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Social Mobility and Death in Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

The name Thaw for instance, in this work, can be indicative of the fact that his character is in a state of flux at times. One can...

Thomas Sowell's Washington Times' Article 'Afrocentric Escapism'

of time: "navel gazing about roots while others are learning square roots, and contemplating chains...

Learning Organizations and The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge

institutions where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured and the collective aspirations of those involved are encour...

Ungentlemanly Acts by Barnett

who wanted to believe that this military man would do something so heinous. While the work does involve the topic of incest, it a...

Arnold Isaacs' Vietnam Shadows

Isaacs states that shadows haunt those who did fight in Vietnam because the stories that no one wanted to hear about their war con...

Louis Liebovich's The Press and the Modern Presidency

and the Executive Branch for the worse. To support his arguments, Liebovich offers a discussion of the relationship between these...

The Impact of Female Writers in Early American Society

to hear, these discourses are important and add to American historical knowledge. Jacobs, in Life of a Slave Girl of course incor...

What Schools Are For by John I. Goodlad

administrators and staff; and effective/efficient operation. "...All aspects of [teacher] preparation programs, from mission to e...

Analyzing The Caribbean World and the United States - Mixing Rum and Coca Cola by Robert Freeman Smith

security, but also this relationship was a source of stability politically. This event then had a great deal to do with the postw...

A Food Supply Issues Analysis

those who actually suffer because of this every-changing system. By learning about the poor farmers and families suffering in Ind...

Analyzing Readings The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector and Tsvetayeva by Helene Cixous

Its clear this feminist perspective seeks no harm, but merely wishes to illuminate her celebration of women. Specificall...

Demons, the Answer Book by Lester Sumrall

of blaming the victim for not being spiritually "pure" is something that goes back to the Middle Ages when the plague was thought ...

Symbols Used in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

Critique of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

as a first attempt one can see the underlying brilliance that will shine through in later novel attempts. As has been said, "Auste...

Imagery Comparison in Alice Walker's 'The Flowers' and Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'

Myop finds herself in a "gloomy" little cove. This striking change in imagery foreshadows Myops discovery of a decomposing body. ...

Literature, Identity and Character Revelations

And, yet, it has been many years. She wars with her reason which offers her the explanation that she just wants this stranger to b...

'Ball of Fat' and 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant

meant to be - mixing with society people and being decorated with fine jewelry. However, she ends up losing the necklace...

The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich

an Egyptian princess, heir to one of the most powerful dynasties in the world. More than likely Moses destiny was determined as fa...

An Analysis of the Text The Sexual Politics of Sickness

growing fears about it; and potential illness as a result. The standard birth takes place in a clinical hospital where the patient...

A Private and Public Faith by William Stringfellow,

This book review is on William Stringfellow's A Private and Public Faith. The writer recounts Stringfellow's criticisms of contemp...

Hero's Cycle and Lord of the Flies

This essay presents the argument that in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the character of Simon is congruent with Joseph Camp...

Regional Role in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

population of the resort is almost entirely Creole, so Edna is immersed in a culture in which she feels like a stranger, one that ...

'A View of the Woods' by Flannery O'Connor

fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...

Anne Wells Branscomb's Who Owns Information

in some manner from its existence) is counterbalanced, however, by our desire to keep some information private. Branscomb (1995) ...

Speaking Editorially

on Girls. She states that it is ironic that they had already chosen the title for this issue before the attacks on the World Trade...

The Slow Process of Reform in Health Care

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the issue of health care reform and considers reasons that it has taken such a lo...

Majority Rule, Tocqueville, Olsen

This essay refers to the writing of contemporary author Theodore Olsen and nineteenth century author Alexis de Tocqueville to argu...

A Study of Post Partum Depression

In a paper of ten pages, the author relates an overview of a study on post partum depression, specifically in Hispanic populations...

Parent View of Autism

son, "Kyle," who has Autism Disorder (AD). Denise stated that Kyle was diagnosed when he was 12 months old following an evaluatio...

Government Contract Issues

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the FAR and the regulatory controls on contracts with government agencies. The a...