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Ask any "PK"; they'll tell you that, on top of the four odds that were stacked against him as a child, James Baldwin had one additional card piled up against him. As for the first four: 1) he was born a black child in…

Perhaps it is simply that we all need a few good villains in our life, and with the Cold War firmly over we must look closer to home to find our bad guys. Or perhaps it is simply that there is a great deal of villainy…

Love is something that many have defined or rather tried to define in many ways, but Gerry Spence' definition is one of the most accurate ones that we may come across. According to his definition of love, it is truly…

In the story "The Parable of Sadhu," author Bowen H. McCoy explores the question of ethics while his narrator hikes in Nepal. McCoy himself was the managing director of Morgan Stanley.

¶ … bioethical concerns regarding the use of human stem cells involve their source and their research implications. Ethical issues surrounding the source of human embryonic stem cells used in research has historically…

¶ … nurses: how to use the technical attributes of nursing while still conveying compassionate care.

Theoretcal development is dependent upon its originality and utiltiy. Corley and Gioia consider these conditions to be necessary for the advancement of academic study in a particular field. This article explores the concepts presented by these two authors to other works on the development of theoretical constructs. This work explores the relationship between theory and practice.

George Zimmerman allegedly killed Trayvon Martin, an African-American teenager, in self-defense. The case has gotten national attention partly because of the issue of racial profiling.

Military Article Review The name of this article is "Demystifying the Title 10-Title 50 Debate: Distinguishing Military Operations, Intelligence Activities & Covert Action." The hypothesis that is presented at the outset of the article is that even though Congressional leaders have attempted to "redefine military preparatory operations as intelligence activities," those efforts are "legally and historically unsupportable" (Wall, 2011, p. 85). Moreover, the author expresses in the Abstract that Congress should "revise its antiquated oversight structure" to more accurately reflect the military's "integrated and interconnected world" (Wall, 85). Wall, who served as legal consultant for the U.S. Special Operations Command Central between 2007 and 2009, certainly has the experience and the insider's knowledge of this issue, and it comes through in his narrative. This is a unique study and the author's thesis and concerns are spelled out thoroughly.

In the interest of structuring a formal proposal to serve as an adjunct and sometimes a substitute to the BA degree completion path, the following suggestions are offered: (1) State and federal funding should be directed toward promoting alternatives to the four-year degree by encouraging industry and business to establish apprenticeship programs; (2) Online hybrid learning programs should be offered by institutions of higher education to increase access to education that would not be included in the apprenticeship programs (such as might make up the non-major coursework in a BA degree program); (3) Policymakers should work to enact legislation that would actively encourage small scale educational efforts (such as those that occur informally in the hacker hostels) and that would avoid the monolithic tendencies of privatization. (4) In keeping with the tradition of the "pitmen painters," access to enriching and "democratic" educational opportunities should become a national initiative through the continued efforts of established arts and science foundations.