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The Types and Causes of Soil Erosion (2323 words, 5 pages)

SOIL EROSION Soil erosion is a gradual process that occurs when the actions of water, wind, and other factors eat away and wear down the land, causing the soil to deteriorate or disappear completely. Soil deterioration and low quality of water due to erosion and run off has often become ... Read More

A Biography of William Shakespeare, an English Playwright (920 words, 4 pages)

William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as ... Read More

The Complex Issues Caused by the United States Search and Seizure Laws (1133 words, 4 pages)

Search and Seizure laws have become the most complex in recent history. The United States Supreme Court and a few U.S. Appeals Courts have decided cases that revolve around this complexity. Several judicial reviews have been handed down in this article to form a guideline for the police who effect ... Read More

The History and Significance of the Scholastic Movement in Philosophy (2837 words, 10 pages)

If you can conceive of a God, does it prove one must exist? If we cannot see a moral truth does that mean it can't be? Are we one universal humanity or are we differentiated individuals? These are some of the questions that caused the development of Scholasticism, the intellectual ... Read More

Milton’s Character of Satan in Paradise Lost (779 words, 2 pages)

For the past three hundred years, both the Satanists and the anti-Satanists have given diverse views on the character of Miltons Satan. From Dryden to Empson and from Johnson to C.S.Lewis and Stanley Fish, we see that both parties have interpreted and stressed the case in their favour. But the ... Read More

A Review of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Schindler’s List, Two Holocaust-Related Works (681 words, 1 pages)

Schindlers List and Night by Elie Wiesel Night is a horrible story of murder. Elie saw his family, friends, and fellow Jews being murdered. During his crisis he begins to loose faith in God, to who he used to be so devoted to. He believes that God was also murdered ... Read More

Sarty’s Struggle for Independence in Barn Burning by William Faulkner (604 words, 1 pages)

Sartys Struggle for Independence In Barn Burning, by Faulkner we are told the story of how Sarty (Colonel Sartoris Snopes) struggles with his father in order to find his own identity. At first Sarty is blindly following his father. Later on in the story Sarty questions his father, provoking some ... Read More

Symbolism in French Movie Rosetta (884 words, 3 pages)

The French film Rosetta, uses symbolism as a conduit to portray the cover up of a shameful life, and the laborious struggle to burrow to a normal life with no light at the end of the tunnel. Although Rosetta loves her very much, anguish is augmented by the unprecedented lifestyle ... Read More

The Policies of Roosevelt, an American President (589 words, 2 pages)

Roosevelt was a man of both individual physical fitness and collective national strength. Roosevelt extended his beliefs about strenuous struggle from individuals to nations. His ideal was a nation of men and not weaklings. This man felt as though every man must be guaranteed his liberty and his right to ... Read More

Death in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (913 words, 2 pages)

For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes This vault a feasting presence full of light(V, iii, 85-86). Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty(V, iii, 92-93). These are the words of Romeo as he stands beside of his beloved Juliet's ... Read More

The Definition, History and Laws of Robotics (742 words, 2 pages)

What Is Robotics The word "robot' was coined by Karel Capek who wrote a play entitled "Rossum's Universal Robots" back in 1921. The base for this word comes from the Czech word 'robotnik' which means 'worker'. In his play, machines modeled after humans had great power but without common human ... Read More

An Analysis of Charles Bowden’s Literary Pieces With Real Life Characteristics of a Man (626 words, 1 pages)

Charles Bowden writes efficiently and manipulates your mind to try and think as he does. In the first book I read of his, Blue Desert, he rambles relentlessly about the problems of man and how we constantly fail the land. The next book I read of his, Desierto, is a ... Read More

The Rise of the New Educational Institutions in Humanism (526 words, 2 pages)

Toward the end of the Middle Ages there was a renewed interest in those studies that stressed the importance of man, his faculties, affairs, worldly aspirations, and well-being. The primacy of theology and otherworldliness was over the reductio artium ad theologiam (freely, reducing everything to theological argument) was rejected since ... Read More

Reintegration into Society of a Former Prisoner (829 words, 3 pages)

After thirty years of imprisonment, the once known young adult is now a forty eight-year- old man. He was an uneducated man, yet very experienced. His life in the prison was a nightmare. This is because he was not guilty of any crime but rather unjustly imprisoned. At the very ... Read More

The Horrors of Human Nature (429 words, 1 pages)

The Horror A horror more terrible then fires - wars - epidemics - or bandits, this overwhelming horror is the weak character of man, the distrust and selfishness feeding each characters continual suspicion of his fellow man, always expecting the worst of them. The priest describes this horrific human trait ... Read More

An Analysis of Different Perspectives on the Prisoners Dilemma (1042 words, 4 pages)

