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Cinematic Narrative in Pulp Fiction and Citizen Kane

We note he grows to be a gregarious individual who seems driven to succeed in unusual ways, always seeking some adventure and some...

Texts on the Contemporary International Global Workplace

the important matter of the global workplace. Reich (1992) suggests that old concepts such as national product are no longer valid...

Rene Descartes' Works

(Anonymous The Philosophy of Ren? Descartes, 2002; phildescartes1.htm). In 1629 settled himself in Holland, a place which appar...

Economics and Environment

credited with coming up with the fourth law of thermodynamics in that whenever matter contacts matter, some will be made unavailab...

Horrors of War in 2 Poems by Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

Globalization Perspectives of Robert B. Reich and William M. Adler

was around $30,000 (Adler 13). With company-paid health insurance, Mollie had raised her family, bought a house, a car, and been a...

Education and Human Development According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

Due to this orientation, not surprisingly, Locke saw education as extremely important. He felt that education should, ideally, be ...

Senior Citizens and Short Term Care as Opposed to Long Term Care

older our bodies begin to simply wear out. The modern marvels of medicine can patch up many of our creaks and groans, it can even...

Cardinal John Henry Newman and Flannery O'Connor

the contemporary novels of today. Rather, they are a means to an end. That end, of course being to illustrate Christian mysteries ...

The Second Shepherd's Play and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale'

if John were easily deceived, Nicholas (the clerk) and Alison (his wife) would not have been forced to devise an complicated plan ...

Mexican Drama and Xavier Villaurrutia

to Pirandellos play. Villaurrutia was obviously interested in the Italian playwrights concepts and this preoccupation becomes clea...

Discussing Some of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

in turn seduce the wife and/or daughter of the miller. In the end a ridiculous fight breaks out wherein the students seem to win, ...

D.H. Lawrence's 'The White Stocking' and Ernest Hemingway's 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'

of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" as something of a metaphor for what is generally referred to as the "war between the...

Emma and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

basically limited them to either living off the largess of relatives, living on a subsistence wage as a governess looking after ot...

Comparing U.S. and Japanese Politics

governed by a Prime Minister who is elected by the members of the Diet. The Prime Minister then chooses members of his cabinet, mu...

Goodness of Government According to Niccolo Machiavelli and Aristotle

theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...

Differing Approaches of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

to be done and proposed he was the man to accomplish the goal. In fact, the phrase "make it plain" symbolizes the very core of Ma...

Literature and the Transition from Middle Ages Feudalism to the Industrial Era

is filled with allegorical references to the time of chivalry and has been described as an allegorical epic. As outlined in the i...

Feminist Analytical Comparison of Sophocles' Antigone and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

Comparative Analysis of Respiration and Photosynthesis

In a paper consisting of five pages, an explanation of both processes is offered as well as comparing and contrasting the two proc...

Philosophy According to Rene Descartes and Plato

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

Comparative Analysis of American and Haitian Governments

that the Bush/Gore election is still considered fraudulent by some. Who could have known that the election would ever be so close ...

1960s and 1980s Social Life in America

the Vietnam War is that which involves technology. Never before had people possessed televisions that brought a war into living ro...

Comparison Between Social Identity Theory and Social Constructionism

early branch of sociology, which was initiated by Marx and Mannheim, and also called the sociology of knowledge (Abercrombie, Hill...

Survival in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

a man who is aloof to a certain degree to the horrors and less desirable things in life that occur all around them. Atlas (PG)obs...

Ivan Klima's My First Loves and J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun and the Incarceration Experiences of Miriam and Jim

the recurring theme throughout Empire of the Sun, a theme so forceful and perceptive that the reader goes away with a distinctly d...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

Forms According to the Theories of Aristotle and Plato

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

Organizational Conflict

Then there are those leaders who practice the avoiding style. They tend to behave as if they were indifferent both to their own c...

Lending Institutions and Practices of Mortgage Lending

Rates, terms, payment schedules and so forth seem to be up for grabs in a world where mortgages "can be put through a financial V...