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The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

Comparing Bell I. Wiley's The Life of Billy Yank with The Life of Johnny Reb

Southern young men, war was an opportunity to travel to other parts of the country that they had never seen. War seemed glorious a...

J.B. Priestley's 2 Kinds of Authors Analyzed

this might be referred to as either daydreaming or free association, when the knowledge is finally told it often resembles what is...

James Rachels and the Theory of Cultural Relativism

as backward and wrong. They are even more critical of such practices as infanticide, a practice affecting female infants among th...

What Defines Americanness in American Literature

great master and not presented anything really new. As this illustrates, among other points, Emerson present a distinctly American...

Comparative Analysis of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

show business, and also very well liked in this particular field. As such she does better than make a living yet does not tell Hur...

Organizations, a Critique Critique of James March and Herbert Simon's, "Organizations":

that they are essentially useless in terms of instigating action because they are far too vague to be of real use. For example, h...

The Transformational American Literature Between the Years 1865 to 1914

shows how the Huck was socialized by his culture to look on slavery as an economic and moral necessity, not as an evil. In so doin...

James Conlon's Commentary on Plato's 'Scala Amoris'

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

James Joyce's 'Araby'

praises which I myself did not understand" (Joyce). In this we see him envisioning himself as something of a noble knight, a figur...

Life is Worth Living Through a Study of Humanities

In this paper consisting of five pages life's beauty is demonstrated in a core curriculum of art, music, and literature. There ar...

Life's Service and Disservice According to Friedrich Nietzsche

lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...

White Freedom Rider James Peck's Diary

when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...

3 Poems Analyzed for Content and Language

part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...

Tales of Devious Caribbean Women by Hispanic Authors

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

Project Life Cycle and Software

to why a life cycle model is used is to allow a structure to be implemented, and this is something that would allow one to avoid ...

Sanctity of Life versus Quality of Life

have the discretion to terminate their dependents lives" (Woodward, 1995). Defenders of Latimer points out that if the surgery tha...

Product Life Cycle of VADs Ventricular Assist Devices Product Life Cycle

better suited to the needs of many consumers, rather than only to those at the low end of the market (Christensen, Bohmer and Kena...

White Values versus Values of Native Americans

include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...

Book Banning

in the Odyssey, though on a modern scale. Additionally, Molly is patterned after the strong and determined character of Penelope, ...

'The Dead' and Dubliners by James Joyce

or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...

Family Dysfunction in James Barrie's Peter Pan

story when Peter comes back to Neverland with Wendy and her brothers we see that in his absence the creatures and people were gene...

Middle Ages, Freedom of Thought, and Dogma

One of the quests that sprung from employing the notion of feudalism was to create the vassal/lord union as a means by which to es...

Miles' Death in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

alternates between believing him an angel and, conversely, possessed. Thus, Krieg, in his criticism, suggests: The governesss per...

James Kirby Martin's Ordinary Courage

had completed their service for the benefit of others....

Comparing Platonism and Atomism

concerning change in the world. Although the methods of reasoning they used were not those of the modern scientific method, it is ...

Life's Final Chapter

is never a simple effort. Many books that deal with this subject do so in such a way that ends up coming across as patronizing an...

Making a Difference Through Storytelling

who finds themself trapped with a, almost willingly, woman going insane. Twains "Huckleberry Finn" takes the reader with him along...