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Essays 1741 - 1770

Nations and Nationalism by Ernest Gellner

first addressing how societies first developed in agrarian cultures. Gellner discusses how political units in the agrarian age var...

Economic Commentary in Fat and Mean The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial 'Downsizing' by David Gordon

In seven pages this research paper presents summaries of the book chapters and then summaries a trio of text reviews. Four source...

A Synopsis and Analysis of Andrew Clements' Frindle

This paper analyzes the plot and provides a synopsis of Clements' book, Frindle. This five page paper has one source listed in th...

Moody: "Coming of Age in Mississippi"

Essies father tires of sharecropping and walks out, leaving Essie and her mother and sister to get along the best they can (Starks...

"The Zimmerman Telegram"

Allied side. America had the men, material and production capacity to turn out the equipment needed to overpower the Germans and e...

Paul's Conversion/Acts 9, 22 & 26

this attests, the historiography and authenticity of Acts is well established, with many scholars supporting the idea that it was ...

"A Wrinkle in Time"

it: "LEngle "has noted in interviews that children and teenagers are more open to exploring questions about the meaning of life th...

"I Had Seen Castles"

terrible sense of foreboding when Joe says that his father came home early from the university: "It was his face ... On any other ...

The Bible And The Koran - Christianity And Islam

on which a religion is based. It is one of the forms of communication in the religion along with ritual activities, architecture a...

Runciman: "The Fall of Constantinople 1453."

portrait of the Byzantine Empire, Runciman shows us a civilization caught in the middle of a number of forces: the Turks invaded f...

Bennett: "Before the Mayflower"

North and South" (Bennett). Bennett pays a good deal of attention to detail, explaining the position of Blacks in ancient civili...

The Theme of Surveillance in Orwell's 1984

recorded today. With computer technology what it is today, it is difficult to escape the watchful eye of the government and the po...

Finding Meaning in Terror

in the face of danger (i.e., the approaching inspection) which was caused by it (Frankl, 1984, p. 85). Frankl relates that most ...

Questions from "Gideon's Trumpet"

counsel. In fact "The United States Supreme Court had not said he was entitled to counsel; in Betts v. Brady and succeeding...

Burroughs and Robinson and Communication Theory

structure of the novel. In Cities of the Red Night, Burroughs does something analogous, though not identical: he interweaves thre...

Lynching as Terrorism

the perpetrators need to have a voice in their own government doesnt really hold up. Whites were in charge-they had no need to use...

Walker: "No More, No More"

in which 19th century blacks in Havana and New Orleans were able to maintain their identity and resist the misery of slavery by pa...

"My Own Country: A Doctor's Story"

system (Verghese). "It was clear, though no one had yet seen a case, that he was Johnson Citys first case of the acquired immune d...

White Noise by DeLillo

information we get today, seems to argues such things as the benefits of something but the dangers of that same item. Today people...

"Activism, Inc."

(Fisher, 2006). The Republicans continually outspend the Democrats and also raise much more money; thus, the Democrats have turned...

"Last Standing Woman"

audience must surely be both her own people and whites. The former need to learn the lessons of the past and the whites, as always...

Exclusivism vs. Inclusivism: An Examination of the Question of Who Will Reach Heaven

heaven. This theory places a considerable weight on morality as a deciding factor in determining our final fate. The logic is th...

Harriet Jacobs/Slave Girl

order to fully understand the structure of Jacobs narrative, it is first necessary to see it within the cultural framework provide...

Achebe: The English Presence in "Things Fall Apart"

precepts, and laws of the land, which are established for the good of the society" (Nnoromele). We know that there are nine villag...

Hume's Ideas about the Distinct and Continued Existence of Objects

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

The Bill Gates Story

emphasize that it is a Microsoft world already. His childhood was rather ordinary. Bills father was a lawyer and his mother, a sc...

Thoreau vs. Huxley

to mean that it is weak or ineffective. Thoreaus observations of his own inner life, the life of the pond, and the life of all of ...

Prestowitz's Three Billion Capitalists

the book seems to be that America is losing economically due to some policy decisions it has made in the past. The author claims...

"The Shock of Arrival"

retain, but also what we inherit from preceding generations, and pass on to the next" (Joshi, 1996). These two qualities, giving u...

“Managers not MBA’s”

ate part of a larger team. In additional to this Mintzberg (2004) also argues that the type of people attracted to MBAs are not th...