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Essays 121 - 150

Nietzsche's Ideas about God and Society

God, and that it is not something that is external or intrinsic to man. In other words, morality does not come from a force outsid...

The Christian Ideal of Love in "Dead Man Walking"

down, and shot them in the head. I look down at the name in horror. Do I really want to know such a man?" (Prejean, 1994). That i...

The Damascus Document,Dead Sea Scrolls

This research paper provides exegesis of a passage from the Damascus Document, which is included within the Dead Sea Scrolls. The ...

Defining Death

flawed and inherently contradictory. This seems accurate to this writer. There will always be inconsistencies and there will never...

Comparing poems by Atwood and Smith

also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...

Exegesis: 1 Corinthians 15 - Resurrection Of The Dead

primary purposes. First, he is declaring and reaffirming that he is, indeed, Christs Apostle and has spoken the truth. Second, he ...

Ode to a Nightingale and Dead Man’s Path

for home,/ She stood in tears amid the alien corn" (Keats 65-67). In contrast Achebes story is about a man who has just obtained...

Dead Poet's Society and the Motif of Carpe Diem

to his students. He gives them no time to "adjust," but leaps right in with both feet on the first day by having the class read Ro...

Existentialism and Progressivism in Dead Poets Society

Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard, lately of the TV show House), to pursue his love of acting (Dead Poets Society). The glitch is th...

"Mama Might Be Better Off Dead," A Book Review

This essay offers a book review of Linda K. Abraham's book "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Urban of Urban Heath Car...

Death as a Representation of Failing Marriages

This 9 page paper gives an explanation of how the timeless ideal of marriage is not real and how The Dead and The Story of an Hour...

Provincialism: Gogol, Chekhov

Using Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls and Anton Chekhov's The Duel, the writer discusses how each author addresses the topic of Russian...

Joyce’s “The Dead” and Jackson’s “The Lottery”

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Joyce’s “The Dead”. Themes between the two works are co...

Cardiac Surgery in Africa

This paper discusses a documentary film that follows eight Rweandan children as they go to a hospital for cardiac surgery. The chi...

Milkman Dead as a Classic Hero in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper argues that Milkman Dead, a character in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, can be described as a classic hero. Th...

Compare and Contrast Two Characters in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Milkman Dead and his father Macon in Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solo...

3 Readings on Active Education

In six pages the active education experience is celebrated in essays 'The Banking Concept of Education' by Paulo Freire, 'The Loss...

Presence of the Dead Father in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

In seven pages this paper examines how the social oppression of Southern women is represented through the constrictions Emily stil...

The Film, Dead Man Walking, as it Portrays The Criminal Justice System

This paper focuses on various elements of the criminal justice system as seen in the film, Dead Man Walking. This six page paper ...

'Dia de los Muertos' Traditional Mexican Ceremony

In five pages this research paper examines this 'Day of the Dead' Mexican ceremony in terms of its tradition and the meanings behi...

The Dead Who Refuse to Die in The Hunter Gracchus by Franz Kafka and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

(Silverman, 76). In a surprisingly large number of Poes stories, the revenant theme is coupled with some sense of a double -- two...

Music as a Reflection of Societal Issues

The writer discusses the role of music in society by concentrating on the new band Blues Traveler, which some think will be the ne...

Analysis of the Essenes

In five pages this research paper discusses the Essenes in an analysis that includes the Qumran vision of history, the Dead Sea Sc...

Health Care and Poverty in Urban America

This formula, at 1994s standards, placed the poverty line at $14,800 for a family of four, no matter if they were in the urban Nor...

The Impact of the European Black Death

This eight page paer analyzes the social and political impacts of this tragic plague. The bubonic plague not only left thousands ...

Norse God Odin

In two and a half pages this paper examines the Norse god of the dead Odin in a consideration of how his eye was lost and how in t...

Dead Poets Society and Leadership Styles

In twelve pages this paper discusses the movie Dead Poets Society in a comparison and contrast of the styles of leadership represe...

James Joyce's The Dead and Images of Intellect and Passion

In six pages this paper discusses how Joyce portrays the conflict of Apollonian intellect and Dionysian passion in the imagery emp...

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker and Re-Vision

In seven pages re-vision is defined in concept and then associated with the womanism concept in an analysis of Alice Walker's In S...

Sophia Peabody and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marriage

"transcendentalist." This was an idealistic philosophy influenced by the German writers Immanuel Kant and F. W. Schelling. It pr...