Essays 931 - 960
the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census...
wiki puts it, unlike a scholarly journal, articles on Scholarpedia are dynamic, with updates allowed (assuming the curator says it...
that he was "in haste" to buy it before the owner finished making any more "improvements," i.e. changes that Thoreau implies he hi...
sense of the word. The name of the dialogue derives from the Greek word "apologia," which literally translated means defense, or a...
to Yvain goes even further than the loan of the invisibility ring. Lunette considers an alliance between her lady and Yvain to be ...
it is this source on which he draws for determining right and wrong (Peters). According to Peters, Shakespeare defines the abilit...
in his youth. While Franklin is a firm advocate of hard work, he never advocates work merely for works sake. He disliked his fathe...
Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...
not a personality, in which impressions and experiences combine in peculiar and unexpected ways. Impressions and experiences which...
serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...
most masters tried to keep their slaves ignorant on this matter, as it was regarded as a sign of a "restless spirit" for slaves to...
living sisters, felt trapped between the obligations imposed on her by the world of her parents and the conflicting concepts prese...
gently touched a strand of the web. The spider immediately started checking lines in the web. The intrusion was unprecedented in ...
-- "The Count your Masters known munificence/ Is ample warrant that no just preference/ Of mine for dowry will be disallowed" (lin...
thoughts terrify him. The fact that Macbeth is thought of as a loyal and noble person at the beginning of the play is made eviden...
Cobb argues, "In other words, is not the average revolutionary in reality the professional super-revolutionary, the man who quite ...
of practitioners" (Davidson, 1997, p. 13). The existing paradigms of the science community, according to Kuhn, are established vi...
alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...
intoxicated on the sound of the bird, the "light-winged Dryad of the trees" (line 7). Nevertheless, it is clear that his mental s...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
that they progress and improve. Mill writes, "The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activit...
Aquinas reasoned that morality is grounded in "principles that are fixed in nature...and discernible by reason" (Anonymous, 2002)....
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
he believes were left there by Williams. In the meantime, Evans, another colleague, approached him sexually one night by sliding h...
to take up arms; they are not compelled as are the men. They are also encouraged to strive professionally and intellectually and c...
formula for success. Eugenes aristocratic name soon opens some doors for him. Madame Beausant is a member of high society and a ...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
poem is that while he had read Homer before encountering the Chapman translation, when he read Chapmans Homer, he felt the same th...
women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...