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Machiavelli's Impact on Political Theory

This paper discusses how the works of Machiavelli still influence political thinking and theory hundreds of years after his death....

Sigmund Freud's Text Civilization and Its Discontents

In five pages Civilization and Its Discontents is discussed as it pertains to Freud's perspectives on civilization structure and c...

Eros and Death Instinct in Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

In five pages this paper examines Freud's text in terms of the interactiion between Eros and Death Instinct it reveals. One sourc...

Siblings Coping with a Child's Sudden Violent Death

likely to have a realistic concept of death due to their pending circumstance with the understanding becoming more pronounced as t...

Life After Death and Roman Catholicism

live out eternity in blissful spiritual peace, while those damned to Hell will live out eternity in misery as punishment for disob...

Influence of Death in the Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages the ways in which Poe's poems 'Lenore,' 'The Raven,' 'Annabel Lee,' and 'To Helen' are influenced by the deaths of th...

Transcendentalist Emily Dickinson

her mid-twenties Dickinson was on her way to becoming a total recluse. Although she did not discourage visitors, she literally nev...

John Keats, John Donne, and Robert Browning's Uses of Imagery

line in every stanza is shortened by two metric beats to create a sense of temporary suspension before the story continues (Abrams...

John Donne's Works and the Themes of Sin and Death

In fifteen pages the themes of death and sin as they manifested themselves in John Donne's poems, sonnets and Biathanatos are disc...

Coping with Death in Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and 'Mid Term Break' by Seamus Heaney

In five pages this paper examines how the young boys in this novel and poem cope with the death of a younger brother and considers...

A Comparison of To Virgins, To Make Much of Time and To His Coy Mistress

Love and death as found in these works by Herrick and Marvell are discussed. Both poets display ideas about time and living in the...

Chilean Torture and Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman and The Postman by Antonio Skarmeta

it comes to writing about the issues of Chilean torture for which they are so well known. Both Skarmetas The Postman and Dorfmans...

An Overview of the Life of Augustus Caesar

(Wigader, 1993). Augustus remained intent on his goal, total control of Rome. The two-thousand year-old words of Tacitus recount...

Ivan Ilych versus 'Slave Girl' Linda Brent

In one page this paper compares the characters Ivan Ilych from Leo Tolstoy's short story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' and Linda Brent...

Process of Grief Therapy

In five pages this paper examines how to cope with the death of a loved one through a process known as grief therapy. Two sources...

Love and Death Imagery in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

In eight pages this paper discusses the images of love and death that reinforce the tragic inevitability of Romeo and Juliet. Six...

Deaths of Cleopatra and Juliet in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Romeo and Juliet

In eight pages the deaths of these female characters are contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Comparing Three Works Thematically

This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

due to biblical passages describing how divine vengeance was "meted out to guilty and innocent alike" in "the Great Flood, the des...

Actor Christopher Reeve's Life

quite proud of his physical abilities and thus the accident left with virtually nothing as he could move almost nothing in his bod...

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...

Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel and Death

death into her fictional drama. "The Stone Angel" is particularly interesting in regard to the contemporary way that we vie...

Construction Projects and Various Risk Dynamics

In eight pages this paper discusses the types of risks at construction sites with injury and death statistics included and safety ...

Social and Domestic Abuse in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

-- and did his society support his right to do so? In order to answer this question, we need to look at the background of Chinese...

Dark Painting and Romanticism

In ten pages this paper analyzes the paintings 'The Nightmare' by Fuselli, 'Death of Sardanapalus' by Delacroix, and 'Saturn devou...

An Overview of the Bataan Death March

The Bataan Death March is the main subject of contemplation and the many aspects of this march are conveyed. The positive as well ...

Sonny Bono's Life in Politics

In five pages this paper examines the transformation of Sonny Bono from entertainer to California congressman in this chronicle of...

Funeral Rituals In Nigeria, China, and India

3500 years ago. Zhonghua, the Chinese name for the country, means "central land," a reference to the Chinese belief that their cou...

Death as Treated by the 19th Century Tlingit Culture

Ravens and Eagles (which he states are known as Wolves in some localities). Emmons (21) identifies a third moiety among the Sanya...

Abortion as a Woman's Right Regardless of Circumstances Involved

In this paper consisting of five pages the abortion argument is framed around the book 'Causing Death and Saving Lives' by Jonatha...