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This paper uses personal anecdotes in order to discuss the Aristotelian question of persuasion, the tu quoque fallacy, and the question of lying on surveys. The persuasion issue is illustrated with a story about Lyme Disease infection and medical treatment. The tu quoque fallacy is illustrated with a story about group misbehavior and individual punishment. And the survey issue is handled with an anecdote about why people might choose to lie on surveys.

Gerard de Nerval's Sylvie is a short novella composed in fourteen vignettes or chapters. The main theme is erotic: the unnamed narrator recounts different experiences of love and longing for several women.

Two profound fields of human opportunity are evolving of their natural accord toward what each believes to be more viable understandings of what it means to learn and to care about our enviroment. This piece reviews the trends in lifelong learning and those in the emergence of an ecological mindset to demonstrate their commonalities and how their similaries (along with the technological communication revolution) may make it more likely that both efforts will achieve their goals with a much happier outcome for us all.

The Pros and Cons of Police Brutality Introduction There are certainly "cons" when discussing the problem of police brutality, but are there also positives ("pros") when those events occur? This paper points to the issue of police brutality from several viewpoints and critiques the literature. Police Brutality Cases on the rise since 9/11 Incidents in which police, prison guards or other law enforcement authorities have used "excessive force" or otherwise have violated civil rights "…have increased 25% from fiscal years 2001 to 2007 over the previous seven years" (Johnson, 2007). Why are there more incidents that involve police misbehavior? James, Pasco, the executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police (the largest police union in the U.S.), believes part of the problem can be explained because there has been "…reduced standards, training and promotion of less experienced officers into the higher police ranks," and that tends to undermine "more rigid supervision" (Johnson, p. 1). Johnson believes the economic downturn may have been one reason for the reduced standards (i.e., tighter police budgets and downsizing of city budgets).

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and the Consideration of Psychological Traumas Women Face in the Lack of Control Over Their Reproductive Organs

Whatever It Takes – Paul Tough Introduction The book, Whatever It Takes, by Paul Tough became a best seller because it captured the attention of people in both a scholarly way and yet because of its easy-to-read, entertaining format, and because the issues that Tough writes about are very important to the future of America. That important issue involves education and getting families from disadvantaged communities to rise up and seize opportunities to become enriched socially and economically. Tough highlights the ups and the downs of an expensive, 97-block project called the Harlem Children's Zone. This paper reviews and critiques the book. Thesis: An impoverished community can be awakened to a fresh new approach to education, and with cooperation and hard work, the children in that community can be given a far better future. This book is the perfect illustration of important socioeconomic transitions that must take place for that brighter future.

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Modernism in Faulkner and Wright: False Promises of Place, Changes of Time, And Money

This story, the first novel by Richard Hughes, takes place in the 19th Century, and mixes the diverse subjects of humor, irony, satire, pirates, sexuality and children into a very interesting tale, with many sidebar…

In Martin's (2001) narrative, he addresses many aspects of soldiering in the Revolutionary War. There were many deserters during that time, but Martin chose to stay. That makes him somewhat unusual, but he had a…