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The Origins of Western Law

But surprisingly, even after the Protestant Reformation and native languages began supplanting Latin in speech and literature, "a ...

American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin

the convention that drew up the Constitution (Wright 18). It was also noted, however, that "Indeed it is said that he would have b...

Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie and Father and Son Relationships

son and tried to do the right thing by him, providing him what he regarded as a good upbringing and proper education, but is often...

Fiddler on the Roof and a Character Analysis of Tzeitel

will marry, her childhood sweetheart who may be a poor tailor, but she is her true love and she will not agree to marry anything l...

'The Judgement' by Franz Kafka

protagonist finds his fathers rejection of him to be too much to bear and continue living. Kafka begins "The Judgment" by pictu...

Characters Willy and Biff Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

resembles any level of success. If he were wise he would be happy he made a living, had a loving wife, a home, and two good sons. ...

Society and Freedom According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

There would be less alienation, according to Marx. For Marx, Communism would be equated with freedom, despite the fact that for mo...

John Brown's Controversial Activities

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

Child Rearing and the Reasons Fathers Are Not Necessary

their children than do fathers" (Phares, 1999, p. 3). In the United States and throughout the world, it is the mothers that spend...

Parallels Between Telemachus and Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

and craft are clear throughout the narrative, but such episodes as her deceiving of the suitors are not considered in the same lig...

Nihilism in the Character of Bazarov in Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes:...

The Impact of Alcoholism on Families

placed in foster homes, which they were told would happen if just one more report was filed with protective services. The oldest ...

Bill of Rights and its Necessity

not specify what government could not do (A Brief History of The Bill of Rights, 2003). Also, another interesting fact was that t...

Raymond Carver's Poems

to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...

Jefferson and Hemmings, Fiction or Fact

conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or records ...

Declaration of Independence Authors and Slaveholding

the text of the U.S. Constitution (DSouza, 1995). Perhaps the founding fathers did not regard African Americans as men or slaves....

Nineteenth Century Surveyor and Contemporary Map Inventor William Smith

rocks carefully and diligently (University of California/Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology). While examining the rocks, Smith had ...

Sam in Fugard's Master Harold...and the Boys

son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...

Paternal Loss in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

Comparisons Between Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush

have presided over rough economies. The poor economy, in fact, cost Bush Senior the 1992 election. According to experts, Bush Juni...

Book 24 of 'The Iliad' by Homer

Achilles grief offends the gods. Hera argues that since Achilles is the son of the a goddess, he deserves more honor than Hector,...

Novel as a Successful Form of Literature

in our relationships with family and friends, in our working environments - all of these play an important role in who we are, and...

Relationships in My Antonia by Willa Cather

are shaped in childhood. Young Jim is himself is something of an immigrant, the proverbial stranger in a strange land, when he goe...

Penelope's Suitors and Odysseus in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...

Politics and the Influence of Radio During the Years 1920 to 1940

the airwaves these days. But for the times (and in examining the history), the radio rhetoric of the 1920s and 1930s was quite str...

History of U.S. Common Law

"a system based on common law, but it has codified the law in the manner of the civil law jurisdictions" (2004). Also, in general,...

The Federalist Papers and the 'Passions of the Majority'

issue of factions, those opposed to the constitution argued there were too many groups or factions to be ruled by a democratic gov...

Finance and the Contributions of Benjamin Graham

in 1914 (Brainyencyclopedia.com, 2004). During that same year, Graham began his career on Wall Street. During the booming 1920s, G...

America's Founding Fathers and the 'Tyranny of the Majority' Issue

not wrong. They believe that people should be able to do whatever they like as long as it does not hurt anyone else. Yet, the majo...

'Father of Psychology' Wilhelm Wundt

1864, Wundt became an assistant professor at Heidelberg and three years later, he began teaching a course he termed physiological ...