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4 Poems in Billy Collins' Nine Horses

said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...

'Slaughterhouse Five' by Kurt Vonnegut and the Theme of Acceptance

everything leads back to itself without ever answering anything. The story, and the life of Billy, is nothing more than an endless...

Billy Elliot Film and the Depiction of Childhood

finds that he has a natural talent for it. It is as if the emotional side of him which has been forced to remain silent finally ha...

Double Indemnity Film Noir and Auteur Director Billy Wilder

the ordinary man can screw those in authority then he should do it. One of the themes of Double Indemnity is shown in that it is...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

Slaughterhouse Five Analysis

of nearly every day of his childhood" (38). The fact that the crucifix depicts a dead Jesus is significant because it represents ...

Billy Pilgrim's Changes in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

000 souls. Partnering with Opposites Throughout the novel there are many "partnerings" with opposites. If an image repeats itsel...

Popular Religion Conceptually Defined

In five pages this paper conceptually defines what is meant by popular religion in an historical overview of ancient Greece and We...

Unforgettable 1996 Film Sling Blade

asylum where he had been sent as a youngster for killing his abusive mother and her boyfriend. A young boy named Frank befriends h...

Gen. Billy Mitchell's Trial and Court Martial

This report consists of nine pages in an overview of First World War Gen. Billy Mitchell's trial and subsequent court martial. Tw...

Opposing Viewpoints on Prohibition

The writer examines two opposing viewpoints on Prohibition. Billy Sunday preached in favor of it and against alcohol as evil while...

Another Odd Couple Scarlet O'Hara and Billy Pilgrim

The writer wonders what Scarlet O'Hara and Billy Pilgrim would talk about if they could travel in time and meet one another. The w...

Reverend Billy Graham

as his military superiors) that strengthening American air power was paramount to the nations survival. According to Nye (1986), ...

Influence and Impact of Reverend Billy Graham

In nine pages the major political influence and religious impact of minister and evangelist Billy Graham are discussed within the ...

BILLY PILGRIM: PTSD OR SEVERELY PSYCHOTIC?

shelters to get corpses out "as a sanitary measure," is how he puts it (Hayman et al). Even more gruesome was his description of t...

Historical Male Mind and the Femme Fatale

aesthetic qualities of film noir. Even with the seductiveness of film noir, there is no dropping the history out of the debate. Th...

Phyllis and Lola, Double Indemnity

by Billy Wilder) is regarded as a classic example of film noir. The screenplay was adapted from a novel by James M. Cain by Raymon...

Concept of Quests in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In five pages these two novels are compared in an analysis of how the concept of a quest is featured within each. There are no ot...

Culture, Identity, and Roots in the Writings of Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe

society as a whole had become better educated by the mid-19th century, a new market presented itself for stories, regional sketche...

Slave Trade and Owners' Attitudes are Analyzed in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

concomitant threat of corporal destruction to the slave workers in the South" (Newbury 159). Through one particular example, Stowe...

Modern Organizational Leadership and Max DePree

business leaders appear to pattern themselves and their organizations on the military, leading from the top down, within the hiera...

Society, the Individual, and Sociology

themselves. It is in adjusting to change that people lose their ground. Meaning and purpose in life is lost. Thus, clinical depres...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

The Social Construction of Trauma: Symptoms and Potential Interventions

obeys no lines of delineation in terms of age, gender, race or culture. In the past post traumatic stress disorder has most often...

Leadership Model Exemplified by Max DePree

DePree adopted a model of leadership that pictures the leader as both inspiring and serving (Budman, 2002). Such a framework for l...

Oppression as Seen in Various Works

2002; 131). In this she is clearly summing up some of her particular condition, in relationship to her race and oppression in soci...

Public Administration: Discretionist vs Instrumentalist

fact, contended that: "even under the best arrangements a considerable margin of irresponsible conduct of...

Economics and Environment

credited with coming up with the fourth law of thermodynamics in that whenever matter contacts matter, some will be made unavailab...

Lying Viewed Through Kant's Categorical Imperative

Immanuel Kant believed that lying is wrong in all instances, a view called his Categorical Imperative. This paper offers a critica...

First US Serial Killer Herman Mudgett

In eight pages this paper examines the documentation related to Herman Mudgett, who is believed to be the first known serial kille...