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Towneley Cycle's Wakefield Mystery Plays of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

eventually became an annual summer feast and dramatic event. "The Towneley Cycle proclaimed in its genesis a belief in the Christi...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

heartlessness of the industrialist, Bounderby, against the humanity and goodness of one of his textile workers, Stephen Blackpool....

Baroque and Enlightenment Period Differences

and reality. It was a completely unique movement which "generated its own standards" and cannot, therefore, "be measured by class...

The Writing Techniques Alice Walker Uses to Address Her Concerns

In six pages the ways in which Walker employs fiction to express her concern about specific issues and love of humanity are consid...

A Review of Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory

views, and also goes on to suggest that his seemingly tenuous perspective on the application of science to social theory is based ...

Comparative Analysis of the Renaissance and 20th Century

In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares the concepts of science, philosophy, literature, art, architecture, and understand...

Reality and Dreams in the Humanity of John Milton's Works

In five pages John Milton's 'Lycidas,' 'Areopagitica,' and 'Of Education' are examined in a consideration of humanity and the ten...

Humanity, the Universe and its Hierarchy

then leads to living and non-living matter. Can there be such a distinction? If all matter is the result of the interaction of mo...

Humanity and the Impact of Y2K

In four pages this paper discusses how humanity will be impacted by Y2K issues with such topics as interdependence oon others, ren...

Soils Warning Issued by World Scientists

pavement (Foster, 1998). Humankind has, interestingly, been aware of potential impacts to the worlds soils for some time. Even t...

What Life Is

In five pages this paper examines life and humanity in a comparison of the short stories Paul Fussell's 'Thank God for the Atom Bo...

Overview of Dr. Martin Luther King

In two pages the accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King in terms of the civil rights movement and humanity are the focus of thi...

Vitruvian Man and Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci

In four pages this paper examines these paintings' 'imperfections' and what they may perhaps reveal about the Renaissance concepts...

Competitive Tool of Education

In two pages technology and humanities education are examined from the perspective of the global marketplace with their personal b...

Agape Love, Views of Paul Tillich

This essay offers an overview of the views of theologian Paul Tillich in regards to agape love and the role it plays in defining i...

Last Supper Accounts

Jesus was both human and Divine as is reflected in many parts of the New Testament. This paper discusses the account of the Last S...

NATO Just War Against Serbs

There are several issues discussed in this essay. Examples are given of cruel treatment of prisoners of war, how the Bush Doctrine...

Transamerica, a Film Review

This film review pertains to Transamerica (2005, directed by Duncan Tucker), which is the story of Sabrina "Bree" Osborne, a trans...

Madness in Gulliver's Travels, Part IV

This essay describes the evolution of Gulliver's rejection of humanity in preference for the society of a race of intelligent hors...

War in Iraq and Journalism Coverage

first job...Along with its twin sentries fairness and balance, it defined journalistic standards" (Cunningham 24), Fisk further il...

Judaism and Human Rights Advocate Abraham Joshua Heschel

the value of religious discourse allowed an "intelligent passion" (Novak, 1998, pp. 63-67) where fear and trepidation once lurked....

'Bushed' by Earle Birney

reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...

Collingwood, Tolstoy and the Art of Frans Floris

that he considers its effect on the public to be morally bad (Jahn, 2000). Of course, in the typical connotation "bad art" is far ...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

Composing, Humanities vs. Research Papers

This paper pertains to the differences that distinguish writing a humanities essay versus reporting on a research study. Three pag...

Science is Freedom, Their Relationship

This essay draws on the philosophy of Kant and Fichte, and argues that science freed humanity by offering a means to understand re...

Humanity and Divinity of the Christian Church

wanted only man as His own: God, Who has fatherly concern for everyone, has willed that all men should constitute one family and ...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Being Human

a peasant cottage where he can unobtrusively observe a family and how they interact and he begins to learn from them. In other wo...

Chapter XI of Bearing the Cross by Garrow

very powerful then and that point comes through loud and clear in the chapter. It is also noted that blacks and whites did not lik...

A Justification of Alien Abductioins from a Utilitarian Perspective

holds that terms such as "good" and "right" are defined on the basis of which behavior provides the greatest benefit to the larges...