The Flash Kids Complete Curriculum series by Harcourt Family Learning are giant workbooks designed for children in grades Kindergarten through Sixth.

Halliburton Energy Services, of Houston, TX, will sell state-of-the-art LWD technology, services, and equipment to Nigerian company Drillog Petro-Dynamics Ltd., of Port Harcourt.

I first became aware of Logan Harcourt during my senior year of high school. He belonged to that clique of people who did not really belong anywhere, and who kept mostly to themselves. In short, he was a school pariah.

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) addresses educational reform, but the reality of NCLB is that it acts as a smokescreen, designed to make people believe that the Bush administration has the educational systems' best interests at heart.

Voltaire's Candide was a story that presented the harsh realities of a world filled with evil, selfishness, intolerance, and superstition. Through his novel he attacks the philosophy of optimism which asserts that all is well, when all is not.

William Faulkner's short story, A Rose for Emily, addresses the growing need for better care for mental patients in America during the early 1900's.

Controversial play A Doll House by Ibsen has received critical reviews due to the social disintegration it highlights. Ibsen's play is a narrative about the marriage of a couple that fails because they are unable to communicate and understand one another.

E.M. Forster's novel, A Passage to India, not only looks into the effect of colonization on the colonized, but also the colonizer. This essay looks at the role of the colonizer and how the colonizer is affected by colonization.

Determining where you come from is a very basic need held by most people, and tracing your ancestry can fill this need.

Anthropologists have studied the cultures of the world and have come to the conclusion that indeed, it does seem that marriage, in one form or another, is universal in all cultures.

Art is an important element of a society's ability to translate its religious belief to its members and to the world. Religion uses verbal arts, music, and pictorial arts in order to preserve its traditions and messages.

Religion serves many functions. It can be a catalyst for change, or it can serve to preserve social ideals and traditions.

Traditional theory of states have been used for millenia. But are such theories still applicable in today's world?

Political systems vary from culture to culture, and can take the form of a band, tribe, chiefdom, or a state.

Renaissance England was a hierarchical and oppressive environment for women. In this paper, I'll uncover the layers of female gender-role resistance as represented in Thomas Middleton's and Thomas Dekker's The Roaring Girl.

Though mostly known as one of New York's great Jewish Objectivist Poets, Charles Reznikoff wrote two novels that are often ignored. This research paper seeks to establish them as great artistic statements.

This Graduate Essay for American Literature examines Chestnutt's Marrow of Tradition for its historical impact, as well as its formalist strategies.

The family structure serves two anthropological functions: survival in numbers, and childcare.

Social stratification is the "division of society into two or more categories of people ranked high to low relative to one another." Stratification is present in almost every type of culture except in egalitarian societies.

The Highland Maya have an economic system called a cargo-system that encourages the re-investment of wealth back into the community.

People can be food foragers, pastoralists, horticulturists, or agriculturists. Each pattern of subsistence has its own level of stratification, settlement patterns, and degree of labor specialization.

What a person learns, how they learn it, early childhood experiences, and dependence training vs. independence training, all plot points on the person's cognitive map and outlines the basis for their personality.

The world is plagued by a serge of violence that has been generated by modern political structures. World hunger, pollution, and population growth all contribute to the increasing tensions felt around the world.

Even though Cricket was meant to Westernize the Trobrianders, it was evolved into a sport that embodied Trobriander ideals.

Sociolinguistics is the "study of language in its social context." This field of study focuses on structure and language use to gain a better understanding of human communication.

Cultures around the world share four common characteristics: culture is shared, it is learned, it is based on symbols, and it is integrated. This essayl examines how these four characteristics are applied in two different cultures.

Umberto Eco is a master of language. His new novel falls short, nevertheless.

The literary and artistic explosion that occurred in black America from roughly 1910 to 1940 is often referred to as the "Harlem Renaissance." Creative African American literature and art blossomed from all over the country.

The Internet has changed the ways we approach, construct and talk about romantic relationships, and altered the ways that we resolve romantic conflicts. This illustrates everydayness by having pros and cons similar to meeting someone face-to-face.

Acknowledged as one of the greatest writers that ever lived, Shakespeare was also one of the most mysterious.