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The Personal Growth and Development of Empathy of Rick Deckard, the Protagonist of Philip K. Dick’s Novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1857 words, 6 pages)

The novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick is set in a futuristic time in which Earth is nearly destroyed by a nuclear war and many have migrated to Mars as their new home. One of the new inventions brought upon in this novel is the ... Read More

The Intriguing Connection Between Fate and Free Will in Philip K. Dick’s The Minority Report (669 words, 3 pages)

In Philip K. Dicks The Minority Report, protagonist Precrime Commissioner Anderton is the head of a police unit using precogs to prophesize future murders so that Anderton and his men can arrest the murderers before the crime is committed. A predominant theme in Dicks short story is the relationship free ... Read More

The Religious and Political Influence of The Weimar Altarpiece by Lucas Granach the Elder and Philip II Offering the Infante don Fernando to the Heavens by Titian (1366 words, 3 pages)

The Political Implications of Religious Art in the RenaissanceThe Weimar Altarpiece (ca. 1553-1555) by Lucas Cranach the Elder and completed by Lucas Cranach the Younger and the painting Philip II Offering the Infante don Fernando to the Heavens (ca. 1573-1575), by Titian at first glance both have many religious references ... Read More

An Examination of Philip Larkin’s Views on Childhood and His Portrayal of a Realistic Picture of Life (603 words, 3 pages)

Philip Larkin was an eminent poet, librarian and novelist in post war England who lived from 1922 to 1985. He was a leading voice in what came to be known as The Movement, a group of young English writer who rejected the prevailing fashion for Neo-romantic writing. I Remember, I ... Read More

An Analysis of Philip J. Deloria’s Book Indians In Unexpected Places (1557 words, 5 pages)

Philip J. Deloria, in his book Indians in Unexpected Places explains the context in which Native American people attempted to assimilate into the white dominated culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Deloria takes on different topics, outlined as essays, to make a collective book describing that assimilation ... Read More

A Summary of the Novel, The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick (769 words, 1 pages)

The Hanging StrangerThe Hanging Stranger, by Philip K. Dick, describes a society in which paranoia is at its most obvious. On his way home, Ed Loyce, stumbles across a dead body hanging from a street light. In his shocked condition, everyone he points the body out to reacts in a ... Read More

A Comprehensive Analysis of Astrophil and Stella, a Book by Philip Sidney (719 words, 3 pages)

The poem Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet1 by Sidney depicts the authors struggle of expressing his love in poetry. In his poem, it is well-described that the author, who has been relying on studying to write the poem, fails to express his truthful mind. However, being guided by the muse, he ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel Dear Zoe by Philip Beard (857 words, 3 pages)

Tess DeNunzio, a fifteen-year-old, begins to write letters to her three- year-old half-sister, Zoe, who died in a hit and run accident on September 7, 2001. Tess writes to Zoe explaining her guilt for lack of responsibility when she died and the difficulties she faces with her family becoming silent ... Read More

A Review of Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” (632 words, 3 pages)

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick questions what it is to be human, to be real, and uses the seemingly human-only feeling of empathy to blur the distinction between androids and humans. Real (human) and unreal (android) exist together, though androids are despised, as they do ... Read More

A Comparison of a Defence of Poetry by Percy Shelley and Defence of Poesie by Sir Philip Sidney (771 words, 3 pages)

Readers familiar with other great defenses of poetry may find Percy Bysshe ShelleysA Defence of Poetryunusual, even confusing. There is little practical analysis of the elements of good literary work. There is no methodical history of poetry, as one reads in Sir Philip SidneysDefence of Poesie(1595). There are no pronouncements ... Read More

Identities of the English and Indians After King Philip’s War (1218 words, 4 pages)

Identities of the English and Indians After King Philip's War After King Philip's War, the English colonists saw themselvesstrengthened. They believed the Indians should assimilate into Englishculture, but as they did so, the Indians began to disappear in thecolonists eyes. Even as they began to speak English and take up ... Read More

An Comparison of the Views on Death of Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin (2218 words, 4 pages)

Sylvia Plath and Phillip Larkin were two major poets of the 20th century. Each had their own forms of writing, ideals, beliefs and attitudes towards serious topics. Plath was a melodramatic poet with a depressing life and an unstable mindset. She followed the avant-garde method of free verse poems without ... Read More

A Book Review of Cross-Cultural Trade in Maritime History by Philip Curtin (1283 words, 4 pages)

Book Review Cross Cultural Trade in World HistoryCurtin, Philip D.Cross-cultural Trade in World History. Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cambridge UP, 1984.Cross-Cultural Trade in Maritime History by Philip Curtin was a fascinating book to read due to its relatively unexplored topic of trade diasporas in Africa, Asia, and America to successfully conduct trade. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poetry Structure in Philip Sidney’s “Astrophil” (1222 words, 2 pages)

In Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella "Sonnet 1," there is an observable poetic structure that can be analyzed on a literal as well as a figurative level in an attempt to gain a logical understanding of the poem. Sidney's style of writing appears to be easily interpreted on a ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Philip II of Macedon (2122 words, 4 pages)

The year was 359 BC. Greece, though weary from constant internal struggling still had supreme power over the Hellenistic world. Persia, though it had suffered large setback in the Persian Wars more then a century before was still a menacing force. The Barbarian State of Macedon was led by warrior ... Read More

