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The Theme of Struggle for Power in Various Novels (1129 words, 2 pages)

If you delve into the content of almost any novel, there is almost always some kind of struggle for power. It could be for rightful integration into society power over an island power over a country or in some cases, even power over the minds of others. These not at ... Read More

A Narrative of the Challenges Stated in the Book of Job (395 words, 1 pages)

The book of Job is an interesting scripture. I felt that it showed a lot about accepting evil and torture. To me religion helps people deal with accepting these things. Knowing God would later rebuke Job and his friends for things they said, it was difficult to discern when to ... Read More

An Analysis of the Factors Causing the Red Scare (2382 words, 8 pages)

Analysis of the Red Scare "The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart." -Kipling, The Recessional Mr. Kipling was wrong. War does not always end with the last cry on the battlefield. World War I certainly did not. After the war formally ended on November 18, ... Read More

The Educational Theories of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy (1372 words, 2 pages)

Paulo Freires Pedagogy of the Oppressed was one of the most compelling education theories I have ever read. After reading it the first time my first reaction was to compare all the teachers, I had from nursery to my college years. I asked myself who among my teachers were banking ... Read More

The Competence of Hamlet as a Character in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” (926 words, 1 pages)

The extract, which is the ending of the first act, sets the scene for the three next acts. It is the moment when the introduction ends and the main action of the play, the building up of tension aimed towards the tragic ending, begins. This scene carries a lot of ... Read More

An Analysis of The Cambridge Ladies by E.E. Cummings (1026 words, 2 pages)

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds ( also, with the church's protestant blessings daughters, un scented shapeless spirited) they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead are invariably interested in so many things at the present writing one still finds delighted fingers ... Read More

An Analysis of the Characters in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman (1212 words, 2 pages)

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman is a dramatic story about a woman who is suffering from postpartum depression. The story illustrates the subjugated role of women prior to the feminist movement. When Gilman first wrote the tale it was deemed too offensive to print. "In the 1890s editors, and ... Read More

An Analysis of Women in the United States Military (998 words, 4 pages)

Analysis of Women in the Military- Women have been compared to the frailty and beauty of ripe apricots in modern poetry the reference could be construed as sexual. However, in spite of their frailty and beauty, women have served in combat positions in one capacity or another since the beginning ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie Patch Adams: Is Humor the Best Medicine? (2001 words, 3 pages)

The analysis of the movie Patch Adams Is humor the best medicine? Patch Adams is a movie that is based on a true story. It is about a man who has experienced many things in his lifetime, from being institutionalized in a psychiatric ward of a hospital to being a ... Read More

An Analysis of Plato’s The Smile of the Cave (618 words, 1 pages)

Analysis of Plato's The Simile of The Cave Many literary works of the past have been very accurate to our view of society today. None of these works, however describes our view of todays society as closely as Platos Simile of the Cave. In this work, Plato describes how he ... Read More

The Two Main Characters in Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1200 words, 2 pages)

Slavery emerged as one of the major issues within the early nineteenth century when the idea of a white supremacy was still alive. African Americans were belittled and patronized because of the stereotypical assumption that all slaves are worthless and acquired no social status. In an all-time American classic, "Adventures ... Read More

An Analysis of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat Cradle” (1424 words, 2 pages)

Analysis of Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, one of the century's greatest anthropological works, deals with religion, science, and the end of the world its major theme involves the symbolic nature of the title of the book. The theme of the cat's cradle is used throughout the book to ... Read More

An Analysis of the Childlike, Naturalistic, and Scientific Approaches in the Essay “Living Like Weasels” by Annie Dillard (924 words, 2 pages)

Analysis "Living Like Weasels" Annie Dillard Annie Dillard's essay "Living Like Weasels" offers its readers a unique comparison between the life of weasels and the life of human beings. It seems that one of Dillard's principal objectives is to appeal to all types of people so that all can enjoy ... Read More

A Biography of Intellectual Giant, Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (659 words, 1 pages)

ABU HAMID AL-GHAZALI Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE) is regarded by scholars as an Islamic intellectual giant. He is one of the greatest teachers and interpreters of Islam, other than Muhammad. Born in 1058 CE in Tus, (in what is now known as Khorasan, Iran), he was a well educated ... Read More

A Comparison of Albert Durer and Matthias Grunewald Poetry Styles (1199 words, 2 pages)

The late fifteenth and early sixteenth century saw the birth of two artist that were so drastically different in styles, they are still looked at in awe over 300 years later. Albrecht Durer and Matthias Grunewald each had their own style and influence in the way they completed their art. ... Read More

Analyzing the Differences in Adult Learning Styles (1563 words, 3 pages)

