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William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar explores the social and political underpinnings of perhaps one of the most famous assassinations of all time, the assassination of Julius Caesar by his friends.

Jane Austen's Persuasion: Anne Elliot's Coming Out The writings of Jane Austen are often considered to be the representation of an excessively conservative era. Though this may truly be the case especially in regards to…

The need for good communication in order to have lasting relationships is not a new concept. But this paper studies that issue through the critique of five scholarly journal research articles, and in each one of the articles it becomes clear that figuring out how to keep a relationship strong - or simply building a relationship from the start - entails embracing believable communication-related solutions.

The first part of this essay focuses on summarizing the various aspects of Mosher's article. The author contrasts social constructionism with essentialism, and denotes three distinct audiences that therapists must account for when counseling individuals in the coming out process. The second part provides a readalong for an oral presentation.

Historically, ethnic minorities are at a disadvantage in comparison to their White counterparts in real society. Living in poverty also plays a role in being considered a disadvantaged individual.

Tufte (2001) and other ambassadors of the visual display of data have shown us how easily it is to understand complex data when it is graphically represented in ways that our minds are designed to understand. Tufte argues that "experience with the analysis of data…is essential for achieving precision and grace in the presence of statistics, .but even textbook of graphical design are silent about how to think about numbers" (Tufte, 2001, p. 104). Tufke remarks, that "Illustrators too often see their work as an exclusively artistic enterprise—the words "creative," "concept," and "style" combine regularly in all possible permutations—a Big Think jargon for the small task of constructing a time-series a few data points long" (Tufte, 2001, p. 204). Visual display of data has other uses than simply an elegant way to view, appreciate, and analyze data. The process of completing a graphic display of data forces the issue of data integrity and completion of data sets. When data is missing in a graphic display, it is glaringly apparent. And the process of figuring out how to arrange data for best display generates an awareness of the assumptions that undergird the data collection—and ultimately, the data analysis. When creating a visual display of data, the analyst has cause to "muse on the ineffable origins of…insights" (Gladwell, 2007, p. 40) . The analyst admits, if only privately, that "There are ten different things it can mean…--all of those are possibilities. You can't just look at one behavior [or data point] in isolation" (Gladwell, 2007, p. 43). When the data just doesn't come together, we might do well to recall Averch's caveat, that "If we believe that the information to be gained by evaluation should be proportional to the decision makers' needs, time, budget, and attention, then conventional quantitative evaluations may be infeasible or inappropriate" (n.d., p. 292).

U.S. health care reform is a topic of considerable debate. Many agree that something needs to be done to overhaul a broken system, but they fail to agree as to what needs to be done. This research explores the systems in the U.S. and in Spain in an attempt to recommend effective changes to the U.S. health care system.

Comparing the rates of crime and punishment in the United States as a whole to various individual regions and states, and to other countries in the world can provide very useful information regarding criminal justice policies in the nation. Through such measurement and comparisons, programs that work—and those that do not—can be identified, expanded, adjusted, or eliminated as warranted by the evidence. On a deeper level, understanding such information can tell a society a lot about its attitudes towards crime and various "types" or demographics of criminals, potentially exposing not only more fundamental societal issues but also cultural values, perspectives, and ethics.

¶ … Cross-Currents of philosophy between the Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali, Parama rthasa ra of Abhinavagupta, and Aleister Crowley's Argentum Astrum

The article "Cross-Media Response to Digital Manipulation of Still and Moving Images" was originally published in the Fall of 1996 by the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. The primary author of the study, George Albert Gladney, holds a Ph.D. in Communication and serves as the Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication & Mass Media at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. The secondary author, Matthew C. Ehrlich, also holds Ph.D. in Communication and researches the sociological attributes of mass media communicators. The article presents a multitude of scientific research, including detailed "survey data for a cross-media comparison between newspaper photo editors and television news directors to assess the ethical response to digital image processing and enhancement technology," to support the contention "that television news directors tend toward less strict ethical standards in application of the technology" (Gladney and Ehrlich 496). The authors employ a highly formal tone throughout the introductory and expository segments of their findings, repeatedly referencing supplementary scholarly journals as the foundation of their claim that computer-assisted alteration of photographic images published by news purveyors is both prevalent and pervasive.