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Tom Paine: Common Sense

that would "sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge" (Paine). The alternative was to return to British control, wh...

“The World Is Flat”: The Mixed Impacts of Globalization

The title of Friedmans book relates to the misperceptions Columbus dispelled in the fifteenth century. His trip across the seas l...

MySpace: An Invisible World Flattener

other nations (the U.S. and Western Europe, as mentioned) are sitting back relaxed, not paying attention to the destruction of the...

Thomas More’s Utopia

rely on hopes and prayers for peace. If battle is necessary then they do whatever is necessary to make the battle as quick and pai...

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

“Human Built World”

that probably springs to mind first is a computer. This is only one part, and a very small segment, of the vast human enterprise t...

Short Story Analysis: Three Literary Works

way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...

Thomas Nagel/”Moral Luck”

that are beyond their control. In other words, there are factors that affect the way in which an event is evaluated morally that a...

Beowulf, Tempest, Don Quixote/Their Lasting Appeal

size," who attacks it nightly (Kennedy xiv). Beowulf, in particular is described in heroic terms: Of living strong men he was the...

Flaubert, Swift Comparison

this age, will not yield their parents a sum sufficient to cover what has been invested in raising them thus far (Swift). He then ...

The Day Dixie Died

relatively focused, yet incredibly broad look at the struggles of many whites in the South in a timeframe of just a couple of year...

Five American Thinkers and How They Employed the Declaration of Independence into Their Writings

thinkers in American history, including Andrew Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luth...

A Health Official’s Fight Against Smoking

since records have been made (United Press International, 2009). This is down from 21.5% in 2002 (United Press International, 2009...

American History

and helped many people make sense of what was going on, with a more clear understanding of the direction that should be taken. And...

Creating the American Character

p. v). Through Franklins writing, such as the homey advice of Poor Richards Almanac and also through his autobiography--through hi...

Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense' Pamphlet

the style the writing. This pamphlet was phrased in language which was understandable by the common man (Kashatus 53). In this hi...

1500 to 1700 Social Reform

In five pages 200 years of social reform is examined in a consideration of Sir John Fortescue's Of the Laws and Governance of En...

Friedman: “The World Is Flat” (Sort of). Or Maybe It’s Spiky.

help to explain some of the wobblier thinking in which he indulges. Be that as it may, his theory briefly is this: as noted, he s...

Coach Carter/Hoosier, film comparison

when the teams losing streak continues. There is one boy in the high school, Jimmy (Maris Valainis) who is a superb player, with...

Thomas Jefferson and the Slavery Question

people smoke cigarettes and eat buttered popcorn today even though they know these things are bad for human health. Similarly, Jef...

Theme of Death in Colette's The Retreat From Love and Andre Gide's The Immoralist

In six pages these works are considered in terms of the narrative function of death regarding the passing of spouses at the conclu...

Community-Familial Themes in Works by Morrison, Sapphire, Kincaid and D'aguair

This 3 page paper discusses the way in which four authors treat the issues of language, rape, education and incest at the family l...

The Plight of Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

This six page essay references two feminist works by authors Rebecca Harding Davis and Anzia Yezierska. The author utilizes passa...

Spirituality in the Works of Morley Callaghan

This 6 page paper discusses the works of Morley Callaghan, a Canadian author who includes much of his own spirituality in his work...

A Look at Figaro

Figaro, the work and the character, are discussed. This Beaumarchais work is contemplated in four pages and utilizes four referenc...

Themes of Bood and Evil in The Bible, Crito, and The Oresteia

This paper addresses the nature of morality as portrayed in these three works. The author compares and contrasts how good, evil, ...

Life and Writings of Leo Tolstoy

problems for him for the rest of his life. At sixteen he entered the University of Kazan, intending to become a diplomat. He quic...

Baudelaire's Dog, Familar vs. Foreign, and E.E. Cummings

being graphic, and sometimes that takes getting used to as well. That same quality of foreign-ness can be applied to the work of ...

Dante's 'Inferno' and Allocating Characters to the Relevant Circles

Iin this paper that consists of 5 pages the appropriate punishments for characters from four major literary works contained within...

The Golden Age Comedy of Voltaire And Moliere

For many historians, the comedy styles and content of the works of Moliere and Voltaire represent the pinnacle of 18th century Fre...