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Virtue Defined in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

In five pages this paper discusses what these authors think constitutes a virtuous person as presented in their texts. Three sour...

Creating Well-Rounded Business People Using Both Brain Hemispheres

This 5 page paper argues that while most business is anchored in the logical left side of the brain, there is also room for creati...

Language Differences between Men and Women

The writer argues that society assigns certain acceptable roles to men and women, and that much societal behavior is learned. The ...

Examination of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do." I have picked a selection from the autobiography to sh...

Connection Between Politics and Art in the Philosophies of Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger

particular essay, we are told that, "art lets truth originate." According to Kiefte (1997), what Heidegger is wondering about is...

Argument: World Trade is the Most Important Factor in a Nation's International Development

This 5 page report argues that in development, international trade plays the main role in assuring that a country will be able to ...

The Balance Between Society and the Individual in Urban Society

This 5 page paper argues that the urban environment is in reality a delicate balance between society and the individual. The write...

Life and Identity of Benjamin Franklin

He so appreciated having the strength of faith present in his life that, like most others, Franklin freely expressed his gratitude...

Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Benjamin Constant

keep order and lock up criminals and investigate injustices, but it is not governments job to tell the people how to live their li...

The Symbolism of Heorot Hall in the Poem Beowulf

fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...

Teaching Writing

This paper argues that writing is not an inborn talent but a skill that can be learned and mastered. It also argues that each spec...

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg

The writer analyzes the book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg and argues that ...

A Nursing Perspective on Patient Mental Illness

This 15 page paper discusses seven patients who suffer from various forms of mental illness, and argues that there may be an under...

New York Craftsmen and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

how exemplary Franklin truly was, citing that he was nothing but an ordinary man who was faced with ordinary struggles, not unlike...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

This paper examines Franklin's memoirs in terms of the ways in which it reflects Enlightenment ideals in context as well as form. ...

Conflict and Captain Benjamin Willard and Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now

This 8 page essay explores the conflict that characterizes the relationship between Willard and Kurt in Francis Ford Coppolas movi...

The Theme of the Old and New in Tugenev's Fathers and Sons

oppression. They are drunken, thieving, grasping, dishonest and completely ignorant. They would rather break a machine than run it...

Kindleberger on the World Economy

the overall health of a nations citizens can be used as an indicator of economic primacy is certainly debatable; however, the Worl...

Sergei Eisenstein Film Form

The writer examines the ideas Sergei Eisenstein presented in his book Film Form, and argues that the ideas are extremely creative....

The Black Community in the Works of Richard Wright

This 13 page paper explores the way Richard Wright describes the black community in his works Native Son and Black Boy. The writer...

The Paradox of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 5 page paper argues that Upton Sinclair's purpose in writing The Jungle was to argue on behalf of the benefits of socialism, ...

Jonathan Edwards' Narrative and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

In three pages Rev. Edwards' ecclesiastical focus is compared and contrasted with Franklin's individual focuses in their autobiogr...

American Values, J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur, and Benjamin Franklin

In six pages this paper examines how de Crevecoeur's Letters From an American Farmer and Franklin's Autobiography reveal the true ...

Independence of America and Benjamin Franklin

In four pages this research paper reviews the text written by Esmond Wright in which the historian's obvious fascination with his ...

Frederick Douglas versus Benjamin Franklin

This essay consists of a five page comparative analysis of Frederick Douglass and Ben Franklin. Four sources are cited in the bib...

Motivating Gifted Students

The writer argues that gifted students are often bored and drop out, and that educators who do not motivate them are complicit in...

American Literature and the Impact of Benjamin Franklin

of subjects. Franklin had an insatiable need to know, and at an early age, he recognized that through words, he could positively ...

Walt Disney as a Role Model

His mainstay -- the inimitable Mickey Mouse -- evolved around the time of the Great Depression, when hopes of prosperity had peris...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 'Hard Line' Stance Regarding Arabs

In five pages this paper discusses the Prime Minister's controversial position regarding allowing growing numbers of Jews to settl...

Book Review of A Place Among Nations by Benjamin Netanyahu

In five pages Netanyahu's 1993 text in which he provides powerful and insightful considerations of Israel and the world is discuss...