58 Exploratio Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports
A New Odd Couple: Google, P&G Swap Workers to Spur Innovation
Google and Procter & Gamble (P&G) have been swapping employees since early last year in an effort to promote creativity and establish a beneficial relationship. About 24 employees from both companies have been sitting in on each other's business meetings helping to brainstorm and offer outsider opi....
An Exploration of Free Speech
Many North Americans talk about the concept of free speech without really understanding its true meaning. We don't understand what free speech is, and its notion is used to defend individuals who, in truth, neither need nor deserve any defense.
An example of this is those who defend the ignorant c....
An Exploration of Shakespeares Dramatic Use of Deception in Much Ado About Nothing
An Exploration of Shakespeares Dramatic Use of Deception in Much Ado About Nothing
Deception plays a large part in Shakespeares 'Much Ado About Nothing'. Deception is an act that deceives ones perception of a certain situation. Shakespeare uses many different types of deception in the p....
Aqualisa Quartz - Strategic Marketing Case
As Simple as Water
1. Problem Statement
Rawlison, managing director of Aqualisa, a U.K. shower manufacturer launched with his company in 2001 the Quartz shower. It is a significant product innovation in the U.K. and is superior to others in terms of water pressure, ease of installation, us....
Artworks can shock, challange or influence
Artworks can shock, challenge or influence. This statement suggests the controversy produced by artists in their attempt to push the boundaries questioning the premises on which art had longed been based. Many Artists communicate their ideas and beliefs through their work to raise public awareness o....
Autism
AUTISM
Autism appears in early childhood, usually before the age of three. Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by impairments in three core symptom domains: language, social relatedness, and restricted patters of behavior (Hollander, Phillips, and Yeh, 2003, p. 732). ....
Blacks entering the aviation field
Becoming a pilot is not an easy thing for a person to come about. As a matter of fact, this process can be long and rather expensive then anyone could imagine. Being an African American especially make things worse, simply because a person has to deal with a lot of racial issues. They also h....
Canadian Oil & Gas Industry
Canadian Oil & Gas Industry
Overview
In 2004, the largest source of energy consumption in Canada was oil (33 percent), closely followed by natural gas (25 percent) and hydroelectricity (25 percent). Both coal (9 percent) and nuclear (7 percent) constitute a small share of the countrys over....
COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE A MODERN ORGANIZATIONAL CONCEPT
FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
Department of Business Administration and Economics
Institute of Management
Chair for Organization and Leadership
COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE A MODERN ORGANIZATIONAL CONCEPT
Seminar : Organizational Practices
Supervisor :
Registrati....
Confrontation of Mortality: American Soldiers, Gilgamesh, Immortality and the Fear of Death
The well developed themes within The Epic of Gilgamesh closely mirror many ideas and themes prevalent in todays world. Through Gilgamesh, a connection between the illusion of immortality and the common fear of death is explored. Today, the confrontation of mortality and the desire for immorta....
Critical Review of Mark Allen Petersons Anthropology and Mass Communication
Cross Cultural Communication
Critical Review of Mark Allen Petersons
Anthropology and Mass Communication.
In 1936, the opening television program of the world's first regular public service of television, an entertainer sang:
'The air has eyes that scan us from the skies An....
Distress and Delight Childrens experience of horror
The aim of this essay is to analyse Buckingham's audience study "Distress and Delight - Children's experience of horror". The text examines the effect violent media has on children, this is carried out in the form of an interview with 124 children aged between 6 and 15 years of age. The study mainly....
Effect of Environmental Conditions on Human Behavior and Development in the Past
Timothy Kent
ANTH 111 16
Title: Effect of Environmental Conditions on Human Behavior and Development in the Past.
Abstract: This paper will discuss and outline behavioral and developmental changes in human existence and the reasoning behind the formation of these new distinctions. Several ch....
