Essays Tagged: "anomalies"

The Biology of Identity

THE BIOLOGY OF IDENTITY(In hopes to find the TRUTH behind "sexual anomalies") Without having any value judgments on sexual 'deviancy'- the word itself many see ...

(6 pages) 207 0 3.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Film/Video testimony of the Holocaust. includes an excerpt from ""Night" by Ellie Wiesel.

Violent events, such as the Holocaust, are perceived aberrations or anomalies from the cultural norm. Whether reason's include popular culture's morbid curiosity, a fil ...

(8 pages) 80 0 5.0 Feb/1995

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Vulgar rap lyrics, thier causes, effects, etc.

is important to look back through history for examples and patterns that are not merely short term anomalies, but objective sociological patterns. Music is undoubtedly very important to a large numbe ...

(2 pages) 212 4 4.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Aspects of the practice of science that may prove useful, especially in decision-making

es on with philosophical discussions - concepts of a "scientific world view", scientific paradigms, anomalies, and scientific revolutions. But perhaps central to the practice of science are "methods o ...

(3 pages) 39 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays

Compare and contrast the 1968 Franco Zeffirelli version and the more recent Baz Luhrmann version.

t in the Renaissance era and Baz Luhrmann's in modern times. We will embark on a voyage through the anomalies in setting, costume and omission in both versions and contrast and compare the two. We wil ...

(5 pages) 56 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Prometheus Justified: Blade Runner, Frankenstein and the Proper Usage of Violence

d Jean Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, it becomes quite clear that these anomalies were not only right in their violence but that it was the only solution given their advers ...

(4 pages) 47 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Title: The Great Moon Hoax author: Mohammad Basaj

raised the claim that NASA's Apollo Moon missions were faked ones. The claim was supported by many "anomalies" in Apollo photos taken from the surface of the moon as it should be. David Percy, an Asso ... In our view the Apollo pictures were faked. Many of the images are replete with inconsistencies and anomalies."We will try in this paper to view some of the points that some scientists have presented ...

(7 pages) 45 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Hows does changing the length of wire affect resistance?

variation; changeable." ) which can alter a potentially good set of results into a bad set full of anomalies. In this particular test there are five main variables.Length affects resistant, this is t ...

(6 pages) 52 0 4.3 Jul/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

What I now know about "Criminal Profiling"

rs. As a result, their interpretations tend to revolve heavily around personality and psychological anomalies. Mostly though, these assessments were provided after the fact (once a suspect was apprehe ...

(2 pages) 71 1 3.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

"Manly Medea" An analysis of Euripides' "The Medea"

t Greeks considered manly. Meanwhile, Jason seems to be much more meek and diminished. These gender anomalies are apparent through Medea and Jason's character traits, actions, and reasoning. Medea pus ...

(5 pages) 85 0 4.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Homework 2 How good is the Exponential Function Discounting Formula? An Experimental Study.

al Study.We studies in financial economics and behavioral finance always attempt to explain various anomalies documented in the empirical literature. Recently, Loewenstein and O'Donoghue extensive rev ... ime discounting, they conclude the discount utility model have little empirical support. One of the anomalies, they note, is the declining-discount-rates result established in the economic psychology ...

(1 pages) 1804 0 4.3 May/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Genetics and Progeria: The Disease of Premature Aging

orld of medical mystery. In the study of genes and the function is the study of disorders or rather anomalies within the gene make-ups of various individuals that caused malfunctions, or disorders. Ge ...

(6 pages) 27 0 5.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

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y begin to form. the new paradigm originates with new theories that are proposed as a result of the anomalies that were found. ?to be accepted as a paradigm, a theory must seem better than its competi ...

(5 pages) 44 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Disease vs. Sin

ve been raised. In the course of history, masturbation, syphilis, and AIDS have been seen as social anomalies that have framed disease.Since the appearance of AIDS in the late seventies and early eigh ...

(5 pages) 12 0 0.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Decisions in Paradise Paper, Part I

lication.Kava is an island of the South Pacific and as such is prone to suffer from weather related anomalies. Floods, hurricanes, tidal waves, tornadoes and typhoons are the weather related concerns ...

(3 pages) 129 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making

Does drug use cause crime or does crime cause drug use?

ody chemistry all combine to contribute to criminal behaviour.3. Psychobiological TheoryChromosomal anomalies, reactions to foods, vitamin deficiencies or environmental allergies combined with a parti ...

(8 pages) 44 0 3.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

A Serious Character By Carpenter

, in his admirably realized effort to analyze and posit explanations for the myriad ambiguities and anomalies related to Pound's character, life, and writing. Pound was, as Carpenter makes abundantly ...

(8 pages) 11 0 0.0 Feb/2011

Subjects: Art Essays