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Preface and Epilogue of Fatal Light by Richard Currey

In five pages the preface and epilogue of this text are analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas

human mind contributed to the displacement of Christianity several centuries later from its central position in the formation of ...

Religious Theories of Emile Durkheim in The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

premises the concept that religion is rooted in the nature of things and that any system of belief which dos not have this groundi...

Classical Era Transformation and Richard Tarnas' The Passion of the Western Mind

to accomplish this, Tarnas considers he authorship of men like Plato, as a basis for understanding the views of man and religion p...

John F. Kennedy's 'Profiles of Courage'

leadership of his own party. The others profiled by Kennedy are John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston...

Historical Account of the Expedition against the Ohio Indians by W. Smith

which Smith and his contemporaries perceived the Indians....

Phillip E. Schlechty's Inventing Better Schools

some of the motivation that seeps through these pages. Schlechty blames todays problems in the school system not just on the poor...

Karl Marx's 'The Communist Manifesto'

This 5 page essay briefly reviews the text, discussing three strengths as well as three weaknesses. There are 2 additional source...

Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai

of peasants and students whose charge was to prosecute those who were perceived as Maos enemies. While Mao recognized the importa...

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The focus of Bonhoeffers work, then, is shaped by an emerging understanding of the conflicts and struggles of religious conviction...

Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition

another, results in a convoluted narrative in which attempts to redress injustice are not always successful and it appears that th...

Chapter Overview of On Liberty by J.S. Mill

evolving to take its place (Terchek 583). Mill pictured as this new culture as giving rise to the "higher types" of culture and o...

Political Themes Seen In Machiavelli

This paper discusses Machiavelli's, The Prince. The author addresses Centaur Chiron's role, political themes, and lessons that ca...

Analyzing Historia Calamitatum by Abelard

same time, the importance of this identification should not be overestimated; his life experiences are not limited to the expected...

Life and Mathematics Contributions of Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri

Omni Naevo Vindicatus (1733) Saccheris early work on non-euclidean geometry was considered to be very important, although he did n...

Book Reviews on the Japanese Samurai

In ten pages this paper reviews various texts on the Japanese Samurai class including Harry Cook's Samurai: The Story of a Warrior...

Borderline Personality Disorder and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Treatment

to have their first interactions with a person with BPD as a result of emergency room visits following suicidal attempts. The the...

Michael Kohlhass by Heinrich von Kleist

In six pages this research paper examines von Kleist in a consideration of hist time's cultural background and then concentrates o...

The Reading Crisis by Chall, Jacobs, and Baldwin

the formulas are based on three factors: word length, sentence length and the number of uncommon words. For example, a 15-word sen...

Comparative Analysis of Plato's Apology and I.F. Stone's The Trial of Socrates

threatening. Instead of turning the anger they felt inward, they unleashed their fury outward onto Socrates, a convenient scapego...

David O'Brien's Storm Center The Supreme Court in American Politics

written and deserves accolades for its insights and attention to detail. At the same time, OBrien sometimes misses the major point...

Motown and Berry Gordy

Vegara, and "Urban Crisis" by Thomas Sugrue. Berry Gordy and Motown Berry Gordy is considered to be the father of Motown. "In ...

Allegories in The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

to friends to see what their feelings were about what he had written. He explains that some told him it was wonderful while other...

A Life Examined in Alan Taylor's 'William Cooper's Town'

In this 5 page paper, the Revolutionary War is the star of William Cooper's life in a text that continues the trials and tribulati...

The Power Elite and White Collar The American Middle Classes by C. Wright Mills

most part, completely unremarkable, having "slipped quietly into modern society... As a group, they do not threaten anyone; as ind...

The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne and its Historical Context

for the tumultuous relationship between the inhabitants of Uncle Sams residence, later described by President Abraham Lincoln as a...

Women's Sexual and Social Roles in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and The Book of Margery Kempe

the individual characters of the story within the stories he was telling. In fact, Chaucer himself was a prime example of what was...

Watchman Nee's The Normal Christian Life

In seven pages this paper presents a synopsis on each chapter of this inspirational Christian life text. One source is cited in t...

Class in America by Paul Fussell

In nine pages this essay considers the author's primary points made in this 1983 text and disputes his position regarding the cult...

Robert D. Behn's Rethinking Democratic Accountability

In seventeen pages this report examines public accountability and its problems as considered in the text by Robert D. Behn. One s...