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Russell Hoban Riddley Walker

The writer analyzes the Russell Hoban book Riddley Walker, a science fiction novel. The paper is five pages long and there are two...

Bertrand Russell - Denotation

would seem to lack meaning in and of themselves. That means these phrases need to be connected to some specific thing. For example...

Bertrand Russell/On Denoting

"shaves all those who do not shave themselves" and then inquiring if the barber shaves himself or not ("Bertrand Russell"). Anothe...

Walker: “Everyday Use”

as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...

The Language and the Quilt in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

In seven pages the use of language and the symbolism of the quilt are examined within the context of Walker's short story....

'Am I Blue?' by Alice Walker

used to scrawl after our stories, marked, "the end." This is true in the "thinking piece," Am I Blue. It is important for the st...

Bertrand Russell on the Arguments of John Locke and Rene Descartes

In six pages this report assess which philosophical argument Bertrand Russell would support in an examination of Russell's Problem...

Using Structure to Develop the Story in How to Make an American Quilt and The Color Purple

This 9 page paper describes the way in which two authors use structure to develop the ideas in their books. The works under consid...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Women's Roles

is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...

Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy

In five pages this tutorial examines The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell in a discussion of the philosopher's employmen...

Willy Russell's Play Educating Rita and the Portrayal of the Teacher

you mean am I determined to go to pub? I dont need determination to get me into a pub" (Russell). In this we see a bit of a condes...

Willy Russell's Educating Rita

whereas Rita is from the lower class dredges of society. Their language is one of the most obvious differences and we first take n...

J. Russell's Inventing the Flat Earth The Correction of a Twentieth Century Misconception

In four pages this book is summarized and themes as well as findings' evaluations are provided. One source is listed in the bibli...

'Dream Demon' of Descartes, and Russell's Reaction

In four pages this paper discusses how Russell reacted to the 'dream demon' notion of Descartes, contrasting his perspective that ...

Bertrand Russell: Manifestation Of Tenet

interpretive element of mans world construed - and misconstrued - at will; that something so intangible to human designation yet s...

Bertrand Russell's View of Knowledge

experiential knowledge is correct? David Humes ideas about knowledge are very powerful. He held that people acquire beliefs about ...

Theme of Education in Willy Russell's Educating Rita

pub" (Russell). In this we see a bit of a condescending attitude towards his wife, and an attitude that speaks of exasperation to ...

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...

Bertrand Russell: The Value Of Philosophy

third wife and third child come a year apart between 1936 and 1937, while his next publication - A History of Western Philosophy -...

Bertrand Russell: "On Denoting"

a denoting phrase: it "may be denoting and yet not denote anything, e.g., the present King of France" (Russell, 1905). Here, the p...

Educating Rita: Women and Education Today

see this play. It is about a woman, not that different from me because she is not from a rich family and she is from lower class, ...

Title: And Then There Were None by Russell

follow orders or continue on the ship in the way of their previous existence. Because the story leads up to this, and...

Trekkies, Russell and Black Experience

describes the Tiger beetle, which is "often brightly patterned" in a manner that looks "like small jewels" (Russell 222). Her desc...

Analysis of the Pluralism Philosophy

In twelve pages this research paper examines the evolution of pluralism in a consideration of such philosophies as David Hume's em...

Plato and Bertrand Russell on Nature of Reality Knowledge

In a paper consisting of three pages it is contemplated what Russell's reaction to Plato's efforts to account for nature of realit...

Bertrand Russell and 'A Priori Knowledge'

In one page this paper explains Russell's The Problems of Philosophy in which he discusses how a priori knowledge exists and emplo...

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...

Sofia in 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker

is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...

Walker's Battered Women Syndrome and the Frye Rule

be categorised as admissible once it is seen as "generally acceptable" in its field. As Grossman points out, however, since the co...

Virginia Woolf's 'The New Dress,' Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' and Gender Themes

that they tend to destroy themselves from within. This inner destruction of the community toward one another is also symbolic of ...