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Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Social Values

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

Black Boy by Richard Wright and History

society, this history, into which he was born, stating "This was the culture from which i sprang. This was the terror from which I...

Characters of Bolingbroke and Richard II Revealed in the Play by William Shakespeare

the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...

Life and its Meaning Questioned

contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...

Richard Rorty and Immanuel Kant on Truth

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

The United States of the 1920s

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe by Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse

Islam total control of the Mediterranean, so that -- as one Arab writer of the time put it -- the Christians could no longer "floa...

John Dewey and Richard Rorty Philosophical Parallels

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

19th and 20th Century Philosophies of John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and Richard Rorty

Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...

Film Representations of the Holocaust

of Train of Life (or its original French title - "Train de vie") is that the "village idiot" of a tiny Jewish community learns th...

'Drink My [Red] Blood' by Richard Matheson

with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

Comparing William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Richard III and Themes of Justice and Destiny

especially apparent when critically examining Shakespeares historical play, Richard III and his final work, the dark comedy, The T...

Liberal and Republican Views on Slavery and Emancipation

Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...

Childhood Tale on the Mystery of the Disappearing Barbie

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

Fragile Glory by Richard Bernstein

In eight pages questions are answered relevant to this text on France and include comparisons between French politics and American...

French Culture and Fragile Glory by Richard Bernstein

carried out. The man was sent home to France when he developed a stomach ailment and the woman was sent home when she became pregn...

'Tilted Arc Destroyed' by Richard Serra

black balled and even attacked as individuals who are against their country. And most of the negative attention such artists have ...

Richard T. LaPiere and 'Not Practicing What You Preach'

basis of the importance of measuring attitude when it comes to society and how people in it behave toward one another (Ellwood, 18...

'Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror' by Richard A. Clarke

of the Bush inner circle was as unaware of the existence of Osama bin Ladens al Qaeda as Americans were prior to 9/11, remarking, ...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

Night Below Station Street by David Adams Richards

first telling the reader the reactions of one character, and then another. For example, the writer tells the reader about Ritas fe...

Richard Skolnik's I Am the American

relatives. It was the 1930s and change was in the air socially, politically, and internationally. Where they lived in Brooklyn Sko...

Analyzing Richard Wilbur's 'The Death of a Toad'

that the simple things in life, those things that really count for more, are drown out by the roar of progress in the form of a la...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Richard Valantasis' The Gospel of Thomas

in these passages. Ostensibly, this is a saying of Jesus and part of his ministry. Therefore, if one substitutes the word light to...

Physical World View of Dante

Aristotle. The sky is of course something that perhaps is significant in esoteric matters. After all, the sky is quite provocativ...

Richard Hoggart's Scholarship Boy

from even his or her family for trying to improve himself. Hoggart also addresses the working class who have taught themselves s...

Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

In three pages the life's meaning Victor Frankl, a concentration camp survivor, searches for as represented in his book is examine...

Early American Poetry

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...