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Essays 211 - 240

If Ralph Had Provided Better Government Advice, Would Events Have Been Different in Lord of the Flies by William Golding?

This paper examines if Niccolo Machiavelli or Plato would have provided Ralph with better advice on governing the island in this a...

Emerson: The Divinity School Address

quality in themselves. Then he drops his bombshell. He says that a mans character "is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms nev...

Transformation of Genius into Practical Power: Emerson

idea genius and write on it. It is but one idea, one small part of their lives, and thus demonstrates that genius is so limited in...

History as Biography: Emerson

what makes history. He states, in the beginning, "Of the works of this mind history is the record...Man is explicable by nothing l...

Living Simply: Emerson and Thoreau

complexities that can be lived without. This sort of perspective is further seen in a statement in his work wherein he sta...

Franklin, Emerson and Whitman

means, in turn, there "are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment. Hence they generally study Oratory,...

Contradiction and Inconsistency: Emerson

perhaps always live in a new day, unafraid of changing their ideals, their perceptions of those ideals, and thus perhaps appearing...

The Killer Car: The Chevrolet Corvair

to develop the car and solve the problems, but its clear that they wanted to make as much money as possible quickly. And that led ...

Transcendental Abstracts

that is, rather than a creature called "Man" who had to do everything, Man became priest, scholar, farmer, and so on (Emerson). Th...

Emerson and the Romantic Hero

"behold the beauty of another character....with...vivacity....behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures i...

COMPARISON OF EMERSON’S AND FRANK’S IDEAS

bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." Furthermore, he writes "Trust thyself . . . accept the place the d...

Being Independent or Being Part of the Community

are part of the community, even if not actively so. It comes down to the old adage of "it takes all kinds" for communities are mad...

Oscar and Lucinda and Biography of Filmmaker Gillian Armstrong

Great Britain. Nevertheless, Armstrong patiently honed her craft by taking any directing gig she could from music videos to docum...

Emerson's Concept of Self in "Self-Reliance"

of the individual to that of equal to great philosophers, religious leaders and poets. His argument is that within the "self," tha...

Leadership at the Battle of Ia Drang

from Georgia (Kingseed, 2002). From this painstaking experience, Moore says he learned that a person must first learn to lead them...

Sun Tzu's "The Art Of War"

those few but powerful pages described how to achieve holism within the esoteric nature of battle. Firing a weapon to kill the en...

Medieval Weapons And Siege Engines: England

axes and spears inevitably provided close proximity to ones target. Swords were particularly coveted by the Saxons who estimated ...

An Overview of the Battle of Dunkirk

had all the emotional attributes of a film where the audience is cheering for victory. Indeed, the operation did much for morale, ...

Significant Policies of Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama and Their Controversies

Hillary Clinton has lobbied tirelessly to provide all Americans with decent and affordable health insurance and was the chief arch...

Sterilization Methods, Ancient to Modern

and isolation of contagious patients would save lives and slow the transmission of illness. Sterilization and disinfection of mi...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Fifteenth Amendment right to vote. Congress therefore authorized extraordinary federal interventions for five years. But the deadl...

The Battle of Cowpens

were taken without what was now a deeply ingrained sense of restraint. Revolutionary warfare was simple and to the point....

The Second Battle of Falluhjah

alongside, those Marines of course, was the US Army. The Battle of Fallujah offers many lessons for us all. The efforts at...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Kasserine Pass - American View

his arrival in North Africa, British General Harold R.L.G. Alexander described the Americans as "ignorant, ill-trained and rather ...

Pressfield: “Gates of Fire”

"device" through which he tells not only the story of the battle, but the story of Spartan life as well. Pressfield structures the...

How Did the New Left Lead to the Rise of the New Right?

support one another, and as a result, there was great social change. Perhaps the greatest success of the New Left was the Brown v....

1861 Civil War First Battle of Bull Run

In five pages the first important Civil War battle and its importance are analyzed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

We Were Soldiers Once and Young Book Review

a mission after being in the midst of one of Vietnams most notorious battles. It was there that there was a 44% casualty rate as t...

IKEA, FREEMAN AND FRIEDMAN

with a high conservation value (Bartlett et al, 2006). But the issue with child labor was two-fold. Should IKEA try to...