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Lewis Mumford, A Life by Donald Miller

gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...

New World Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

to make it clear that this communication was primarily by sign language. He writes that "when we asked they would answer by signs,...

Concept of Worldwide Sports Federations

the times" (Internet source). Clearly, the most recent Olympics that took place in February, 2002, served as the proverbial "bully...

Tragedy as Defined in Death Of A Salesman and Aristotle

play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...

'The Death of the Moth' by Virginia Woolf

to bother the moth any. She reflects on how she watches a particular moth and how he seems quite happy and content with his life....

Emily Dickinson's Views of Self and Society

the feeling that the poet is engaging the reader in a secret and private conversation. One has the feeling that, in the breaks pro...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's 'After Great Pain…'

questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...

Femininity and Psychoanalysis

with masculinity. The fact that the scientific population is, even now, a population that is overwhelmingly male, is itself a cons...

Ivan Turgenev and Jane Austen

contrary, "there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks" (Austen 227). Austen does not say that Mrs. Gardiner is a m...

Zeena in Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome

adopted this view of Zeena. In fact, Elizabeth Ammons in her 1980 text on Frome, draws parallels between Whartons narrative and th...

Movie Theaters and People

(Fetto and Lach, 2000, p. 9). Geographically speaking, 74 percent of these attendees live in the Western United States as opposed...

Hiring Process and Why Transcripts from High School Should Not be Used

they are minors, unaware of the ramifications of their actions and are likely to make mistakes. Most children at one time or anot...

Morality, Justice and Books I and II of The Republic by Plato

"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...

Romanticism and 'Ode to a Grecian Urn' by John Keats

romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn/Is It Racist?

in which the term nigger is used. Today this is a derogatory term, but it has to recognised that when Mark Twain grew up it was in...

Crime and Punishment in The Odyssey

growing stronger and more defiant with every passing episode. "...Homer certainly recognizes the notion of intention, and in many...

Scheherazade Suite, Opus 35 by Nicolai Rimsky Korsakov

that most closely resembles the human voice. This similarity is emphasized by the use of staccato notes, which resemble a storytel...

American Society and Body Image

is telling women that they should be very, very thin. While perhaps some women can shrug off such images--like Camryn Manheim who ...

Another Country by Mary Pipher

Americans are still relatively healthy, active and capable of living independently as their "young-old age" (33). However, the eff...

'Eugenie Grandet' by Honore de Balzac

In three pages this essay considers the 1833 novel by Balzac in an overview of plot that also includes a discussion of the protago...

Shalom Concept ni Donal Dorr's Integral Spirituality

spirituality, the personal, the interpersonal and the public. Dorr then presents the relationship between these three categories...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

Gap in Scores in Texas

Schools are required to administer exams each year in certain subject areas and in certain grade levels. Texas has revised their e...

"Coastal Scene with Shipping and Cattle" by Thomas Gainsborough

This essay provides analysis of Thomas Gainsborough's "Coastal Scene with Shipping and Cattle." describing its artistic characteri...

"The Bath," Mary Cassatt

This essay offers analysis of Mary Cassatt's print "The Bath." The techniques involved in creating this print are explained along ...

Overview of Ecclesiastes

This essay draws upon biblical scholarship in order to discuss the viewpoint and purpose of Ecclesiastes, its interpretation and w...

War in Ancient Times

During the first several centuries, war was a constant state of being in different parts of the world. This essay focused on war i...

"Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller

This essay briefly summarizes the plot of MIller's play "Death of a Salesman" and then analyzes the Willy Loman's character. Three...

Emancipation Proclamation, The Debate

This essay summarizes the opposing views of Stephen B. Oates and Vincent Harding on the question of whether or not Abraham Lincoln...

Autism Spectrum Disorder

This essay offers information about autism spectrum disorder and specifically autism. Age of onset, symptoms, and some bio-neurolo...