Analyzing the Difference in Adult Learning Styles When attending school as an adult, an individual may have questioned whether they still have the ability to learn new things. Adults have the tendency to question themselves, even though experience has made them great learners. How can a child, adolescent or teen ... Read More

A Look at the Transcendentalist Mindset Since the Purians (788 words, 2 pages)

The transcendentalist mindset has been around since the Puritans, but it took men such as Emerson and Thoreau to popularize the concepts and beliefs of this idea. The core of transcendentalism is that it is " a philosophy that rejects the idea that knowledge can be fully derived from experience ... Read More

The Roles of Wives Nora and Rose-Anna to Everyday Family Lives (1707 words, 3 pages)

Throughout history, women have played a vital role in the everyday lives of families, and they have contributed greatly to the success, failure, contentment and morale of their husbands. The roles of the wives Nora and Rose-Anna are no different. Both women are dedicated to their husbands and both are ... Read More

An Overview of Japan’s Economy (614 words, 1 pages)

Japan has been in a recession for quite some time and has failed to recover. Price deflation, a high public debt, a loss of political leadership, and a weak U.S. economy not taking in exports, Japan's economy looks to be in trouble. The success of Japan's economy in past years ... Read More

The Consumer World as Described by Leopold’s Concept (870 words, 1 pages)

When one looks at their "property" they think of the land that they own and not the land that has been provided for them. In Leopold's concept, land is viewed as we would view our neighbors or family, as an entity that deserves respect, fairness and care. He compares an ... Read More

The Themes of Childhood and War in Garry Disher’s Divine Wind and Linda Crew’s Of The River (1834 words, 2 pages)

Many novels focus on the issues of teenage life, but few incorporate the issues of war. The Divine Wind by Garry Disher and Children Of The River by Linda Crew are two such examples. The Divine Wind deals with Hartley Penrose reflecting back on his life in Broome during the ... Read More

An Account for the Popularity of Wuthering Height by Emily Bronte (637 words, 1 pages)

An Account for the Popularity of Wuthering Heights The magnificent work of English literature, Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Bront (1818 - 1848), has been hailed as a transcendent masterpiece, a superb story of passionate love, in which irreconcilable principles of energy and calm are ultimately harmonised (Bront, Microsoft Encarta ... Read More

A Comparison of Antigone by Sophocles and King Lear by Shakespeare (1489 words, 2 pages)

An imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and has sufficient size, in a language that is made sweetexciting pity and fear, bringing about a catharsis of such emotions, is now Aristotle defined tragedy (trans. Gudeman). Basic Greek tragedies, like Sophocles Antigone, have transformed through the centuries. Shakespeares King ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Characters in a Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (791 words, 2 pages)

In Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House, Torvald and his wife, Nora, live a middle class, conservative life with three children. Nora stays at home while Torvald works as a manager at a bank. Previously, when Torvald was sick, Nora forged her father's signature on a bond to receive money ... Read More

A Discussion of the Aristotelian View of Democracy (908 words, 1 pages)

The American Oligarchy America The Pretense of Democracy The Aristotelian view of democracy showed democracy as a supreme state of being, promoting equality more than anything. It allowed every person to have as much say in a government as any other person, and yet still allowed individuality to reign. To ... Read More

An Analysis of the Issue of Joint Custody in the United States (612 words, 1 pages)

I think close knit families are important. A major contributing factor to so many juvenile crimes is broken homes. Families where either their mother, father or both has left them. God meant for children to be unconditionally loved and for them to have a feeling of security. Instead, today's children ... Read More

A Creative Essay on the Topic of a Baseball Player (493 words, 1 pages)

Underneath the blue baseball hat embroidered with a awhite logo lies the mystery of a boy in the midst of becoming a man. Thin blan spikes surface his oval shaped head forming what is left of his shaved head. His dark brown eyebrows form almost perfectly over his slightly slanted ... Read More

An Analysis of a Separate Peace by John Knowles (398 words, 1 pages)

John Knowles wrote the book A Separate Peace in 1960 and still we can relate to the events of the book. The Human heart is a source of hate. No matter how much time goes by here will always be hate. One of the side affects of hate is alienation. ... Read More

A Creative Essay on the Topic of True Love (1210 words, 2 pages)

Everyone always says that when you meet that one person you are supposed to be with the rest of your life that you will know that they are the one the instant you meet him or her. For some of us that will never happen, but for the lucky people ... Read More

An Analysis of Alice Walker in Advancing Luna (907 words, 2 pages)

Courtney Smith Final Paper 5112000 Alice Walker, in a short story called Advancing Luna- and Ida B. Wells, reflects back on her life to a friendship she had with a white girl in the sixties. She does so in a approach to which she justifies herself and her actions with ... Read More

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Published: Friday 25th of January 2013