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Renaissance Art's Depiction of the Human Body

In ten pages this paper discusses Renaissance art in a consideration of how the human body was depicted by Italian and German art ...

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

Comparative Analysis of 'Representations of General Nature' in 'A Haunted House' by Virginia Woolf and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

This paper applies Samuel Johnson's contention that 'representations of general nature' should be featured in good stories in a co...

Reflections on Several Famous Literary Works

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

A Ficticious Literary Panel Discussion

its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...

'What is Man?' and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In four pages the question regarding the nature of man is examined within the context of William Shakespeare's King Lear....

Nature of Dreams According to Sigmund Freud

In twenty pages this paper examines the nature of dreams in terms of Sigmund Freud's theoretical interpretations of them....

A Polls' Analysis

or job prejudice against someone because he or she is gay) can end up really confusing the issue, rather than giving a clear-cut p...

Super Size Me

would likely influence people to eat differently. This viewer was just further convinced of how horrible fast food can be for many...

Nature's Importance

case where an assignment of value to something that man generally does not have to pay for occurs, there are always critics who ar...

Thomas Jefferson: Contradiction

associates in Europe" he would refer "to blacks as lazy, slow, unable to reason, lacking in imagination and even spoke against the...

Nature of Siva in Hindu Myth

This paper is in outline form and pertains to literature promoting understanding of the nature of the god Siva in Hinduism. ...

Krakauer's Into the Wild and London's To Build a Fire

to civilisation? Probably not. We can, therefore, only speculate as to whether or not McChandless might have seen his death as mer...

Paul Shepard's Nature and Madness

on behalf of those who embrace the concept of "green," including clean air, food and water, nothing much has really changed, eve w...

Poetic Works of Emily Dickinson

In five pages some of Emily Dickinson's poems that celebrate her passion for nature are examined....

Peter Matthiessen's Far Tortuga

dem. De snipes is gone now. Aint no iguana left....Mahogany, logwood, fustic--all dat gone now! Dey cutting it all away!" North Am...

Literary View of Human Calamity

bombs on the city that they created a firestorm-a self-perpetuating inferno that destroyed the city almost complete. The worst par...

Twain/Cruelty in Huckleberry Finn

A 12 page research paper on Mark Twain's classic novel Huck Finn. This paper includes a 9 page essay, an annotated bibliography an...

False Human Experience Analysis Represented by 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In three and a half pages this paper argues that the criticism of this 1886 literary work by Leo Tolstoy that describes it as 'a p...

Emily Dickinson & Nature

"failed," not why she died (line 5). The conversation between these two deceased who died for their art continues "Until the Moss ...

Frankl: Choice in Three Literary Works

This 3 page paper discusses Viktor Frankl's phrase"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human fr...

Aristotle's "Nature Belongs To The Class Of Causes Which Act For The Sake Of Something" - Strongest Argument

the strongest objection is to defend human composition by illustrating how equating the two are like comparing apples and oranges....

Nineteenth Century Romantic Literature

In five pages this paper examines h ow 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Samuel Johnson and William Wordsworth's 'Ode Intimations o...

Mary Shelley's Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Joseph Conrad's Kurtz and Human Personality

In five pages this paper applies the human personality theories of Sigmund Freud to an analysis of these two classic literary char...

Epic of Gilgamesh, Inferno, and Human Values

the Inferno. "In Dantes Inferno, there is an Upper Hell and a Lower Hell. Upper Hell is the place for those guilty of excessive se...

The Effects of Society on Human Behavior

This paper addresses various literary works relating to human behavior and society. The author discusses George Orwell's work Sho...

Human Depravity and Evil as Recurrent Literary Themes in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

Thoreau/Nature Essays

imposed boundaries. He asks, "What sort of a country is that where the huckleberry fields are private property? When I pass such f...

Human Characteristics and Latin American Literature

Parenting styles differ significantly, therefore, leaving much open to interpretation and inference. Certain aspects, such as nur...

Leslie Silko's Ceremony and 'Mother Earth'

This is an essay of 5 pages that argues that Silko employs literary devices and the characterization of Tayo to dramatize the spir...