Essays Tagged: "GAP"

The Fight for Recognition

Maxton hardly even remembers the grueling work of plucking tobacco and twisting it up to dry in the gap-sided sheds that still stud the fields. The speckled brick houses and the tidy mauve and aquamar ...

(8 pages) 205 2 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

Tuition Aid

ool year,double the rate of inflation. Student aid is not increasing fast enough to plug thegrowing gap between tuition and family finances. In addition, there is a growingnumber of older students ent ... mily's Will StrainIt's going to be tougher to pay for college in 1996, and that's going towiden the gap in enrollment between rich and poor students that the nation hasstruggled three decades to close ...

(8 pages) 299 0 4.4 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

The Great Depression

1932 around one out of every four Americans were unemployed.The center of the problem was the huge gap between the country's creative ability and the ability of people to have. Great advances in crea ...

(1 pages) 129 1 3.9 Mar/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Explore the Meaning of the Play's Title: "A View from the Bridge"

the wedding when Catherine does not care. Also, Eddie dislikes Rodolpho and Catherine bridges that gap and tries to persuade Eddie to her point of view,"What're you got against him?...He only blesses ... om the rough area of the docks to something more 'up market'.The title could also mean bridging the gap between two cultures, America and Italy. The Italian way of life is very much based on unwritten ...

(2 pages) 80 0 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Technology and the Future, Who's In Control?

whelming amount of IBM software compared to Macintosh software. The reason for this ever-increasing gap of products available for an IBM-compatible computer and those available for a Macintosh is that ...

(3 pages) 171 0 4.0 Aug/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

"Canterbury tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer

h on the other hand was a beautythat, to some extent, deteriorated with age. She had a bold faceand gap-teeth which marked her beauty but also made her seempromiscuous. Their appearance is different b ...

(3 pages) 79 1 4.8 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucher

a critique of two articles, and an essay on why parents abduct

Greif and Rebecca Hegar. In the article, Greif and Hegar explain how they attempted to fill in the gap of information about the trauma of long-term abduction. Their findings appear in the book When P ...

(5 pages) 82 1 4.6 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Schizophrenia. Includes Esse Leete's experience.

withdrawn and sullen. I felt alienated and lonely and hated everyone. I feltas if there were a huge gap between me and the rest of the world; everybody seemed sodistant from me.' This excerpt describe ...

(6 pages) 81 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Arnold Schwarzenegger

His gap-toothed grin is one of the most recognized in the United States and the world. Broad shoulders o ...

(10 pages) 139 0 3.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Actors

An Analysis of Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale"

ding her prologue, to be the mostthought-provoking. The pilgrim who narrates this tale, Alison, isa gap-toothed, partially deaf seamstress and widow who has beenmarried five times. She claims to have ...

(4 pages) 182 0 4.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Human Subconcious. Analysis of the two books "Sphere" and "The left hand of darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin, and the movie "Enemy mine"

act that we might not be theonly civilization in this immense universe. Yet, there is still one big gap to be filled; we stilldon't understand how human nature works. Human nature is a very difficult ...

(5 pages) 45 0 4.0 Dec/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Total Quality Management

the center of every activity. The customer may be external or internal. The key is to determine the gap between what the customer needs and what the system delivers. Once the gap is recognised, it wou ...

(5 pages) 1898 12 4.2 Feb/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Blackfoot Indians

s originally came over to North America via the Bering Strait at a time when the ice age caused the gap to freeze over. They came from Asia by following herds and in search of more. During their trave ...

(9 pages) 75 0 3.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Essay about Jacksonians Presidency and what A Jacksonian Democracy is (timed essay)

nters and northern merchants now shifted down to the lower and middle class white males. The visual gap in appearance between the two extremes was also becoming less visible. These ideas of equality, ...

(1 pages) 61 1 3.2 Aug/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

advertisements

convinces us to think that certain things are in style. For example if you saw a commercial for the gap and it showed them all with paper bags over their heads. I am almost positive that close to one ...

(1 pages) 105 1 4.6 Sep/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Canada-U.S. unemployment rates. Why is Canada's so high?

Canada and the United States had been nearly identical. Since then, a persistent 'unemployment rate gap' has emerged. Throughout most of the 1980s, Canada's unemployment rate has consistently been abo ... ployment rate has consistently been about 2 percentage points higher than in the United States. The gap developed in spite of very similar economic performances across the two countries: the growth ra ...

(13 pages) 186 1 4.4 Oct/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Canterbury Tales - The Wife of Bath

ng her prologue, to be the most thought-provoking. The pilgrim who narrates this tale, Alison, is a gap-toothed, partially deaf seamstress and widow who has been married five times. She claims to have ...

(4 pages) 173 0 4.5 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucher

Deviance and social control.

ain theory and control theory.The strain theory states that deviance is more likely to occur when a gap exists between cultural goals and the ability to achieve these goals by legitimate means. There ... s of the crimes that injure people of lower status - is believed to be another major reason for the gap in a fair trial. In theory, if the victim less valuable, the crime isn't as severe, and neither ...

(4 pages) 453 2 3.5 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

"Chaucer's Opinion of The Wife of Bath"

and rather ugly woman. The physical appearance of the Wife of Bath described by Chaucer is "she had gap-teeth, set widely." Showing that her facial features weren't of the finest. She is dressed in ve ...

(2 pages) 46 0 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross An analysis of how weather and climate can be seen in the characters.

de the love that is lacking in her life. Through the material things she believes she can close the gap between her and her husband. Ross uses the weather and climate to construct characters that his ... e rain he brings more than originally thought with him. At first it seemed like he would bridge the gap between them, but during his stay he ends up separating them even more. Philip has longed for a ...

(8 pages) 83 1 3.9 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers