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Daru's Dilemma 1 in Albert Camus's Short Story, 'The Guest'

In three pages Daru's dilemma and choice to allow the Arab prisoner to select his own destiny are questioned. There are no other ...

Daru's Dilemma 2 and 'The Guest' by Albert Camus

In this paper consisting of three pages Daru's dilemma is pondered and his conclusion to grant the Arab prisoner freedom of choice...

Opera Significance in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In five pages this paper examines the protagonist's destiny foreshadowing offered by the operatic presence of Lucie de Lammermoor ...

Two Ways of Looking at Time by Jorge Luis Borges

The writer explores two works by Borges, Mutations and A New Refutation of Time and discusses their relationship to the author's v...

Time Stalling Techniques of Scheherazade and Penelope

In two pages this paper discusses the heroines of The Thousand and One Nights and 'The Odyssey' in a consideration of how they att...

Gods and Goddesses in 'The Iliad' by Homer

bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them. First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his ...

Joy and Fatalism in "Paradise Lost"

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes in "Paradise Lost". The primary themes in question are those of destiny and jo...

Tribal Religions Worldview + Human Destiny

thee tribes have been encroached by modernity and some are now seeking more theological complexity. Robin Wright says that "cultur...

Fame, Fate and Destiny in “Beowulf”

believes, would seal his everlasting fame (Irving 86). The poem championed Beowulfs desire for fame as a badge of honor: "In all ...

Chopin/The Awakening/Suicide as Closure

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

What is Tragic Destiny?

or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...

Reflections on Homer’s Odyssey

he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...

Terrorism and Globalization

and Iraq today definitely constitutes a terrorist threat and a major challenge to the war on terrorism. Of course, it should be ...

Germany During World War II

began long before 1939, it began in Germany turning German against German. Hitler, however, offered hope, perhaps even after he be...

A Comparison Between the Cold War and the Long War

the two most important worlds were at odds and that is all that seemed to matter. One may compare this to how the world looks to...

The Nature of War: The Iliad, Herodotus’ Histories, and Thucydides Peloponnesian War

ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...

Comparing the Gulf War and Vietnam

2006, p. 413). These conditions were met, leading President Bush (I) to say that the "Vietnam syndrome had ... been kicked" (Young...

The Cold War: Causes and Ongoing Tensions

that agreement. The Conference at Yalta was the last meeting the United States, Great Britain and Russia would have under...

Athens and the Peloponnesian War

relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...

The Legitimacy of the War in Iraq

is hard to know exactly what occurred. Still, troops continue to try to effect peace in a nation ravaged by war. II. The War in ...

War: Civil War, Iraq, Yugoslavia

the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...

Vietnam Oral Narratives

Barry Zorthian was the "official voice of America" in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 as director of the Public Affairs Office (290). In...

America's Wars

Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

Warfare Technological Change and Sociological Impacts

There are many points of comparison between wars. This is certainly true of the Jacobin phase of the French...

The Causes of the Second World War

The writer argues that the basic cause of World War II was World War I. The paper also argues that the Great Depression did not ca...

The Civil War

fought to keep independence on the other. The American Civil War, from the perspective of the North and President Lincoln, was f...

Healing after the Vietnam Experience

Healing in the Aftermath of War Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises Inc. by Janice Vincent, 4/27/10...

The Korean War and The Cold War

first and second worlds, or the free world and the communist bloc. Many equated the U.S. as a major force of the first world and...

Pacifist Manifesto All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

in six pages this research paper argues that this novel featuring soldiers during First World War combat is a pacifist work that e...