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Same, Same, but Different: The Use and Significance of Journalism Sting Operations in India and the United States
In the journalism community across country boundaries, creativity and ingenuity are valued, and "enterprising" reporters are awarded prizes. Reporters gather news through interviewing, following tips, searching public ... -
Sartre's Concept of Freedom as Reflected in his Novel and Plays before 1949
Sartre thinks of freedom not as something man has, but as something man is. He says: Man is his freedom; thus, man is condemned to be free. This study attempts to sound the depths of that statement. Freedom is the major ... -
The Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference Case
On January 29, 1963 the Consolidated Edison Company of New York (hereafter referred to as Con Ed) [1] filed an application before the Federal Power Commission for a license to construct a pumped-storage hydroelectric ... -
Schleiermacher and Barth: The Knowledge of God
I will examine the theological work of two writers, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Karl Barth. Friedrich Schleiermacher has been called the "father of liberal Protestant theology" because his thought started theology on a ... -
The Search for Meaning in Contemporary Life: A Study of a Central Theme in the Works of James Joyce and T. S. Eliot
In this paper I shall discuss the search for meaning in contemporary life, a central theme that appears in the works of both T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. I shall begin my discussion by suggesting how the just-born individual's ... -
A Search for Tragedy in American Drama
Eric Bentley says: "Observers from every point of view would agree that the theater at the moment is in a more than usually uncertain and disordered state." [3] Mr. Bentley is not one known for compromise. He does not ... -
Sedimentology and Depositional Setting of the Miocene Marnoso-Arenacea Flysch, Marche region, Italy
The Coldigioco-Castellaro basin is the Easternmost basin in a series of basins and adjacent topographic highs formed during the Early Miocene epoch by compression that produced the Italian Northern Apennines. Part of the ... -
Serpulids as Indicators of Mid-late Holocene Climate: Timing and Paleoclimate Significance of Large Worm Tube Aggregates, Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic
Large aggregates of calcareous serpulid worm tubes recorded paleoclimate conditions as they colonized the mid to late Holocene Enriquillo embayment, Dominican Republic. Serpulid worms flourished in the embayment following ... -
Seven Novels of Angel Maria de Lera: Their Technique and Style, Their Characters, Their Meaning
The following paper is an analysis of seven novels of the contemporary Spanish writer Angel Maria de Lera. The intention is to evidence the maturation of Lera as a writer during the ten years that the seven novels cover ... -
"Sex explains it all": Gender in the Literature of Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost
Gender is merely an attribute, rather than the single determining factor of one's identity, yet Hemingway and Frost both devised their own distinctly masculine personality -- a public image which became progressively more ... -
Sex, Guns, and Theorems; The Legacy of Evariste Galois
Only ignorance of history can allow one to see mathematicians as those who lead boring, uneventful lives, and a brief look at the career of the French mathematician Evariste Galois (1811 - 1832) will put any skeptic to ... -
Sex, Sonnets, and Sermons: The Erotic Theology of John Donne
I intend to use the epithalamia or marriage songs, enhanced by analysis of Donne's sermons, as conceptual bridges to understand the persistence of sexual and physical language from Donne's.secular love poetry to his religious ... -
Sexuality and System in Thomas Hardy: The Affirmation of Experiential Over Moral Truth
This project is a psychological study of Thomas Hardy's developing attitude towards sexuality; specifically whether it could be brought into a constructive moral system, or whether the experience was fulfilling in its own ... -
She Closes Her Eyes to Herself: Nietzsche, Feminism, and Christianity
This paper works to examine the lives and arguments of early Christian female ascetics and modern feminist Christians through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche. The arguments against orthodox Christianity presented in Nietzsche ... -
The Shellability of Simplices
Shelling can be looked at as a way of piecing together a surface ( or taking it apart), almost as if using legos. The pieces we are using are points, edges, triangles, tetrahedra, and larger n-dimensional cells. You can ... -
Sheltered: Images From a Life Among Shelter Pets and Their People
I hope to provide a glimpse into the shelter system that will leave my readers understanding that animal shelters are about so much more than euthanasia and adoptions. My goal is to prove that shelters are not limited to ... -
Size Matters: Anion Influences on Hamster Chorda Tympani Responses to Na+ Salts
Over the past two decades, researchers have shown repeatedly that salt taste reception depends, in numerous mammals, on the passive diffusion ofNa+ ions through apical, Na+selective ion channels that can be blocked by the ... -
Some Aspects of Slavery in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Rockbridge County, like most of the South, employed its slaves to help grow its crops, to perform the hard labor necessary for its industrial production, and to act as its domestic servants. Rockbridge County's planters ... -
Some Comparative Experiments on the Fireproofing of Wood Pulp
The purpose of these experiments was not to produce a pulp that was absolutely unaffected by fire. Nor was it the aim of the writer to develope any one pulp to its maximum efficiency, but solely to place upon a comparative ... -
Some Elements of High Tension Power Transmission
This subject will be treated as follows: First -- A general statement of the conditions which suggest a high tension transmission project, and the circumstances limiting the maximum transmission distance and maximum ...