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The Social Media Revolution: Exploring the Impact on Journalism and News Media Organizations
Using Stem Cell and Gene Therapy Technologies to Treat Parkinson's Disease
Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission: Taking America from a Proud Democracy to a Privately-Funded Corporatocracy
The Resilient Czech Spirit, on Display in Bohumil Hrabal's "Closely Observed Trains" and "I Served the King of England"
Mitochondria (the Powerhouses of our Cells) and Brain Disease
Recent Advances in Neural Stem Cell Research: How Stem Cells in the Brain Are Altered by a Changing Environment
Prompts for Progress: Feminism in the Islamic World
Innovation or Desperation: David Bowie's "Little Wonder"
Examining the Radicalization of Chechen Separatists During the Resistance Movement
Decision Making: Factors that Influence Decision Making, Heuristics Used, and Decision Outcomes
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The Social Media Revolution: Exploring the Impact on Journalism and News Media Organizations
03/11/10 - 10365 words Twitter. Facebook. Digg. MySpace. LinkedIn. The list of social media tools could probably run on for paragraphs, and today’s technology changes so rapidly that many industries, including corporations and news media, can... Go to Article » Using Stem Cell and Gene Therapy Technologies to Treat Parkinson's Disease
03/10/10 - 3883 words Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive neurodegerative disorder most prevalent in the elderly and for which there is currently no cure, selectively targets nigrostriatal Dopaminergic (DAergic) projection neurons in the... Go to Article » Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission: Taking America from a Proud Democracy to a Privately-Funded Corporatocracy
03/09/10 - 946 words Democracy is based on the core principle that the power to govern should be in the hands of the people. In the United States, the people exercise that power by casting their vote for the candidate they see as most fit to... Go to Article » The Resilient Czech Spirit, on Display in Bohumil Hrabal's "Closely Observed Trains" and "I Served the King of England"
03/09/10 - 3629 words Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1915, and lived through some of the most tumultuous years of Czech history. Hrabal grew up in the time of the First Republic, when literature moved away from nationalism to a more aesthetic view. In... Go to Article » Mitochondria (the Powerhouses of our Cells) and Brain Disease
03/05/10 - 1531 words Mitochondria are eukaryotic, membrane-enclosed, 1-10um sized organelles, described as “cellular power plants” as they are responsible for the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and oxidative phosporylation... Go to Article » Recent Advances in Neural Stem Cell Research: How Stem Cells in the Brain Are Altered by a Changing Environment
03/04/10 - 2805 words The discovery of adult neurogenesis (the endogenous production of new neurons) in the mammalian brain more than 40 years ago (Malcolm R. Alison, 2002) has resulted in a wealth of knowledge of this branch of neuroscience. Today... Go to Article » Prompts for Progress: Feminism in the Islamic World
03/03/10 - 2830 words From skimpy skirts to smoldering skivvies, American’s remember the 1960’s as a decade of social change and assertion of the rights and strengths of women. True to American style, the women’s movement was fought... Go to Article » Innovation or Desperation: David Bowie's "Little Wonder"
02/26/10 - 2786 words Despite releasing twenty-two albums in the nearly thirty years between his debut in 1967 and the commercially rejected No. 1 Outside, the general opinion of David Bowie in 1996 was that, though a living legend, he had not recorded... Go to Article » Examining the Radicalization of Chechen Separatists During the Resistance Movement
02/24/10 - 2724 words The Chechen people have endured a long history of aggression, culminating at the end of the twentieth century during which a separatist struggle against Russia began, triggering the First Chechen War in 1994. At the onset of... Go to Article » Decision Making: Factors that Influence Decision Making, Heuristics Used, and Decision Outcomes
02/23/10 - 3647 words Every day, people are inundated with decisions, big and small. Understanding how people arrive at their choices is an area of cognitive psychology that has received attention. Theories have been generated to explain how people... Go to Article » An Oasis in the Desert? Issues and Intricacies Concerning the Louvre-Abu Dhabi Museum Expansion
02/22/10 - 6963 words “You have created a Museum; carefully assemble here every masterpiece which the Republic [of France] already possesses…and the entire world will be eager to deposit its treasures, its singularities, its accomplishments... Go to Article » Online Social Support: An Effective Means of Mediating Stress
