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Frederick Douglass, Successful Despite Slavery

been a slave and not due to his celebrity status among abolitionists for having endured slavery. In order to fully appreciate th...

Invasive Species

simplest thing like a rat can affect the entire ecosystem of a region and that "Only recently has the full extent of the impacts o...

God, Ultimate Reality, Epistemology, Ethics, and the Nature of Human Beings: A Personal Worldview

understanding when nothing greater can be conceived, that whatever is understood does exist in the understanding:...

Marriage in the Work of Crane and James

in any manner. This story primarily offers one foundational marriage and that is the marriage of Maggies parents. It is really t...

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

Christian Life/Sanctification and Epistle to the Romans

as a servant of Christ Jesus, who was "called to be an apostle" (Romans 1:1)(This reference and all subsequent references refer to...

Questions on The Dubliners

isolates him from true intimacy. For example, when his wife walks past him, Gabriel longs "to run after her noiselessly, catch her...

Sinclair Ross/2 Short Stories

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

James/Determinism & Descartes/Radical Doubt

rising above childhoods of extreme poverty or abuse, yet cases do occur. James second argument in defense of free will point to th...

How Children Develop a Sense of Morality

that rules, in and of themselves, are not sacred or absolute (Crain, 2009). For example, if a child hears a scenario in which one ...

Favoring Ethical Egoism

"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...

Mohammad and Jesus

of God were those of the Old Testament, then came Jesus, whom they consider to be another divine prophet, and then Mohammad, the l...

Pluralism vs. Elitism in the United States

these meetings dispersed throughout the area so that both rural and urban citizens could engage in political discussions that woul...

Scott on “The Logistics of War”

process. It is the last that might be most valuable. As an example lets look at Grenada, since it is short enough to be easily sum...

The Late President Lord Chiang (Chiang Kai-Shek)

path in life. His father had died when he was only five, in fact, and the Chinese military seemed to offer him the most immediate...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Theories of Leadership: Kouzes, Peters, Posner and Yukl

suggests that effective leaders rely "more on personal power than on position power" (Green, 1999). That is, they lead because of ...

Life and Times of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin was educated in schools in Georgia that were segregated (Nobelprize.org, 2009). He graduated high school when he was 15 and...

Report: “Teaching the Elephant to Dance”

in the past is actually keeping them from succeeding in the present. That is, because methods worked for them before, they keep do...

Scott: The Logistics of War

the lessons learned from the process. It is the last that might be most valuable. As an example lets look at Grenada, since it is ...

Biblical Fasting

and worship. The function of food for enjoyment is seen at Ecclesiastes 2:24 where it states " Nothing is better for a man than th...

Differing Images of the Apalachian Coal Fields

that "one was there to drive the other to take chances with life and limb in order to maximize output per unit of compensation" (L...

Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

A Clockwork Orange and A Million Little Pieces

deciding what they will do with their night, "a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry" (Burgess 1). He mentions such things as...

Literary Analysis: “Dubliners” by James Joyce

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

Maya Angelou: Her Works and Her Life

Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him released ...

The Cream of the Crime Crop

more dramatic than embezzlers, and the media is after ratings, so it uses the most sensational material it can. This means that wh...

Final Life Stage Late Adulthood

keep younger generations from realizing the cynical and sometimes contemptuous attitudes they harbor towards the elderly. Indeed,...

American Life through Japanese Eyes

were very aware of, and proud of, their ethnic heritage. In addition to saying "Im Catholic," a person might also identify their e...