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Japan, Contrasting Views

Japan's emergence as a modern power has been chronicled as a major tale of the 20th century. This paper compares Kenneth Pyle's Th...

Ulysses by James Joyce

In 5 pages this paper examines the complexities of this great 20th century novel and considers how it serves as a biography of the...

20th Century Life Changes

In five pages an essay critically assesses how in the 20th century life evolved due to the changes in daily life, human relations,...

U.S. Presidential History

a new nation. In its two-centuries-old existence, the office of President of the United States has held a total of forty-two diff...

Comparison of Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these celebrated 20th century generals with strategy and warfare differences among...

Poetic Concepts of Writer Maya Angelou

Angelou addresses the concept of oppression among the black race, coming forth to stand as a twentieth century hero to her heritag...

How to Think About God According to Mortimer Adler

In five pages God's existence as it is considered within the context of Mortimer Adler's How to Think about God A Guide for the 20...

The Amsterdam Stock Exchange by H.P. Berlage

In five pages Berlage's architectural marvel the Amsterdam Stock Exchange is considered in terms of its spatial and material maste...

Comparative Literary Analysis of William Faulkner's Modernism and Toni Morrison's Postmodernism

(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...

Chinese Changes Affecting a Family in Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

the mean-spirited jealousy of her husbands concubines and family. We now take up the story of Bao Quin, who grew up to marry a ha...

Heroism in Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...

Original Position and Difference Principle of John Rawls

principles are finally agreed to" (145). He argues that people who possess a "sense of justice" would have a desire to live accor...

Changing Perspectives on Welfare and the US Federal Government

funded job. That was the theory. In practice, the bills drafters (of whom Clinton was one) knew Congress would not be able to...

20th Century White Male Culture

In ten pages this paper discusses the impact of 'white male culture' upon 20th century society's politics, economics, and culture....

Gender Relationships Across Cultural Lines

Few things have changed as much as gender roles and expectations in the 20th century. This paper examines ideas on gender among va...

Phaedrus by Plato and The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis Compared

In seven pages these works are compared in reveal the three ways in which the Christian author of the 20th century may have been i...

War is the Result of Nationalism

Their lineage can be African, Dutch, English, Chinese, Korean, or mixed?but they are all Americans. Ethnic nationalism is differen...

Critical Opinions on 'The Souls of Black Folk' by W.E.B. Du Bois

In eleven pages this research paper considers the diverse critical opinions regarding this landmark early 20th century African Ame...

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

In seven pages this paper analyzes how the author depicts the 20th century Jewish male coming of sexual age in this amusing and in...

Leisure and Work in 1900 to 1920 Urban US

This paper discusses early 20th century leisure and work as conceptualized in urban America in a consideration of Kathy Peiss' 'Le...

The Octopus by Frank Norris

This point of view gives Norris freedom from having to make all of the action occur to a protagonist or observer and also, the rea...

Late 20th Century Wage Discrepancies Pay Discrepancies: Sex, Education, Experience, and Technology

In five pages this paper examines the latter portion of the 20th century in terms of the wage discrepancies due to such factors as...

20th Century Civil Rights

of race-hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nation; discrimination that still exists in housing, education, and emp...

Tobias Matthay and Dorothy Taubman's Piano Techniques

In fourteen pages this research paper discusses the 19th and 20th century techniques for piano developed by Tobias Matthay and Dor...

Twentieth Century Education and the Influence of Jean Piaget

In five pages the four stages of education developed by Jean Piaget are discussed in this consideration of his 20th century influe...

Rock 'n' Roll is Here to Pay by Chapple and Garofalo

In four pages this rock music text is analyzed in terms of the musical form's reflection of 20th century pop culture, the economy,...

Antiwar Sentiments of Crane, Twain, and Howells

In five pages the reactions against war and imperialism that began materializing at the turn of the 20th century are examined in a...

Women's Liberation Cause and the Contributions of Aishah Abd al Rahman

In six pages this paper examines the life and contributions of this influential 20th century Islamic teacher and writer who inspir...

Art Through the Ages by Helen Gardner

that the complexity of art and art forms requires a variety of approaches to understanding it. Gardner does a better job of naili...

Outcome of the Twentieth Century's Global Population Explosion

This paper consists of five pages and considers the potential outcome of the global explosion of population in the 20th century. ...