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Charles Taylor's The Ethics of Authenticity

concept of disenchantment is related to what Taylor argues as the "the primacy of instrumental reason" (5). Essentially, Taylor i...

Voltaire's Candide and its Criticism of the Ancient Regime

exaggeration. Voltaire (1947) is in fact sarcastic and while the author is indirect in the way in which he writes, it seems that t...

Comparative Analysis of Min Zhan Lu's From 'Silence to Words' and Amy Tan's 'Mother Tongue'

written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with...

Resistance of African American Slaves and Native Americans

English who had come to steal corn and the result was that the English colony waited until 1613 before their leaders were sufficie...

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...

Lee G. Bolman and Terrance E. Deal's Reframing Organizations Power and Conflict

Consequently, it is necessary to recognize that political activity is an exercise of power and is the result of an organizational ...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

A Personal System of Philosophy

Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...

Riding in Cars With Boys by Beverly Donofrio

sort of way. She records how, being angry at her father for not shaking hands with her friends, shows up at her parents home in a ...

El Casamiento Enganoso by Miguel de Cervantes Summarized and Analyzed

the story told by a self-admitted liar be accepted as the truth, no matter how fantastic it might sound? Ensign Campuzano, an art...

Chapter XXXIV of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Dialogue and Narrative Voice

are futile and are only keeping her from seeing the truth. One author, in reviewing a book about Austens work, notes that...

Net Gain by Hagel and Armstrong

Concurrently, these same companies are interested in building long-term relationships with their customers, and it has become appa...

Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez

the form of communication outside of the classroom. "An accident of geography sent me to a school where all my classmates were wh...

Managing with a Global Mindset by Jean Pierre Jeannet

experiences may not lead to a global mindset. By contrast, the executive who has a truly global mindset is able to see across mult...

Analyzing the Walk in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

the Introduction of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Seamus Deane presents the idea that the walk is one of the novels m...

Women and Men in Fausse Route by Elisabeth Badinter

is to be held responsible for the revival of sexual stereotypes, which were about to disappear! She makes the struggle to legaliz...

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Bird Imagery

this man, had sufficed to make her believe that she at last felt that wondrous passion which, till then, like a great bird with ro...

Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Structural Contrast

to think about such things, yet memories continue to crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories a...

Characters of Simon Legree, St. Clare, and Shelby in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

that matter. At one point a little boy, named Jim Crow, comes in and he tosses raisins at him and tells him to pick them up. The b...

Philosophy of Education by Jean Jacques Rousseau

tangled when one relies on the system to teach. In fact, when examining contemporary life, one can see that a large compliant abou...

Sisters and Solidarity by Julie White

where women most commonly worked were often the hardest to organize."2 Those jobs included such things as domestic service and sal...

Objectives and Structure of The Histories by Herodotus

As this indicates, Herodotus intended this work to be more than a history. His ambitious purpose is to capture in writing, in thei...

Richardson and Fielding as Critics of British Society

rather than allowing her marriage to Tom. From the onset, Fielding makes it clear that his sympathies are with the young lovers an...

Article Critique on Malaysian Nonverbal Communication

(Salleh 7). While this request is generally written or spoken, it suggests how a great deal of hidden meaning is intertwined in M...

Comparison of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz's The Divine Narcissus and Luis de Gongora's Polyphemus and Galatea

and transform his blood into a river, which flows down the sides of the volcano, Mt. Aetna, into the sea at Catana. De la Cruzs T...

Guerrillas Journeys in the Insurgent World by Jon Lee Anderson

as a reporter, his reputation, and his experience working all over the globe that he brings to his account of the world of guerril...

Road to Malpsychia by Joyce Milton

the importance of self-esteem has misdirected society at-large and proposes that Christian fundamentalism is more successful at ov...

Articles from Liberal Perspectives

"veil of ignorance" so that they are unaware of such things as their social status, friends and family, health, politics, height, ...

Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko'

untouched. She and Oroonoko consummate their marriage but the very next morning the kings servants come to the young couple and sa...

Conduct Disorder: A Review of the Literature and a Proposed Study

children. When these families perceive a problem they are often reluctant to seek help for that problem because of the labeling t...