Essays 1951 - 1980
epic is a rendition of the ancient flood narrative that predates that of the biblical Noah. The Babylonian flood narrative pictu...
& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...
life choices. Deciding to leave was easy; figuring out where she was heading proved a more difficult choice, one that would ultim...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
the authors cited believe that divorce, in and of itself, causes major emotional breakdowns. Psychologist Gary Neuman, for ...
the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...
not occur on the same day each year. In contrast, the Western New Year celebration always occurs on December 31-January 1. B...
terms to refer to exaggeration and understatement within the realm of comedy. As far as I can determine, both Moliere and Aristoph...
medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...
anothers eyes, as it creates a sense of "twoness" (Perkins and Rice, 2000). In other words, African Americans saw themselves both ...
son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...
his argument thus far, which is -- of course -- that human beings are not immortal. It is no his fault that "Times winged chariot"...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
those principles and put them into action and practice presentational speaking. Nevertheless, the first part of my task is accompl...
a Prioresse/That of hir smiling was ful simple and coy./Hir gretteste ooth was but by saint Loy!/And she was cleped Madam Eglantin...
However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...
are vast differences. For instance, quotas set had a direct impact on Italians trying to migrate from the southern portion of Ital...
Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales in 1914 (Abrams, et al 1907). Early in 1933, when he was nineteen years old. Thomas sent two of ...
opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...
Ramsays family is more materially oriented than spiritually. The religious/spiritual side of life is represented by Mary Dempster...
- and still is to a great degree - the focal point of cultural existence speaks to the way in which Silko (1989) reveals the strug...
In three pages this essay analyzes Othello in a consideration of jealousy's featured role in the characterizations of the protagon...
historical events. Instead there is an interplay between them, circumstance, and other major and minor players. At the time of t...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
to match and imitate. The issue here is: is Porter correct? Porter has been...
sky notion, the joke was that this thing was so great but no one knew how to make any money out of it. Firms were supplementing th...
In three pages this essay considers the musical genre represented by the compositions of Eminem. There is no bibliography include...
a society as being "mature" enough for liberty. The principal point of Mills essay is-- in reference to Western societies-- is th...
to ones social superiors was the supreme value, tended to foster hypocrisy. Modernization, while sweeping away the old system, fai...
and so on. The notion that the armed forces have singled out gays for special exclusion is false. Next, Petry utilizes ethos to s...