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This paper compares the way that women were portrayed in Medea, Lysistrata, a funeral elegy for a Roman wife with The City of Ladies, authored by Christine De Pizan. Pizan's female-authored work shows a distinctly different sensibility than male-authored writings, even those which ostensibly attempt to praise their female subjects.

This paper contains four short essays. The first essay compares today's communications revolution with the 19th century Industrial Revolution. The second discusses women's enhanced purchasing power in the 21st century, thanks to technology. The third essay is a general SWOT of small, local businesses. The fourth essay is a specific SWOT of the Starbucks Corporation.

The paper considers the risk of coercion by gangs against young people. Coercion is a method of physical or psychological threat used to gain new gang members. Generally, this is usually done when the gang is under stress to gain new members fast. The best environment to protect children from this is within the family. Schools and law enforcement officials also have roles to play in protecting the youth from coercion.

Companies always strive to achieve success and realize the mission and vision it stands for. This is evident in the case of Kodak which has had to modify its strategy in order to tackle technological challenges related to its products. It is evident from the case that Kodak's late response to such challenges resulted in massive employee layoffs; it eventually managed to salvaged itself.

The purpose of this essay is to convert the letters found in Samuel Richardson's Text Pamela A virtue rewarded into phone text messages. The paper describes the reasons for the use of text messages rather than letters. It offers the advantages of text messages as compared to letters, for example, discretion and creativity.

The 2012 Annual Global Chinese Real Estate Congress (GCREC) Conference was a comprehensive forum for scholars, land developers and community leaders to come together to discuss the importance of brownfield restoration in China. There is much potential for land re-use and development to support increased urbanization. However, brownfields can pose significant health and safety risks. This paper addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with brownfield restoration and other forms of urban renewal in China.

Lowe's became incorporated in 1952 out of its first locations in North Carolina, and has been publicly traded on the stock market since 1961. Lowe's is a Fortune 50 company and one of the nation's most prominent home…

Draft: This paper attempts to examine whether or not it is convenient for a local hospital to achieve an ultimate technology medical device, mainly a PET/CT scanning system. In order to come up with a convenient answer…

Ultrasonography recently had the opportunity to act as a delegate to the Austrian Health Service, working in their Ultrasound department. As a radiographer from the United Kingdom, I felt this was a wonderful…

Max De Pree, author of Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community, was the CEO of Herman Miller, the office furniture company, and had written two books before this one.