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a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
In six pages the ways in which the fairytale tradition is reflected in this novel is examined in terms of the female psyche and th...
In ten pages this research paper focuses on the novel's protagonist Okonkwo and discusses how he reflects his ideal society's trad...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
biblical theology," is central to Levensons position on Old Testament theology. This essay drew immediate attention. Barr (1996) r...
When addressing someone in China, one should remember that in China, family names come first. So for example, Mr. Li Hongjun would...
taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...
did not want to support the offspring of the religious leader. Yet, whatever the reason, attachment is a concept that is very impo...
on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...
each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...
had to change some things, in his heart he is, perhaps, doing exactly what he and those before him have always done: worship The M...
right to political participation and freedom of religion, became the motivating forces behind the English Revolution of 1640, whic...
A paper of 5 pages, this essay discusses the nomadic people, their lifestyle, customs that are representative of the hunter/gathe...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...
Eating for the Germans is more than a physiological requirement; rather, the very act of sharing food symbolizes many things, incl...
The weight of a mans conscience can be unbearable, as was made quite obvious by Rockwoods entanglement with direct military orders...
the changes which have occurred vary according to the specific African culture being discussed, there are certain commonalities wh...
Anabaptists were, in their early history, very prosecuted and many were even put to death by the Catholics and Protestants (The Am...
in the earliest forms of the Roman Creed but it was not until 360 that the word Catholic was added to the Creed in the West (Thurs...
has been a "very big thing" (Axelrod, 1995, p. PG). Even just a decade ago, a Jewish womans place was still in the home, although...
fly, thereby saving time and energy they would have to expend to drive for three or four hours (Robinson, 2000). Organizational a...
that the political, social and revolutionary benefits of Hajj have been overtaken by mass production of ritual mismanagement" (Hae...
Wiccan traditions and have a long-standing history in centuries of community activity and ritual beliefs. During the Crusades, th...
without them. The power in Umuofia society was deeply steeped in "masculine traditions" (Osei-Nyame 148). The reputation o...
aspects of the people from whom it is spawned. Barthes views on the evolution and purpose of myth are echoed...
war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred" (Analysis of the French R...
War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...
foresight that brought all of the various Hawaiian Islands together. He was to be the last of the great Hawaiian rulers, for after...
Chestnutt skilfully exposes the irony of these attitudes through the interaction between the various family members, where the dis...