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Competing Visions of Thomas Morton and William Bradford in 'The May Pole of Merry Mount' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and the Loman Family's Symbolism

finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...

Education Influenced by Ideology

where their "problems" are superfluous to the average person. Yet, the players do not see this as they are engrossed in their own ...

Evolution of Women's Roles in the Islamic Tradition

in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...

Assisted Suicide and the Nursing Profession

Physicians occupy center stage in this modern-day morality play and remain the central focus of most analytical investigations. P...

How Important is Critical Thinking?

allows the student to explore a discipline in greater detail than he or she might have been able to do as an undergrad (Warwick Bu...

Media Coverage and the Consumption of Alcohol

alcohol as a positively valued activity (Snyder, et al, 2000). In other words, drinking, as it is portrayed in ads for wine, liquo...

Big Government Programs vs. Community Involvement

time, or on the other hand, the giant bureaucracy has more money, more programs and reaches more people on a widescale basis. What...

Law and the Views of Karl Marx

company that told them to merely come to work and trust in them. Before their stock plummeted, the executives took their money and...

John Milton's Book I of 'Paradise Lost' and Challenges

and not god who told the truth which adds validity to the challenge. Satan, it can be argued was the one who...

Maria Luisa Bombal's Works Compared

her life, her childhood, her adolescence, her adulthood and she sees the conflicts riddled in her experiences. Her role in life, ...

Economics as the Driving Force of History

by the rest of the citizenry (Anonymous, 2003). Inherent to the concept of feudalism was the desire to place all political ...

Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano

few sentences. This is very helpful to the reader because the "plot" for this nonsensical work is easily lost and shows that there...

U.S. History, Quilting, and Quilts

turkey red) on the basis of permanence (Mainardi, 1982). They were creating fine works of art that would be marveled over and app...

Expressing Gun Control Support

the question becomes: Is it a constitutional right for children and adolescents to bear arms? Indeed not, however, law enforcemen...

Oration of Pico

therefore created as basically protean, formless, and capable of making what he wishes of himself. The other creations are fixed w...

Five Stereotypes Associated With Aging and Senior Citizens

warrants. The hardship that media bias has caused the elderly population is immense and far-reaching, severely impacting everythi...

Creativity and its Demise

and not allowed to be creative or fulfill his inner yearnings. Certainly, society affects the art that is produced. Nietzsche a...

Nations and Business Differences

talk" prior to discussing any business issues. Cultural The view of the Chinese has been and remains that the rest of the w...

Jane Austen and Social Criticism

Then, there is the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. They are bent on being the perfect family in that the father deals wi...

Computer Age and Information Ethics

technology in general. The ease with which personal information can be unscrupulously gleaned from the multitude of computerized ...

Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

something of value that could not be found at home, despite the fact that the home is paradise in many ways. "They go to Cairo ...

Global Position of America During the Last Century

would shape our interactions with others. In the earliest times of our history our independent spirit was deeply ingraine...

TV and Stereotyping

the entire clan is characterized as wealthy, stuffed shirts. This proves that not only are minorities the subject of stereotyping,...

Women Targeted in Puritan Witchcraft Accusations

was execution day for eight people in Salem Village, Massachusetts. Their crime: allegedly practicing witchcraft and worshipping ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Conflicts

and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...

Comparing and Contrasting 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy and 'The Metaphorphosis' by Franz Kafka

to assist him in his most basic needs, provides the kind of care and understanding required by the dying and increasingly isolated...

African American Social Contributions of bell hooks, Alice Walkler, and Betty Friedan

each womans strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within ones very being. It i...

Late Medieval Period Account of Spielvogel and Utopia by Thomas More

peasantry, although far more numerous, have very few material resources and no political power at all: they have no say in the way...

Social Fairness and 'Positive Discrimination'

be undertaken consciously. Many of the disadvantages are faced then become due to social constructs and the way that capital cultu...