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Questions on The Dubliners

isolates him from true intimacy. For example, when his wife walks past him, Gabriel longs "to run after her noiselessly, catch her...

Sinclair Ross/2 Short Stories

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

James/Determinism & Descartes/Radical Doubt

rising above childhoods of extreme poverty or abuse, yet cases do occur. James second argument in defense of free will point to th...

Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

is addicted, pointing out that it was simply part of his wild nature, thus letting the reader see how the brother is being affecte...

Christian Life/Sanctification and Epistle to the Romans

as a servant of Christ Jesus, who was "called to be an apostle" (Romans 1:1)(This reference and all subsequent references refer to...

Behind a Convict’s Eyes/Prison Life

sums up this code very well: Even if you do not feel tough enough to cope, act as if you are. Suffer in silence. Never admit you a...

“The Interruption of Everything” and the Realities of Middle Life

first consideration at least, obsessed with little other than work and golf. Marilyns children are grown and she has little to do...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Evaluating the James K. Polk Presidency

did accomplish was staggering; much of it good, some of it questionable, but a considerable body of work. He came to the White Hou...

Infancy And The First Year Of Life: Secure Attachment As The Base For Growth And Learning

of reflexive patterns keeps newborns from assimilating and associating into their individual worlds to any great extent, yet by th...

Comparison o f William James' Verification and John Dewey's Experience and Inquiry

example, in his Art as Experience (1934) he explained that he understood art as the experience of focusing on the production of ob...

'Daedalus Myth' and A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce

him all his life, what he had been groomed to do. To not become one would mean breaking free and telling everyone he knows that h...

Religion and its Origins According to Various Theorists

came about simply because it is true. Theories about Gods existence have been around for quite some time. There is Descartes proo...

Self Knowledge and Confessions

book is the actual confession, which turns out to be a confession to murder and many other misdeeds. This idea of knowledge is an ...

Pragmatic Philosophy of William James

of moral responsibility, freedom of action, individual effort and aspiration" (Frost, 1962, p. 50). While a pure empiricist wou...

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Nonfiction and Fiction's Portrayal of History

book is that the author has primarily been a fiction writer. Why, all of a sudden, does a fiction writer attempt to write a non-fi...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

William James' Facial Feedback Hypothesis

are expressive, specifically facial changes that occur in response to particular situations are essentially the activation of emot...

U.S. Supreme Court Case of Hoffa v. the United States

on appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court (349 F2d 20). The Supreme Court in this case ultimately had to make a...

Chapter Two of Ulysses by James Joyce

Stephen in relation to the how his character was established in A Portrait. In the previous novel, Joyce pictured Stephen as bein...

Literary Portrayals of Lost Innocence

to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...

School Climate/James P. Comer

through a consensual process, each member of the team feels that they had an input into the decision, whereas the process of votin...

Life Expectancy

beings are approaching a biological ceiling on old age. It is perhaps a myth that as time progresses, people are living longer. It...

Washington Community's Importance According to James Sterling Young

that is often referred to with awe and reverence. The framers are still held high in esteem. In fact, they are called "framers" wi...

Letter of James and Martin Luther

the discovery that "the just person," who is referred to in scripture (such as Roman 1:17) lives by faith and justification pertai...

James Conlon's Commentary on Plato's 'Scala Amoris'

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

God, Ultimate Reality, Epistemology, Ethics, and the Nature of Human Beings: A Personal Worldview

understanding when nothing greater can be conceived, that whatever is understood does exist in the understanding:...

On Slavery: A Comparison of the Works of James McPherson and Stanley Elkins

of Elkins (1969) is not shared by most. Most people do not blame the institution of slavery for everything that has gone wrong sin...