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Looking Back at the Culture of the 20th Century from the 22nd Century

This 8 page paper gives a cultural history of the 20th century from the perspective of someone living in the 22nd century. The wri...

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Ini six pages this paper first examines the playwright's life and effects of the Great Depression on Miller and his writings and t...

Chinese Domination on the Open Seas During the Fifteenth Century

and offered the natives beads and strings of coral as items for trade, the Europeans were ridiculed. The natives had products tha...

Determinism, Free Will, and the Fate of Humanity

by the reasons and values which occupy the highest, conscious level of our organismic structure" (Bissell, no date, p. indexmm1.ht...

Folk Ballads and the Theme of Murder

and evolving over time, this form of "news" tended to keep the sensational details, but in most cases, retained very little refere...

Foolishness or Knowledge Advancement?

In this paper containing five pages this report considers whether what is regarded as knowledge is foolish in terms of its threat ...

Nineteenth Century Anti Semitism

Jews were not the only ones affected by anti Semitism. In the nineteenth century not only they but Cristians, Catholics in partic...

American Literature Overview

In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...

India and Christianity

In six pages this essay considers two sixteenth century Western missionaries and their introduction of Christianity to India and h...

Body Part Cloning Defended

In five pages the humanity benefits promised by the cloning of body parts is defended in this argument supporting the controversia...

Society and Nature

This paper examines the concept that society has lost much of its humanity and happiness due to loosing touch with nature. This f...

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, Common Humanity and Nationalism

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel by Michael Ondaatje in terms of the thematic conflict of nationalism versus common hum...

Portrayals of Humanity and Science in Frankenstein and Maezel's Chess Player

A 5 page analysis of humanity and science as they are portrayed by Mary Shelly's and Edgar Allan Poe. 2 sources....

'Libation Bearers' and 'Manchurian Candidate'

This is a paper that is 5 pages in length and draws parallel's between Aeschylus's work in the fifth century and the twentieth cen...

Moral Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

to consider the fact that when one stretches his ethical judgment and attempts to justify an immoral act, it can be argued that th...

Right and Wrong According to Philosophers W. David Ross and Thomas Hobbes

In five pages this essay considers right and wrong from Hobbes' 17th century perspectives and Ross's 20th century vantage point. ...

Early History of Women's Subjugation

In three pages this paper presents a brief overview of women's subjugation from the ancient period until the 17th century. One so...

Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Ridley Scott's film and Philip K. Dick's novel are compared in terms of characterization and huma...

Political Practices, Women's Suffrage and Changes in California

5 pages and 8 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the political environment of California in the early 20th century ...

Eighteenth Century Quaker Woman's Narrative 'Sarah's Journal'

In five pages this first person narrative is examined in terms of its description of quilt making and eighteenth century Quaker me...

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Critically Analyzed

In Machiavellis view, it is mans desire to attain the unattainable, which is the greatest threat to humanity. As soon as he accep...

Philosophies of John Kenneth Galbraith and Seymour Martin Lipset

In three pages this report compares and contrasts Galbraith's and Lipset's philosophies in terms of Galbraith's emphasis upon econ...

The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier by Jakob Walter, and Nationalism

In seven pages this paper traces the emergence of nationalism from the early 19th century until the first World War as portrayed i...

Happiness and Comfort, Beauty and Truth in Brave New World by Aldoux Huxley

This paper consists of six pages and focuses upon text chapters XVI and XVII which features a debate between John the Savage and M...

20th Century Energy in the Cubism Art of Georges Braque and Poetry of Carl Sandburg

In 5 pages this paper compares Braque's Houses at L'Estaque painting with Carl Sandburg's 'Chicago' poem in a consideration of how...

Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror

Crusades, insurrection, the Schism of the Church, and massacres of Jewish people were but part of the horrors of that century. Th...

Character Ethics and the Film 'L.A. Confidential'

cost, even when it calls for doing things against his or the departments ethical code. His golden boy status within the police fo...

Evaluating Issues to Recommend Against the Cloning of Humans

many are negative. The concept of cloning only came to the forefront of public attention approximately thirty years ago. Even th...

Russian Revolution Impact of Tsar Peter

Romanovs, ascended to the throne in 1689, he created a great deal of controversy with his outlook and in his efforts to totally ch...

PE's History

In five pages this report discusses physical education programs in an historical overview that includes eighteenth century German ...