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Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe by Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse

Islam total control of the Mediterranean, so that -- as one Arab writer of the time put it -- the Christians could no longer "floa...

Airframe by Michael Crichton

The tape shows passengers being toss around like rag dolls. With such a profound visual, Malone figures she no longer pay attentio...

Thomas Nagel, Peter Unger, and David Hume on Skepticism

present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...

Montaigne, Donne, Spencer on Repentance

bodie in salt water smarting sore, The filthy blots of sinne to washe away, So in short space, they did to health restore The man...

Choice or Fate in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

say, shows that how each man reacted to this situation was a matter of choice -- not fate. Traditionally, much of the blame for ...

Character Analysis of Simon in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

Ethics and Religion According to Augustine and Aristotle

not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...

The Positions of Katie Cannon and Alasdair MacIntyre

and the construction of "local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained" (19...

Past Basis for the Future According to David Hume

long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...

Friendship in Three Poems by Sappho

was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...

Beauty and Friendship in 3 of Sappho's Poems

seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...

Marty by Paddy Chayefsky

find a bride?" Thomas recommends the Waverly Ballroom to Martys mother, who comically parrots his words precisely telling Marty t...

Crack in the Box, A Critical Perspective

every single time she went to the library it would rain, but there can never be a cause and effect relationship. Similarly, there ...

'Because I could not stop for Death' by Emily Dickinson

of this world. She is saying good-by to earthly cares and experience and learning to focus her attention in a new way, which is re...

Reality Verses Fiction Portrayals of Terrorism Such as that in The Siege

thing as targeting other ethnic groups" (Ebert PG). Ebert goes on the draw comparisons as to the treatment given to Arab-America...

Passion and Reason in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

three months (History of Emilys Life). A superficial reading of Brontes classic novel inevitably leads the reader to a understand...

A Comparison of Post Modernism in The Tortilla Curtain and The Things They Carried

that are specific to each individuals defined social status; while one person might consider a purchased home with a white picket ...

The Theme of Alienation in Death In Venice and Notes From The Underground

comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, ad...

Scientific Revolutions and the Perspectives of Thomas S. Kuhn

of practitioners" (Davidson, 1997, p. 13). The existing paradigms of the science community, according to Kuhn, are established vi...

Stylistic Techniques of Irvine Welsh in Acid House and Trainspotting

these days of infancy and childhood made her squirm with embarrassment. It seemed an essential denial of herself as she was now. ...

Insanity of King Lear

enter the hovel, stating that he will pray and then sleep. Lear then prays for all the people who do not have shelter on this nigh...

Character Noting in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

'Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy' by Judy Ruiz and Metaphors

yet durable external shell which can be peeled away to reveal the different sections. While the sections are all different they to...

An Old-Fashioned Story Reviewed

home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...

A Comparative Analysis of 'Ar'n't I A Woman?' and 'What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?' And "Compare/Contrast

Truth went to bat for every woman when she spoke before a crowd of hostile white people at the 1851 Ohio Womens Rights Convention,...

An Argument for the Legalization of Euthanasia

abolished. The law is antiquated and based upon religious concepts developed centuries before. THESIS: This paper holds that euth...

'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...

Translations of Dante

both the keys." They begin to differ when they denote to what the keys belong. Singleton chooses to say "Fredericks heart," while ...

In Custody by Anita Desai

nature of Indian nationalism that was formulated during the colonial period (Rege, 1996). To understand the relationship between...

Man and the Creation of Fear and God

As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...