Essays 1981 - 2010
God says, "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil" and then "sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to til...
of possible later interpretations of the "historical record after the conquest" (Schwartz 129). Also, other scholars assert that t...
Lakoff looks at Luntz Republican discourse and describes Luntz as the "premier conservative linguist who helps the Republicans fra...
subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this rela...
that when something powerful happens, it happens to white people in many respects. That is what gets the majority of the viewers t...
analysis and interpretation of the material led him to conclude that the Restoration was a success, particularly in light of the p...
was a counselor to Belisarius and accompanied him on several of his campaigns and he may have been a prefect of Constantinople (Ha...
"How can we ever hope to understand people so different from ourselves?" (Harris, 1989, p. 11). The answer, of course, is that t...
the Spanish Inquisition were used to eliminate resistance to Philips policy of centralizing power under an absolute monarchy" (Phi...
that is perhaps due to the fact that hes not primarily a writer but a soldier and a historian. No matter how he does it, he tells ...
the American one" (Bernstein, 1996). Walton says that there is "something almost unspeakably primal and vicious about Mississippi...
therapist becomes more concerned with conducting the therapy in an "approved" manner or following a particular school of thought, ...
the behind the scenes confrontations between the American leaders who shaped domestic and foreign policy during this crisis period...
2002). Effective typography is also durable, not faddish; it changes when necessary but does not strive to keep up with the latest...
believed were Communist inspired (Quadagno, 2005). The Communists established the Comintern, an organization dedicated to worldwid...
we learn very little else of importance. We dont know much about how he thinks, what his philosophy is, what his hopes and dreams ...
that many books before it has looked at blurred the line between fiction and reality. The research has been undertaken and...
"democracy pragmatism" in public policy suggests that it is a way to measure the success of public policy with regard to the democ...
them. Connor is despicable; if this were present day, Ona would have him up on charges of sexual harassment. But it is not present...
is fantasizing about sex. All Quiet on the Western Front is an older but expressive work that captures the problem of war through...
that it has grown from a small concern to a huge business that now makes over 400,000 tortillas a year (Millman). Fernando Sanchez...
was a POW in WWII and went through the firebombing of Dresden (an experience that plays out in his books repeatedly) (Priest). Wi...
killed in battle. Whatever the precise thing or event they represented in that hazy chapter of mans early history, one thing is c...
use of mathematics generalizations could be made from certain observations which could be applied to other observations, that patt...
customs, and morals which was necessary to render such a revolution beneficial" (de Tocqueville, Introduction). The result of this...
pursuing a d?tente "that would stabilize mutual deterrence and contain the costs of competition in regional affairs" (Herrmann and...
1988). Another method is called the Ionic system where letters of the alphabet were used as digits (Jones & Bedient, 1988). With t...
routinely refuse to raise the minimum wage, allowing business to get away with its perpetual whine that if they increase their wor...
the Escapist, to accomplish the mission. In a madcap adventure, the Escapist flies to Europe, gets captured, withstands interrogat...
some critics believe that "post-colonialism" implies, mistakenly, that "colonialism is over when in fact most of the nations invol...