02/17/10 - 7114 words It is estimated that in North America, alone, there are currently 251 million people who use the internet (Miniwats Marketing Group, 2009). Individuals utilize the internet for many reasons, including information, social... Go to Article » The American Immigrant: A Roach In The Glue - Examining the work of Hemon and Kambanda
02/11/10 - 1235 words At the conclusion of her essay, “My New World Journey,” Nola Kambanda writes that “Sometimes I am not sure whether home is behind me or in front of me…I might just be attaching [this longing] to those... Go to Article » Using Social Business to Reshape the Capitalist Economy and Support Environmental Awareness
02/10/10 - 2372 words During his Inaugural Address, President Barack Obama resonated with the ideals of many Americans—prosperity, freedom, good will, faith, and determination. He spoke of the market as having "umatched" power, "to generate... Go to Article » The White Feather Campaign: A Struggle with Masculinity During World War I
02/01/10 - 6902 words World War I was a brutal conflict that shattered countries, redefined warfare with its bloody massacres, and left a generation with only the memories of the horrors they had seen. The trench warfare of the battlefield tore young... Go to Article » Nat Turner, and the Bloodiest Slave Rebellion in American History
01/29/10 - 2233 words Frederick Douglass’ statement about slavery concisely defines the effect that such an institution had on the entire shape of a nation: Without slavery, how does one understand freedom? For hundreds of years, the United... Go to Article » The Ugly Truth: An Exploration of Postwar Representations of the Holocaust Through The Obscene
01/28/10 - 2901 words Omer Bartov’s essay from Intellectuals on Auschwitz expresses the author’s dismay with the postwar and postmodern representations of, and discourses on, the Holocaust. He breaks down larger concepts on memory and... Go to Article » The Burden of Disarmament: UN Peacekeeping Operations & Illicit Weapons
01/27/10 - 6432 words It has become undeniable that illicit weaponry, specifically small arms and light weapons pose an unprecedented global security threat. In fact it may almost be acceptable to say that with the turn of the 21st century, we witness... Go to Article » The "Vast Wasteland" Gets Vaster: The Future of Television in the Online Revolution
01/26/10 - 2669 words In 1961, nearly a decade after the “Golden Age” of television had passed, commercial television was still changing the American lifestyle, from living rooms to bars. It was then that Federal Communications Commission... Go to Article » Filling in the Holes in the Biography of William Shakespeare
01/25/10 - 3995 words Shakespeare was a man surrounded by controversy. He, himself, has a biography filled with holes and question marks. Some have even held that the great English Bard could not have been one man. Although the idea that... Go to Article » China and the Beijing Consensus: An Alternative Model for Development
01/22/10 - 3305 words In the period since 1989, when economist John Williamson first conceived of the economic and policy recommendations known as the Washington Consensus (Williamson, 1989), this Consensus became generally accepted as the most effective... Go to Article » The Human Genome and Patient Privacy: A Proposal to Expand Protections for Patients and Family Members
01/21/10 - 2824 words As medical and biological technology has progressed in recent years, concerns have been raised about the privacy implications of genetic records that can identify individuals and predict future conditions to which they are predisposed... Go to Article » Exclusion, Misrepresentation and Discrimination: Still Prevalent for Women in American Media and Politics
01/20/10 - 1576 words Mass media is perhaps the most powerful tool in the world for creating, changing or perpetuating society’s ideas about an issue or group of people. It works both overtly and subconsciously: deciding which issues are important... Go to Article » Confusing The Wind: The Burj Khalifa, Mother Nature, and the Modern Skyscraper
01/14/10 - 3759 words If you happen to check in to the Grand Hyatt San Francisco on a windy day, you’ll receive a friendly note at the front desk advising you that the 35-story skyscraper may creak a bit as it moves gently back and forth in... Go to Article » A River for Freedom: The Itaipu Hyrdoelectric Project and the Democratization of Paraguay
01/13/10 - 2301 words From 1954 to 1989, Paraguay was subject to the authoritarian regime of Alfredo Stroessner and the Colorado Party. While Stroessner came to power at a time of great economic strife, it was the most prosperous time of his regime... Go to Article » Rethinking the American Civil War, Through the Eyes of a Teenager
