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Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and Plato's Crito

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

Book IX in 'The Iliad' by Homer and Arguments of Ajax, Phoenix, and Odysseus

this late hour / To save our army from these howling Trojans. / Think of yourself, of the regret you will feel / For harm that wil...

Political Themes in Sinclair's, Flivver King

again, through characterization, the subtle nature of the differential is conveyed. There is a clear connection made between indus...

Educational Leadership and American Literature

of referrals to these types of programs have resulted in the need to seek out better methods for enhancing educational leadership ...

Male Protagonists in The Rover by Aphra Behn and The Life of Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare

deck our kings, / Carry them here and there, jumping oer times, / Turning th accomplishment of many years / Into an hour-glass" (2...

Society and the Individual

diet preference and sexual activity. Two classic works are extremely useful in allowing us to understand the role of societ...

Dignity as a Universal Sociocultural Theme

different stations in life, these men have essentially the same backgrounds. The thesis can be presented that:...

Chapter XI of Bearing the Cross by Garrow

very powerful then and that point comes through loud and clear in the chapter. It is also noted that blacks and whites did not lik...

King Leopold and the Congo

as the desire to convert the people to Christianity. 5. What aspects of the scramble for Africa does Hochschild choose to focus a...

Cultural Values in History

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

Trumpet Music and 20th Century Composer Karl King

fits with the spiritual title, it also has a slightly Spanish flavor that conjures visions of a sleepy town at sunset and an evoca...

King Leo's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

his rights to the Congo--his personal rights. The region only became known as the Belgian Congo and was ruled by the Belgian gover...

Kings Road House by R.M. Schindler

feel that it is a cavern with light coming through in a very pleasing manner, not a bright and obtrusive manner. This also adds to...

Contemporary Productions and How They Have Influenced the Themes of Sophocles' Oedipus the King

to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

Tragedy Concepts

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

Uncertain Vision in "Oedipus the King" and "Othello"

woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...

Persuasion: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

with ethos. This is clearly seen when he then states his credentials, so to speak: "I have the honor of serving as president of th...

Confidentiality and Three Nursing Models

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

Irony in "Oedipus the King"

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

The Fall of King Arthur and His Kingdom

mean and tear down a kingdom. At least, it goes along with the logic of story-telling where there are ironic twists, villains and...

Analysis of Oedipus the King by Sophocles

truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...

Ramayana and King Arthur Myths

the Protector, one of the three great gods of the Indian pantheon, and Sita is the avatar of Lakshmi, goddess of wealth and prosp...

Virgil's 'Aeneid,' Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Divine Intervention

of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...

Flaws in Characters Vivian Bearing, King Oedipus, Willy Loman, and Othello

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

Truth and King Oedipus of Thebes

Kings plea for assistance in his crusade, Oedipus demands to know why, and is shocked to hear the words, "You are the murderer, yo...

Social Responsibility in Antigone and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...

Cesar Chavez, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau on Nonviolence

perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...

Comparative Analysis of Ur's Ziggurat of Sumaria and King Djoser's Stepped Pyramids

was constructed of many different compounds. For example, there is limestone and also granite, a piece of which served as the entr...

William Shakespeare's The Tempest and King Lear and Sibling Rivalry

"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...

The Tonya (King) Harris Case

those police officers who do not cheat and make an example in response to claims of corruption in the department. As a result, th...