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Environmental Politics and Pluralism

In nine pages this essay discusses the contemporary environment and the various issues of pluralism that affect it in a considerat...

Epic Heroism of King Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2000 BC and found inscribed on 12 tablets at Nineveh, is the earliest known epic. The Epic...

Motifs of Ancient Greek Literature and Superman

This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...

Christianity and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

of the "second death," the experience of the absence of God and thus of a meaninglessness without light. (Ryan, 1997) Aspects...

Philosophers Compared

if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...

Global Politics and National Security

In two pages this essay examines national security, international politics and contemporary problems with China among the topics d...

Max Weber and Karl Marx on Capitalism

have much to do with capitalism but each theorist treats the subject differently. Weber expressed that capitalism did not just ...

Five Short Essays on Bureaucracy

In five pages public administration is the focus of these five brief essays and includes topics of bureaucracies, contemporary pol...

Contemporary Prisons and Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

Damiens, was executed in this manner on March 2, 1757. The records of this execution appear to be quite detailed, as Foucault rela...

Contemporary Institution of Marriage

In ten pages this essay analyzes how contemporary society regards the constitution of marriage with the concepts of Sigmund Freud ...

A Management of Human Resources Overview

the tangible and intangible assets that people bring to their jobs. In todays eat-on-the-freeway modern corporate society - wherei...

Cultural Diversity Should be Embraced

issues as gender and ethnicity in relation to populating the new America. In order to better understand cultural diversity, one m...

Ethics and Aristotle

The ethical theory of Aristotle is examined in this combination essay and research paper that consists of seven pages and includes...

Contemporary Relevance of Three Plays by Moliere

In five pages this essay examines Moliere's The Learned Ladies, Tartuffe, and Don Juan in an assessment of their contemporary rele...

Victim or Villain Macbeth

In five pages this essay presents William Shakespeare's protagonist as a defendant in a contemporary inquest trial in which prosec...

A Review of Cherokee Women by Theda Perdue

delved further into some cultures and noted that they were matriarchal. Perdue does this when presenting us with the history of th...

Patrick Henry and Statesmanship

This research paper/essay pertains to the life of Patrick Henry and how this Founding Father consistently exemplified the qualitie...

Weakened Human Interaction and Technology

This paper discusses the views of Anna Akbari and Andrew Sullivan pertaining to the issue of how technology has altered the nature...

Democratic Governance and Maintaining Morality

This research paper/essay presents an argument that maintains that it is necessary to go beyond a perspective that focuses solely ...

Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

Public Administration, Reflection

This essay helps a student in commenting on a quote from public administration textbook that pertains to the contemporary state of...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

This essay describes how Austen uses characterization and irony in a manner that causes contemporary readers to identify with the ...

Politics/Aristotle

This essay is on Aristotle's "Politics" and how he saw the role of the city in human life. The writer relates his political thinki...

Mary Rowlandson's Narrative

This essay pertains to Mary Rowlandson's seventeenth century account of her capture by Indians. The writer discusses its contempor...

Mysticism in Island by Aldous Huxley

anywhere else. We are all, if we already knew it, already there" (Huxley 35) displays a sharp Taoist influence. Looking at Huxle...

Why Teach?

an act of childhood that comes readily, as children will absorb all sorts of information, soaking it up like a sponge. As learning...

Erasmus/Praise of Folly

has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...

Lanford Wilson/Rimers of Eldritch

A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses Lanford Wilson's play Rimers of Eldritch, which, on the surface, concerns a murder ...

A Critical Essay on Don DeLillo's 'White Noise'

This essay consists of 5 pages and describes this text as definitive of the cultural voic that exists in a contemporary life ruled...