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I’m Not Crazy, I’m Just Not You

type is, at its heart, an examination of the way we attend to, bring order to, and make decisions about our awareness. If this is ...

Critical Analysis of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

slave Tom to the sadistic and unscrupulous plantation owner Simon Legree. While the slave Tom is Christ-like and the epitome of g...

Carles: “A Life of Her Own”

her father was scheduled to go and get a bull from the commune, and because the bull was vital to the village, he went on with his...

Colby/Deaths of Nancy Cruzan

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...

“Jane Eyre” and “Wide Sargasso Sea”: Rebellion Against Patriarchy

is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...

Character Analysis: Into the Wild

foundation for the story through an examination of the region itself, thus perhaps further adding to a con approach to the charact...

The Importance of Language: Lessons from Friedman's The World is Flat

that language takes a back seat to other disciplines such as reading, science and mathematics. In reading Thomas Friedmans book Th...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Is America or Mexico a Better Example of a “Melting Pot”?

arrived there; there are hundreds of sources describing these groups. The study of American history is fascinating, since it revea...

Jose Marti, A Narrative Bibliography

Fidel Castro. A useful, comprehensive, and scholar text, Gray offers an ideal introduction to the Jose Marti historiography. Fe...

Darwin: Life of a Tormented Evolutionist

sources in examining some of the validity of Desmond and Moores work. Darwin: Life of a Tormented Evolutionist Clearly studying...

Marketing Through Stories: A Comparison of Buttery Spreads

of sorts that makes doing so truly challenging. There are candy aisles, colorful high sugared cereal boxes, and high fat gourmet i...

Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates by Peter Ward Fay

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...

The Hardy Boys: The Secret of Skull Mountain

little hints to the truth of the mystery, as is the case with the Hardy Boys mysteries as well as most mystery stories. Each chapt...

The Galileo Project

including book sources by Hale, Cochrane and Biagioli, who have published sources on this subject. Though the author of the cite...

Influences on Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”

what was to come" (Furlong, 2003). Bruenning was a member of the "banned Proletarian Revolutionary Writers Union at the time, and ...

Expected Value, Decision Trees, Break Even Analysis and Waiting Line Theory

alternatives in a decision making process" (PC Mag, 2008). A decision tree is therefore a tool which will help with the process of...

Fadiman/Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

with their prescribed regimen for controlling the childs epilepsy (Simon, 2003). They became so frustrated that they brought charg...

Hemingway’s Techniques Described in “Hemingway: In Love and War”

"association of love with life, and the consequent indissolubility and self-sufficiency of the relationship" (Tyler). However, lov...

Sylvan: “Trance Formation”

years later, at his first rave, he found himself listening to this same stuff again, and hating it just as much (Sylvan, 2005). He...

The Growth of the Nation-State in Wolff's How Many Miles to Babylon?

in a progressive fashion. There were not enough maps because in the past people did not travel. Travel would open the door to popu...

Memo About Toehold

Mel, the mother of a teenage daughter who decides to go grizzly bear hunting in order to raise the money she needs to raise her da...

American Popular Culture of 1951 Represented in James Jones’ Best-Selling Novel From Here to Eternity and George Stevens’ Film A Place in the Sun

in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...

Learning to Forgive

Its fair to say that no one today can talk to a Jewish person, read anything about a Jew, or even think about the Jews without the...

Oroonoko

and the English were having troubles and how this bothered the narrator because she really wanted to see some of the native villag...

Microhistory Europe Early 16th Century

1584. Menocchio declared: "in my opinion, all was chaos... and out of that bulk a mass formed - just as cheese is made out of milk...

Russell Baker: “Growing Up”

trouble losing their parents, because parents are not supposed to become "frail and break" (Baker 12). The student may be able to...

Jonathan Swift/Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput

is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...

Sam Harris/End of Faith

coached in terms that refer to economics or politics, with faith itself "always, and everywhere, exonerated" (13). He castigates t...

Does an Economic Crisis Hurt the Entertainment and Sports Industries?

it seemed, the United States was plunged into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. For the entertainment and spo...