01/13/10 - 5873 words The legacy of the American Civil War with which we are left is one that emphasizes a participatory American populace, overwhelmingly enthused over and invested in the conflict. Particularly in the North, we are likely to think... Go to Article » Neglected Responsibilities: America's Failure to Support Native Alaskan Students
01/12/10 - 3113 words When the United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867, it did not simply grow by 663,000 square miles; it also accepted responsibility for the people living within its new borders. But America has not fulfilled... Go to Article » Memorializing Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston
01/11/10 - 8537 words ‘WHO WERE THOSE PEOPLE?’ historian Howard Zinn asked a member of the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society in November 2008. Zinn had just delivered a lecture for the benefit of the Society on ‘The Meaning... Go to Article » "Once There Were Two Towers": Describing Tragedy to Children after 9/11
01/07/10 - 4603 words The attacks of September 11th have frequently been characterized as unimaginable, capable of inflicting confusion and emotional trauma beyond the scope of other historical events. On September 12th, 2001, N.R. Kleinfeld of the... Go to Article » Race, Class, and Oppression: Solutions for Active Learning and Literacy in the Classroom
01/06/10 - 2986 words Oppression tends to exist in compartmentalized, clearly labeled categories of race, social class, gender, or sexual preference. While these rigidly defined categories may have been applied to allow for rational discussion of... Go to Article » Swagger and Soul: Analyzing the Music from Ocean's 11
01/04/10 - 3679 words One of the more overt dilemmas in the music of Ocean’s Eleven was the necessary need to reflect on the idea of old guard Las Vegas and the obvious modernity of the time in which the movie is set. It epitomizes classic Rat... Go to Article » China Offers Alternative Development Model in 'Beijing Consensus'
01/02/10 - 983 words The Beijing Consensus, a new development model based on China’s own economic success, is one of the latest ways that China is asserting itself as a major player in international politics. This shift comes as developing... Go to Article » Triumph over Tragedy: The Women's Movement of Rwanda Finds Success Post-Genocide
01/01/10 - 2984 words On April 6, 1994, the Hutu[1] president of Rwanda and the newly elected president of Burundi, also a Hutu, were both assassinated when their jet was shot down while landing in Kigali. In response to the April killing of the two... Go to Article » Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Plays of Shakespeare
12/31/09 - 4547 words The number of ancient sources available to the readers and playwrights of Elizabethan times was truly immeasurable. These sources could be reached both as original texts in Greek and Latin, and in French and English translations... Go to Article » The Hero We Create: 9/11 & The Reinvention of Batman
12/30/09 - 17947 words A giant hole is ripped in the side of a skyscraper. Smoke and flames pour out and debris tumbles into the street. Clouds of smoke billow upwards and burning embers rain down. Plumes of dust and smoke blot out the sun, darkening... Go to Article » The Development of Theatre: Peter Brook and the Human Connection
12/24/09 - 1622 words An actor is on stage. He begins to speak, and as he does so the hearts of the audience wrench. The actor is pronouncing his love to a woman through song; or he is swearing revenge against the man who killed his father; or he... Go to Article » Let There Be Light: An Exploration of the Life of Nikola Tesla
12/22/09 - 5933 words A great deal is known about Nikola Tesla’s origins—namely, his country and people, to which and of whom he attributed so great a deal. The inventor recognized that he came from an extremely conflicted area in the... Go to Article » How Now, Hecate?: The Supernatural in Shakespeare's Tragedies
12/17/09 - 4151 words William Shakespeare wrote these lines, but his use of the mythological tradition of otherworldly appearances in his plays is anything but insubstantial. Sometimes he crafted them as a permeating presence, other times passing... Go to Article » Dietary and Lifestyle Interventions to Support Functional Hypothyroidism
12/15/09 - 7207 words Hypothyroidism is an unsuspected illness of epidemic proportions in western civilization unrecognized by the modern medical community (Starr xix). The affects are far-reaching and pervasive. The purpose of this research is to... Go to Article » A Study in Violence: Examining Rape in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
12/14/09 - 3368 words “The genocide was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible was the absence, the erasure of seeing the other, of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that's... Go to Article » Serbia and the Former Yugoslavia: What's to Be Done?
