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Death Penalty Debate
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,665 words, approx. 6 pages)
The system of convicting and sentencing an individual to execution is flawed and discriminatory. It is morally wrong, killing should not be allowed under any circumstances. This view on opposition to the death penalty is held by many criminologists, religious leaders, philosophers, and other socio-academic leaders; yet, politicians use the death penalty as a way of showing the public they want to be tough on crime.
Debunking the Liberal Peace
Essay Grade: 92%   (2,048 words, approx. 7 pages)
Provides an analysis and dismissal of the "liberal peace" as proposed by Michael W. Doyle, a professor at Princeton University. References Immanuel Kant's essay Perpetual Peace.
Decision Methods -- SDLC
Essay Grade: 93%   (1,025 words, approx. 3 pages)
Explains how the System Development Life Cycle plan (SDLC) is an excellent way to implement a plan and help make decisions.
Defense Mechanisms
Essay Grade: 83%   (439 words, approx. 2 pages)
In the stages of Sigmund Freud's theory, there are unconscious strategies that people use to psychologically change what is reality, into what they would like to believe. These strategies are called defense mechanisms, and in some cases may cause the person to have emotional problems and depressing behaviors. They are used by the ego to defend itself against threatening thoughts and anxiety.
Deficit Spending: The Overuse of Credit Cards
Essay Grade: 83%   (777 words, approx. 3 pages)
Provides statistics on the number of Americans financing credit card debt. Denigrates the overuse of credit cards.
Defining Love
Essay Grade: 89%   (413 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay attempts to provide a description of the word "love."
Degrading Stereotypes
Essay Grade: 92%   (642 words, approx. 2 pages)
The fact that we stereotype people with such things as class, racism, gender, and disability get in the way of actually seeing the real person.
Deja Vu
Essay Grade: 95%   (997 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay provides a discussion about the phenomenon known as "deja vu."
Delphi and Its Workers in the Wake of Fiscal Crisis
Essay Grade: 88%   (584 words, approx. 2 pages)
The nation's largest supplier of mobile electronics and transportation and systems components for the automotive industry, Delphi has had to pursue cuts in the wake of fiscal losses. Delphi has improperly handled this situation with regard to their labor force, as the company demanded major concessions from the UAW and threatened to file for bankruptcy if the union rejected the demand. Rather than make demands to its workers, Delphi needs to seek compromise, as it is the only way for the company to emerge from their fiscal crisis without creating total hostility among its workers.
Democracy in Bosnia
Essay Grade: 86%   (2,167 words, approx. 7 pages)
Essay discusses the aspect of democracy in Bosnia.
Democracy: Is Perpetual War a Threat to It?
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,056 words, approx. 4 pages)
Questions if being in a perpetual war is a threat to democracy. References the book 1984 by George Orwell. Explores the policies of George W. Bush.
Depression
Essay Grade: 81%   (362 words, approx. 1 pages)
Describes what happens when a teenager is depressed. Given from a first hand perspective.
Depression
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,280 words, approx. 4 pages)
Explores the symptoms of clinical depression. Explains the many different types of the disease. Provides statistical data on occurrences. References personal experiences with the disease.
Depression - Symptoms and Treatment
Essay Grade: 83%   (265 words, approx. 1 pages)
This essay is about depression. Discusses its causes, symptoms and treatment. Reveals warning signs of depression.
Depression and Suicide
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,505 words, approx. 5 pages)
Depression and Suicide
Depression in Teens, Children, and Adolescents
Essay Grade: 83%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
An overview of depression and its impact on society, including a personal reflection of the author's own experience with the disease.
Descartes
Essay Grade: 83%   (514 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses why Descartes believed that his existence as a thinking being was the only thing of which he could be absolutely certain, and whether he was correct. Keywords: rationalism, rationalist, philosophy
Descartes and His "Crazy Thought Experiment"
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,444 words, approx. 5 pages)
Responds to Descartes First Meditation. Explores what is meant by the `evil demon thought experiment' and how it leads to such skepticism. Questions if there is any point to such crazy `thought experiments.'
Descartes' and Locke's Impacts on Views of Intuition
Essay Grade: 81%   (1,094 words, approx. 4 pages)
An examination of two professors' articles on the concept of intuition and the degree to which they are influenced by Descartes and Locke. Both scholars agree that the process of intuition is an important way to attain knowledge, but they have different supporting arguments and examples to illustrate their positions on the role of intuition.
Describe and Analyze Research Into Some of the Major Sources of Stress
Essay Grade: 86%   (704 words, approx. 2 pages)
The major sources of stress, and research that has been done.
Describe and Discuss One or More Explanations of Divided Attention
Essay Grade: 81%   (1,280 words, approx. 4 pages)
Divided attention refers to the ability to divide ones attention between two or more tasks. The focused attention models explain how all our inputs are focused on one task at any one time, however it is clear from looking at everyday life that we are able to divide our attention, successfully being able to complete more than one task at the same time.
Describe and evaluate research findings relating to conformity.
Essay Grade: 92%   (2,165 words, approx. 7 pages)
Discussion of factors of conformity and obedience.
Describe and Evaluate the Evidence That Would Suggests Schizophrenia Is a Genetic Disorder
Essay Grade: 92%   (856 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay describes and evaluates evidence that would suggest that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder.
Describe Popular Culture in the 1960s
Essay Grade: 78%   (652 words, approx. 2 pages)
In the 1950s, daughters tried to look like their mothers. In the 1960s, mothers tried to look like their daughters.' The 1960s was a period of rapid change in Britain and indeed the rest of the world.
