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An Economic Comparison of American and Germany After the First World War (971 words, 3 pages)

After the end of World War 1, many nations from around the world suffered devastating economic downfalls, most notably are the United States and Germany. In the case of the United States from the years 1929 until 1939 the country was plunged into the Great Depression era. This was the ... Read More

A Comparison Between Transformational Leadership and Active Transactional Leadership (2403 words, 9 pages)

BackgroundOrganizations are comprised of people, and organizational behavior examines the ways that people behave as individuals and as groups. People in organizations generally follow some form of leadership, and these leaders direct the course of the organization on macro-level, which can therefore have impacts on the behavior of groups of ... Read More

A Comparison of Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe and The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving (530 words, 2 pages)

A Lithuanian proverb goes like this, As one devil goes out, another one comes in. Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe and The Devil and Tom Walker are all famous literary pieces based off of the classical Faust Legend. The main character of both stories lusts for something beyond them, knowledge, ... Read More

A Comparison Between Lucy by Skillet and Sonnet 90 by William Shakespeare (662 words, 2 pages)

Poems and songs are very alike in the way they are written and the way they are perceived. Often times, we read poems and sing songs with no consequence to why the stanzas and lyrics are written the way they are. Authors of any sort of written word have a ... Read More

A Comparison of the Characters in Everyday Use by Alice Walker and Two Kinds by Amy Tan (1186 words, 4 pages)

Even with all the differences and similarities the characters in both stories share, they still strive to do the best for one another, and even though they may not understand each other, they begin to understand themselves. The most important relationship in life is the one a child and their ... Read More

A Comparison of The Aeneid by Virgil and The Bacchae by Euripides (2018 words, 8 pages)

Reason v. PassionThroughout Ancient Greek literature, characters often act in extremes. Heroes find motivation through rage and act with blind, fiery emotion to win their battles seers and leaders achieve success after reasoning through complex puzzles and problems. Both are usually praised and rewarded for such qualities, but in The ... Read More

A Comparison of Aristotle’s The Nicomachean Ethics and The Republic by Plato (2796 words, 9 pages)

What is Goodness?For most people today, being a good person simply means following a set of commonly agreed upon moral guidelines. However, those guidelines have increasingly been getting blurred and convoluted from culture to culture and generation to generation. The question remains whether the definition of morality really can be ... Read More

A Comparison Between the Archetypes in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Book of Genesis (978 words, 4 pages)

Epic of Gilgamesh vs. The Hebrew Bible-GenesisThe Epic of Gilgamesh and the Genesis book of the Hebrew Bible share a certain number of archetypes. These archetypes are found in many of the myths in most of the religions that we hear about today. They have the same Noah-type archetype, a ... Read More

A Comparison Between the Principles of Intellectualism and Voluntarism (850 words, 3 pages)

Intellectualism and voluntarism both came into being around the Middle Ages in the eleventh and twelfth century. Many philosophers have argued for a long time about which side they think is the correct one, and the debate still continues till this day. Both of these topics of intellectualism and voluntarism ... Read More

A Comparison Between the Feudalism in Europe and Japan (842 words, 2 pages)

Feudal Europe and JapanFeudalism in Europe took place during the Middle Ages (400-1500 AD), and Feudal Japan occurred during the Kamakura, Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods (1185-1868 AD). Feudalism in Europe was a time when knights would fight each other to save the land of their lords, and in Japan, the ... Read More

A Comparison of I Had a Nice Time with You Tonight on the App by Jenna Wortham and No Need to Call by Sherry Turkle (974 words, 3 pages)

TechnologyIn a short article called, I Had a Nice Time with You Tonight On the App written by Jenna Wortham and another short article called, No Need to Call written by Sherry Turkle, they focus on technology and the way we can communicate with phones. Turkle speaks on how people ... Read More

A Comparison of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Little Women by Louisa Alcott (1942 words, 6 pages)

In the novels Pride and Prejudice and Little Women, Jane Austen and Louisa Alcott explore the struggle in which women face in establishing identities and their roles within male-dominated societies. Both authors explore these ideals by setting their novels in patriarchal societies where women are considered both lower-class and are ... Read More

A Comparison of the Book and Film Version of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (952 words, 3 pages)

To Kill a Mockingbird, is the greatest American novel of all time. This story tells the life of young Scout and Jem Finch, and their father Atticus, as they go through the trials of living in a small Alabama town.The film and novel To Kill a Mockingbird, have many similarities ... Read More

A Comparison of The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe and The Cat from Hell by Stephen King (995 words, 4 pages)

Depicted in the acclaimed short story The Black Cat (1843) by master of macabre, Edgar Allan Poe and The Cat From Hell (1977) by contemporary horror brilliance, Stephen King is a composition of suspense strategies, which engenders fear and curiosity that allows authors to manipulate their audience. Both pieces were ... Read More

A Comparison of Catherine and Cathy in Wuthering Heights, a Novel by Emily Bronte (1246 words, 4 pages)

Catherine vs. CathyEmily Brontes central women in Wuthering Heights, Catherine Earnshaw and her daughter Cathy Linton are vastly different from each other. Though both women appear to be intelligent and headstrong, it is the young Cathy who doesnt define herself by her emotions and relationships while being able to stand ... Read More

A Comparison of the Injection of European Christianity in Spanish America and China (1102 words, 5 pages)

