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Voltaire's Candide and Literature of the Enlightenment

it from a cavalry captain," etc. (Voltaire, 1995, p. 9). This "genealogy," also subtly parodies the numerous "beget" clauses of t...

Freedom of Knowledge and the Courage of Learning

a violin that is found among their belongings. The headman condemns it as "a bourgeois toy" and commands that it be burnt (Sijie ...

Second Grade and a Literacy Program Based Upon Multicultural Literature

In nine pages in which an abstract is also provided this essay examines the development of grade two literacy in a consideration o...

Arguing the Position of the Outsider

blinker when he pulled over, exacerbating the police officers agitation over the event. John, not suspecting a problem, took ou...

Science According to the Poems of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...

Evaluating the American Dreams Website

the details of the "American Dream," and what this term has come to mean in our culture. This page asks "What is the American Drea...

Employee Reliability and Married People

he or she is married. Does marriage really lend stability to life? Is there in fact a prejudice against singles? The answer is mix...

Fraud and Medicare

$3 billion annually, that is about 10 percent of all claims (Albert, 2004). There are a number of laws that specifically address ...

Anderson, Indiana Family Move

including Ball State University (Muncie); Indiana Weslayan University (Marion) and Butler University (Indianapolis) (CityData.com,...

Margaret Craven's I Heard the Owl Call My Name

respect and seeks to learn from them, as he also provides spiritual guidance. Marks way of relating to the natives is starkly cont...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Images of Darkness and Light

with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...

Jose Saramago's Novels

make sure that isolation is maintained from the rest of the city. However, the controlling gaze of the soldiers is also negated be...

Legacy of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

been so completely dependent on the perception of others. His father left his family when Willy was quite young. Consequently, he ...

Skepticism and the Existence of God

is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...

Expenses for College

the wealthy will be able to easily afford a college education thus depriving the nation of the talents of thousands of young peopl...

Socrates, Plato, 'Allegory of the Cave' and Phaedo

as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...

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...

Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7:29

and reflection question : In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pictures a religious and moral orientation that draws on Jewish tradit...

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 ...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

Marketing Structure in The Grapes of Wrath

particular products or goods than other times of the year. In the novel we note this is the reality that rules the peoples lives f...

Homer's 'The Iliad' and Free Will

the conflict in terms of an insult to his personal honor. Homer writes that Achilles responded by telling Agamemnon, "Ah me, cloth...

Wal Mart and Management Ethics

relate relative to their work experience at Wal-Mart are all remarkably similar. They were promised the chance for advancement, ye...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Post Reading Exercises

presumably just universe. An arrow going from the first circle to the second indicates the cause-and-effect direction. Multiple ...

Nursing as a Desirable Career Choice

trying times of their lives. Nurses have the capacity to improve lives. Nothing could be more meaningful or provide a greater sens...

The 'Personality' of a Nightclub

workday with someone special. I talk about my routine trials and tribulations and ask Tim about his day. He smiled and told me a...

Personal Views of Liberian Cultural Values

taught the role of service, a role that is also intrinsic to the medical profession. As this suggests, traditional Liberian values...