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Submissive Women: Jackson, Miller, and Steinbeck

to Bill" (Kosenko). The women, in general, accept their position as submissive in the little community and it is actually only Tes...

The Depression as Backdrop

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...

The Gambino Family

Luciano would bring the Mafia into the modern age, putting the group into organized crime. Out of the ruins of the Masseria and Ma...

Question on Grapes of Wrath

happy at the camp, the family suffers when the men cannot find work. Ma Joad insists that they move on when money and food are alm...

Exegesis of John 6:51-58

states that he himself is the bread of life. This relates the discussion of Jesus regarding the sharing of what will become the E...

John Walker Lindh

have carried life sentences, and agreed to consider letting him serve his sentence in a prison close to his family, who still live...

John Wesley's Sermon 43: The Scripture Way of Salvation

poses some significant questions, including the question of what is salvation, the role that faith plays in salvation and how fait...

Indians: Columbus and Smith

a general look at what seems to be many different tribes of people, not just one. He indicates that, "the people differ very much ...

Frank: John Updike’s “The Rumor”

he likes the fact that his wife is confused and thinking he is a homosexual. Frank takes advantage of her confusion and...

A Confederacy of Dunces

at others. The ability to understand and envision what the author presents indicates that there are people like that, people that ...

Steinbeck and Changing America

a real family, "which in a sense he was."3 Steinbecks novels, at least the ones that we remember best, such as Of Mice and Men, C...

Is Utilitarianism a Coherent Position to Take in Ethics?

the greatest number." We can see if that makes sense in regard to a coherent position in ethics, as De George explains it. Lets l...

John Okada's "No-No Boy" - Optimism and Hope

afford him the ability to move forward. "In any other country they would have shot you for what you did. But this country is di...

Is Christian Doctrine Responsible For The Modern Ecological Crisis

develop a relationship with nature that emphasized the unity between man and nature and man must pull away from the thought it cou...

'Justice as Fairness' and the Theories of John Rawls

Rawls, these individuals have what he calls "two moral powers" and explains these in the following manner: (1) One such power is t...

John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism Chapter 4

He and a group of utilitarians formed a small Utilitarian Society based on many of the writings of Bentham. His many works appeare...

Philosophers on Moral Theory

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

Link Between Death Theme in His Poems and the Personal History of John Keats

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...

Baby Boy vs. White Man's Burden

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...

Comparative Analysis of John Locke's and Thomas Hobbes' Theories

the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also...

Gifted Hands by Ben Carson

predominantly white fifth-grade class, causing young Carson to almost subscribe to the idea that only whites could make good grade...

Personality Profiling Codes of John L. Holland

delineated by interests, skills and personality, unlike other more simplistic groupings which rely solely on only one or two of th...

Race According to Charles R. Lawrence and John Stuart Mill

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

The Development of Utilitarianism

action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...

Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ According to the Gospels of John and Mark

is believed that Johns Gospel was written much later than the other three and this could be one reason for the differences. Other ...

Duty, Morality, and Immanuel Kant

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

Second U.S. President John Adams

a transformational leader. According to Burns, Burns, transformational leaders are change agents, they take more risks than others...

Gospels Differences and Jesus

in order to give an accurate chronology of Jesus ministry, but rather to reveal who Jesus character --who he was (and "is" in the ...

The Quiet American from a Critical Standpoint

much more concerned with relating the circumstances under which he read the novel rather then addressing the characteristics of th...

JFK's Life and Political Accomplishments

Furthermore, included is an interesting photograph of Kennedy from his college days, which is very striking when one realizes that...