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2 Perceptual Impressions of Chicago

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie in a considerat...

My Antonia by Willa Cather and Structural Criticism

In six pages this paper discusses the first 5 books of this text in terms of its loose structure and how only the threads of civil...

Murasaki Shikibu's Court Diary

In five pages this lady in waiting for the king of Japan from 1007 until 1010 is examined with the argument presented that contemp...

Death of a Salesman - Willy Loman and the Betrayal of the American Dream

This 6 page paper discusses the concept of true and false values in the play Death of a Salesman. The writer argues that Willy Lom...

NBA Basketball Coach Phil Jackson

piece. Then I could have sat down with both of them and hashed it out by ourselves. But by exposing his feelings to the entire t...

Contrast of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Robert Darnton

In six pages Ulrich's 'A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812' and Darnton's 'The Great Cat M...

Practices of Meditation

In fourteen pages this report considers meditation practices in an assessment of its spiritual impact, benefits, and effectiveness...

Hildegard of Bingen and Guibert of Nogent

In six pages Hildegard and Guibert are considered in a discussion of the texts Hildegard of Bingen A Visionary Life and A Monk's ...

Conflict of Jacob

In six pages the conflicted life of Esau's twin brother is examined. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Themes in 'To Build a Fire' by Jack London

In five pages this paper discusses the themes of life and death evoked by Jack London in his short story 'To Build a Fire.' Four ...

Overview of Legendary Old West Figure Wild Bill Hickok

In seven pages this paper examines the life and legend of James Butler, more famously known as Wilde Bill Hickok with his Union Ar...

Socially Relevant Plays of William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses the social relevance of William Shakespeare's plays in a consideration of such issues as daily ...

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages the life of Ernest Hemingway is analyzed within the context of what The Old Man and the Sea reveals about the author...

Impact of the Vietnam War and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...

Nursing Interventions and the Confusion of Mrs. Galena

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

Education Case Study Evaluation

It seems that Tyisha has fallen into this trap. Reynolds (1996) suggests that students write personal mission statements and also...

Women in Athens During the Fifth Century

dilemma for his children, Orestes and Electra, who have to choose between not avenging their father and murdering their mother (18...

Project Process and Stages of Time Estimates and Attendance

and documentation to be given to owner, review each requirement against finished product. Project acceptance criteria review betwe...

Determinism v. Free Will

animals on the planet, that the arrogant assumption that because mankind has a brain, he is somehow above cause and effect is a fa...

Moonrise Film by Director Frank Borzage

post-modern culture, one more devoted to the supposed ironies of a Douglas Sirk or the wit and playfulness (amidst violence and me...

Mao and Post Mao Chinese Families

more restrictive. During the Mao administration, studying certain subjects like sociology was deemed to be dangerous (Davis & H...

Change and 'Who Moved My Cheese' by Jones

own. This is pretty much how most young people approach leaving home. They know its going to happen, but they dont prepare, assumi...

'And Death Shall Have No Dominion' by Dylan Thomas

Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales in 1914 (Abrams, et al 1907). Early in 1933, when he was nineteen years old. Thomas sent two of ...

Film Analysis, Style, and Composition

Ulmer relied on things like voiceover and dark shots that create a very powerful sense of darkness. There are the close ups and th...

4 Poems in Billy Collins' Nine Horses

said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...

Nineteenth Century Authors James, Davis, and Twain

Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...

Aristotle's Concepts of Excellence and Happiness

being within society: "the proper excellence or virtue of man will be the habit or trained faculty that makes a man good and makes...

Living By A Code, Ethics, Liberty, and Morality

things, some of which were not the original intent of Jeffersons vision. Having money has come to be equated with a sense of free...

Colin Powell and Affirmative Action

because of it. What makes Colin Powell different from many people of color is that he managed to make the system work for him. ...

Death and Attitudes

but there was also a corresponding increase in the secularisation and commercialisation of the rituals surrounding death. In the 1...