Chris Hedges’s book conveys its central theme in its title: “War is a force that gives us meaning.” However, it is not any single concept, but the composite, multi-faceted nature of war that makes it appealing. It is the purpose, the challenge, the sense of belonging, and the self-growth often created by war that causes […]
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While papers such as Klepper (2002) and many others argue that technological innovations lead to shakeouts, Scherer (1965), Mansfield (1968, 1983), and Mueller (1967) suggest that market concentration and large firm size are only weakly associated with innovation. Alexander (1994) shows one case, the music industry, in which technological changes actually resulted in a de-concentration
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In American politics, we have a bad habit of focusing our democratic attention on Presidential elections before anything else. One is more likely to hear someone say “Well, that’s democracy in action for you” about a bid for the US Presidency than a race for the District 3 seat in New York. Ironically, these smaller
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In American and other Western-modeled courtrooms around the world, an increasing insurgence of testimony pertaining to the innocence or guilt of thousands of battered women abused by their intimate partners, who later lashed out and killed their violent spouses, is being examined from a psychological standpoint. Here, I will examine the positive benefits, negative consequences,
The authorship of William Shakespeare frequently places the ultimate power in the hands of female protagonists, and by doing so, implicitly suggests that women’s involvement in politics at the sovereign level represents to society at large. To gain credibility as an autonomous leader, or the means behind the “puppeting” of a male in power, each
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Alasdair MacIntyre in his 2009 monograph God, Philosophy, Universities gives what he calls a “selective history” of the Catholic philosophical tradition. This history of philosophy is centered on the relationship between the trinity of factors expressed in the title: God, philosophy, and universities, and culminates in a concluding chapter in which MacIntyre gives some insight
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[Ed: the grade level of this essay is approximately 10th grade] Holden Caulfield is not a particularly accomplished individual; he finds no purpose in anything, not even his love life. He has already failed three prep schools, not including his current school of Pencey. Holden Caulfield thinks everyone, and everything is fake; anyone who does
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Around the late 1590s, Shakespeare penned the “most powerful and influential tragedy in the English language,” Hamlet. (“Hamlet”) Set in Denmark, this play tells the story of Prince Hamlet, who takes revenge on his uncle Claudius for murdering Hamlet’s father, taking over the throne, and marrying the Queen, Hamlet’s mother. But can it truly be
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A frequent example used in the study of industry agglomeration is the hi-tech electronics agglomeration in Silicon Valley, California. The general problem to investigate relates to what advantages either the agglomeration in itself or Silicon Valley confers to businesses that result in agglomeration. The next-largest agglomeration in the same industries, Massachusetts’ Route 128, eventually fell
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“Variety” in one form or another can be predictive of an individual’s choice to pursue self-employment, whether it is preference for variety, actual experience of variety, or a combination of both. Variety in experiences can manifest itself in different ways. Sources of knowledge about entrepreneurship can appear in family history, among friends, in education, in
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