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The United States has managed to achieve a stable reproductive rate. That is, as of 1999, our fertility rate is 2.0, meaning that for each two adults we are having two children. (Carter, 1999) This has no doubt been…

Science fiction has always been a masculine genre, no matter that Mary Shelley invented it in her novel Frankenstein. Until fairly recent times, most science fiction writers were men, and they dealt with subjects like technology, power, space battles, featuring male heroes, explorers and adventurers. In film, science fiction has been a perfect subject for ultra-masculine actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger, although Lieutenant Ripley in the Alien trilogy proved that women could be masculine heroes as well and very effective at destroying hostile creatures that threaten humanity. Joe Haldeman's novel Forever Peace certainly fits within this conventional masculine narrative in science fiction, since the story is related by a male narrator named Sergeant Julian Class, an alienated soldier of the First World who opposes his own government and society. He is a class type of alienated and disillusioned male hero who nevertheless hopes that the world can achieve peace and prosperity through better use of technology. Even though it was written thirty years before, Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness is a radical departure from these types of themes and characters, since it takes place on an underdeveloped planet called Gethen far in the future.

In this chapter, I examine similarities and differences between The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre (1985) and Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (1985) with regard to the themes of the Western journalistic observer of the Oriental Other, and the fascination-repulsion that inspires the Occidental spatial imaginary of Calcutta. By comparing and contrasting these two popular novels, both describing white men's journey into the space of the Other, the chapter seeks to achieve a two-fold objective: (a) to provide insight into the authors with respect to alterity (otherness), and (b) to examine the discursive practices of these novels in terms of contrasting spatial metaphors of Calcutta as "The City of Dreadful Night" or "The City of Joy." The chapter further argues that these spatial metaphors are redolent of what Peter Stallybrass and Allon White (1986) refer to as the "phobic enchantment" (p. 124) of the Occidental social imaginary for the poverty, squalor and the horror of the Third World.

The philosophical position of "ethical egoism" is examined with reference to the moral question of abortion. Ethical egoism is defined in terms of its stated claim--that individuals should maximize rational self-interest--but also in terms of the universalist and Kantian ethical stances it has been constructed to oppose. The question of abortion is examined in light of how readily ethical egoism can redefine rational self-interest in order to justify any sort of ethical choice. The paper concludes that ethical egoism is not really a valid philosophical stance, as its terms are too elastic to provide any kind of meaningful criteria whereby to judge ethical behavior.

Misfits, written by Arthur Miller is the story of a fading beauty and ex-stripper who falls in love with the aging cowboy Gay Langland. Roslyn is a divorced woman and has become embittered in her relationships with men.

My metaphor for Interdisciplinary Studies is Times Square train station in New York City. Times Square is very well-known. It is a place that both Americans and international visitors are very much aware of.

Having abundance in natural resources is not the only assets a country have. Real assets are the people of a country. Investing on people would generate higher returns in the future. The Saudi government is keen to invest on its people, since it is predicted that the country would lose its oil resources within a time spam of few years (Onsman, 2011). Apart from primary and secondary education, the higher education/university education contributes a lot in the development of a country. Universities are places which provide multilateral services to the people. Along with providing education and incentives for research, it also plays its role in providing guidelines to the individuals (Al-Gindan, Al-Sulaiman, Muhanna, & Abumadini, 2002). Competiting other countries of the world on the educational basis requires that country invest a handsome part of its spending on research and development activities.

President Obama's "Second Inaugural Address:" Rhetorical analysis

Race and Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System

as a global company, IBM operates in different national environments and comes in contact with a wide array of cultural traditions and customs. In India, this translates in the caste system, a very rigorous division of society into castes that leaves people at the lower end on the outside. While cultural differences are something that any global company takes into consideration, not hiring untouchables just because they belong to the lower classes is not something that IBM can do. As a global American company, IBM has a global image that it needs to protect and support and this image also implies equal opportunities for all its potential employees. It cannot afford to damage its global image only so as to pay attention to local traditions in this case.