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HealthAs an eNotes educator, I am not personally acquainted with either you or your family and thus cannot supply any details about your own health or that of your family members. Thus this answer will...
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HealthFor your first question, research concerning human sexuality can help us have healthier lives, free of fear and prejudice. Perhaps the most important area of research has to do with sexually...
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BusinessThe distinction between public and private corporations is one of ownership and control. A privately-owned business is just that: a company owned and operated by an individual or group of...
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ReferenceI will help to answer the first part of this question, as parts II and III relate to similar posts made by others. If you are working as the Head of Purchasing for your school, you should consider...
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Law and PoliticsViolence is definitely a major component of life in a street gang. For many gangs, initiation into the group entails violence, with prospective members forced to conduct physically brutal acts...
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Law and PoliticsDoes the NYPD (New York City Police Department) treat victims well? Explain why or why not. Would...After 1994, crime in New York City declined precipitously, and—according to Eric Silverman, author of NYPD Battles Crime—the New York City Police (NYPD) has been credited with this double-digit...
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Law and PoliticsIf one draws one's opinion regarding the manner in which crime victims are routinely treated by the New York City Police Department from Andrew Karmen's essay titled "How the NYPD Handles Crime...
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Social SciencesLarry showed his first sign of stress when his brow began to furrow after he and Alice had a baby. The next stressor to hit Larry was his promotion to crew chief, a position he felt forced to take...
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The Tree of ManIn this novel, the Australian bush, and more broadly nature, symbolizes religion or spirituality, both in untamed form and when cultivated into a garden by people like Stan and Amy. The bush is...
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HistoryWhy did the US Federal Reserve not rescue banks from deflation after the stock market crash in 1929?The Federal Reserve was unprepared for the depth of the disaster of the stock market crash late in 1929. It was a decentralized institution, split into districts with different governors. Although...
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LiteratureWhere can I find information on strategies of engagement with intergenerational culture differences?The link below from Generations United, a national organization "focused solely on improving the lives of children, youth, and older people through intergenerational strategies, programs, and...
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Law and PoliticsThe program described in the link below is one way in which the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is attempting to change their own behavior and that of young people in the city. Through this...
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HealthObesity is more common now than it was in early parts of human history for several reasons. The first reason is availability of food. For most of human history getting adequate amounts of food was...
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Law and PoliticsDuring the 1990s, New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton championed a "stop and frisk" policy that allowed police officers to stop and search people without having probable cause....
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LiteratureThis book is about an eleven-year-old girl named Melody who has a condition called cerebral palsy. Because she cannot speak, walk, use the bathroom on her own, or feed herself, people assume that...
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LiteratureHow does Goethe's variation of the Faust legend differ from that in Washington Irving's The Devil...In Goethe's Faust Mephistopheles tempts Faust by appealing to his desire for knowledge and control of nature. Faust then falls prey to sensuous delights after Mephistopheles promises him a moment...
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LiteratureAuden's poem is named for the day World War II began. The poet uses a blunt, conversational tone, communicating both a sense of despair over what led to the war and a clear vision of what he argues...
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My Last Duchess1. Your thesis statement would depend on your critical analysis: what do you consider the most important theme or point of the poem? Is it that the Duke was jealous of his wife for not liking him...
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Kazuo IshiguroHow does each writer present family relationships in Ishiguro's "A Family Supper" and "Chemistry"...Both Swift and Ishiguro present family dynamics as ever-changing, ambiguous, and plagued by the dead. In "A Family Supper," the narrator returns from California to Japan two years after his mother...
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LiteratureIn terms of structure, this poem is one long stanza. It is written in the AABBCC (and so on) rhyme scheme. That means each consecutive pair of lines rhymes with each other. In poetry language,...
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William BellThe poem has an irregular structure: the three stanzas are roughly, but not exactly, the same length. The first is 11 lines, the second, 13, and the third 12. The rhyme scheme is also irregular....
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Antony and CleopatraIn this play, Rome represents the world of the rational, the logical, the carefully practical, and the puritanical. It is the world of the strong, heroic male warrior. Egypt, on the other hand,...
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Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates took the title of his memoir from the poem “Between the World and Me” by Richard Wright, an influential black author who was born in Mississippi and later became a French...
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Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates is the author of the memoir Between the World and Me. An acclaimed writer and correspondent for The Atlantic, he wrote Between the World and Me as a letter to his...
