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Essays 1951 - 1980

Philosophical Perspectives

philosophical movement that appeared in Great Britain and suggested that all knowledge is experiential ("British," 2004). In other...

Montesquieu, Hobbes, and Spinoza on Political Theory

to whether or not people need law, or whether or not they can regulate society themselves. The idea of anarchy is supported by som...

Psychiatry Profession's Rise

this resulted in many children being locked away in attics or cellars, as these conditions were viewed primarily as social and eco...

Book of Revelations and its Authorship

(The Revelation to John, 2004). The letter that John writes is essentially a letter about persevering and doing right even when o...

Manifestation Differences and Dyslexia

between 5% and 15% of all Americans (Health & Medicine Week, 2004). Padget has given a good definition of the condition, which it ...

Eighteenth Century Literary Satire in the Works of Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift

her Imperial Majestys Apartment.(1) The Rabelaisian joke has often been deciphered in the light of early eighteenth-century topica...

Eighteenth Century Literature and Religion

can see this is Book IV, lines 32-113. It is perhaps this section that gives us the most intricate look at the theme of religion, ...

Letter to The President of The United States

the historical context of the second Gulf War to support their arguments. Since the end of World War II, US defense and foreign p...

Writers and Globalization

conceivably become a staff member of a national magazine in a foreign country, even though one does not live there. All business w...

Van Der Weyden/Art

connection between the three central figures. St. Luke, while he is painting the Virgin and child, does not appear to be looking ...

Characteristics of Learning Organizations

to explore what is meant by the term "learning organization." According to Senge (1990), early-on in life, we are taught to "fra...

Mystery Sonata in G Minor by Bach

J.S. Bach, such as pulsating basses and galant-sounding melodic lines (Baxendale, 2001). This has caused one critic to assert that...

Critiquing the Research Approach of Measuring Children's Anger

the most common reasons for the referral of children to psychological and psychiatric services. Seventy-five percent of the child...

The Life and Works of Charles Dickens

these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: His Childhood). In an understatement perhaps, we ca...

A Ficticious Literary Panel Discussion

its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...

An Analysis of Adam and Eve

powerful persuasiveness to lead man astray, the consequences of disobeying God and the subsequent struggle of all humanity. It is ...

Gertrude Stein and the Advancement of Women

of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...

A Comparison of the Tales of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf

warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...

Anyon and Kozol on Education's Unequal Distribution

is impossible. It does not work. Today, years altering the bussing experiment, there are black and white neighborhoods and one can...

Literature from the Heian Period

anthologies until the appearance of renga" (Miyake, 2002). In addition, though looking at Heian literature we find that "Althou...

Nathaniel Hawthorne Proposal

all the copies he could and destroyed them. Following his first novel was his first volume of Twice-Told Tales. He then married ...

The Feminist Literary Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

Analyzing Suicide A Study in Sociology by Emile Durkheim

seem that Emile was destined to the same profession, he changed his fate and moved to Paris to study at the College dEpinal to obt...

An Old-Fashioned Story Reviewed

home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...

Contemporary Machiavellianism

and "advisors" were, in many ways, far more powerful than the aristocrat holding office. Machiavelli himself was such a creature ...

Anita Shreve's The Weight of Water

review of The Weight of Water, "There is so much factual information about the Shoals here -- geographical, historical, nautical, ...

Fairytales and Their Importance

is true even of the fairy stories that originated with Han Christian Andersen, such as the Ugly Duckling (Zipes, 1985). Th...

The Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century by Jacob Burckhardt

individual" (Burckhardt, 1878; Mosaic, 2003). Modern historians often dispute some of Burckhardts claims but most concede that in ...

Man and the Creation of Fear and God

As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...

Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, 'Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin, and Freedoms

and as such women did not have these freedoms at the time the Declaration of Independence was written. Interestingly enough, tod...