In some instances HMOs give their doctors financial bonuses for not ordering tests or referring their patients to specialists. ... Some HMOs give doctors monetary benefits and financial incentives to reduce the number of patient referrals to specialists and to ensure the care given comes at the least expense. "These financial incentives create what many doctors see as an ethical conflict: the less care they give patients, the more money they make" (Uche). ...

• Word Count: 2987
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

The beginning chapter sets up the problems of the entire novel with great efficiency. It tells us what is going on at present with Obi's trial and backtracks to the past in order to reveal what kind of man Obi is: an educated man, a young man who is Nigerian but who has studied in England. Most sign...

• Word Count: 7844
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

BIOGRAPHY According to Life Magazine and several other sources, Thomas Edison was "the most influential figure of the millennium." Contrary to what is sometimes assumed, Thomas Edison was not born into poverty in a backwoods mid-western village. He was born, on Feb. 11, 1847, to middle-class paren...

• Word Count: 3349
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Why they are forced to focus on this particular subject is due to both the repetition of the words as well as the emphasis placed on them - note the exclamation points. ... By giving the Tyger a "fire- in its eyes, the reader is, yet again, lead to believe the Tyger is a minion of Hell. ... Thus, Blake makes mention of this story by taking the "fire- in the Tyger's eyes, attributing this with the images of Hell and it's ruler - Satan - then giving Satan his "wings- again, and leading him to "aspire- to God's level of power. ...

• Word Count: 2680
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

John Aristotle Phillips is an Obscure Individual. He graduated from Princeton in 78', repeating his senior year. He transferred to Princeton for his sophomore year, and landed an exclusive spot on the academic probation. He got average grades, and was on the path to flunking out. Then he did somethi...

• Word Count: 3488
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Plot Overview Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo. As h...

• Word Count: 3088
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

Two years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution which had had as their bases ...

• Word Count: 4412
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This short novel was rejected twice, mainly on the grounds that it was only 35,000 words and used only a moderate part of all of the notes, journals and other things that he had collected and intended to use. ...

• Word Count: 8146
• Approx Pages: 33
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School