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Pressfield's Gates of Fire

the often did not take part in battles. It was assumed that the homefront was theirs to protect while the men moved forward. As...

Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire

the importance of such things in their society. The reader is presented with infantry battle that denotes honor and valiant beha...

“The Gates of Fire” by Steven Pressfield

on history, on ancient people and cultures. Pressfield has obviously researched the types of weapons the people used, the struggle...

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

Spartas men were its walls. Training: Pressfield divulges that training for Spartan "high-born" males begins at age thirteen. ...

Pressfield: “Gates of Fire”

"device" through which he tells not only the story of the battle, but the story of Spartan life as well. Pressfield structures the...

Ancient Greek Society and Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermoplyae

the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...

The Tides of War by Steven Pressfield

dropping bombs from 30,000 feet or sitting in a headquarters building and pushing a button to annihilate soldiers thousands of mil...

Henry Louis Gates Jr's 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Man

In five pages this paper discusses these 'narratives of ascent' in the collection by Henry Louis Gates Jr....

Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Silence

who were in service to the aristocratic families came to define themselves through their identification with those families, to th...

Illegal Immigrant January 2004 Work Visa Extension and President George W. Bush

of his plans for issuing work visas to illegal immigrants brought several facts to the surface which had previously been largely i...

20th Century Literature and Self Determination

In 6 pages this paper examines how self determination is thematically portrayed in 'The Red Wheelbarrow' by William Carlos William...

Faulkner/Knight's Gambit

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

Spartan Military Training In "Gates Of Fire"

thrust him into the depths of rigorous and ever-demanding scenarios that were the foundation of what it required to make him a sol...

Ecological Management and the Role of Fire

In twelve pages management of the ecosystem is discussed in a consideration of fire's role with emphasis upon the fire effects on ...

Firefighting Assistance from Computers

to accurately predict the conditions in which the fire would burn out (Walton, 1985). This revolutionary computer "expert syste...

Firefighting and Labor

In a literature review consisting of twenty five pages this paper considers various labor issues concerning civilian fire casualti...

Sonnets and Poems

are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...

Smart House

off heating when a room is sufficiently heated and conserves energy by turning off lights in rooms not currently occupied (What is...

The Road Ahead by Bill Gates

This paper consisting of six pages emphasizes Gates' future vision regarding technology in order to take issue with his points. T...

The Road Ahead by Bill Gates 2

suggested that his book was one long commercial for the company. At the same time, computer professionals should give the book a ...

Authors and Resource Validity

results of a survey revealed that 66 % of teachers used their computers "a lot" for classroom instruction, and 39 % frequently use...

Influence of Bill Gates' The Road Ahead

future in general. He sees a completely digital future. While it does appear that the future is here already, with subway token ca...

Anthropological Genre of Ethnology

four seasons in which there is a planting, harvesting and barren time. MANDALAS AND GENERALIZATIONS ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION ...

Books on Advertising and Marketing

Claude Hopkins, author of Scientific Advertising, the ideas of whom appear to have had a string impact on the way Ogilvy has devel...

Meaning and Money in the Works of Wallace Stevens, Ernest Hemingway, and Eugene O'Neill

In five pages this paper discusses how spirituality and money are represented in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Hemingwa...

The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro

In three pages this paper discusses how Miss Kenton's and Mr. Stevens' meeting impacts The Remains of the Day. There is no biblio...

Analysis: The Rock by Wallace Stevens

This 6 page paper analyzes Wallace Stevens' poem The Rock in terms of the way the poet discusses alternate realities. The writer a...

Ted Stevens Loses Alaskan Senate Seat

with their fathers father and mother (Whitney, 1994). Soon their father followed but his luck became even worse once he was back ...

Money as Poetry

until he realized that he wasnt really getting anywhere on his own; he owed all his advancement to affirmative action (Terkel). He...

Wallace Stevens' 'Mozart, 1935'

The lyrical 'Mozart, 1935' by poet Wallace Stevens is analyzed in a report consisting of five pages and how the artist can make a ...