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Moths, Life, and Death

the life of most humans, it is both mediocre and glorious. Woolf watches this small and ordinary creature fly against the pane of...

Short Fiction Characterization

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

Patient Outcome and Defining the Contribution of Nursing

authors have explored the importance of the holistic approach in positively impacting patient outcome. As early as the 1970s rese...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and its Literary Contribution

and the whole is held together; for whereas in active life she would be netting and separating one thing from the other; she would...

Women of the 19th Century and the Issues That Confronted Them

with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...

Women's Contributions and Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

to drop, though it often seems to hold them loosely." He admires them for these qualities and then discusses how the American peop...

James Joyce's Dubliners and Dublin's Importance

story of a young girl who lives in Dublin with her father and her brother. But living there has become like living in a prison, a...

James Rachels and Cultural Relativism

within cultures, and its important that these relative differences remain. However, he goes on to criticize, these are not issues ...

Harry T. Moore and His Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement

taken with a bomb explosion on Christmas night in 1951 (Green, 1999). Ironically, this was also the night of their twenty-fifth w...

Justice in Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

Claudio has officially erred, he truly loves Juliet and fully intends to marry her. His sin of fornication clearly does not warran...

Gadgets Used by 007 James Bond

(Q Branch, 2002). There is the dagger pen which, "When clicking on this pens head in Moonraker, instead of a nib being revealed, y...

Second World War and Contributions of the Tuskegee Airmen

of admission was the fact that expectations were kept just as high for the black airmen as they were for the whites, inasmuch as "...

'Daedalus Myth' and A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce

him all his life, what he had been groomed to do. To not become one would mean breaking free and telling everyone he knows that h...

Religion and its Origins According to Various Theorists

came about simply because it is true. Theories about Gods existence have been around for quite some time. There is Descartes proo...

Self Knowledge and Confessions

book is the actual confession, which turns out to be a confession to murder and many other misdeeds. This idea of knowledge is an ...

Book Review of James Fallow's Breaking the News How the Media Undermine American Democracy

the press separating itself from its ability to act as a public forum for political issues. Fallow brings to our attention ...

Turnover of Employees and Contribution of Management

Years of tradition dictate that employees will work harder and more productively just for the promise of higher pay. Practice and...

Contributions of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo to the Scientific Revolution

Robertson, 2004). Johannes Kepler was another important scientist responsible for the Scientific Revolution (Field, 200...

Literary Portrayals of Lost Innocence

to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...

Rome's Engineering and Law Contributions to the West

force in this particular body of the state. The army did not only serve as our armies do today, but also as simple police forces t...

Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Contributions of Rome

track generation after generation stand in great testimony to the true greatness of this civilization. If the nature and worth of ...

James Conlon's Commentary on Plato's 'Scala Amoris'

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

Washington Community's Importance According to James Sterling Young

that is often referred to with awe and reverence. The framers are still held high in esteem. In fact, they are called "framers" wi...

Letter of James and Martin Luther

the discovery that "the just person," who is referred to in scripture (such as Roman 1:17) lives by faith and justification pertai...

Johannes Kepler and His Contribution to Astrology

advantage of an education and as such was able to afford himself a level of intellectual snobbery, but this is more that snobbery,...

The Mathematical Contributions of Albert Einstein

the relationship between energy and mass, more specifically, "rest energy (E) equals mass (m) times the speed of light (c) squared...

The Transformational American Literature Between the Years 1865 to 1914

shows how the Huck was socialized by his culture to look on slavery as an economic and moral necessity, not as an evil. In so doin...

Marine Sylvia Earle's Contributions

has a lot to say about the oceans of the world? Earle was born in New Jersey in 1935 ("Sylvia"). Her parents did not even have ...

Nineteenth Century Authors James, Davis, and Twain

Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...