Effect of the Reneisance on Europe
Europe in the 13th century was dry of culture and spices and many other luxuries that some other parts of the world enjoyed. However, they did not know it. Not until the crusades exposed Europeans to the many riches, spices, technology, and other luxuries of the east did the true spur for exploratio....
Enhancing childrens learning through bicultural practice
Enhancing Childrens learning through bicultural practice
Description of early childhood setting and community
The early childhood setting I am evaluating is an urban centre with families from multicultural background. Most of the children are English speaking from New Zealand, England, and S....
Establishing World Trade Routes 1100-1500
If there was ever an important period historians, and people could put a finger on, this would be it. This is the important period where the worlds countries, kingdoms, and dynasties established trade routes. This is the period where countries were made and countries were destroyed because of th....
Exploration of the Human Condition
Man is born with neither a good nor an evil inclination. The only thing one really knows about human nature is that it changes (Oscar Wilde). Generally early in ones life a personality or disposition is determined. This essay will look at the influence media plays on character, how peer group in....
Freud and Jung
The psychological genre as it relates to sociological and medicinal matters has gained an increasing amount of scientific approval. Impartiality and the scientific method are both integral components to a psychologists mode of practice. However, even the most esteemed of psychologists can only specu....
Futuring: Exploring the Future
In order to meet the challenges of the future, society needs to find out what can we expect in the years to come; so this heightens our awareness of the choices. Society can at that moment set realistic goals and develop useful strategies for accomplishing them. Society feels that it is not poss....
Galileo: A Man on a Mission
In 1632, Galileo Galilei published his book "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems." As innocent as this may seem, the implications that were associated with the publishing of the book were soon evident. In the time prior to the publishing of the book, Galileo had been warned several times....
Gender and communication
Introduction
A catalog which recently arrived at my house advertises T-
shirts and bumperstickers popularizing the words of feminist
scholars Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichler: "Feminism is the
radical notion that women are people."(1) Indeed, sometimes I
think we've spent the last two millenn....
global considerations for oil industry, iran specific
Global Considerations
Introduction
Global considerations play a vital role in recognizing nation and industry responsibilities as citizens of the global community. A prepared nation or company educated and informed with data equips that nation or business with the skills required to make informed....
Hamlet in its insight into contextual tensions and exploration of ideas.
Hamlet is commonly recognised as one of the most magnificent works of English Literature, seated right at the pinnacle of the English Literary Canon. This piece of text has achieved such a high status due to the artistic creation of the protagonist Hamlet. He is a character with a profoundly dev....
Hudsons Bay Company
During the 17th 18th and 19th centuries the |Hudson's Bay Company has been involved with trapping, trading, exploration, creating forts and capturing forts. But what the Hudson's Bay company should be characterized by is laying the building blocks of not only 4 of Canada's western cities but the ....
Imaginative Use of the Metaphorical Concept Life is a Journey in Dobyns Body Traffic
Imaginative Use of the Metaphorical Concept Life is a Journey in Dobyns Body Traffic: the Creation of the Novel Imaginative Metaphor the Body is a Vehicle
Abstract
This article shows how the conceptual metaphor life is a journey pervades Stephen Dobyns' book of poems Body....
Industry analysis: uranium mining
The University of Calgary
Haskayne School of Business
MGST 797.10
Personal skills and Business Acumen
Industry Analysis
URANIUM MINING
1 Executive Summary
During the next 50 years, global population will likely grow from six to nine billion people. With energy demand expected to d....
John Dewey and Ethics
The nature of ethicsa process of inquiry
One of the most arresting aspects of pragmatism, at least as it is represented in the work of the American philosopher, John Dewey, is the fundamentally different nature of a pragmatist approach to ethics compared with more traditional approaches. Ethics i....
Lester Electronics
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Company Synopsis
Regina - Heinz B.V 3
Regina - Energen 5
Melanie - Allstate partnership with Encompass Insurance 6
Maryse - Amoco merger with BP 7
Melanie - ....
