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Victorian Reading Habits: The Thrill of Transgression

"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

The Thrill of Transgression: “Frankenstein” and “Manfred”

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

Interviewing an Older Person

is, a high level of "energy and vitality," contributes significantly to quality of life for the elderly (Spirduso, Francis and Mac...

Redemption and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...

James B Peake

James B Peake was appointed to the position of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in 2007. He came to this poison following a disti...

Three Poets: Dickinson, Frost and Hughes

safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...

Nat Turner

that he "received what he believed to be a sign from God (a solar eclipse) telling him that it was time for him and his companions...

Article Analysis: Hospice and Non-Hospice Care

is defined differently than it is for healthier people; the terminally ill may consider that they have a good quality of life if t...

Seaver: “Wallington’s World”

him apart from other artisans; his extreme sensitivity and intensive, relentless introspective self-examination also seems unusual...

My Passion: Scuba Diving

This 3 page first person essay examines the passion of scuba diving and how it enhances life. No bibliography....

In Favor of Euthanasia

to base their arguments on more spiritual and ethereal ground, such as the idea that a persons life ends when God chooses to end i...

In Favor of the Right to Die

in place for some time, and none of the fears surrounding it have ever materialized (Seale, 2006). Research shows that 171 people ...

The Memoir of Author Nahid Rachlin

she was nine years old, her father went to bring her back home in a forceful manner (Bender). She was taken from the only mother s...

Government Dependency: The Most Important Issues Facing America Today

this challenge relates to the phenomenal changes health care has undergone over the last couple of generations. The evolution of ...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

2 Dutch Masters, Leyden and Steen

earnings from his art were meager ("Seven Dutch Masters: Jan Steen"). In the popular imagination, Steen is associated with the i...

Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

2008). When aboriginal women are imprisoned their families are left even more dysfunctional than before. Furthermore, reg...

A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Hemingway

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

Colby/Deaths of Nancy Cruzan

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...

Jose Marti, A Narrative Bibliography

Fidel Castro. A useful, comprehensive, and scholar text, Gray offers an ideal introduction to the Jose Marti historiography. Fe...

St. Francis of Assisi A

Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...

"The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin" - Leadership

a pertinent example of Franklins (1996) fundamental attitude for meeting a challenge. Hard work, he contended, was the lifeblood ...

Essays on Absolute Monarchy, the French Revolution, and the Effects of Mechanization on the Working Class

- such as whenever he needed funding for one of the many wars he was fighting. This constant in-fighting between the English mona...

Gary Soto/”Oranges”

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

Prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the African-American Population of Houston, Texas

state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...

Colonial Women’s Public Role and Legal Status

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

Ethical Implications Of The Sacraments

for leaders to be servants by washing the feet of His Apostles. He loved those who were unloved, He forgave His enemies, even with...

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY AND THE IMPACT ON HIGHER EDUCATION

tests, falsifying term papers and so on. Many campuses believe that the honor code is enough to deter academic dishonesty. ...

Armstrong’s “Functionalism” as It Relates to Matthews’ Discussion of Being Alive and Being Conscious

likelihood that both mind and body operate on a physico-chemical level, that they are subject to the same laws of physics as non-o...

Erving Goffman's Dramaturgical Approach to Human Interaction

is indebted to both of these predecessors. Kenny (2008) observes that "Anyone familiar with Goffmans dramaturgical approach will n...