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Federalism and Watershed Issues in the United States

settlers and encouraged them to irrigate their farms. To this day the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes are still trying to negotiate wi...

A Review of The Origins of Totalitarianism

of a development in this scenario. Arendts arguments and assumptions present anti-Semitism in a different light, however, than th...

An Intervention Using Appreciative Inquiry Theory

and suitable, AI theorists underscore the need for effective leadership through the process of organizational change. Further, A...

Overview of De Havilland Aircraft Company

crew training, and flying the plane long distances, the Comet was awarded its certifications for flying passengers (Aerospaceweb.o...

The Role of Goal Setting in Sports

performance (Duda, 1993). Therefore, our first argument needs to be that goals setting is important, but not only in its e...

Planet Hunters

In five pages this paper examines the observations of University of California at Berkeley Professor Geoffrey Marcy regarding plan...

Battle of Mont Saint Michel and King Arthur

In seven pages Layamon and Wace and Geoffrey of Monmouth's interpretations of this battle are contrasted and compared. Three sourc...

An Analysis of the Opening Chapter of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

This 5 page paper analyzes the first chapter of Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison. The writer suggests that in this openin...

Tests Endured by Sir Gawain

is that which involves a dual or battle. He states that if anyone can defeat him, here and now, they must meet him at another spec...

Chretien de Troyes' Yvain or The Knight With the Lion

The feudal and chivalric codes are examined in an analysis of Yvain or the Knight with the Lion by Chretien de Troyes in six pages...

Heroic Literary Symbolism

In six pages an analysis of the heroic symbolism in the epics 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,' 'Beowulf,' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh...

The Quest of the Holy Grail Analyzed

In a paper consisting of eight pages the Grail's significance is defined along with the legends that surround it in an interpretat...

History, Movies, First Knight and Jabberwocky

In five pages this essay examines how Middle Ages history and life are portrayed in the films Jabberwocky and First Knight. Two s...

The Significance of the Arthurian Legend

In eight pages this research paper discusses the impact upon the Arthurian legend upon medieval literature and includes The Weddin...

Chivalry Changes in Literature

women... Defend the weak and innocent... / Fight with honor... / Avenge the wronged. / Never abandon a friend, ally, or noble caus...

Medieval Literature and Common Themes

is a serious offence. But Ganelon, the man who is held, has a friend who challenges his accuser to a match and the friend loses. T...

'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' Lines 550 to 639 Analyzed

he could not possibly survive such a blow. Lines 550-639 of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" concern Gawains preparation for mas...

U.S. Labor Unions

The movement opened doors for women and African Americans that had up until then been shut tight. In short, the Knights of Labor ...

Seventeenth Century 'Old English' Literature

observing the "loud mirth in the hall," yet unable to be a part of such fellowship due to no fault of its own, but rather the circ...

Philip Marlowe as a Knight in The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

revealed. The reader is introduced to Marlowe as he is about to call on a potential client, the elderly, but very rich, General ...

Post 1865 Minority Labor Organization Success

of child and convict workers. The movement opened doors for women, African Americans and immigrants that had up until then been s...

Questions on Joinville, Yvain, the Koran, and El Cid Answered

more interested in material rewards here and now. He expected to be rewarded for his bravery and accomplishments. This was the way...

Medieval Times and Attitudes About Women

the man is Ywain she is happy and tells him, "she ought not refuse to take as lord a good knight and the son of a king" which is s...

Theme of Desire in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Henry V

namely, the crown/ And all wide-stretched honours that pertain/ By custom and the ordinance of times/ Unto the crown of France" (S...

Late Nineteenth Century Labor's Rise

that the people should participate (Bennett, 2001). In effect, the government should be run by the people (2001). This is not by a...

Murillo and Velazquez Spanish Painters

what are called knickers today, and a dark cape that is full and is approximately the same length as the abbreviated pants. As ...

Classic Literature and Its Social Functions

all too suddenly succumbed to temptation and became the gatekeeper of Hell -- a place of consequence where one goes whose choices ...

Liberal and Republican Views on Slavery and Emancipation

Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...

Lancelot of the Lake by Corin Corley

laid down by the knight, the youth did not dare "utter another word, except to commend the wounded knight to God" and he also expr...

A Summary of The Song of Roland (Chanson de Roland)

it is possible that the poet telling "The Song of Roland" was using the character of Charlemagne to represent Christianity as it m...