Compare and Contrast The Assimilation of European Christianity into the Native Cultures of Spanish America and ChinaThe assimilation of Christianity into Spanish America and China was extremely important in determining the popularity of the world religions. Throughout the expansion, the countries had some aspects of the process in common, like ... Read More

A Comparison of the Works of John Singleton Copley and Theodore Gericault (666 words, 2 pages)

For those who have studied literature written in both the neoclassical and the romantic period depicting the many differences and similarities between them may have been a difficult task. Fortunately, for them two famous painters by the names of John Singleton Copley and Thodore Gricault were able to capture the ... Read More

A Comparison of The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks and We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2475 words, 8 pages)

Throughout the novels Iain Banks The Wasp Factory of 1984, and Lionel Shrivers We Need to Talk About Kevin from 2003 the authors depict the protagonists as subversive outsider figures, as they each have only one friend Franks Jamie, whom he can tell with ease I killed a few rabbits ... Read More

A Study of Plato’s Betrayal of Socrates and a Comparison of Their Philosophies (2637 words, 7 pages)

Platos Alleged Betrayal of Socrates?I thank God, he used to say, that I was born Greek and not barbarian, freeman and not slave, man and not woman but above all, that I was born in the age of Socrates, (Durant, 1933). Where Socrates ended and where Plato began in the ... Read More

A Comparison of the Works of Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo (1517 words, 5 pages)

One Body, Multiple MeaningsWithout a doubt, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are two of the most influential artists in the history of modern civilizations. With their array of detailed and accurate works, both da Vinci and Michelangelo are both regarded as two of the best artists ever. But despite these ... Read More

A Comparison of the Similarities and Differences Between the Websites Breitbart and Daily Kos (287 words, 1 pages)

Breitbart News and Daily KosBreitbart News and Daily Kos are two websites that post different news. They are very similar to each other in terms of the structure and content. However, both of the websites have a lot of advertisement besides the news that they promote. So, the websites also ... Read More

A Comparison of the Similarities and Differences Between the Two Characters in Narcissus and Goldmund and Their Eyes Were Watching God (2356 words, 7 pages)

In these two novels, Narcissus and Goldmund and Their Eyes Were Watching God, the two authors, Herman Hesse and Zora Neale Hurston respectively, both create characters that are lost in this world with no identity. Although these two novels are set in very different times and places the characters experience ... Read More

A Comparison Between the Realism of John Dons Scotus and the Nominalism of William of Ockham (1767 words, 4 pages)

The Problem of UniversalsScotus Realism vs. Ockhams NominalismThe problem of universals has been debated over the course of philosophical discussion, from its beginning into even its contemporary stage. It started in a general form from the Pre-Socratic philosophers assertion of the first principle that is the source of the universe. ... Read More

A Comparison of Billy Pilgrim with Jesus Christ in Slaughterhouse Five, a Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (744 words, 4 pages)

The Jesus of Slaughterhouse FiveThe Christian religious figure, Jesus Christ, is known for overcoming many obstacles in life through help from God. In the novel, Slaughterhouse Five, the main character, Billy Pilgrim, resembles Jesus Christ. Billys birth into a stable life, to then being the chosen one of the Tralfamadorians, ... Read More

A Comparison of King Richard III by William Shakespeare and Looking for Richard by Al Pacino (1035 words, 4 pages)

Representation is an organic process open to constant reshaping over time. Richards deceptive nature, pursuit of power and the allure of his evil remain engaging and significant today as they have a powerful and lasting impression on the audience as they follow his villainous deeds. Both Shakespeares King Richard III ... Read More

A Comparison of the Similarities and Differences on Love Between the Poems Venus and Adonis and A Lover’s Complaint by William Shakespeare (4102 words, 9 pages)

Shakespearean Poetry on Love, Comparison and ContrastAlthough Shakespeare is well known for his plays and sonnets, his other poetry is less popular, even though some of it is quite complex. Here two of his lesser known love poems are compared Venus and Adonis, published in 1593, and A Lovers Complaint ... Read More

A Comparison of Metropolis by Fritz Lang and 1984 by George Orwell (1171 words, 3 pages)

FinalFor the most part of the 20th Century, fear of fascism was strongly perpetuated throughout the world and instigated unprecedented anxiety among society. Deteriorating social conditions decreased morale as the globe was plagued by near consecutive wars. As society transitioned into eras of pre World War II unease and Cold ... Read More

An Architectural Comparison of the Heydar Aliyev Center and the Guggenheim Museum (486 words, 2 pages)

Past, Present, FutureZaha Hadid once said, As an architect you design for the present while being aware of the past, for a future that is unknown. This philosophy is evident in the Heydar Aliyev Center that she designed in 2013. The Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright seems to have ... Read More

A Comparison Between Calvinism and Catholicism in The Truman Show, a Movie by Peter Weir (2213 words, 7 pages)

Calvinism vs. Catholicism in Truman ShowSomebody help me, Im being spontaneous! This quote from Truman, a man unknowingly residing in a constructed reality T.V. show, captures the theological controversy behind the movies portrayal of free will. The film revolves around his spontaneity, his capacity to make decisions, making it the ... Read More

A Comparison of Western Culture in Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (399 words, 2 pages)

Figure 1 (185, full page)Marjis Versus Western CultureOn page 185 of Marjane Satrapis Persepolis, the differences between Marjis fundamentalist background and Western culture becomes quite obvious, as Marji struggles to adjust to the lifestyle of the local Austrians. After Marji moves to Austria, there is a sudden development in her ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013