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Odysseus and Models of Heroism

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at heroism. Odysseus is put forth as an example of both modern and classical ideals of ...

Point of View: Momaday and Robinson

physical eye. This eye is not really something that is symbolic in relationship to standing as a cultural icon or something else, ...

Nature: Charles Darwin and Annie Dillard

he felt but what he saw. His work begins with the following: "When we compare the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety o...

Different Views on Suffering

They really also want to get on with their lives. Dying takes a toll on families. It is easier if the individual dies sooner than ...

Chopin and Glaspell: Marriage and Society

in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century...

Views on Abortion

or not having the right to life" (Marquis 241). Therefore, Marquis, more or less, examines what it is that makes killing any human...

Analysis of Beowulf

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

Revenge and the Law in Beowulf and Njal’s Saga

his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...

The Golden Age: The Political Concepts of Islam by Ira Lapidus and The Community in Islamic History by Hamilton A.R Gibb

custodians of the true Islam. This, it is argued, reflect in the way that the states have evolved today and the different models t...

Ethics: The Views of Aristotle and Kant

life, white lies can protect people from hurt feelings. They can be used to motivate others to do good things. There are sometimes...

Comparative Analysis of Odysseus and Aeneas as Leaders

The son Of crafty Saturn changed the snake to stone... But Calchas thus Instantly spake... All-foreseeing Jupiter Hath sent this ...

Taylor and Mommsen on Bismarck

authors address the same topic, but in very different ways. Taylors approach has a more simplistic, general approach, since his ...

Filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci and Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Shakespearean dialog as possible, in addition to the action of the drama (Geist, 1978 and See Also Eckert, 1972). The creative d...

Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Sigmund Freud on Crime

In twelve pages the crime views of these three influential theorists are compared and contrasted. Thirteen sources are cited in t...

Socratic Philosophy and Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Socrates' views on morality with those of Friedrich Nietzsche as expressed in Birt...

Government Authority

the government have the right to act? By what measure can one say that an existing government is a rightful one? Hobbess...

Comparative Analysis of Robert Nozick's and John Rawls' Justice Theories

In five pages the economic justice theories of Robert Nozick and John Rawls are compared and contrasted in terms of their similari...

Women in the Odyssey, Penelope’s Power

and the goddess shows this with her actions throughout the narrative. Therefore, examination of the Odyssey demonstrates that the ...

Jeffrey Reiman's The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison and Jack Henry Abbott's The Belly of the Beast

These texts are contrasted in terms of how each author views crime in society and the impact of socioeconomics in five pages. Two...

Justice as Viewed by the Philosophies of Aristotle and Plato

and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...

Love in the Works of Plato and Isaac Bashevis Singer

This paper examines how love is conceptualized by Plato in Symposium when contrasted and compared with the views of Isaac Singer i...

Romanticism and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In five pages this research paper examines Flaubert's perspectives on Romanticism as reflected in the chararacterization of Emma B...

Different Feminist Views on Pornography

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares 2 feminist views on pornography in a consideration of Talk Dirty to Me An Intimate...

Spanish and English Approaches to Colonial Slavery

Spain and Portugal were the first nations to reach the shores of the "New World". Their arrival preceded that of other major colo...

Two Opposing Views of Communism

In seven pages Karl Marx's views on Communism as expressed in The Communist Manifesto are contrasted with the political interpreta...

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois

Only after his death was it realized that much of Washingtons attitude was more like the wolf tending the sheep in a sheep outfit....

Matthew Fox and Socrates

purposes, that they are omnipresent, and that they give signs to men of all that concerns them (X Memorabilia I, I, 19) (Beck ppg...

Odysseus, Gilgamesh, and Machiavelli Consulted in a Hypothetical Political Situation

In five pages this paper considers the political dilemma of the Duchess of Calzone and how Odysseus, Gilgamesh, and Machiavelli wo...

Human Nature and the Views of Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper examines human nature from the perspective of Friedrich Nietzsche's 'eternal recurrence' theory with cont...

George W. Bush's and Albert Gore Jr.'s Philosophies on Gun Control

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the radically different gun control views of presidential candidates Texas Gov. Ge...