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Emily Dickinson's Views of Self and Society

the feeling that the poet is engaging the reader in a secret and private conversation. One has the feeling that, in the breaks pro...

Analysis of Two Poems by Sharon Olds

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

Legal Problems/Family as Public and Private

1992). Women are those primarily affected by the private sphere support group, however in order to be eligible for support, certai...

Information Age and Social 'Technophobia'

who created the buggy whip? Many believe that technophobia is a modern syndrome, but in fact, it is not. During the Indust...

Societal Conflict from Different Perspectives

In four pages society's conflict is examined with a contrast and comparison of Marx's and Coser's theories. Two sources are cited...

Society and Technology

of political life" (1969, 55). Mesthene sees technology as detrimental and provides examples. For instance, cities have mass trans...

Comparing Utopian Societies

our own society. Consider how the general population views its government and the politicians who hold political office. What we...

Beck, Giddens, and Risk Society

but also toxins and pollutants in the air, the water and foodstuffs . . . . They induce systematic and often irreversible harm, ge...

Technological Impact of Computers on Society

a change with regard to the overall application in order for computers to become significantly more user-friendly. Granted there ...

How the Public Perceives Stepfamilies

to a significantly more positive approach to this modern form of family structure, inasmuch as the high rate of divorce continues ...

Aggression Causes

In fifteen pages aggression causes are discussed in terms of the patriarchal society's role and female oppression, physical effect...

'Power Elite' and C. Wright Mills' The Structure of Power in America

remains powerful and persistent because of its overwhelming influence upon the smaller but dominant upper class elite, those whose...

Shakespeare's Tempest and Colonialis

European descent of Prospero and his belief that by taking over the rule of Caliban, he can "help" the people and bring "civilizat...

Gwendolyn Brooks/Old Black Woman, Homeless & Indistinct

as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...

Using Critical Thinking to Tell Truth from Lies

Critical thinking has become even more important in today's society of opinion masquerading as news. This paper analyzes contempor...

Comparing Marital Attitudes by the Hebrews and Ancient Greeks

allowing them to be less complex than they often are in real life. In the Old Testament in the bible, they tend to be rather simpl...

The Shipman in The Canterbury Tales

way down the social ladder. The Shipman, i.e., the "sailor," is placed between Chaucers description of the Cook and the "Doctor of...

Drugs and Prohibition

as long as they are not killing or harming people, as long as they are not damaging the life of other people. There is no real log...

Butler & Eliot

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

Values and Research

question of whether research can be value-free requires a straightforward, unequivocal answer of "it depends." Research and Values...

Modern Russia and Capitalism

up and began laying the foundations of a more modern capitalist state. Of course, that type of capitalism was decimated by...

Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and the Sociopolitical Redefinition of Women's Roles

In one page this paper examines the African society's redefining of women's social and political roles as represented in this nove...

A Black Oppression Theory

In an essay consisting of three pages Andrew Hacker's theory on the US mainstream society's oppression of African Americans is dis...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper examines how war's realities and intrusions have cemented contemporary society's philosophical foundation...

Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean Paul Sartre and The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud

In six pages these works are contrasted and compared regarding the theorists' radical differences regarding the individual and rel...

Policies of Birth Control in China

In eight pages the philosophical views of Pythagoras, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill are applied to an exploration of the bir...

Twenty First Century Cultural Artifacts and Ideologies

643 Life in the twenty-first century has become more of a...

Saving the Bilby Graveyard

all be traced, making the site one that not only documents history, but puts it in a meaningful context for the resident and visit...

The Evolution of the Telephone in Society

communication throughout our great history but no other communicative method has yet to surpass the telephone. The invention of t...