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Joy and Fatalism in "Paradise Lost"

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes in "Paradise Lost". The primary themes in question are those of destiny and jo...

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife by John A. Nagl: An Analysis

The U.S. military involvements in the Vietnam War and the Gulf War are analyzed within the context of this book in 5 pages. The b...

The Tao Te Ching and the Mengzi - An Ethical Examination

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at the Tao Te Ching and the Mengzi. Ethical formulations from each book are contrasted w...

The Nature of Happiness, Jonathan Haidt

This research paper/essay provides a comprehensive overview and critique of Jonathan Haidt's book The Happiness Hypothesis. Four p...

Meat-Eating or Not

This report is based on a book by Pollan entitled the Omnivore's Dilemma. The writer poses two issues: the cruelty of farm animals...

Music as Symbolic Behavior/Alan P. Merriam

"symbols," and their relationship to art and its abstract nature. Having established a basis for discussing symbolism, specific ...

Bennis and Nanus and Kouzes and Posner

Most academics promote the premise that one is born with leadership ability or not but management can be taught. When he discusse...

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

This 5 page essay analyzes discourse as it manifests in these books. Reality differs according to narrator perception. 2 sources...

Joy Parr's Labouring Children British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada

In five pages this book is discussed in an analysis of 2 articles featured within and how the author offers arguments reinforced b...

An Analysis of Cruse's The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

This paper analyzes the theories put forth by Harold Cruse in his book, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. This five page pape...

Robert N. Bellah's Habits of the Heart

In six pages this paper focuses on each chapter of the text's second half in terms of its relationship to the entire book. One so...

Alice Walker's Crusade Against Female Genital Mutilation

This paper examines the crusade against female genital mutilation. The author cites Alice Walker's book, Anything We Love Can Be ...

John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and Concepts of Communication

In three pages the three concepts of communication Gray describes in his book are considered. Two other sources are cited in the ...

Sergio Zyman's 'The End of Marketing'

This essay summarizes the book in 5 pages, and includes a discussion of marketing's 'sacred cows,' and how the process has caused ...

The Hurried Child by David Elkind

In five pages the loss of childhood and its related concepts are considered iwthin the context of the book. There are no other so...

Al Franken and Bill Clinton

The writer suggests that possible motivation for some of Bill Clinton's behavior can be found in Al Franken's book Human Motivatio...

Eve's Temptation by Satan in John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

In five pages this paper analyzes Book IX of John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' in a examination of Satan's temptation of Eve and its e...

What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula

This 5 page paper summarizes and analyzes the book What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula. The writer argues that it is a clear ...

An Analysis of Mintzberg's, The Rise And Fall Of Strategic Planning

This paper analyzes Henry Mintzberg's book on strategic planning. This ten page paper has ten sources listed in the bibliography....

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as a Personal Narrative

This research paper/essay discusses the journey of personal discovery that is described in Salinger's famous coming-of-age novel. ...

Genesis and Hesiod on Creation

sun and moon; animals, birds and fish; and finally, people. This took six days, and on the seventh day God rested from all this wo...

Cultivating Gentleman by Tamara Plakins Thornton

In five pages this paper examines the Thomas Jefferson type plantation owner and the social superiority that was associated with t...

Dreaming in Cuban

Cristina Garcia looked at three generations of Cuban women in her book Dreaming in Cuban. This summation and analysis focuses on p...

Howard Zinn and the Civil Rights Movement

This research report looks at this era but focuses on one book called A People's History of the United States. This five page pape...

Ancient Greece to the New Testament and Dreams, Oracles, and Prophecy

In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...

Analysis of Lost Boys Why Our Sons Turn Violent And How We Can Save Them by James Garbarino

its racial intolerance. "When white middle-class kids kill, there is always a public outcry of why and a search for what went wro...

Multiculturalism and David A. Hollinger's Postethnic America

with whatever non-descent communities are available and appealing to them" (p. 116). Hollinger calls such a vision "postethnic" t...

Greg Levoy's Callings and James Hillman's The Soul's Code

In five pages this essay compares adn contrasts these two books and the argument that the authors take a different perspective tow...

1976 Text Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery

the High Renaissance Is present, though distorted by the mirror. What is novel...

A Review of Monster

A 5 page discussion of the novel by Walter Dean Myers. This book recaps the problems encountered by a sixteen year old black yout...