptoms, complications, and diagnostic methods

It can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract -- from the mouth to the anus -- but is typically found in the lower part of the intestine ("Crohn's Disease," 2006; Baumgart & Sandborn, 2007).

~6 min read

View paper →

1,121 words

The papacy's political decline during the Avignon captivity and Great Schism

Throughout the majority of its existence, the Roman Catholic Church was a far more politically potent entity than it was in the twentieth century or is in the current day.

~6 min read

View paper →

1,040 words

Characteristics of modernist literature and key writers

Modernism, factors that led to the rise of Modernism and the characteristics of the period. Modernist literature is notable for its far more subjective and unreliable narrators, in contrast to the protagonists of the immediately preceding Victorian period.

~6 min read

View paper →