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Maria Callas and Billie Holiday

"Ive lived songs like that" (Billie Holiday, PG). MARIA CALLAS Born to a Greek family, Maria Callas was "American by birth and I...

Solitude in the City

refuge in the cafe. In this work the solitude, while sad, is also one of peacefulness. One might also say that it is a juxtaposit...

Comparative Analysis of Myths in Epic of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, 'The Odyssey' and a Work by Jack London

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the myths featured in these ancient works and also makes a thematic comparison wit...

Comparative Analysis of Works by William James and Robert Orsi

104 degrees Fahrenheit might be a much more favorable temperature for truths to germinate and sprout in than the more ordinary blo...

Comparison of Mark Halliday's Young Man on Sixth Avenue and Dagoberto Gilb's Love in L.A.

his best friend for lunch, and they have a wonderful meal, the food is great, the conversation witty, and life is good. This youn...

Samuel and Moses Bible Stories

In Samuel, the story begins with Hannah and her husband. The woman had prayed to the Lord for a child and soon she was blessed wit...

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...

Mrs. Mooney and Mrs. Freeman Comparison

PG). This natural curiosity grows as the boy wonders about the death of the old man. After dreaming about it all night, when he ...

A Comparison of Film and Print for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

Elizabeth Spelke and Jean Piaget's Child Development Theories

thought themselves are qualitatively different from one another. In other words, according to Piaget, the way individuals think at...

Comparative Analysis of Women in Kung and Islamic Cultures

of the book over and over and over again. The sense of modesty is important to the people and while it is especially true for wome...

20th Century and its 'Dismal State' Captured in Text

this once desirable state of affairs. Indeed, the twentieth century saw fights in terms of the legalization of drugs and alcohol, ...

Impressionist Paintings and the Proto Impressionism of Velazquez

a few easy strokes. It has been said that, His men and women seem to breathe; his horses are full of action and his dogs of life" ...

Paintings of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Diego Velazquez

at the artist who is painting them. From these perspectives we can see that much of both paintings, in terms of presentation of...

Motherhood According to Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

Francis De Sales, Martin Luther, and Erasmus

the option of acting differently. Furthermore, early Christians argued that God, who is completely good, cannot be held responsibl...

Management by Objective and Total Quality Management

safety goal needs to have a measurable number, like an accident rate of less than one per 250,000 miles (Johnson, 2000). Once the ...

Society of the Modern and Postmodern Eras and Media's Role

and otherwise -- and that rational planning, technology and social manipulation would "engineer the perfect society" (Veith, 1995)...

Comparative Analysis of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

show business, and also very well liked in this particular field. As such she does better than make a living yet does not tell Hur...

Concepts of Realism and Neorealism

nations asset. Whatever the attribute a country possesses, it is usually protected if it can benefit the power protecting it. This...

1215 and 1297 Versions of the Magna Carta

Carta, likewise, in terms of chapters, which commentators number at 63 (Magna Carta, 2004). The opening preamble states that Kin...

Comparative Analysis of Adult Pregnancy and Teen Pregnancy

times more births among junior high school girls and two and a half times more births among senior high school girls than do the g...

Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of Confucius and Homer

as Homer based his story on fiction which would occur in the context of history and mythology. While the tale has been critically ...

Which is Best, Public or Private Schools

way to receive a strong education is either through a privately funded school or even home schooling. Williams, who is a 1...

Socrates and Machiavelli on Leadership

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

Hayden, Roethke, and Silverstein Compared

the euphemism waltz to indicate the routine beatings which occurred. Lastly, in Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, another t...

Annie Oakley and Jane Addams

level of education and their directions in life would be different as well. At an early age, the age of nine it seems, Annie disco...

Ethnology, Frank Boas, and A.R. Radcliffe Brown

argued, was complete in its own way, making one culture no more superior than another. Using one yardstick, in other words, to mea...

Esther Burr's Journal and Eliza Southgate Browne's Letters

that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...

Religious Satire in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Voltaire's Candide

a "scathing response" to those who followed ignorantly (Family Education Network). In this simple critique we can see that relig...