Description of the American Electorate and Changes in Its Behavior Since 1952
Essay Grade: 96%   (2,372 words, approx. 8 pages)
This essay describes the American Electorate and its preferences in political movements. Characteristics of Democrats, Republicans and Independent Loyalists are outlined. The changes in preferences are described and explained as well as the possible causes of these changes.
Destructive Forces of Snowmobiles
Essay Grade: 81%   (639 words, approx. 2 pages)
The use of the snowmobile is inappropriate in consideration to our earths health and our health. Snowmobiling is just another form of transport that prevents us from really enjoying the winter season and what it brings.
Determining and Differentiating Approaches to Reason
Essay Grade: 86%   (428 words, approx. 1 pages)
This essay is centered upon the philosopher David Hume's work "Dialogues Concerning Natural Relgion." The essay works through Hume's appoarch to reason through the three speakers in his work. It explains the three speakers' (Cleanthes, Philo, and Demea) point of view in regard to philosophy and reason.
Development Leads to Degradation of the Environment
Essay Grade: 92%   (567 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay describes How the rapid rate of development in a country leads to the degradation of the environment.
Development of Countries
Essay Grade: 92%   (436 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses if the GNP is the most reliable indicator of the development of a country.
Development of Three Eastern U.S. Golf Courses
Essay Grade: 88%   (2,368 words, approx. 8 pages)
The financial, cultural, and demographic reasons for the development of golf courses in three towns on the U.S. eastern seaboard.
Development Theory
Essay Grade: 86%   (914 words, approx. 3 pages)
Examines issues involving the question whether modern societies represent "progress" over traditional societies. Questions how the deployment of these categories served to justify development policies and challenges in reclaiming the "dignity of cultures" for an alternative development perspective.
Devient Behavior
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,015 words, approx. 3 pages)
Provides a sociological look at deviant behavior observed through a student's original experiment.
Dictatorship vs. Democracy
Essay Grade: 85%   (1,139 words, approx. 4 pages)
Dictatorship vs. Democracy: This outlines both aspects and examples of dictatorships and democracies by comparing their similarities and differences.
Did Andrew Jackson Become a King?
Essay Grade: 88%   (550 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay shows how, through his term, Andrew Jackson became more of a King than anything else.
Did Piaget Underestimate What Children Understand about the Physical World?
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,376 words, approx. 5 pages)
Essay discusses if Piaget underestimated what children understand about the physical world.
Differences in Macro and Micro Level Theories
Essay Grade: 83%   (369 words, approx. 1 pages)
Explores differences in Macro and Micro Level Theories on individuals and their interactions. Describes the three major theoretical perspectives.
Differential Knowledge
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,996 words, approx. 7 pages)
This paper offers a refute to Descartes dream argument, by providing reasons for when we are able to differentiate between a dreaming state and an awake state, and therefore we are able to attain knowledge with certainty while awake.
Discrimination Against Homosexuals
Essay Grade: 86%   (862 words, approx. 3 pages)
Reviews discrimination against homosexuals in the past and present and recommends methods to prevent the discrimination.
Discrimination Against Immigrant Labor
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,073 words, approx. 4 pages)
Discusses the global mobility of human resources and how it is a key driving force of the currently ongoing economic and regional development all over the world. Explores the complaints of native workers who argue that the increase of immigrant labor has made the unemployment rate accelerated and brought more serious social problems like crime and prostitution.
Discrimination in the United States
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,104 words, approx. 4 pages)
Discusses discrimination in the United States. Provides a dictionary definition and then gives examples of discrimination. Explores the history of civil rights in the country.
Discuss the Research on Compliance and Conformity Underlining
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,194 words, approx. 4 pages)
Discuss the Research on Compliance and Conformity Underlining Factors that Enhance or Reduce These Behaviors.
Discuss Work & Negative Views about It. What Are the Qualities of Satisfying Work?
Essay Grade: 89%   (1,005 words, approx. 3 pages)
This essay was written for a subject known as Systems of Knowledge in Malta. This subject aims to give students sitting for A-levels to gain a holistic education.
Discusses Critically the View That Conscience Is the Voice of God
Essay Grade: 84%   (433 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay presents a critical view to see that conscience is the voice of God.
Discussion of "Language and Freedom"
Essay Grade: 94%   (909 words, approx. 3 pages)
A discussion of "Language and Freedom," by Noam Chomsky.  Also mentions Aristotle.
Discussion of The Essayist by E.B. White
Essay Grade: 94%   (222 words, approx. 1 pages)
Discusses "The Essayist" by E.B. White and analyzes his intent; Why did he write this essay?
Disney Movies and Society
Essay Grade: 93%   (1,474 words, approx. 5 pages)
This essay shows how disney movies reflect the society that we live in.
Divorce
Essay Grade: 86%   (964 words, approx. 3 pages)
Examines reasons why the U.S. divorce rate is at its peak. Details the four main causes of divorce, financial difficulty, women are more independent, infidelity, and couples are getting married at a young age.
Divorce and Its Effects
Essay Grade: 86%   (675 words, approx. 2 pages)
Examines the effects of divorce on the children. Describes the emotional and financial concerns of single parent families.
Divorce in the Philippines
Essay Grade: 90%   (726 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses the issue of divorce in the Philippines and how the general attitude toward divorce is that it is an easy way out.
Do the Events of September 11 Confirm or Contradict Huntington's Clash of Civilization Thesis?
Essay Grade: 92%   (2,564 words, approx. 9 pages)
Questions if the events of September 11 confirm or contradict Huntington's Clash of Civilization thesis. Concludes that the recent reaction in the Middle East to America's self-styled 'war on terrorism' provides a timely case study for this debate.
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