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Confucianism and Daoism in 'Peony Pavilion'

an unthinking adherence to ritual. Analect 9.3 reads: The Master said, According to ritual, the ceremonial cap should be made of ...

Cinematic Techniques and Narrative in The Graduate

by the same name and so was translated to the silver screen. When this is done it is always a touchy business. Much of the motivat...

Analysis of J.S. Gordon's Article 'What We Lost in the Great War'

that WWI started because "a lunatic murdered a man of feathers and uniforms who had no real importance whatsoever" (p. 81). Gordon...

Comparative Analysis of 'Ligeia' and 'Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...

Chinese Opera The Peony Pavilion

encounter between the young heroine and the dream-image of a young scholar. In similar scenes throughout the production, the lack...

Literature and Violence

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

Teaching Strategies and Dyslexia

found that this genetic condition is also hereditary (Reilly, 2001). Numerous other researchers have also noted the difficulties w...

Why China Did Not Have a Scientific Revolution and Europe Did

both "accepted and encouraged the natural philosophy that evolved into early modern science" (Bekar and Lipsey, 2001). Study has...

'August 2026 There will com soft rains' by Ray Bradbury

tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

Servants in Faustus

become more clever. The townspeople find out about his delving in the black arts and they confront him. Before Faustus can show th...

Issues Pertaining to Crisis Communication

own wives for 9/11 widows. While perhaps these individuals were not burned out, one can see how someone in a helping profession ca...

Eurocentric Global Perspectives of The Tempest by William Shakespeare

coming to the island, as well as the history of the island prior to European intrusion. Before Prospero came, the island was ruled...

Romanticism and Lord Byron

shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...

Great Harry by Carolly Erickson

also into his motivations, particularly in regards to marrying, and often executing, so many women. The reader sees how Henry VIII...

Slavery and Phillis Wheatley's 'To the University of Cambridge, in New England' and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...

Political Culture and Music of Haiti

shores of the US. It was 1974 and the US government was still allowing Haitians to freely enter the country as immigrants at that ...

Richard II and Richard III by William Shakespeare

the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...

The Importance of the Chinese New Year

not occur on the same day each year. In contrast, the Western New Year celebration always occurs on December 31-January 1. B...

Celebrating the New Year in China

The first point to be made here would be that the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) is one of the major traditional national holi...

Departures vs. Emergency, Similar Themes

mothers feelings. Nevertheless, he never rectifies this error and remains increasingly more aloof from human concerns and true car...

1930s' Views on US Society and Women

proof! Look at the inroads that are being made in regard to the problem of racism! Look at the growing realization that beauty i...

Marty by Paddy Chayefsky

find a bride?" Thomas recommends the Waverly Ballroom to Martys mother, who comically parrots his words precisely telling Marty t...

Comparing Sermons of Samson Occom and Jonathan Edwards

Within this framework of using the condemned mans impending death as a general warning, Occom also illustrates how alcohol had pro...

Why 'The Culture of Fear' Remains Alive and Well in the U.S. and Australia

States. Regardless of the fact that the U.S. is generally depicted as such a violent and dangerous nation, one has to remember tha...

Sports, Society and a Student's 'Senior Wish'

I am not on the team, its accomplishments do to some extent reflect on me. The team is a reflection on my school and the accomplis...

Old Testament and Why It Should Be Studied

others and did not "defile" themselves by adopting the customs of the cultures to which they were exposed. It is this covenant tha...

Theological Writing

falls into this category (Malcheski, 2002). The essay is not necessarily objective in that the writer is attempting to argue for a...

Keller and Powlison's Questionnaire for Pastors

I find I do this far too often. In regards to flexibility, I have a deep desire to please others. Therefore, I am easily overwhelm...

An Analysis of One Market Under God by Thomas Frank

done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...

Spirited Away Film by Hayao Miyazaki

bathhouse (Ebert, 2002). By indulging themselves with the food, Chihiros parents are transformed into pigs. Osmond (2003) points o...