Life of George W. Bush
George W. Bush Report
Life Through College
George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut. He grew up in Houston, Texas with four younger siblings: Jeb, Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy. He had another sister, but she died of Leukemia at age 3. Bush was educated at Philli....
Macroeconomics Impact on Business Operations
Macroeconomics surveys trends in the national economy as a whole considering the study of the sum of individual economic factors. In addition, economic systems are subjective to several macroeconomic factors. A nation will strive for sustainable economic growth to improve the standard of living fo....
obesity: a perfect and costly epidemic
OBESITY: A PERFECT AND COSTLY EPIDEMIC
Coming to the twentieth century, we are delighted to see the decline of starvation from all over the world, yet we have to face another problem from a totally opposite side, obesity. Originally, obesity existed mostly in developed countries such as the Unite....
political developments of pre colonial american and there after
One could argue that politics have encompassed all civilizations since the dawn of time. Where a congregation of people
could be found, such things as: hierarchies, divisions of labor, and a cultural identity could be seen, even at a minuscule
level. In Mesoamerica one predominate culture that e....
Popular Versions of masculinities and femininities
Gender is a learned social construct concerned with not what one is but what one does. It is determined by the acceptance of normative conceptions of attitudes and activities appropriate for the performance of ones sex category. The formation and learning of gender begins in the home, and contin....
Religions and Religiousness in "a passage to India"
Religions and Religiousness
In
A Passage to India
Seminar: India in English Literature
Contents
Pages
Introduction 3
1. Religions in A Passage to India 4
1.1 Hinduism 4
1.2 Islam 5
1.3 Christianity 6
....
Rhetorical Strategies in Wrestling with Identity article
In the article Wrestling with Identity: An Exploration of the Female Wrestlers' Perceptions published in the Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal (Spring 2009), the writers Ellen Macro, Jennifer Viveiros and Nick Cipriano us various rhetorical strategies to present a convincing argument. The....
Social Changes in the 60s
Many social changes that were addressed in the 1960s are still the issues being confronted today. the ‘60s was a decade of social and political upheaval. in spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: the civil rights revolution, john f. Kennedy’s bold vision of a new fro....
Socieity demand for Formal Education
Who needs education? Why be educated? Do we really need it? Society says yes in a big way. Society almost demands that if you want to achieve a high social and economical status you must receive higher education with formal training. Without such training it is nearly impossible to achieve that....
Space Exploration
Space explorationDoes it make any sense in a world where so many people live in abject poverty?Space exploration has advanced a lot through the last years. Specially in the Cold War, where the United States and the Soviet Union competed between them and invested a lot in this field. Since then, U.S.....
Space exploration
Space Exploration
Everyone knows how dangerous space exploration can be. It has been involved with many different accidents and deaths. It has been around for centuries, but people are still wondering why we are still sending manned space shuttles into space. With all the dangers involved, you wou....
statehood of nevada
Early Exploration
In the 1770s several Spanish explorers came near the area of present-day Nevada but it was not until half a century later that fur traders venturing into the Rocky Mts. publicized the region. Jedediah S. Smith came across S Nevada on his way to California in 1827. The following ....
Tattoos
A business woman is walking down the street. She is attractive and good looking. She is smart, self confident, hard working and is an expert in her job. She knows that the best color choice for her suite is brown, since this is the color that adds professionalism. The white blouse underneath it make....
Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
A Heart Betrayed
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe takes place entirely in the interior of an old house where a nameless narrator recalls how he envisioned the idea about murdering an old man. He tells readers that the reason for his contemplation is because he is frightened by his filmy, vu....
The Abstraction of Beasts
Carl Sagan. The Abstractions of Beasts
Tom Regan. The Case for Animal Rights
Introduction
This week we will be taking up two essays on the topic of animal rights: The Abstractions of Beasts, published in 1977 by Carl Sagan, and The Case for Animal Rights published in 1985 by....
