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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

This essay describes how Austen uses characterization and irony in a manner that causes contemporary readers to identify with the ...

Politics/Aristotle

This essay is on Aristotle's "Politics" and how he saw the role of the city in human life. The writer relates his political thinki...

Mary Rowlandson's Narrative

This essay pertains to Mary Rowlandson's seventeenth century account of her capture by Indians. The writer discusses its contempor...

Epic Heroism of King Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2000 BC and found inscribed on 12 tablets at Nineveh, is the earliest known epic. The Epic...

Max Weber and Karl Marx on Capitalism

have much to do with capitalism but each theorist treats the subject differently. Weber expressed that capitalism did not just ...

Five Short Essays on Bureaucracy

In five pages public administration is the focus of these five brief essays and includes topics of bureaucracies, contemporary pol...

A Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

This research paper/essay offers a critique of Baz Luhmann's adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The writer discusses ho...

Motifs of Ancient Greek Literature and Superman

This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...

Christianity and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

of the "second death," the experience of the absence of God and thus of a meaninglessness without light. (Ryan, 1997) Aspects...

Philosophers Compared

if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...

Global Politics and National Security

In two pages this essay examines national security, international politics and contemporary problems with China among the topics d...

Anselm’s Ontological Arguments

by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...

Air Pollution/Cause and Effect

concerning controlling natural sources of pollutants and it is also a definition that recognizes the serious impact that human act...

New Testament Confrontations & Today’s Africa

a fact demonstrated repeatedly in Africa. Today, two worlds collide in the sub-Sahara desert as evangelists aggressively endeavor...

Leviticus and Christianity

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

Contemporary Variations in the English Language

standard pronunciation as might be seen with in the United Kingdom. So then, the next consideration may be, what...

Essay on the Current American Family

who are producing immoral children. A nationwide poll conducted by the Los Angeles Times in 1996 showed that while people felt tha...

Culture and Criticism According to Matthew Arnold

original composition, rather than critiquing others, their time would be much better employed. Wordsworth said that "A false or ma...

Contemporary Life and Science

see that science has emerged from the beginning of time itself, and has over the years transformed nearly every aspect of our worl...

Preface to Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing by Steven Friedson

insists on separating "aesthetics, religion and medicine" into separate epistemological categories, is so engrained that it become...

Reflection on The Ten Commandments

this theme forward, the next commandments lay the foundation for civilized society. The first of these social commandments is to...

Adam and Eve and Current Relevance

Bible, it is a common experience that they interpret it according to how they have been taught. For example, Barbara Brown Taylor ...

"Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree

in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" provides the author with the means to create a biting critique of contemporary societal values. T...

Diane Ravitch, Her Views on American Public Schools

countrys leading educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A ...

Personal Growth and Ibsen's "A Doll's House"

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...

Women's Roles in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Wife makes it clear that she has always enjoyed sex and this verifies the Churchs depiction of women as licentious. In fact, t...

World Events, Bias, and Religious Prejudice

In seven pages this paper discusses such global events as sect to established religion transition, Medieval Christianity and Europ...

The Societal Rebuff of Anyone Different

Homosexuals and Muslims in Contemporary Society The author of this paper considers the importance of the choice of words in repor...

The Depiction of Reality in the Age of Global Production

In all cases they may be seen as art that is breaking boundaries as they are seeking to break down social barriers and taboos, dea...