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Content and Meaning of Phaedrus by Plato

Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

Meanings of Racial and Ethnic Histories

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

Bush Conservativism Dangers and What it Means to Be an American

government. In particular, concerning a worldwide perspective, it is the Moslem countries that are the most frightening to me as a...

Erik Erikson's Theories and What It Means to Be an Adult

human beings into jeopardy. Thus, adults have a responsibility to use their ability for higher reasoning and abstract thought to p...

Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and the Title's Meaning

the beginning she has no doubts about the importance or the validity of such faith. And, in all honesty, there is something to thi...

Alfred Ayer's Verification Theory and Meaning

Immanual Kant, who possessed knowledge at the core of his being, was consumed with the learning of reason. He believed that reaso...

What it Means to be an Educated Person

merely went on the academic criteria alone, then the other facets would be negated. The other facts being that of the emotional an...

Speech Meaning and Its Social Consequences

language and sounds. He makes an example of everyday speech, suggesting that in conversation with another person, we think we are...

'News' and What it Means

radio station or television station (and most of them own all three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed ...

War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

and shot at by Serb snipers (p. 2). Hedges offers a vision of war that means much more than political and ideological rhetoric and...

Martin Scorsese's Justification of Violence in Films Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas and Casino

and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....

The Meaning of the Battle of Stalingrad

come to fruition. In part, good wins out over evil. Even within Hitlers own ranks there was dissention, a lack of resolve, and a t...

Fashion: A Means of Expression

Many may argue with this, claiming not everyone cares about what they wear as a form of presenting ones identity. Yet, even those ...

Armenia, Genocide & Meaning

applicable to the overall topic of genocide. Therefore, the following examination of the Armenian Genocide, concentrating on the h...

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 Meaning of Life According to Leo Tolstoy

This 10 page paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary works and personal philosophy, and argues that he sought simplicity and spiritu...

Zen Buddhism Term Satori and its Meaning

In one page this research paper defines the Zen Buddhist concept satori as heightened enlightenment comprehension. One source is ...

Spiritual Meaning in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

In 5 pages the spiritual quest for meaning as reflected in the fisherman's quest for the elusive marlin in the novella is analyzed...

Death's Role and Meaning in Fairy Tales

necessity. Beyond the obvious, however, lurks an even deeper meaning to the employment of death as an integral part of fairy tale...

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas, Dreams, and Meaning

In five pages the meaning of dreams and how they deprive the protagonist of free will are considered within the context of Thomas'...

Defining What it Means to be Human

This paper defines what it means to be human in five pages. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

'Psy Fi' Genre and its Meaning

In five pages this report considers the science fiction or Psy Fi genre in an examination of texts written by Richard Matheson, Fr...

Life and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines life's meaning in a consideration of such philosophies as Albert Camus' French existentialism, s...

What it Means to be a Leader in the Army

so that the soldiers ultimately respect and prove loyal to the leadership. "The loyalty of your people is a gift they give you whe...

The Meaning of Ethnic, Racial and Gender Imagery in Plath's The Bell Jar

is a sense of familiarity. In some way, this author does not want to reveal the prejudices or insights of the narrator too early o...

Chinese New Year's True Meaning

In four pages the Chinese New Year and what it means are the focus of this overview. There are not any sources listed....

Meaning of the Olympic Games

In six pages this paper examines the purpose and global expansion of the Olympic Games in this historical overview. Five sources ...

AIDS: What is Means to Ohio

all susceptible to being infected with this devastating disease. Unfortunately, in fact, HIV infections are increasing among all ...

Different Meanings of "Change" in "Caroline, or Change"

Noah keeps deliberately leaving coins, knowing that she is desperately poor. Then he leaves a $20 bill in his pants by accident, a...

Personal Statement - What Children Mean To Me

day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...