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Developing a Marketing Plan for Viagra

to influencers Pfizer may appeal to men who would not otherwise come forward. It is undertaken in a tasteful manner, in line with ...

Ismene as the Foil in Sophocles’ Tragedy Antigone

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

Husband and Wife Oedipus and Jocasta in Oedipus the King by Sophocles and The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau

(La Machine Infernale), Oedipus is a man of great looks with an ego to match, but of what could best be described as limited intel...

Sophocles' Antigone

declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...

Gender Portrayals in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Sophocles' Antigone

of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...

Comparative Analysis of Sophocles' Antigone and Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun

this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...

Can Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King be Regarded as Tragic Plays?

In three pages the differences and similarities in these two plays are discussed in order to determine if they should be regarded ...

Homer's Penelope and Sophocles' Antigone

In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...

Sophocles' Antigone and the Character of Haemon

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Haemon as a reflection of wisdom and his wisdom while also serving at th...

Character Comparison and Contrast of Laura in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Sophocles' Antigone

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

Feminist Analytical Comparison of Sophocles' Antigone and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

Sophocles' Antigone, Homer's 'The Iliad' and Fate

In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....

Sophocles' Theban Trilogy and the Themes of Responsibility and Fate

In five pages the Theban plays of Sophocles are examined in a consideration of responsibility, fate, and their power. One other s...

Governance Views in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Sophocles' Antigone

were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...

Business World, Morality, and Gender in Sophocles' Antigone

In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...

Sophocles' Observation 'Truth is the Strongest Argument'

In five pages the truth of this statement is argued with supporting evidence from various philosophers. Four sources are cited in...

Sophocles' Antigone and August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...

Oedipus's Athenian Traits

In five pages this paper examines how Oedipus exemplifies the Athenian male ideal. There are no other sources cited....

Relationship Between the Plays Oedipus at Colonus and Oedipus the King

kill his father and marry his mother. He left his home so that this would not happen, but he did not know that his father and moth...

His Downfall is Oedipus’s Own Fault

with Teiresias (Johnston). It seems odd to some, but the quarrel makes sense if we understand Oedipus as someone who sees things i...

Wealth and Life Satisfaction

polls showed that Americans believed that the American Dream was more alive for immigrants than for Americans (Hanson & Zogby, 201...

Ethics and the Kantian Paradox

should treat other people as ends in themselves rather than as means to an end, and that one should act in such a manner that cons...

Thomas Carew - An Inductive Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Carew's "Celia Bleeding, to the Surgeon". Paradox and conceit are explained as tool...

"Master Harold," Fugard and Paradox

Hally can discuss his ideas on history, literature and the context of racial relations in 1950s South Africa, which is where and w...

Assessment of the book: Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making

This 3 page paper gives a discussion of the policy paradoxes in the book and in particular the problems of equality and efficiency...

Central Bank Policy and Global Trade

Company as a leading example of how large multinationals ought to function in terms of currency risk management. Dow generates mo...

Okonkwo and the Minor Characters in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...

Gary Clayton Anderson's Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood

and political changes. These changes were at first slow coming but once they started they escalated much like a rolling snowball....

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" And O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - Evil

4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...

International Trade Theory

Library, n.d.). What nations possess in abilities and resources is not as important as how they use them. Of course in the...