Social Science Essays

Greed can be a very destructive part of everyone’s life. It can control our every action at times. Some people let their greed get out of control, which was exactly what happened in Salem during the witch trials. Three people’s greed brought up this whole tragedy of the trials, convictions and hangings. One person is […]

The world is a messed up place and we are all stuck here until our lives are through, or until we choose to leave. Its strange that I go along with everything everyone tells me, such as that I should ware certain cloths or listen to certain songs. I often wonder why I do the […]

Gung Ho, by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles was a wonderful book that discussed many important factors involved in making a company truly successful. It had a good storyline to help to tell the story of Gung Ho. When I first picked up the book to read it I really had no idea what to […]

It was a dreadful afternoon, big droplets of rain fell directly on my face and clothes. I tasted the droplets that mixed with my tears, the tears I cried after the incident. The pain in my foot was excruciating. It caused me to make a big decision of whether I should visit you or not. […]

stley inAn Inspector Calls. How do they respond to the inspectors questioning and what effect does this have on the audience? An Inspector Calls is a play set in Edwardian England in the Spring of 1912. It is just before World War 2 and the author J.B. Priestley tries to write to inform and change […]

The narrator in “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson is a low-class working citizen telling the reader, in detail, about a distinguished gentleman named Richard Cory who eventually “put a bullet through his head.” Almost everyone, including the narrator, would stare at him with awe every time they saw him. He was “imperially slim”(4), always […]

Bigfoot is, without a doubt, the most recognized mystery in all of North America. The apelike being has reportedly been sighted thousands of times since the beginning of the 19th century. According to eyewitness testimonies, Bigfoot, also known as Sasqautch, is a gigantic beast that towers in at eight feet tall and weighs as much […]

The dialogue opens up with Meno asking what virtue is and whether it could be taught. Socrates asks Meno for a general definition of virtue, since as Socrates points out, we cannot figure out if virtue can be taught if we do not have a clear idea what it is. Socrates is looking for a […]

Michel Foucault’s theory as portrayed in his article “What is an author” calls more about “Author function”. In his explanations about the author, Foucault comes up with a theory to support that “an author” remains an important perception in a literary world. According to his 1969 essay, he affirms that an author is a very […]

It is quite true that Sarah Penn and Grace Ansley come from contrasting social backgrounds and are separated in terms of place and period. Roman Fever is set at the turn of the 20th century and reflects the values and ethos of urban America at that time. Grace Ansley, though belonging to a particular historical […]

The Pursuit of Happyness was a commercially successful film whose main appeal is its ‘feel-good’ ending. It treads the much worn path of the rags-to-riches narrative, albeit with some variations in plot, characterization and context. This paper would argue that despite the commercial success of the film, it fails as a social instrument. In other […]

They simply knew he existed. Nevertheless, they attempted to prove his existence anyway, and the basic strategies employed by them are the ones used every since. Here two approaches are presented. The first, by Anselm, is perhaps the most puzzling. While it has not been all that popular with the average believer, it has fascinated […]

1.0 Introduction Prejudgment is the process of making premature conclusions or reaching decisions without having all the necessary evidence to aid in decision-making. This gives space for making wrong decisions or not taking into perspective other aspects of the problem or situation to make informed judgment. Judgment is the process of making decisions or coming […]

This study would help determine whether an academic performance gap do exist between third grade students who attended Headstart and those who did not attend Headstart considering that they have had the same first ad second grade learning experiences and instruction. In doing so, teachers would be able to identify the weaknesses and strengths of […]

This essay defines Bauman’s ideas that consumers are either the seduced or the repressed, and explains the difference between the seduced and the repressed. Our feelings of belonging or being excluded from consumer society, arguing for and against Bauman’s concepts and describing various concepts used to describe situations such as market power or coercion and […]

  Introduction The proliferation of home computers has been accompanied by a corresponding social problem involving the activities of so-called “computer hackers.” “Hackers” are computer aficionados who “break in” to corporate and government computer systems using their home computer and a telephone modem. The prevalence of the problem has been dramatized by the media and […]

In this paper, I am going to review a hugely popular movie that was released in February 2011. The film is about a resentful father who escaped from hell in order to chase after the devilish sect that slaughtered his daughter and abducted his granddaughter. However, as the father hunts for the murders he is […]

Comparative politics seeks to discover regularities and variations of political organization by comparative analysis of historical and contemporary systems. Having isolated these regularities and variations, it seeks to determine the factors which underlie them, in order to discover the properties and conditions of polities of varying types. It then seeks to reduce these observations to […]

Michel de Montaigne on Making Opinions In his three books of essays, Michel de Montaigne reflects upon his life to uncover some of the stable truths that will help to guide a man’s opinions. He claims that man is “miraculously vain, various and wavering. It is difficult to found a judgement [sic] on him which […]

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Lemos & Porto (1998) have written a research book on ‘technological change at work’. They distinguish three main areas in the change of work caused by new technology: work tasks and skills, job content and work organization supervision and control. Based on case studies and literature, they argue that new technology reduces the number of […]

Religion and religious institutions play a powerful role in influencing a society and the lives of its members. The sociological traditions of Marx and Durkheim view religion totally differently, yet they both agree that religion is a very important aspect of a society. During his career, Marx spoke little on the subject of religion. However, […]