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Influence of Bill Gates' The Road Ahead

future in general. He sees a completely digital future. While it does appear that the future is here already, with subway token ca...

A Review of The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

news item which it is likely that the vast majority of those in the audience will recognize. For example, recent news stories of c...

Exegesis of John 17, Lines 6 through 10

the world (Lueking, 1997). As this indicates, Luekings interpretation of these verses is fairly straight forward, as he sees it as...

A Review of the Essay From Rosie to Lucy

the media of the time (i.e. television and movies), as well as the impact of various frames of "official" reference such as census...

English Literature and Virtue

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

Banana Yoshimoto's Fiction

In four pages this essay examines two books by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto in a consideration of how her works capture young ...

Old Testament Book of Job

that all that happens is not simply between God and man. There is another party - Satan. The Book of Job presents a war between Go...

Comfort and Sorrow According to Confucius and the Book of Psalms

In five pages this essay compares how comfort was found amidst sorrow as described in Confucius' Analects and in the Book of Psalm...

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

This 5 page essay analyzes discourse as it manifests in these books. Reality differs according to narrator perception. 2 sources...

A Discussion of Babette's Feast

This 5 page essay illuminates the message and presentation in Babette's Feast. Based on the book by Isaak Dineson this film prese...

A Review of Extinct Humans

A 5 page essay that provides an overview of the book by Tattersall and Schwartz. The focus is evolution as it has been expererien...

A Review of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder As Reflected in the Movie Good As It Gets

habits are partially responsible for keeping him at arms length from the rest of the world. Considered for decades to be a diseas...

A Comparison of "1984" and "Brave New World"

This 5 page essay explores George Orwell's futuristic book 1984 and contrasts it with Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. 4 sources ...

Liberalism and Its Challengers by Alonzo Hamby

This is an essay consisting of seven pages that provides a summary for each book chapter along with a critical text evaluation. T...

A Review of The Poorhouse Fair

A 5 page essay reviewing the book by John Updike. This paper explores the purpose and intent of the author. 1 source....

Contemporary Prisons and Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

Damiens, was executed in this manner on March 2, 1757. The records of this execution appear to be quite detailed, as Foucault rela...

3 Questions on Steven H. Star and Glen L. Urban's The Case of the Test Market Toss Up

Three questions are examined within the context of this book by Steven H. Star and Glen L. Urban in an essay of five pages. One s...

Andersonville Journey

A 5 page essay exploring the booy by Edward F. Roberts. This paper summarizes and analyzes this book and provides a personal react...

Television and Book Fantasy

smart enough to know that their world is not the same as the story worlds to which they are introduced at an early age. Bruno Bet...

The Needs of Strangers by Michael Ignatieff

needs of all human beings and must be translated into the politics and philosophies of modern life. He emphasizes the need that hu...

Discovering the Women in Slavery Edited by Patricia Morton

1817. While a master could lawfully punish a slave, using his own discretion and judgment, state law established a limit and that ...

Montaigne, Donne, Spencer on Repentance

bodie in salt water smarting sore, The filthy blots of sinne to washe away, So in short space, they did to health restore The man...

An Analysis of Charlottes Web By E.B. White

This 5 page essay reviews this phenomenally popular childrens book about a learned spider and a young pig. 3 sources....

Analysis of the Book of Job

In eight pages this essay analyzes the Old Testament's Book of Job. There are no other sources listed....

Morality, Justice and Books I and II of The Republic by Plato

"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...

A Comparison of Post Modernism in The Tortilla Curtain and The Things They Carried

that are specific to each individuals defined social status; while one person might consider a purchased home with a white picket ...

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...

"Size Six" by Mernissi/An Analysis

those who enforce religious laws" (Mernissi). In other words, by being larger than a size six, Mernissi, in the salesladys opinion...

Thomas Nagel/”Moral Luck”

that are beyond their control. In other words, there are factors that affect the way in which an event is evaluated morally that a...

An Examination of 3 Rhetorical Essays

insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In his di...