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sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

have lost it if he did not cater to the "well to do." Perhaps they were the ones with the real power. At the same time, that thesi...

so that when he dies, it is all the more a shock to the reader. The point of view, though it is told by an omniscient narrator is ...

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

with ethos. This is clearly seen when he then states his credentials, so to speak: "I have the honor of serving as president of th...

woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...

it is forecast to grow at a rate of 6.95% through 2009 ("Regional Overview"). (The only explanation for the disparity between the ...

never a bone int" (I.284). Again, the lamprey (a type of eel) and the reference to its bonelessness, is a reference to the penis. ...

and Akhenaton died.3 (It would have been difficult for him to become king before they died, wouldnt it?) In addition, seals found ...

level currently being charged for similar drugs on the market. The markup on this new drug is therefore over 6000%. That is, the a...

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

the future for the struggles of the African Americans in the United States (Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil-Rights Leader, 2007). H...

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

This 3 page paper looks at the way in which King George III was influenced and influenced The Enlightenment with interests in scie...

level-when Regan vomits in the priests face ... in The exorcist ... But on another, more potent level, the work of horror really i...

international community. Some of the wilder theories were that the Soviets were behind the shooting, and there were fears that it ...

and then we will get on with our lives. Numerous theories have been postulated about why some people seem to...

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

angry that the people thought David was a better warrior and said, "What more can he get but the kingdom?"3 Saul would subsequentl...

This paper reviews the philosophies of Dr. Martin Luther King and comments on how they are reflected in this monumental speech. T...

of evil. Bush pursued his quest for immortality by invading the Middle East, first in Iraq in March of 2003, and then established...

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

kingdom among his daughters, he based what they received upon their effusive speeches to him. Goneril and Regan played along and ...

The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...

Abel. Smeagol is analogous to Cain; he is his brothers murderer, and the audience is aware that the Ring is both powerful and evil...

make it seem that it was their fault, or that they deserved it. You have shattered this exquisite self-serving Southern illusion, ...