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Law and PoliticsCOMPSTAT was, according to news reports on its use, a "statistical system for tracking crime" that was introduced in New York City in 1994. For one thing, this system used sophisticated statistical...
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W. Somerset MaughamIn his short story "Salvatore," Maugham starts out by saying, "I wonder if I can do it." The reader is unsure what Maugham is trying to do as the author draws a portrait of a man named Salvatore...
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BusinessFree trade agreements (FTA's) are an integral practice within an ever-growing globalized market economy, and, in America especially, free trade agreements have resulted in huge economic gains. As...
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Social Sciences1) Repositioning media literacies for spreadable connectivity: This category refers to the growing disillusionment among citizens in relation to mainstream media. Repositioning media entails the...
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Social SciencesAccording to Ganz's guide to public narrative: Narrative is not talking “about” values; rather narrative embodies and communicates values. Ganz, who helped guide Obama to electoral success,...
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Law and PoliticsNew York City for many years was among the most violent cities in the country. The most populous city in the United States, it would not be surprising that it had a crime rate commensurate with the...
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Social SciencesHow does gender shape our identity? What role does society play in this? Use literary theories to...In Gender Trouble, Judith Butler argues that our gender identity is entirely socially constructed. In other words, society has decided that a group of people it designates as females behave in a...
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LiteratureHow does gender shape our identity? What role does society play in this? Use literary theories to...The relationship of gender and society is complex. First, it is important to understand the difference between "gender" and biological sex; the latter has to do with anatomy, while the former...
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Law and PoliticsThe Commission to Investigate Alleged Police Corruption, known as the Knapp Commission because its chairman was Walter Knapp, was appointed in 1970 under New York City Mayor John Lindsay to...
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Law and PoliticsThere are many past events that continue to affect the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Perhaps one of the most important is the NYPD's involvement in the September 11, 2001, terrorist...
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ReferenceYou can choose which plan or program to analyze; one you could look at is Nutrisystem. The online system asks a user for his/her weight and height and then customizes a menu plan for that person....
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HealthDevelop a budget for one communication strategy to be used by a community service organisation to...In terms of budgeting, the creation of a website can actually be done for a very small amount of money. Right now, the most popular program used for the creation of websites is Wordpress, which is...
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HealthIn the article titled, "Efficacy of advance directives in a general hospital," the authors state that from all the deaths observed in a given year at a general acute care hospital, only 22% of the...
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HealthAtul Gawande’s 2014 book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End will cause many readers to rethink the role of medicine and other issues surrounding end of life choices. As a surgeon,...
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Law and PoliticsThe advantages of the CompStat information technology system (in use with the New York City Police Department since 1994) far outweigh the disadvantages. Since then-and-now Police Commissioner...
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Social SciencesA genogram is a representation of family relationships that goes beyond a typical family tree by showing emotional , behavioral, and psychological factors that characterize relationships. Family...
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August Wilson"Fences" is part of August Wilson's "century cycle." All of Wilson's plays deal with black life in a particular decade of the 20th-century. "Fences" examines black life in the post-World War II...
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August WilsonThe whole point of August Wilson's play Fences is that circumstances beyond his main character's control have conspired to destroy whatever chances that character may have had to enjoy life and...
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Social SciencesTo effectively identify and discuss the relationship between the three terms, one needs to define them first. Media Literacy: The Center for Media Literacy (CML) defines the term as "the ability...
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ReligionA Pew Research Center study on spirituality from 2015 (see the link below) found that fewer Americans are affiliated with established religious groups than in the past. More Americans than ever...
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So Long, See You TomorrowWilliam Maxwell's first-person narrator in his novel So Long, See You Tomorrow is never identified by name in the story. At no point in the narrative does another character address the narrator by...
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IliadHomer's other great epic, the Odyssey, probably has more in common with Dante's Inferno than the Iliad. Indeed, the Odyssey, like the Inferno, involves the hero descending into the underworld and...
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Social SciencesWhether you think the world has entered a postmodern phase is up to you. Many people, as expressed in the videos you include in the question, believe that the world can be defined as "postmodern."...
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A Modest ProposalSatire is an important political tool, and an essential component of any free nation. Citizens must be allowed to criticize, mock, and even make fun of their leaders if we are to retain a...
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Song of MyselfWhile there are several ways to draw thematic connections between Lady Gaga's song and Walt Whitman's long poem, the two works can be differentiated in just as many ways. Whitman's interests are...