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English Social Critique Utopia by Thomas More

"For it is too extreme and cruel a punishment for theft, and yet not sufficient to refrain men from theft," because there is no pu...

Eighteenth Century Lady Montagu's Letters from Turkey

In four pages this research essay discusses Lady Montagu's 18th century travel observations as revealed in her letters from Turkey...

Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow

in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...

Fear Levels in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

of my being" (Frankenstein). As with any newborn, his sensory impressions of the world are at first indistinct. He began to attemp...

Character Evidence in American Courts

is largely responsible for the direction that evidence law reform has taken over the last one hundred years. To Thayer and his co...

Cultural Diversity Should be Embraced

issues as gender and ethnicity in relation to populating the new America. In order to better understand cultural diversity, one m...

Robert A. Orsi's Madonna of 115th Street and Catholic Identity

reader see that the various gestures and postures of the people, as well as the kinds of prayers said, and the way in which they w...

Violence in 'How to Tell a True War Story' by Tim O'Brien and 'Battle Royal' by Ralph Ellison

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

Characterization in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...

Social Revolution and Computer Technology

has been characterized by a constant stream of evolving products, innovative methods of production, and dynamic means of distribut...

Impact of Capitalism Upon Peasants

their first contact with Europeans these people have literally been under attack. From approximately 1640 to the present date, w...

Considering Corporate Responsibility and Business Ethics

-- on the condition that others follow those rules as well. However, what happens when gross injustices occur germane to income i...

Federal Government and its Impact

cursory overview of the nearly countless forms of intervention by this federal agency. Looking first on the lighter side -- at wh...

Continuing Power Crisis in California

amount of finger pointing going on in California as to who is responsible for this most recent energy shortage. Nonetheless, few ...

Racism in Works by Nella Larsen and William Faulkner

heritage that he ignored his wifes infidelity and she ultimately committed suicide. In addition, there is Faulkners Lena Grove, t...

Overview of the Nitrogen Cycle

It is then in these new combinations that the element becomes readily usable (The Nitrogen Cycle and Nitrogen Fixation, 2001 and ...

The American Dream in Advertising

includes urban culture, and a variety of lifestyles, money still is important in a culture that demands the consumer to "buy now" ...

Establishing a Genre Movie in 'Singin' In The Rain'

This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...

Perspectives on the Movie American Beauty

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the perspectives of critics and the film's writers with regard to 1999's American ...

Governance Views in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Sophocles' Antigone

were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Gender Controls

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

Strong Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Sophocles

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

Nonsmoker Rights

In four pages this argumentative essay examines the rights of smokers and how they compromise the rights of nonspokers with refere...

Sexual Slavery and Pornography

In four pages this argumentative essay takes a moral stance against pornography and cites its dangers and negativity. Three sourc...

Blacks in South Africa After the Collapse of Apartheid

In an essay composed of two pages the sociopolitical conditions that existed for South African blacks after apartheid are discusse...

1945 and 1990 Africa and Manchester Conferences

In four pages this essay examines these conferences in terms of differences such as expressed objectives, attendees, aftermath, an...

Lack of Global Community Moral Involvement in Rwanda

wringing. For weeks, he had pleaded with more than 30 heads of state but has managed to get firm pledges of men for a Rwandan peac...

US Isolationism and the Crisis of the Peso in Mexico

This essay consists of five pages and discusses how US inaction may have contributed to Mexico's peso crisis during the 1990s. Fo...

Historical Overview of OPEC

In four pages this essay discusses the history of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in terms of influence and oil ...

The Economic History of Eighteenth Century America

In four pages this essay focuses on eighteenth century America's economic history and includes productivity and conquest that were...