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Special interest groups and propaganda played a strong role in Prohibition and they have played a strong role in drug laws today, ...

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the themes within the book The Joy Luck Club. This paper includes a discussion of strong wo...

resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

growing and the rate of unemployment falling, male labor force participation dropped by 3 percentage points...In sum, the U.S.-Pue...

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...

little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

choir. However, she ahs peered through neighbors windows and caught glimpses of singers on television, realizing that her talent c...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

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

in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...

left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...