1. Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus
In the end, China was seen as the victor, which eventually sparked a nationalist battle between the two countries. ... However, the possibility of an activist sparking an international incident increases everyday due to heightened national tensions (Swaine, 2013). ... Japan's decision sparked massive protests and anti-Japanese demonstrations throughout China, which led to the suffering of Japanese businesses operating in China ("How Uninhabited Islands," 2014). ...
On January 6, 1994, while in Detroit preparing for the U.S. National Figures Skating competition, skater Nancy Kerrigan was struck on the knee by an assailant. Within ten days, the perpetrator was identified as Shane Stant, an amateur hit man hired by competing skater Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt, and ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly. Harding, who went on to win the Nationals, claimed she was not involved in the attack. With two other men, Eckardt and Gillooly were charged with racketeering, conspiracy to commit assault, and assault. ...
Religion is the practice of belief, in most cases identifying to the existence of a divine, transcendent being or beings. The proposals of Plato selected to be discussed will adhere to a general definition that religion is "a strong belief in a supernatural power that control human destiny".1 This w...
Although many great names are associated with Romantic literature, two poets who stand out as immensely influential figures are William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Friends during their own lifetimes, Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated near the end of the eighteenth century to create "a volume that many literary historians consider to be the opening statement of Romanticism in England" (Matlak and Mellor, 681). In the Preface of this volume, titled Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, Wordsworth describes the key elements that constitute Romantic literature, among them the ro...
Rua Kenana's passive resistance against Maori enlistment and conscription during the First World War was an important event that affected New Zealanders, especially at the time. The most significant factor that contributed to this event was the government's confiscation of Tuhoe land along with the prophet movement and Te Kooti's legacy. However, another key cause of Rua's resistance was 19th century Land Wars, which along with the differing interpretations and neglect of the Treaty of Waitangi was a major source of grievance for Rua and therefore explains his resistance ag...
"Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability to ever reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation" – Simon Schama The French Revolution shook the foundations of French society to the core, leading to new waves o...
The Federal Reserve Bank, established in 1913, has the duty of regulating money and credit. It issues Federal Reserve Notes, clears checks, acts as a fiscal agent to the federal government, and audits and maintains competition in the banking system. The goals of the Federal Reserve are to maintain p...
The major advantage of the focus group over questionnaires and structured interviews is that it reveals what is on the respondents mind and not the researchers (Bryman, 1988). The respondents are able to talk in their own terms about issues that are of central significance to them rather than respon...
I. Introduction: For the earliest days of man, people have been forced to flee their ancestral lands. They left with nothing, not knowing where they were being taken, and arriving in a place very far from home where circumstances and people were different from what they had always known and where resources were scarce. Individuals, families, tribes, and nations have been on the move for centuries where, political and economic factors, including wars; environmental challenges; and racism, xenophobia, and religious discrimination have at times uprooted people and at others lured them to new ven...
World War I, the first globally destructive conflict that the Western Civilization produced, has been the subject of various analysis, interpretations and reevaluations of the various causes that led to it. Initially, the guilt was placed upon Germany and its allies. Eventually, historical analysis...
Rover Through the prism of Restoration Period. If drama is an imaginative interchange between its participants on stage and off, a true extension of homo ludens, then the Restoration offers an example of one of the most rare games in the theatrical history. Played first in a theatre that was lit...
African Americans have been fighting for their rights for decades. The African American civil rights movement changed everything. This social movement looked to outlaw discrimination towards black Americans and obtain their right to vote. The movement did not turn to violence to get what they wanted, instead they demanded political and economic self-sufficiency. The movement was filled with major campaigns of civil resistance. ...
A bogy of the Cold War revival or its complete comeback is commonly a matter of a public discourse, triggering many different experts to take part in this issue. Is it really possible that the status quo from 80s and the revival of the Cold War is a fact? Or maybe the political reality, nowadays, ha...
Questioning Modern Technology in Crowd Control Controlling riots is a difficult task for any government with a desire to keep peace as well as protect the constitutional rights of it's citizens. Under the United States Constitution, the Congress is forbidden to make laws "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble." However, at times, it is a difficult task for a government to determine whether it's people are a peaceful opposition or an inevitable riot. In the event of a riot, police or military are sent into the middle ...
My grandfather was a great man, but I had to watch the spark in his eyes die, as his mind crumbled and he succumbed to Alzheimer's disease. Ironically, Nathan Jay Friedman lived a healthy life, swimming nearly every day, taking vitamin supplements, washing his hands to the verge of obsession "yet di...
The Chinese government took to destroying British opium imports before they reached China which eventually sparked two short wars and in the treaties that followed Britain was given Hong Kong, extra trading rights and sixty million pounds in compensation for lost opium stocks. ...
Energy The energy issues that face Cuba are unique from those of most other countries in that Cuba has no coal, oil, or gas for energy production. The United States" economic sanctions imposed on the island and the disintegration of the Soviet Union have forced Cuba to research the possibiliti...
June 21, 2000, a police officer is shot dead in Flagstaff, Arizona. This violent crime was committed by 17 year-old Eric Clark. In the Supreme Court case of Clark vs. Arizona, Clark argued that his paranoid schizophrenia gave him the inability to understand the nature of his acts at the time they we...
Part I: Provide a history of the formation of the constitution and of early American government through Jefferson's Presidency. Conclude this section with a description of the structure of American government [all branches] and politics at that time. The history of American government starts several year before there was even an American government with a series of events mainly between the British colonies and Great Britain developing into problems that would cause a change of power to the colonists themselves. Under British rule colonists were required to feed and quarter British so...
The Sexual Revolution In 1998, President Bill Clinton's confession that he had had an inappropriate relationship of a sexual nature with White House intern Monica Lewinsky started a national discussion about how a politician's personal moral standards might affect his or her ability to lead. Cl...
Oren perfectly summarises, ˜if a new status quo had been created, it was one of inherent instability, a situation so combustible that the slightest spark could ignite it'.6 Prior to the Six Day War, Israel and Syria had the worst relationship with many of the hostilities occurring in the Demilitarised Zones. ...
Throughout this paper information will be given about the infamous field of forensic psychology. First, it will explain what forensic psychology is and how it came about. Also, the paper will explain the current status of it, including for what forensic psychology is used and how it can help in a cr...
The 19th century witnessed the birth of two monumental movements in American history: Abolition of Slavery and Women's Suffrage. These two movements both sought to secure the American promise of liberty and equality for all people. With the turn of the 18th century, the dawn of a religious revival k...