In 2008, Rudra Sabaratnam, the CEO of the City of Angels Medical Center, committed health care fraud when he attempted to extort money from Medicare and Medi-Cal. He was wealthy, yet, his greed for more money led him to cheat the taxpayer-funded healthcare programs of millions of dollars, depriving the people who actually need the […]
Causes of Ketamine Addiction
Psychology of Drug Addictions Stephanie Boaz ABSTRACT Ketamine was first discovered in 1961 but not synthesized until 1962 by a man of the name of Calvin Stevens that worked with Parke Davis Labs (http://azarius.net/encyclopedia/39/Ketamine). Stevens discovered Ketamine when searching for a replacement for PCP anesthetics. It was not until 1965 that Ketamine was later used […]
Redemption in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Essay
Redemption in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Introduction Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas carol reflecting on the society thathe live in the Victoria Era. During the reign of Queen VictoriaBritain became one of the most Industrialised countries in European.From Britain Factories, mills, shipyards came products ranging fromsteam locomotives, to textiles and ship, while coal […]
The Life and Work of Mark Twain Essays
The Life and Work of Mark Twain Mark Twain, the pen name created by Samuel Langhorn Clemens, once stated that “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug” (Smith). This quote fits Twain superbly because he is considered to be the first purely […]
Essay on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensIn the book ‘ A Christmas Carol’, Dickens describes the poor, how theywere treated unfairly and how they were thought as animals rather thanhuman beings. Dickens portrays the rich as ignorant and selfish peoplethat think they are bigger than the world itself. Charles Dickens newa lot about poverty, as his […]
Are faces special? How?
Most of the people use faces to recognize others. Faces are important to signal identity, gender, race, mood, gaze direction, attractiveness and etc, however, faces would be hard to be differentiated due to the problem of structural similarity. It had been argued whether faces are special which are treated diversely from other objects by the […]
Anonymity and ‘Loss of Self’ in Crowd Theory
Phillip Tyler In locating and explaining the place of anonymity in the behaviour of crowds, and it’s association with a ‘loss of self’ (Dixon and Mahendra, 2012), an appeal must be made to crowd behavioral theory and evidence to support these theories. This paper will look to the history of the study of crowds, the […]
Violence and Freedom in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
More v Violence and Freedom in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, author, Mark Twain contrasts what life is like on the uncivilized shore compared to the peaceful life on the river. Huckleberry Finn is a character that rejects society’s behaviors and values because he does not want to be […]
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
More v The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain is a novel depicting an era of southern society and environment and the ignorance of southernism opposition to slavery. It is written in southern dialect and seen through the adventures of two boys from different societies running away from civilization. The author bases the […]
Huck Finn by Mark Twain
More v In the story Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the river symbolizes freedom. Huck goes on the river to get free from becoming civilized and to get away from his pap and Jim uses the river to get freed from slavery. Also the king and the duke use it to escape from angry towns. […]