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The Americans by Daniel J. Boorstin

and lapse of time meant that Britain had trouble controlling the colonies; this is in part the "vagueness" of which Boorstin speak...

An Analysis of the Opening Passage of Anna Karenina

given notice (Tolstoy 1). As this illustrates, this opening passage accomplishes several purposes. It immediately announces the ...

Herman Daly's Beyond Growth

economic theory; operational policy; national accounts; population; international trade; pioneers in the field; and ethics and rel...

An Analysis of Moore's Short Story, How to Become a Writer

paper and open a vein. The point is that non-writers dont understand how difficult writing is; writers do, and frequently wish th...

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

theologian, but living, or rather dying and being damned" (Luther, vol. 5, p. 163, lines 28-29) and he further asserted that "(t)h...

Sexing the Cherry and Time

different birthdays. Time is a funny thing. People mark their lives with milestones attached to the concept of time. At the end of...

Ancient Rome and the Works of Vergil

by Homer, Vergil, by establishing Aeneas as a Trojan also justifies Romes invasion and conquest of Greece as retribution for the f...

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

back by the love of temporal pleasure" (Augustine 167). In accepting Christianity, Augustine records that he "no longer desired a ...

A Bell for Adano by Hersey

and goes so far as to shoot a peasants mule when it wont get out of the road so he can get through. He cloaks his foul temper and...

Washing My Life Away Surviving Obsessive Compulsive Disorder by Ruth Deane

to help herself. For example, being afraid to touch things without the aid of a barrier (tissue, etc.) for fear of contracting ge...

Martin Frye's Views on Sexism

"an instance of a general tendency to make sex relevant where it need not be, which she takes to be a key feature of sexism" (Saul...

Open Mindedness and The Republic by Plato

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

pretty to their own greed. They are told repeatedly what the consequences are for disobedience and still, eventually, all of the c...

Who Is To Blame in the Triangle Strike and Fire Case?

understand the customs of the US. As such, then, the company took advantage of their youth and their impoverished conditions to ex...

City of Quartz by Davis

had been full of light and life and rather innocent. They were optimistic. The debunkers had already seen the seedier side of life...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

China of the 20th Century and the Connection Between Property and the Individual

up going over a cliff in his rickshaw. At the bottom of the cliff, however, he finds three camels, apparently having ended up th...

McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom

Civil War. Battle Cry for Freedom McPhersons work covers, as mentioned, a great deal of subjects that directly involved the Ci...

Chapter Summary of Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior

created Warriors in My deadly image" (45). What does the author mean by this? It is something written in language that seems to su...

Commitment in Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring

about them that is unknown to pagan literature (Byfield 2). This is true not only for the book authored by Tolkien but also for th...

C. Raymond Calhoun's Service During World War II

heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...

James Rachels and the Theory of Cultural Relativism

as backward and wrong. They are even more critical of such practices as infanticide, a practice affecting female infants among th...

So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

of a European spinster. Rama calls this an "aspect of the New Africa" (24), a reference to modern, global politics affecting the l...

A Look at Bataille's Erotism

tell the difference, but Batailles argument deserves contemplation. In trying to reach human limits in eroticism, one can go too f...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

Kevin Toolis's Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul

political activist organization known as Sinn Fein. Each chapter is subdivided in such a way as to concentrate on a specific aspe...

Analysis of the Vedic Hymn of Creation

not concerned with the creation of man but rather with the creation and evolution of the cosmos. Eliade (1995), however, notes th...

Meaningful Marketing by Hall and Stamp

or not the view is valid. Clearly, the viewpoint has validity. Too often consumers are bombarded with advertisements and marketin...

Up Country by Nelson DeMille

may give information to the cause of the death and while Brenner has no idea why the military is so interested in the answer, he i...

A Globalization View

governments (405). For example, the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City on September 11, 2001 caused "s...