All things change with time. ... Jonez's work in Her only strengthens the belief that technology is ripping apart and transmogrifying the values of human relationships, as well as shows that if we let it, it will take us over. ... In this book, the writers argue that the way we see the world and the things around us depends on what we already know or believe in. ... The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled" (Berger 7). ... We learned through Theodore and Samantha's failed relationship that face-to-face interaction is critical for things to work for tw...

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• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Kroll, 143) As a response, they turned to realistic, location settings. ... When Palantine asks Travis what he would change about America, Travis is frightening in his response. ... This character is what is condemned and represented by Travis. ... Like those real life would be assassins who preceded and succeeded him, Travis is a paranoid schizophrenic, a man whose sense of self is falling apart and who tries endlessly to thwart a conspiracy that either does not exist or is too large to defeat. ... They do nothing to build character, further plot, or even (after a while) establish setting....

• Word Count: 1980
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Robert Dahl's book "On Democracy", he outlines his view of what the fundamental principals of a democracy are. ... It implies that every citizen, each with their own personal ideas, concerns, and perspectives can have a voice in setting the rules that they must abide by. ... This education also empowers the people and stabilizes the democracy making it less likely to collapse or fall prey to the power of a dictatorship as the result of a single group gaining too much power. ... As Dahl pointed out, this is what happened to Czechoslovakia after WWII (Dahl, 147-148). ... As it has...

• Word Count: 1668
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These parties will be described from their goals of what they wanted to accomplish and the American voters they affected in that time period. ... This conjunction provides the setting in which "truth" is seen as an achievable state. ... Popular culture, with its shallowness, rudeness, and lack of intellectual seriousness, is almost always seen as a fall away from these standards. ... As the Granger Movement fell apart, the Farmers' Alliance was established. ... This does two things: gives them immediate credit and the opportunity to hold their crops until the market improves. ...

• Word Count: 2304
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Apart from the tremendous service they provide to women, they often exert considerable influence on local health practices. ... For many women in the world, childbirth is considered a normal life event which does not fall into the medical realm. ... It would be nave of me to think that I can enter their homes, relatively young and without children of my own, and tell them what they should be doing. ... It is important to understand why things are done before we try to change them. ... Evaluations of the practices of trained TBAs ( Pigg 1997) show that while they do gain new knowledge, ...

• Word Count: 2050
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate