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Tombstone, Arizona Life and Wyatt Earp

for no good reason except he was afraid of them and what they might do to him. The truth is that the...

Life and Morality

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Denial

As mentioned before, the first edition of The Martian Chronicles was written in 1950, a time during which the Cold War was startin...

Actor John Travolta

time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...

Naturalism and Realism in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century

is often an important feature. The individuals portrayed are not depicted as standing outside of their own historical background a...

American and British Screenplays and Their Sociocultural Text

the constraints which the box-office places upon both screenwriters and directors is a major influence on American film, whereas t...

Jurisdiction for Arbitration

the issue was a simple translation mistake, but this does open the door for there to be an appeal by the defendant and the German ...

Meaning and Literature

The stories being examined, by Chekhov and Mansfield, are clearly two stories that truly delve into the inner being of an individu...

Privacy and Adolescence

characters are rather boisterous and entangled in relationships. At the same time, they are private in their own way. They need th...

Book Report on Arthur C. Clarke’s 2061: Odyssey Three

the Great Wall. There, Heywood Floyds monolith is happily reunited with astronaut and scientist David Bowman and the supercompute...

Charles Dickens and His Life

societys pressure. "It is impossible to read Great Expectations without sensing Dickenss presence in the book, without being awar...

Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek

characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...

Personal Limitations and the Illusion of Control Sustained by Leaders

is certainly one of the qualities that people look for in a leader, so a good leader will present an illusion of confidence even i...

Downfall of William Shakespeare's Tragic Hero Macbeth

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

Grisham Indicts the Criminal Justice System

cannot find the murderer; five years later, an author starts to question the police methods in another case (Cornell, 2006). Stung...

Jack Rabbit Slim’s Dance Contest

works for her husband, and hes supposed to show her a good time and do what she wants, so shut up and dance because she wants that...

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

Chinese had been killed. Between 20,000 and 80,000 Chinese women were raped--and many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel wome...

An Overview of Roots by Alex Haley

In a book report that contains five pages Haley's 'autobiographical fiction' is discussed. There are no other sources listed in t...

New Millennium Fears and the Realities of Y2K

This paper separates fiction from fact in this overview of fears about the new millennium and Y2K's actual realities in eight page...

Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

the reader. McCarthys life was in and of itself heartbreaking. She was an orphan by the age of six and reared by grandparents. Th...

Arab Nationalism's Misconceptions and Actual Reality

In twenty seven pages Arab nationalism is the focus of this paper which separates fact from fiction in a consideration of socioeco...

Overview of the Molly Maguires Group

In six pages this paper examines the violent post Civil War labor history of the Pennsylvania coal mines in this overview of the M...

Anastasia and the Anna Anderson Riddle

the Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, being invited to see the patient. The Grand Duchess pulled the bedsheet off the patient and said ...

Fact and Fantasy Regarding the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares the findings of the Warren Commission and the US House Select Committee on Assass...

Espionage and Game Theory

In ten pages this paper considers espionage through an application of game theory and as it has evolved from the fiction of James ...

Crime Mystery of Jack the Ripper That Has Yet to be Solved

This essay consists of nine pages and provides a sociological and crime analysis of the Jack the Ripper murder mystery in a consid...

Popular Fiction and Classical Literature

This paper analyzes what defines popular fiction and a classic literary work in an assessment of Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rosen...

An Analysis of Heroism and the Journey in Star Wars

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

Television, Movies, and Differences in Class, Race, and Gender

In ten pages the imagery featured in TV and films regarding the differences of class, race, and gender are the focus of this resea...

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Existentialism

In ten pages existentialism is examined in a consideration of the philosophies of Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre and then applies th...