Essays 811 - 840
faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...
was very young, so young in fact that he had only a couple of fleeting memories of him. His mothers life was hard yet she managed...
that their numbers (like those of "our own natives") are dwindling. As this suggests, Ball is not unsympathetic toward the natives...
at a blackboard writing words. As soon as he completes the "d" in the last word the tape is over. The running time for the tape is...
guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...
in structuralist models, researchers often examine the underlying structures which occur beneath the actions or speech of the indi...
couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...
he met his soon to be arch rivals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Bill attended MIT part time after a stint at Stanford ( "Agilen...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...
that their individual styles of approach are based in part upon significantly different gender perspectives. Like Merchant (1989)...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
that his troops have to face, but also the strengths and weaknesses of subordinates, in order to deploy commanders in the most str...
that he was "in haste" to buy it before the owner finished making any more "improvements," i.e. changes that Thoreau implies he hi...
powerful. He presents this attempt through offering many different examinations, talking about the shogun political structure, an...
The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...
the novel and the author views her, and thus views women in general perhaps. The character to be examined is Rosa Dartle. She "i...
story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...
comparison of the two works, illustrating what one can learn of South Africa through having two different sources of information, ...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...
a serious subject for examination. Unjust Laws Exist Thoreau had chosen to life that was in some respects that of a recluse an...
be? soliloquy that we are allowed an insight into the extent of his grief and suicidal tendencies, and in O, what a rogue and peas...
are often apparent but sometimes misleading. Lieberman delves into how to discern between these signs in his second section on ho...
the authors speak of the present era what is most striking is the marked division between white and black perspectives. To the w...
its right-wing allies, "he may be a son-of-a-bitch, but is our son-of-a-bitch" (Schmitz 4). Schmitz traces the origin of this ch...
He describes, for instance, the different kinds of activities which he undertakes in the course...
theirs. Thoreau wanted to follow natures example, to "see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, ...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
university in 1751 as a professor of logic. The lectures he gave covered subjects such as ethics and jurisprudence as well as the ...