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Australia's Prime Minister John Howard

which adopts laissez-faire strategies, or reticence. Howard sees national achievement as the result of firm government and by impl...

'Absalom and Achitophel' by John Dryden and Honesty

17th century way of saying "God told him to do it." But one of Davids progeny stood out, this being the brave...

Medieval Cultural Influence of The Apocalypse of St. John and Illuminated Glory

survive from this "last and most extraordinary expansion of the medieval Apocalypse cycles" (Lewis, 1995, p. 1). Illustrated Gothi...

Analyzing the 1992 Film Version of John Steinbeck's Novel, Of Mice and Men

period scenes depicting Salinas and Soledad are reconstructed "in meticulous... detail" (Murray, 2003; Morsberger, 1993, p. 128). ...

Animal References in John Updike's 'A and P' and Colette's 'The Hand'

is described as apelike and lowered its claws, and became a pliant beast (Colette, 197)" (Johnny Boy). This critic indicates that ...

John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism and Immanuel Kant's Ethics

this principle, Kant directly addresses the topic of lying by posing the question: "When I am in distress, may I may a promise wit...

Major Themes of 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

Comparing Ernest Hemingway to John Steinbeck

local bar. An old man sits in the corner slowly becoming drunk over the course of the evening. At the end of the evening, the old ...

Hell and Satan in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton and 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

sins and sinners are tortured for eternity. In all honesty, each level seems horrible with no descending level becoming any more f...

Hiroshima by John Hersey

not with him. Clearly, form the start of this compelling book, there is a face to the people of Japan. So many times, people think...

Economic Perspectives of Ralph Nader, John Kerry, and George W. Bush

This paper imagines a 2007 and how each of these men would economically rectify the situation in four pages. Six sources are cite...

A John Kerry Presidential Campaign Assessment

speech. Of course, the American military involvement in Iraq remains a lightning rod of controversy and conflicting opinions. Al...

Government's Only Legitimate Form, Human Nature, and Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of th...

United States and and the End of the Cold War by John L. Gaddis

confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...

John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith's Nationalism and Defining 'Nation'

he believed that nations only come into existence when "several elements have come together, especially economic life, language an...

John Updike's A Month of Sundays and Of the Farm Compared

those demons in his closet that he thought securely battened down. His mother will not stop with the accusations and insinuations ...

John Morton Blum's V Was for Victory Reviewed

the culture of the times. One way in which government and politics became involved in directing cultural mores was through ...

Experience and Education by John Dewey

its time schedules, and classification systems and rules (18). Here, due to this, Dewey points out that schools are therefore mark...

John Stuart Mill's Difference and Agreement Methods Employed in the Social Revolution Studies of Theda Skocpol

known to the unknown and from "facts observed to facts unobserved" (Mill). Induction theory also rests upon the invariable anteced...

Poets R.S. Thomas and John Betjeman on Nature and the Modern World

and soul) are in a fight for their own survival and right to exist, and that the simple things in life, those things that really c...

Banning the Novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

we present the following paper which discusses the banning of Steinbecks novel. Banning "The Grapes of Wrath" In more fully un...

American Life Duality and the Tradition of John Locke

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Jim the Botanist by Bernard Williams

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...

Panhandling, Free Speech, and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this essay discusses Mill's essay 'On Liberty' in a consideration of panhandling prohibition ordinances and freedom ...

'Argument Against Skepticism' by John Hospers

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...

John Locke and Karl Marx on Freedom

man being superior to another, the contradiction still stands. Despite some inadequacies in his work, the simplicity of Locke is ...

Nature and the Poetic Views of John Keats

poet of nature. For example, "The instinct of Wordsworth was to interpret all the operations of nature by those of his own strenuo...

Media Coverages of Juvenile Sniper John Lee Malvo's Trial

are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...