Essays 31 - 60
law is no law at all" (King, 2001). Dr. King also refers to the Bible and how Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Book of Daniel...
person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...
In five pages this essay considers the autobiography of Michael Ondaatje with a discussion of the chapter devoted to Lalla, Ondaat...
is writing his memoir is conversational, which indicates that he tailored his account to appeal to a broad audience. The tone is ...
wish to purchase his children," but this was never allowed (Jacobs 11). Her life changed forever when she came into the ownership ...
verge of being reunited with his family, only to have this chance taken away by another rebel attack. He is changed by his experie...
through her father that Ahmed first becomes aware of the conflicting political forces that shape her world, as he is hemmed in on ...
belief in a strong and efficient National Government and Jeffersonian in their belief in the people as the ultimate authority, and...
go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...
a pertinent example of Franklins (1996) fundamental attitude for meeting a challenge. Hard work, he contended, was the lifeblood ...
down his memoirs to convey his personal experiences as a slave. One wonders how much of Douglasss memoirs were tainted by the cont...
period of time. It is this reality-based conception that is now being utilized in more of the films produced in the twentieth cent...
student in the 1920s she became a civil rights activist on the University of Georgias campus. Lumpkin shows in her book that p...
This paper examines the corporate leadership climb of Jack Welch and the management techniques his autobiography provides with com...
works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...
time at home with his wife and family. It is his father who will introduce young Pete to alcohol, and Hamill will write of it as ...
playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whisky; and this latter mode of spending the time was...
plantation, where she was put to raise the children of the younger women. I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the b...
benefits which had been gained from the experience, since this would be counter-productive in terms of the effect on the reader....
century - this from a man who actually lived it. In fact, his account puts to rest any romantic notions one might harbor about su...
chastity and humility. He listed them subjectively, in what he regarded as their order of importance. But out of all these lauda...
them from the depths of depression, it also "deadens" the maniac side Of course, Jamison balances her account of the exhilaration ...
into something of a "naturphilosophisch romantic pantheist" (Biography of John Tyndall, 2002). Basically he focused his studies o...
of an omnipotent God, and therefore there is considerable debate as to whether the actions of a human being can be genuinely consi...
this child is not identified in the book (Fairbanks, 2002). It seems as if in this book he doesnt necessarily chastise himself fo...
Mad Love, Breton attempts to accomplish the impossible - to textually recreate the basic emotions of passion and desire, which mov...
exam for the army in Austria, Hitler returned to Bavaria and enlisted in the German army for the duration of World War I. During...
to promote his ideas being a printer and prospering in his business, his actions also promoted his ideal for constant improvement ...
of course, is a predominantly white school and only just before she arrived it was not only all white but it was all male. Cary w...
life head first with a passion that is seldom witnessed among students even in the best of circumstances. She even immediately en...