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Society's Definition of Crazy

This paper examines how society defines what it means to be crazy in five pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Motivations Behind FDR's Splendid Deception

This paper examines ways and means used by FDR to hide his paralysis from the American public. The author includes Charles Smith'...

Analysis of Robert Coover's Pinocchio in Venice

In five pages this paper discusses this postmodernist work as the first chapter of The Entrance analyzes it in terms of meaning an...

Factors Behind FDR's Splendid Deception

This paper examines the ways and means FDR utilized to hide his paralysis from the American public. The author also discusses lai...

Symbolism and Setting in 'Revelation' by Flannery O'Connor

In seven pages this paper analyzes this short story in terms of meaning and characterization but focuses primarily upon the 2 sett...

Beauty, Art, and The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In seven pages the ways in which Wilde's novel explores the meaning of beauty and art are discussed. There are no other sources c...

'Cinderella' by Anne Sexton

will come and the Prince will go. I will be the one left cleaning up after the horse. A long distance of meanings trotted out by...

Christianity and Paganism

In five pages this paper discusses the introduction of Christianity passively through culture such as literature and aggressively ...

Sigmund Freud's Civilization and its Discontents

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the purpose and meaning of Freud's text are discussed. There is 1 bibliographic source cited....

Basis of Cognitive Psychology and Ecological Validity

psychology has paved the way for a paradigm change in science. The same paradigm shift that facilitated psychologys change in foc...

U.S. Federal Poverty Line

In eight pages this paper discusses what is meant by the poverty line and what it actually measures for the federal government. F...

Factors Relevant to Full Employment in the US Economy

This paper examines the concept of full employment. The author considers what full employment actually means, why it is not desir...

John Harris's 'Intimations of Immortality'

births would have to be seriously controlled. True, the population wouldnt look old since aging would be negated, but mentally, t...

Teens and the Ad Campaign by Philip Morris 'Discouraging' Them to Smoke

In five pages this paper examines the meaning behind Philip Morris's advertising campaign purportedly designed to discourage young...

Mechanistic and Teleological Views of the World

In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...

Schumacher Society's Role and Contemporary World's Sustainable Development

In twenty five pages this paper examines the meaning of the concept known as sustainable development and also considers the Schuma...

Poetry of Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

process that connects her physically and symbolically with the past. She states that while machines are helpful, its "comforting" ...

Colonial and Post Colonial American Democracy

In five pages this paper examines the US independence from Great Britain in a consideration of liberty's meaning and the cost of a...

The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick

life and feels herself to have been socially conscious. She has with her a daughter, Magda, who has been nurtured and protected b...

Gwen Harwood's 'Suburban Sonnet'

one original thought or idea. This is an apt description for the language of Harwoods Suburban Sonnet, for in this work she prese...

English Language from a Feminist Viewpoint

The changes in the English language is considered in a fourteen page paper and considers shifting word meanings, the creation of n...

Children and Hermeneutics

concepts of ethical relativism and objectivism. These philosophical ideals are what make children the morally minded creatures th...

Stories of Persons of Color Souls Looking Back

In five pages this paper examines American society and what it means to grow up as a person of color. There is 1 source cited in ...

Social Trend of Globalization

only about a tenth of U.S. trade. Ditto trade penetration in general. Take one measure, exports as a share of GDP. By that meas...

Walking the Line in Dante's 'Inferno'

In a paper consisting of 5 pages, the meaning of Dante Alighieri's 'Inferno' is discussed. There is 1 bibliographic source cited....

Defining a 'Frontier' American

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the definitions of the frontier and what an 'American' means according to Frederic...

Debate Over Partial Birth Abortions

pregnancies via partial birth abortions. "The most prevalent rationale used to justify abortion in general is that of preserving ...

Citizenship Responsibilities

between the citizen and the government? Throughout the ages many great men have spouted views on politics regarding the role of ...

Being Black in the US and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Confessions of Nat Turner

These texts are contrasted and compared in an assessment of what being black in the US means in five pages. Two sources are cited...

Reality and Social Constructs

already been, we will eliminate the need to relearn the same lesson more than once. However, there are some problems that necessi...