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Freedom as Viewed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in Notes from the Underground

In five pages the author's perspective on freedom as represented in this work are compared with those in Anarchism by Emma Goldman...

Rosa Lee by Leon Dash

In five pages this paper discusses this sociology text in a consideration of the author's featured case study that considers how c...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Images of Darkness and Light

with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...

Comparative Analysis of Min Zhan Lu's From 'Silence to Words' and Amy Tan's 'Mother Tongue'

written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with...

Managing with a Global Mindset by Jean Pierre Jeannet

experiences may not lead to a global mindset. By contrast, the executive who has a truly global mindset is able to see across mult...

Red Midnight by Mikaelsen

through most novels, there are changes within the characters. Here, the main character or protagonist, is Santiago. At first, he ...

Voltaire's Candide and its Criticism of the Ancient Regime

exaggeration. Voltaire (1947) is in fact sarcastic and while the author is indirect in the way in which he writes, it seems that t...

Charles Taylor's The Ethics of Authenticity

concept of disenchantment is related to what Taylor argues as the "the primacy of instrumental reason" (5). Essentially, Taylor i...

Worldview of Washington Irving in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

Utopia by Thomas More an its Intention

the meantime poor labourers...should yet get so hard and poor a living and live so wretched and miserable a life, that the state a...

Erich Maria Remarque's Representation of War in All Quiet on the Western Front

and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy" (Remarque 11). T...

Article on Violence, Terrorism, and Justice

will consider for even a moment. The authors begin by trying to separate the characteristics of terrorism from the idea of the ri...

Gringos by Charles Portis

disliked these anticipo payments. Much better that I should get behind in the rent, like everybody else, and be beholden to him" (...

Emma Lazarus' Life and Times

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

El Casamiento Enganoso by Miguel de Cervantes Summarized and Analyzed

the story told by a self-admitted liar be accepted as the truth, no matter how fantastic it might sound? Ensign Campuzano, an art...

Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez

the form of communication outside of the classroom. "An accident of geography sent me to a school where all my classmates were wh...

Chapter XXXIV of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Dialogue and Narrative Voice

are futile and are only keeping her from seeing the truth. One author, in reviewing a book about Austens work, notes that...

Net Gain by Hagel and Armstrong

Concurrently, these same companies are interested in building long-term relationships with their customers, and it has become appa...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

Lee G. Bolman and Terrance E. Deal's Reframing Organizations Power and Conflict

Consequently, it is necessary to recognize that political activity is an exercise of power and is the result of an organizational ...

A Personal System of Philosophy

Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...

Objectives and Structure of The Histories by Herodotus

As this indicates, Herodotus intended this work to be more than a history. His ambitious purpose is to capture in writing, in thei...

Riding in Cars With Boys by Beverly Donofrio

sort of way. She records how, being angry at her father for not shaking hands with her friends, shows up at her parents home in a ...

Article Critique on Malaysian Nonverbal Communication

(Salleh 7). While this request is generally written or spoken, it suggests how a great deal of hidden meaning is intertwined in M...

Psyche of Franz Kafka and His Relationship with His Father

In twelve pages this essay discusses Kafka's 'The Judgment,' 'Metamorphosis,' and 'The Hunger Artist' in terms of how the author's...

Wendell Pritchett's Brownsville, Brooklyn

contradictions. He describes Brownsville as a "vibrant community," abounding in communal and religious organization, giving it a "...

Okonkwo and the Minor Characters in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...

Symbolism in William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'

he is clearly the stable rational order, but by himself he is nothing in the face of the nature of mankind. The Lord of the Fli...

'I Want to Know Why' by Sherwood Anderson and Symbolism

are pure creatures and seeing them run or even trot, or perhaps even exist, makes this young man incredibly happy and content. The...

Battle Royal in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

and is confused by his grandfathers sudden rejection of this template of behavior as "treachery." The grandfather says to live wit...