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Essays 511 - 540

Analects, Symposium, and Bhagavad Gita

a state of disinterested selflessness. Confucius (or more accurately Kung-Fu-Tzu or Kongfuzi) explains the thinking and motivati...

Public Welfare and the Roles of Women According to Adrienne Rich, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and John Stuart Mill

In six pages public welfare is examined with the focus being on women's contributions in a consideration of such texts as 'Of Woma...

Discussing Indian Religion

In a paper consisting of two and a half pages a situation in which the writer overhears a conversation between a Saiva tantric pra...

1930 Salt March Led by Mohandas K. Gandhi

In six pages this paper discusses the relationship between Indian labor and activist Mohandas K. Gandhi in a consideration of his ...

Hindu and Buddha Images Contrasted and Compared

In a paper consisting of eight pages Hindu images of 'preserver' Vishnu and 'destroyer' Shiva are contrasted and compared with Bud...

Reform Movements of the 19th Century

In five pages this paper examines antislavery, women's rights, prison, education, and temperance movements of the 19th century and...

Hispanic Women from 2 Perspectives

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Hispanic women featured in Chiquita's Cocoon: The Latina Women's Guid...

Mary Wollstonecraft's Influence on Feminism

This paper examines the works and life of Wollstonecraft in terms of her impact on women's suffrage and the women's rights movemen...

Concepts of Immortality

This 11 page paper uses the Bhagavad Gita, The Dybbuk and The Monkey as sources to examine concepts of rebirth, the soul and the a...

Overview of Hinduism

In eleven pages this research paper examines Hindu principles, beliefs, text, yoga importance, and the religion's Western signific...

Zoroastrian and Hindu Myth Parallels to the Battle of Zeus and Typhon

of the battle between Zeus and Typhon is the most well-delineated and graphically-portrayed of any of them. Zeus and Typhon Typho...

Moksha and Nirvana Distinction

been taught as a sure and sufficient means for the attainment of our spiritual goal, call it Mukti, Moksha, Nirvana, Liberation or...

Public Health Outreach for Pregnant Women for an African American Population

15 pages and 19 sources. This paper considers the importance of public health outreach for women who are pregnant, especially wom...

Postwar Great Britain and Female Representation

that dragged Englands economy and drained her resources were the many and varied territories she claimed abroad. Faced with the de...

Hinduism and Health Care

the differences noted above, Hindus are often immersed within the same cultural elements as are non-Hindus, from outward appearanc...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

The Upanishads and the Atman

same in his "Heart Sura" (Upanishads). The term "Atman" refers to the immortal aspect of mortal existence (Atman-the Soul Eterna...

Nuclear Power and India

In fifteen pages this paper discusses India and nuclear power in a consideration of national security issues and Hindu nationalism...

China and Rights of Women

In five pages this paper examines this historical problem as addressed by the Bejing UN conference on women's rights in 1995 with ...

Comparative Analysis of Technological Development in the West and East

In this paper consisting of 30 pages attempts at understanding the development of technology Eastern and Western cultures are disc...

Holding the Line

The writer examines the Barbara Kingsolver book Holding the Line, which discusses the 1983 mining strike in Arizona. The book reve...

U.S. Women's Rights History

In six pages this paper examines the evolution of women's rights in a historical consideration that includes Anthony, Stanton, the...

Life and Man Viewed Across the Cultural Divide

Aristotle, Native Indian and Hindu philosophers had varying philosophies of life and the nature of man. This essay compares Aristo...

Islamic and Hindu Religions on Death and Dying

In eight pages the ways these religions deal with dying and death through ritual and corpse disposition are compared and contraste...

Destiny and Hinduism

In eleven pages this paper examines the Hindu religion in terms of its destiny concept in an overview of history and karma. Five ...

Yoga in Buddhism and Hinduism

from around A.D. 300, which is one of six classical systems of Indian philosophy. The literature on Yoga stems from the set of sut...

Spinoza and Hindu Monism

In five pages this paper compares Hindu monism with Spinozan monism in this overview. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

India's Temple and the Union of Opposites in A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

In five pages 'Temple,' the final portion of Forster's novel, is examined in a comparison of the author's representation of Britis...

Hinduism

with God (Eck, 1991). One gets a sense that he people go because they want to and not due to a sense of obligation. Offerings are...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...