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The Use of Utilitarianism in Dickens' Hard Times

The idea of utilitarianism is one that addresses whether something is of utility, whether it can actually create something positiv...

Business of Crime and 'Organized' Lucky Luciano

was nine, his family emigrated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which was a rough neighborhood dominated by Italian families (...

Theme of Success in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

he wants more from life, he begins to have great expectations. Later in the story he is given the opportunity to become educated...

Life's Meaning in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the ears of company officials. Marlow accepts this mission, travels upriver, and confronts the horror that Kurtz has become. In ot...

Theoretical Models on Personal Identity

subject. There is a great deal of argument as to what constitutes personal identity. Is identity ones mind or body, or is it, rath...

Hard Times by Dickens

lure or seduce Louise away from her husband. Mrs. Sparsit seems to truly enjoy herself in this job, envisioning the staircase of s...

Poverty Studies: Booth and Rowntree

of the "Life and Labour of the People in London" and actually discovered that the rate of poverty was higher than 25%, existing mo...

Social Worlds: Austen and Dickens

because she often reads gothic novels and so her view of society is a bit askew. However, in the descriptions of her one can see t...

Spain’s Philip II and the Colonization of the Philippines

far one of the more interesting chapters of Philip IIs life, in fact, revolved around that innocuous group of islands now known as...

MacDonald: "Company Commander"

that is perhaps due to the fact that hes not primarily a writer but a soldier and a historian. No matter how he does it, he tells ...

Does London Have a Split Personality?

explores the seamy side of city life. In fact, the novels central theme is the horrible treatment endured by the poor and those wh...

The Pastoral in Orwell and Dickens

moved out of reach. His journeys across the surface of England are overwhelmed by the difficultly of achieving pastoral consolatio...

Versions of “Cinderella”

she isnt such a ninny; not only that, but there is an explanation for some of her behavior. In the French tale, her father is aliv...

MARKETING PLAN FOR A FITNESS CENTER IN ST. CHARLES, IL

role of marketing manager for a small health club in St. Charles, IL. St. Charles is a suburb of Chicago, and is primarily family-...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and its Biblical Theme

this world are not well educated and that is seemingly due more to a lack of caring than to a lack of knowledge. Coketown is foc...

Literature of the Victorian Age

evolving its consumer values, wrote the poem as a demonstration of how society was responsible for illustrating female desires as ...

Moral Philosophy and Evolutionary Theory

for existence in which the fittest members of a varying population survive, reproduce, and pass on their traits to the next genera...

Translations of Dante

both the keys." They begin to differ when they denote to what the keys belong. Singleton chooses to say "Fredericks heart," while ...

Theorists and Theories on Nurture or Nature

extreme emphasis on the environmental determinant of development. Locke described parents as rational tutors who could mold the ch...

Essays on Psychology

different islands of the Galapagos based on what their needs are in the use of their beaks. If they eat soft fruits or insects th...

Life's Ultimate Questions by John P. Newport

The knowers reaction to truth is important, but the truth is not dependent upon that reaction" (Newport PG). Newport sugge...

Classic Literature and the Gothic Motif

Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...

Creative Depiction of Women

In six pages this paper examines how women are portrayed in the works of Gustave Courbet, Charles Darwin, Franz Kafka, and Virgini...

The Characters of Arthur Clennam and His Mother in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

there would have been no new barrier between them--and followed the old man and woman down-stairs" (Dickens Chapter 3). In this...

Charles Wright's Short Story 'A New Day'

such a position where this is his best hope. His entire family seems thrilled that he can have such a good job with good pay, neve...

Tate LaBianca Murder Trial Chronology and Charles Manson

robberies, burglaries of approximately 20 gas stations and the sodomization of a boy in 1952. At that time he was placed into the ...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

The Bean Eater vs. Old Couple, Comparison

is stating the most depressing facts that seem obvious to them. However, as the poem ends we see an understanding of the gentle an...

Anne's Story and a Shaken Life's Structure

that she had organized her wards to the utmost efficiency. At the same time, her best friend Jessica had written to her brother in...

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

the Holy Roman Emperor from 1519-1558. He was born to King Philip I of Castile in February 1500 and although he was born in Ghent,...