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Economics of Gas Prices

A 7 page paper discussing the rise and fall of gasoline prices in 2005 and 2006. Gas prices experienced an intense price spike such as that which followed Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Even more curiously, world oil prices spiraled upward...
Score: 35.3 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Economics of Prostitution in Thailand

This 6 page report discusses the economic aspects of prostitution in Thailand and examines the significant impact it has had on the national economy. Internationally, Thailand has been commonly described as a nation in which commercial sex has been...
Score: 35.2 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Deviance and Society: Different Interpretations for Different Contexts

A 5 page discussion of the labeling theory of deviance, the tendency of society to place labels on individuals on the basis of them not belonging to the group doing the labeling. Ties together the self-fulfilling prophesy of Thomas Merton, the...
Score: 35.2 | View Suggested Executive Summary


The Economics of Access to the Internet are a Barrier to Democracy

This 9 page report discusses the open structure and availability of the Internet and how it creates a place where people can more participate fully in democracy. However, the cost of access to the Internet presents a number of problems in the...
Score: 35.1 | View Suggested Executive Summary


The Economics of Access to the Internet are a Barrier to Democracy

This 9 page report discusses the open structure and availability of the Internet and how it creates a place where people can more participate fully in democracy. However, the cost of access to the Internet presents a number of problems in the...
Score: 35.1 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Economics in Healthcare; Increasing Inputs and Cost Benefit Analysis

This 8 page paper is written in 2 parts. The first part considers the situation of the healthcare services where there are increasing inputs, such as patients, but the outputs remain the same. The paper considers this in economic terms and the way...
Score: 35 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Communications and the Former Soviet Union

This 15 page report discusses the economic, social and political factors that have caused the former members of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to have fallen so far behind in their own adaptation to the Information Age. Prior to the...
Score: 35 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Michael Porter's Marketing Strategy: Sony

11 pages in length. Upon referencing Michael Porter's 1990 definition of globalization, one can readily surmise that the benefits can be quite significant to businesses like Sony that seek both domestic and foreign markets in which to sell or...
Score: 34.9 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Poverty: Problems and Solutions

A 12 page paper delineating a complexity of problems associated with poverty. Suggests that these problems require a flexible approach to their solution. This approach must include traditional programs designed to meet the most basic of human...
Score: 34.6 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Redevelopment Of Silicon Valley

A 20 page research paper that discusses the problems that have faced Silicon value and the need for urban redevelopment. The paper discusses community attitude, economics, development, and "city" planning needs. From a relational view from other...
Score: 34.5 | View Suggested Executive Summary


AIDS: Duties To Treat Infected Persons

9 pages in length. The duties to treat people infected with AIDS is counterbalanced by the duties inherent to the rest of society free of the disease. The extent to which AIDS, its stigma and the complexities inherent to treatment is both grand...
Score: 34.5 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Adam Smith's "The Money Game" / Relevance To Today's Economies

This 10 pages paper uses the "Father of Economics'" work, "The Money Game" as its reason, but speaks more to Adam Smith's basic theories and how they apply to today's economies, particularly those of America and the evolving Russian prefects...
Score: 34.5 | View Suggested Executive Summary


White River National Forest (Colorado) and the Economic and Environmental Impact it Faces:

This 8 page report discusses issues associated with the many issues associated with the controversy regarding environment versus economics in the environment. The White River National Forest encompasses literally hundreds of miles of trails for...
Score: 34.2 | View Suggested Executive Summary


The COS Movement Analyzed

This 12 page research paper examines the COS (Charity Organization Society) movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which was particularly popular in Great Britain and America. Specifically discussed are the social Darwinism...
Score: 34.2 | View Suggested Executive Summary


New York City/Bonfire of the Vanities

A 9 page research paper/essay that discusses how the city of New York, the setting for Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, provides a thorough examination of the sociological, political and economics aspects of life in New York City in the 1980s....
Score: 34.2 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Promoting Economic Growth With Policy

A 9 page paper discussing how governments of developing nations can promote economic growth through government policy. Government policy can encourage or inhibit economic growth, both in the short term and for long-term sustainability. Those...
Score: 33.5 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Proposition, Socioeconomic Policy Control of Adolescent Alcohol Abuse

It has been shown that economic factors can have a decisive effect on the ability to purchase a product. The product under consideration is alcohol and its availability to adolescents. Although preventative programmes are in place, statistics...
Score: 33.5 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Persuasion Narrative of the AFL-CIO

A 10 page paper discussing the AFL-CIO's web pages supporting and arguing for increase in the minimum wage. The paper includes discussion of economic concepts of supply and demand and what can be expected to happen after raising minimum wage. The...
Score: 33.5 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Latin America Transformed/Gwynne & Kay, Eds.

A 3 page books review of this text, edited by Robert N. Gweynne and Cristobal Kay. The editors address the fact that Latin American studies over the past several decades have been highly fragmented. Studies performed within the realm of various...
Score: 33.4 | View Suggested Executive Summary


"The Many-Headed Hydra": Globalism and Economics in the Revolutionary Atlantic

A 5 page overview of the book by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. Emphasizes that history is replete with examples of various forms of forays designed with the idea of economic profit. In the United States one of the most interesting periods in...
Score: 33.4 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Should the US Continue to Grant Most Favored Nation Trade Status to China?

An 8 page paper presenting the universalist's argument that yes, the US should continue to trade with China under the most favorable conditions possible. The paper presents the conservative, and some say uncaring, view as described by economics...
Score: 33.3 | View Suggested Executive Summary


C.B. Macpherson's 'Life And Times Of Liberal Democracy'

C. B. Macpherson's critique of the concept of liberal democratic ideals is based primarily on the assignment of equality over liberty. The prioritization can be either implicit or explicit, but is a very real part of the democratic process, which...
Score: 33.2 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Modernism and Postmodernism: Sociological Changes in a Modern World

A 6 page discussion of these sociological definitions. Specifies that the term "modernity" is used in most cases in reference to the emergence of modern world religions, religions which had evolved in response to a dramatically changing...
Score: 33 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Views on Poverty: Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes

An 8 page paper discussing specific views of these two economic theorists. Amidst all the equations, regressions and charts, it is difficult sometimes to remember that in its simplest form, economics is little more than "applied common sense." The...
Score: 33 | View Suggested Executive Summary


Representation Of National Identities In Media

This 50 page paper looks at the way in which national identities are created and represented in the mass media and applies this to the study of the Turkish national identity in the Turkish and the European media specifically looking at the Turkish...
Score: 32.6 | View Suggested Executive Summary


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