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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 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...

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...

Exegis in 2 Kings Chapter 4 Verses 8 through 17

in your arms." "No, my lord," she objected. "Dont mislead your servant, O man of God!" 17 But the woman became pregnant, and t...

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...

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...

Antwone Fisher's 'Finding Fish'

to protest against a society that had not provided them with the same privileges as their white counterparts. While Antwone was yo...

Effective Democracy Developed by Ordinary Americans

so the development of the three branches of government and the distribution of power reduces the chances of too much control falli...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

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...

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...

Continually Changing Beings in Cities

to articulate it and be able to do it" Continually using the idea of walking...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Nonfiction and Fiction's Portrayal of History

book is that the author has primarily been a fiction writer. Why, all of a sudden, does a fiction writer attempt to write a non-fi...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

William James' Facial Feedback Hypothesis

are expressive, specifically facial changes that occur in response to particular situations are essentially the activation of emot...

U.S. Supreme Court Case of Hoffa v. the United States

on appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court (349 F2d 20). The Supreme Court in this case ultimately had to make a...

Chapter Two of Ulysses by James Joyce

Stephen in relation to the how his character was established in A Portrait. In the previous novel, Joyce pictured Stephen as bein...

Pragmatic Philosophy of William James

of moral responsibility, freedom of action, individual effort and aspiration" (Frost, 1962, p. 50). While a pure empiricist wou...

Self Knowledge and Confessions

book is the actual confession, which turns out to be a confession to murder and many other misdeeds. This idea of knowledge is an ...

Comparison o f William James' Verification and John Dewey's Experience and Inquiry

example, in his Art as Experience (1934) he explained that he understood art as the experience of focusing on the production of ob...

'Daedalus Myth' and A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce

him all his life, what he had been groomed to do. To not become one would mean breaking free and telling everyone he knows that h...

Religion and its Origins According to Various Theorists

came about simply because it is true. Theories about Gods existence have been around for quite some time. There is Descartes proo...

Abuse and Fraud in Medicare

American Medical Colleges, American Medical Assn. et al. v. United States), which alleged the government is conducting illegal Med...

James S. Trefil's Theories on The End of the Universe

of generalities. We know, for example, that a train will leave the station but we do now know precisely what route it will take t...

Personal Exploration Through Biography

that Jean Edward Smith agrees with this assessment, but he believes biography is an art form that should take into account the anc...