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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...

Contributions of Philosopher William James

universe as heartily to assent to the evil that seems inherent in its details?" (Thought & Character, Volume I, Perry, 322) (Shull...

Contemporary Developments of Walden Pond and What Would Henry David Thoreau Think

first able to ascertain the beauty of something so elusive and grand. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, ...

William Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth and Sophocles' Oedipus

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way good and evil and father and son relationships in these two plays. There ...

The Motif of the Journey In Contemporary Literature

This 5 page paper analyzes the way in which the motif of the journey was used in three classic American novels: The Grapes of Wrat...

Satirical Elements in Walden by Henry David Thoreau

time without injuring eternity" (Thoreau Chapter 1A Page 10). That is a witticism in itself. Thoreau (1994) said, "The mass ...

Ideological Differences Between Thomas Jefferson and Henry David Thoreau

In five pages this paper examines the ideological differences between Jefferson's and Thoreau's views regarding the citizen and th...

Justification for Law Breaking in Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

In five pages this essay examines the notion that Thoreau advocates breaking the law when it becomes morally important to do so wi...

Nature and Henry David Thoreau

In five pages Thoreau's Walden Pond is examined in a consideration of the author's portrayal of nature. Two sources are cited in ...

Life and Literary Art of James Joyce

is encapsulated in his writings. Indeed, autobiographical elements are characteristic of much of James Joyces work. This...

Father's Eulogy in Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

known. In part, "Notes of a Native Son" became particularly well-known since it was, what Allen refers to as being "... an oblique...

Sixteenth Chapter of James L. McClain's A Modern History Japan

involvement for, while the scheduled Olympics were to be held in Japan in 1940 but were canceled due to the evolution of the war, ...

Henry Sidgwick's Theories and Arguments

to that of Egoism which is based on the premise that mans concern with his own good is the basis of mans morality. Sidgwick in his...

What it Takes to be a Good Administrator

exist considerable differences between and among varying management solutions, it stands to reason that giving power to one -- and...

Martha Graham and James Joyce

about the time of the life of Beethoven, artists needed the patron to support them in order to have the freedom to pursue their ar...

Presidential Character of George W. Bush

Texas), he has not made any grand innovations, in many cases, in fact, he failed at much of what he attempted. But instead of tryi...

Thirty Years War and Source Documents

alliances to protect their interests: the Catholics under Maximilian of Bavaria, and the Protestants under Frederick V....

Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

he knows of an undertow there which will hold her back against the gale and save her. For just pure woodcraft, or sailorcraft, or ...

Military Generals and Leadership Characteristics

the glad tidings That his troops go starving on! (Manchester, 1978, 237-238) President Truman "privately called the General a...

Duality in 'The Dead' by James Joyce

like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...

False Identities

beliefs based on which country is most dominant in the globalized society. Therefore, the strongest determines which features are ...

James Scott's Hidden and Public Transcripts Regarding Power Use

they present a public transcript that is the result of a power disparity. When a student agrees with a professor in an attempt to ...

History, Human Nature, and Psychology

the other; and, the law of contrast which is opposite the law of similarity where one thing or event may trigger or associate itse...

Epiphany and Moment of Being in the Works of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf

"what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her, the fat lady in the cab . . . Did it matter that she must inevitably cease c...

Thirteenth Chapter of James C. Livingston's Anatomy of the Sacred

towards salvation. "For Luther, to be blessed means only to will the will of God and His glory and to desire nothing of ones own e...

Literary Modernism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

the most important elements of modernist literature is that which involves perspective. With modernist literature this involves "t...

Comparative Analysis of Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider by James Patterson

Cross. In both novels Patterson used similar techniques of details, settings and emphasis to adequately involve the readers in the...

Films Based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

novel. However, the film adaptation was to have the monster say nothing at all, something which led Lugosi to declining the part. ...

James Joyce's Dubliners and Dublin's Importance

story of a young girl who lives in Dublin with her father and her brother. But living there has become like living in a prison, a...

Themes of Futility and Furstration in the Works of Joyce

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An...