Category: History (Page 44 of 66)

Why Should you Care About Ovarian Cancer

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Write an essay about Ovarian Cancer. Define the disease and  provide relevant background information.  What are the signs and symptoms? What do you  look for? How do you  find them?  what are the problems involved with diagnoses, if any. Explain in detail the symptoms and describe how the  medication/treatments work . What do the intervention methods  target and how do they work?
Also discuss   the current research on the disease/condition? Are there any new and exciting things researchers are looking into? Why should we care about Ovarian Cancer? Continue reading

UN Guiding Principals

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Discuss the potential of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to act as a pragmatic and principled approach to ensuring corporate respect for human rights and corporate accountability for human rights abuses.  Discuss the effectiveness of at least two soft law mechanisms, such as the OECD National Contact Points and the IFC Compliance Advisory Ombudsman, Continue reading

Young Goodman Brown

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Compare any TWO critical approaches to the ‘Young Goodman Brown’ story. What is the focus of each approach? What element(s) of the primary text are important for each approach? What distinguishes both approaches to the text? Which approach do you find most compelling, and why?

Note that you are NOT analyzing the primary text, “Young Goodman Brown,” but are comparing two different critical analyses of the text. Use textual evidence from these critical responses in formulating your arguments about how they approach the literary text.  Continue reading

Barnes’ Private Art Collection

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Write a  response to the film Art of the Steal.  What do you think of the decision to move Barnes’ private collection to a public museum? Should the preservation and display of the work come at the cost of the collector’s stated intentions? Who should get to claim ownership over artistic/cultural objects: the collector, the artist, the artist/collector’s estate, the public, or the local or federal government? Continue reading

Annette Lareu on Unequal Childhood

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As the title of the book suggests, Annette Lareau in Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (2011) argues that the influences of social class and race result in “unequal childhoods.” Why are they unequal? How is this inequality produced? In her study, which status (race or class) does she argue is more influential? Continue reading

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