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The Golden Age: The Political Concepts of Islam by Ira Lapidus and The Community in Islamic History by Hamilton A.R Gibb

custodians of the true Islam. This, it is argued, reflect in the way that the states have evolved today and the different models t...

Ethics: The Views of Aristotle and Kant

life, white lies can protect people from hurt feelings. They can be used to motivate others to do good things. There are sometimes...

Comparative Analysis of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych”

nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...

Two Short Stories: “He” and “The Loons”

different we have no possible common ground, we can also justify destroying them. This is why we never consider enemy combatants a...

Serial Killer vs. Mass Murderer: What is the Difference?

before stalking prey, often traveling from one state to another. Rather than being delusional, serial killers often calculatedly ...

The 2008 and 1997 Financial Crises Compared

and the Philippines ("Timeline of the Panic," 2008). By the autumn of that year, the financial crisis would affect China, South Ko...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

The Film Adaptation of Children of Men

through exploring the screen writers intent and vision can one figure out why the changes were made. First, it should be said th...

Immigration Experiences

island nation is difficult to overstate (Diner 164). Between 1845 and 1853, Irelands population was diminished by half, going from...

Conformity and Individuality in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

No, Montag, admits, because books are illegal, but her question unnerves him to the point that he tells her, "You think too many t...

Pleasantville and The Giver

are societies that do not allow for individuality or for original thought and for human beings this is crucial to their identity. ...

Insanity in Comparative Literature

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

Two Stories, A Study in Contrast

a famous singer, a woman who appears also quite lonely and powerful. Her name is Madame Tradutorri and she suffers at the hands of...

European American Values and Native American Values

example, that shaped the tribal communities and their emphasis on sharing resources as a primary value (Larson). The land was far ...

Comparative Analysis of South Beach and Atkins Diets

are allowed, such as whole grain bread and wild rice (Schweigert, 2003). Where the South Beach Diet differs from the Atkins is pri...

People Who Are Sloppy and Neat

glance in the co-workers car affirmed the assessment of sloppiness, as the floor boards in all passenger areas were engulfed at le...

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...

World and Self in Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...

Comparative Analysis of Four Poems by William Butler Yeats

the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...

Comparison of Wim Wenders' Film Wings of Desire and Plato's Phaedrus

Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...