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the criminal justice system, some designed to help inmates, others to keep track of them. This paper discusses a program called "E...
it clear that the most important societal relationship is between a warrior, the "thane," and his liege lord (Donaldson 32). This ...
on "what all human beings should do if they want to be moral: They should always act in their own self-interest" (Thiroux 37). Ad...
Television has played a critical role in womens...
I fear death, and now roam the wilderness-- I will set out to the region of Utanapishtim, son of Ubartutu, and will go with utmost...
in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...
film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...
suitors, who grossly outnumber him. Odysseus himself vows that he will fight "while Ive got arrows to defend me", committed to the...
were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...
cape and superpowers? Someone who follows the dictates of his conscience? Or perhaps someone who overcomes his fear to rise to per...
oral tradition, which makes the tales uniquely alive and constantly changing. This paper briefly compares two such epics, the Sund...
sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....
of them all, the Sumerian Gilgamesh. Its not that Blake copied anyone, but his poem tends to evoke some of the same feelings in a ...
his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...
well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...
Is not (even the core of) the brick structure made of kiln-fired brick, and did not the Seven Sages themselves lay out its plans? ...
Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...
granted authority" (Knox, 1990, p. 33). Hector is a man of peace born into a time of war, and therefore forced to fight (Knox, 1...
The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...
his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...
voracious sexual appetites by raping young village girls and claiming other mens wives as his own conquests on their wedding night...
Aruru to create a man mighty enough to subdue him if necessary: "It was you, Aruru, who created mankind, now create a zikru to i...
complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...
Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
her sisters husband and how he had cut out her tongue to keep silent and a prisoner (Ovid BkVI:571-619). Those characters who as...
in the city in the midst of the excitement (Mary Cassatt biography). When she first arrived in Paris, she exhibited her work at ...
that was meant to be good in his life. In order to live ones life in purity, Siddhartha believed that these truths were to be clo...
In five pages this paper examines how the Green Knight is symbolically portrayed as strong, noble, and just. There are no other s...
believes, would seal his everlasting fame (Irving 86). The poem championed Beowulfs desire for fame as a badge of honor: "In all ...