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A Comparison of Augustus and Beowulf as Leaders and Heroes (2643 words, 3 pages)

Augustus and Beowulf are two great champions, idols, gallant, bold, courageous creatures. To sum it up in one word any historian would argue that these two are famed heroes. The word hero means a figure in mythology and legend renowned for exceptional courage and fortitude. Many aspects of each ones ... Read More

A Comparison of the Sophisticated Features of Cell Phones and CB Radios (355 words, 1 pages)

Cell Phones and CBs A good way to understand the sophistication of a cell phone is to compare it to a CB radio or a walkie-talkie. Simplex vs. Duplex Both walkie-talkies and CB radios are simplex devices. That is, two people communicating on a CB radio use the same frequency, ... Read More

A Comparison of Radial Prejudices in Black Boy Richard (833 words, 1 pages)

Black Boy Essay In the book Black Boy Richard had a bad upbringing. He had to deal with many negativities with his father abandoning him, his mother abusing him, the anxiety moving from place to place and the racial prejudice of his time. Richard grew up in the 1900s in ... Read More

A Comparison of Different Theories of Aggression (1382 words, 2 pages)

Social Learning Theory Aggression Aggression is behaviour intended to harm another. Aggressive behaviour can be verbal, physical or indirect. The social learning theorists view aggression as a behaviour that is learned through observation and maintained through reinforcement. Within this essay I shall discuss the limitations of these views, as well ... Read More

A Comparison on John Berger and Jane Tompkins View on Art (1177 words, 2 pages)

John Berger's writing "Ways of Seeing" is a look into the world of art. Throughout his composition, he gives his opinions on various topics about art. Jane Tompkins essay "Indians Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History" is a look into the world of history. Within her essay, Tompkins discusses ... Read More

A Comparison of Big Bang and Steady State Theories of Creation (1283 words, 5 pages)

It is always a mystery about how the universe began, whether if and when it will end. Astronomers construct hypotheses called cosmological models that try to find the answer. There are two types of models Big Bang and Steady State. However, through many observational evidences, the Big Bang theory can ... Read More

A Comparison of Child Adoption in Baby Boom and Three Men and a Baby (1717 words, 3 pages)

The two movies I have selected to review are Baby Boom starring Diane Keaton, and Three Men and a Baby starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson. They both came out in 1987 and although they are similar in topic, they were received very differently by critics and audiences. ... Read More

A Comparison Between the Inca and the Aztecs (550 words, 1 pages)

The Inca and the Aztec were alike in some ways but also had very large differences. The Inca lived on the northeastern coast of South America from 1450 AD to 1535 AD. The Aztecs lived in central Mexico from 1325 AD to 1523 AD. Let's look at the agriculture. The ... Read More

A Comparison of Death Between Works of Ambrose Bierce and Ernest Hemingway (1372 words, 2 pages)

English - Book Reports Bierce and Hemingway Death is an intriguing thing. From time immemorial we have feared it, used it, pondered it. Frequently, stories allow the reader into the minds of those immediatly surrounding the one who will die but all of us "will die." Our morbid interest is ... Read More

A Comparison Between the Writings of Alice Walker and Amy Tan (916 words, 2 pages)

Alice Walker and Amy Tan are authors who base much of their writings on their cultural heritage. Their stories are different because Walkers characters struggle due to their heritage while Tanscharacter benefits from it. Alice Walker was born in 1944 in Eatonton, GA. The youngest of eight children, her parents ... Read More

The Comparison of “The Miracle Worker I” in Play and in Movie (444 words, 1 pages)

After reading the play, The Miracle Worker I thought a lot of things were different then from the way they showed it on the movie. The plot was all the same though the only difference was that in the movie they skipped some scenes that weren't as important. I thought ... Read More

A Comparison of “A Midsummer Nights Dream” and “Romeo and Juliet” in Their Themes of Love (621 words, 1 pages)

A Midsummer Nights Dream can be compared with the play Romeo and Juliet. They both encompass many of the same themes of love. Love is prohibited, true, lustful, and desired. In A Midsummer Night's Dream Lysander demonstrated the overriding theme of both plays, "The path of love never did run ... Read More

A Comparison of Characters in The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible (1145 words, 2 pages)

Living under a strict society where the system and all of its components were based on God, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Judge Danforth from Arthur Miller's The Crucible were bound to suffer from the Puritan values which they believed in during the Puritan era. ... Read More

A Comparison of “A Doll House” by Henrik Ibsen and “Madame Bovary” by Gustave Flaubert As Social Critiques (1208 words, 2 pages)

Gustave Flaubert and Henrik Ibsen are both known as great writers and harsh social critics. In fact when Flauberts masterpiece Madame Bovary was released, he was arrested on the grounds that his novel was morally and religiously offensive to the public, despite the fact that it was a bestseller. Also ... Read More

A Comparison on the Teachings of Islam and Christianity (1340 words, 2 pages)

Christianity and Islam are two religions with very strong followings which still exist today. They are two slightly different religions, but both have strong origins and powerful support which helped them to survive through the fall of the Roman Empire and into the middle ages. There are several key events ... Read More

A Comparison of Ideas in the Epics Odyssey and the Aeneid (1056 words, 2 pages)