(I). In the prisoners dilemma two people have been arrested, the one inmate is called Smith. In this situation the authorities are not interested in the truth but only want to convict someone. An interrogator lays out the consequences for Smith. If Smith does not confess but the other guy ... Read More

A Summary and Evaluation of Pride and Prejudice, a Novel by Jane Austen (2024 words, 7 pages)

Chapter 1 The Bennets new neighbor Rich, young, single man, Mr. Bingley moves next to the Bennets. Mrs. Bennet is very excited and is sure that he is going to marry one of his five daughters. In fact, Mr. Bingley and Jane, the first daughter, are interested in each other. ... Read More

A Comparison of Joe Klein’s Book Primary Colors and Bill Clinton’s Presidency (709 words, 3 pages)

"Primary Colors" is a fictional account of a presidential primary campaign. The book is written by Anonymous, who we now know is Newsweek columnist Joe Klein. Klein includes a disclaimer saying he invented the characters and situations, but I feel that the book is about the Clintons. All the events ... Read More

A Review of Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons (2269 words, 4 pages)

Morality is often overpowered by materialistic pursuits. In A Man for All Seasons,Robert Bolt shows the corruption of those who put self interest above all other values. His use of such characters as Thomas Cromwell, Richard Rich, Chapuys and Wolsey help convey this corruption. There is yet another character who ... Read More

A Review of the Film Adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (465 words, 2 pages)

This film is was the big screen adaptation of Harper Lees prize-winning novel. Some people may have already seen the film as it's on the GCSE English syllabus. The story is believed to be based on events that happened in Lees childhood. The story, set in the American recession, is ... Read More

Polygamy and Polyandry Should Be Banned (2032 words, 6 pages)

Polygamy is the practice of a man taking more than one wife at the same time. Polyandry is when a woman takes more than one husband at the same time. Polyandry is rare compared to polygamy, because it is only known to be inexistence in two parts of the world. ... Read More

A Review of Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket (1280 words, 2 pages)

One of the early images in Robert Bresson's Pickpocket'' (1959) shows the unfocused eyes of a man obsessed by excitement and fear. The man's name is Michel. He lives in Paris in a small room under the eaves, a garret almost filled by his cot and his books. He is ... Read More

A Review of E. B. White’s Essay Once More to the Lake (651 words, 2 pages)

Dombroski 1 Lisa Dombroski Prof. Harrison English 101 18 September 2000 Footsteps of Time E.B. White's essay, Once More to the Lake demonstrate his own security in consistency from growing up on into adulthood. White begins to set the stage mid way through the first paragraph, mentioning that he and ... Read More

The True Meaning of Christmas (3504 words, 6 pages)

The True Meaning Of Christmas Except for Christ in the name, Christmas is pagan. The word mass is pagan and the customs surrounding it and Christmas are pagan. The very celebration without the rituals surrounding it is pagan. Pagan simply means that it is not from God. What is from ... Read More

1340’s and the Black Death (1130 words, 2 pages)

In the 1340s, approximately one third to one half the population of Europe was wiped out by what was called The Black Death. The people of the time were armed with little to no understanding of why and how the plague happened and how to control it and this allowed ... Read More

An Interpretation of A Christmass Carol, a Novella by Charles Dickens (1530 words, 5 pages)

A Christmas Carol is a classic story about a man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who embarks on a journey exploring all facets of his past, present, and future life. Scrooge goes through a tremendous transformation that ends up saving his life. Scrooge begins the story as a person who does not believe ... Read More

Telemakhos Becoming a Hero in the Epic The Odyssey (404 words, 1 pages)

Telemakhos Becoming a Hero In an epic called The Odyssey, there is a character named Telemakhos who is learning to be a hero. Through each event that he faces, he is transformed more and more into a hero, but still encounters one problem he is afraid. Afraid or what? one ... Read More

Huey P. Newton and Civil Rights Movement (3129 words, 4 pages)

In the late 1960's and early '70's posters of the Black Panther Party's co-founder, Huey P. Newton were plastered on walls of college dorm rooms across the country. Wearing a black beret and a leather jacket, sitting on a wicker chair, a spear in one hand and a rifle in ... Read More

Napoleon’s Conquests and War Campaigns (966 words, 2 pages)

There is no doubt that Napoleons life left a huge impact on Europe. People have called him The greatest man of action born in Europe since Julius Caesar(Winston Churchhill) The campaign of 1812 was more frankly imperialistic than any other of Napoleon's wars it was more directly dictated by the ... Read More

Sin of Adultery in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (746 words, 1 pages)

In Nathanial Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter, the sin of adultery committed by Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne is seen by society to be very wrong. Placing great punishment on Hester Prynne causing her to wear a scarlet letter A representing adultery. Arthur Dimmesdale receiving only the punishment of his own ... Read More

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Published: Friday 25th of January 2013