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Gary Soto/”Oranges”

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

Abraham Lincoln - Personality Development

hire on other farms (The History Place, 1996). The same year his sister died, he and a friend, Allen Gentry took a flatboat of pr...

Female Sexuality in House of Bernarda Alba

collective unconscious (Allen 175). Therefore, Maria Josefa expressing her desire to marry a "handsome male on the shore of the oc...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

Distracted Driving

distractions are indeed rampant in our high-tech world. We feel the need to be in constant contact with others and consequently t...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

John Keats Deserves His Place in the Literary Canon

he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...

St. Francis of Assisi A

Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...

Jose Marti, A Narrative Bibliography

Fidel Castro. A useful, comprehensive, and scholar text, Gray offers an ideal introduction to the Jose Marti historiography. Fe...

Buddhism and Its Teachings: Effective or Ineffective?

old age, death, and finally, a monk "who had given up everything he owned to seek an end to suffering" ("Following the Buddhas Foo...

A Response to Thoreau: “Conscious Endeavor”

The first step in improving ones life is to imagine the "highest moral ideals," then change to "move closer to them" ("Chapter 4")...

Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

2008). When aboriginal women are imprisoned their families are left even more dysfunctional than before. Furthermore, reg...

Stem Cell Research: An Ethical Dilemma

effectiveness is directly impacted by provisions for quality assurance. For the most optimum outcome stem cell research must yiel...

Noble's Opposition to Technology

as email. This all saves time. Long gone are the two necessary carbon copies that the typists painstakingly created and filed and ...

The Leadership of Colin Powell

leaders. Machiavellian leaders on the other hand are dictatorial in nature. They tell the people what to do as if it is for their ...

1917 through 1965: How the U.S. Aligned Itself With a Policy of Containment

important here. The policy of containment was very visible during the 1940s. It prompted at that time the idea to create military ...

Marie Curie

1911 there were many issues that Curie seemed to be dealing with. Her husband had been killed in an accident a few years prior and...

Why Be Moral?

todays society, but the search for contentment goes back centuries. For many searchers, happiness comes and goes, but it is a popu...

Ansel Adams

A 6 page paper which examines the life and work of Ansel Adams. Bibliography lists 3 sources....

Cather: "O Pioneers!"

she and her brothers Oscar, Lou and Emil all have to work extremely hard, and Oscar and Lou resent her, though this isnt revealed ...

Ansel Adams

work was becoming well known and apparently he could not really keep up with the demands for his pictures, many of them of Yosemit...

Flaubert/Emma Bovary

romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...

Child Development, Birth to 2 Years

follow a logical progression. Babies learn to coo, imitate sounds, babble, form their first words, and then their first sentences....

Euclid of Alexandria; The Elements

Elements, to which he replied that there was no royal road to geometry. He is therefore younger than Platos circle, but older than...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Military Pay

reenlistment bonuses, overseas moves, and "firefighter danger pay" for those personnel who regularly serve on firefighting crews (...

The Ethics of Death and Dying: Is There a Duty to Die?

right to live if it is possible, one could well argue that it is never anyones duty to die. Battins essay, however, speaks of th...

The Gebusi by Bruce Knauft

engaged in sexual activity with other women they were generally quite confused as to how such a thing could be done and essentiall...

Leviticus and Christianity

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

Robert Leroy Johnson

his early teenaged years that he really became interested and involved in music (Robert Johnson: A biography reassessed and revise...