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Critique and Analysis of How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

shipped their labor overseas, reducing the already small unskilled labor positions in this country. Secondly, the government, with...

Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

true in the modern non-fictional Palestinian reality, survival as individuals and as a culture is the primary goal of Khalifehs fi...

Comparing Crime Dramas Crossing Jordan and CSI

Cases vary from week to week. In an episode known as Stalker, Jan Galloway was obviously fearful when her body was found. It was n...

Internet Technology and Morality

compromising of principles much more likely. For example, it is noted that the Internet opens the doors of pornography and cyber a...

Analyzing the Portrayal of the Media in the Film Bob Roberts

himself completely to his ambition (Roberge, 2002). This is evidenced by his decision to run for political office (Roberge, 2002)...

Beer and Circus How Big Time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education by Murray Sperber

according to Sperber, is not casual social drinking but a phenomenon known as binge drinking. Adolescents and young adults who ch...

Premodern Japanese Peasant Life

their unswerving and loyal oath, many peasants were beginning to grumble about the heavy handedness of the Warlords. Marikos hom...

Theme of Death in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it we see the power of life and death in the novel and the people. However, Okonkwo did take part in the death and was warned that...

Why 'The Culture of Fear' Remains Alive and Well in the U.S. and Australia

States. Regardless of the fact that the U.S. is generally depicted as such a violent and dangerous nation, one has to remember tha...

Callenbach's Ecotopia

The novel takes the form of a series of newspaper articles and journal entries by Weston; the society is therefore observed from t...

Synoptic Gospels and Soteriology

Aquinas goes on to explain Christs sacrifice through suffering in that it came out of Christs love and obedience for mankind. This...

The Supernatural and Social Disruption in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

secondary characters and subthemes actually deliver Shakespeares real message. The fairies in the play are of particular interest...

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

Character of Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea

purity of Jane, as a potential, "better" wife for Rochester (267). It also allows Rochester to vindicate himself at Berthas expens...

Setting as Portrayed in Works by Richard Shelton and Leslie Marmon Silko

visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Autho...

Richard III England's Black Legend by Desmond Seward and The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

particular emphasis upon Richard III. A relevant phrase within the literary world that relates to the overall concept of good and...

Evil Element in the Works of Thomas Hardy and William Golding

the Flies, the book that centers on how a group of boys behaves when they are marooned on an island after their plane crashes. As ...

Act I and Act II Analysis of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

inasmuch as social interaction implies interacting with other persons; thus, the meaning of that interaction is always to be a joi...

Comparing Kate Chopin Tales 'The Story of an Hour' and 'Desiree's Baby'

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

Belief and Disbelief in an 'Accidental Century'

and the use of technology in the form of the atomic bomb laid waste to the concept of an egalitarian Utopia. The postwar world us...

Life as Seen Through the Classics

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow

in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...

Comparative Analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire and A Doll's House

the norm. It was something that perhaps stemmed from the authors fear, but for whatever the reason he created this female monster ...

Twenty First Century, the Humanities, and the Classics

just beginning his journey, understanding that is a necessity and that it holds danger: "MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I fou...

Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors and Ethics

In five pages this 1989 movie's portrayal of ethical and moral considerations is examined along with a discussion of how it portra...

Classic Novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding

the novel. He points out that it has been generally accepted among scholars that Simon is an "analogue of Jesus Christ" and that h...

Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier and Gender Roles

implied that she marries him because he is wealthy and has much to offer her. That she is in love is made clear, but there is alwa...

Literary Classics, Knowledge of Death and Religion

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

Walden by Henry David Thoreau and the Time Concept

He describes, for instance, the different kinds of activities which he undertakes in the course...