An Analysis of Yale University’s Experiment to Compare German and Americans Level of Obedience (256 words, 1 pages)

The experiment was designed to compare German and American levels of obedience. The immoral acts of the Nazis were carried out through obedience. Milgram wanted to see if Americans would also obey and participate in a destructive process. The experiment first took place at Yale University and eventually involved over ... Read More

An Analysis of Philip II’s Successful Reign (2610 words, 4 pages)

HOW WAS SUCCESSFUL A RULER WAS PHILIP II?To fully answer this question it is necessary to truly evaluate each of his policies with dealing his enemies and compatriots both foreign and domestic throughout his reign. This essay will attempt to take each main area of conflict in his life and ... Read More

A Comparison of Stanley Milgram’s The Perils of Obedience and Philip Zimbardo’s The Stanford Prison Experiment (660 words, 2 pages)

Comparison Contrast EssayIn "The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram, Milgram explains that obedience is a natural occurring behavior, which acts on instinct ignoring a persons ethics, sympathy, and moral conduct (Milgram 343). In this experiment two people come into the laboratory where they are told they will be taking ... Read More

Sir Philip Sidney’s Sonnet 47 from Astrophil and Stella (919 words, 3 pages)

The sonnet is a short concise form of writing and it takes a great mind to master it. By mastering it, I mean to be able to say so much in what seems like so little space. Sir Phillip Sidney comes as close to mastering it as anyone else in ... Read More

Reliability of a Narrator in Three Stories by Stephen King, Alice Walker and Philip Roth (719 words, 3 pages)

Reliability of a NarratorStories are often told by a narrator giving hisher point of view, by usingomniscient, limited omniscient, or first person. The purpose of the narrator is to give factsand details, being reliable or not. Three stories we have read in class are "The Body," byStephen King, "Defender of ... Read More

A Character Analysis of Sergeant Nathan Marx in Defender of the Faith by Philip Roth (735 words, 1 pages)

Defender of the FaithIn Philip Roths, Defender of the Faith, Sergeant Nathan Marx is the Defender of whom the title speaks. Reluctant at first, Marx defended his faith on two fronts, one across the sea in Europe and the second in the United States. The battle in the states was ... Read More

A Character Analysis of Kathleen Nicholson’s “Turner’s Classical Landscape” (489 words, 1 pages)

In Kathleen Nicholson's book, Turner's Classical Landscapes, is an interpretation of Turner's concepts and ability of landscape painting in contrast to Claude. In particular, chapter six, Nicholson discusses Turner's artistic career and how it models Claudean classical landscape. Nicholson conveys her opinion on how Turner re-created Claude's a realm to ... Read More

Interpreting the Theme in Defender of the Faith by Philip Roth (460 words, 2 pages)

Theme in Defender of the Faith can be interpreted in many varying ways, some of which are life-long lessons and others to the relation between faith and the individual. Throughout much of the story, Nathan Marx is lost between his role as a sergeant, Jew and human being. The relationship ... Read More

The Criticisms of Reading and Escapism through Books in the Poem A Study of Reading Habits by Philip Larkin (462 words, 1 pages)

Explication of "A Study of Reading Habits""A Study of Reading Habits," is Philip Larkins poetic warning that escapism and ignoring reality only makes real life less fulfilling. Larkin develops this idea via a narrator who prefers to escape from life rather than deal with it, as well as through changing ... Read More

An Analysis of Nathan Marx in the Defender of Faith by Philip Roth (810 words, 1 pages)

In Philip Roths, Defender of the Faith, Sergeant Nathan Marx is the Defender of whom the title speaks. Reluctant at first, Marx defended his faith on two fronts, one across the sea in Europe and the second in the United States. The battle in the states was of a different ... Read More

An Analysis of Realism in Church Going by Philip Larkin (1579 words, 4 pages)

In his poems Larkin denies the possibility of spirituality in the real world. Discuss.Philip Larkin writes in a style which is that of a realist, if a slightly pessimistic one. He does not refer to spirituality directly but in many of his poems there are undertones that suggest it is ... Read More

An Analysis of the Painting Music by Philip Evergood (455 words, 1 pages)

The Painting Music by Philip Evergood is most definitely one of my all-time favorite paintings. The painting has so many rich colors and lively shapes. It literally makes you feel as though you were sitting either in the same room as the people in the painting or possibly even playing ... Read More

A Personal Journey to My Goals Through Yale SOM Education (469 words, 1 pages)

YALE essay 2 learning goals WC 471 limit ???My learning goals are to better develop my skills and learn my ones for purely intellectual reason and secondly, to catapult my career with a Yale SOM education. I think that now is the right time for my MBA. After my two-year ... Read More

The Inability of Man to Distinguish truth From Fantasy in The Electric Ant by Philip K. Dick (437 words, 1 pages)

In the short story The Electric Ant, Philip. K. Dick is expressing his sarcastical opinion of man in society and man's inability to distinguish between the truth and fantasy. Using his main character's life, Garson Poole, the author illustrates teh delusion of mankind's freedom. This delusion is demonstrated by three ... Read More

A Synopsis of Portnoy’s Complaint Written by Philip Roth (1611 words, 3 pages)

Portnoys Complaint was Philip Roths third novel. It was a story about a young mans search for freedom using forbidden sex as his way of escape. This book was found by many readers to be offensive and pornographic because of its protagonists use of obscene language and sex scenes. The ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013