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The book The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels(which is the book I read) is divided into three sections. In the first section Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels discusses the Bourgeois and Proletarians. The Communist Manifesto begins by discussing the issue of class antagonism. Marx....
The fur trade and the developement of canada
J. Murray 1
Jeff Murray
Dr. Daniel Byers
UHI 1406
22, November 2004
The Fur-Trade and Canadian History
The Hudson Bay Company (HBC), was founded on, may 6, 1670. Medard Chouart Des Groseilliers and Pierre Radisson the founders of the Hudsons Bay Company saw a great need ....
The Gilded Age of American Politics
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner coined the Gilded Age of American Politics term in 1873. It refers to the rise of the wealthy class after the reconstruction in 1865 to 1877. The Gilded Age also saw the rise of the Populist Party, the end of the spoil system, Western migration, and the effect ....
The Influence of Marijuana on Music
The Influence of Marijuana on Music
Vividly played improvisations, with unique personal style and sound, made jazz musicians, their bands, and live-clubs famous. Since the beginnings of jazz, the use of marijuana and its relationship to creativity and music has been controversial.
Is it possib....
The Sentiment, Mood, and Philosophy of The Best Slow Dancer
Feelings can twist reality in the most peculiar ways. Emotions push the mind to the most stunning conclusions, and stir within the soul the strangest storms. In fact, senses reach their peak in David Wagoners poetic work The Best Slow Dancer. In the poem, Wagoner brings out the height of sentiment ....
Thomas Merton
Three Areas of Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton was a man who had bee converted from a dramatic life of artistic self-indulgence to an equally dramatic life of monastic silence and penance. Entering the Trappist Monastery he expected it to be a great world of silence. He found himself first writing bo....
Use of Behaviorism in Learning and Specifically
Use of Behaviorism in Learning and Specifically Instructional Technology
Behaviorism plays a large role in education. There are several assumptions that can be construed from the behaviorist idea and education such as, the emphasis on behavior, drill and practice methods, methods for breaking habit....
Vasco da gama
Dom Vasco da Gama was born circa 1469 at Sines and died on Christmas eve in Cochin, India, in 1524, being Viceroy of India. After his successful first voyage by sea to India (1497-1499), King Emmanuel I gave him the title of Dom (Lord) with an annual grant of 300.000 reais, for him and his descenda....
Voice recognition and speech synthesis technologies
By Nick Hampshire. ZDNet UK (June 12, 2006). "Voice recognition and speech synthesis technologies may not have developed to the degree some science fiction writers hoped, but have nevertheless seen some startling successes. ... Voice synthesis has been around for a long time. Bell Labs demonstrated ....
What contribution has psychoanalytic theory made to our political understanding of racism?
There are two main themes, which we will explore in this essay, the first is the relationship between racism and psychoanalysis, and the second is the contribution of psychoanalytic thinking regarding the political understanding of this phenomenon. Before we continue, we have to note that racism is ....
What makes IR a Discipline
Q1. What makes International Relations a discipline, and why did the discipline not develop in the 17th Century rather than in the early 20th Century?
Introduction
The journey of the modern man, which began in Africa, with a small band of hunter-gatherers, has come full circles, after nearly 8....
Why were the Europeans able to begin the Age of Exploration in 1492?
Why were the Europeans able to begin the Age of Exploration in 1492?
While the rest of the world was out exploring Europe was left tending to its sickly and less developed land. Europe, after surviving disease and other hardships found itself in a unique position to grow. The plague was gone an....
Women from Venus
In his essay "Men from Mars and Women from Venus", John Gray explored the intrinsic differences between men and women in a way that has helped millions of people to understand why relationships between the two sexes could be so frustrating. Gray was correct when he talked about women cherishing love....
Women's Rights
Women's Rights
Not long ago, In the nineteenth century, the words that our forefathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence, that all men were created equal, held little value. Human equality was far from a reality. If you were not born of white male decent, than that phrase did not apply t....
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