Both the Odyssey and the Aeneid share some similarities as epics both describe the trials of a heroic figure who is the ideal representative of a particular culture. There are even individual scenes in the Aeneid are borrowed from the Odyssey. Yet, why are Odysseus and Aeneas so unlike one ... Read More

A Comparison of the Baby Party by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Regarding the Problem New Born Piglets in Winter by Chen Rong (408 words, 1 pages)

In the story "The Baby Party" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "Regarding the Problem of Newborn Piglets in Winter" by Chen Rong, both authors try to convey a message of "much ado about nothing." Characters in both stories focus on an issue or problem that is not important, which ends ... Read More

A Comparison Between Taoism and Confucianism (1995 words, 6 pages)

Taoism is one of the two great philosophical and religious traditions that originated in China. The other philosophy native to China is Confucianism. Both Taoism and Confucianism began at about the same time, around the sixth century B.C. China's third great religion, Buddhism, came to China from India around the ... Read More

A Comparison of the Philosophies of Gould and Lloyd (1791 words, 2 pages)

Gould v. Lloyd Are government regulations really needed in the late 1800's to stabilize industrialization or is "control by the government...contrary to our institution..?" To better describe the long time feud between ideas, we will be using two documents titled "Testimony before the U.S. Senate, 1883" and "The Political Economy ... Read More

A Comparison of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in Foreign Marketing (2634 words, 4 pages)

Coca-Cola, which sold 10 billion cases of soft-drinks in 1992, and Pepsi now find themselves asking, "Where will sales of the next 10 billion cases come from?" The answer lies overseas, where income levels and appetites for Western products are at an all time high. Often, the company that gets ... Read More

A Comparison of the Revolutionaries During the Russian Revolution and the French Revolution (1416 words, 2 pages)

Revolutionaries in both France and Russia were not entirely successful in putting their ideas into practice during the revolutions due to diplomatic and populist constraints. No revolutionary movement was able to enforce their entire ideology on the populace so therefore had to make compromises on many issues. The revolutions contradicted ... Read More

A Comparison of Lady Catherine and Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (592 words, 1 pages)

In Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice, Lady Catherine and Elizabeth Bennet are absolute opposites. Jane Austen portrays Elizabeth Bennet as an intelligent, independent, yet strong character, in a soft and feminine manner. The cruel and dominating personality traits are left for characters such as Lady Catherine. In Jane Austen's ... Read More

A Comparison Between Desdemona and Emilia in Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ (3116 words, 5 pages)

Women have more rights and freedoms in today's society than in previous eras. The lines between social classes are more relaxed, expectations have been lowered, and a woman speaking out has become more accepted. Today, women are allowed to do whatever men are. This, however, was not always the case. ... Read More

A Comparison of John Steinbeck’s Two Novels the Pearl and of Mice and Men (672 words, 1 pages)

The aspect of the John Steinbeck novels, "The Pearl" and "Of Mice and Men", that is most comparable is how, in both books, Steinbeck denies the main characters of each book, Kino and George and Lennie to change their role in life or to beat fate. Steinbeck's grim outlook of ... Read More

An Analysis of the Issues Related to Aborigines Through a Comparison of the Plays “No Sugar” by Jack Davis and “7 Stages of Grieving” by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman (2559 words, 4 pages)

Today, most White Australians are sensitive and distinctively aware of the social and cultural issues related to Aborigines. This must be credited to playwrights such as Jack Davis and Wesley EnochDeborah Mailman as they reveal the brutal discrimination, abuse to Australia's Indigenous people and their sacred culture through their pieces ... Read More

A Comparison of the Vietnam and Iraq Wars (845 words, 1 pages)

In the 1960's American soldiers fought a grueling war in Vietnam to fight communism and protect democracy. In the early 21st century American soldiers were sent to Iraq to fight another war to fight dictatorship, protect democracy, and probably to steal oil. Both wars were fought in unknown territory however, ... Read More

A Comparison of the Different Interpretations of the Shema (1145 words, 2 pages)

According to the mystic tradition as expressed in the Zohar, the first verse of the Shema represents the "Higher Unification" and the sentence immediately following, which is not found in the Bible at all, indicates the "Lower Unification." This classification arose out of the need to connect the non-biblical verse ... Read More

An Analysis of European Colonialism through a Comparison of “Nectar in a Sieve” by Kamala Markandaya and “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe (3260 words, 4 pages)

COMPARATIVE ESSAY Literature today has given us an inside view of the trials and tribulations that original inhabitants endure do to European colonization. Colonialism is defined as a practice of ruling nations as colonies a policy in which a country rules other nations and develops trade for its own benefit. ... Read More

A Comparison of the Characters of Victor Frankenstein and Faust (1496 words, 2 pages)

Both the character of Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" and Goethe's eponymous hero in the play "Faust - Der Tragdie, erster Teil" are very similar to the mythical character of Prometheus. Prometheus' story, which originates in Greek legend, it is the tale of a titan who steals fire ... Read More

The Origin of the Zealots and a Comparison of their Role in Jesus’ Day and in Present Time (1306 words, 2 pages)

The Zealots were Jewish revolutionaries in the first century Judaea, whose religious zeal lead them to fight to the death against Roman domination, and to kill or persecute Jews who collaborated with the Romans. Zealots fought their way to freedom from enslavement, by not giving up the battle (Hasting 441). ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013