http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com Subjective notion of happiness has been studied in many disciplines over centuries. People spend all the life searching for happiness and peace. They try to reach frivolous dreams in a hope to find happiness. The thing is that people need to look inside t... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185978_22.html 13th July 2007 The phenomenon known as ‘yo-yo’ dieting is very dangerous for health. Only imagine what is going on in your stomach when you start eating chocolate, sweets, pizza and etc. (sometimes people eat all these products at once) after a diet. If I were your ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185977_17.html 13th July 2007 In our society when abnormally thin models have become an icon, fat people sometime become ‘laughing-stocks’. They suppose that if they become slim, their life will cardinally change. If you have never been on a diet, I’ll call you a lucky person. S... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185976_17.html 13th July 2007 This article is devoted to a mixed method research design. In the article special attention is paid to quantitative and qualitative approach for the design of a research as essential components of a mixed research paradigm. There are main research paradig... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185975_22.html 13th July 2007 The Scientific Revolution became a real break in the development of science. It influenced the development of philosophical and religious thought being the major contradiction and innovation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and had a great infl... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185974_22.html 13th July 2007 Despite of the Eastern Europe where the scientific thought did not exist as a notion and the notion of science was replaced by a notion of phylosophy, in the Western Europe the power of religion existed controlling all the spheres of state. In the sevente... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185973_22.html 13th July 2007 The article analyzes the film critically making allowance for its setting, color and sound, editing and effects, plot features, screening, design, camera work, acting and directing. At present, cinema is widely recognized for its power as a way of cultura... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185972_22.html 13th July 2007 This article gives the analysis of the Italian film industry in general and then goes on to the film “Cinema Paradiso". In 1942 there was screened “Four Steps in the Clouds” directed by Blasetti. This film is about a humble employee and it is regard... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185971_22.html 13th July 2007 The history of the Italian cinematography began right after the Luminere brothers had discovered the medium. At that time Pope Leo XIII was shown on the screen for a few seconds while blessing the camera. The Italian film industry appeared between 1903 an... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185970_50.html 13th July 2007 Cinema plays an important role in the life of any society. The cinema has become a part of the modern way of life. There is no denying the fact that the cinema is an excellent vehicle of culture. Its possibilities are unlimited. In the earliest years of t... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185969_50.html 13th July 2007 Information security refers to all levels of cyber security. Information storage is of primary importance for corporations, states and individuals as users of the Internet. Information cyber security is aimed at securing data. Corporations, states and ind... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185968_81.html 13th July 2007 The peculiarity of corporate cyber security is the usage of attack prevention security tools. Corporations apply three major tools for protecting computers against application-based attacks. They are: antivirus programs, virus prevention systems and appli... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185967_81.html 13th July 2007 Many organizations are building virtual private networks. It gives the possibility to connect directly one office or another via the Internet. The Internet is a means of communication between several offices. The danger of such connection is the absence o... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185966_81.html 13th July 2007 A basic understanding of computer networks is necessary for understanding the elements and principles of the Internet security. There are tools that can be used to reduce the number of networking attacks. In the modern world of risk to the security comput... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185965_81.html 13th July 2007 The future of security tools has changed greatly for the last several years. Today the network must respond to network attacks maintaining the network reliability, business performance and cyberspace security. The aim of cyber security issue is to make th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185964_81.html 13th July 2007 Network security is a complicated issue. Nevertheless, with the increase in the number of Internet users, a great number of people need to realize the major aspects of network security. This essay deals with the security concepts at national, corporate an... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185963_81.html 13th July 2007 Daniel Miller also identified shopping as something that produces either pleasure or anxiety. There are some people who find pleasure in spending money. There are consumers who are considered “alternative”; these are individuals acting collectively or... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185743_29.html 12th July 2007 In malls, the major activity that is performed by the people is shopping. In Bowlby’s article, shopping is defined as a consumption-oriented movement in a space where one has the possibility of making purchases. Shopping has something to do with buying,... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185741_29.html 12th July 2007 There are many facets to the consumer or mall goer: as shopper, as chooser, as communicator, as character explorer, as pleasure seeker, as rebel, as victim, as activist, and as citizen. As shoppers, mall goers’ time is characterized by window shopping a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185740_29.html 12th July 2007 Considering the shoppers is also a requirement in constructing a staged spectacle. Inside the mall, the shoppers consider the name of the store, quality of the product, the kind of service it offers and the store’s window display when choosing a mall st... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185739_29.html 12th July 2007 There is also a new trend in malls today. It is the commodification of nature, or the increasingly pervasive commercial trend that views and uses nature as a sales gimmick or marketing strategy, as is manifest in production of replicas or simulations. Fou... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185738_29.html 12th July 2007 The department store offers an image of service. Customers are served and treated like kings and queens. Sales representatives assist their customers just so they spend their time there. On the contrary, the supermarket displays an image of independence. ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185737_29.html 12th July 2007 Boutiques understand the need for the items they produced to be displayed in a space that would match the inherent quality they offer. They display their products in the space available for them for the shoppers to try on. They also have display windows a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185736_29.html 12th July 2007 Working side by side with the creation of this staged spectacle, the creation of identity in malls, shops and boutiques are also functional. There are two systems that can bring about the creation of identity: 1) obsessive repetition of iconographic elem... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185735_29.html 12th July 2007 The mall is said to be a transmitter of culture, a shopper's paradise to escape the chaos of daily life in a postmodern world. A mall is a space, which the individual ‘re-appropriates’ in an effort to construct a self, and as a place where a woman mig... