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Essays 361 - 390
with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...
the life of most humans, it is both mediocre and glorious. Woolf watches this small and ordinary creature fly against the pane of...
the press separating itself from its ability to act as a public forum for political issues. Fallow brings to our attention ...
uses this seemingly trivial incident to delineate the nature of the relationships of the Ramsey family. Mrs. Ramsey is not so much...
had been annexed before Polks inauguration. Wishing to acquire California and New Mexico also, Polk seized on a skirmish between M...
high success rate of James novel can be attributed directly to his ability to frighten with literary concepts. With great subtlet...
and the culture in which she finds herself having to embrace. She is also alienated by her social class. Antonia, in contrast to J...
been seen were though of as to sophisticated and complex, appeal to the elite and to abstract from every day meaning. Two of the m...
would suggest that the God of the wealthy is quite different from the God of those embraced by the throws of poverty. In impartin...
to death, illustrating, as mentioned, how his life was not necessarily strange or completely outrageous. The second half of the pa...
the media of the time (i.e. television and movies), as well as the impact of various frames of "official" reference such as census...
reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...
the facility, but is also very good with the people he or she manages. Developing great interpersonal skills, one might say, is a ...
the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...
to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...
that is often referred to with awe and reverence. The framers are still held high in esteem. In fact, they are called "framers" wi...
the discovery that "the just person," who is referred to in scripture (such as Roman 1:17) lives by faith and justification pertai...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...
shows how the Huck was socialized by his culture to look on slavery as an economic and moral necessity, not as an evil. In so doin...
Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...
praises which I myself did not understand" (Joyce). In this we see him envisioning himself as something of a noble knight, a figur...
as backward and wrong. They are even more critical of such practices as infanticide, a practice affecting female infants among th...
Civil War. Battle Cry for Freedom McPhersons work covers, as mentioned, a great deal of subjects that directly involved the Ci...
show business, and also very well liked in this particular field. As such she does better than make a living yet does not tell Hur...
great master and not presented anything really new. As this illustrates, among other points, Emerson present a distinctly American...
that they are essentially useless in terms of instigating action because they are far too vague to be of real use. For example, h...
American Medical Colleges, American Medical Assn. et al. v. United States), which alleged the government is conducting illegal Med...
of generalities. We know, for example, that a train will leave the station but we do now know precisely what route it will take t...