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Homer's Epic Style

return home. They are in morning, for they have lost a son. They pray to the gods for his return, but feel that he is dead. They e...

Trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Identity

be a journey towards finding himself once again. Now, this is not to say that he will ever become what he once was, for this is im...

Macabea in The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

These innate classifications can represent significant social power, as in the case of beauty, wealth and status, or they can symb...

Henry George and Karl Marx

rising bourgeoisie" (Marx, 2002). In theory, then, according to Marx, the "modern bourgeoisie" arent the farmers and land-...

Successful and Least Successful Post Second World War US Presidents

had fulfilled his 1980 campaign pledge to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism" (Past P...

Totalitarianism in the Works of George Orwell and Margaret Atwood

that instead of continued efforts toward gender equality, the social "pendulum" might actually carry society backward in regards t...

Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush

bureaucracy, and thus opportunities for constituent service, while, at the same time, avoiding any blame" (OKeefe et al PG). Maki...

Man Philosophically Defined

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

Symbolic Interactionism and Cognition According to Theorists Blumer and Mead

the most essential points, only differing in subtle distinctions regarding the importance of interaction of individuals with socie...

Case Study on Starbucks in the United Kingdom

who import form other countries may have a cost advantage. The good economic conditions may also be seen as encouraging of grow...

Works of Literature and Race

with open galleries and porticoes. Bottles of milk were grouped on the steps, and occasionally light flickered from the kitchens w...

The Urban Evolution of Paris

the Right Bank, this traditional barrier had to be extended by another structural wall in the fourteenth century (Diefendorf, 1991...

Hedge Fund Problems

amount in various funds and insurance company assets (2000). Julian Robertsons flagship hedge fund did grow a great deal between ...

Novel Essays by George Lukacs and Virginia Woolf

criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...

A Review of The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.

Hitler. Hitler, of course, committed suicide near the end of World War II. Steiner placing him in the Amazon several years after ...

Ancient Rome to Post Second World War Infrastructural Development and Military Strategy

strategies of Romes Julius Caesar and Claudius, the author emphasizes the role infrastructural development played in wartime strat...

'Middlemarch' and 'Villette' Acting and Performance Comparison

how the authors use the notion of acting and performance to highlight truths about the demands of society and how such a loss of i...

Poverty Theme in Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

fact that the book was originally rejected by publisher T.S. Eliot presumably because of the grim and hopeless picture which was p...

Social Security Privatization

in and around government: in 1950, there were fewer than a thousand lawyers in D.C., today there are 60,000; journalists increase...

Gitlin's The Sixties Years of Hope

The flowering of youth culture, and the recognition that teenagers had a special role to play in society as a whole, provided the ...

Soviet Containment and George F. Kennan

the Western world is something that be contained by the adroit and vigilant application of counter-force at a series of constantly...

America and its Education Commitment

In a paper consisting of three pages America's troubled educational system is examined and President George W. Bush's No Child Lef...

Theory and Forms of Sociology

the foundations laid by Durkheim. Aside from scientific investigation, functionalism also holds to the concept of "the orga...

President George W. Bush and Reforming Social Security

existed before 1935, these were extremely minimal. Social Services, as it is known in the United States, began during a bad econom...

Is Homeland Security an Effective Security Guard or an Example of 'Big Brother'?

obstacles, which suggests that this department is, at best, a "work in progress" (Lehrer, 2004, p. 71). The various bureaus that c...

Symbolism in 'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats

of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...

George A. Rawlyk's 'The American Revolution and Nova Scotia Reconsidered'

settlements, the refusal of Washington to mount an offensive against Nova Scotia, and perhaps the religious revival, all combined ...

American Ethnic Relation Models in Notes of a Native Speaker by Eric Liu and Assimilation by Sherman Alexie

"aspire to whiteness" (Liu, 2004, p. 662). Liu (2004), the son of Chinese immigrants, realizes the benefit of assimilation as it ...

Financial Analysis of Buckeye Partners

for loans themselves (assuming that the partners themselves are some type of financial institution) or that the Limited Partners p...

A Review of The Red Bow

man who is old, perhaps given up on life, and essentially a man who spends his days watching television and checking the mail. Wit...