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While the laugh track of the live studio audience will irritate anyone watching this show to no end, the portrayal of women in its first season would have women rights activist suing all the life out of the show, the mistaken pop culture references every now and then and the feeling that Hollywood has once again taken a shallow look at a long and evolving culture can make people rethink that The Big Bang Theory is really not a show that portrays nerd culture properly, it also cannot be denied that it has gotten a lot of things right more than it got ...

EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP AND STATE INVOLVEMENT

Employees and employers are parties which interact in a direct manner in the employment relationship. But there is also a third significant party that may not be involved directly and this is the state. The employees in Australia, just like in many other nations across the world, have had the need to be represented. Such representation comes in the form of labor unions. The employment relationship is currently in a changing process (ILO, 2006). It is imperative to understand the reasons for the state being interested in getting involved in the employment relations. This paper is going to focus on the issue ...

Since the National Collegiate Athletic Association, also known as the NCAA, already extends scholarships and funds to pay for tuition, fees, room and board, and other allowable expenses, the NCAA should continue not to pay the student athletes who participate in athletics. College sports are called college sports because athletes that are in the NCAA are students and not professionals. Just like any other job you go to college to hone your skills and advance them for the future. The advantages student athletes receive from the NCAA are more than generous. According to the “National Collegiate Athletic Association” (ncaa.org), ...

Death Penalty alias Capital Punishment refers to the execution of a convicted criminal who has been sentenced to death on the ground of a capital offense. Capital offense deserving death varies from country to country in the world. In most of the countries, death penalty is awarded for the offense of espionage, murder and treason. In Islamic nations, those guilty of sexual crimes including rape, incest, sodomy and religious offense are condemned to capital punishment. There are many countries where human trafficking, drug smuggling and serious crimes of corruption are considered as punishable offense by death. History of death penalty dates ...

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Child beauty pageants have been around for a long time. Brockman suggests they began in the 1960’s, although an article “Child beauty pageants” claimed the first one was staged in a hotel in Atlantic City in 1921, and that since the times of those earlier pageants, the pageant “industry” has grown to feature almost 25,000 pageants annually in the U.S. alone – a $5 billion per year business. As well as becoming much more common (and much more costly to enter), those pageants have also become highly controversial in a number of respects. This essay discusses some of the issues involved and ...

Lugene Rosen

English 100
Women on the Frontline
Following the existing debate on whether or not qualified women are equally entitled to be on the frontlines like men, lots of heated debate is generated. In January 2013, the United States military lifted its ban on women in ground combat positions, a policy that according to the information stated in the sources of Fox News (FoxNews.com) had been in effect since 1994. Skaine mentions that the ground combat positions were defined according to the 1994 policy as “engaging the enemy on the ground with individual or crew-served weapons, while being exposed ...

Qualified women are entitled to be in the frontlines too. In January 2013, the United States military lifted its ban on women in ground combat positions, a policy that has been in effect since 1994 (FoxNews.com). The 1994 policy defined ground combat as “engaging the enemy on the ground with individual or crew-served weapons, while being exposed to hostile fire” (Skaine, 7). This paper therefore takes the definition of ground combat as the meaning of the word “frontlines” which was earlier mentioned. The 2013 decision generated many opposing opinions about the issue. Different factors such as physical strength, emotional complications, ...

Death penalty or capital punishment is still practiced in some countries however this terrible act has been banned in a number of societies for several reasons. This issue has been widely discussed a number of times by the sociologists, scholars and other intellectuals of different societies. Some argue in favor of death penalty considering it necessary for maintaining law and order situation in the society while others criticize this act addressing it as legalized murder. This paper intends to discuss different aspects of the death penalty and finds a conclusion.
Death penalty is an act of killing, the only difference between a ...

Edith Wharton is an American novelist, short story writer, and designer of the end of nineteenth – beginning of the twentieth centuries. She is known as a three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first female owner of the Pulitzer Prize. Stories of Edith Wharton brilliantly show psychological and social insight of America’s privileged classes; they are written with humor and incisiveness. One of the late short stories written by Edith Wharton is Roman Fever (1934). The plot of the story concentrates around the meeting of two old friends, Grace Ansley and Alida Slade, their relationship ...

