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Redemption and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...

Ovid's Metamorphoses/Concept of Art, Poet

her sisters husband and how he had cut out her tongue to keep silent and a prisoner (Ovid BkVI:571-619). Those characters who as...

The Thrill of Transgression: “Frankenstein” and “Manfred”

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

Victorian Reading Habits: The Thrill of Transgression

"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

Therac-25: A Socio-Technical System

this safety net should have been provisions that insured the computer would detect when a high-powered electron beam was chosen by...

Cronkite on Mood Disorders

difficulty in viewing the behavior of people who suffer from mental disorder, such as bipolar, in terms of illness. Susan Crosby, ...

About Eugene Lee

short time, then "showed up, unannounced, at Carnegie Mellon University (then called Carnegie Tech) with just a sheaf of designs f...

Armstrong’s “Functionalism” as It Relates to Matthews’ Discussion of Being Alive and Being Conscious

likelihood that both mind and body operate on a physico-chemical level, that they are subject to the same laws of physics as non-o...

Erving Goffman's Dramaturgical Approach to Human Interaction

is indebted to both of these predecessors. Kenny (2008) observes that "Anyone familiar with Goffmans dramaturgical approach will n...

Race and Racism in History

which would ultimately leave many African Americans enslaved economically and socially in a very different way as they were provid...

Prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the African-American Population of Houston, Texas

state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...

Ethical Implications Of The Sacraments

for leaders to be servants by washing the feet of His Apostles. He loved those who were unloved, He forgave His enemies, even with...

"The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin" - Leadership

a pertinent example of Franklins (1996) fundamental attitude for meeting a challenge. Hard work, he contended, was the lifeblood ...

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY AND THE IMPACT ON HIGHER EDUCATION

tests, falsifying term papers and so on. Many campuses believe that the honor code is enough to deter academic dishonesty. ...

Colonial Women’s Public Role and Legal Status

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

Gary Soto/”Oranges”

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Hemingway

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

Colby/Deaths of Nancy Cruzan

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...

Jose Marti, A Narrative Bibliography

Fidel Castro. A useful, comprehensive, and scholar text, Gray offers an ideal introduction to the Jose Marti historiography. Fe...

St. Francis of Assisi A

Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...

A Response to Thoreau: “Conscious Endeavor”

The first step in improving ones life is to imagine the "highest moral ideals," then change to "move closer to them" ("Chapter 4")...

Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

2008). When aboriginal women are imprisoned their families are left even more dysfunctional than before. Furthermore, reg...

Abraham Lincoln - Personality Development

hire on other farms (The History Place, 1996). The same year his sister died, he and a friend, Allen Gentry took a flatboat of pr...

Female Sexuality in House of Bernarda Alba

collective unconscious (Allen 175). Therefore, Maria Josefa expressing her desire to marry a "handsome male on the shore of the oc...

John Keats Deserves His Place in the Literary Canon

he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

Distracted Driving

distractions are indeed rampant in our high-tech world. We feel the need to be in constant contact with others and consequently t...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

Buddhism and Its Teachings: Effective or Ineffective?

old age, death, and finally, a monk "who had given up everything he owned to seek an end to suffering" ("Following the Buddhas Foo...

Edgar Allan Poe, Suicidal Tendencies, and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...