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'The Culture Industry' by Horkheimer and Adorno

In five pages this paper considers this essay in an analysis of its content regarding intellectual society's decline. There are n...

Homeless and Runaway Youth

The situation of runaway, homeless, and throwaway youths is pathetic! The statistics are alarming! "The population of homeless ch...

Legalization of Cannabis for Medicinal Use

This paper presents an essay that expounds on the thesis that cannabis should be legalized for medical use. The benefits of the dr...

Identity in the Work of Cindy

Sherman Cindy Sherman is a noted photography, with her work often categorizing her as an artist. In her work she presents images w...

Effects of World War I

This essay discusses how the Fist World War changed different things like society of the winners and losers. The essay comments on...

The Centralist Political Philosophy of Barack Obama: "Useful Fictions"

This 4 page paper provides an overview of Barack Obama's political philosophy and its orientation in centralism. The primary thesi...

Man's Soul and God Contemplated in Philosophy Essays

In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...

Kentucky History and John Hunt Morgan

This paper argues that Morgan had more of an impact on Kentucky history because of the myth surrounding the man and his personalit...

Mental Illness in Shelley and James

This paper examines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Henry James' Washington Square in terms of how Szacz's The Myth of Mental Illn...

Indian Culture and the River Sutra's Healing Powers

In four pages this Indian myth is revealed as being more fiction than based in fact. There are no other sources cited....

Analysis About U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War and the Creation of Myths

American values were the primary motivation of the U.S. participation in the southeast Asia conflict. Author Richard Slotkin expl...

Chapter One of Genesis and the Rig Veda Indian Creation Myth

In four pages this paper compares the creation myths found in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis and 'In the Beginning' of t...

'Twelve Labors' and Heracles

of all the mythological. He has always served as the perfect focus for a story-teller. Because of his strength, courage, enduranc...

Heroism in the Myths of Diana and Hercules

In five pages this paper compares these male and female myths in a consideration of heroism resulting from ideal based behavioral ...

Literature and Fate

In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...

Greek Mythology and Female Abuse

In six pages the abuse of women in several Greek myths is discussed. There are four bibliographic sources cited....

Mythology and Contemporary Violence

In seven pages this paper discusses past and present myths and violence with examples provided from ancient works The Aeneid, The ...

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature for Children

In nine pages this research essay discusses the importance of horror, fable, and myth genres in terms of intellectual development ...

Narrative Evolution

In seven pages the evolution of narrative are examined in a consideration of Scarlet and Black, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, He...

'The Noble Lie' or 'Myths of the Metals' in The Republic by Plato

In five pages this paper examines The Republic in terms of what meaning Plato attached to the 'myths of the metals' and considers ...

Bible and Myths

In five pages this paper examines the Bible's collection of moral fiction, folktales, fables, and myths. Four sources are cited i...

2 Different Cultures' Trickster Myths

trees trick the Trickster (Parks 132). The Trickster is a comic figure fragrant of laughter, humor, and irony. Paul Radin ...

Myths and Their Style of Narrative

The Odyssey, contain a series of events which are common to myths of all cultures, phases or events that the hero or heroine of th...

Pre Christian Concept of God and Mystery Cults

In eight pages this paper examines the pre Christian Mystery Cults that emphasized God's 'mysteriousness' and discusses its myths ...

Critical Comparison of Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these two German theorists in a discussion of their views on society's functions, s...

Eliade's Ritual and Mythology and Durkheim's Ritual Theory

In six pages Durkheim's ritual perspectives are examined in terms of their implications when applied to Eliade's arguments on ritu...

Driving While Under the Influence of Alcohol

This research paper offers an overview of drunk driving accidence statistics, a brief description of penalties and a discussion of...

Declining Roman Mores Through the Eyes of Juvenal

This paper examines the viewpoints of Juvenal as they pertain to Roman society. Juvenal writes from the perspective of his day ...

Myth in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon and argues that it can be seen as a modern day myth in which a ma...

Social Satire in E.M. Forster's My Wood and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal

This paper consists of five pages and examines how what the authors condemn as society's false values are satirized in these two w...