SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Truth and History

Essays 181 - 210

Revealing Truth through the Lie of Art

us nearer to the truth." This paper evaluates that statement in regard to theater, film and literature. It does so by considering ...

James Joyce's Araby, Counterparts, and The Dead

powerless to stop his thoughts about her. His growing physical tensions haunt him as he relives how the light plays on her hands. ...

Happiness Cannot Be Bought

selecting from perhaps "half a dozen kinds of pasta at the grocery store but find 27 choices overwhelming" (Begley, 2007). They ar...

Illusion and Truth in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

In five pages this paper examines symbolism, truth, and illusion as represented in this play by Edward Albee. Six sources are cit...

Critical Reception to Alice Adams's Fiction

In eight pages the varied critical responses to Adams's fiction particularly as it portrayed class is discussed with reference mad...

Character of Mersault in The Stranger by Albert Camus

This essay consisting of eight pages evaluates the ways in which this good man is destroyed by the civilization that refuses to ac...

Various Essays on World Literature

This 15 page paper comprises a series of essays in various literary genres. Works examined include the speeches of Sojourner Truth...

Blinded by Class in 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy

of their husband and friend. Tolstoy wrote of Ivan and his co-workers, "He had been ill for some weeks with an illness said to be...

Interpretation Of Claims Made In "The Da Vinci Code"

of Christianity. Beyond that, however, the story quickly falls apart. The "theological crossroads" (Breaking The Da Vinci Code) ...

Sojourner's 'Plain-Speaking' Truth

291). While still a slave of John Dumonts, Isabella married fellow slave Thomas and subsequently gave birth to five children. A ...

A Theology Book For Everyone

words of major scholars and theologians from the past and present to explain ideas. There is another statement the author makes ...

Palestinians as Victims of War in Paradise Now, Making Of, and Palestine

acknowledging responsibility for their own deaths if Israeli forces fired upon them (Twair 56). Abu-Assad later revealed that his...

The Truth About Stories by Thomas King

all realities and truths in a single work. In relationship to who this book is intended for one could well argue that...

Jesus and Buddha

salvation" (Hanh). Buddhism holds that individuality is an illusion and teaches a belief in the "non-self" or "anatta" (Hanh). Chr...

C.S. Lewis/The Great Divorce

pretensions that keep them in Hell, and stay in Heaven, that is, not to get back on the bus for the return trip. Lewis reveals l...

Ondaatje/Anil’s Ghost

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

Parable Of The Sower - Matthew 13:1-23

into the boat but He also sat down in the boat, thus, carrying on the tradition (Kulikovsky, 1999). The audience stood at the shor...

Plato's "Allegory Of The Cave" And Francis Bacon's "The Four Idols" - How We Know What We Know

smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...

Fallacious, Informal Proof Argument Defending A Grade

a B by virtue of having the same answers as the student who actually did his own work on the final (Cohen, 2004)....

Organizational Communication and Personal Power

have to know whos in charge. Max Weber, the German sociologist, "defined power as the ability to get things done your way in spite...

Peace and Conflicts

speaking of governments that are founded strongly on their religious beliefs such as Ireland. This is something that Liech...

Hallucinations, Possession Trance And Religious Authenticity: Hollywood's Accurate Interpretation

benefit of any mutilating tool; Sands (2001) notes that to suggest this trance - or hallucination - is motivated by anything other...

What is Truth?

be quantified. That is, ones life may be the truth, but it cannot be articulated as the truth. Still, there had been much debate b...

Hamlet and Oedipus as Avengers

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

Sentencing and the American Criminal Justice System

toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...

Literature, the Human Condition, and Universal Truths

themselves, Voltaires message is clear: these human flaws of vanity, fickleness, greed, and misplaced optimism will never die and ...

The Argument from Queerness by John L. Mackie

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

The Impact of Female Writers in Early American Society

to hear, these discourses are important and add to American historical knowledge. Jacobs, in Life of a Slave Girl of course incor...

A 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' Excerpt

remember the dream he had been having. It had been a good one" (Rowling 19). Contemporary Children First and foremost, we note...

Richard Rorty and Immanuel Kant on Truth

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...