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Capt. Cook's Death/Sahlins-Obeyesekere Debate

the issues and points involved, this writer/tutor will offer the student investigating this subject suggestions on how this debate...

Presidential Performance as it Relates to Character

Barber makes one fact exceptionally clear. That is that the characters of the men who have held the office of the U.S. Presidency...

P.D. James Vision of the Future

either. Theo and Julian: Their relationship is very different in the film than it is in the book, so it depends on which one is u...

Farewell to Manzanar

She further notes how her mother worked every day and he stayed home and she was "ashamed of him for that and, in a deeper way, fo...

Thirteen Conversations about One Thing: Revealing Conversations on Change and Hope

happiness. However, as Mickey would soon discover, his newfound wealth brought unwelcome changes and obstacles he could have neve...

Wilson on Gun Control

as dangerous as people make out; and that incidents in which people have shot members of their family by mistake are overstated. ...

The Dystopian World of P.D. James

cousin, who has taken the title of the "Warden of England" (James). The title is apt, because England (and one must presume other ...

The Cream of the Crime Crop

more dramatic than embezzlers, and the media is after ratings, so it uses the most sensational material it can. This means that wh...

A Death in the Family by James Agee

This essay offers a discussion of "A Death in the Family" by James Agee. Four pages in length, three sources are cited. ...

Turning Point for James McBride, Within the Color of Water

This 5 page paper gives an explanation of a part of the book The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. This p...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

A Letter Home from a Soldier in Henry V's Army

country is aware of how, as prince, King Harry caroused. However, it is clear that he has foresworn his former ways. Prior to the ...

Individuality and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Henry David Thoreau

respond to and voice his opinions regarding the political events and developments of his time in England, but with a vision for th...

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding and its Continuity

with the plot of the Golden Ass. The story of The Golden Ass finds Lucius and Corinth interested in both magic and sex and eventua...

Democracy According to Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

Significance of Tavern in Parts I and II of Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare

plays we start with "Henry IV" part I. The first mention of "tavern" is in scene II where Falstaff is joking, presumably, with Hen...

Madame Butterfly and David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly

"sin" because she falls in love with an American. The American uses her, marries her, and then essentially sumps her to go back to...

Slavery According to Henry David Thoreau

2002, p. 125). As this suggests, philosophically, Thoreau carried little for the present and his aspiration was for his writing ...

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones Man of the Hill

he were truly the evil person hes believed to be. In the Man of the Hill we can see glimpses of Tom as he would have been if hed...

How Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Define 'Self Reliance'

emphasized the importance of self reliance. Both Emerson and Thoreau are remembered for their philosophies that encapsulate...

I Rode with Stonewall by Henry Kyd Douglas

the military critic... It is not my intention nor is it within the scope of this book to give a detailed report of the battle of B...

Cesar Chavez, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau on Nonviolence

perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...

Paula G. Allen's Spider Woman's Granddaughters and Gordon Henry Jr.'s Light People

impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...

Invention by Design by Henry Petroski

out that "Engineering is a fundamental human process that has been practiced from the earliest days of civilization" (Petroski 2)....

The Last Manchu Emperor Henry P'u Yi

Biographical information is provided. Various issues are addressed. His imprisonment in China as well as when he had to endure ho...

Henry Fleming's Insignificance in Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage

In five pages this paper discusses how the setting emphasizes the protagonist's insignificance in this work by Stephen Crane. Ther...

Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare and Jack Cade's Utopian Rebellion

In six pages this report considers Cade's desire for Utopia as it is reflected in William Shakespeare's political and social comme...

Ideological Comparison of Henry David Thoreau and Frederick Douglass

(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, 2001 and See Also Thoreau, 1993). This comparative essay examines ...

Applying the Literary Lessons of E.M. Forster and Henry David Thoreau

This paper examines the importance of being able to apply the teachings found in great literary works such as those of Thoreau and...

Vietnam War and the Policies of President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

For support, he look towards what he called the "silent majority" believing that they were really supporting his foreign policies,...