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“The Story of Mathematics”

killed in battle. Whatever the precise thing or event they represented in that hazy chapter of mans early history, one thing is c...

“A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity”

use of mathematics generalizations could be made from certain observations which could be applied to other observations, that patt...

Studies in Public Administration

to meet the "major goals of society" (Stillman, 2000, p. 1). For instance, he says, if a state agency proposes to build a new high...

The Concept of Evil

God is simply incongruous with the fact that evil is a very real component of our world. Those that point out this incongruity co...

Point of View: Atwood and Ford

her youth she experienced the suicide of a friend in the woods while camping. The body was never found and this woman, Lois, was n...

Richard Lionheart and Isaac Comnenus, A Play

that if he will allow the ladies to land, return what he has stolen and make a suitable penance to God, well pass by and le...

Life in Prison from the Inside

are not always paragons of virtue; they may use methods of unfair intimidation against certain inmates while allowing the actions ...

Richard Rodriguez and the Isolation of Education

grades and become a good student made it more difficult for him to relate to his parents and the life he lived outside of school. ...

Exploring Vienna and Talking of Possibilities

enthralling" (1995). The film is a romance, but it avoids the trap of being formulaic; often films of this kind rely "more upon ac...

A Short Story by Ford

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

Hunger for the Past, Hunger of Memory

family lived in Sacramento, only a block from some very nice (and expensive) homes, and that outside of a few taunts, he never hea...

Racism and Criminality in Native Son

many of the same factors that Wright presented in the life of Bigger. Baldwin writes, for example, that he himself is a product o...

Watergate as Covered by the Print Media

Pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein - would ultimately lead to one of the most shocking...

Bias in the Use of the Death Penalty?

of course, is the product of such a home. Marger (4), however, contends that such characteristics "have produced survival strateg...

Richard Branson: A Great Communicator

need to be able to communicate with others to make their meaning clear. This paper discusses one such communicator, Richard Branso...

Black Boy by Wright

Introduction In Richard Wrights autobiography Black Boy Wright offers up his childhood and early adulthood for the reader to perh...

The Quest: Homer, Adams, and Tolkien

Ulysses is clearly at the mercy of the gods and goddesses to some extent. He cannot seem to simply go home, but...

Richard III and Animal Imagery

a place" (I.ii.146). And she answers, "Never hung poison on a fouler toad. Out of my sight, thou dost infect mine eyes!" (I.ii.147...

Richard Branson, Percy Barnevik and David Simon; Leadership Roles

a key role, and fits in with the idea put forward by Zaleznik (1977) where leaders will have followers and Kotter (1990) argues th...

Philip Caputo’s Policy Paper to Richard Nixon’s 1968 Presidential Campaign on Vietnam

The following represents what Caputos policy paper to the Nixon campaign about the conduct of the conflict might have looked like....

Two Critical Views of Shakespeare’s Comedies

from disarray to order; and marks a victory of "Us over Them" (Levin 14). He further argues that 20th century critics have tended ...

'The Play's the Thing': Analyzing Six Passages from William Shakespeare's Plays

Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act V, Scene ii), As You Like It (Act II, Scene vii), Richard III (Act I, Scene ii), The...

"Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur

This essay offers analysis of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur. The writer focuses on the compelling nature of the poem's ima...

Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr

This book review presents summaries of the chapters that comprise Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr. Seven pages in length,...

Tender Mercies/CPS Investigations

job frequently encompasses. Richards explains that this is a "Catch-22" situation, as he can "only force a physical exam by court...

Misreading Scripture by Richards, O'Brien

This essay pertains to aspects of E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O'Brien's text Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes. The n...

Leader of Virgin Group Ltd

Sir Richard Branson is one of the 20th century’s most successful entrepreneurs. He built up a multibillion company in just a few d...

Shakespeare and the Cost of Power

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the cost of power in Shakespeare's tragedies. Richard III, As You Like It, and the ...

Black Boy by Richard Wright

a thousand lynchings" (Wright, 1993, p. 74). One of the many odd jobs that Wright utilized to try to help support is impoverishe...

Richard Wright, Black Boy and Theme of Hunger

a person of color as any white, as he was told "If you know too much, boy, your brains will explode" (Wright 304-305). Wright de...