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Human Psychology in William Faulkner's Sanctuary and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...

Society and Natural Gender Roles

the natural world held many different dangers for communities or societies. With warfare men naturally went off to fight and women...

Hindu Society and Women's Roles

are not to be allowed any form of independence - they cannot even undertake religious fasts on their own initiative, but must join...

The Naked Society by Vance Packard

in many different ways, invading privacy and pushing their way into our lives. While many people accept it today, the pressures in...

Ayn Rand's Anthem, Regression, and Collectivist Society

The needs of the society come before the needs of the individual, and Rand even suggests that this collective identity would suppo...

Anderson's "Feed" - Sinister Possibilities And Prodding

of consumerism - the perpetual wanting of more and more materialistic tangibles until there is nothing left to appreciate - reside...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

Antitrust Issues and Internet Explorer of Microsoft

In five pages this paper examines the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft and issues regarding the Internet E...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

Judaism in the Works of Franz Kafka

In five pages the ways in which Judaism ins represented in Franz Kafka's works are examined with an emphasis upon his story 'Metam...

Homeland Security, INS and Epidemiology

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

Adult Learning Theories, An Article Summary/Chen

This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

Impact of the Black Plague on Chivalry, Feudalism

died within a span of just 18 months.7 The following examination of literature focuses on how the Black Plague affected feudal soc...

Allegory and Exemplum in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...

'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio

In three pages this essay discusses how these tales reflected the changing society of the 14th century as a result of the Black De...

Fairytales and the Portrayal of Women

In seven pages this paper analyzes Grimm's Fairy Tales in terms of the portrayal of women and how this reflects the roles they pla...

Female Equality Struggle and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

balance the levels of power each is able to wield. Not a Particularly Likable Woman! Since the Middle Ages of Chaucer and, no dou...

Sanity, Insanity and Society From A Swiftian Viewpoint

Jonathan Swift's satiric work A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth provides ...

'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In a paper consisting of seven pages Medieval society is considered in terms of the consequences regarding to 'what women want' wi...

Translation Of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Gregory Horace

around Myrrhas sexual obsession with her father, a situation that was no less unacceptable in Ovids day than it is in contemporary...

Children and Their Role in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

In eight pages this research paper examines children's role in Medieval society in a consideration to their portrayal in The Cante...

The Character of Louisa in Hard Times

This Dickens tale is looked at as it relates to this single character but other characters are discussed as well. Gender is someth...

Courtesy in Gawain, the Green Knight & Chaucer's Tales

issues of courtesy will be evaluated in order to determine whether or not invoking its precepts is a help or hindrance in civilize...

Interpreting Fairy Tale Illustration: Cinderella

artists intrinsic complexity. Kneeling at the base of a delicate tree with head tipped upward, eyes closed and hands brought toge...

Gawain & Green Knight/Wife of Bath

the entirety of those present that one of them should strike the Green Knight with the ax, which he has brought as a gift, and tha...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

Medieval Literature/Marie de France & Chaucer

appears to be that this text afforded him a superb creative pallet, not simply for creating memorable characters, but also for pr...

Women in Society and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale

Ulrichs works is primarily filled with Martha Ballards diary of her work. Her work is presented in a very unemotional and very str...

Perceptions of Women in Chaucer's Society and In The Canterbury Tales

20). This type of arrangement led to the "courtly love" romances of the high Middle Ages, which were not tremendously popular wit...