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Essays 1621 - 1650

Joh Kuo Wei Tchen's New York Before Chinatown

historical documents. Finally, and tragically, Tchen chronicles the turn of the tide toward resentment, fear and mistrust toward t...

William E. Paden's Religious Worlds

of Paden as it addresses comparative perspectives, we look at the notions of Jaffee (2002) who specializes in comparative perspect...

Treatment to Sustain Life and Patient's Refusal

best way to appease both the law and the public; its dynamic decision about whether to include doctor-assisted suicide and volunta...

Films One Night at McCool's, The Usual Suspects and Their Narratives

one central character which functions as the narrative object (Telotte, 2003). In other words, this character is typically define...

'Song of Myself,' 'When I Read the Book,' and 'One's Self I Sing' by Walt Whitman

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

Book XXII of 'The Iliad' Extracts

we see Hector awaiting his battle with Achilles and again there is a strong indication of the emotion which drives and influences ...

EcoTerrorism and Eco Sabotage vs. Civil Disobedience

provides a more peaceful perspective and make environmental civil disobedience known. Civil disobedience in many ways highlights t...

Helena Cobban's The Palestinian Liberation Organization, People, Power and Politics

Cobban presents a view of the PLO, however, which doesnt completely jive with popular understanding of the Palestinian issue. The...

Contemporary Machiavellianism

and "advisors" were, in many ways, far more powerful than the aristocrat holding office. Machiavelli himself was such a creature ...

Contemporary Society and African Americans' Roles

are unable to advance and thus are thrown into a never ending cycle of self depreciation. Yes, true, the United States Just...

Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Michael Zweig's Working Class Majority

and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" Ehrenreich takes on a new identity to secure work in the blue collar workforce fulfilli...

Fairness of the Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

been asked to commute the sentence but he refused. He said: "I am convinced that ...the Rosenbergs have received the benefit of ev...

A Probability Overview

small plane will crash than a large jet. Traveling by jet is seen as inconsequential. One can in fact look at people and make a ...

China, the U.S., and Health Care

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

An Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity Overview

or what is referred to as tauba in Islam, is able to save a man (Salvation and the Afterlife, 2002). Therefore, Islam invites man...

Human Behavior, Lemurs, and Gorillas

help Mother Nature propagate. Characteristic of the animals eating pattern is the manner in which they sloppily spread their food...

An Examination of George Orwell:

2002). He ended up getting injured in this war as he fought the communists and eventually had to flee Spain for his life (Widmann...

Shintoism and the Lost Tribes of Israel

and their Roman conquers. This, again, led to another great scattering of the Jewish people (Jones, 1996). Although there has been...

A Book Review of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men

under surveillance. The government does all they can to frustrate the story, sending them erroneous leads which go nowhere. In fac...

Agard"s 'Listen Mr. Oxford,' William Carlos Williams' 'Impromptu', and Language Codes

in with her family and in order for them not to feel inferior or uncomfortable around her(Mellix 315). However, when Mellix found ...

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

man and religion, which changes the society. Through all of these events and conditions we are witness to incredible change, most ...

Social Groups and the Characters in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow and Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus

social classes clearly defined in the beginning when Neil is first detailing Brendas sister, Julie: "ten, round-faced, bright, who...

Odysseus, Hamlet, and the Supernatural

note his passion for such in the following lines when Hamlet responds to the facts presented by the ghost: "Haste me to knowt, tha...

Character Influences in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and John Updike's 'A & P'

excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...

The Baby Train and The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Brunvand

so show that certain themes are consistent in the stories and how they are a part of urban and societal life. The stories contain ...

France, Great Britain, and Postwar Europe's Left Wing Political Parties

good peacetime leader, and the connotations between his leadership and the recently ended war may have helped the downfall of the ...

James McBride's The Color of Water and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

a woman with a very strong sense of the Chinese culture. It is, in these respects, a novel that speaks of searching for identity a...

Slave Trade and Owners' Attitudes are Analyzed in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

concomitant threat of corporal destruction to the slave workers in the South" (Newbury 159). Through one particular example, Stowe...

Development and Influence of Christianity and Islam

I of Austrasia and then Pepin III (also known as Pepin the Short) who would ultimately depose the last Merovingian king and become...

Sunnis, Shiites and Differences in Their Religious Beliefs

the Muslims(Guillaume, 1955). The Shiites seem to have begun as a family feud of sorts. When the prophet Mohammad (PBUH) died, th...