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The Film Moonstruck and Dionysian Love versus Apollonial Security

and stability and this is comfortable for each of them. But, as time will show, it does not provide excitement in the relationship...

Ian McEwan's Atonement

a bit of her future, and cleverly, McEwen foretells the tale. Briony had her first, weak intimation that for her now it could no ...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Prejudices

old black ram is tupping your white ewe"(Shakespeare, Act I, sc I, li 88-89). Brabantio is Desdemonas father and as such would hav...

'Paradise Lost' by John Milton, Christianity, and Classics

very important fact when considering the relationship between the classics and Christianity in Miltons poem by stating the followi...

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Bulgakov even includes this rejection in the book with the reaction of the authorities when one of the characters in the novel wri...

'Paradise Lost' by John Milton and Disobedience Themes

he learns that his sons will fight and one will die. Thus, the reciting of the story is a punishment for Adam, a demonstration of ...

Colonialism and the New Testament

Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Test...

Perceptions of Other and of Self in Bird of the East by Tawfiq Al Hakim and in Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

undercover form, is as indispensable to you as air and water" (Salih, 1970, p. 60). Salihs (1970) chronicle - which "recounts the...

Body Image and Perception Among American Women

which represented "wealth, an abundance of food and a refined indoor lifestyle" (Region of Peel, 2004). In the early 1900s the loo...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and the Characters of Jane and Edward Rochester

combined with his perception of Jane, makes him think a bit more deeply about his character when he tells her to go to the library...

Japan and Spreading Western Religion

that they were in contrast to many of the characteristic elements of Japanese culture (4). By 1564, some say that the missionarie...

Enkidu and Gilgamesh Character Development

have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...

Herbert Mason's Translation of Gilgamesh A Verse Narrative Analyzed

human condition then and now. Throughout the course of the story, Gilgamesh takes several physical journeys. However, the one mo...

Realism and Fantasy in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

way of interacting with the world around her. Is this a...

Lost in Translation Film and Orientalism

and its heavy use of Japanese stereotypes for humor. Such depictions perpetuate racial and cultural insensitivity and misperceptio...

de Tocqueville and Crevecoeur

However, as Lauter (2004) points out, Crevecoeurs perspective that all nations were represented and that these were being transfor...

Medea and Light Symbols

drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...

The Influence of Border Films

drugging and kidnapping his wife, whom he subsequently frames on drug charges (Touch of Evil, 1995). Vargas, and justice, prevail ...

Reasons for the American Civil War by Bruce Levin

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Equality and the Birth of the United States

of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...

Imperialism Critique of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

suspend his judgment. Ironically, what Kurtz has discovered horrifies Marlow and it seems to haunt him. He went in search of him...

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

Cellular Telephones and Tele Density Influences

per capita No. cellular telephones Population Cellular telephoned per capita Ethiopia 700 17,800 66,557,553 0.03 Nigeria 800 1,607...

Foreign Policy Shifts of Korea and China

Chinese international policy affects Korea. As far as China is concerned, foreign policy had changed a bit since the Korean War. C...

Strong Character Deterioration in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

of him, his semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more" (Shakespeare 202). Hamlet is resigne...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

Blues, Growth, and Cultural Wisdom in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...