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Essays 271 - 300

Frank Lloyd Wright and Alfred Hitchcock

and also it also spoke of their sexual frustration and repression. In his movies, every shot has a meaning and a purpose. H...

Two Authors View Coming of Age

all her transitions into adulthood. She feels she is special, because of her religion, and is, in many ways, without a strong p...

Twentieth Century as 'the American Century'

like anything was possible and the sky was the limit when brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright piloted their homemade plane a short ...

European Union and Germany

blamed the size of the reparation payments, the Allies asserted that the country was deliberately wrecking the economy in order to...

Modern Criticism of Descartes' Dualism

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

Discrimination in America Between 1900 and 1945

life of their own, relegated to minding the household chores, raising the children and looking after a husband who never recognize...

Twentieth Century Changes in the Relationship Between the U.S. Economy and American Law

When the Keynesian revolution started, there was less concern about the supply side factors. Keynesian economics developed in res...

Book Review of Rosalind Rosenberg's Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century

to be the homemakers, the wives, the mothers, the caregivers. Women were alternately placed on a pedestal and held in subservienc...

Architecture and Modernism

with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...

20th Century Literature and Its Influential Factors

Most literature of this era tends to ramble around a loosely constructed plot structure, much as the politics of the time did. It ...

Theater Design of Gordon Craig

in the nineteenth century traditional ideas of scenic design were rejected by artists such as Craig, who felt that scenery should ...

John Dewey and Richard Rorty Philosophical Parallels

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

Federal Government's Growing Power During the 20th Century

the federal government to take action in order to help people make money. These seem to be rather insignificant issues, or issues ...

Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Foucault's Power Structure, and the Film The Matrix

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

Post 1950 West and Marijuana

long history of the manner in which marijuana is perceived and regulated throughout the world. While western countries s...

4 Voyages in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

traveled to Lilliput, where there was a constant state of war between the Lilliputians and their bitter enemies, the Blefuscudians...

20th Century Race History

Describing Columbus interactions with the Indians in Cuba, Zinn writes: He took more Indian prisoners and put them aboard his two...

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

Stephen Crane's Maggie A Girl of the Streets and Women's Opportunities

time period. Maggie When we first see Maggie as a young girl we immediately see the environment she lives in, the environment s...

U.S. Immigration and Illness

female immigrants with matrons present but in 1914, two women doctors had been hired to conduct exams for female subjects (2000)....

Beuys and Warhol, Two Different Artists

The life of Joseph Beuys began as a very conservative one as he was the only child born in a Catholic middle class family in Krefe...

Colonial Powers and Gender Differences

outwards. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the loss of colonial power was...

Albert Einstein: Life and Accomplishments

patent office located in Bern ("Albert Einstein"). It was during his employment here that Einstein began to write about theoretica...

Connection Between Politics and Art in the Philosophies of Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger

particular essay, we are told that, "art lets truth originate." According to Kiefte (1997), what Heidegger is wondering about is...

Contemporary Literature and the Maintenance of Identity

In five pages this essay examines maintaining identity in the first 50 years of the 20th century in a consideration of such litera...

World of the Twentieth Century and Power Development and Patterns

point in time. Keylor repeatedly makes this point as he illustrates the constant changes in the international power structure of ...

Roles of Women and How They Have Evolved

In five pages 20th century women are examined in a consideration of how they have evolved and moved from the domestic sphere into ...

Classical Theorists, Modern Warfare, and the 20th/21st Century

in populations, the increase in the complexity of players in any given war, and the evolution of humanity overall. In all honesty ...

A Comparison of Sparta and Totalitarian Systems

mother, and until the age of 30 and possibly beyond were dedicated to their training and to their service to the state" ("The Cult...

AMERICAN HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...