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Hurston's Feminist Influence for Alice Walker

This essay discusses the influence of Zora Neale Hurston in regards to Alice Walker's perspective on black oral tradition and femi...

Overview of Hinduism and Christianity

This essay presents a discussion of specific traditions and beliefs relevant to the Hinduism and Christianity. Seven pages in leng...

German Criminal Justice System

This research paper discusses aspects of Germany's criminal justice system, such as relevant history, legal traditions, relevant l...

How Different Groups Deal with Death

This paper explores how different cultures and different religions deal with death. One study revealed differences among three dif...

Explanation Each of the Ten Commandments

This essay reports the explanations of each of the Ten Commandments are interpreted by one scholar in a book. Other topics include...

Exploring Textual Sources of “The Arabian Nights”

It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...

Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas on Religion and Philosophy

truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Changes in Higher Education Due to the Internet

the graduates of these universities and is designed to deliver courses former students can take to "continue their education after...

Elijah's Message

them safe (1 Kings 18). Elijah once again confronts Ahab about the trouble he and his family have brought down on Israel (1 Kings ...

Multiculturalism and the Curriculum

demands that change should take place in order for all students, regardless of ethnic or racial background, to feel that they are ...

The Theory of Knowledge from the Socratic and Taoist Perspectives

would lead to an early death, he said, "... a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; h...

Sundiata: The Text and the Man

in Africa. The importance of the character in the book is that he becomes a true hero. Conde frames the story of Sundiata "with g...

Qualitative Research Questions

Inquiry" 18). This aids the researcher is presenting data in an accurate and personalized fashion that helps the reader discern no...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

Traditions and Cuisine of New England

divided by the church members among themselves "on the basis of status and seniority, laying out central villages like Deerfield a...

"The Last Emperor" - Psychological Elements

"develop a healthy sense of omnipotence which will naturally be frustrated as the child matures" (D. W. Winnicott). Because Pu Yi...

Goal of Meditation in the Buddhist Tradition

leads to the meditative absorptions states known as jhana (Novak, 1989). The second, insight meditation, contemplates the "true n...

The Sari as the Symbol of Regional Tradition and Women’s Status in Indian Culture

Said argued that this enabled the West to use this part of the world as "a benchmark" to measure its own progress while at the sam...

Habermas: Universality Of Linguistic Understanding

and aesthetic projects of resistance and revolution, recooperation and universalism all played an integral role within the ultimat...

Mohammad and Jesus

of God were those of the Old Testament, then came Jesus, whom they consider to be another divine prophet, and then Mohammad, the l...

Analysis Of Two Cultures

has her husband, children, sisters and other extended family, as well, who provide the missing link to her cultural roots back in ...

Social Research and Epistemology

Rene Descartes, who formulated the innovative idea that sensory information is not a reliable foundation on which to base knowledg...

Socialization as a Link between Individuals and Society

parents who are members of that culture, and who raised them in it (ONeil, 2006). The second layer of culture is that of a subcul...

Love Soccer and Cultural Expectations

Starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi, the movie "Bend It...

The Pursuit of Happiness via Pleasure and Detachment

to end in failure. This paper will explore the pursuit of happiness in the context of the balance between two traditional extremes...

Land and Money and the Status Quo

The 1990 movie "The Field", written and directed by Jim Sheridan is based on a 1965 film by John B. Keane. This is a captivating...

East Asia History, Tradition and Changes

of two, had found feet.3 This practice involved binding the feet of the child so tightly that it broke the bones, causing excrucia...

The Impacts of Digital Technology on the Production and Consumption of Media in Indonesia

and a range of problems for women, the "New Order" regime under Suharto focused on mass media messages that put women in their pla...

Twentieth Century Music, Various Aspects

This research paper/essay consists of two parts. The first half of the paper pertains to three works in which the composer turned ...