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Viktor Frankl, William James, Carl Jung, and Sigmund Freud on Psychology and Religion

compelled to believe in them and that they cannot be proved or refuted. On the other hand, no one can be forced to disbelieve reli...

John Dewey and William James on Pragmatism

well as the pessimistic, "just the facts" empiricist (Titus and Smith 458). James assured these diametrically opposed thinkers th...

Irish Nationalism and Michael Collins, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and Umberto Saba

Joyces brother, Stanislaus, records that in April of 1907, in a conversation with Joyce questioned, "Do you not think Ireland has...

Dublin According to William Butler Yeats and James Joyce

this work many critics feel that Joyce gave Dublin a feminized gender. They assert that Joyces Dublin corresponds to Claudine Herm...

William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Colonialism, and Irish Identity

In eight pages this paper discusses how colonialism has shaped Irish identity in a comparative analysis of some poems by W.B. Yeat...

Relationships Between Sons and Their Mothers in "The Glass Menagerie" and "Hamlet"

Young Prince Hamlet of Denmark has been dealt two blows in rapid succession. First, while away at college, he learns his father h...

Sound, Meaning, Syntax, and Pragmatics in Communication

fourth level of language) involves a speakers lexicon, a lexicon including grammatical and psycholingistic factors, combined with ...

Araby and Sonny’s Blues

Introduction James Joyces Araby and James Baldwins Sonnys Blues are two very intimate and powerful short stories that utilize fir...

Wordsworth’s Nutting

his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...

Araby and Sonny’s Blues

classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read" (Joyce). With Sonnys brother there is a sense of helplessness...

A Rose for Emily

the author and his works this short story holds a deeper and more historical position. In relationship to the story itself, anot...

The Black West by William Katz

simply slaves. They were not simply second rate human beings but have constantly played a very vital role in the history of the na...

Yeats’ The Second Coming

that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...

A Million Little Pieces and Tao te Ching

thrown up and obviously experienced writhing agony, yet he falls asleep, after her call, "Still. Eyes closed. Smiling" (Frey 130)....

Realists: Mark Twain and Henry James

and he used to fetch him down town sometimes and lay for a bet" (Twain). Smiley was a character who would trick others and come ou...

The Second Coming by Yeats

that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...

William Blake’s The Garden of Love

his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...

Frost and Williams and Death

is generally understood that when a child dies a strain sets in upon marriages, often leading to divorce. In essence, men and wome...

Tennessee Williams: Religion

of those in relation to us..." (The Religious Affiliation of Playwright Tennessee Williams). In looking at this particular...

Bennett: "The Book of Virtues"

responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...

Pragmatic Failure in Reference to Translation

human existence. Factors such as race, gender, and sociopolitical status, are all social facts and each influences a cultures lan...

Fields of Philosophy

to discern between what is true and what is opinion has led humanity toward incredible advances in knowledge over the last several...

Pragmatics Case Study Analysis

and Greg are the deliverymen and they also help to keep the shop clean. While Glen also makes fun of Dan and Greg, they usually la...

Henry James's 19th Century Critique of John S. Sargent's 'Lady with the Rose' Painting

lived a privileged upbringing throughout Europe (Downes 5). Lacking a university education did not deter this young sketch artist...

Case Study on Crisis Counseling

while the unexpected loss of your long-term job has created a presence of fear and intimidation as you consider having to reintrod...

Contrasting and Comparing Pragmatic Truth Conception and Bertrand Russell

this approach illustrates how the pragmatist truth "was an entity which evolves and the force which drives its evolution is its pr...

Life and Writings of William Carlos Williams

he believed they "were too attached to European culture and traditions" (The Academy of American Poets, 2006). His work, on the ot...

Marriage as a Problematic Institution

and vows that her life will be different. Due to her assimilation of the American ethos, she rejects the Judaic tenet that she is ...

Federalism and the Writings of William Manning

of the progress which the process of democratisation was making in America in the eighteenth century. It could be asserted that Ma...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Subversiveness

student researching "Macbeth" should understand that there is virtually no relationships in the play in which people or a group of...