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'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' by Langston Hughes

societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...

War and Noncombatants

In five pages this essay examines the concept of 'just war' within the context of the Geneva Convention guidelines and affirms tha...

An Abortion Reader by Lloyd Steffen

cases when a womans health is put in jeopardy by having a child at all. Forcing a woman to bring the child to term would be no les...

Critical Thinking, Perception, and Logic

about this perceived fault. I have been ridiculed at drive-in take-out windows and I once had trouble getting a taxi to come to my...

A Philosophy on What it Takes to Live a Successful Life

of dressing appropriately for the formal work environment. What if you long for the outdoors and physical activity? It is a clich?...

Language, Critical Thinking, and Metaphor

because you allow someone else into the inner-most recesses of your mind. It is a process that resembles the way that eggs, milk a...

Thomas Whyte's The Heart Aroused and Beowulf

states that such archetypes are "mental predispositions independent of individual experience, which have their source in the colle...

Student Ethics and Nursing

for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...

Hamlet As Comedy

Ophelias death, he talks with the men who are digging her grave. The comic intent of the scene is evident from the onset by the ...

Somerset Maughan

makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...

Employee Advantages and Competition

goal is to get the patrons in and out as quickly as possible. So while they might be friendly, there might also be a mindset towar...

Thirty Years in a Red House Memoir by Zhu Xiao Di

that is, the "bourgeois," were not always a despised class in China. In 1949, when the Communist took over the government, they na...

Art Spiegelman's Maus, Volumes I and II and Steven Spielberg's Film Schinder's List

influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...

Language's Gendered Nature

taking care of her man and of nurturing the home and the family. It was apparent to me that her sense of femininity and womanhood...

Defending Nuclear Power Facilities

back up scientists claims has provided fuel for those in denial, but the denial faction stands on the cusp of being faced with int...

Actress Julia Roberts

of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...

Freedom of Knowledge and the Courage of Learning

a violin that is found among their belongings. The headman condemns it as "a bourgeois toy" and commands that it be burnt (Sijie ...

Second Grade and a Literacy Program Based Upon Multicultural Literature

In nine pages in which an abstract is also provided this essay examines the development of grade two literacy in a consideration o...

Reality and Language

stand for, the anger of your assailant. "In other words, the knife in my wall has become an objectively available constituent of t...

Good and Evil in 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

husband who appears suddenly, as a snake it seems, which is represented by the whip he scares her with. In this we can symbolicall...

Meditation on Dying by Robert Nozick

to be" (Nozick 22). After first acknowledging that connections with others are crucial throughout life and comforting at its end...

Eldest Inheritance, Book Two by Christopher Paolini

that her father will never agree to the match due to Rorans diminished prospects. Roran decides to rebuild the farm, but it thwart...

Many Head Hydra by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker

With this pronouncement, this group adjured to the woods to start their own settlement; however, it failed. This attempt at indepe...

Poets Philip Larkin and Robert Frost

In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...

Urban Aesthetic and the Films of Martin Scorsese

large urban environment, humanity is even more vulnerable to the cruel and capricious winds of fate than at any other time in hist...

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

suggests, Gaskell specifically departs from the Victorian middle-class sensibility that equated decency with cleanliness. In doing...

Queen Gertrude of Denmark's Character

guilty. What he does not know is how involved his mother, Gertrude, is in the plotting of the old Kings death. Her over hasty marr...

Hiroshima by John Hersey

not with him. Clearly, form the start of this compelling book, there is a face to the people of Japan. So many times, people think...

Hypothetical Children's Discovery Museum

as video games, they are reacting to a preconceived scenario that requires little more than manual dexterity, as these games gener...

John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism and Immanuel Kant's Ethics

this principle, Kant directly addresses the topic of lying by posing the question: "When I am in distress, may I may a promise wit...