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Ada's Journey in Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

leans on her heavily for advice and help in maintaining the farm after her fathers death. In fact, Ruby helps Ada take care of her...

Going Back to College, its Benefits and Challenges

What Will It Take? An adult returning to college is certain to have a very different set of circumstances to deal with than thos...

Doctrine of Notions According to Berkeley

the sensual realm is looked upon as a way of enhancing bodily awareness in its sensual expression, which in turn trigger an enhanc...

Herbert Mason's Translation of Gilgamesh A Verse Narrative Analyzed

human condition then and now. Throughout the course of the story, Gilgamesh takes several physical journeys. However, the one mo...

Dennis Werner and Jody Glittenberg on Anthropology

the oppression, the terror and the overwhelming sense of helplessness which sometimes overtook them. Dennis Werners "Amaz...

Tibetan Buddhism and Gandhi's Satyagraha

BC and embarked on numerous expansionist campaigns. He later turned to Buddhism and, repenting of his earlier policies of violent ...

Dealing with the Effects of Child Abuse, Overcoming Obstacles, and Friendship in Barbara Kingsolver's 'The Bean Trees'

life choices. Deciding to leave was easy; figuring out where she was heading proved a more difficult choice, one that would ultim...

Pleasurable Virtue in Laurence Stern's A Sentimental Journey

also indicates that he would much rather be known as a man who may have been ridiculous at times perhaps, or misunderstood, but th...

Emily Dickinson's Religious Perspectives in 'Some Keep the Sabbath by Going to Church'

is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...

Perspectives on Human Nature

the pagan world, sex was considered a divine gift and it carried none of the sense of sin and punishment that became associated wi...

How Buddhism Came to America

with the term Zen. This is because Zen had become quite popular in the United States early on. What happened was that there was a ...

The Oregon Trail by Parkman

Parkman is not when he begins his adventure. Parkman and his friend and relative Shaw are Eastern bourgeois; they are Harva...

Mel Gibson's Cinematic Interpretation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

Contemplation and Calmness in Philosophy According to Sebastian de Grazia and Aristotle

who waste time believing or fearing that which is untrue could not possibly be calm or contemplative; as such, they could change t...

Catalan Identity in 'Teta I La Luna'

very essence of what it means to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she d...

Literary Genres Modernism and Postmodernism

it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...

Nature as Used in Dante's 'The Purgatorio' and 'The Inferno'

II). Through this imagery, Dante suggests that the human soul is naturally inclined to journey towards the light and to wish to as...

Personal Essays and Cultural Backgrounds

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist who passionately portrayed the ongoing class struggle between the peasantry and t...

Essay on Youthful Journey Towards Maturity

what people think of you if youd realize how seldom they do." The mature person is more interested in mercy than justice in...

Leadership and Spirituality

is based primarily upon Christian morals and values, due to Sanders belief that this particular set of values is well suited to de...

Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich and Redemption

This essay pertains to the psychological journey that Tolstoy's protagonist undergoes and how he ultimately comes to the epiphany ...

"A Girl Named Zippy" and Spirituality

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at "A Girl Named Zippy". The book's spiritual content is explored, and a pluralistic im...

Their Journeys, Gilgamesh and Beowulf

This essay pertains to the epics of Gilgamesh and Beowulf and their respective life journeys to maturity. Seven pages in length, s...

Kinesthetic Learning and Spirituality

This essay pertains to spirituality and kinesthetic learning. The writer discusses how the student's kinesthetic learning style ca...

Symbolism of the Journey, in Three Works

This essay focuses on the symbolic meaning of the journey as it pertains to "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty and "I Used to Live Her...

'Community' as Understood by Rigoberta Menchu

with the social reform movements of the Catholic Church, Menchu and her family suffered terribly (Welker, 2002; Nichols, 1995). He...

Prevention of Problems and Physical Activity, Mobility

This paper presents nursing interventions that pertain to physical activity and how exercise can be employed in the prevention of ...

Spirituaity and Grief

The focus of this essay is how processing grief can be a spiritual experience. To discuss the question, the paper explains differe...

Ishi, the Last of his Tribe

This paper pertains to Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe, who journeyed out of the wild where he had lived alone for 35 year...