Essays Tagged: "precarious"

Moral and choices in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy

's seducer and husband). It is these three major characters whom Hardy chooses to place in the most precarious moral and social dilemmas. It is through these characters and their dilemmas that Thomas ...

(6 pages) 131 1 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Chaucer and the "House of Fame". Discusses the cultural nature of fame and its textual expression with reference to oral heroic poetry and the modern construction of the canon of English literary trad

in theeternal preservation of great works and their creators. However, Chaucer is quick tonote the precarious nature of 'fame' noting the unreliable process of attaining it and itspotentially momenta ...

(8 pages) 64 0 1.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Delegate model with the truste model of representation.

a few select persons to make decisions which will affect literally thousands of people seems a bit precarious; it's tough to imagine the amount of responsibility these few people hold. As citizens of ...

(3 pages) 38 0 1.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

World war one.

e brink of war in 1911, with Britain and Germany in an arms race and all the great powers locked in precarious alliances." (Pg 40) A soldier's wife received her husband's journals that he wrote while ...

(21 pages) 149 0 2.8 Jun/2003

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

Persuasive paper: Sweatshop benifits. A look from the worker's point of view. Why it is not a negative experience.

orrupt but also a necessary evil. For all the misery they can engender, sweatshops at least offer a precarious escape from the poverty that is the developing world's greatest problem.Globalization has ...

(5 pages) 169 1 3.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Age Discrimination in Reverse.

and perhaps worse because it is not as recognized or addressed. For people under 30, jobs are often precarious and short lived, if there are any to begin with. For example, according to the U.S. Depar ...

(5 pages) 124 2 4.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

The Rise of Adolf Hitler

w the economy crumble to an all time low. These unfavourable factors combined to create a nation of precarious stature, a country which was looking for a saviour. This came in the form of fascism, an ...

(6 pages) 77 1 4.8 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Theme of love, money and marriage in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

nt position marriage was the "only honourable position", infinitely preferable to the dependence of precarious shabby-genteel spinsterhood. Money was, therefore, a very significant aspect of Austen's ...

(4 pages) 113 0 4.8 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Emile Durheim

usually has difficulty maturing. Hardly does it grow free of uncertainties, it is usually vague and precarious of that sector of reality toward which it is oriented; if it devoid of a clearer self-ima ... What about those who are by standers? For instance, in a situation like that of Georgia, it will be precarious to insinuate that every body around enjoined in the mob action. Surely, like I said previ ...

(25 pages) 150 1 4.8 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

The International Criminal Court

how to deal with the sins of the past can fall by the wayside. Often, the successor regimes are in precarious political positions that make any serious attempt to prosecute the offenders of the previ ... nders must be held accountable for their crimes. If the position of the successor government is too precarious for any form of prosecution, then there is also the loss of a deterrent factor. When huma ...

(19 pages) 260 1 4.5 Oct/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government > United Nations

A letter to my unborn child

ht you into this world because I hope to pass on some of the things that I have learned through the precarious experience of living. I have patient and loving parents to thank, as well as caring teach ...

(2 pages) 24 0 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

International Criminal Justice Agency

how to deal with the sins of the past can fall by the wayside. Often, the successor regimes are in precarious political positions that make any serious attempt to prosecute the offenders of the previ ... nders must be held accountable for their crimes. If the position of the successor government is too precarious for any form of prosecution, then there is also the loss of a deterrent factor. When huma ...

(5 pages) 52 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Kardell Paper Co.:Integrating a Stakeholder-Centic Model into a decision-making framework.

older-centric' perspective into their decision-making framework, KPC is ensuring that the currently precarious social contract that exists between themselves and society at large is maintained, and po ...

(15 pages) 120 1 4.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Should Guns be legal?

iminals. Conversely, I think having a gun around the house or carrying a gun is extremely risky and precarious. Now allow me to explain how and why?To begin with and most importantly, it is really dan ...

(2 pages) 12 0 0.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Gun and Weapon Control

Riordan Financial status and analysis

financial statements and the computations of its financial ratios suggest that the company is in a precarious financial state. While Riordan has some working capital and an acceptable current ratio, ...

(4 pages) 281 0 4.5 Dec/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > E-commerce

Riordan Manufacturing's Financial State

financial statements and the computations of its financial ratios suggest that the company is in a precarious financial state. On a positive note, its current ratio is close to the ideal, which signa ... financial statements and the computations of its financial ratios suggest that the company is in a precarious financial state. While Riordan has some working capital and an acceptable current ratio, ...

(14 pages) 384 0 5.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Self Help

ow to better succeed in the field, when I attempt to enter it. If I find owning my own business too precarious to my liking, I will change to a field that involves working for someone else but still c ...

(1 pages) 9 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Ethnicity

, rituals, and general patterns of living. The word "˜ethnicity' is indeed one that has had a precarious history but in taking on board its weight and a clear understanding of it, much about soc ...

(4 pages) 109 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

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arth and buckets of water to re-smear the mud walls, and they had found two idle men to rectify the precarious tilt of the wooden poles of the mud hut" (p.431). Just as the villagers give life t ...

(2 pages) 1097 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers