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Loneliness and Hemingway

three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...

Shaping the Narrative: The Narrators in “Ethan Frome” and “The Secret Sharer”

bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story" (Wharton). Its his c...

Philadelphia Needs a Helping Hand from Uncle Sam

ever before. This is particularly true for the people of Philadelphia. For instance, the cost of living here is approximately 27...

Those Winter Sundays

and lonely offices?" (Hayden 13-14). All of this speaks of a childs ignorance and how children are simply children, ignora...

The Accuracy of American History Books

faced. Foner explains that by the time the Savannah Colloquy would come around, slavery was already an institution3. He explains t...

Constantine and Diocletian

making the announcement from Nicomedia after the fact (Kamm-Partial recovery). As his co-ruler, Maximian "had no choice but to do ...

Teaching Diversely Aged College Students

2001, p. 3). Adult learners may need help in structuring their time, learning good study habits, etc. just as much or more so tha...

Is the Death Penalty Administered Fairly?

same crime, although clearly the crimes and criminals were different. This is not necessarily fair. When one looks into the trut...

Marketing and Health Care

with more knowledge than they may have had in the past. On the other hand, as they say, too much knowledge can be dangerous. Physi...

Euthanasia: A Good Death

of the United States has upheld the Christian notion that taking a life under any circumstances is wrong and therefore illegal. I...

Victorian Reading Habits: The Thrill of Transgression

"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

John Proctor, a Tragic Hero

complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...

The Thrill of Transgression: “Frankenstein” and “Manfred”

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

Monism and Pluralism

by the theory of monism (Turner). The greatest strength of monism appears to be its simplicity: it admits of only one underlying c...

The Weakening of the British Currency

This 3 page paper looks at an article published in the Wall Street Journal in September 2008 concerning the British Pound (Sterlin...

The Social Reaction to Piercing and Tattooing

the University of Wisconsin at Madison explains that the present cultural phenomenon is simply a subsection of a much larger pheno...

Music as a Reflection of Society

2008). The fact that controversial songs or literature emerge is something that in fact is not only a reflection of the problems s...

Differences/Liberals, Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives

Today, this term is used in a derogatory sense by conservatives to mean people who support "big government and wasteful, giveaway ...

Mukherjee and Tan: Assimilation

The betrayal that Mukherjee felt in Canada 20 years before she wrote the piece echoes the feelings that Mira has, as she finds her...

Same Sex Marriage

heterosexual marriages are recognized or accepted because that is what God intended. This is further emphasized by the fact that, ...

Paper Bags

a very confusing one for on one hand there are benefits to one and on the other hand there are detriments to one or the other. I...

Is the Nation State Increasingly Irrelevant in the Context of Globalization

governmental organizations as well as international organizations. It may be assumed that the issues are more focused on countries...

Music Sharing is Not Unethical

management, as well as the creation and distribution of their CDs. Now, with the Internet, widespread ownership of CD burners and ...

The Necessity for a Federal Shielding Law for Journalists

grand jury, his sources will dry up and the attempted exposure, the effort to enlighten the public, will be ended" (Gora 1399). Go...

Moral Crises in “Huckleberry Finn” and “Silas Lapham”

We learn that he forced his partner, Mr. Rogers, out of the business just as it was becoming successful; Lapham and his wife run i...

Problems in New Orleans’ Schools

only one year, and school officials who were being indicted for theft and bribery (USA Today). There were budget deficits, and bui...

Classical Liberalism and Radicalism

the "bedrock of the free market economy" (Sally). The theory of the free market as a cure for almost every economic ill has taken ...

Roman and Modern Architecture

Roman architecture also used the arch extensively, as well as semicircular or oval structures, such as theaters and arenas ("Ancie...

Nothing and Something in “King Lear”

each of them to tell how much she loves him. Goneril goes first and gushes all over the old man, telling him she loves him so much...

The Benefits of a Liberal Education

says that there are whole huge parts of life as American adults that nobody talks about, especially in commencement speeches (Wall...