Almost all classic songs are about love. Since ancient times, artists have endeavored to write songs of love to stir the heart. Their works have ranged from the saccharine and sappy to the truly moving. In spite of the artists’ varied levels of accomplishment and artistic merits, each of these songs relies on certain tropes and exhibits certain qualities that are endemic to the “love song” genre. In all quintessential love songs, three tenets (common qualities) have stood out; simple lyrics delivered with sincerity, use of a saxophone and they are sung in moderately slow tempos.

Quintessential love songs ...

Documentary film is one of the most difficult genres of cinematography, firstly, because of its structure as well as due to the large number of approaches to the implementation of the idea. This genre originated over a century ago and nowadays it is undoubtedly one of the most difficult genres, since it is necessary to analyze a huge amount of material to identify the authenticity of historical facts in order to create a professional documentary film. The advent of documentary films made the cinematography a more profound art form, which became a part of the scientific world too.
Documentary film was the beginning ...

One of the writers whose name is William Faulkner said: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” As he said, past is still going. His quote is similar to the history of art. Throughout art history, we learn and imagine about our past and how people used art to represent their lives on their period. One of the artworks that people used to represent their lives is vase. People used vase both, as art work and as household item. It was used to store water or wine in it or something else. As the time passes ...

Eduardo Porter is a columnist and is writing the Economic section columns for the New York Times. He has written several articles, during his role as a member of The Times’ editorial board. He has written on several topics, which include business, philosophy, economics, and mix of several others. He has a vast experience in the field of Journalism and has been writing since last two decades.
As per his research on happiness and his analysis on the perspectives of psychologists and economists, happiness tends to be meant for subjective well-being. There are three parts, which include – satisfaction, positive feelings, and ...

The “National Collegiate Athletic Association” (NCAA) is an organization that manages, regulates and controls athletes of about nineteen hundred institutions in Canada and the United States. The organization operates on non-profit terms and organizes athletic program of various universities and colleges. NCAA is also responsible with the task of setting rules and guidelines to be followed during practice sessions and championships by the college athletes. According to the NCAA rules colleges and universities, can offer scholarships to student athletes in exchange of their services to participate in sporting activities. The scholarships mainly offered by the institution cover accommodation, tuition ...

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There is an old saying that goes says that, if a dog bit a man today, it would not provoke any extraordinary reaction from the public. However, if the man bit the dog back, it would certainly create a buzz in society. The essence of this analogy is to illustrate that there are qualities that make something qualify to be in the news. These qualities give an event, or whatever piece of information newsworthiness. Today, one would possibly think that if a celebrity face or story does not appear on the front pages of a newspaper or magazine, it won’t sell at all ( ...

It is clear that no martial arts would ever need to be banned from a sport that has been calling itself "Mixed Martial Arts." Different to what the opening scene to the first episode of the show called "The Ultimate Fighter: Live" mentions that, the sport of Mixed Martial Arts is something that is considered to be beyond just Boxing, Wrestling Muay Thai, and Jiu-Jitsu. When Mixed Martial Arts first started, the sport was not even looked as Mixed Martial Arts at all, because all that was contained within the "mix" was a list that was full of fighters who were ...

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Martin Luther King gave his famous 1963 “I Have a Dream” at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, before a crowd of 250,000 supporters and a television radio audience of hundreds of millions worldwide. It is widely considered one of his greatest speeches and indeed one of the greatest of any American in the 20th Century, with a brilliant use of Ethos, Logos and Pathos to support the Civil Rights bill being debated in Congress and to call for full and equal citizenship for all people in the United States. Today the speech is best remembered for the pathos of ...

According to Flint (2007), it is important that federal and state laws should require employers. Conducting background checks is an essential protocol that most companies follow. These checks are usually done by commercial data brokers and other private agencies specializing on the field. This is where the importance of conducting background checks comes into play. There have been a lot of negligent hiring cases that have been raised in the past few years. The trend in the increase according to Flint (2007), started after the 9/11 terrorism act that happened in 2001. Another important factor why background checks became a big ...