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1930s' Issues and the Works of Clifford Odets and Richard Wright

and asks his mother why that happened. His mother says "The white man did not whip the black boy...He beat the black boy" (Wright ...

Civilizations of MesoAmerica, Egypt, and Greece

Mexico and other areas of central America, demonstrates a number of similarities with Egyptian culture: the main architectural for...

Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Family and Marriage

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

The 'Political Animal' Known as Man According to Aristotle

parallels between the relationship of the monarch to his people and the statesmen to the free citizen. Similarly, Aristotle also...

"Political, Philosophical, Religious, Cultural, Social, Literary and Artistic Value of 'Poem of The Cid"

the field against the three thousand Moors; and such was the valor of him that in a good hour was born, and of his standard bearer...

American Author William Faulkner's Life and Writings

gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...

Los Angeles Literature

Chandler was famous for his evocative descriptions of L.A.; the heat and light, the flowers, traffic, noise and above all the vivi...

Evaluating Ancient Civilizations

of the civilizations are important. In fact, one source claims that the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Egyptians were consi...

Society and What Salaries Reflect

10 years ago, the Christian Science Monitor, in covering an article about child care workers and the poverty-level wages they rece...

Mythology and Iliad, Aeneid

This research paper/essay discusses the "Iliad" and the "Aeneid" as two epic poems that mirror the values of Greek and Roman socie...

Adult Learning Theories, An Article Summary/Chen

This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

How the Media Reflects Violence in Society

benefit of such shows as Ricki Lake, Maury Povich, Montel Williams, Jenny Jones or Jerry Springer is to corrupt the fragile balanc...

William Gibson's Cyberfiction Novel Johnny Mnemonic

The new literary genre dubbed 'cyberfiction' is considered in a five page research paper that discusses how technology's complicat...

18th Century Literature and Reflections of Commerce and Trade

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton have as their basis international trade and commerce and the way...

Ancient Greece and Roles for Women as Portrayed by Homer

and also provided insight into the character when she brazenly broke with firmly held tradition. For example, in Homers Iliad and ...

The Message of The Clouds by Aristophanes

indication of satire must be seen in the name and the role of the Clouds, these are women that take the place of the goods, who ar...

Citizenship According to Plato and Aristotle

here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...

Author's Complexities Revealed in the Works of Ernest Hemingway

This paper examines how Ernest Hemingway's complexities are thematically reflected in his literary works in 10 pages. There are 9...

Hebrew, Greek and Roman Values in Ancient and Medieval Literary Works

of specific interest, and which concern morality in the context of war, are those that argue for and against putting the Mitylene ...

What Drives Author Tim O’Brien to Write?

demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...

Homeland Security, INS and Epidemiology

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

Cultural Diffusion from the Ancient World

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

"Gawain and the Greek Knight"/"Wife of Bath's Tale"

face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...

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...

Ancient Greece and Rome/Suffering

of injury or illness in the ancient world. Therefore, in ancient Greece and Rome, the practice of euthanasia, that is, intentional...

Cinema, Ideology and the Viewer

public, which is basically whats going on here; that is widely accepted and understood. If it were not a cultural norm for people ...

Smiley Face

smokes pot and the comedy arises through her being stoned all day. In relationship to these conditions the film offers ver...

Physical and Emotional 'Baggage'

By carrying food items with her all of the time she was exercising complete control over her body, the one thing that she had powe...