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Fifteen Year Old Student's Personal Essay

Oakham School has given me the opportunity to develop as a student of art, dramatics, and sports. Over the...

A Federal Law Enforcement Internship

In a four hundred word essay consisting of one page the desire to participate in an FBI internship program are expressed by the wr...

Comparison of Aristotle and Plato's Views with Sophist Perspectives

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

Comparison of Plato's and Machiavelli's Concepts

terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...

Noble Enchaining the Soul as a Philosophical Proposition

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

The Blair Witch Project Film, the Newtonian Revolution, and Phaedo by Plato

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' and the Technique of Magic Realism

In 6 pages this paper discusses how Marquez employed magical realism in his famous short story. There are 7 sources cited in the ...

Religious Themes in the Butterfly Shaped Poem 'Easter Wings' by George Herbert

do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...

Alienation Theme in 'The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

Plato/Apology of Socrates

Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...

The Influence of the Cave Allegory

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

The Cave by Jose Saramago

This essay pertains to The Cave by Jose Saramago and presents the interpretation that the author stresses the similarities between...

Plato's 'Republic' and a Consideration of Rational Intellect and Emotions

good gifts to their friends and family but often do not have the expenses which would allow them to do so. However, people may use...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Film Men in Black

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

Comparing Two Early Greek Philosophers with Plato

The ancient Greek arche concept is compared with Plato's soul concept in an argument that contends Plato's conflict resolution of ...

American Cinema, Historical and Education Ideology

In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...

Plato and Euripides on Human Nature

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

A Trio of Actresses Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep, and Sally Field

way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...

The 1980 Film Moskva Slezam ne Verit or 'Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears'

the daily lives of the general population. The Soviet View of Security Throughout the thirties Soviet leaders viewed their countr...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

Melville's "Le Samourai" - A Portrait of Existential Values

single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...

Comparing the Book and Film, Shaara's The Killer Angels

to achieve dramatic effect. In Shaaras book, Armistead simply comments to Longstreet that he would like to see his old friend one ...

Plato's "Allegory Of The Cave" And Francis Bacon's "The Four Idols" - How We Know What We Know

smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...

Frida/Accuracy of Recent Film

Frida, as a young teen, sneaking into an auditorium to watch Diego painting a mural. Diegos wife Lupe appears and confronts Diego ...

Reviewing All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

In six pages different plot perspectives based on readers ages are explored as comparisons are made with Huckleberry Finn and disc...

A Streetcar Named Desire Film by Elia Kazan

is still a little to doubt that the cover up of her impending death is just not another part of her overall facade. Yet, because ...

The Film Chinatown by Director Roman Polanski

Six pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of Roman Polanski's 1974 film Chinatown. This paper considers the ...

'In The Penal Colony' by Franz Kafka

In six pages dramas by Wenders and Brecht are compared with this 1924 story by Franz Kafka in a consideration of meaning and symbo...

New German Cinema

many different directors today, and in the past. One notable director from the past is Alfred Hitchcock who would take a story and...

Plato

was to start writing down all the things he could remember that Socrates had said, writing down conversations he had hear and also...