12/11/09 - 4812 words It is mid-1998. On news programs in the United States, the issue of intervention in Kosovo is addressed as a prevalent concern. It is at least mentioned in every presentation: any progress that's been made or any possible change... Go to Article » Understanding Human Language: An In-Depth Exploration of the Human Facility for Language
12/08/09 - 8781 words What critical evolutionary events does the span of human progression include? Anthropologists agree that decisive transitions such as sedentism, domestication, the use of language, and the arrival of culture and complex societies... Go to Article » The Methamphetamine Crisis in American Indian and Native Alaskan Communities: Toward a New Research Agenda
12/03/09 - 5599 words The prevalence of methamphetamine (ME) use among American Indians and Native Alaskans (AI/NAs) is strikingly high in comparison to other ethnic groups in the U.S. (Iritani, Dion Hallfors & Bauer, 2007). However, few datasets... Go to Article » John Locke On Equality, Toleration, and the Atheist Exception
12/02/09 - 3334 words Political philosopher and social psychologist, John Locke, was an outspoken supporter of equal rights within a governed society. He espoused the natural rights of man, namely the right to life, liberty and property, and he articulated... Go to Article » Confrontation with Death Illuminates Death's Mystery in "The Odyssey"
11/28/09 - 1396 words Even in fairy tales and fantastical legends, the trespassing of the breathing upon the domain of the spirits is rare. It is a disturbing idea; when the dead visit our world, we can at least find comfort in numbers. Yet the hero... Go to Article » Anton Chekhov and the Development of the Modern Character
11/27/09 - 1177 words Considered by some to be the father of the short story, Anton Chekhov created a paradigmatic form for writing fiction. By mimicking reality he produced a representational art through his stories. The revelations in Chekhov&rsquo... Go to Article » Examining Mythology in "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis
11/27/09 - 4604 words The wonder of opening a book feels very similar to the experience of opening a wardrobe door and finding oneself in another world. Stories told to children as they prepare for bed act also as vehicles for transportation... Go to Article » The Real Scoop on Government Contracting
11/24/09 - 4461 words Procurement in government, as well as in industry, is going through a tremendous change as a result of globalization, technological breakthroughs, and the surge in outsourcing services to outside vendors (Giallourakis, 2008,... Go to Article » Patroclus: The True Emobidment of Human Tragedy in the Illiad
11/23/09 - 1285 words Why raise the curtain on this 45 day by 45 night saga? In a story whose ending everybody knows already, why choose these actions of these characters to expound upon? The Iliad is not a war tale one might tell in which friends... Go to Article » Understanding the Implications of a Global Village
11/20/09 - 2207 words Imagine the vast spectrum of all the cultures in the world. Listen to the music—from the gentle drum beats of Africa, to the melodic didgeridoo of Australia, to the scream of the electric guitar. Taste the curry from India... Go to Article » Making Contact: The Photographer's Interface with the World
11/18/09 - 6738 words Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a key twentieth-century cultural theorist, has been influential in various fields, including art and literary criticism. He wrote “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction&rdquo... Go to Article » Viewing Four Vonnegut Novels Through the Lens of Literary Criticism
11/17/09 - 2599 words I like Kurt Vonnegut because he’s innovative and unique, his literary voice speaking out of a time period I love, when he “was actually helping to breathe life into a new genre—modern, pop fiction,”[1]... Go to Article » From Cutting Trees to Slashing Emissions: Reducing Deforestation in Brazil
11/14/09 - 6354 words Much debate has recently arisen over China’s and India’s responsibilities as related to climate protection. These two countries have repeatedly pleaded that their emissions be judged on a per-capita basis, since... Go to Article » Future Hell: Nuclear Fiction in Pursuit of History
