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Inclusion in the Contemporary Literary Canon, Anton Chekhov

This research paper/essay provides an argument that Chekhov deserves his place in the literary canon, providing a brief overview o...

How Osteoporosis Affects the Elderly

This essay discusses osteoporosis - what it is, risks, and incidence. It does so in the context of a film entitled Fire in the Dar...

Homosexuality, Shifting Societal Views

This essay draws on sources to describe the shift from viewing homosexuality as a criminal offense and a mental disorder to a more...

Keeping the Fetus Healthy

This essay explores the dangers of drugs, smoking, and drinking alcoholic beverages during pregnancy. There are five sources liste...

UTIs Pressure Sores Pneumonia in the Elderly

higher risk for UTIs than others. Risks include older age, poor hygiene, and/or poor hydration. Two of the greatest risks can be p...

Gordon Allport's Ideas

is directly related to what the person is. That is his individual psychology. People behave in ways that demonstrate their own sel...

Psychology Professionals and Ecological Awareness

causing "irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources" (Koger and Winter, 2010, p. 4). Question 2 The statem...

Sacrifice Narratives

son, to God is record in Genesis 22. God instructed Abraham to take "your son, your only son, whom you love-Isaac-and go to the re...

Great Plains and Severe Weather

occur from supercells, which are rotating thunderstorms that have a well-defined radar circulation that is called a mesocyclone (G...

Symbolism of the Journey, in Three Works

This essay focuses on the symbolic meaning of the journey as it pertains to "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty and "I Used to Live Her...

Assessing Traits

were associated with biological differences in people (Psychometric Success, 2012). Towards the end of the 20th century, theori...

Health Care Reform

organizations representing a broad group of stakeholders interested in quality.2 There are layers upon layers of management invol...

Strategic Plan for Miller Lite

2012a). In 1970, Philip Morris companies bought Miller Brewery Company. Light beer was first introduced by Miller in 1975. It s...

An American Dream Tragedy, The Great Gatsby

This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...

Do e-cigarettes Work

The question is whether or not e-cigarettes work in terms of quitting smoking. This paper continues some earlier papers that were ...

Racism within the Context of Literature

would then include the contrast and comparison on how the characters dealt with racism and their subjectivity to it. Finally, the ...

Evil and Pride in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'

of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...

A Review of of Beloved by Toni Morrison

seeking forgiveness. That Sethe suffers from guilt and hopes to assuage it, however, is evident in her submission first to the ant...

Mexican Drama and Xavier Villaurrutia

to Pirandellos play. Villaurrutia was obviously interested in the Italian playwrights concepts and this preoccupation becomes clea...

Literary Portrayals of the Conflict Between Illusion and Reality

her book The Feminine Mystique. Not all fifties kids turned into sixties hippies. Goodwin talks about baseball and the pleasures o...

What is Communitarianism?

simply not possible. Not surprisingly, given the focus on community, communitarians typically stress the value of specifically ...

Synopsis of 'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

Voltaire, Moliere and Social Satire

money, not religion. Organ, a simplistic, but good man, has allowed Tartuffe to come into his home and take dominance over his fam...

Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow

in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...

Money, Society, and Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Lilio's Play London Merchant

in the play, the audience is shown how "honest merchants...contribute to the safe of their country as they do at all times to its ...

The Rainbow Sign by Hanif Kureishi

speeches that he felt spurred the creation of the neo-Nazi attitudes in youth. For instance, in 1967, Duncan Sandys said, "The bre...

Human Condition as Described by Andrew Marvell and William Blake

In other words, if aging and death were not part of the human condition, that is, if there was time, her "coyness" (i.e. her modes...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

Culture and Women in Slavenka Drakulic's Makeup and Other Crucial Questions and Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts these literary works in terms of their representation of women and culture. There ...

The Symbolism of the Sea in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...