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185734_29.html 12th July 2007 We are in an epoch wherein space is controlled by men. We are forced to alter and compress space in how we represent the world to ourselves. With the availability of the modern techniques of simulation, we create a world within our world, and this can be ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185733_29.html 12th July 2007 The human race has indeed gone far with technology. From the age when he still used wooden and stone tools to a powerful era of silicon and steel, he ceased to be a helpless prey to a number of predators to become a god among beasts. And now, technology a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185732_45.html 12th July 2007 On the other hand, sufficiency of evidential matter relates to the quantity of evidence the auditors should obtain. As previously mentioned, there are no fast rules fixing the number of evidence the auditor should have. In this aspect, the auditor exercis... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185731_15.html 12th July 2007 Competence relates to the quality of evidence obtained, and is evaluated in terms of relevance and validity. The relevance of evidence should address and meet the audit objective being tested. Let us illustrate the audit of inventory to expound on this ch... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185730_15.html 12th July 2007 The result of a company’s daily transaction of business is summarized in the financial statements. In these statements, we can see how established the company is, if it is earning or not, and if it is using its resources well. As such, the preparation o... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185729_15.html 12th July 2007 The way of portraying men in the sitcoms of 1970s is important for understanding gender roles in sitcoms. Men were portrayed as the only decision-makers and the only responsible and “adult” persons in the society. Both Leave it to Beaver and All in th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185728_22.html 12th July 2007 King of Queens is the easiest to define as the post-feminist sitcom. King of Queens’s plot is about two divorced mothers, who were friends since childhood, and who now live together in the apartment in New York, bringing up their three children together... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185727_22.html 12th July 2007 The traditions of media coverage of sexism issues change in the late 1980s and in 1990s. One final sign of the ascendance of post-feminism in 1990s television was the decline of the primary form for representing feminism in 1980s television: the single wo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185726_22.html 12th July 2007 Sitcoms worked to naturalize woman’s place in the home, and, as the Leonard review quoted above indicated, at the time of All in the Family‘s debut, sitcoms depicting women within familial settings were still a dominant form. The significance of the s... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185725_22.html 12th July 2007 Leave it to Beaver has received substantial attention from television scholars. These discourses include popular understandings of second-wave feminism encouraged by media coverage of feminist activity, the generic parameters and functions of situation co... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185723_22.html 12th July 2007 This article discuses, analyzes and compares the feminism-related TV sitcoms of 1950-70s with current sitcoms. Both groups of sitcoms are focused on the life of thirtieth, unmarried, working women and their network of friends and co-workers in USA. Their ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185722_22.html 12th July 2007 As the time lapses the scene of action together with the main character transfers from Chicago to Los Angeles. James changes his activity. Now he is a writer. He still maintains close relationship with Leonardo, who remains his faithful friend and tutelar... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185721_50.html 12th July 2007 The book under analysis is the work by Frey James My Friend Leonard. This choice was spurred by controversial reaction it provoked among the public and literary critics. This novel is, actually, a sequel to the book A Million Little Pieces published a yea... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185720_50.html 12th July 2007 Many of the strongest European pharmaceutical firms adopted this strategy, seeking to develop their own capabilities across a relatively narrow front while working with biotech startups. The small, university-linked biotechs were at first almost entirely ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185719_22.html 12th July 2007 According to Zucker, in biotech and pharmaceutical industry proximity to potential knowledge-assets and opportunities for commercialization constitutes s a great stimulus to entrepreneurship, especially around “star” scientists or entrepreneurs. In th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185718_22.html 12th July 2007 One of the biotechs was Repligen, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm (founded in 1981) that specialized in efforts to develop treatments for cancer and inflammation, as well as AIDS. Typical in several regards of the new pattern of R&D was the experience of... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185717_22.html 12th July 2007 Achilladelis and Antonakis conducted a historical study of the dynamics and tendencies of technological innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. From this standpoint, pursuing increase in market share, major pharma companies undertake mergers and acquis... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185714_22.html 12th July 2007 In contemporary context, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors are characterised by a high level of competition and innovation. Some fifteen or twenty years ago biotechnology, which was heavily depended on advances in molecular biology, and pharmac... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185713_22.html 12th July 2007 The picturesque style of novel began in the 16th century as a counterbalance to the chivalric romance. Some of the properties of this form are that it features protagonists from the lower classes, but draws on characters from various social classes. The ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185712_50.html 12th July 2007 In 18th Century England, a new form of literature was evolving: the novel. Epistolary novels like Samuel Richardson’s Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded portrayed women as virtuous creatures whose sexuality was bartered like a commodity. An epistolary novel w... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185711_50.html 12th July 2007 There was enormous change throughout the 18th Century. In America, the American Revolution happened, freeing the citizens from the tyranny of Britain. In Europe, the French Revolution occurred, laying the format for democracy. The landscapes of both count... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185710_50.html 12th July 2007 Abnormal Psychology is filled with small diagrams of the brain that illustrate the structures that are affected or influenced by the abnormalities. Each and every disorder involves a particular structure in the brain. These diagrams help the students to u... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185709_22.html 12th July 2007 Abnormal Psychology is a ground breaking text on psychology, science and human understanding. The readers of the book will get a good understanding in the classic research of abnormal psychology. The book involves various research results, theories, treat... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185708_22.html 12th July 2007 This is a theoretical framework for a political situation where the Military and State struggles for control. This article discusses the nature of praetorianism or the politicization of the Military. It also discusses the level of Professionalism in Hunti... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185707_22.html 12th July 2007 The theories or concepts formulated by Samuel Huntington and Takashi Shiraishi would provide the framework for this study. The military is the coercive arm of the state for defense and internal security. Without the military, the state can hardly survive.... http://www.articlealley.com/article_185706_22.html 12th July 2007