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Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy and Marilyn Monroe

grandmother were institutionalized when they died and her mother spent most of the rest of her life in a mental institution (Towso...

Biography of Teddy Roosevelt

the West, specifically, the Dakota Territory, soon after their deaths, bought land, and spent the next few years writing books and...

Biography of Elton John

a weight problem ("Wilsonweb," 1998). His parents divorced and after remarriage, his mother would encourage his musical career whe...

Life and Times of Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger

Warren Burger's life and career are the focus of this biography consisting of eight pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

White Privilege by Paula Rothenberg

talking about something makes us uncomfortable thats a good reason to continue the conservation" (Rothenberg 1). Rather then defl...

Leadership Qualities of William Bratton

"one of the first" hed "seen with the new-style rotating gumball-machine light, so that fascinated me. Every morning, this red-fac...

Life and Music of Composer Oliver Messiaen

book has had a significant influence on his characters and destiny (Johnson 9). During World War I, he lived with his mother and...

Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser

review, said that he felt like a candle "beside the sun at noonday" when comparing his career to that of Hamilton (11). It is fr...

A Comparison of Film and Print for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

Karl Marx's 'The Communist Manifesto'

This 5 page essay briefly reviews the text, discussing three strengths as well as three weaknesses. There are 2 additional source...

The Good Society by Robert Bellah, et al

negative" (p. 10). They explain that an "institution" can be as simple as the social custom of shaking hands as a...

An Examination of Pocahontas

met John Smith in 1608 and between that time and the time she married another gentleman in 1614, she was kidnapped and raped by th...

A Small Good Thing

This 8 page essay reviews to Raymond Carver's style in this work in relationship to his style in other works. 4 sources are cited...

Jean Watson, Nursing Theorist

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

St. Francis of Assisi

he should live a contemplative life of prayer or an active life of spreading the gospel to the world (Hammond 14). This led Franci...

Frida: A Reaction Paper

surrealist movement, but there is debate about that ("Frida Kahlo, The Surrealist," 2006). The film itself was replete with infor...

Nursing/Personal Reflection Paper

of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...

Garson's Oprah Winfrey

in the world. II. Comparison of Oprah with Transformational Characteristics First, it is important to explore the transfor...

Bob Dylan and His 1965 Song Highway 61 Revisited

time he arrived, he had legally changed his name to Bob Dylan, and while always insisting this was not an homage to poet Dylan Tho...

Adolescent Development

a great deal of responsibility, many teens make decisions that seem reasonable at the time, but are ones that they will regret lat...

Biblical Preaching by Haddon Robinson

suspecting that the sophisticated members of their congregations have more faith in scientific texts than do in the words of a min...

Robert Remini's Andrew Jackson

seems as though no action, no movement, could take place without a caucus being involved. This is perhaps where Jackson made th...

Flannery O'Connor

in Milledgeville, OConnor attended Georgia State College for Women and eventually graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Literatu...

Robert Moses Biography by Robert Caro

owe their existence to Moses. Additionally, he built the eleven parkways that run through the city and out towards the suburban co...

John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me

to the fact that he had worked, as a medic, with so many different skin types and cultures that black did not mean the same for hi...

Fires of Jubilee by Stephen B. Oates

them extensive evidence of plagiarism in two of Oates biographies. In his own defense, Oates accuses Burilngame of taking quotes o...

The Jazz Music of the Alex Blake Quartet

more jazz musicians will typically improvise simultaneously (Machlis 413). For all intents and purposes, Alex Blakes biography fo...

New York Democratic Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey

a masters degree and did advanced graduate work in public administration and economics at State University of New York at Albany (...

Life and Times of Pythagoras

communal ways. Kenneth Guthrie in his book, The Life of Pythagoras, states that the Pythagoreans were extremely secretive and cult...

Daniel Defoe's Protagonist Moll Flanders

where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...