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Young Girl's Cross Cultural Observations of Ritual and Religion

varied types of ritual which characterize her new home and the interrelationships between the various members of her new family. ...

Income Comparison Descriptive Statistics

a few minutes. Selection of the sample asked to complete the long form is performed by the Census Bureau. In past censuses...

General Discussion on the Book of Revelation

has indulged in judging others, in adultery, in seeking wealth without helping the less fortunate, in forsaking Gods love. Gods wr...

Women, Minority Women, and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...

Literature about the Blues and Jazz

where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...

Political Society's Objectives in On Liberty by J.S. Mill

penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself" ...

Reviewing August Wilson's Play Fences

not the only one building a fence, however. Indeed, oppressed by three hundred years of racism and prejudice, it seems that every...

Purple Heart and Casablanca, Messages to the American Public in the Turbulent Years of World War II

foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...

The Biblical Story of Cain and Abel

5 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, and relates the importance of...

Celebrations and Holidays in Judaism

In nine pages various Jewish holidays and celebrations are examined in terms of meaning and symbolic significance such as Shabbat,...

Leisure Lifestyles of Women and Cassandra by Florence Nightingale

In five pages this paper discusses women's rights and giving meaning to life as conceptualized by Florence Nightingale, the founde...

Irony in Rite of Passage by Sharon Olds

This paper consists of twenty pages and discusses how irony is used in the poem to express meaning. There are no other sources li...

Business Ethics and Corporate Management

ethical behavior of any given enterprise was simply to do well and perform honestly. Those two simple premises would in turn lead...

Differentiation in Stem Cells and Research

In four pages this paper discusses the differentiation of stem cells and what this means in terms of research of cell generation. ...

Virtue and the Good Life According to the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

so morality, for Aristotle is defined by mans choices towards ethical virtue (1098a16). In Book II of "Nicomachean Ethics," Ari...

Natural Born Killers Film by Director Oliver Stone

In five pages this 1994 film is analyzed in terms of story with character, cinematics with editing, and meaning with theme. Three...

Process of Mummification

In five pages this paper examines the Egyptian mummification process in a discussion of its ritual meaning, its reasons, and the p...

Historical Analysis of Edward Gibbons' 'The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' and Tacitus' 'The Annals'

In ten pages three ancient historical texts are analyzed in terms of author's approach to history, the representation of the past,...

'Dreams' by Nikki Giovanni

In five pages this poetic explicaton considers the poem's meaning and examines the usage of tone, wording, images, and also discus...

Edwin Arlington Booth's 'Richard Cory'

In three pages a poetic analysis of 'Richard Cory' includes imagery, tone, purpose, and meaning. There are no other sources liste...

Korea's March 1st Movement

with the American Revolution. A fundamental difference is that the Americans had more rapid success. The Koreans would have to wai...

Interpretation of 'Araby' by James Joyce

the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...

Executing the Condemned by Cruxifixion

Crucifixion as a means of execution served a number of purposes in the ancient world. This paper discusses the origin of the pract...

A Consideration of Alternative Dispute Resolution

parties to decide what the resolution of the dispute will be; mediation is a form of negotiation (Marcellino, 2004). Arbitration...

Symbols Used in Poetry and in the Bible

kingdom of heaven is similar to a field in which a man has sown good seed. The "good seed" are righteous people who will come to b...

Interpretation of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

of the living (Schneider 834-835). In other words, someone in hell is only willing to expose his shameful state "to another of t...

Communication, Reality, and Symbolic Representation

none of them can accurately convey the complexity of the natural phenomenon that they are trying to describe. While language is ...

Revolution Known as the Internet

their own by virtue of in-class Internet instruction. One of the most prevalent ways in which the Internet has changed the way to...

Theory of Dasein and Be-ing Devised by Martin Heidegger

how the very nature of perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain ...

Arlie Russell Hochschild's When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work

such a manner that the employees like being at work far more than they like being at home. In addition, they feel respected and ad...