Essays on Anecdotal

Evidence from New York City and a Five City Social Experiment.”

In this paper, the authors reviewed the ongoing research being done on the “Broken Windows” theory of crime reduction in inner cities. The authors here look at a pair of studies designed to determine the efficacy of the Broken Windows theory and whether it has any validity at all. The reason the authors are considering this question is that considerable policing resources have been committed by major cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles toward implementing this theory. The following will review this paper, considering its evaluation of the theory involved. This paper by Harcourt and Ludwig is ...

The ‘pacifism and the war,’ is a literal piece by George Orwell as a response to accusations by other writers among others Woodcock and Mr. Comfort. It is a defensive response to the letters of accusations for his perceived role in the fascism war. He essentially addresses important themes that form the basis of these charges. The thesis of the literature thus focuses on the scope of the accusations advanced in the papers. As such, the audience of the paper includes the delivering agent and the authors of the accusing letters. It is a platform that he not only ...

Part One

The main purpose of the article is “to assess the concept of grade inflation in higher education institutions in an effort to determine its prevalence, causes, and strategies that can be implemented to curtail it” (Tucker & Courts, 2010, p. 45). The researchers used “A literature review of the problem, as well as several strategies, are presented as possible solutions to restraining the problem of escalating grades in the college classroom” to achieve their objective (Tucker & Courts, 2010, p. 45). The authors established that “The problem of grade inflation has been a topic of concern for over a century and ...

The relationship between music and emotions has long been the subject of philosophical discussion. In this sense, one of the greatest thinkers of all time, Aristotle, believed that music could decidedly and substantially modify a person’s way of being. If one were to listen to bad music for excessive periods of time, one would become a bad person; conversely, if one desired to be good, one would have to listen to the right kind of music. Nevertheless, it is important to critique this in three different ways, as it is a very problematic statement. First, one would have ...

Research is an important aspect when it comes to determining the course of a problem in a society and finding a solution to the problem. After my recent appointment into the organization, I discovered that there is little research that has been done with regards to working on solving the situation regarding youth homelessness in South Australia. Based on my survey, I found out that previous reports on the situation in South Australia had been based on hunches and anecdotal evidence which in my opinion is too shallow to help solve the situation. It is important that a deep ...

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For the millennial female workers of today, some employees already have a solution to free them of their worries regarding their biological clock – making egg freezing part of their health care package. Egg freezing is defined as a “method used to preserve reproductive potential in women,” which is also called mature oocyte cryopreservation (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2016). Through this technology, women who intend to delay pregnancy for whatever personal reason can do so. In 2014, Apple and Facebook were two of the companies who announced that they would include egg freezing in their surrogacy benefits. It was ...

Introduction

As a documentation of my personal experience, I got moved so much with anecdotes. Still, in the same line with my class work, I got to have a good experience with anecdotes. Therefore, it became my first choice when the teacher asked us to write about our personal experiences. The subject was within the context of the discussion. Furthermore, one can only get to have a feeling of an anecdote using the five senses. That is, the sense of touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste, through all these senses, I was able to in culminating my most interesting anecdote. ...

The articles “Roll Back the Red Carpet for Boys” by Donna Laframboise and “Our daughters, ourselves” by Stevie Cameron talk about gender inequality in the eyes of the public, but the truth is that both boys and girls are victims of discrimination. I support the equality and believe that boys should be treated as well as girls are and that girls should not be over-protected. There is the emotional appeal in the article “Roll Back the Red Carpet for Boys” because the author, who is a journalist, writes about the difficulties that young boys face during the process of ...

ABSTRACT

Stanley Elkins proposed a groundbreaking theory about the effect of oppression and totalitarianism on subject races, one that drew from multiple academic disciplines. James McPherson’s interpretation is more fact-based and less theoretical, drawing from anecdotal archival sources to develop an environment-centric picture of slavery in the Antebellum and Civil War periods. Ultimately, the success of African-Americans in all walks of life have tended to show that, as abolitionists argued, servility was a temporary product of the powerlessness of their situation in the plantation South.

Debating America’s Legacy of Slavery

James McPherson and Stanley Elkins represent two different approaches to the discipline of historical study and ...