Responsibility Essays and Term Papers

Cognitive Dissonance

How do human beings make decisions? What triggers a person to take action at any given point? These are all questions that I will attempt to answer with my theoretical research into Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, as well as many of the other related theories. We often do ...

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Humans Soon To Be Extinct... Say It Ain't So!!

by Ryan Shoquist English 121 Dr. Gilliard November 23, 1996 Table of ...

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Pursuing A Career In Psychiatry

The prevalence of psychiatric disorders in the human population today is alarmingly high. For instance, major depression afflicts ten to twenty-five percent of women and five to twelve percent of men in their lifetime. Along with that, twenty-five percent of the population suffers from anxiety ...

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TLO Vs. New Jersey: When Is The Constitution Invalid?

? In the case of New Jersey vs. TLO, I rule in favor of the petitioner, the state of New Jersey. In this case, I found no reason in the claims made by TLO and her defense. They claimed that the search conducted by school officials was unconstitutional. These officials were searching her purse ...

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Creon's Role Of King And His Responsibilities

The role of the king in the time of Greek tragedies was simultaneously desired and dreaded because of the king's responsibility to the people and because of the effects of the position on the king's character. Creon reveals such ambivalent thoughts towards the kingship in his speech defending ...

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Upton Sinclair, Jr. And The Ju

Upton Sinclair, Jr. & His Novel: The Jungle Upton Sinclair, the man who grasped America by the stomach. His famous novel The Jungle showed how the Progressive Era was a time where the meat packaging wasn't exactly the cleanest in Chicago. This is where the problem was brought up by Upton. In our ...

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A Clockwork Orange

“Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.” -Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess has been heralded as one of the greatest literary geniuses of the twentieth century. Although Burgess has over thirty works of published literature, his most famous is . Burgess’s novel is a futuristic ...

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The Beginning Of World War II

At daybreak on the first day of September 1939, the residents of Poland awakened to grave news. A Juggernaut force of tanks, guns, and countless gray-clad soldiers from nearby Germany had torn across the countryside and were making a total invasion of the Pol’s homelands. German’s actions on that ...

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Hong Kong

, British dependency in eastern Asia, on the South China Sea, bordered by China on the north. It is made up of many islands, a portion of the mainland, and a considerable expanse of water surface. It has a land area of 1076 sq km (415 sq mi). Despite its small size, Hong Kong plays an important ...

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The Monkeys

Once upon a time in a monkey house in the Philadelphia Zoo lived a group of monkeys who were not content with their situation living at the zoo. had a pretty good life and could do almost anything they wanted whenever they wanted. They had two zoo keepers named Gus and Barbara who would attend ...

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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kr

AVITZ avitz by Mordecai Richler is a novel about the life of a young man named Duddy Kravitz growing up on Montreal's St. Urbain street. The novel chronicles his life from when he was a troublesome school boy up until he was a young man of nineteen desperately trying to make something of himself ...

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The Odyssey 2

The Odyssey, by Homer, is about a Trojan War hero, Odysseus, struggling to return home to his wife and son. While Odysseus is experiencing many hardships, which are preventing him from returning home, his wife is being besieged by suitors, and his son, Telemachus is growing up in chaos, without ...

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Dead Man Walking

People in society today have changed their feelings towards humanity and religious practises. This change is seen clearly in the movie “Dead Man Walking.” The characters go through changes in their view of religion and their feelings about human morality and humanity towards each other. The ...

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Pornography

Sexual morality has declined in America today. The immoral life can be seen all around us. We see it in drugs, alcohol, movies, magazines, gangs, teenage pregnancy, pre-marital sex, and society as a whole. A person can walk into almost any convenience store and purchase a magazine depicting ...

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Conflicts During The 1920s

The contrast between the new and changing attitudes and traditional values was unmistakably present during the 1920's. This clash between the old and the new had many roots and was inevitable. A new sense of awareness washed over minorities in our nation, especially blacks who began to realize ...

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Planck V. Indiana

In the reviewing the case of , many complicated issues arise. Included in those, individual rights conflicting with the public good are among the most difficult. According to Mr and Mrs. Planck's attorney, John Price, the Planck's religious beliefs prohibit them from accepting ...

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Chinese-american Culture In Un

What culture they had was to be forgotten – a difficult and practically impossible feat. The Chinese-Americans faced a wall of cultural difference that could only be scaled with the support of their parents and local community. The book review of Bone by Nhi Le stated clearly how “ … the first ...

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The Rise Of Auto Thefts In Charlotte, North Carolina

The rapid rise of auto theft crimes in Charlotte, North Carolina is making the duties of auto theft investigation very strenuous work. Detective David Clayton of auto theft investigations from the Charlotte Police Department allowed me to interact with him for two consecutive days. I also ...

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Billy Budd

To form simply one opinion or show merely one aspect of this story is naive, rude, and closed minded. How may one stick to one deli mea, moral questioning, or out-look on a book that jumps from such cases like frogs on lily pads? Just as Melville has done, I shall attempt to arrange my perception ...

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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

Literature Essay: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by K. Kesey. “Discuss how the world within the ward is mirrored in the world outside.” It is suggested that Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest contains examples of behaviour and attitudes displayed by ...

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