11/11/09 - 17019 words What is a cyclical history? Why does humanity seem doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again? Are we doomed to this machine called fate? What is a soul, and how do I express it? Predicting what futures may lay ahead... Go to Article » Wake up and smell the condoms: An Analysis of Sex Education Programs in the United States, the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, France, and Germany
11/09/09 - 5189 words The ability to control one’s sexuality and make informed, responsible decisions about one’s sexual health is a basic human right. The Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, France and Germany protect this right by providing... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Stockholm Syndrome and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Battered Women
11/05/09 - 5289 words Every year, 10-50% of women suffer intimate partner violence (Bargai, Ben-Shakhar, & Shalev, 2007). It is important to understand what conditions affect these battered women and how any resultant conditions interact with... Go to Article » Child Sex Tourism: "Us" and "Them" in a Globalized World
11/04/09 - 5494 words “In London, Hamburg or San Francisco … we rarely see ordinary, middle-aged men and women flirting with homeless teenagers who sit on the pavements begging for spare change, or inviting them out to dinner and then... Go to Article » In Search of Manhood: The Black Male's Struggle for Identity and Power
11/03/09 - 5143 words Within the cultural framework of America, the systemic structure is characterized by White male patriarchy that allows for Black males to have the ability to negotiate the way in which they have been socialized and institutionalized... Go to Article » USAID's Alternative Development Strategy: A Critical Review of Initiatives in Colombia
10/30/09 - 5538 words Since 2000, the United States (U.S.) has devoted approximately 4.7 billion dollars in foreign aid to Colombia (Isacson 2006:1) with the dual aims of resolving Colombia’s internal conflict and of curbing the country&rsquo... Go to Article » Responding to Rape as a Weapon of War in the Democratic Republic of Congo: CIDA's Actions in an Evaluative Framework
10/27/09 - 6511 words At the time of the incident, I was living … in the bush, hiding from the war. One day, I had gone to the fields to collect some food to eat. As I was cultivating, I heard someone screaming loudly and the next minute armed... Go to Article » Invasion of the Invaded: NAFTA and the Rise of Illegal Immigration
10/25/09 - 6069 words On January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement, the great neoliberal experiment that tested the economic waters of the post-cold war world went into effect, the southern Mexican state of Chiapas was under... Go to Article » Understanding Differences Between Holistic, Alternative, and Complementary Medicine
10/21/09 - 3049 words The terms holistic medicine, alternative medicine and complementary medicine have often been used interchangeably. In fact, alternative medicine and complementary medicine are different and holistic medicine is a term which tends... Go to Article » Stalin and the Drive to Industrialize the Soviet Union
10/21/09 - 2472 words The late twenties and early thirties were perhaps the most transformative period in Soviet history. It was during this period Stalin consolidated his grip on power and was allowed to rule with impunity, instituting his &ldquo... Go to Article » Can the U.S. win the war in Afghanistan?
10/19/09 - 3174 words Nearly eight years into the war, the security situation in Afghanistan has begun to deteriorate at an increasingly fast past. Previously secured areas have been undermined by increasing numbers of militants; significant increases... Go to Article » Controlling and Preventing HIV in Southern Africa
10/17/09 - 31 words The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) originated in Africa. According to current estimates, the disease first infected humans in the 1930s, spreading outward in its formative years to the world beyond.[6:1] It was nevertheless... Go to Article » |