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So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

of a European spinster. Rama calls this an "aspect of the New Africa" (24), a reference to modern, global politics affecting the l...

Daily Life and the Significance of Symbols

to survive, as there is no genetically encoded automatic reaction to specific stimuli the mind has to construct these, even catego...

Experience and Ideas According to John Locke

(Locke: The Origin of Ideas, 2003). Locke, unlike many of his peers, denied that certain knowledge was innate for human...

Words, Content, or Grammatical Rules

of successful educational approaches that can be used at the national level; De la Colina, Parker, Hasbrouck and Alecio (2001) app...

Louis the Fourteenth and the Absolutism Age

have lost it if he did not cater to the "well to do." Perhaps they were the ones with the real power. At the same time, that thesi...

Greatness and Marie Curie

as a whole, do not necessarily have to like an individual to admit that they were great in one way or another. The point seems to ...

Analyzing Herman Melville's Moby Dick Chapter 87

moment of hurting Ahab that any vendetta or revenge was directed at him. So clearly, we can conclude the Ahabs vigilant hatred is...

Forgiveness and Spiritual Healing

become physically ill and emotionally upset (Casarjian, 1992). Casarjian says that "[forgiveness] promises the release from the ho...

Statistical Concepts

numbers (or symbols representing numbers) that is central to the notion of numeracy. Rather, it is the ability to draw correct mea...

Assessing Logic in an Appendix

a quite reasonable approach to making the bidding process effective. The entire bid process already is time-consuming, delaying t...

'Well Being' Etymology

English period (Etymonline.com, 2003). It derived from the Old English word "wel," which shares the same Germanic source as the Ol...

Richard Hoggart's Scholarship Boy

from even his or her family for trying to improve himself. Hoggart also addresses the working class who have taught themselves s...

Light, Shadows, and Puppets in Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave'

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

Sylvania and Its Branding Practices

the products. Effective levels of meaning include attributes, benefits and values in full. A partially effective level of ...

A Poetic Analysis of 'Homecoming' by Lenrie Peters

than they preserve" (Killam and Rowe). The poem "Homecoming" which is among his collection which show the corruptive greed ...

Nailbiting and CBT

most pragmatic and meaningful of treatments in terms of how it shows where and how a person may have distorted thoughts regarding ...

Gifted Child Challenges

interested in daily academic lessons. "Most gifted children manage to fit in fairly well with their peers. They can learn the sa...

An Irish Art Interpretation

In eight pages Patrick Hennessy's postwar surreal painting is examined in terms of meaning and in an exhibition setting with a dis...

Book Reviews on the Japanese Samurai

In ten pages this paper reviews various texts on the Japanese Samurai class including Harry Cook's Samurai: The Story of a Warrior...

Nature and Treatment of Suicide

of every six people succumbing to a "serious, or major depressive episode at some point in life" (Anonymous, 2001). Depression of...

Moliere's Tartuffe

In six pages this play is summarized and its meaning and structure are analyzed. Five sources are listed in the bibliography....

Literary Functioning of Symbolism and Setting

In six pages this paper examines how intent and meaning are enhanced by literary symbolism and settings in Eudora Welty's short st...

Force Field Analysis Model of Kurt Lewin

371). To put Lewins model simply, he believed that there are "both restraining and drawing forces arrayed against each other withi...

Nursing, Mental Health, and Spirituality

In eight pages this paper discusses holistic practice in terms of nursing's role, spirituality, and what mental health means. Sev...

'Bright Star' by John Keats

In five pages this paper examines the poem by John Keats in order to consider how the poet depicted love's meaning. There are no ...

Shakespeare's use of Clowns

one author, his "role in this Illyrian comedy is significant because Illyria is a country permeated with the spirit of the Feast o...

'Let America Be America Again' by Langston Hughes

In five pages this paper presents a poetic explication of the work by Langston Hughes in a discussion of what exactly 'land of the...

Prediction and Trend Analysis

then we can use then the use of an averaging tool may be useful. One of these is the use of centred moving averages. In this we ca...

Private Language and Wittgenstein's Theories

green. The general assumption is that everything that is the color of a leaf is green, but the experiential views of that color m...

'In The Penal Colony' by Franz Kafka

In six pages dramas by Wenders and Brecht are compared with this 1924 story by Franz Kafka in a consideration of meaning and symbo...